Being a big fan of NewEnough, and having bought all my leathers from them, quit being a doofus. Do you think the folks working there wouldn't love to ride a motorcycle to work every day? Do you think, maybe, they might have to pick up a child after work, or even carpool? Also, sometimes it rains, even in Texas, and not everyone enjoy riding in the rain.
Motorcycling is different things to different people. I know there are some mornings where I certainly wouldn't want to get on the bike; cars are simply easier to drive and require less attention. If I'm not feeling well, if I'm angry or distracted, I'm not getting on the bike. It requires all my attention, and often thats not something I can give first thing in the morning.
I love bikes, and don't doubt that the good folks at NewEnough do as well. Maybe you should read a bit about them before calling them a bunch of pussies, eh?
That is, by far, the dumbest article I've ever read. The guy claims that, as the result of one war game, carrier battle groups are completely useless. Despite the fact that everything he talks about only applies to operations close to land. And that he really doesn't talk about much. I'm no military expert, but this fellow strikes me as well and truly full of crap.
I believe you experienced the failsafe: ATM keeps card, no one gives it back. Similiar thing happens if you enter your PIN incorrectly x times at some ATMs. The ATM keeps the card, and unless the bank has proof of signature for you, they then shred it after they empty the ATM. The bank reissues your card.
What if the electricity had gone out for much longer? And, upon boot, the machine cleared the cardreader by spitting your ATM card into the street? That'd be worse, methinks.
Two different markets. Linksys targets the home and the SOHO market. Cisco targets... everything else... The name of the game is avoiding brand dilution.
Statement of bias: I'm an employee of Cisco. Not anywhere near Layers 2 or 3, but an employee nonetheless.
I assume you're talking about a BRI. You realize that the T1 and E1 PRI interfaces, the perrenial favorite of bandwidth comparos, is ISDN as well, yes?
People go to binding arbitration because it tends to be cheaper and faster than civil court. I'd be surprised if it was cheaper to take a case like this to court.
Of course, I learned this at the old age of 17 when I was working in a law office. Might be a bit facetious.
Not even a little. As far as I know, that particular model has never flown untethered.
Moller's been talking about Skycars as long as I've been alive. As far as I know, its always been "less than five years away" for the past 20 or so. He also really likes talking about his "highway in the sky", which is essentially... run of the mill avionics.
And really, given the number of accidents on the highway-on-the-ground where folks only have to worry about two dimensions, I'm glad he's been a failure thus far. At least accidents on the highway don't usually come flying into my house.
The B52 dropping tons of bombs in WW II didn't hit a lot of targets
You're right, they didn't. Probably because they didn't exist yet. The heavy (Allied) bombers of WWII were the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress, although the latter didn't see nearly as much action as the former. And those bombers were the most accurate in the history of warfare to that point.
They flew the ludicrously top secret Norden bombsight, and were capable of putting bombs in a 100' circle from "over 20,000 feet." The bomb sight literally flew the plane on the bombing run, interfacing to the autopilot and leaving the pilot to sit and pray. Of course, with the enemy tryng to shoot you down tended to complicate that whole theoretical accuracy thing.
Anyway, I didn't actually read the rest of your comment, I just wanted to point out that we (the US) had some bad-ass engineering going for us when it came to dropping bombs in WWII. Compared to the British, who approached things with a wholly different philosophy (night raids with bombing based on navigational accuracy... not really that effective but far lower losses) we were putting a huge amount of tonnage on target.
I really like the large bombers of WWII and just after. Maybe its just me.
Do you really disagree with the grandparent poster? Yes.
If you commit a murder and you're never caught or tried you've still broken the law, even though you're "presumed innocent."
How do you define breaking the law? I define it as being convicted in a court. As far as I know, there is not alternate definition. Now, you can convince me that someone who has killed another person and has not been convicted has committed a crime, but I don't know how to define "breaking the law" other than "convicted by a court of law."
I'm no attorney, but I don't think I'm wrong. Its a question of semantics, I suppose.
And really, its not important that you or I have a presumption of innocence, its important that the government and the legal system has it.
... just because they haven't been caught doesn't make it legal...
Actually, that's precisely what it means. The fundamental presumption of innocence is completely required for our legal system to function. And I assume that by 'been caught' you mean 'been convicted.'
Unless you meant guilt or innocence in the eyes of you, instead of the law. In that case, I don't give a shit.
The rest of your comments are probably totally valid. I got hung up on that bit and then stopped paying attention.
* I've been using Linux since 1998 but every time I put together a box I can never get everything working at once. My last attempt with Fedora resulted in a box with PHP and MySQL, but PHP did not have something it needed to talk to MySQL. Another box had PHP and MySQL but something else didn't want to take, and so on, and so on.
Have you considered that, perhaps, despite using linux for 7 years, you're bad at it?
It used to be crypto, due to the US' classification of crypto as an armament and preventing its export. These laws went away a year or so ago, and now there's no more non-US debian.
Except that, if this guy is smart, he's compressing the voice over the line. I'm guessing a siren run through G.729a won't sound exactly like you say.
Remember these codecs are specifically designed to compress speech with minimal losses of intelligibility. Good luck measuring how well a human can understand speech without a mark I human ear.
As for the OPs actual question, Cisco Callmanager can be configured to collect call statistics on every call (jitter, delay, etc.). It can also be set to simulate calls between two physical handsets (i.e., 2 SCCP phones do the work and are unavailable as a result). I am defiitely Cisco-biased, but its possible the Mitel the OP is using has similiar features. If not, I'm sure Cisco would be happy to sell him a replacement:).
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So you just completely ignore the cost of the energy to charge it, huh? Must be nice doing that...
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Being a big fan of NewEnough, and having bought all my leathers from them, quit being a doofus. Do you think the folks working there wouldn't love to ride a motorcycle to work every day? Do you think, maybe, they might have to pick up a child after work, or even carpool? Also, sometimes it rains, even in Texas, and not everyone enjoy riding in the rain.
Motorcycling is different things to different people. I know there are some mornings where I certainly wouldn't want to get on the bike; cars are simply easier to drive and require less attention. If I'm not feeling well, if I'm angry or distracted, I'm not getting on the bike. It requires all my attention, and often thats not something I can give first thing in the morning.
I love bikes, and don't doubt that the good folks at NewEnough do as well. Maybe you should read a bit about them before calling them a bunch of pussies, eh?
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Lots of products have life-safety clauses like that. APC UPSs spring to mind.
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That is, by far, the dumbest article I've ever read. The guy claims that, as the result of one war game, carrier battle groups are completely useless. Despite the fact that everything he talks about only applies to operations close to land. And that he really doesn't talk about much. I'm no military expert, but this fellow strikes me as well and truly full of crap.
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I believe you experienced the failsafe: ATM keeps card, no one gives it back. Similiar thing happens if you enter your PIN incorrectly x times at some ATMs. The ATM keeps the card, and unless the bank has proof of signature for you, they then shred it after they empty the ATM. The bank reissues your card.
What if the electricity had gone out for much longer? And, upon boot, the machine cleared the cardreader by spitting your ATM card into the street? That'd be worse, methinks.
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Phil
Two different markets. Linksys targets the home and the SOHO market. Cisco targets... everything else... The name of the game is avoiding brand dilution.
Statement of bias: I'm an employee of Cisco. Not anywhere near Layers 2 or 3, but an employee nonetheless.
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I assume you're talking about a BRI. You realize that the T1 and E1 PRI interfaces, the perrenial favorite of bandwidth comparos, is ISDN as well, yes?
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You mean Grandpa Simpson. Close, though.
People go to binding arbitration because it tends to be cheaper and faster than civil court. I'd be surprised if it was cheaper to take a case like this to court.
Of course, I learned this at the old age of 17 when I was working in a law office. Might be a bit facetious.
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Phil
Not even a little. As far as I know, that particular model has never flown untethered.
Moller's been talking about Skycars as long as I've been alive. As far as I know, its always been "less than five years away" for the past 20 or so. He also really likes talking about his "highway in the sky", which is essentially... run of the mill avionics.
And really, given the number of accidents on the highway-on-the-ground where folks only have to worry about two dimensions, I'm glad he's been a failure thus far. At least accidents on the highway don't usually come flying into my house.
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Run on windows.
Two words. Holo. Deck.
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The B52 dropping tons of bombs in WW II didn't hit a lot of targets
You're right, they didn't. Probably because they didn't exist yet. The heavy (Allied) bombers of WWII were the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress, although the latter didn't see nearly as much action as the former. And those bombers were the most accurate in the history of warfare to that point.
They flew the ludicrously top secret Norden bombsight, and were capable of putting bombs in a 100' circle from "over 20,000 feet." The bomb sight literally flew the plane on the bombing run, interfacing to the autopilot and leaving the pilot to sit and pray. Of course, with the enemy tryng to shoot you down tended to complicate that whole theoretical accuracy thing.
Anyway, I didn't actually read the rest of your comment, I just wanted to point out that we (the US) had some bad-ass engineering going for us when it came to dropping bombs in WWII. Compared to the British, who approached things with a wholly different philosophy (night raids with bombing based on navigational accuracy... not really that effective but far lower losses) we were putting a huge amount of tonnage on target.
I really like the large bombers of WWII and just after. Maybe its just me.
Do you really disagree with the grandparent poster?
Yes.
If you commit a murder and you're never caught or tried you've still broken the law, even though you're "presumed innocent."
How do you define breaking the law? I define it as being convicted in a court. As far as I know, there is not alternate definition. Now, you can convince me that someone who has killed another person and has not been convicted has committed a crime, but I don't know how to define "breaking the law" other than "convicted by a court of law."
I'm no attorney, but I don't think I'm wrong. Its a question of semantics, I suppose.
And really, its not important that you or I have a presumption of innocence, its important that the government and the legal system has it.
... just because they haven't been caught doesn't make it legal ...
Actually, that's precisely what it means. The fundamental presumption of innocence is completely required for our legal system to function. And I assume that by 'been caught' you mean 'been convicted.'
Unless you meant guilt or innocence in the eyes of you, instead of the law. In that case, I don't give a shit.
The rest of your comments are probably totally valid. I got hung up on that bit and then stopped paying attention.
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Linky? I adore mocking the stupid! :)
Well, your friend who is a shrink is apparently a bad one. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.
And yes, I have a degree in this.
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Sigh.
apt-get install php4-mysql
Totally. Difficult. I can see how you could not turn that up in that amount of time.
* I've been using Linux since 1998 but every time I put together a box I can never get everything working at once. My last attempt with Fedora resulted in a box with PHP and MySQL, but PHP did not have something it needed to talk to MySQL. Another box had PHP and MySQL but something else didn't want to take, and so on, and so on.
Have you considered that, perhaps, despite using linux for 7 years, you're bad at it?
It used to be crypto, due to the US' classification of crypto as an armament and preventing its export. These laws went away a year or so ago, and now there's no more non-US debian.
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Motorola developed one already, cell companies hate the idea.
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Except that, if this guy is smart, he's compressing the voice over the line. I'm guessing a siren run through G.729a won't sound exactly like you say.
:).
Remember these codecs are specifically designed to compress speech with minimal losses of intelligibility. Good luck measuring how well a human can understand speech without a mark I human ear.
As for the OPs actual question, Cisco Callmanager can be configured to collect call statistics on every call (jitter, delay, etc.). It can also be set to simulate calls between two physical handsets (i.e., 2 SCCP phones do the work and are unavailable as a result). I am defiitely Cisco-biased, but its possible the Mitel the OP is using has similiar features. If not, I'm sure Cisco would be happy to sell him a replacement
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So you just completely ignore the cost of the energy to charge it, huh? Must be nice doing that...
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Cisco routers (almost always...) have the ability to be an NTP server and client. Have them do that. Clean, simple solution.
Failing that, look at clockspeed from DJB. He's terribly clever.
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Umm, yes. In fact, every sysadmin I know who hasn't paid a pile of money for RH AS does. Funny that.
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Care to go into detail? I've just move to CA and I'm about 2 months away from having enough money to buy a bike.
Thanks!
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