I remember there was a game that did that on my old 386DX, with the regular Jazz16 soundcard and crappy 2 inch speakers. Sounded great! but can't remember what it was...
How does the filesystem handle multiple apps writing to the one file at a time? That's the problem with "everything is a file" - when something is clearly not a file it makes it hard to use. I don't see applications using X like a file. I suppose a network socket is sort of like a file, that's the way sound should also be interfaced.
Something like this might be useful. Plug all your devices into this, and it will turn them off when there's no power on the USB line - the only thing on standby then is the computer's PSU - use your switch after shutting down XP, at least you'll save most of your power if you forget.
Unlocked PAP2 only for CLECs and ISPs? I have one I bought retail, not locked to any provider. Hmm in fact that link is the 4th in your Google link, but I've bought other things from him before.
Don't use GSM, use G.729. I recently switched from softphone/G.711 to PAP2/G.729 and the call quality is much better. I was getting complaints of sounding like I was in a tunnel or on a mobile, but people can't tell any difference with this new setup.
And if your VSP supports IAX then there will be far less overhead. (Can then run X number of calls with 1 set of overhead, instead of X number with X sets of overhead with separate SIP lines).
A glass was broken with voice on several different Australian TV shows years ago - I think "The Curiosity Show" (70s), "Hey Hey It's Saturday" (80s) and "Rove Live" (90s) all did it at one point.
Around here most businesses require that all electrical good be tested every 12 months, thus requiring them to be powered down for a few minutes. So a year uptime is all you can really get.
With water in the air, it seems to conduct heat (away from a person) better.
No, you don't want moisture in the air when it is hot - you get cooler by evaporating sweat, the wetter the air the harder it is for that water to evaporate, so you then feel uncomfortable.
I have never been outside Australia, so don't know what other areas' climates are like, but it is more comfortable in my city 120km from the beach when it is 40C than it is on the Gold Coast when it is 30C. The drier air makes it more comfortable; evaporative air conditioners work better at cooling the air too.
If we produced 50% of our power with nuclear power we'd be hip deep in radioactive waste.
Well it is measured in shipping containers per year, only a few per large city it is producing energy for. So it's not too much nuclear waste with no other real emmissions. AFAIK some European countries produce 70% of their energy with nuclear stations.
But I do agree, any waste is not a long-term solution - waste we can't use means we are burning something finite. There might be plenty of different energy sources - uranium, coal, oil - but each of these will eventually run out if we let them, as well as all the bad effects of mining, processing and moving it.
Wind has some of the fewest downsides next to solar.
I would say wind has even fewer downsides to solar. It takes more energy to make a solar cell than a wind turbine. Solar is great if you can't get on the grid, but it doesn't save any real energy, at least with current technology. Something like: http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1487858.ht m might start to help with the solar problem, though. Solar is better used to create hot water (eg for normal home use or heating the swimming pool) than to create electricity.
The best energy device would be a Mr Fusion like in Back to the Future, but that is still science fiction...
I live in a smaller city in Queensland. The previous tenant of this house had dialup internet running 24/7 - the only reason he had a phone line. First thing I did was switch to a cheaper phone plan ($18.50/m of gouging from Telstra instead of $27.95 - had to specifically ask for the cheaper one and was told $27.95 was the cheapest available...) and put on ADSL (*not* Telstra). The first few months we got several calls a day asking for the previous occupant. But it is very hard to change phone numbers without big problems with ADSL.
Now we mostly get the occasional call informing we can get broadband - the same price as I'm paying now but 1/6th the speed!!!
We once found a phone number of a company whos product we were interested in buying, but the operator answering the phone acted like she called us! Something definately fishy there.
Well in Australia we have calling-party-pays for mobile calls, so there is much less chance of getting telemarketers on a mobile - it costs THEM around 30c/min! All mobiles are 04xx xxx xxx so it is obvious it is going to be a mobile. It doesn't cost anything for incoming calls, except battery power. CPP is a much fairer system.
Virtually every DVD player in Australia is region-free. The ones that remain region locked appear to be in consoles only. Every DVD player made in the last few years that I've tried has played the regions 1, 2 and 4 discs I've tried.
I didn't know Pizza Hut and KFC were on it, but Domino's is too. Some stores can't get the keyboards anymore so you have to remember codes that don't make real sense. NAZ is $5.95 voucher, TC is extra sauce and TS is extra cheese.
They were 9600bps Wyse serial terminals, but newer ones run 10/100 Ethernet (a switch would be much cheaper than the serial cards). But alas, push from US head office to move to "Pulse" which runs on Windows and Access. Bleh! A dumb terminal is being replaced by a full PC complete with Windows XP. Imagine each store would need 9 or so of these.
I think Pulse is popular because it uses touch screens. Well my local Hungry Jacks store was recently refitted and they are still using STM but with touchscreens!
First time I used Opera was version 3.21 I got off a cover CD from a magazine. It was on my 486SX33 with 4MB RAM running Windows 3.11 in VGA (640x480, 16 colours) mode. From what I remember, it was a much much better performer than the alternatives, even Arachne (the DOS graphical one).
IIRC, the mail client then was sending only, no downloading/reading of mail.
But one could not really use it for more than 30 days at a time, since it was a "trial version" only, not free nor adware. Version 5 had their own ads (IIRC) and version 6 changed to Google ads.
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I remember there was a game that did that on my old 386DX, with the regular Jazz16 soundcard and crappy 2 inch speakers. Sounded great! but can't remember what it was...
How does the filesystem handle multiple apps writing to the one file at a time? That's the problem with "everything is a file" - when something is clearly not a file it makes it hard to use. I don't see applications using X like a file. I suppose a network socket is sort of like a file, that's the way sound should also be interfaced.
Something like this might be useful. Plug all your devices into this, and it will turn them off when there's no power on the USB line - the only thing on standby then is the computer's PSU - use your switch after shutting down XP, at least you'll save most of your power if you forget.
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http://siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_102979/article.ht
IIRC the semicolon means to not put the newline on the end of the print, leaving it off then the newline will be applied.
Yep, it's almost midday, I'm about to go out for lunch...
Sunlight soap?
FICUS FOR CONGRESS!
I thought that was just a joke by Michael Moore, but you have confirmed it true after looking up the meaning of peepul.
Unlocked PAP2 only for CLECs and ISPs? I have one I bought retail, not locked to any provider. Hmm in fact that link is the 4th in your Google link, but I've bought other things from him before.
Lastly, your price per phone is going to be somewhat higher.
:)
Just get a bunch of PAP2s and normal phones.
Don't use GSM, use G.729. I recently switched from softphone/G.711 to PAP2/G.729 and the call quality is much better. I was getting complaints of sounding like I was in a tunnel or on a mobile, but people can't tell any difference with this new setup.
And if your VSP supports IAX then there will be far less overhead. (Can then run X number of calls with 1 set of overhead, instead of X number with X sets of overhead with separate SIP lines).
Here is the VOIP forum I am a member of:
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http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?
But is very Australian.
It's all on the website:
http://abc.net.au/newinventors/
The tyre recycling system won it.
Did you see Rob Morrison and Dean Hutton present the award on The New Inventors the other night? Just after my post above. :)
A glass was broken with voice on several different Australian TV shows years ago - I think "The Curiosity Show" (70s), "Hey Hey It's Saturday" (80s) and "Rove Live" (90s) all did it at one point.
Around here most businesses require that all electrical good be tested every 12 months, thus requiring them to be powered down for a few minutes. So a year uptime is all you can really get.
With water in the air, it seems to conduct heat (away from a person) better.
No, you don't want moisture in the air when it is hot - you get cooler by evaporating sweat, the wetter the air the harder it is for that water to evaporate, so you then feel uncomfortable.
I have never been outside Australia, so don't know what other areas' climates are like, but it is more comfortable in my city 120km from the beach when it is 40C than it is on the Gold Coast when it is 30C. The drier air makes it more comfortable; evaporative air conditioners work better at cooling the air too.
If we produced 50% of our power with nuclear power we'd be hip deep in radioactive waste.
t m might start to help with the solar problem, though. Solar is better used to create hot water (eg for normal home use or heating the swimming pool) than to create electricity.
Well it is measured in shipping containers per year, only a few per large city it is producing energy for. So it's not too much nuclear waste with no other real emmissions. AFAIK some European countries produce 70% of their energy with nuclear stations.
But I do agree, any waste is not a long-term solution - waste we can't use means we are burning something finite. There might be plenty of different energy sources - uranium, coal, oil - but each of these will eventually run out if we let them, as well as all the bad effects of mining, processing and moving it.
Wind has some of the fewest downsides next to solar.
I would say wind has even fewer downsides to solar. It takes more energy to make a solar cell than a wind turbine. Solar is great if you can't get on the grid, but it doesn't save any real energy, at least with current technology. Something like: http://www.abc.net.au/newinventors/txt/s1487858.h
The best energy device would be a Mr Fusion like in Back to the Future, but that is still science fiction...
I live in a smaller city in Queensland. The previous tenant of this house had dialup internet running 24/7 - the only reason he had a phone line. First thing I did was switch to a cheaper phone plan ($18.50/m of gouging from Telstra instead of $27.95 - had to specifically ask for the cheaper one and was told $27.95 was the cheapest available...) and put on ADSL (*not* Telstra). The first few months we got several calls a day asking for the previous occupant. But it is very hard to change phone numbers without big problems with ADSL.
Now we mostly get the occasional call informing we can get broadband - the same price as I'm paying now but 1/6th the speed!!!
We once found a phone number of a company whos product we were interested in buying, but the operator answering the phone acted like she called us! Something definately fishy there.
Well in Australia we have calling-party-pays for mobile calls, so there is much less chance of getting telemarketers on a mobile - it costs THEM around 30c/min! All mobiles are 04xx xxx xxx so it is obvious it is going to be a mobile. It doesn't cost anything for incoming calls, except battery power. CPP is a much fairer system.
Virtually every DVD player in Australia is region-free. The ones that remain region locked appear to be in consoles only. Every DVD player made in the last few years that I've tried has played the regions 1, 2 and 4 discs I've tried.
3 pounds is like $6 so that makes it even less attractive.
:)
What are the odds that someone will make a ripper within weeks of release?
I didn't know Pizza Hut and KFC were on it, but Domino's is too. Some stores can't get the keyboards anymore so you have to remember codes that don't make real sense. NAZ is $5.95 voucher, TC is extra sauce and TS is extra cheese.
They were 9600bps Wyse serial terminals, but newer ones run 10/100 Ethernet (a switch would be much cheaper than the serial cards). But alas, push from US head office to move to "Pulse" which runs on Windows and Access. Bleh! A dumb terminal is being replaced by a full PC complete with Windows XP. Imagine each store would need 9 or so of these.
The company that make it is STM: http://www.stm.com.au/
I think Pulse is popular because it uses touch screens. Well my local Hungry Jacks store was recently refitted and they are still using STM but with touchscreens!
Too bad I can't get to page two :(
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http://madpenguin.org.nyud.net:8090/cms/?m=show&i
First time I used Opera was version 3.21 I got off a cover CD from a magazine. It was on my 486SX33 with 4MB RAM running Windows 3.11 in VGA (640x480, 16 colours) mode. From what I remember, it was a much much better performer than the alternatives, even Arachne (the DOS graphical one).
IIRC, the mail client then was sending only, no downloading/reading of mail.
But one could not really use it for more than 30 days at a time, since it was a "trial version" only, not free nor adware. Version 5 had their own ads (IIRC) and version 6 changed to Google ads.