I couldn't disagree more. The difference between 51/49 and 50/50 isn't 2%; it might as well be 99/1. My father started a business 51/49, and at one point "the other guy", the one with 51%, decided to vote my father off the board with his majority stake. The board then voted to fire him. At that point he held 49% of a private company where he had no say.
It all worked out in the end; my father started his own business (100/0:) and within a month already had most of his customers begging him to do work.
If that price doesn't include your phone line, then you're still on the old pricing structure. A number of months ago they reduced pricing dramatically, but you have to call in to get it. 3.0M/512K is now in the 55-60 range; your plan is now the same cost at the 1.5 plan, which is under 40.
You should seriously give it a shot. Where I work, we've been stuck with VC++ 6 until recently, and after reconfiguring/just our precompiled headers/ it took one of our executables from 45 minutes to 15 minutes (compile time). Throw in a make tool that spawns multiple processes, and my hyperthreaded workstation takes it down to 8 minutes (but watch your pdb and debug files grow without bound if you do parallel compiles:)
Either way, investigate PCH and give it another shot.
It's not due to your blind spot, but instead has to do with color. When you focus directly on an object, you'll be centering it in your retina where you predominantly have color receptors (cones). Outside of this region you have more rods, which are more sensitive to intensity/contrast, but not color. When you shift your eyes, you're seeing the stars that are too dim to see with your cones, but are sufficient to see with your rods. I find that I'll focus just to the left or right of a star that I might be interested in.
Um, SIP is your currently non-existent protocol. It's primary purpose is initiating sessions. Integral to that is registering/storing/looking up the correct way to contact your given address.
Otherwise, you are 100% correct. If you buy a SIP phone, you can have it contact other SIP parties directly. Some of the providers even give you sip "email-like" address; it's just really difficult to type it in an analog phone that's plugged into a terminal adapter (such as Cisco's ATA-186, which is what Vonage used to ship).
VoIP Call Center software? Have you tried www.inin.com?
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Seriously, I've been working on this stuff for over a year, and every day I find just one more reason VoIP is going to "take over the world." When you add in the possibility of obtaining SIP lines rather than trunks, you can end up with extremely flexible, reliable and inexpensive setups and combine that with software based implementations. Add in the equation software based media processing, such as Intel's HMP, it can do anything a traditional PBX can do, and you haven't even purchased any hardware!
What no one is really looking at yet is that SIP isn't just for setting up "phone calls"; it's for setting up/sessions/. Imagine later on your phone adds on the ability to send video as well as audio (as some cisco phones currently do); a well written SIP proxy/call manager/etc would simply pass the media information (SDP) through and now you have video calls without your PBX/phone company supporting it. Each device can incrementally add support for devices as needed. Now just imagine what other streams might come out that we haven't put into this paradigm yet.
Echo Cancellation and Jitter Buffers routinely introduce delays well over 200ms, and it's usually undetectable by the callers (unless they are sitting next to each other). It will likely result in more providers correctly using QoS, but I doubt you'll see changes in latency.
Theres two ways to look at this:
- Second (third, etc) phone lines can be VOIP and thus cheaper
- There's no reason you "must" have a phone line; its just a requirement the phone companies make sure they get in on the picture. Perhaps down the road, when VOIP has a firm position, we could see lawmakers finally split up the ownership of lines compared to the the services provided on those lines. Why isn't my local phone company leasing the lines from some regulated infrastructure provider?
But that is redundant supply, not internal infrastructure. To match your argument, you would be advising them to get a T1 from Sprint, a T1 from MCI, and a satellite link, not having multiple internal paths.
Now to match it back to other arguments, the life support systems were placed on a separate circuit from the other electrical circuits (lighting and whatnot). This would correlate to proper network design, where critical systems would get their own subnet.
I am a starband user and can tell you there is a lot of confusion about how it works. I'd strongly suggest StarbandUsers.com for anyone interested.
Here's a best case scenario WRT latency: Pinging x with 32 bytes of data: Reply from x: bytes=32 time=681ms TTL=111 Reply from x: bytes=32 time=671ms TTL=111 Reply from x: bytes=32 time=701ms TTL=111 Reply from x: bytes=32 time=641ms TTL=111
Its very important to remember this doesn't affect download so much as its really a pretty fat pipe. They also use something called BST or NetGain, which improves TCP connections by eliminating some of the reconnection and handshaking overhead. Unfortunately, they only provide a windows version of NetGain (called "deterministic network enhancer" in network properites:), so you pretty much have to have a Windows gateway box before your router/hub/switch/etc. If you don't, you'll still get a connection, but it will perform at less than 5KBps. With netgain, I see 60 quite often.
Only FTP and HTTP traffic are routed over this BST tunnel, and socks proxies no longer work.
The standard modem, model 360, has an ethernet jack and it is supported, but again, without NetGain its useless.
I'm happy with my service having received what I expected. I generally use it to download source and bins from work, or other updates from the web. The always on connection is another plus.
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You mean the ignition switch? That's typically standard on most vehicles now days
I believe Dell rebrands Lexmark, not HP (but yes, they suck either way)
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I couldn't disagree more. The difference between 51/49 and 50/50 isn't 2%; it might as well be 99/1. My father started a business 51/49, and at one point "the other guy", the one with 51%, decided to vote my father off the board with his majority stake. The board then voted to fire him. At that point he held 49% of a private company where he had no say.
:) and within a month already had most of his customers begging him to do work.
It all worked out in the end; my father started his own business (100/0
If that price doesn't include your phone line, then you're still on the old pricing structure. A number of months ago they reduced pricing dramatically, but you have to call in to get it. 3.0M/512K is now in the 55-60 range; your plan is now the same cost at the 1.5 plan, which is under 40.
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You should seriously give it a shot. Where I work, we've been stuck with VC++ 6 until recently, and after reconfiguring /just our precompiled headers/ it took one of our executables from 45 minutes to 15 minutes (compile time). Throw in a make tool that spawns multiple processes, and my hyperthreaded workstation takes it down to 8 minutes (but watch your pdb and debug files grow without bound if you do parallel compiles :)
Either way, investigate PCH and give it another shot.
It's not due to your blind spot, but instead has to do with color. When you focus directly on an object, you'll be centering it in your retina where you predominantly have color receptors (cones). Outside of this region you have more rods, which are more sensitive to intensity/contrast, but not color. When you shift your eyes, you're seeing the stars that are too dim to see with your cones, but are sufficient to see with your rods. I find that I'll focus just to the left or right of a star that I might be interested in.
Also, check out this link:
Rod/Cone Distribution
Um, SIP is your currently non-existent protocol. It's primary purpose is initiating sessions. Integral to that is registering/storing/looking up the correct way to contact your given address.
Otherwise, you are 100% correct. If you buy a SIP phone, you can have it contact other SIP parties directly. Some of the providers even give you sip "email-like" address; it's just really difficult to type it in an analog phone that's plugged into a terminal adapter (such as Cisco's ATA-186, which is what Vonage used to ship).
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/sessions/. Imagine later on your phone adds on the ability to send video as well as audio (as some cisco phones currently do); a well written SIP proxy/call manager/etc would simply pass the media information (SDP) through and now you have video calls without your PBX/phone company supporting it. Each device can incrementally add support for devices as needed. Now just imagine what other streams might come out that we haven't put into this paradigm yet.
VoIP Call Center software? Have you tried www.inin.com?
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Seriously, I've been working on this stuff for over a year, and every day I find just one more reason VoIP is going to "take over the world." When you add in the possibility of obtaining SIP lines rather than trunks, you can end up with extremely flexible, reliable and inexpensive setups and combine that with software based implementations. Add in the equation software based media processing, such as Intel's HMP, it can do anything a traditional PBX can do, and you haven't even purchased any hardware!
What no one is really looking at yet is that SIP isn't just for setting up "phone calls"; it's for setting up
Better yet, why not make it the router? Check out DLink's DFL-80 ($170) or DFL-300
Echo Cancellation and Jitter Buffers routinely introduce delays well over 200ms, and it's usually undetectable by the callers (unless they are sitting next to each other). It will likely result in more providers correctly using QoS, but I doubt you'll see changes in latency.
You mean MOIP? Or V.150.1? Already in the works...
Theres two ways to look at this:
- Second (third, etc) phone lines can be VOIP and thus cheaper
- There's no reason you "must" have a phone line; its just a requirement the phone companies make sure they get in on the picture. Perhaps down the road, when VOIP has a firm position, we could see lawmakers finally split up the ownership of lines compared to the the services provided on those lines. Why isn't my local phone company leasing the lines from some regulated infrastructure provider?
But that is redundant supply, not internal infrastructure. To match your argument, you would be advising them to get a T1 from Sprint, a T1 from MCI, and a satellite link, not having multiple internal paths.
Now to match it back to other arguments, the life support systems were placed on a separate circuit from the other electrical circuits (lighting and whatnot). This would correlate to proper network design, where critical systems would get their own subnet.
Is that why MS Word skipped from 2.0 to 6.0?
I am a starband user and can tell you there is a lot of confusion about how it works. I'd strongly suggest StarbandUsers.com for anyone interested.
:), so you pretty much have to have a Windows gateway box before your router/hub/switch/etc. If you don't, you'll still get a connection, but it will perform at less than 5KBps. With netgain, I see 60 quite often.
Here's a best case scenario WRT latency:
Pinging x with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from x: bytes=32 time=681ms TTL=111
Reply from x: bytes=32 time=671ms TTL=111
Reply from x: bytes=32 time=701ms TTL=111
Reply from x: bytes=32 time=641ms TTL=111
Its very important to remember this doesn't affect download so much as its really a pretty fat pipe. They also use something called BST or NetGain, which improves TCP connections by eliminating some of the reconnection and handshaking overhead. Unfortunately, they only provide a windows version of NetGain (called "deterministic network enhancer" in network properites
Only FTP and HTTP traffic are routed over this BST tunnel, and socks proxies no longer work.
The standard modem, model 360, has an ethernet jack and it is supported, but again, without NetGain its useless.
I'm happy with my service having received what I expected. I generally use it to download source and bins from work, or other updates from the web. The always on connection is another plus.
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