Even if you have a latency of 50ms or so, there is still some time required to compress the audio into one of the codecs used for voip. Some codecs take 100's ms of time to compress the audio, some (which take up more bandwidth usually) take around 100. If you have an actual voip phone, then the compression is done a little faster since its done via hardware, but if you are using a softphone on your computer, then expect that compression to take a bit longer.
For just one moment, drop all that bloat in your brain about how everything should be free no matter what and you have the right to everything. The real world still works on money. A business cannot start up, hire code monkeys, and pay them money to write code if they do not have any money coming in.
So with that in mind, why should transgaming give all their work back to WINE? I'd love to see you get enough funds to pay for code monkeys and other business expenses without actually selling any sort of product. At least Transgaming is giving something back... sure its not a lot, but more than they have to give back.
If for some reason you feel that Wine should be as good or better than WineX, because Wine is open source and free and all that good stuff, then why haven't you contributed yet to Wine? What have you given back to Wine??
Yes, you have a great connection there, and I wish I had it as well, but I have had MANY different cable providers in the past in MANY different areas in the US and none of them had decent speed. They are all capped at 128 or 256kbit uploads and some are capped on the downloads even. There are a few areas that still have decent uploads with their downloads, but they are only something like 2% of all cable areas, so consider yourself VERY lucky! And since you are with @home, dont be surprised if one day your upload suddenly is capped.
I love my speakeasy account! They never go down, always on connection, and plenty of upload bandwidth. Sure, I spend $200 a month on the 1.1mbit SDSL service from them, but hey, what else is there, cable?? HA! Cable is a joke these days... you get ISDN upload speed and if you use that, it criples your download speed. ADSL is also a joke... it has the same upload speed as cable, but costs more and also less download speed. Broadband is fast upload and download in my book... if you can't give me a good upload with my download, I dont want you as my provider.
Can you imagine a world after companies like Verizon run through it? Everyone will have these connections that can download faster than you could ever imagine, but where you gonna download from? Your friend?? Hell no, your friend has verizon and has a 128kbit upload cap. Your office?? No again, your office has a 256kbit upload cap. But wait... Verizon has a great upload limit for themselves, lets go download from them so they can censor our web experience all to hell and back. Maybe they can replace certain words in web pages you download with their own... "Verizon"="God" or vise versa.
I used to think cable was gonna be the big answer to a lot of problems, but nope, they fixed that by capping all the cable companies, so now you not only have a shit connection in the evenings, you also have a limited connection during the rest of the day as well.
Just the other day I was praying for fiber optic in my home, but you'd probably have to get it through verizon or something and you'd see the verizon guy out there every weekend rubbing mud into the optics. (only if you are not with verizon)
I stick with my cell phone now instead of having a verizon home phone just because I hate all of the bell companies. And I would go with wireless over switching to verizon dsl.
Also.. I read someone comenting about if you tip it over, will the water pour out... no.
The case is shipped with the water in it, as well as some other special stuff (probably anti-freeze). I had mine shipped UPS Ground, so for 5 days, the ups guys kicked it, threw it, dropped it, sat on it, and maybe even ate lunch on it. And when it got here, the box had holes punched in it and everything, but when I opened it, there was another box inside surounded by packing peanuts. Thanx to Koolance for putting it in a box inside a box, or else it may have been dented. And all the water was in it, all the tubing was run, just open it up, put mobo inside, remove heatsink, and put water cooled heatsink in place of the old, and flip the switch.
Works great and even has a little tempature thing on the front, bottom, left... tells temp of the water... even lets you switch between C and F. Along with the temp display, there are 3 lights... 1 is lit for fan power, second is lit for fan overdrive on, and the third is used for if your system is reaching the critical stage.
With a peltier, I'm sure this system would REALLY kick ass.
I am running one now and it works great. I still need to buy a peltier cooler for it, but other than that, its workiing like a charm. I barely hear a hum coming from it (which are the fans in the back cooling the water).
One thing about this case, is that its HEAVY! It weighs a ton! So it must have a good bit of water in the base.
I would recomend this case to anyone, very easy to setup, very nice look, and very cool.
One way to keep the cost down is to write smarter code. Stop doing text searches with your SQL statements if you can prevent it, use numbers, limit your text fields... all sorts of little tricks you can do to speed things up a great deal so you can handle the growing demand and only need to upgrade to better hosting services every once in a great while.
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Even if you have a latency of 50ms or so, there is still some time required to compress the audio into one of the codecs used for voip. Some codecs take 100's ms of time to compress the audio, some (which take up more bandwidth usually) take around 100. If you have an actual voip phone, then the compression is done a little faster since its done via hardware, but if you are using a softphone on your computer, then expect that compression to take a bit longer.
I can now overclock while I drive!
Could this be the poor man's way to teleport himself? Just fax yourself over to a bio printing machine?
For just one moment, drop all that bloat in your brain about how everything should be free no matter what and you have the right to everything. The real world still works on money. A business cannot start up, hire code monkeys, and pay them money to write code if they do not have any money coming in.
So with that in mind, why should transgaming give all their work back to WINE? I'd love to see you get enough funds to pay for code monkeys and other business expenses without actually selling any sort of product. At least Transgaming is giving something back... sure its not a lot, but more than they have to give back.
If for some reason you feel that Wine should be as good or better than WineX, because Wine is open source and free and all that good stuff, then why haven't you contributed yet to Wine? What have you given back to Wine??
This guys sounds like a sales rep from the KaZaa makers.
Yes, you have a great connection there, and I wish I had it as well, but I have had MANY different cable providers in the past in MANY different areas in the US and none of them had decent speed. They are all capped at 128 or 256kbit uploads and some are capped on the downloads even. There are a few areas that still have decent uploads with their downloads, but they are only something like 2% of all cable areas, so consider yourself VERY lucky! And since you are with @home, dont be surprised if one day your upload suddenly is capped.
I love my speakeasy account! They never go down, always on connection, and plenty of upload bandwidth. Sure, I spend $200 a month on the 1.1mbit SDSL service from them, but hey, what else is there, cable?? HA! Cable is a joke these days... you get ISDN upload speed and if you use that, it criples your download speed. ADSL is also a joke... it has the same upload speed as cable, but costs more and also less download speed. Broadband is fast upload and download in my book... if you can't give me a good upload with my download, I dont want you as my provider. Can you imagine a world after companies like Verizon run through it? Everyone will have these connections that can download faster than you could ever imagine, but where you gonna download from? Your friend?? Hell no, your friend has verizon and has a 128kbit upload cap. Your office?? No again, your office has a 256kbit upload cap. But wait... Verizon has a great upload limit for themselves, lets go download from them so they can censor our web experience all to hell and back. Maybe they can replace certain words in web pages you download with their own... "Verizon"="God" or vise versa. I used to think cable was gonna be the big answer to a lot of problems, but nope, they fixed that by capping all the cable companies, so now you not only have a shit connection in the evenings, you also have a limited connection during the rest of the day as well. Just the other day I was praying for fiber optic in my home, but you'd probably have to get it through verizon or something and you'd see the verizon guy out there every weekend rubbing mud into the optics. (only if you are not with verizon) I stick with my cell phone now instead of having a verizon home phone just because I hate all of the bell companies. And I would go with wireless over switching to verizon dsl.
Also.. I read someone comenting about if you tip it over, will the water pour out... no. The case is shipped with the water in it, as well as some other special stuff (probably anti-freeze). I had mine shipped UPS Ground, so for 5 days, the ups guys kicked it, threw it, dropped it, sat on it, and maybe even ate lunch on it. And when it got here, the box had holes punched in it and everything, but when I opened it, there was another box inside surounded by packing peanuts. Thanx to Koolance for putting it in a box inside a box, or else it may have been dented. And all the water was in it, all the tubing was run, just open it up, put mobo inside, remove heatsink, and put water cooled heatsink in place of the old, and flip the switch. Works great and even has a little tempature thing on the front, bottom, left... tells temp of the water... even lets you switch between C and F. Along with the temp display, there are 3 lights... 1 is lit for fan power, second is lit for fan overdrive on, and the third is used for if your system is reaching the critical stage. With a peltier, I'm sure this system would REALLY kick ass.
I am running one now and it works great. I still need to buy a peltier cooler for it, but other than that, its workiing like a charm. I barely hear a hum coming from it (which are the fans in the back cooling the water).
One thing about this case, is that its HEAVY! It weighs a ton! So it must have a good bit of water in the base.
I would recomend this case to anyone, very easy to setup, very nice look, and very cool.
One way to keep the cost down is to write smarter code. Stop doing text searches with your SQL statements if you can prevent it, use numbers, limit your text fields... all sorts of little tricks you can do to speed things up a great deal so you can handle the growing demand and only need to upgrade to better hosting services every once in a great while.