Do you really expect people to pay $830 for a 24 station analog card along with the computer and other crap they'll need to run Asterisk?
Do you really expect the future of telephony ends with PSTN?
Asterisk quite happily talks to my home phone handset (which talks DECT on one side and SIP on the other) and my VoIP provider that I already had. I'm running it in the ample spare capacity on my Atom-based home server that I already had (which is my router, MythTV backend, web server, database server, NAS,...).
I paid nothing to run Asterisk, and it's not a stretch to imagine home phones in a few years having enough compute capacity to run a two-channel Asterisk install without any drama.
If I buy a VHS copy of a movie, is it OK to download an HD Bluray rip? Despite being "the same movie", they're really quite different content.
It's not like you've got a DVD which is scratched and are downloading a DVD-rip, which (had your kids not just scribbled on the DVD with scissors) you could have reasonably generated yourself with your own ripping software.
People often forget too that downloading at that speed is dependant on hard disk throughput
Only if you're intending to save it to disk. Streaming multiple HD video streams (one for you, one or two for your kids) etc. etc. will use gobs of bandwidth with zero disk activity - and is only going to get larger (3D, 4K-resolution, etc).
Granted, you'd still have plenty of room left over in your gigabit, but I'm sure we'll find something useful to use it for. (Astronomers working from home?:)
I ran both the site and the ad-server used at my last job, so I cared.
Turns out iframes are the solution that works best (I think) - needs things set up slightly more restricted than normal (eg. ad href's must have a target of _top/_parent/_blank, not missing), but otherwise it works great.
In WP, if you un-italicized a sentence that had been italicized, it wouldn't necessarily remove the old codes, instead inserting extra codes so that you got on's followed immediately by off's. Word would just delete the object.
I've seen huge waste out of Word that says otherwise - objects or streams, Word is just as capable of keeping waste around. Just look at its HTML export as proof. (I haven't looked at it recently, but you're talking about a day-one difference here so I think I'm still justified:)
Most of the development seemed to revolve around fixing deficiencies wit hteh OS(alternate environments, media players, web browsers and other things that got done right the first time in android/iphone/pre).
Fully agree. Some of my most-used apps are competitors for built-in ones (Canola and MPlayer top the list, MaemoMapper, I also used Modest in competition with its built-in email some time ago).
KDE devs who were never interested in writing gtk for the n800 may now get excited about the 900 and pick it up.
...and the existing pool of Gtk+ developers get frustrated after Yet Another API Change, and leave.
There's never going to be the glut of third-party apps that the iPhone enjoys, when the API isn't stable - and you'd have much better luck again if you could keep the ABI stable for more than a year or two...
I really love my N810 in some ways - but in others, it's fallen flat. Can't play full-res video, GPS is slow to lock, the built-in-browser is slow and painful, finger-scrolling doesn't always trigger properly (and text highlights instead), there's inconsistent use of finger-sized vs. stylus-sized controls, the touchpanel needs entirely too much pressure to be comfortable for extended use... my replacement for it will come when I (eventually) buy an Android phone.
Fantastic. Except: * "Errors put the browser in "dumb rendering" mode" is a non-backwards-compatible change, so can't happen * Relatedly, you'll still need to accept HTML4 and prior, including non-DOCTYPE'd pages * Thanks to the above, almost nobody will ever invest the time needed to move from '">' as a method of writing pages. Generating dynamic pages via DOM is (IMHO) a PITA compared to just spitting it out, and I'd wager a good number of web developers agree.
I'd love it, except it simply isn't feasible. You're talking about rewriting a huge percentage of dynamic content on the web - it just won't happen. (IMHO:)
Indeed - as someone who used to run some reasonably-sized forums and ad server to match, I spent some time making sure that the ads didn't slow the loading of the page, and didn't kill the page when the ad server decided to go loopy.
The solution? IFRAMEs. Simple, basic, but entirely effective at both of the above. 99.9% of the time, it didn't matter - but the other 0.1%, it saved the site. (We learnt the downsides of all of the other methods the hard way:).
The biggest problem with IFRAMEs was that we had to have greater control over the ads - we ended up having to patch SWFs from some advertisers to load in _blank, the ones we were supplied would often try to load inside the IFRAME only.
If not, try that. Your local Member is more likley to care what you think. (I wrote to Conroy and my local MP, and received a reply from my local MP only).
Ever considered the possibility that the links in the MDF might be pulled if you cancel the service?
Don't rely on that - there are going to be a lot of lines with soft dial tones, among other things it makes new line provisioning really easy at the same address.
If you ever mess with your cabling like the Ask Slashdot question suggests, disconnect yourself where your house cabling joins the telco-owned cabling (at the "network boundary point").
This really won't be the sort of problem you describe.
Most people with DSL I know here (in Australia) use between 200MB and 2GB per month of data, *excluding bittorrent and usenet*. Most DSL plans have 1-5GBs as the lowest available quota. The only people I know that do more than that, have 24/7 torrents running.
If your daughter can use GBs on the Playhouse website, then you're letting her spend WAY too much time on the website.
There are also heaps of apps to let you keep an eye on your quota usage; pick the one you like the most and check it every now and then. Oh, and emailed reminders at (IIRC) 70%, 90%, and 100%. And affordable quota top-ups (starting at AU$5 for 2GB).
Although it complicates things a lot - paying for the pipe size then paying for the data usage - I think it's great. Some people don't care about the speed, they just want the mega-GBs. Some people care more about the speed and less about the GBs.
(Oblig Disc; I work at a local ISP, but this is my personal opinion)
A pretty large proportion of my usage every month goes towards local content, as it happens. Video chat, MP3 streams, on-demand video of local TV shows, files from a local mirror...
Also, it's not like a switch will be flicked and everyone will get 100Mbps tomorrow - it will be slow and gradual, and I would bet that lots of people will stay on slower copper for the next decade - possibly even after fibre has been laid in their street, depending on costs & usage.
Full competition on the last mile should be a great outcome, as the incumbent drops wholesale pricing and eases access control to fight the up-and-coming FTTH.
There's also the fact that one of the biggest problems with the concept remains - it is still a top-secret blacklist that we aren't allowed to see. We're not allowed to know, or talk about, what exactly is being censored. We were assured by Conroy that no political content would be blocked, but we have no way of confirming that if the list is a secret (unless it leaks... which it did, clearly showing that political content was being blocked).
Also, nobody seems to have noticed that despite multiple assurances that Australian sites get sent a 'take down notice', rather than being blocked, numerous Australian sites were on the blacklist?
ACMA can't even stick vaguely close to the rules they're supposed to abide by...
You're also forgetting that you need to buy new routers that fully handle IPv6 (at the same level as IPv4, including full monitoring and everything). New load-balancers. Upgrade OSs, if you're running anything more than a few years old. Update all of those in-house apps that store IP addresses as 32-bit values, upgrade third-party apps that bind specifically to IPv4 addresses and don't support v6 ones in the config... I'm sure people can come up with plenty more:)
Once you have a reasonably sized organisation, IPv6 is not "very easy to do". (Unless, apparently, you're made up of PhD holders with 20% of their time unused by other projects:)
And yes, I'm involved in IPv6 tasks within the company I work for, and yes, these are real issues we're looking at. For something there isn't an income stream for, it's a reasonable amount of work IMHO.
Not sure why they couldn't just do google or similar, but I guess they have looked into it
Google ads will only pay a fraction of what Last.FM would get by direct ad sales; so their ad income for USA/UK/DE would be several times the income in other countries. The extra money still needs to be made somewhere...
I wouldn't, but I can certainly see someone wasting up to ~15% of their disk space so they have instant transfers to their media player. I know I'm always in a hurry when I copy files over.
Why is it that the software copying the "MP3" over, can't strip out the ID3(v2?) tag containing the extra info, and just save out the "normal" MP3 to the portable device?
Surely that would be a reasonably small change, and solve half of the complaints against the format?
The quorum was being set up as ship's captains; continue down that path but lose 2/3rds of the fleet - taking you down to 12 colonial ships plus the basestar.
Give up on finding a "new" homeworld, go back and resettle on Kobol - forming 13 colonies...
As for Kara, she could have been a half-Cylon herself (her father being Daniel, naturally). One of the Daniels escaped and built a copy of the resurrection tech that would work for him & his daughter.
All in all though, as much as I don't like "God did it" as an ending, the rest of it was really nice, and gave "closure" even if it didn't tie up all the loose threads as much as I would have liked.
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Sounds a lot like something that might get solved with wider application of XMPP and PubSub...
Do you really expect the future of telephony ends with PSTN?
Asterisk quite happily talks to my home phone handset (which talks DECT on one side and SIP on the other) and my VoIP provider that I already had. I'm running it in the ample spare capacity on my Atom-based home server that I already had (which is my router, MythTV backend, web server, database server, NAS, ...).
I paid nothing to run Asterisk, and it's not a stretch to imagine home phones in a few years having enough compute capacity to run a two-channel Asterisk install without any drama.
Is it the same music, really though?
If I buy a VHS copy of a movie, is it OK to download an HD Bluray rip? Despite being "the same movie", they're really quite different content.
It's not like you've got a DVD which is scratched and are downloading a DVD-rip, which (had your kids not just scribbled on the DVD with scissors) you could have reasonably generated yourself with your own ripping software.
Only if you're intending to save it to disk. Streaming multiple HD video streams (one for you, one or two for your kids) etc. etc. will use gobs of bandwidth with zero disk activity - and is only going to get larger (3D, 4K-resolution, etc).
Granted, you'd still have plenty of room left over in your gigabit, but I'm sure we'll find something useful to use it for. (Astronomers working from home? :)
True "duct-tape programming" would bind an existing date datatype in (either YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, or seconds-since-1970).
Duct-tape is not used to build new things, when there are existing things nearby that will do the job. It's used to hold existing things together! :)
I ran both the site and the ad-server used at my last job, so I cared.
Turns out iframes are the solution that works best (I think) - needs things set up slightly more restricted than normal (eg. ad href's must have a target of _top/_parent/_blank, not missing), but otherwise it works great.
Another thumbs-up for the Fit-PC2 here.
2009 called. They want THEIR SUBMARINE back :)
I've seen huge waste out of Word that says otherwise - objects or streams, Word is just as capable of keeping waste around. Just look at its HTML export as proof. (I haven't looked at it recently, but you're talking about a day-one difference here so I think I'm still justified :)
Sure, except using OpenDNS is opt-in in the first place.
Most of the development seemed to revolve around fixing deficiencies wit hteh OS(alternate environments, media players, web browsers and other things that got done right the first time in android/iphone/pre).
Fully agree. Some of my most-used apps are competitors for built-in ones (Canola and MPlayer top the list, MaemoMapper, I also used Modest in competition with its built-in email some time ago).
KDE devs who were never interested in writing gtk for the n800 may now get excited about the 900 and pick it up.
...and the existing pool of Gtk+ developers get frustrated after Yet Another API Change, and leave.
There's never going to be the glut of third-party apps that the iPhone enjoys, when the API isn't stable - and you'd have much better luck again if you could keep the ABI stable for more than a year or two...
I really love my N810 in some ways - but in others, it's fallen flat. Can't play full-res video, GPS is slow to lock, the built-in-browser is slow and painful, finger-scrolling doesn't always trigger properly (and text highlights instead), there's inconsistent use of finger-sized vs. stylus-sized controls, the touchpanel needs entirely too much pressure to be comfortable for extended use... my replacement for it will come when I (eventually) buy an Android phone.
Fantastic. Except:
* "Errors put the browser in "dumb rendering" mode" is a non-backwards-compatible change, so can't happen
* Relatedly, you'll still need to accept HTML4 and prior, including non-DOCTYPE'd pages
* Thanks to the above, almost nobody will ever invest the time needed to move from '">' as a method of writing pages. Generating dynamic pages via DOM is (IMHO) a PITA compared to just spitting it out, and I'd wager a good number of web developers agree.
I'd love it, except it simply isn't feasible. You're talking about rewriting a huge percentage of dynamic content on the web - it just won't happen. (IMHO :)
Well... are they African or European ants?
What do you mean "it turns out they're the same thing"?!?
Indeed - as someone who used to run some reasonably-sized forums and ad server to match, I spent some time making sure that the ads didn't slow the loading of the page, and didn't kill the page when the ad server decided to go loopy.
The solution? IFRAMEs. Simple, basic, but entirely effective at both of the above. 99.9% of the time, it didn't matter - but the other 0.1%, it saved the site. (We learnt the downsides of all of the other methods the hard way :).
The biggest problem with IFRAMEs was that we had to have greater control over the ads - we ended up having to patch SWFs from some advertisers to load in _blank, the ones we were supplied would often try to load inside the IFRAME only.
Did you write to your _local_ Member?
If not, try that. Your local Member is more likley to care what you think. (I wrote to Conroy and my local MP, and received a reply from my local MP only).
Now each item that the Australian government (not the public, but those in control) finds objectionable will come under review and may be censored.
Keep in mind please that no filter has yet come to pass... if you're in Australia, write to your MP. If not... wish us luck :)
(Note: I work at an ISP, but I speak for myself, not my employer)
Ever considered the possibility that the links in the MDF might be pulled if you cancel the service?
Don't rely on that - there are going to be a lot of lines with soft dial tones, among other things it makes new line provisioning really easy at the same address.
If you ever mess with your cabling like the Ask Slashdot question suggests, disconnect yourself where your house cabling joins the telco-owned cabling (at the "network boundary point").
This really won't be the sort of problem you describe.
Most people with DSL I know here (in Australia) use between 200MB and 2GB per month of data, *excluding bittorrent and usenet*. Most DSL plans have 1-5GBs as the lowest available quota. The only people I know that do more than that, have 24/7 torrents running.
If your daughter can use GBs on the Playhouse website, then you're letting her spend WAY too much time on the website.
There are also heaps of apps to let you keep an eye on your quota usage; pick the one you like the most and check it every now and then. Oh, and emailed reminders at (IIRC) 70%, 90%, and 100%. And affordable quota top-ups (starting at AU$5 for 2GB).
Although it complicates things a lot - paying for the pipe size then paying for the data usage - I think it's great. Some people don't care about the speed, they just want the mega-GBs. Some people care more about the speed and less about the GBs.
(Oblig Disc; I work at a local ISP, but this is my personal opinion)
A pretty large proportion of my usage every month goes towards local content, as it happens. Video chat, MP3 streams, on-demand video of local TV shows, files from a local mirror...
Also, it's not like a switch will be flicked and everyone will get 100Mbps tomorrow - it will be slow and gradual, and I would bet that lots of people will stay on slower copper for the next decade - possibly even after fibre has been laid in their street, depending on costs & usage.
Full competition on the last mile should be a great outcome, as the incumbent drops wholesale pricing and eases access control to fight the up-and-coming FTTH.
There's also the fact that one of the biggest problems with the concept remains - it is still a top-secret blacklist that we aren't allowed to see. We're not allowed to know, or talk about, what exactly is being censored. We were assured by Conroy that no political content would be blocked, but we have no way of confirming that if the list is a secret (unless it leaks... which it did, clearly showing that political content was being blocked).
Also, nobody seems to have noticed that despite multiple assurances that Australian sites get sent a 'take down notice', rather than being blocked, numerous Australian sites were on the blacklist?
ACMA can't even stick vaguely close to the rules they're supposed to abide by...
You're also forgetting that you need to buy new routers that fully handle IPv6 (at the same level as IPv4, including full monitoring and everything). New load-balancers. Upgrade OSs, if you're running anything more than a few years old. Update all of those in-house apps that store IP addresses as 32-bit values, upgrade third-party apps that bind specifically to IPv4 addresses and don't support v6 ones in the config... I'm sure people can come up with plenty more :)
Once you have a reasonably sized organisation, IPv6 is not "very easy to do". (Unless, apparently, you're made up of PhD holders with 20% of their time unused by other projects :)
And yes, I'm involved in IPv6 tasks within the company I work for, and yes, these are real issues we're looking at. For something there isn't an income stream for, it's a reasonable amount of work IMHO.
Not sure why they couldn't just do google or similar, but I guess they have looked into it
Google ads will only pay a fraction of what Last.FM would get by direct ad sales; so their ad income for USA/UK/DE would be several times the income in other countries. The extra money still needs to be made somewhere...
I wouldn't, but I can certainly see someone wasting up to ~15% of their disk space so they have instant transfers to their media player. I know I'm always in a hurry when I copy files over.
Why is it that the software copying the "MP3" over, can't strip out the ID3(v2?) tag containing the extra info, and just save out the "normal" MP3 to the portable device?
Surely that would be a reasonably small change, and solve half of the complaints against the format?
I thought mine was pretty good too:
The quorum was being set up as ship's captains; continue down that path but lose 2/3rds of the fleet - taking you down to 12 colonial ships plus the basestar.
Give up on finding a "new" homeworld, go back and resettle on Kobol - forming 13 colonies...
As for Kara, she could have been a half-Cylon herself (her father being Daniel, naturally). One of the Daniels escaped and built a copy of the resurrection tech that would work for him & his daughter.
All in all though, as much as I don't like "God did it" as an ending, the rest of it was really nice, and gave "closure" even if it didn't tie up all the loose threads as much as I would have liked.