Re: Spyware. Though I can't promise there's nothing hiding on my computer, I so far haven't found anything, and they're trying pretty hard to distance themselves from the spyare stigma if you read through their website. We'll see how it holds up.
Re: quality and latency. I regularly call a friend in Hawaii (I'm in Calgary, AB) both from my desktop, and via my PDA from public wifi access points. Generally I always have a crystal clear connection with almost no latency. I do, however, get funny looks from people when they see me sitting at starbucks talking at my iPaq that seems to talk back at me. One time I tried saying "Bad iPaq! Bad! Bad! Bad!" and spanked it a few times. Now THAT got looks, especially when my friend responded with "hey! Don't do that!"
Re: Propriety. Ok, so it's proprietary. It also works, and works both well, and *simply*. My mom was able to configure and use it. I challenge someone to tell my mom to get hooked up with FWD and have her do it successfully without your help. ICQ is proprietary, yet millions use it and are happy with it. So is MSN Messenger. I'm a fan of open source and standards, but just because it's proprietary doesn't mean it's a bad thing by definition.
The day FWD becomes easier to install and use by my mom and works from behind a NAT with zero configuration, I'll switch. Until then, I'm happy with Skype...
As someone who spent time both professionally in the arts, and professionally in IT, I think I can fairly say that someone who is not introduced to the arts is not getting a complete education. There is much to know and love in the art world, and one of the single biggest things I've found my knowledge of the arts has done for me is increased my appreciation for the technology around me. If you don't get him at least some arts exposure, you're doing him a disservice, regardless of what some uniformed people might think.
If you think that pretending to be interested in the arts is only worthwhile so that you can get laid, then you should put down your saxaphone and dig yourself back into your computer. But don't try to ruin it for someone else who still has a chance to learn something positive...
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If you've got $100k worth of data, you probably aren't storing it on a $175 disk drive.....
Sorry, but I disagree.
Re: Spyware. Though I can't promise there's nothing hiding on my computer, I so far haven't found anything, and they're trying pretty hard to distance themselves from the spyare stigma if you read through their website. We'll see how it holds up.
Re: quality and latency. I regularly call a friend in Hawaii (I'm in Calgary, AB) both from my desktop, and via my PDA from public wifi access points. Generally I always have a crystal clear connection with almost no latency. I do, however, get funny looks from people when they see me sitting at starbucks talking at my iPaq that seems to talk back at me. One time I tried saying "Bad iPaq! Bad! Bad! Bad!" and spanked it a few times. Now THAT got looks, especially when my friend responded with "hey! Don't do that!"
Re: Propriety. Ok, so it's proprietary. It also works, and works both well, and *simply*. My mom was able to configure and use it. I challenge someone to tell my mom to get hooked up with FWD and have her do it successfully without your help.
ICQ is proprietary, yet millions use it and are happy with it. So is MSN Messenger. I'm a fan of open source and standards, but just because it's proprietary doesn't mean it's a bad thing by definition.
The day FWD becomes easier to install and use by my mom and works from behind a NAT with zero configuration, I'll switch. Until then, I'm happy with Skype...
If you think that pretending to be interested in the arts is only worthwhile so that you can get laid, then you should put down your saxaphone and dig yourself back into your computer. But don't try to ruin it for someone else who still has a chance to learn something positive...