The whole emergency services thing is a pile of crap. Just because a VoIP service performs LIKE a telephone, doesn't make it a telephone service.
The 9xx issue is just a way for the authorities to get their foot in the door of regulating VoIP.
I really feel that education about what exactly VoIP is and isn't would be better than regulation - It is a real shame that it takes death and injury for people to actually pay attention to the limitations of technology.
Well in that case we need to extend the current open protocols to include NAT traversal.
As it is, with NAT pretty much sidelining IPv6 (Its my belief that if we didn't have NAT we WOULD have IPv6 by now)
If NAT is here to stay, NAT traversal should be built into all relevant protocols.
I dont think that "because it's convenient" is any real reason for using something that is tainted.
Another thing to throw into the net - how difficult do you think it is for Skype to intercept, record and playback conversations on their network. Sure, the phone company probably has it easier, although they can only tap you at "addresses" that they know you will use - I assume Skype uses a username/password system to identify you to the network. Add to this the powers that govenment has, a possible change in the law that Skype have to keep copies of all communications going through their network (an extension of the email retention stuff in theory) and anything you say could come back to bite you.
And there was me thinking that the instructions for making coffee generally was along the lines of "pour boiling water over/through coffee product"
Therefor the correct temperature of Coffee when fresh prepared is Boiling - which would be around 100 deg C (not sure how adding Coffee to water affects its boiling point)
It has to be advantageous to a take-away place to serve its drinks as hot as possible as the drink is destined to be drunk at another location and will have lost some heat.
The whole case was caused due to someone not securing their drink properly - had the vendor dropped the cup into their car then yes they would have a responsibility , but as the customer had accepted delivery and arranged for storage and transport location (between her knees if I remember the case) then surely it is her own fault.
As far as I am concerned it is impossible to serve coffee too hot - if it goes above boiling all you would have is coffee falvoured steam (hmm there may be a patent in that one - Coffee flavoured Steam Beverages)
Sometimes I think that people have forgotten that sometimes when something bad happens it is an accident and so nobodies fault, or self-inflicted ie their own fault rather than to find fault in someone elses actions and reach for a lawyer...
However, if you get a Flash Linker you can use a program called Goomba (use Google - I dont have a link to hand) to compile many GB & GBC games into a "virtual GBA" cartidge image which WILL work on a Nintendo DS.
You will need a GBA (Classic or SP) to use any modern linker as they use a port that is not on the DS but on the GBA - I think its the one for multi player link up.
This way you should be able to back up your GB/GBC games to your PC, then transfer them to the Flash cart to play on your DS.
At least as far as an Babelfish translation of the amazon.co.jp Nintendo DS product page goes
# For you if Sega which it can die:)
Oh and they are already sold out so back to the drawing board to track one of these suckers down pre the beginning of next year (and for the release price of $150US not the ridiculous $200+ prices)
And if you read my post (1st paragraph) you will note that I make mention of a game (X2) that does hardware acceleration on both screens.
The GeForce FX has multiple modes of dual screen, as my memory is not up to remembering all the details off the top of my head heres the info from another website - they are primarily talking about more than 2 monitors on more than 2 cards, but the info that I wanted is the same regardless - the site is
After installation, the video cards will be in DualView mode, also called independent displays mode. This means that each monitor can use different settings (resolution, color, refresh rate), and you can use different applications on each monitor. If only a single monitor is connected to the video card, the mode selection will be disabled.
Most of the testing for this review was done in DualView mode.
Span mode: in this mode, both displays connected to the video card form a single large display, instead of being independent of each other. For this mode it is best to have two identical monitors, because both monitors will have to use the same settings. Span mode is mainly useful for 3D applications, especially if a 3D window needs to be stretched across both monitors.
Clone mode: both displays show the same thing. Clone mode is often used for presentations. As with span mode, both monitors need to use the same settings.
To enable span or clone mode, you need to disable the second monitor connected to the video card, then open the Nvidia settings for the first monitor, and select the desired mode. Switching between different modes doesn't require a reboot.
Please note that span and clone mode are limited to a single video card. It isn't possible to use span mode to combine monitors from different video cards, and you can't clone a monitor on a different video card."
Conclusion - if FPS and quality are not that important to you the Parhelia is the card for you - the odd number of screens (as opposed to even) allows the central gaming area to be in the middle of the screen, and makes this awesome.
If you want quality go for a more powerful card (I am assuming that what I have put above holds true for ATI with regards to multi-monitor support) but be aware that multiscreen gaming will bug the hell out of you unless the game is designed for multi-screen and uses the second screen for status info (ie still effectively a scingle screen playing area)
Of course you could get a FX5700 PCI and put that in along with its AGP equivilent and do 3 screens that way....(I think:)
Actually the GeForces (my 5950 anyway) is capable of splitting the image over 2 monitors (the max number of outputs they support) - an example of this is in X2 where you get the play image on one screen and the inventory screen on the other - this is the only workable way of doing 2 monitors and has to be a feature designed into the game.
The problem with splitting across 2 monitors by just making the rendered area bigger is that in that "surround" modes the cross-hair/center of the screen is right in the middle of the deadspace - ie one "hair" on the left edge of the right monitor and the other on the right edge of the left monitor and separated by (on my Iyama's) about 2 inches - not good for fragging.
The Parhelia has 3 screens which would put your crosshair in the middle of the center screen.
I would call what they do "peripheral" vision as thats the space that the 2 other monitors occupy - peripheral vision.
I figured that the iPod was too expensive for me, I also wasn't convinced that I wanted to have to wade through GB's of files.
You know what I mean, I'm sure most people have set up an mp3 playlist one day and then listened to it the next day and hit the "skip to next" track button a load of times because the tracks that came up, while fitting your requirements one day, no longer do so.
I figured that a player based around CD-R's/CD-RW's would be the answer.
So I went for the Sony DNE-1.
It sounds good and I can just drag-n-drop tracks or folders onto it and then burn them - takes about 3 minutes to make a whole new cd, and I can carry CD's pretty easily.
When I get bored with a disc I can just throw it away or stash it away someplace. I had intended using CD-RW's and just re-burning them, but CD-R's are so cheap as to be almost disposable.
Might still be swayed to an iPod someday, but for now I'm happy with what I have
Which is why I haven't used the non-pocket version, never mind this one.
My thoughts on a solution is to run my own password protected Teamspeak server (www.teamspeak.org) and then tell my family and friends to get the client software.
This will allow for group chats as well as one to one's via the rooms that can be set up.
Basically like the re-charge pit lane in the Wipeout games.
Take the slow lane, put an induction charger in the road-bed, stick a 60 km/h limit on it and the regarce point only needs to be.5km long. Run solar panels along the edge of the road, wind generators in the central area where the barriers are and it would be pretty cheap to travel - I mean imagine a very thin (1 unit) but very long (say 100 units/km) windfarm along every major highway and byway.
For a minute there I thought you were about to suggest BSPlayer as an alternative.
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Its free, its light-weight and has some nice features - the ability to resize the playback window with the mouse-wheel is quite nice, as well as sensible keyboard shortcuts - f for fullscreen for example.
Its my second player of choice - well Mplayer doesn't run on my windows box:)
Ok so you got to sell your soul and taint your kernel (big deal) but I got GLXGears clocking up 3500 fps (well thats what it says) on my Ti4200/XP2000 set up and I even play my Playstation 2 on my monitor via the TV-in
This is why my next card will be an Nvidia (5950 Ultra, buying next week), because I dont want to gamble on ATI releasing drivers in the next year or so (which is probably the timescale that the 5950 will be replaced from the Wintendo XP gaming box).
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The whole emergency services thing is a pile of crap. Just because a VoIP service performs LIKE a telephone, doesn't make it a telephone service.
The 9xx issue is just a way for the authorities to get their foot in the door of regulating VoIP.
I really feel that education about what exactly VoIP is and isn't would be better than regulation - It is a real shame that it takes death and injury for people to actually pay attention to the limitations of technology.
The other piece of software is Kazza
Well in that case we need to extend the current open protocols to include NAT traversal.
:)
As it is, with NAT pretty much sidelining IPv6 (Its my belief that if we didn't have NAT we WOULD have IPv6 by now)
If NAT is here to stay, NAT traversal should be built into all relevant protocols.
I dont think that "because it's convenient" is any real reason for using something that is tainted.
Another thing to throw into the net - how difficult do you think it is for Skype to intercept, record and playback conversations on their network. Sure, the phone company probably has it easier, although they can only tap you at "addresses" that they know you will use - I assume Skype uses a username/password system to identify you to the network. Add to this the powers that govenment has, a possible change in the law that Skype have to keep copies of all communications going through their network (an extension of the email retention stuff in theory) and anything you say could come back to bite you.
Now where did I put my tinfoil hat........
Why is it everyone seems to forget that the creators of Skype are known spy-ware peddlers?
They have proven that in the past they are willing to use such dubious business practices, so why should we give them any business now?
Yes Skype may be good and useful, but its a proprietary protocol.
What we need is for someone to get behind the open VoIP protocols and give us phones that use those, preferably with encryption.
A routing procedure????
Maybe NASA should call in Cisco or Juniper for some advice.....
Raise a TAC case !!!
And there was me thinking that the instructions for making coffee generally was along the lines of "pour boiling water over/through coffee product"
Therefor the correct temperature of Coffee when fresh prepared is Boiling - which would be around 100 deg C (not sure how adding Coffee to water affects its boiling point)
It has to be advantageous to a take-away place to serve its drinks as hot as possible as the drink is destined to be drunk at another location and will have lost some heat.
The whole case was caused due to someone not securing their drink properly - had the vendor dropped the cup into their car then yes they would have a responsibility , but as the customer had accepted delivery and arranged for storage and transport location (between her knees if I remember the case) then surely it is her own fault.
As far as I am concerned it is impossible to serve coffee too hot - if it goes above boiling all you would have is coffee falvoured steam (hmm there may be a patent in that one - Coffee flavoured Steam Beverages)
Sometimes I think that people have forgotten that sometimes when something bad happens it is an accident and so nobodies fault, or self-inflicted ie their own fault rather than to find fault in someone elses actions and reach for a lawyer...
However, if you get a Flash Linker you can use a program called Goomba (use Google - I dont have a link to hand) to compile many GB & GBC games into a "virtual GBA" cartidge image which WILL work on a Nintendo DS.
You will need a GBA (Classic or SP) to use any modern linker as they use a port that is not on the DS but on the GBA - I think its the one for multi player link up.
This way you should be able to back up your GB/GBC games to your PC, then transfer them to the Flash cart to play on your DS.
At least as far as an Babelfish translation of the amazon.co.jp Nintendo DS product page goes
:)
# For you if Sega which it can die
Oh and they are already sold out so back to the drawing board to track one of these suckers down pre the beginning of next year (and for the release price of $150US not the ridiculous $200+ prices)
Funny, was just discussing the same issue with a friend last night.
He got fobbed off with excuses by Alienware for 2 months on a Desktop machine due to "awaiting parts".
Ended up cancelling his order and going elsewhere.
The Solution
The current PS2 DOES have USB ports
Dont know if the PStwo will have but as most light-guns use USB I would assume so
So solution could be USB external HD's - all this would need would be a BIOS update with the relevant drivers for USB External HD's
The question would be whether Sony would go proprietary (probably) or allow you to connect any old USB external HD to it
My guess would be propriatary with it drawing power from the USB port (using a 2.5" HD)
And if you read my post (1st paragraph) you will note that I make mention of a game (X2) that does hardware acceleration on both screens.
o n_ gf4/
:)
The GeForce FX has multiple modes of dual screen, as my memory is not up to remembering all the details off the top of my head heres the info from another website - they are primarily talking about more than 2 monitors on more than 2 cards, but the info that I wanted is the same regardless - the site is
http://www.realtimesoft.com/multimon/reviews/3m
"Multi-monitor modes
After installation, the video cards will be in DualView mode, also called independent displays mode. This means that each monitor can use different settings (resolution, color, refresh rate), and you can use different applications on each monitor. If only a single monitor is connected to the video card, the mode selection will be disabled.
Most of the testing for this review was done in DualView mode.
Span mode: in this mode, both displays connected to the video card form a single large display, instead of being independent of each other. For this mode it is best to have two identical monitors, because both monitors will have to use the same settings. Span mode is mainly useful for 3D applications, especially if a 3D window needs to be stretched across both monitors.
Clone mode: both displays show the same thing. Clone mode is often used for presentations. As with span mode, both monitors need to use the same settings.
To enable span or clone mode, you need to disable the second monitor connected to the video card, then open the Nvidia settings for the first monitor, and select the desired mode. Switching between different modes doesn't require a reboot.
Please note that span and clone mode are limited to a single video card. It isn't possible to use span mode to combine monitors from different video cards, and you can't clone a monitor on a different video card."
Conclusion - if FPS and quality are not that important to you the Parhelia is the card for you - the odd number of screens (as opposed to even) allows the central gaming area to be in the middle of the screen, and makes this awesome.
If you want quality go for a more powerful card (I am assuming that what I have put above holds true for ATI with regards to multi-monitor support) but be aware that multiscreen gaming will bug the hell out of you unless the game is designed for multi-screen and uses the second screen for status info (ie still effectively a scingle screen playing area)
Of course you could get a FX5700 PCI and put that in along with its AGP equivilent and do 3 screens that way....(I think
Actually the GeForces (my 5950 anyway) is capable of splitting the image over 2 monitors (the max number of outputs they support) - an example of this is in X2 where you get the play image on one screen and the inventory screen on the other - this is the only workable way of doing 2 monitors and has to be a feature designed into the game.
The problem with splitting across 2 monitors by just making the rendered area bigger is that in that "surround" modes the cross-hair/center of the screen is right in the middle of the deadspace - ie one "hair" on the left edge of the right monitor and the other on the right edge of the left monitor and separated by (on my Iyama's) about 2 inches - not good for fragging.
The Parhelia has 3 screens which would put your crosshair in the middle of the center screen.
I would call what they do "peripheral" vision as thats the space that the 2 other monitors occupy - peripheral vision.
NH
Try the following combination
Linux
SSH
screen
btdownloadcurses
Been doing it for ages........
Better than your damn American "sex in a canoe"* bubblegum beer.
I heard they served it cold to numb the tastebuds so that you couldn't taste the cats piss
* as in "Fscking close to water"
I figured that the iPod was too expensive for me, I also wasn't convinced that I wanted to have to wade through GB's of files.
You know what I mean, I'm sure most people have set up an mp3 playlist one day and then listened to it the next day and hit the "skip to next" track button a load of times because the tracks that came up, while fitting your requirements one day, no longer do so.
I figured that a player based around CD-R's/CD-RW's would be the answer.
So I went for the Sony DNE-1.
It sounds good and I can just drag-n-drop tracks or folders onto it and then burn them - takes about 3 minutes to make a whole new cd, and I can carry CD's pretty easily.
When I get bored with a disc I can just throw it away or stash it away someplace. I had intended using CD-RW's and just re-burning them, but CD-R's are so cheap as to be almost disposable.
Might still be swayed to an iPod someday, but for now I'm happy with what I have
Definately thinking of Asterix, but its a little "heavier" than Teamspeak - and I barely have the time to install and configure Teamspeak.
:)
I need more hours in the day
The fact that they had spyware in a previous product shows that they dont have any problems with spyware.
This makes them scum and once scum, always scum
Skype may be spyware free, but who wants to deal with a known spyware advocate.
Which is why I haven't used the non-pocket version, never mind this one.
My thoughts on a solution is to run my own password protected Teamspeak server (www.teamspeak.org) and then tell my family and friends to get the client software.
This will allow for group chats as well as one to one's via the rooms that can be set up.
Its IRC for Voice, despite its FPS origins.
And it doesn't cost any money....
Your right
:P
It should have been
"Those files, erased by a Jedi they only could be"
It mentions use in Electric cars.
.5km long. Run solar panels along the edge of the road, wind generators in the central area where the barriers are and it would be pretty cheap to travel - I mean imagine a very thin (1 unit) but very long (say 100 units/km) windfarm along every major highway and byway.
Imagine having "recharge" lanes on the roads.
Basically like the re-charge pit lane in the Wipeout games.
Take the slow lane, put an induction charger in the road-bed, stick a 60 km/h limit on it and the regarce point only needs to be
Its a hamster thats has the T taken out of it - obviously........ (Damn typo-daemons)
Theres no P in hamster by the way
:)
Consider this post to be taking the p out of hamsers
For a minute there I thought you were about to suggest BSPlayer as an alternative.
:)
http://www.bsplayer.org/
Its free, its light-weight and has some nice features - the ability to resize the playback window with the mouse-wheel is quite nice, as well as sensible keyboard shortcuts - f for fullscreen for example.
Its my second player of choice - well Mplayer doesn't run on my windows box
I think that this system sucks big time - tho I suppose that in actuality it blows :)
My thoughts are ditch this and put in harsher penalties.
1) Confiscate the vehicle
2) Ban them from driving ever again
3) Very harsh penalties if ever caught behind the wheel of a moving vehicle again
With the number of people who need a car to go shopping or to work it would make the cost of DUI too high.
As for those now stuck in the middle of nowhere without transport - tough luck
Should have gone NVIDIA then my friend.
Ok so you got to sell your soul and taint your kernel (big deal) but I got GLXGears clocking up 3500 fps (well thats what it says) on my Ti4200/XP2000 set up and I even play my Playstation 2 on my monitor via the TV-in
This is why my next card will be an Nvidia (5950 Ultra, buying next week), because I dont want to gamble on ATI releasing drivers in the next year or so (which is probably the timescale that the 5950 will be replaced from the Wintendo XP gaming box).