I have one of those TDM400 cards populated with 3 FXS modules. Each module is wired into my house's pre-existing phone wiring and drives anywhere from 2 to 4 phones. There is no issue with DSPs running out of steam; you can still only have one conversation on the party line that makes up that set of phones. It turns out the limitation is more the amount of loop current you can push through the line drivers before they fry. Been running this config for months with great success.
Now if only I could teach my wife and daughters the concept of extensions and the trick of transferring a call, I'd be one happy camper indeed
What I did was check out VoicePulse [www.voicepulse.com], in particular their Connect! program. If all you need is outbound calling, set up a PC running asterisk [www.asterisk.org] server and for 2.95 c/min you can make all the out bound long distance calls you need. If that number is zero, your cost will be exactly that, zero. For an additional $7.95/month you can get unlimited inbound calls to a number of your choice. I am telling you, when you do the math, this is nearly unbeatable.
Ready to drop SBC any moment now if only I didn't have Adelphia for a cable company...
Hmm, What people seem to forget though is that all the while Kasparov was also capable of telling you the name of the president of the United States as well as the ingredients for a grilled cheese sandwich. The Human Brain is infinitely more powerful than any computer around today!
For an in-depth economic treatment of the open source phenomenon I would refer you to this very interesting article "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm" by Yochai Benkler, a professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
In a nutshell Professor Benkler argues that this mode of production, i.e. OSS, is in fact more economical than the contract-based models (You write code: I pay you) in use in the corporate world today.
It is a bit dense in places but well worth the read.
Sure, it is readily available. Sure, it is cheap. Sure, Microsoft is selling them at HUGE loss.
There is your chance to bring MS down: If everybody only used their Xboxes to record TV shows, MS would not have a chance at making up their losses through the sales of gaming software!
Plus, if Dreamix builds in automatic commercial skipping then we get rid of the commercial whoring broadcasting companies as well.
Wow, am I on a roll here or what?! Whirled Peas anyone?
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I have one of those TDM400 cards populated with 3 FXS modules. Each module is wired into my house's pre-existing phone wiring and drives anywhere from 2 to 4 phones. There is no issue with DSPs running out of steam; you can still only have one conversation on the party line that makes up that set of phones. It turns out the limitation is more the amount of loop current you can push through the line drivers before they fry.
Been running this config for months with great success.
Now if only I could teach my wife and daughters the concept of extensions and the trick of transferring a call, I'd be one happy camper indeed
What I did was check out VoicePulse [www.voicepulse.com], in particular their Connect! program. If all you need is outbound calling, set up a PC running asterisk [www.asterisk.org] server and for 2.95 c/min you can make all the out bound long distance calls you need. If that number is zero, your cost will be exactly that, zero.
For an additional $7.95/month you can get unlimited inbound calls to a number of your choice.
I am telling you, when you do the math, this is nearly unbeatable.
Ready to drop SBC any moment now if only I didn't have Adelphia for a cable company...
The one thing SCO has (had?) were a few web servers but those too now appear to be collapsing.
Hmm, What people seem to forget though is that all the while Kasparov was also capable of telling you the name of the president of the United States as well as the ingredients for a grilled cheese sandwich.
The Human Brain is infinitely more powerful than any computer around today!
For an in-depth economic treatment of the open source phenomenon I would refer you to this very interesting article "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm" by Yochai Benkler, a professor of Law, New York University School of Law.
In a nutshell Professor Benkler argues that this mode of production, i.e. OSS, is in fact more economical than the contract-based models (You write code: I pay you) in use in the corporate world today.
It is a bit dense in places but well worth the read.
There is your chance to bring MS down: If everybody only used their Xboxes to record TV shows, MS would not have a chance at making up their losses through the sales of gaming software!
Plus, if Dreamix builds in automatic commercial skipping then we get rid of the commercial whoring broadcasting companies as well.
Wow, am I on a roll here or what?! Whirled Peas anyone?