VoIP Quality can be really good, it depends on the compression and the client being used, as well as the server. One thing I found was you have to disable any big bandwidths uses before-hand(bittorrent, downloads, etc).
The ideal situation would be for these programs to receiver an event handler when a call is being placed or received, and pause their downloads automatically.
But sometimes your provider can just be horrible, and then it's time to switch.
Since you had to pay for a shell account at some places to access usenet/irc. This was definately before 2000. It was a paid account, sometimes you purchased stuff from it again, and it was username/password(and some places made usernames your actual name, email address, etc..)
Just curious.
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Way off. There's no need to have POTS lines if you want to be a telecom, you need end termination.
Check out http://voip-info.org/ and good luck! =) It's a fun, crazy learning curve.
We need to keep general-purpose education around. We can't have everyone specialized in whatever it is they do. But we could move a lot of those general purpose classes down to the high school level(making it more useful and educational) and eliminate a lot of the duplicating of classes. My first year in College was like my 3rd year in high school, and my second year was like my senior year in high school. Why did I have to re-learn all this history that I already knew from classes? No, not because they are honors/AP classes, they shouldn't have been. AP class was a challenge because it went too far in depth, college was like the AP class without the depth, just skimming over the top, which you could do in HS no problem.
Agreed, $29 is not a lot of money, and it is traceable(Hey, that $29 came from someone/somewhere). That's the difference, I think. I could never trust a free SSL cert.
XUL, XAML helps bring that a lot closer. We are already getting ready to distribute a CRM app based entirely on XUL, using XMLRPC to communicate with the server.
Moz has lots of projects available, the JS interpreter is available as a separate library, and I believe as a shared library between Tbird/Moz/Fox and the calendar, as well as the XUL rendering and the XPCOM iface. If not they have been developing a way to share these, as much of the base code is the same.
And XUL Runner, or something similar, is basically Firefox/TBird/Moz without the browser/mail/suite. It's not finished yet, but they are on their way. You can launch apps without the browser already, you just have to have it installed to use it.
mozilla -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul firefox -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul thunderbird -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul
It should be obvious why they want to unite the libs and prog data and share them(if they aren't already).
http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul (open in FF or Moz, or -chrome it from tbird)
I didn't mention XAML because I'm not familiar with it, but it looks to be a great clone of XUL(nothing wrong with competition).
With the book, and xulplanet.com the documentation is pretty good, although it really needs a lot more simple examples and stuff. There was a GUI designer for it, but I think it died awhile back.
However, it's really very simple to do XUL, and with a JS XMLRPC lib or a good WSDL file(still beyond me!) it becomes pretty easy to implement, and the GUI XML files are very easy to understand.
But yeah, I'm hoping for a GUI and better support soon. Anything would help, and my company has agreed to sponsor migration of our CRM system to XUL and JS after seeing a small sample of it. Very good for RAD.
I can't wait to see XAML(Microsoft's version of XUL).
XUL, XPCOM, excellent JS support, DOM Inspector, standards compliance. Mozilla has some great stuff too. You can't get everyone to switch from IE to Moz, but you can't get everyone to switch from Moz to IE either at this point.
But those hardcore techs(XUL, XPCOM, etc... for Moz, and the ones you mentioned for IE) just rock for dev
Valve releases a patch, you no longer need Steam to play, and you enjoy playing HL2 while the rest of us play HL3, Doom 4, or whatever the hell is released in 5 or 10 years.
A lot of people are pirating games these days, the best would be some grassroots way to stop it or something. If it wasn't a problem, they would have never done it. This is hardly a pre-emptive move to stop piracy, it comes after all the other crap that has happened recently.
There's crap on the net? No way! I've never seen any. Oh, well, I only use it for news, work, movies, reviews, and buying stuff. I don't really spend every waking moment going to Joe Bob's Home Page with only a dancing Tea Kettle on it. Sorry, guess I just don't see the crap since I avoid those places. Sucks for me, eh?
Actually Apple charges $30 and it takes less than a week. But after a few years why would you want a 4gig when you can get a much larger size(GB) at a much smaller size and lighter weight, with more features, etc... This is tech we're talking about, it doesn't linger on for years like this.
Exactly. But if you close these loopholes, then what does Nevada have to offer? A big workforce? Check again. Nevada has nothing to offer, which is why they have the laws the way they have them. At least this way there is an economic impact, albeit a small one.
It's not really just another luxury anymore. A lot of people have the same withdrawl when fast food is taken away for two weeks(not to mention chemical withdrawl!). If telephone and IM/Email are taken away. If the stove was taken away. The internet's not new anymore. It's a means of communications, it's a mean of information retrieval. It's not just an extra for a lot of people anymore. I know a lot of people will say Internet is not Human Contact, but it isn't a computer on the other end(well, most of the time). It isn't this exclusive thing only a few geeks know about anymore.
It's not necessairily and addiction, although lots of people have an addiction, but it is a necessity. Ask me what movies are playing and I'm on Yahoo in about a second. If not that, then Movie Phone. I've never, in my life, used the Newspaper to look up movies. It's just a new things, and the way the tide is going.
And one large request to every state's DOT. Please revoke everyone's license and make them take the tests over again. Make turn signal required. Make people go around the block and spend 15 seconds instead of turning at the last second from three lanes over. Instead of making everyone else wait 5 minutes while you try to turn lanes from the wrong lane.
Driving shouldn't be done by robots, it should be a centralized system. Not independent controls. Whether they be robots or people(the craziness we have now).
Is. A few years ago(2001) it was found that 70% of all antibiotics in the US are fed to food-animals. Not just animals to be eaten, but animals that produce milk and eggs as well(hence my use of food-animal). If 70% of antibiotics is given to animals, the diseases have a leg-up before they hit the humans. And yes, when we eat food made with antibiotics, we do absorb some of those antibiotics, helping to created MDR's (as well as the animals creating MDR's).
Not to mention our bodies are floating with antibiotics at pretty much anytime(ever eat meat, or especially fast food?). Teaching good habits won't change everything, we've still got to eat healthier and encourage industry to raise food-animals without the use of antibiotics except when necessary.
Taking the pills like you're supposed to won't help, when you've had many different kinds of antibiotics in your system when you first got sick. And with other antibiotics just starting being used in food-animal industries, we've got a bigger problem on our hands.
It's like in Texas, they want to cut back on emissions, but they keep trying to reduce the pollution standards on large companies. The pollution increases, the consumer has to pay more and jump through more hoops, and everybody loses.
I'm not anti-corporate at all, there are lots of good ones out there, but look at some of the specific ones and see.
And you'll never have to click "Edit->Find" again or even Ctrl-F. You just start typing and it starts searching. I've been using this feature for awhile. Got a build for my P4 from http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ The end-user in my likes the Mozilla of it, and the geek in me loves the P4 optimizations of it. =)
Well, lots of programs do things that aren't advertised. Call it "cleaning out your home directory when a special key is input" and it sounds good to me!
Because the damage is then minimal. Re-install and try it again. It really isn't a deterrent. It's like if you steal something from a store, all you have to do if you get caught is give the item back. That's not a deterent.
Why not have 2.0 connect to a central server to verify registrations? And to send a unique ID generated from the computer as well? If you get two of them, at the same time, then you know something is up. It'll take a little work to tweak it properly, but there are a few IDE's out there that do it pretty easily, and with broadband a simple SOAP or XML-RPC call is really unnoticed.
Yeah, that's proven to work well. There would never be overtime pay, ever again.
I can see it now, "I want overtime for working over 60 hours a week!"
"I can get someone for 70 hours a week without overtime, you're outta here"
Because, you know, we never would have had those laws if we never needed them.
The government is an extension of the people, the corporations influence it a lot, but in the end, it is an extension of the people. If these laws were completely unnecessary, we would never have needed them in the first place.
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VoIP Quality can be really good, it depends on the compression and the client being used, as well as the server. One thing I found was you have to disable any big bandwidths uses before-hand(bittorrent, downloads, etc).
The ideal situation would be for these programs to receiver an event handler when a call is being placed or received, and pause their downloads automatically.
But sometimes your provider can just be horrible, and then it's time to switch.
If you're going to do something unethical/unprofessional, make sure you don't/won't get caught! Otherwise, you lose. =)
That's a good, free lesson from Harvard for all Business students. =)
Since you had to pay for a shell account at some places to access usenet/irc. This was definately before 2000. It was a paid account, sometimes you purchased stuff from it again, and it was username/password(and some places made usernames your actual name, email address, etc..)
Just curious.
Way off. There's no need to have POTS lines if you want to be a telecom, you need end termination.
Check out http://voip-info.org/ and good luck! =) It's a fun, crazy learning curve.
We need to keep general-purpose education around. We can't have everyone specialized in whatever it is they do. But we could move a lot of those general purpose classes down to the high school level(making it more useful and educational) and eliminate a lot of the duplicating of classes. My first year in College was like my 3rd year in high school, and my second year was like my senior year in high school. Why did I have to re-learn all this history that I already knew from classes? No, not because they are honors/AP classes, they shouldn't have been. AP class was a challenge because it went too far in depth, college was like the AP class without the depth, just skimming over the top, which you could do in HS no problem.
Agreed, $29 is not a lot of money, and it is traceable(Hey, that $29 came from someone/somewhere). That's the difference, I think. I could never trust a free SSL cert.
XUL, XAML helps bring that a lot closer. We are already getting ready to distribute a CRM app based entirely on XUL, using XMLRPC to communicate with the server.
Moz has lots of projects available, the JS interpreter is available as a separate library, and I believe as a shared library between Tbird/Moz/Fox and the calendar, as well as the XUL rendering and the XPCOM iface. If not they have been developing a way to share these, as much of the base code is the same.
And XUL Runner, or something similar, is basically Firefox/TBird/Moz without the browser/mail/suite. It's not finished yet, but they are on their way. You can launch apps without the browser already, you just have to have it installed to use it.
mozilla -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul
firefox -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul
thunderbird -chrome http://blahblahblah.xul
It should be obvious why they want to unite the libs and prog data and share them(if they aren't already).
http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul (open in FF or Moz, or -chrome it from tbird)
I didn't mention XAML because I'm not familiar with it, but it looks to be a great clone of XUL(nothing wrong with competition).
With the book, and xulplanet.com the documentation is pretty good, although it really needs a lot more simple examples and stuff. There was a GUI designer for it, but I think it died awhile back.
However, it's really very simple to do XUL, and with a JS XMLRPC lib or a good WSDL file(still beyond me!) it becomes pretty easy to implement, and the GUI XML files are very easy to understand.
But yeah, I'm hoping for a GUI and better support soon. Anything would help, and my company has agreed to sponsor migration of our CRM system to XUL and JS after seeing a small sample of it. Very good for RAD.
I can't wait to see XAML(Microsoft's version of XUL).
XUL, XPCOM, excellent JS support, DOM Inspector, standards compliance. Mozilla has some great stuff too. You can't get everyone to switch from IE to Moz, but you can't get everyone to switch from Moz to IE either at this point.
But those hardcore techs(XUL, XPCOM, etc... for Moz, and the ones you mentioned for IE) just rock for dev
Valve releases a patch, you no longer need Steam to play, and you enjoy playing HL2 while the rest of us play HL3, Doom 4, or whatever the hell is released in 5 or 10 years.
A lot of people are pirating games these days, the best would be some grassroots way to stop it or something. If it wasn't a problem, they would have never done it. This is hardly a pre-emptive move to stop piracy, it comes after all the other crap that has happened recently.
There's crap on the net? No way! I've never seen any. Oh, well, I only use it for news, work, movies, reviews, and buying stuff. I don't really spend every waking moment going to Joe Bob's Home Page with only a dancing Tea Kettle on it. Sorry, guess I just don't see the crap since I avoid those places. Sucks for me, eh?
Actually Apple charges $30 and it takes less than a week. But after a few years why would you want a 4gig when you can get a much larger size(GB) at a much smaller size and lighter weight, with more features, etc... This is tech we're talking about, it doesn't linger on for years like this.
You can get the debate and stuff from cspan.org normally as well.
It doesn't affect the President anymore, unless he slept with one of the female nuclear scientists.
Exactly. But if you close these loopholes, then what does Nevada have to offer? A big workforce? Check again. Nevada has nothing to offer, which is why they have the laws the way they have them. At least this way there is an economic impact, albeit a small one.
It's not really just another luxury anymore. A lot of people have the same withdrawl when fast food is taken away for two weeks(not to mention chemical withdrawl!). If telephone and IM/Email are taken away. If the stove was taken away. The internet's not new anymore. It's a means of communications, it's a mean of information retrieval. It's not just an extra for a lot of people anymore. I know a lot of people will say Internet is not Human Contact, but it isn't a computer on the other end(well, most of the time). It isn't this exclusive thing only a few geeks know about anymore.
It's not necessairily and addiction, although lots of people have an addiction, but it is a necessity. Ask me what movies are playing and I'm on Yahoo in about a second. If not that, then Movie Phone. I've never, in my life, used the Newspaper to look up movies. It's just a new things, and the way the tide is going.
And one large request to every state's DOT. Please revoke everyone's license and make them take the tests over again. Make turn signal required. Make people go around the block and spend 15 seconds instead of turning at the last second from three lanes over. Instead of making everyone else wait 5 minutes while you try to turn lanes from the wrong lane.
Driving shouldn't be done by robots, it should be a centralized system. Not independent controls. Whether they be robots or people(the craziness we have now).
Is. A few years ago(2001) it was found that 70% of all antibiotics in the US are fed to food-animals. Not just animals to be eaten, but animals that produce milk and eggs as well(hence my use of food-animal). If 70% of antibiotics is given to animals, the diseases have a leg-up before they hit the humans. And yes, when we eat food made with antibiotics, we do absorb some of those antibiotics, helping to created MDR's (as well as the animals creating MDR's).
Not to mention our bodies are floating with antibiotics at pretty much anytime(ever eat meat, or especially fast food?). Teaching good habits won't change everything, we've still got to eat healthier and encourage industry to raise food-animals without the use of antibiotics except when necessary.
Taking the pills like you're supposed to won't help, when you've had many different kinds of antibiotics in your system when you first got sick. And with other antibiotics just starting being used in food-animal industries, we've got a bigger problem on our hands.
It's like in Texas, they want to cut back on emissions, but they keep trying to reduce the pollution standards on large companies. The pollution increases, the consumer has to pay more and jump through more hoops, and everybody loses.
I'm not anti-corporate at all, there are lots of good ones out there, but look at some of the specific ones and see.
And you'll never have to click "Edit->Find" again or even Ctrl-F. You just start typing and it starts searching. I've been using this feature for awhile. Got a build for my P4 from http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ The end-user in my likes the Mozilla of it, and the geek in me loves the P4 optimizations of it. =)
Well, lots of programs do things that aren't advertised. Call it "cleaning out your home directory when a special key is input" and it sounds good to me!
You forgot the 1st rule of computing
1) Backup
Bet you didn't remember the other two of the first three either:
2) Backup
3) Backup
What about the last rule?
XX) Backup, again.
Because the damage is then minimal. Re-install and try it again. It really isn't a deterrent. It's like if you steal something from a store, all you have to do if you get caught is give the item back. That's not a deterent.
Why not have 2.0 connect to a central server to verify registrations? And to send a unique ID generated from the computer as well? If you get two of them, at the same time, then you know something is up. It'll take a little work to tweak it properly, but there are a few IDE's out there that do it pretty easily, and with broadband a simple SOAP or XML-RPC call is really unnoticed.
Yeah, that's proven to work well. There would never be overtime pay, ever again.
I can see it now, "I want overtime for working over 60 hours a week!"
"I can get someone for 70 hours a week without overtime, you're outta here"
Because, you know, we never would have had those laws if we never needed them.
The government is an extension of the people, the corporations influence it a lot, but in the end, it is an extension of the people. If these laws were completely unnecessary, we would never have needed them in the first place.