This doesn't cover Vonage, it says
"which doesn't touch
the public switched telephone network (PSTN)".
Vonage talks to the public switched telephone
network. This doesn't argue for regulating them
or for not regulating them. You are safe even
if they eventually like the petition, you just
maybe regulated at a later time.
Personally since I assume Vonage is regulated
like the rest of the telephone companies (whatever
that means), that should be sufficient. I mean
what does that matter if the telephone is behind
some copper wire carrying analog signals or an
internet connection? I wonder though if
Vonage competitors can then rent out the 'last mile'
solution to offer customers competition all
on Vonage's equiptment.
In "The Space Shuttle Story" by Luke Begarnie,
the book has a picture of a guy in a space suite
spreading some red goo on black tiles with the
caption "Astronaut William Lenoir demonstrates
NASA's in-orbit tile repair kit."
I would conclude that at some point in time
NASA at least had plans to include an on orbit
tile repair kit. Sure there are a ton of things
that couldn't be fixed on orbit, but including
a few tiles and something to stick them on with
doesn't sound too far off to me. After all they
do include duck tape.
As for the other comment about not having
any cameras to view the underside or rear of
the shuttle, they should use one of those free
floating balls that they've tested before.
The only way VoIP would achieve the cost appeal that faxing has achieved is to buy a telephone line (internet connection), buy a fax (VoIP box), and not pay for the privilege for using a fax (VoIP) instead of a telephone (web browser). I don't think people will go for this system, clearly Vonage.com agrees, people pay them money to inneroperate VoIP with the legacy telephone system without any benefit of a standard telephone except price.
Faxing took over because it was something new and didn't have to displace a technology that was already working. A business bought a fax and let people know they had one. If someone wanted to get a fax from them or send one, they had to go out and buy a fax machine.
That doesn't work so well for VoIP. Someone going out and buying a VoIP system doesn't want to wait around and only use it with people who also went out and bought a VoIP system, they want it to automatically work like their regular telephone system works. The only thing we are doing with the current VoIP system, Vonage.com for an example, is who we are playing for phone service. Sure they are charging less especially if you are using long distance, but you are replacing a wired telephone that is limited to calling telephone numbers with a box that... calls telephone numbers.
What we need to do is buy the VoIP box and interface with other VoIP boxes without paying for the legacy telephone connection. The $40 a month Vonage.com is going to the telephone connection they provide.
We don't need a central registry for VoIP to work, think about how e-mail works, there isn't any central registry of all the internet e-mail addresses. There are tons of e-mail directories, and VoIP could work the same.
What's an accurate return address and who decides?
To me if it is a company with an @aol.com,
@yahoo.com or other free service, it isn't an
accurate return address, because I can't find
out anything about the actual company that
sent the e-mail. I have heard of company's
actually using those sites for their real e-mail,
so if you call them accurate does that mean you
have to opt out of mail@company.com, then
company@aol.com, company@hotmail.com,
company@yahoo.com? Better than 1234@nosite.com
though.
Missouri also has a do-not-call list which we
are on and last year I had a call from Mr. Bush,
it was a recording. Um, I hope so or I just
hung up on the President!
Just as long as they are for sure blocking
spam and not the e-mail I actually requested
(web form etc), that can't be distinguished from
spam. The idea of allowing an ISP to
arbitrarily decide what e-mail I get is bad,
they might block much more than spam, and that
is censorship.
I would have thought they would have listed
the minimum client hardware on that page so
you could see if you meet the requirements
and if you don't you could go ahead and fill
out the survey in the hope they will sometime
in the future. But no, after trying with konqueror,
netscape, and finally mozilla, I eventually
found the section on their web site that gave
the minimum requirements, none of which I met.
There wasn't a limit in the Black Sun there was
a limit OUTSIDE, and it was a limit on the total
height of the character from public terminals
to the persons true height, although anyone
in a wheel chair might feel cheated.
The biggest part of the Metaverse was that
when people spoke it was a voice and their face
matched that voice.
The quote is asking about eruption patterns
differing depending on the volcano. It seems
to me you need a sample size of more than, um,
one to come to any conclusions. I wonder which
other volcanos they plan on drilling into?
Why would anybody be worried over this if they are not involved in anything fishy?
There are pleanty of non-fishy things people
routinely hid from others. We just came out of
the Christmas season.
Wife: opens present, looks disapointed
"But you were
looking at the Delux version?"
Husband: astonished "How did you even know
what I was getting?"
Wive: "I just did a web search by face,
you were in the background of a wife that actually
GOT the delux version."
The problem with taking a hard ball approach is
when they have bigger lawyers
and decide to actually sue you. Even when their
case is friviouls. Or maybe it is just insurance
companies that sue when you stop to avoid an
accident and their clients behind you doesn't.
That is if
you haven't contacted a lawyer and they tell
you to go for it.
Come now, people aren't after features. At least
that's not what I'm told from Best Buy, they're
after benefits. 300 watt inverter instead of
150 watt? People would think, bigger number is
better. Tell them you could plug twice as much
into it? That's what they will understand, and
they don't even have to know what a watt is.
On the other hand, this opens up the possibility of practical jokes... see a biker on the highway, send a spoof "inflate airbag" radio signal to his bike, enjoy the resulting hilarity.
I bet the sudden inflation would cause his arms
to fly off the handle bars and cause a crash.
Wouldn't you feel bad?
I was taught a long time ago that sparks tend
to cause white noise in the RF spectrum. What's
the chance that the car you are about to hit has
a crumpled engine compartment throwing off sparks
that disrupts the RF signal to inflate your vest?
I have a problem sorting the cruft from the not
so worthless. I can still backup my full 18GB
of harddrives onto CD-RW, so that is what I'm
doing, for now at least.
15cents/hour * 24 hours * 365 = $1314.00 per
computer year of cpu
They shouldn't have any problem buying a
computer for $1314. If a company has a year
worth of projects they are better off just
buying the computers
since a year is the break even point.
I wouldn't expect there to be many companies
that would need a huge amount of processing
to not continually need processing. Figure
in development time for the software and
a year doesn't sound like a very long time,
especially concidering it would be harder
to design, write, and test software for computers
you don't control.
What options are there other than brute-force?
Other than the proposed space elevator, I doubt
we will do much better. We could save some costs
on a redesign, but it will still be a brute-force
sit on explosives approach.
At 1.4" thick it is almost twice as thick as my
Toshiba Protege 3015 which is about 0.75" thin.
Mine is about 3 years old but people still look
at it and go 'wow that's tiny'. At least I can
type normally on my Toshiba.
Getting some polarizated filters and having the
class look at their LCD watches or laptops is
pretty fun. Explain the principle about it
blocking light.
The fun part is when you take something like
a laptop, rotate a polarized fitler so it is
black (hold it there), take another polarized
filter and put it between the laptop and the first
one. If you rotate it just right you will see
through to the laptop.
Try downloading a compiling the mencode on your box.
If you have an older processor the program could
have been compiled with instructions that your
cpud doesn't support. I recently went to try
unrealtournament 2003 for Linux, but it crashed
on the same error. I would have thought they
would check the cpu first, but I guess they didn't.
In my case the instruction was cmove and the cpu
was an AMD K6-2. It wouldn't have been playable
I know, but it should have attempted to run.
First they can't enable analog or it
"would break the "trusted" display chain" and
we could
copy it, now they don't want use to enable
digital [out on computers] because we could
copy it.
Do they
not know what they are doing, or are do they
just want us to play for stuff and not even
be able to view/listen to it?
Pepsi and Coke already flew on the shuttle. STS51-F according to Loren Acton in the book Space Shuttle the First 20 Years. From the book, "... we did our test in space. The red team did the Pepsi, and the blue team-we were divide into shifts-did the Coke. We took the still photographs, and we showed the logo. And indeed, the Coke can dispense soda kind of like what we're used to drinking on Earth. And the Pepsi can dispensed soda filled with bubbles-fun to play with in zero-g, but not very drinkable."
Earlier he listed for training. "The Pepsi can, when it showed up, looked like a shaving cream can. In fact, the Pepsi logo was just stuck on a paper wrapper, and when we peeled if off, indeed it was just a shaving cream can. It still had the shaving cream logo on it. Pepsi understood that this had nothing whatsoever to do with soda in space. It had to do with PR."
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Personally since I assume Vonage is regulated like the rest of the telephone companies (whatever that means), that should be sufficient. I mean what does that matter if the telephone is behind some copper wire carrying analog signals or an internet connection? I wonder though if Vonage competitors can then rent out the 'last mile' solution to offer customers competition all on Vonage's equiptment.
I would conclude that at some point in time NASA at least had plans to include an on orbit tile repair kit. Sure there are a ton of things that couldn't be fixed on orbit, but including a few tiles and something to stick them on with doesn't sound too far off to me. After all they do include duck tape.
As for the other comment about not having any cameras to view the underside or rear of the shuttle, they should use one of those free floating balls that they've tested before.
The only way VoIP would achieve the cost appeal that faxing has achieved is to buy a telephone line (internet connection), buy a fax (VoIP box), and not pay for the privilege for using a fax (VoIP) instead of a telephone (web browser). I don't think people will go for this system, clearly Vonage.com agrees, people pay them money to inneroperate VoIP with the legacy telephone system without any benefit of a standard telephone except price.
Faxing took over because it was something new and didn't have to displace a technology that was already working. A business bought a fax and let people know they had one. If someone wanted to get a fax from them or send one, they had to go out and buy a fax machine.
That doesn't work so well for VoIP. Someone going out and buying a VoIP system doesn't want to wait around and only use it with people who also went out and bought a VoIP system, they want it to automatically work like their regular telephone system works. The only thing we are doing with the current VoIP system, Vonage.com for an example, is who we are playing for phone service. Sure they are charging less especially if you are using long distance, but you are replacing a wired telephone that is limited to calling telephone numbers with a box that... calls telephone numbers.
What we need to do is buy the VoIP box and interface with other VoIP boxes without paying for the legacy telephone connection. The $40 a month Vonage.com is going to the telephone connection they provide.
We don't need a central registry for VoIP to work, think about how e-mail works, there isn't any central registry of all the internet e-mail addresses. There are tons of e-mail directories, and VoIP could work the same.
What's an accurate return address and who decides? To me if it is a company with an @aol.com, @yahoo.com or other free service, it isn't an accurate return address, because I can't find out anything about the actual company that sent the e-mail. I have heard of company's actually using those sites for their real e-mail, so if you call them accurate does that mean you have to opt out of mail@company.com, then company@aol.com, company@hotmail.com, company@yahoo.com? Better than 1234@nosite.com though.
Missouri also has a do-not-call list which we are on and last year I had a call from Mr. Bush, it was a recording. Um, I hope so or I just hung up on the President!
Just as long as they are for sure blocking spam and not the e-mail I actually requested (web form etc), that can't be distinguished from spam. The idea of allowing an ISP to arbitrarily decide what e-mail I get is bad, they might block much more than spam, and that is censorship.
I would have thought they would have listed the minimum client hardware on that page so you could see if you meet the requirements and if you don't you could go ahead and fill out the survey in the hope they will sometime in the future. But no, after trying with konqueror, netscape, and finally mozilla, I eventually found the section on their web site that gave the minimum requirements, none of which I met.
The biggest part of the Metaverse was that when people spoke it was a voice and their face matched that voice.
The quote is asking about eruption patterns differing depending on the volcano. It seems to me you need a sample size of more than, um, one to come to any conclusions. I wonder which other volcanos they plan on drilling into?
There are pleanty of non-fishy things people routinely hid from others. We just came out of the Christmas season.
Wife: opens present, looks disapointed "But you were looking at the Delux version?"
Husband: astonished "How did you even know what I was getting?"
Wive: "I just did a web search by face, you were in the background of a wife that actually GOT the delux version."
Lets see, dial number, clip on belt, forget.
The problem with taking a hard ball approach is when they have bigger lawyers and decide to actually sue you. Even when their case is friviouls. Or maybe it is just insurance companies that sue when you stop to avoid an accident and their clients behind you doesn't. That is if you haven't contacted a lawyer and they tell you to go for it.
Come now, people aren't after features. At least that's not what I'm told from Best Buy, they're after benefits. 300 watt inverter instead of 150 watt? People would think, bigger number is better. Tell them you could plug twice as much into it? That's what they will understand, and they don't even have to know what a watt is.
I bet the sudden inflation would cause his arms to fly off the handle bars and cause a crash. Wouldn't you feel bad?
I was taught a long time ago that sparks tend to cause white noise in the RF spectrum. What's the chance that the car you are about to hit has a crumpled engine compartment throwing off sparks that disrupts the RF signal to inflate your vest?
I have a problem sorting the cruft from the not so worthless. I can still backup my full 18GB of harddrives onto CD-RW, so that is what I'm doing, for now at least.
15cents/hour * 24 hours * 365 = $1314.00 per computer year of cpu
They shouldn't have any problem buying a computer for $1314. If a company has a year worth of projects they are better off just buying the computers since a year is the break even point. I wouldn't expect there to be many companies that would need a huge amount of processing to not continually need processing. Figure in development time for the software and a year doesn't sound like a very long time, especially concidering it would be harder to design, write, and test software for computers you don't control.
I wonder when Drano will modify their label to say 'safe for septic tanks, standard sewer, and internet enabled fiber sewer lines'.
What options are there other than brute-force? Other than the proposed space elevator, I doubt we will do much better. We could save some costs on a redesign, but it will still be a brute-force sit on explosives approach.
At 1.4" thick it is almost twice as thick as my Toshiba Protege 3015 which is about 0.75" thin. Mine is about 3 years old but people still look at it and go 'wow that's tiny'. At least I can type normally on my Toshiba.
The fun part is when you take something like a laptop, rotate a polarized fitler so it is black (hold it there), take another polarized filter and put it between the laptop and the first one. If you rotate it just right you will see through to the laptop.
Cool, one less company to look at on my job search. resume
Try downloading a compiling the mencode on your box. If you have an older processor the program could have been compiled with instructions that your cpud doesn't support. I recently went to try unrealtournament 2003 for Linux, but it crashed on the same error. I would have thought they would check the cpu first, but I guess they didn't.
In my case the instruction was cmove and the cpu was an AMD K6-2. It wouldn't have been playable I know, but it should have attempted to run.
First they can't enable analog or it "would break the "trusted" display chain" and we could copy it, now they don't want use to enable digital [out on computers] because we could copy it.
Do they not know what they are doing, or are do they just want us to play for stuff and not even be able to view/listen to it?
Pepsi and Coke already flew on the shuttle. STS51-F according to Loren Acton in the book Space Shuttle the First 20 Years. From the book, "... we did our test in space. The red team did the Pepsi, and the blue team-we were divide into shifts-did the Coke. We took the still photographs, and we showed the logo. And indeed, the Coke can dispense soda kind of like what we're used to drinking on Earth. And the Pepsi can dispensed soda filled with bubbles-fun to play with in zero-g, but not very drinkable."
Earlier he listed for training. "The Pepsi can, when it showed up, looked like a shaving cream can. In fact, the Pepsi logo was just stuck on a paper wrapper, and when we peeled if off, indeed it was just a shaving cream can. It still had the shaving cream logo on it. Pepsi understood that this had nothing whatsoever to do with soda in space. It had to do with PR."