I recognize that the entertainment industry is standing in the way of a component HD input card (and the cable/satellite companies are standing in the way of a direct-digital in, even if you put in an encryption smartcard handler), but that still doesn't mean that I care about getting HD over the air...
(Frankly, why else get HD except for sports which I don't watch, bowdlerized upconverted movies and Discovery HD which isn't OTA?)
Wake me when I can get HD digital satellite on a PCI capture card in Linux, and at least 768k DSL for less than $90/mo so I can tell Time Warner to eat ass.
Well, after reading that Al Qaeda manifesto, I'd have to say yes.
The 'complaints' in that manifesto (and, one assumes, believed by those who wrote and promulgate it) outline essential differences in cultural outlook that they're willing to start a war over, and are essentially non-negotiable (particularly support for Israel's right to exist, which IMHO must be absolute and clad in a nuclear guarantee (as should our nuclear umbrella shield an independent Taiwan IMHO, but that's a whole other story)).
I would posit that England has not been a target largely _because_ of the 'Troubles', and the security that the UK and most of Europe has had since the IRA, ETA, and marxist pinko bombings during the 70's and 80's. Europe was better prepared than a nation that hadn't experienced a foreign attack since the early 19th century, no doubt. But don't think for a second that France is safe, maybe we'll see the Eiffel tower smacked down in the next year or two after that headscarf ban passes any legal challenge. Oh, and btw where were these people radicalized? In oh-so-multicultural-friendly France and Germany of course...
Their attempts at justification are laughable. I don't buy the anti-Israel stuff at all, and the 'call to Islam' is a fucking joke. _They_ went to the next level with violence, and are now in the process of reaping the laser-guided whirlwind.
Oh, and BTW There will be no peace in Israel until there's a Palestinian civil war or coup in which a) those who believe in the end of Israel are defeated and there can be a 2-state solution on a solid basis of trust or b) those who believe in the end of Israel win and there's a war between Israel and Palestine where the Israelis will force Palestinians to either leave the country or die in battle.
OTOH, it could be worse, Sharon could play by Arabic Hama rules...
As someone whose primary 'landline' service is VoIP (via Vonage), and having had issues with 911 performance in the past, I'm very pleased that the FCC is taking steps to improve 911 service.
Keep in mind that this will probably have more of an effect on the 911 system than the VoIP system: Vonage's chief complaint (at least publicly) is that 911 systems nationwide don't provide fair access to connectivity since they're tools of the big POTS providers, requiring those VoIP services to buy 3rd-party '911 call center' access. Such access is insufficient, and to the extent that FCC regs force 911 services to widen and make fairer access for VoIP, I'm all for it.
Also, regarding location-based emergency service, there's no reason you couldn't have a system in which you specify your number's location via webpage (as Vonage offers) and have the VoIP provider provide that data to the 911 switchboard, though it'd still be up to you to keep it current. Alternatively, it could be handled like legacy cell service, where the subscriber's home address is used and some form of indication is provided that the address is mobile.
Point being, that it seems that at least Powell is on the side of making VoIP a first-class citizen, and that's definitely A Good Thing(tm).
ps: VoIP taxation (for legacy POTS-related revenue for stuff like 911, lifeline, rural access, etc) if done, should be done flat-rate for a legacy number, so that pure net VoIP-VoIP which doesn't cross the border between net and legacy POTS isn't subject. Also, something like this could permit cheap or free outbound-only NAT'd POTS service with an inbound voicemail component (or inbound extension subdial).
He also refused to speak at the Sheffeild Linux Users Group unless they switched to using "GNU/Linux" back in 2000. (They gave in, and he spoke there.) That qualifies as insisting to me.
There's a difference between insisting and insisting with lawyers.
Windows OTOH is a 6 month turnaround or more and your controlled by an entity whos decisions are based around profitability. If its more profitable to keep an exploit open on a O/S and get some nice contracts with some Anti-Virus companies for another couple months, then thats cool - unfortunately for the luser - this is a no win situation, and they have absolutely NO control over their computer.
Not to mention the risk admins take when applying patches, which can disable apps or change bug behaviors that critical apps wrongfully rely on. Not to mention either that historically service packs have not been 100% reliable to boot.
The sad thing is, you can be a perfectly good, clued person stuck with admining critical functions on M$ boxes (that you inherited based on decisions you had no influence over), and let patches sit for weeks or months waiting for others to try them out. Security patches included, since M$ is so spaghetti that one security fix can break or alter behavior in other areas nearly nondeterministically. Luckily, I've never had to worry personally about a windows box for my job security: in the cases I may have had to do so I've been able to build lower-cost and higher-function/reliability OSS solutions and sleep soundly at night.
There's a reason why they're called 'Suicide Packs' by those poor souls whose jobs rely on M$ stability and security...
But it's even easier to let something like this slip when you're a tired microserf adding code at 4am trying to meet a deadline.
The difference with Open Source is, when our west-coast coders tire out, they can cvs ci and let their British comrades get a crack at it while they recover. No deadlines == better code, eventually.
To quote a favorite song: Slower pizza's more luscious, the King of Spain never rushes!
How about opensourcing the M$/WordPerfect format code?
Or has OSS xlation already surpassed Lotus' own Word/Excel format?
(then again, I'd rather have an OpenOffice Charter that can take over for Visio, use XML, and be integratable into an SNMP net monitoring system.. Oh, and it must at least read/write visio XML...)
I never really saw point one as a big deal, but surely interesting. I have T-Mo and well with 3000minutes/mo, I don't really even think about it. I want to be in touch, I pay for the privledge of others being able to contact me.
The big selling point of smartfones though is their ability to do useful things over packet data. Packet data from basically every provider is still ridiculously overpriced. Why would an American need a smartfone/PDAphone if they didn't plan to use the packet data features?
(disclosure: I have a P800, and post pix I take with it online via MMS, and I'm probably paying too much for the privilege, but go fig...)
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Kind of you to translate, your mastery of wookiee is impressive ;)
I recognize that the entertainment industry is standing in the way of a component HD input card (and the cable/satellite companies are standing in the way of a direct-digital in, even if you put in an encryption smartcard handler), but that still doesn't mean that I care about getting HD over the air...
:p)
(Frankly, why else get HD except for sports which I don't watch, bowdlerized upconverted movies and Discovery HD which isn't OTA?)
Wake me when I can get HD digital satellite on a PCI capture card in Linux, and at least 768k DSL for less than $90/mo so I can tell Time Warner to eat ass.
(and yes, I'm prepared for a long nap
Fired by crappest, most rip-off messaging system known to man with a 160 character limit
All you need is 6 characters...
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Yeah, it looks like they think they are the first to support the idea of having different backgrounds on each virtual desktop.
Er, KDE's been doing that forever too. And it can handle multiple slideshows per desktop as well...
Fair comment. Do they?
Well, after reading that Al Qaeda manifesto, I'd have to say yes.
The 'complaints' in that manifesto (and, one assumes, believed by those who wrote and promulgate it) outline essential differences in cultural outlook that they're willing to start a war over, and are essentially non-negotiable (particularly support for Israel's right to exist, which IMHO must be absolute and clad in a nuclear guarantee (as should our nuclear umbrella shield an independent Taiwan IMHO, but that's a whole other story)).
I would posit that England has not been a target largely _because_ of the 'Troubles', and the security that the UK and most of Europe has had since the IRA, ETA, and marxist pinko bombings during the 70's and 80's. Europe was better prepared than a nation that hadn't experienced a foreign attack since the early 19th century, no doubt. But don't think for a second that France is safe, maybe we'll see the Eiffel tower smacked down in the next year or two after that headscarf ban passes any legal challenge. Oh, and btw where were these people radicalized? In oh-so-multicultural-friendly France and Germany of course...
Their attempts at justification are laughable. I don't buy the anti-Israel stuff at all, and the 'call to Islam' is a fucking joke. _They_ went to the next level with violence, and are now in the process of reaping the laser-guided whirlwind.
Oh, and BTW There will be no peace in Israel until there's a Palestinian civil war or coup in which a) those who believe in the end of Israel are defeated and there can be a 2-state solution on a solid basis of trust or b) those who believe in the end of Israel win and there's a war between Israel and Palestine where the Israelis will force Palestinians to either leave the country or die in battle.
OTOH, it could be worse, Sharon could play by Arabic Hama rules...
What if they hate us because:
?
There's no reasoning with 'we want you dead', there's only killing it before it kills you.
Anyone got a nice cookbook for ripping a DVD to DivX while maintaining menus for programs like Xine, Ogle, etc?
I just want a G5 upgrade card for my Cube. That'll be sweeeeeeet!
:/...
It'll also require a few fans, less'n you underclock a 90nm CPU like mad
"yeah, it's too bad there won't be Americas Army 2 now..."
"Remember when Mechwarrior was a game?"
Feed me, Mandrake!
As someone whose primary 'landline' service is VoIP (via Vonage), and having had issues with 911 performance in the past, I'm very pleased that the FCC is taking steps to improve 911 service.
Keep in mind that this will probably have more of an effect on the 911 system than the VoIP system: Vonage's chief complaint (at least publicly) is that 911 systems nationwide don't provide fair access to connectivity since they're tools of the big POTS providers, requiring those VoIP services to buy 3rd-party '911 call center' access. Such access is insufficient, and to the extent that FCC regs force 911 services to widen and make fairer access for VoIP, I'm all for it.
Also, regarding location-based emergency service, there's no reason you couldn't have a system in which you specify your number's location via webpage (as Vonage offers) and have the VoIP provider provide that data to the 911 switchboard, though it'd still be up to you to keep it current. Alternatively, it could be handled like legacy cell service, where the subscriber's home address is used and some form of indication is provided that the address is mobile.
Point being, that it seems that at least Powell is on the side of making VoIP a first-class citizen, and that's definitely A Good Thing(tm).
ps: VoIP taxation (for legacy POTS-related revenue for stuff like 911, lifeline, rural access, etc) if done, should be done flat-rate for a legacy number, so that pure net VoIP-VoIP which doesn't cross the border between net and legacy POTS isn't subject. Also, something like this could permit cheap or free outbound-only NAT'd POTS service with an inbound voicemail component (or inbound extension subdial).
... I was kinda partial to it, ever since LHX came out for MSDOS back in like 1990 or so..
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TK-421, why aren't you at your post?
I bet his bass really kicks... Gets ya all freaky-deaky...
He also refused to speak at the Sheffeild Linux Users Group unless they switched to using "GNU/Linux" back in 2000. (They gave in, and he spoke there.) That qualifies as insisting to me.
There's a difference between insisting and insisting with lawyers.
Why not? If the majority of the people (democracy) want a equal-split share system such like communes (communism), why not grant it?
And you can spread your corruption evenly until you make it to Democracy or Republic...
Just throwing in yet another OSS HWR whinge. IMHO tablets are worthless without HWR..
(waiting for OS X tablet computer that can actually _do_ HWR rather than some bastardized pseudoscribble..)
Windows OTOH is a 6 month turnaround or more and your controlled by an entity whos decisions are based around profitability. If its more profitable to keep an exploit open on a O/S and get some nice contracts with some Anti-Virus companies for another couple months, then thats cool - unfortunately for the luser - this is a no win situation, and they have absolutely NO control over their computer.
Not to mention the risk admins take when applying patches, which can disable apps or change bug behaviors that critical apps wrongfully rely on. Not to mention either that historically service packs have not been 100% reliable to boot.
The sad thing is, you can be a perfectly good, clued person stuck with admining critical functions on M$ boxes (that you inherited based on decisions you had no influence over), and let patches sit for weeks or months waiting for others to try them out. Security patches included, since M$ is so spaghetti that one security fix can break or alter behavior in other areas nearly nondeterministically. Luckily, I've never had to worry personally about a windows box for my job security: in the cases I may have had to do so I've been able to build lower-cost and higher-function/reliability OSS solutions and sleep soundly at night.
There's a reason why they're called 'Suicide Packs' by those poor souls whose jobs rely on M$ stability and security...
But it's even easier to let something like this slip when you're a tired microserf adding code at 4am trying to meet a deadline.
The difference with Open Source is, when our west-coast coders tire out, they can cvs ci and let their British comrades get a crack at it while they recover. No deadlines == better code, eventually.
To quote a favorite song:
Slower pizza's more luscious, the King of Spain never rushes!
I presume the md5 hash is that bit at the end?
(/Poisoned for OS X)
.... but IMHO KDE (DCOP, Qt) comes closest to the whole OO-interface thing in a usable way.
;)
Or maybe I'm just too easily impressed with Liquid, KHotKey and KDCOP?
(and for whatever reason, Apple's Lucida Grande TTF looks better in KDE apps than Xft-compiled Mozilla (but not as good as in OSX)
How about opensourcing the M$/WordPerfect format code?
Or has OSS xlation already surpassed Lotus' own Word/Excel format?
(then again, I'd rather have an OpenOffice Charter that can take over for Visio, use XML, and be integratable into an SNMP net monitoring system.. Oh, and it must at least read/write visio XML...)
What exactly is ridiculously overpriced?
T-Mobile and AT&T's GPRS plans are LTIC pretty bad.. AT&T had data flat-rate at like $100/mo and up, and T-Mobile had _no_ flat-rate data plans.
Also, T-Mobile is allegedly a global company, so WTF is up with getting stuck with roaming charges on their European networks?!?!!
God I hope Orange or Voda buys them, so I can have the western world as my local calling area...
yeah, 1999...
;)
God bless the dotcom boom, at least _I_ know where the money went..
(can you say $14 mac and cheese at the soho grand? investor capital is delicious!!
You do know that folks calling euro cell numbers pay more, right?
Kind of embarrassing when you're short 20 florins at Schiphol cuz your local contact gave you his cell..
I never really saw point one as a big deal, but surely interesting. I have T-Mo and well with 3000minutes/mo, I don't really even think about it. I want to be in touch, I pay for the privledge of others being able to contact me.
The big selling point of smartfones though is their ability to do useful things over packet data. Packet data from basically every provider is still ridiculously overpriced. Why would an American need a smartfone/PDAphone if they didn't plan to use the packet data features?
(disclosure: I have a P800, and post pix I take with it online via MMS, and I'm probably paying too much for the privilege, but go fig...)