Note, Speakeasy is my carrier. Using a Onelink 1.5/768 ADSL with a side order of VOIP. With the extra bells and whistles, costs about $115/mo. VOIP feature I believe is around $20/mo, comes with free LD in the 48, all bells and whistles, do not disturb feature (a little something that SBC can't provide on POTS), and full service E911.
Network dependent on underlying internet
There's a reason it's called "voice over internet protocol", and I RARELY have downtime with these guys during the day.
Limited if any 911
911 on mine goes directly to the local police dispatch center, and provides all my information to the dispatch console. This has been confirmed by way of actually testing it, and was in fact one of the first things I tested when I had the circuit set up.
Best-effort signal/noise
Good-enough(?)-but-unregulated quality of service
Like I said in another post, it's only as good as the pipe. If you're running eDonkey2K, aside from being a fool, you're gonna kill the line.
Little or no regulation beyond 911
New technology. Hopefully you have an honest carrier, but it's probably only a matter of time before it's regulated.
On the other hand, it is a service provided over the internet, so the chance of it being as regulated as a telco as a result of this is pretty slim - unless they can provide a case where the 'net itself is regulated.
As far as repairs, again, it's only as good as the provider.
Works when the power is out as long as your batteries last.
Can't deny that. A UPS is your best friend - though this could be moot, as many people are also using telephones that rely heavily on wall power, regardless of whether they use VOIP or POTS.
Cheap.
Yep.
Generally no subsidized service, but most people on welfare aren't getting high-speed internet.
Over on Speakeasy's service (which is a contract with Level 3), my experience is that if there are heavy transfers going on, even if SE does promise quality of service, the other traffic will disrupt your conversation. Worst case I've experienced is just high latency (one second delays are FUN!), worst case you get a lot of skips and pops.
He says that Linux is Unix, which is from 1968. Well, maybe the reason we keep it around is because...oh, I don't know, maybe because it's a functional model?
If Mr. Metcalfe wants to come up with something better, he's welcome to do so and propose it.
Remember that the law for daylight savings time is not necessarily a mandatory one. Arizone, for one, does not participate.
That said, I suspect there is nothing stating that (say) California is required to participate in this extension of DST, keeping it to their standard of 6-on-6-off.
Back at Anime Central 1999, a friend and I got our hands on an empty bottle of green soju, which as near as I can tell is a Korean variant on vodka - this is made with sweet potatoes, for one. But the significance of this is that, aside from the Korean characters, it said very prominently on the label plastered upon the green bottle, in nice, large friendly letters, the word "Green". Also back at this time, a mutual friend of ours was actively going to a Trek con in Pasadena.
The motive? We wanted to see if we could get Doohan's (and, perhaps, Brent Spiner's) autographs on the bottle. Imagine the novelty of being able to get Jimmy to comment on the bottle.
"It is green!"
Alas, we must resort to Mr. Spiner, who rehashed the gag in the TNG where Scotty appeared. Here is hoping.
I wanna know who is paying this guy and blowing smoke up his ass, because he certainly sounds like somebody who has just about as much concern for the public interest as a drug dealer.
"It has only been downloaded about 65 million times, so the other users are people who got it some other way. The most likely place they are likely to have got it from is corporate deployments. "
Also note that it's in the various Linux distibution archive networks (e.g., APT) - so it's easy enough to just apt-get install firefox (if you're in Debian or deriv's), and this won't count. In fact, I'm betting money that you'll more likely count more users going that route than corporate rollouts.
I emailed Eric Raymond a while back on this when ZDnet first reported the impending doom of OS/2, and he pointed out the exact same thing as everyone else - licensing issues. Remember that this was a joint venture between IBM and Microsoft, so there are legal issues on that front.
In short, this pretty much nails OS/2's coffin closed.
Regardless, there isn't much I can think of that OS/2 offered that the Linux distros don't by way of the GUI. Toolbox? Use GNOME panels and drawers. Fixpaks? Don't need to download and install - Mandrake has URPMI, Debian (and debian based) has APT, and Gentoo has emerge, and all three do that for you. Workplace shell? Nautilus does a good job.
I'm going to miss the old half-an-OS, though - it was a damn good product that didn't crash without a good reason, and would've beaten Windows 95 if it weren't for poor marketing.
Remember, you're trying to figure out what's going on in the body. With the advent of people being their own doctors thanks to the intarweb, doctors can't help but be derisive - especially when a woman goes to her OB/GYN complaining of prostate cancer symptoms.
It's a fairly complex process they go through, and unfortunately, it can take weeks sometimes - bottlenecks are everywhere. Insurance and labs alone are the worst.
No doubt the 'net helps us be informed, but if you can at least discuss it with your doctor, then you can get somewhere. This removes the old catch 22 (medical encyclopedia can be intimidating to read through), often breaks it down for the patient, and gives them the information - but as demonstrated for a long time even before this, insufficient knowledge is dangerous.
And there was probably a reason that your two year old child fell to the back of the list for triage purposes. You don't indicate why you were there, and you don't indicate any knowledge of the other patients. (That said, it's pretty rare you know what's going on beyond your own bed.)
The reason I point this out is because after having done voluntary disaster training and learning triage (yes, I took A CLASS for this stuff), I learned a bit. If it's not life threatening, put it aside for those that are potentially dying. Symptoms of a common cold do not demonstrate life threatening; chest pain does. Case in point: my wife, having a prolonged visit from her Aunt Flo, got put on the back burner for a heart attack after she got the gyn bed, and never mind the night we went in there was a usage already on this bed - resulting in an eight hour visit to the ER just to get some progesterone and find out she needs to drink more water to stave the flow. If it were first-in-first-out, that cardio could have croaked.
There's no denying that it's scary - your kid is sick, it's unpleasant, I'm sure - but frankly, to go in and assume that your kid takes precedence just because s/he's "your kid" is just sheer ignorance. (Yes, I said it.)
If they can isolate the active ingredient that causes the clotting (RTFA, it's called chitosomething), that might alleviate the allergy problem. See your doctor.
It's more a disaster preparedness thing, oppose a run of the mill band-aid for those occasional paper or computer case cuts you get. You don't expect, for instance, to severely gimp your finger with a boning knife and require stitches, so this is where you'd use it - slash your finger, plaster this on, go to ER and get it properly sutured.
I don't understand why they want to go this route when all a terrorist needs to do is plan things out well in advance, and execute on the fly with no external prompting while on board. Al Qaeda didn't need on-board broadband to crash three planes on 11Sep2001, and they won't need it should they decide they want to do so again.
I'll be impressed if they come up with a lojack(-like) device for a bicycle, frankly. Only problem I forsee is where to put it and how to power it, since most bicycles don't have batteries, many don't have dynamos (and those who light prefer batteries versus dynamos), and it's pretty hard to find a spot on a bicycle that isn't going to require cutting into the frame.
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I just realized it. he's the first man I can think of that can have the moniker "soccer mom" attached to him. Somebody needs to smack this fruitcake.
Note, Speakeasy is my carrier. Using a Onelink 1.5/768 ADSL with a side order of VOIP. With the extra bells and whistles, costs about $115/mo. VOIP feature I believe is around $20/mo, comes with free LD in the 48, all bells and whistles, do not disturb feature (a little something that SBC can't provide on POTS), and full service E911. Network dependent on underlying internet There's a reason it's called "voice over internet protocol", and I RARELY have downtime with these guys during the day. Limited if any 911 911 on mine goes directly to the local police dispatch center, and provides all my information to the dispatch console. This has been confirmed by way of actually testing it, and was in fact one of the first things I tested when I had the circuit set up. Best-effort signal/noise Good-enough(?)-but-unregulated quality of service Like I said in another post, it's only as good as the pipe. If you're running eDonkey2K, aside from being a fool, you're gonna kill the line. Little or no regulation beyond 911 New technology. Hopefully you have an honest carrier, but it's probably only a matter of time before it's regulated. On the other hand, it is a service provided over the internet, so the chance of it being as regulated as a telco as a result of this is pretty slim - unless they can provide a case where the 'net itself is regulated. As far as repairs, again, it's only as good as the provider. Works when the power is out as long as your batteries last. Can't deny that. A UPS is your best friend - though this could be moot, as many people are also using telephones that rely heavily on wall power, regardless of whether they use VOIP or POTS. Cheap. Yep. Generally no subsidized service, but most people on welfare aren't getting high-speed internet.
Over on Speakeasy's service (which is a contract with Level 3), my experience is that if there are heavy transfers going on, even if SE does promise quality of service, the other traffic will disrupt your conversation. Worst case I've experienced is just high latency (one second delays are FUN!), worst case you get a lot of skips and pops.
It's funny, but the only things that seemed to break in four years of using Linux were hardware that fell out of date.
And there's that giant sucking sound. Server's already been hit, and not even 30 comments up.
If Mr. Metcalfe wants to come up with something better, he's welcome to do so and propose it.
Remember that the law for daylight savings time is not necessarily a mandatory one. Arizone, for one, does not participate.
That said, I suspect there is nothing stating that (say) California is required to participate in this extension of DST, keeping it to their standard of 6-on-6-off.
Back at Anime Central 1999, a friend and I got our hands on an empty bottle of green soju, which as near as I can tell is a Korean variant on vodka - this is made with sweet potatoes, for one. But the significance of this is that, aside from the Korean characters, it said very prominently on the label plastered upon the green bottle, in nice, large friendly letters, the word "Green". Also back at this time, a mutual friend of ours was actively going to a Trek con in Pasadena.
The motive? We wanted to see if we could get Doohan's (and, perhaps, Brent Spiner's) autographs on the bottle. Imagine the novelty of being able to get Jimmy to comment on the bottle.
"It is green!"
Alas, we must resort to Mr. Spiner, who rehashed the gag in the TNG where Scotty appeared. Here is hoping.
Not a problem, if you're in a newer part of town where the utilities are buried.
I wanna know who is paying this guy and blowing smoke up his ass, because he certainly sounds like somebody who has just about as much concern for the public interest as a drug dealer.
"It has only been downloaded about 65 million times, so the other users are people who got it some other way. The most likely place they are likely to have got it from is corporate deployments. "
Also note that it's in the various Linux distibution archive networks (e.g., APT) - so it's easy enough to just apt-get install firefox (if you're in Debian or deriv's), and this won't count. In fact, I'm betting money that you'll more likely count more users going that route than corporate rollouts.
In short, this pretty much nails OS/2's coffin closed.
Regardless, there isn't much I can think of that OS/2 offered that the Linux distros don't by way of the GUI. Toolbox? Use GNOME panels and drawers. Fixpaks? Don't need to download and install - Mandrake has URPMI, Debian (and debian based) has APT, and Gentoo has emerge, and all three do that for you. Workplace shell? Nautilus does a good job.
I'm going to miss the old half-an-OS, though - it was a damn good product that didn't crash without a good reason, and would've beaten Windows 95 if it weren't for poor marketing.
They talk of alternative medicine. Film at eleven.
It's a fairly complex process they go through, and unfortunately, it can take weeks sometimes - bottlenecks are everywhere. Insurance and labs alone are the worst.
No doubt the 'net helps us be informed, but if you can at least discuss it with your doctor, then you can get somewhere. This removes the old catch 22 (medical encyclopedia can be intimidating to read through), often breaks it down for the patient, and gives them the information - but as demonstrated for a long time even before this, insufficient knowledge is dangerous.
The reason I point this out is because after having done voluntary disaster training and learning triage (yes, I took A CLASS for this stuff), I learned a bit. If it's not life threatening, put it aside for those that are potentially dying. Symptoms of a common cold do not demonstrate life threatening; chest pain does. Case in point: my wife, having a prolonged visit from her Aunt Flo, got put on the back burner for a heart attack after she got the gyn bed, and never mind the night we went in there was a usage already on this bed - resulting in an eight hour visit to the ER just to get some progesterone and find out she needs to drink more water to stave the flow. If it were first-in-first-out, that cardio could have croaked.
There's no denying that it's scary - your kid is sick, it's unpleasant, I'm sure - but frankly, to go in and assume that your kid takes precedence just because s/he's "your kid" is just sheer ignorance. (Yes, I said it.)
Give me capybara over snake any day, sir. =^^=
Well, those daily lunches with shrimp coctail appetizers can get a little not-cheap, I suspect.
If they can isolate the active ingredient that causes the clotting (RTFA, it's called chitosomething), that might alleviate the allergy problem. See your doctor.
It's more a disaster preparedness thing, oppose a run of the mill band-aid for those occasional paper or computer case cuts you get. You don't expect, for instance, to severely gimp your finger with a boning knife and require stitches, so this is where you'd use it - slash your finger, plaster this on, go to ER and get it properly sutured.
Odds are pretty good that said investors will cash out before it's too late.
I don't understand why they want to go this route when all a terrorist needs to do is plan things out well in advance, and execute on the fly with no external prompting while on board. Al Qaeda didn't need on-board broadband to crash three planes on 11Sep2001, and they won't need it should they decide they want to do so again.
I'll be impressed if they come up with a lojack(-like) device for a bicycle, frankly. Only problem I forsee is where to put it and how to power it, since most bicycles don't have batteries, many don't have dynamos (and those who light prefer batteries versus dynamos), and it's pretty hard to find a spot on a bicycle that isn't going to require cutting into the frame.
OK, I know what SPIT is, but what's VOMIT in this context?
SPam over Internet Telephony. It's the second to last entry on it over on Everything2.
Yeah. A gas powered generator. If power is that flakey in your area, you need to buy one.