There are a lot of tweaks you can make to the gains, but I would agree to a certain degree. If you are looking for crystal clear phone calls you will never get it with this card, but it after messing with the gains it meets my needs. No one has every asked me if there was a bad phone line, etc.
A hardware suggestion - Digium TDM400P (1 Port FXS). Would allow you to route incoming POTS calls into your asterisk box. To be honest, I would check your internet connection if it has enough throughput and just run everything voip. (there were some other postings on how to check if you have enough) This is a pretty informative site. http://nerdvittles.com/
I have set up asterisk at home and love it. In fact, I wrote a voicemail app for it and put it out there for free - http://www.littlejohnconsulting.com/ari/ My install has voicemail space till you fill up the harddrive, call attendant, and unlimited routing/call forwarding options for the lines I have. My favorite is what I have heard called the ex-girlfriend option, where you route calls that you know you do not want to never-neverland. Your don't have to know they called.
I have it running on an old 600Mhz machine, have a digium card, and used http://freepbx.org/. If I had it to do over again, I would not have any phone line hardware (drop the digium card) and do everything voip buying the service from a voip vendor.
I found it to be a lot of fun and to meet my needs it did not take to much effort. Lots of help is out there now.
This is really a quite brilliant tact. Many of these entities was easy and if becomes a huge pain in the ass, they could get in trouble for abuse, or it is costing more money than it is worth (more likely the latter of the three), then I would expect that they would not be so gung ho about cameras.
I agree there are some fundamentals that may be more important first, but I have been re-architecting patterns into a code base I inherited and I think it could help. In one example, the original author was cut and pasting a 2000-3000 line block of code all over the place and then modifying it for the task. I took all of these and used a strategy pattern to put that block of code in one library that I have been working over that one library to make it more readable and easier to maintain. Dropped 10,000 lines+ of dead weight. That really helps if you need to clean up spaghetti code.
Design Patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns) can really help out with maintainability and flexibility. Makes everything easier if you pick the right ones for the task at hand.
How can you be sure there are not 1 or more mp3's in those records. I mean, it is 2.8 million records. There may be at least one mp3. If they find some, I bet the sentence goes from 10 years and $500,000 to 1000 years and $500 million with the credit card data case dismissed./sarcasm
I have worked for a big corp and I bet it went more like this. Big wig, marching orders - minions, thoughtless execution. There is no incentive for most middle managers to be good at their job aside from making their boss happy so you get dumb decisions like these. Best Buy should be doing a better job of collecting feedback for performance reviews, but that takes a lot of effort so you get these kind of results.
I really feel for the author, he is clearly in the right and I hope he gets snapped up by a competent company (they are out there)...
Yes, but are you ready to declare a "WAR ON THE US HOUSE"? This war would not be a complex social problem, but declaring war always fixes the problem. (war on drugs, war on terrorism).
By his own logic, Cuban should be paying basketball fans for having to view ads at his game. They are slowing down the viewing experience and he wants everything to be as fast as possible.
A lot of these rich guys just want to have their cake and eat it too. As many of these stories that have been coming up recently, it would be good to know who they are trying to influence. What big decision is coming up soon?
Silly, those are features for us and I am not sure if Microsoft makes products for little people any more. Just DRM and other crap for big companies. Reminds me of broadcast TV (which I don't watch (use) any more either).
Let' see... I saw NBC and free downloads, laughed, and said who cares! (they seriously don't get the whole internet thing and cripple anything they put out)
Blockbuster screwed me out of $20 by messing up a movie return. They said I never returned it, then found it, but charged $20 to my credit card for a late fee. Talking to the manager did nothing to remove the charge and with their high prices and even higher late fees I swore I would never set foot in one again. That was 10 years ago. Glad to see their demise continue.
The folks at EA just don't get that a crap game will get crap sales. Everything they do appears to drive to mediocrity or down right apathy to what they produce. The golden ticket is to change their business model to produce great games.
A fallacy the "war on terror" (and the war on drugs for that matter) is a way for a set of people to describe complex social problems in a way that they can easily manipulate people. It is much easier to convince people to give up there freedom, etc in the name of helping to win a war. Stop using these terms.
I have to agree here. If you want the benefits of a global marketplace, you have to accept the parts of it you don't like as well. People in Thailand can't afford $50 per game, but people in the US can? Well tough. You won't get any sympathy from me for people that get hosed for being resourceful (or living in both countries) with a perfectly legally purchased game and then resort to pirating it.
When some mom and pop shop is driven out of business by international competition, you hear about global competition. Pricing pressure on these big corporations should not be exempt just because they are some big corporation. They need to suck it up.
Dan
You mean like the Batman Movies? I think it is harder to get right than just throw some guy you hope is good at it. I would take my chances with a guy who actually succeeded.
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There are a lot of tweaks you can make to the gains, but I would agree to a certain degree. If you are looking for crystal clear phone calls you will never get it with this card, but it after messing with the gains it meets my needs. No one has every asked me if there was a bad phone line, etc.
A hardware suggestion - Digium TDM400P (1 Port FXS). Would allow you to route incoming POTS calls into your asterisk box. To be honest, I would check your internet connection if it has enough throughput and just run everything voip. (there were some other postings on how to check if you have enough) This is a pretty informative site. http://nerdvittles.com/
I have set up asterisk at home and love it. In fact, I wrote a voicemail app for it and put it out there for free - http://www.littlejohnconsulting.com/ari/ My install has voicemail space till you fill up the harddrive, call attendant, and unlimited routing/call forwarding options for the lines I have. My favorite is what I have heard called the ex-girlfriend option, where you route calls that you know you do not want to never-neverland. Your don't have to know they called.
I have it running on an old 600Mhz machine, have a digium card, and used http://freepbx.org/. If I had it to do over again, I would not have any phone line hardware (drop the digium card) and do everything voip buying the service from a voip vendor.
I found it to be a lot of fun and to meet my needs it did not take to much effort. Lots of help is out there now.
This is really a quite brilliant tact. Many of these entities was easy and if becomes a huge pain in the ass, they could get in trouble for abuse, or it is costing more money than it is worth (more likely the latter of the three), then I would expect that they would not be so gung ho about cameras.
That game me an idea. A "jump to conclusion" floor mat. I am going to make millions unless I am hit by a car first.
If it has Snoop Dog playing Wii Tennis, it has to be good.
"opposition from the U.S. government"
Should read
"opposition from the Bush Administration"
Thank you, thank you. Will be here all week.
I agree there are some fundamentals that may be more important first, but I have been re-architecting patterns into a code base I inherited and I think it could help. In one example, the original author was cut and pasting a 2000-3000 line block of code all over the place and then modifying it for the task. I took all of these and used a strategy pattern to put that block of code in one library that I have been working over that one library to make it more readable and easier to maintain. Dropped 10,000 lines+ of dead weight. That really helps if you need to clean up spaghetti code.
Design Patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns) can really help out with maintainability and flexibility. Makes everything easier if you pick the right ones for the task at hand.
How can you be sure there are not 1 or more mp3's in those records. I mean, it is 2.8 million records. There may be at least one mp3. If they find some, I bet the sentence goes from 10 years and $500,000 to 1000 years and $500 million with the credit card data case dismissed. /sarcasm
Obviously, you are new around here. The cake is a lie.
dd if=/dev/dvd of=movie.iso problem solved, still has encryption and it did not cost you a dime.
I have worked for a big corp and I bet it went more like this. Big wig, marching orders - minions, thoughtless execution. There is no incentive for most middle managers to be good at their job aside from making their boss happy so you get dumb decisions like these. Best Buy should be doing a better job of collecting feedback for performance reviews, but that takes a lot of effort so you get these kind of results.
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I really feel for the author, he is clearly in the right and I hope he gets snapped up by a competent company (they are out there)
Yes, but are you ready to declare a "WAR ON THE US HOUSE"? This war would not be a complex social problem, but declaring war always fixes the problem. (war on drugs, war on terrorism).
By his own logic, Cuban should be paying basketball fans for having to view ads at his game. They are slowing down the viewing experience and he wants everything to be as fast as possible.
A lot of these rich guys just want to have their cake and eat it too. As many of these stories that have been coming up recently, it would be good to know who they are trying to influence. What big decision is coming up soon?
I am so looking forward to the day that the top forty is not shoved down out throat and bands have to make it on talent once again.
Silly, those are features for us and I am not sure if Microsoft makes products for little people any more. Just DRM and other crap for big companies. Reminds me of broadcast TV (which I don't watch (use) any more either).
Let' see ... I saw NBC and free downloads, laughed, and said who cares! (they seriously don't get the whole internet thing and cripple anything they put out)
Blockbuster screwed me out of $20 by messing up a movie return. They said I never returned it, then found it, but charged $20 to my credit card for a late fee. Talking to the manager did nothing to remove the charge and with their high prices and even higher late fees I swore I would never set foot in one again. That was 10 years ago. Glad to see their demise continue.
The folks at EA just don't get that a crap game will get crap sales. Everything they do appears to drive to mediocrity or down right apathy to what they produce. The golden ticket is to change their business model to produce great games.
A fallacy the "war on terror" (and the war on drugs for that matter) is a way for a set of people to describe complex social problems in a way that they can easily manipulate people. It is much easier to convince people to give up there freedom, etc in the name of helping to win a war. Stop using these terms.
Really, what kind of blood do they require for the EULA? Think I will pass.
I have to agree here. If you want the benefits of a global marketplace, you have to accept the parts of it you don't like as well. People in Thailand can't afford $50 per game, but people in the US can? Well tough. You won't get any sympathy from me for people that get hosed for being resourceful (or living in both countries) with a perfectly legally purchased game and then resort to pirating it. When some mom and pop shop is driven out of business by international competition, you hear about global competition. Pricing pressure on these big corporations should not be exempt just because they are some big corporation. They need to suck it up. Dan
You mean like the Batman Movies? I think it is harder to get right than just throw some guy you hope is good at it. I would take my chances with a guy who actually succeeded.