Unfortunately most of the us communities are built and planned around the internal combustion engine. Until the infrastructure in terms of government investment/support of telecommuting for work and school This is going to be a problem.
We need to re-design our communities to be just that and not points on a road map for cars to pass by. This is the single most important issue of our time. We need to address it.
My drive to and from work is 75 miles and 2-3 hours of my day. I used to spend about $100/month for gas for my commuting now its $150 because of the rise in gas prices. Soon it will go up.10 more per gallon to support.. you guessed it more roads.
We just need to wake up!
Movies these days are long highly effective commercial for selling stuff like soda, cars, shoes etc. Why not promote something that "markets" science as field of study. I can see it now Gordon Freeman drinking a pepsi smoking a Marlboro and fragging bad guys to develop a new scietific theory. Would be fun
Operating Systems that invokes such spite between proponets?
IMHO FreeBSD works very well I run 4.8 for my server and have never had a problem never crashes and it does what I need it do.
For my Desktop I run SuSe 8.1 and it works very well for most everything I need.
I suspect I could use both as a server or a desktop with few problems.
I am not a developer or sys admin but I do enjoy tinkering with networks and computers and *nix or *bsd based systems.
I just wonder why I see posts like "FreeBSD is dead" from a supposed linux user when clearly both operating systems are actively growing.
cough
Some telcos allow for number transferability. The process is called Supercedure and essentially allows one user to take responsibility (transfer) for a number to another user. There is a small processing fee by the telco but it is a very common practice
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Economics and Politics.
the fact is that the government has a duty to address the potential economic impacts that VoIP has on the telecommunications industry. Vonage et. al. have an economic advantage over ILECs because they are providing competing voice services with out paying the same taxes. The same advantage I might add that cable providers enjoy.
In the grand scheme of things VoIP is a very small element of telecommunications in terms of widespread end user adoption but is is large part of enterprise planning/deployment for businesses.
The government has a history of controlling the growth of technology due to potential economic impact. For instance, why are we still an oil based economy? because the government likes it that way and adoption of alternatives would put in jeopardy the many industries that are based on oil. For similar reasons the government is probably going to regulate VoIP because they don't want the telecommunications industry to be thrown into total chaos. Not to mention the high powered lobbies these industries employ to preserve their business models
Another fact to consider is that all ILECs are probably now using VoIP technologies in their network backbone. They aren't deploying it to the end users yet because they make more money by selling facilities to its customers.
VOIP is a great technology although there are many issues to consider before deploying it not the least of which is Quality of Service and the ability to dial 911.
A reasonable approach to include the one before the 10 digits unless you are concerned about local calls getting charged as LD calls. The RBOC or PBX system you're using must be programmed appropriately manipulate the digits or needless phone charges may occur.
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Unfortunately most of the us communities are built and planned around the internal combustion engine. Until the infrastructure in terms of government investment/support of telecommuting for work and school This is going to be a problem. We need to re-design our communities to be just that and not points on a road map for cars to pass by. This is the single most important issue of our time. We need to address it. My drive to and from work is 75 miles and 2-3 hours of my day. I used to spend about $100/month for gas for my commuting now its $150 because of the rise in gas prices. Soon it will go up .10 more per gallon to support.. you guessed it more roads.
We just need to wake up!
Movies these days are long highly effective commercial for selling stuff like soda, cars, shoes etc. Why not promote something that "markets" science as field of study. I can see it now Gordon Freeman drinking a pepsi smoking a Marlboro and fragging bad guys to develop a new scietific theory. Would be fun
Honestly, The content these days on TV is a detriment to our society as a whole. We would live in a better place if TV just went away. Peace.
The porn industry has always been a driving force in widespread adoption of technology.
Think VCRs, would they be so popular without porn?
Porn certainly didn't invent or build the internet but it exposed the internet to households across the world that otherwise would never use it.
Without porn the internet would be used by geeks in a very limited niche of technology.
Porn brought the internet to the massess
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Operating Systems that invokes such spite between proponets? IMHO FreeBSD works very well I run 4.8 for my server and have never had a problem never crashes and it does what I need it do. For my Desktop I run SuSe 8.1 and it works very well for most everything I need. I suspect I could use both as a server or a desktop with few problems. I am not a developer or sys admin but I do enjoy tinkering with networks and computers and *nix or *bsd based systems. I just wonder why I see posts like "FreeBSD is dead" from a supposed linux user when clearly both operating systems are actively growing. cough
Some telcos allow for number transferability. The process is called Supercedure and essentially allows one user to take responsibility (transfer) for a number to another user. There is a small processing fee by the telco but it is a very common practice Ciao
Economics and Politics. the fact is that the government has a duty to address the potential economic impacts that VoIP has on the telecommunications industry. Vonage et. al. have an economic advantage over ILECs because they are providing competing voice services with out paying the same taxes. The same advantage I might add that cable providers enjoy. In the grand scheme of things VoIP is a very small element of telecommunications in terms of widespread end user adoption but is is large part of enterprise planning/deployment for businesses. The government has a history of controlling the growth of technology due to potential economic impact. For instance, why are we still an oil based economy? because the government likes it that way and adoption of alternatives would put in jeopardy the many industries that are based on oil. For similar reasons the government is probably going to regulate VoIP because they don't want the telecommunications industry to be thrown into total chaos. Not to mention the high powered lobbies these industries employ to preserve their business models Another fact to consider is that all ILECs are probably now using VoIP technologies in their network backbone. They aren't deploying it to the end users yet because they make more money by selling facilities to its customers. VOIP is a great technology although there are many issues to consider before deploying it not the least of which is Quality of Service and the ability to dial 911.
A reasonable approach to include the one before the 10 digits unless you are concerned about local calls getting charged as LD calls. The RBOC or PBX system you're using must be programmed appropriately manipulate the digits or needless phone charges may occur. ciao