So how secure is the encryption? I'm not sure I want my credit card number floating around in the clear
Why is it, when we are faced with a new(ish) technology, we believe we must throw out all the rules we've learned with previous technology.
Wired machines transmit encrypted. Why would that suddenly not be the case with wireless? Further, I would hazard a guess that there are standards in place for sensitive numbers that banks must follow ( which, if you are using their hardware, the cc machine would fall under their standards ).
How many people need the "feature set" of a VoIP phone? What I want is something cheap and reliable.
You'd be surprised. You know those partner phones on the desk? Yeah, those are about 100 bucks each.
For the record, a voip phone typically doesn't have a big feature set either. The pbx does.
What I *dont* want is some friggin PC-in-a-box that has to have a full OS + network stack + associated unreliability and hackability just to do what $2 worth of components from radio shack can do just as well.
You are in the minority then. Most businesses want a phone that looks professional and does what they need it to do. Which is mainly transfering calls and putting people on hold.
For me as a consumer is a problem looking for a solution
Again, you are in the minority. Most businesses want the basics ( transfering calls and the like ). They also want stats to tweak on. They also come to depend on the fail over techniques I use to ensure they are never without their phone lines.
I'm not interested in beeing "cool" or "bleeding edge".
Neither am I. Not professionally. I just need something that fits the requirements and works without complaint.
Plus the voice quality on external lines is usually frankly appalling compared to normal phone lines.
If by external lines, you mean internet lines, then I agree. The sound quality is better than regular lines, but the reliability is subject to the internet, which is flaky. That's why I have copper to the asterisk boxes, with internet trunks backing that up.
VoIP IMO is the emporers latest clothing collection though I await to be proven wrong.
If you want to stick your head in the sand, by all means. More business for me.
VoIP is a proven technology. Don't believe me? How do you think the phone company delivers your lines to you? In most cases, it's VoIP over an ATM circuit, then broken out in to a t1, then finally into your lines via a channel bank. In many setups, it's only when the lines are finally in copper that it's a regular old analog line. It's VoIP up to that.
In replacing legacy Avaya systems and the like, what you are looking at is putting a VoIP backbone and VoIP phones, hooked directly to a POTS network. You not only get the feature set of VoIP, but you get the reliability of the POTS network.
VoIP will be huge this year. It already is a big deal, but as companies start upgrading/replacing their phone systems, they will want to go with a voip based system to "future" proof it.
This is from my experience this year. A lot of companies expressed interest in me setting up a voip system for them, and because I go with asterisk I can undercut most competition dramatically while offering more features.
Look for voip ( and asterisk especially ) to explode in 2006.
Seriously, I don't get what the rage is about blogs. Why would I? Why would someone else's boring day suddenly be interesting because they wrote about it.
Add video to that. Wow, now I get to see, hear AND read about someone else's boring day. Because you just *know* they'd still write about what you are seeing.
Create a robot to deal with customer service, one of the real jobs that shouldn't be replaced by robots
You mean it could get worse? Already when I am forced to deal with SBC, the person on the other end
1) Can't understand half of what I tell them 2) The half they do understand they completely fail to put in context 3) I have a hard time understanding them 4) They assume whatever I'm doing is wrong 5) 9 times out of 10, whatever they tell me to do is wrong
Personally? Yeah, I'm more than willing to give the robots a chance.
Whar crap ! Why should I " better believe" that parents can control their kids when that simplt isnt happening????? May be you wont buy your daughter a computer,but other vast majority certainly are
You mean to say the parents of all the millions of people who download 'stuff' from p2p are 'bad' parents??We know how much control parents have over their kids [If at all they know knw what their kids are doing,that is.]
Damn dude, with you, let's start with the basics: English writing and comprehension. I don't care about misspellings and the like, but the concepts and ideas ( however drug crazed ) you were trying to express got lost in that mess up there.
And you'd better believe parents *can* control their kids. They just don't realize it, which is their failing. If my child proves herself incapable of handing the responsibility of a computer, then she doesn't get to use one in my house.
See how well that works? A nice, clear line of cause and effect that the child can trace directly back to their actions.
I've never seen Open Office, nor have I ever met anybody who uses it either.
Would you like to see my resume, smartass?
Why yes. Yes I would.
If anything, I'd say that you don't work in IT. A real IT person doesn't use such juvenile phrases like "MS Tax".
Oh? I would argue that you haven't met many people in the field then. MS tax is a perfectly valid description of a forced update model. Sure, PHB may use different words ( longer and more meaningless, generally ), but the essence is the same.
I have yet to even meet in person ANYONE who uses open office
Then you don't work in IT. I would further say you don't work with computers much on a day to day basis.
No one cares about OS except linux zealots and and a few governments looking to save a few pennies by using an inferior product
Try not to drool to much on yourself, it really undermines your credibility.
Let me paint you a picture. You are the IT head of a state ( lets say California ). You see Mass moving to open-office due to concerns about document formats. A year goes by, and they report an enormous budget savings due to no MS tax on their office suite.
Now, do you a) Stay with MS, and have to deal with corporation crap regarding their document formats and pay for the privledge? Or do you b) investigate costs associated with moving to open office?
Try not to drool on yourself while you think about this.
Ha! I never thought I'd hear from Microlimp that competition is good.
That's not precisely what they are saying. They are saying that competition on standards is good, which is a far cry from saying competition based on implementation is good.
Honestly, we should not have to deal with competition with standards. What's their to compete on if everyone agrees this is a standard? This is only a concept that is big because MS likes to fuck with standards ( embrace and extend ).
What they are trying to do is create an enviroment where PHB feel they have to go with the safe option. And no one ever got fired for going with MS.
Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing
Yeah, for microsoft.
You can expect this kind of horse shit from MS because they are on the weak end of the document format wars. Allow me to explain:
Competition between programs is a very good thing. No arguments. Standards are just that, standards. There has already been a shake down period, and people have agreed this is an agreed set of rules. Hence, "standard". By instigating a whole new standards "war", they hope to create confusion and chaos. And those of you who work with PHB already know the next bit: They panic and go with the safe option.
Fuck 'em. I hope against logic that they get eaten alive on this one.
"ur", "ppl", and "prolly" are in fact legitimate Internet slang in that they are commonly used and understood on t3h_1nt3rn3ts.
And if all your friends jumped off a bridge...
Languages are living, evolving, and ever changing, as new words come into use, and are found useful they become a part of the language.
These aren't new words symbolizing new concepts or new ideas. These are bastardizations of words we already have.
Language comes from the people, and their use of symbols to communicate; the language of the people today becomes the dictionaries of tomorrow not the other way around.
This generation already has enough to be sorry about to future generations ( DMCA, Dubia, Iraq, Oil dependancy, Privacy and Freedom limitations on a daily basis ), let's not give them something else to hate us for.
This could be considered "off topic" or "troll" however the parent is arguably both, and was modded as "insightful". Yeah grammar Nazi's are real insightful, and the parent has some real insight
Sorry you think you should be allowed to speak like an idiot and have no one say anything, but that's not how this world works.
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So how secure is the encryption? I'm not sure I want my credit card number floating around in the clear
Why is it, when we are faced with a new(ish) technology, we believe we must throw out all the rules we've learned with previous technology.
Wired machines transmit encrypted. Why would that suddenly not be the case with wireless? Further, I would hazard a guess that there are standards in place for sensitive numbers that banks must follow ( which, if you are using their hardware, the cc machine would fall under their standards ).
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How many people need the "feature set" of a VoIP phone? What I want is something cheap and reliable.
You'd be surprised. You know those partner phones on the desk? Yeah, those are about 100 bucks each.
For the record, a voip phone typically doesn't have a big feature set either. The pbx does.
What I *dont* want is some friggin PC-in-a-box that
has to have a full OS + network stack + associated unreliability and
hackability just to do what $2 worth of components from radio shack can do
just as well.
You are in the minority then. Most businesses want a phone that looks professional and does what they need it to do. Which is mainly transfering calls and putting people on hold.
For me as a consumer is a problem looking for a solution
Again, you are in the minority. Most businesses want the basics ( transfering calls and the like ). They also want stats to tweak on. They also come to depend on the fail over techniques I use to ensure they are never without their phone lines.
I'm not interested in beeing "cool" or "bleeding edge".
Neither am I. Not professionally. I just need something that fits the requirements and works without complaint.
Plus the voice quality on external lines is usually frankly appalling compared to normal phone lines.
If by external lines, you mean internet lines, then I agree. The sound quality is better than regular lines, but the reliability is subject to the internet, which is flaky. That's why I have copper to the asterisk boxes, with internet trunks backing that up.
VoIP IMO is the emporers latest clothing collection though I await to be proven wrong.
If you want to stick your head in the sand, by all means. More business for me.
VoIP is a proven technology. Don't believe me? How do you think the phone company delivers your lines to you? In most cases, it's VoIP over an ATM circuit, then broken out in to a t1, then finally into your lines via a channel bank. In many setups, it's only when the lines are finally in copper that it's a regular old analog line. It's VoIP up to that.
In replacing legacy Avaya systems and the like, what you are looking at is putting a VoIP backbone and VoIP phones, hooked directly to a POTS network. You not only get the feature set of VoIP, but you get the reliability of the POTS network.
VoIP will be huge this year. It already is a big deal, but as companies start upgrading/replacing their phone systems, they will want to go with a voip based system to "future" proof it.
This is from my experience this year. A lot of companies expressed interest in me setting up a voip system for them, and because I go with asterisk I can undercut most competition dramatically while offering more features.
Look for voip ( and asterisk especially ) to explode in 2006.
Your understanding of VIDEO is interesting, to say the least.
And your grasp of the english language amuses me, to say the least.
Seriously, I don't get what the rage is about blogs. Why would I? Why would someone else's boring day suddenly be interesting because they wrote about it.
Add video to that. Wow, now I get to see, hear AND read about someone else's boring day. Because you just *know* they'd still write about what you are seeing.
Create a robot to deal with customer service, one of the real jobs that shouldn't be replaced by robots
You mean it could get worse? Already when I am forced to deal with SBC, the person on the other end
1) Can't understand half of what I tell them
2) The half they do understand they completely fail to put in context
3) I have a hard time understanding them
4) They assume whatever I'm doing is wrong
5) 9 times out of 10, whatever they tell me to do is wrong
Personally? Yeah, I'm more than willing to give the robots a chance.
The mafia must be totally in awe of these people.
I remember being this innocent once.
You mean my ability to buy into an intentionally crippled format has been delayed?
Darn.
Whar crap ! Why should I " better believe" that parents can control their kids when that simplt isnt happening????? May be you wont buy your daughter a computer,but other vast majority certainly are
I said "can".
Again, reading and writing comprehension.
You mean to say the parents of all the millions of people who download 'stuff' from p2p are 'bad' parents??We know how much control parents have over their kids [If at all they know knw what their kids are doing,that is.]
Damn dude, with you, let's start with the basics: English writing and comprehension. I don't care about misspellings and the like, but the concepts and ideas ( however drug crazed ) you were trying to express got lost in that mess up there.
And you'd better believe parents *can* control their kids. They just don't realize it, which is their failing. If my child proves herself incapable of handing the responsibility of a computer, then she doesn't get to use one in my house.
See how well that works? A nice, clear line of cause and effect that the child can trace directly back to their actions.
Damn shame mods didn't think this an insightful question.
I'd sure like to see some bsd folks take a stab at answering it.
The radiation from this capsule will transform anything near it..to..oh god, they're already here! SPACE ROBOTS!
"GO STAND BY SOME STAIRS"
Or maybe the ID folks just couldn't hit his price.
Either way, I'll take this victory.
You're kidding, right?
Programming : Micro Soft Visuals: Basics, C, C+, C#, C++, Java, Internet.
Internet programming? I wasn't aware "The Internet" was a programing language.
Computer assembly and repair: Advanced knowledge as a technician, effective use of the Internet.
Effective use of the internet? You actually put on your resume that you know how to find porn? You've got balls man, I'll give you that.
And no, I would not like fries with that.
I've never seen Open Office, nor have I ever met anybody who uses it either.
Would you like to see my resume, smartass?
Why yes. Yes I would.
If anything, I'd say that you don't work in IT. A real IT person doesn't use such juvenile phrases like "MS Tax".
Oh? I would argue that you haven't met many people in the field then. MS tax is a perfectly valid description of a forced update model. Sure, PHB may use different words ( longer and more meaningless, generally ), but the essence is the same.
So yes. Please post your resume.
I have yet to even meet in person ANYONE who uses open office
Then you don't work in IT. I would further say you don't work with computers much on a day to day basis.
No one cares about OS except linux zealots and and a few governments looking to save a few pennies by using an inferior product
Try not to drool to much on yourself, it really undermines your credibility.
Let me paint you a picture. You are the IT head of a state ( lets say California ). You see Mass moving to open-office due to concerns about document formats. A year goes by, and they report an enormous budget savings due to no MS tax on their office suite.
Now, do you a) Stay with MS, and have to deal with corporation crap regarding their document formats and pay for the privledge? Or do you b) investigate costs associated with moving to open office?
Try not to drool on yourself while you think about this.
*there.
Jesus I need my coffee this morning.
Ha! I never thought I'd hear from Microlimp that competition is good.
That's not precisely what they are saying. They are saying that competition on standards is good, which is a far cry from saying competition based on implementation is good.
Honestly, we should not have to deal with competition with standards. What's their to compete on if everyone agrees this is a standard? This is only a concept that is big because MS likes to fuck with standards ( embrace and extend ).
What they are trying to do is create an enviroment where PHB feel they have to go with the safe option. And no one ever got fired for going with MS.
Competition between standards we believe is a very good thing
Yeah, for microsoft.
You can expect this kind of horse shit from MS because they are on the weak end of the document format wars. Allow me to explain:
Competition between programs is a very good thing. No arguments. Standards are just that, standards. There has already been a shake down period, and people have agreed this is an agreed set of rules. Hence, "standard". By instigating a whole new standards "war", they hope to create confusion and chaos. And those of you who work with PHB already know the next bit: They panic and go with the safe option.
Fuck 'em. I hope against logic that they get eaten alive on this one.
Sorry, I'm not seeing it. As near as I can tell, this is a "cheap" way to kill threats in the cradle and steal new ideas.
Call me cynical, but look at the history of these companies before you do it.
While what you say may be true, it's smoke screen to the issue. The quality of writing is not what's being examined, short of accurancy.
To that end, the results are still valid: Wikipedia has fewer errors per content unit.
The answer to delivering fonts to the end user is flash?
I'll take New York or Courier, thanks.
"ur", "ppl", and "prolly" are in fact legitimate Internet slang in that they are commonly used and understood on t3h_1nt3rn3ts.
And if all your friends jumped off a bridge...
Languages are living, evolving, and ever changing, as new words come into use, and are found useful they become a part of the language.
These aren't new words symbolizing new concepts or new ideas. These are bastardizations of words we already have.
Language comes from the people, and their use of symbols to communicate; the language of the people today becomes the dictionaries of tomorrow not the other way around.
This generation already has enough to be sorry about to future generations ( DMCA, Dubia, Iraq, Oil dependancy, Privacy and Freedom limitations on a daily basis ), let's not give them something else to hate us for.
This could be considered "off topic" or "troll" however the parent is arguably both, and was modded as "insightful". Yeah grammar Nazi's are real insightful, and the parent has some real insight
Sorry you think you should be allowed to speak like an idiot and have no one say anything, but that's not how this world works.