Agreed. It would be interesting to look at statistics on how many *advanced* searches are being performed on each site. MSN probably logs a higher quantity of simple searches like "Britteny Speers" (sic) and "Superbowl" because it's the default home page for Internet Explorer, while Google probably gets more advanced searches using quotes, negation, inurl:, site:, etc.
I've long thought that Richard Stallman, like a lot of left-wing/liberal people and ideas, makes a good garnish. We'd be in a world of hurt if the world ran according to Stallman's philosophies, but his ideas are strong enough and his position firm enough to provide a good temperance against the conservative/corporate mainstream that is going the other way.
I agree. My parents signed up for Vonage just because it was so inexpensive. They didn't even realize all of the technical benefits of it. Here are some of the features I helped them discover:
* Forward your calls to your cell phone, which you can set up on their website (mentioned above)
* Check your voicemail messages on the Internet; download messages in WAV format
* Throttle VoIP bandwidth
* Set your physical location so that 911 centers will know where to find you
* Call internationally for cheap. I have friends in Brazil and it's only $.05/minute to call there.
* Connect the phone to your existing house wiring. I went outside and cut the wire that went to the phone company. Then we plugged the Cisco telephony unit into one of the house jacks and it sent the signal to every other jack.
* Get second or third phone numbers in other area codes -- all of the numbers forward to your phone
My parents loved Vonage, and I really thought it was the next big thing. However, they had to cancel and go back to POTS with Sprint (blah) because we couldn't get enough upload bandwidth from Cox over our cable modem. (It's advertised as 128 kbps, but we 60-80 was more like it.)
I would definitely suggest Vonage, and I believe they just reduced their rates again within the last couple weeks.
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Agreed. It would be interesting to look at statistics on how many *advanced* searches are being performed on each site. MSN probably logs a higher quantity of simple searches like "Britteny Speers" (sic) and "Superbowl" because it's the default home page for Internet Explorer, while Google probably gets more advanced searches using quotes, negation, inurl:, site:, etc.
I've long thought that Richard Stallman, like a lot of left-wing/liberal people and ideas, makes a good garnish. We'd be in a world of hurt if the world ran according to Stallman's philosophies, but his ideas are strong enough and his position firm enough to provide a good temperance against the conservative/corporate mainstream that is going the other way.
I agree. My parents signed up for Vonage just because it was so inexpensive. They didn't even realize all of the technical benefits of it. Here are some of the features I helped them discover: * Forward your calls to your cell phone, which you can set up on their website (mentioned above) * Check your voicemail messages on the Internet; download messages in WAV format * Throttle VoIP bandwidth * Set your physical location so that 911 centers will know where to find you * Call internationally for cheap. I have friends in Brazil and it's only $.05/minute to call there. * Connect the phone to your existing house wiring. I went outside and cut the wire that went to the phone company. Then we plugged the Cisco telephony unit into one of the house jacks and it sent the signal to every other jack. * Get second or third phone numbers in other area codes -- all of the numbers forward to your phone My parents loved Vonage, and I really thought it was the next big thing. However, they had to cancel and go back to POTS with Sprint (blah) because we couldn't get enough upload bandwidth from Cox over our cable modem. (It's advertised as 128 kbps, but we 60-80 was more like it.) I would definitely suggest Vonage, and I believe they just reduced their rates again within the last couple weeks.