Don't take it personally. I've worked for a couple of VERY large firms (+20,000 employees) and when I put in my two weeks at one, they let me ride it out, at the other, I was let go that day (paid) it corporate policy, not anything against you. I had set it up w/ my boos so that he knew two weeks before I went on the record with mt "two weeks notice" so that he wasn't blind sided...
I have had Vonage for about three month now, and it works great. I know three months is not very long, but I have had zero problems with it. The sound quality is good, but just a tad quieter than a POTS line. It has more features included in the package than I even knew were possible.
As far as 911 calls go, you fill out a web form to set up your emergency area so that your call gets routed to the correct area. Also, it's not difficult to setup a speed-dial on most phones to the direct number for your local police/hospital.. (who doesn't have a phone with programmable buttons anymore?)
As far as outages go: Vonage is configurable so all calls forward to my wife's cell phone if the VOIP box drops off the network. To people calling us, it is completely transparent.
I love the service, and I am only paying a 1/4 of what my Verizon phone bill was. I just hope the FCC stays out of VOIP a while longer.
i used to work IT in a very filthy factory that has ~50 HP Pavillion PC on the shop floor. They held up very well, I believe, for one major reason, they rn P75's with passive cooling. Just before i left they were starting to upgrade to PII 400 machines with fans on the heatsinks. Some of the P75's had been in service for multiple years with out a hardware failure. There were a couple of PII's that failed due to overheating within 6 months, all of which had fans so cloged that they could turn anymore...
Allendale Telephone and Data http://www.altelco.net/ has been doing this for about since June 2004. No HDTV, just digital ala DirecTv. picture quality is pretty good, they're still working out the bugs. Nothing like bleeding edge technology...
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Maybe all the meter maids could direct traffic for a while?
I did and didn't even realize it until you asked the question. Shatner has become part of my psyche!
M-O-O-N that spells GPS!
can i mod that as "ewww!"
Don't take it personally. I've worked for a couple of VERY large firms (+20,000 employees) and when I put in my two weeks at one, they let me ride it out, at the other, I was let go that day (paid) it corporate policy, not anything against you. I had set it up w/ my boos so that he knew two weeks before I went on the record with mt "two weeks notice" so that he wasn't blind sided...
You cannot bring about peace by sticking your wuss-ass head in the sand either. That just makes a better target out of you backside...
Look how good being pacifist has worked in the past:
Pearl Harbor
France in general
heck, if everyone wouldn't have sat on their hands for so long, WWII might not have been needed in the first place!
I hate when that happens...
I have had Vonage for about three month now, and it works great. I know three months is not very long, but I have had zero problems with it. The sound quality is good, but just a tad quieter than a POTS line. It has more features included in the package than I even knew were possible.
As far as 911 calls go, you fill out a web form to set up your emergency area so that your call gets routed to the correct area. Also, it's not difficult to setup a speed-dial on most phones to the direct number for your local police/hospital.. (who doesn't have a phone with programmable buttons anymore?)
As far as outages go: Vonage is configurable so all calls forward to my wife's cell phone if the VOIP box drops off the network. To people calling us, it is completely transparent.
I love the service, and I am only paying a 1/4 of what my Verizon phone bill was. I just hope the FCC stays out of VOIP a while longer.
"Imagine if magazines were like that? Read 3 paragraphs, turn page, read another 3, turn page..."
Apperently you don't remember the old computer shopper magazine it was 700 pages, and had 5 articles...
i used to work IT in a very filthy factory that has ~50 HP Pavillion PC on the shop floor. They held up very well, I believe, for one major reason, they rn P75's with passive cooling. Just before i left they were starting to upgrade to PII 400 machines with fans on the heatsinks. Some of the P75's had been in service for multiple years with out a hardware failure. There were a couple of PII's that failed due to overheating within 6 months, all of which had fans so cloged that they could turn anymore...
Allendale Telephone and Data http://www.altelco.net/ has been doing this for about since June 2004. No HDTV, just digital ala DirecTv. picture quality is pretty good, they're still working out the bugs. Nothing like bleeding edge technology...