Because Skype has horribly noticeable audio delay?
A note on that PAP2: it's locked to Vonage. There's a good chance that you can unlock it (bargainshare forums have instructions) but do NOT, under any circumstances, connect it to your network when you have a live internet connection. If you do so the device will update itself to the latest firmware and you will not be able to unlock it. The unlocking method works on the assumption that your existing unit will try to upgrade. Since you have an older unit, it still will. The latest firmware does NOT try to upgrade, so once you get that you're screwed.
Once you've unlocked it, then you can connect it to the internet and use it with someone else.
MicroSD refers to the size of the cards, not the protocol they speak. I believe you can find MicroSD SDHC cards. Since SDHC is just a kernel patch/module, if it's not there already it will be shortly.
I think this is very true. I had my SPF record setup to use my DNS service's smtp servers. I use mydomain.org, which is free and hence easy to get at the SMTP servers for. Everything was great until about a year ago, and the bounces kept on coming. Finally I switched my SMTP server and SPF records to point to my company SMTP server, which requires an employee login. The bounces dried up in about a week or two. In this case, I believe they targeted my domain to take advantage of my SPF record.
That should have said "MythTV doesn't "just fast forward" or merely. Fast forward is the only way to bypass commercials on Tivo, whereas on mythtv a commercial break just looks like a scene change.
You don't think that will happen now? I think you probably only call the one number, but Dell transfers you to Canonical if it's a software issue... Though I suppose the fact that they have a mutual contract might help protect the consumer...
MythTV doesn't fast forward, it does commercial skip. Automatically. It hits a commercial break and just jumps past.
Tivo used to allow a really nice FF feature to skip commercials. Now they overlay advertisements on top of the advertisements you are fast forwarding through. Not to mention the advertising in the rest of the UI. If you own one, you should know what I'm talking about. If not, Google found me someone's blog with pictures
'No OS' still gives hardware support. Dell's Ubuntu software support is supplied by Canonical. Purchase support from them separately and directly if you need it.
In a few years, if the company grows, they may actually be cost competitive. Right now it's cheaper to buy a Windows PC reformat it than to buy most (if not all) things from System76. Of course, I believe they also offer support, which might be worth the price for some.
We had the same thing with the local hospital, though I forget which department. The best part was our number had an 8 at the end an the hospital's was a 9 -- easily confused in the cheap phonebook font, especially by the elderly, who would often insist we were the hospital. We promptly requested a new number...
AFAIK, OpenGL on Win and Mac both require some extra considerations beyond OpenGL for the rest of the *nix world. With Vista, OpenGL runs using an OpenGL to DX10 API translator, so there's also a performance loss to be expected from that, though the Mac should run it the same as any other *nix. Definitely support for Mac, or SDL/OpenGL at all, is a step in the right direction for multi-platform support.
XBox uses DX. Anyone know if OpenGL is also supported, perhaps in the same way it is on Vista?
Or you could RTFA instead of assuming.
At least 775 million new PCs will be in use in those countries by 2015, according to Forrester. It's 775 million, but not until 2015, so the/. summary is just plain horrible.
And if you read the article, there's no statement that this is more efficient than grid power either. The only statement is that if you use fossil fuel rather than straight hydrogen it will produce half as much CO2/kilowatt than small engine generators. There is absolutely no mention comparing this to large coal or other power plants.
So, good for backup power, but maybe not so good for getting yourself off the grid.
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Because Skype has horribly noticeable audio delay?
A note on that PAP2: it's locked to Vonage. There's a good chance that you can unlock it (bargainshare forums have instructions) but do NOT, under any circumstances, connect it to your network when you have a live internet connection. If you do so the device will update itself to the latest firmware and you will not be able to unlock it. The unlocking method works on the assumption that your existing unit will try to upgrade. Since you have an older unit, it still will. The latest firmware does NOT try to upgrade, so once you get that you're screwed.
Once you've unlocked it, then you can connect it to the internet and use it with someone else.
I dunno, but I pronounce it Bee-O-S, so 3 syllables.
v1:
6 -- Haiku from BeOS
11 - Multitasking all programs without delay
6 -- Open source victory
v2:
6 -- Haiku from BeOS
9 -- Multitasking programs no delay
6 -- Open source for the win
v3:
5 -- BeOS Haiku
7 -- Multitask for no delay
5 -- Victoriously
truthfully, I prefer v1, even if it's a false Haiku.
MicroSD refers to the size of the cards, not the protocol they speak. I believe you can find MicroSD SDHC cards. Since SDHC is just a kernel patch/module, if it's not there already it will be shortly.
But more because screeners are the lowest form of piracy.
Portible Firefox? That's always worked for me...
I think this is very true. I had my SPF record setup to use my DNS service's smtp servers. I use mydomain.org, which is free and hence easy to get at the SMTP servers for. Everything was great until about a year ago, and the bounces kept on coming. Finally I switched my SMTP server and SPF records to point to my company SMTP server, which requires an employee login. The bounces dried up in about a week or two. In this case, I believe they targeted my domain to take advantage of my SPF record.
That should have said "MythTV doesn't "just fast forward" or merely. Fast forward is the only way to bypass commercials on Tivo, whereas on mythtv a commercial break just looks like a scene change.
You don't think that will happen now? I think you probably only call the one number, but Dell transfers you to Canonical if it's a software issue... Though I suppose the fact that they have a mutual contract might help protect the consumer...
MythTV doesn't fast forward, it does commercial skip. Automatically. It hits a commercial break and just jumps past.
Tivo used to allow a really nice FF feature to skip commercials. Now they overlay advertisements on top of the advertisements you are fast forwarding through. Not to mention the advertising in the rest of the UI. If you own one, you should know what I'm talking about. If not, Google found me someone's blog with pictures
'No OS' still gives hardware support. Dell's Ubuntu software support is supplied by Canonical. Purchase support from them separately and directly if you need it.
In a few years, if the company grows, they may actually be cost competitive. Right now it's cheaper to buy a Windows PC reformat it than to buy most (if not all) things from System76. Of course, I believe they also offer support, which might be worth the price for some.
We had the same thing with the local hospital, though I forget which department. The best part was our number had an 8 at the end an the hospital's was a 9 -- easily confused in the cheap phonebook font, especially by the elderly, who would often insist we were the hospital. We promptly requested a new number...
It's quite easy in theory, but setting up Asterisk is no cakewalk. Although I guess I've never tried any those easy install asterisk distributions.
I'm not a fan of the blur. Millions of headless people? That's inhumanely frightening. My vote goes for placing big yellow smileys over their heads.
Ah, you must be a petro kinda guy...
Just use the earth tether like they did before they got the solar panels, duh!
AFAIK, OpenGL on Win and Mac both require some extra considerations beyond OpenGL for the rest of the *nix world. With Vista, OpenGL runs using an OpenGL to DX10 API translator, so there's also a performance loss to be expected from that, though the Mac should run it the same as any other *nix. Definitely support for Mac, or SDL/OpenGL at all, is a step in the right direction for multi-platform support.
XBox uses DX. Anyone know if OpenGL is also supported, perhaps in the same way it is on Vista?
Yes! When's EA going to make one of those for Linux?
Yeah, except that by 2015 when the developing world makes up 775 million, there will be 2 billion computers in use overall, so it'd be ~38% ;)
And if you read the article, there's no statement that this is more efficient than grid power either. The only statement is that if you use fossil fuel rather than straight hydrogen it will produce half as much CO2/kilowatt than small engine generators. There is absolutely no mention comparing this to large coal or other power plants.
So, good for backup power, but maybe not so good for getting yourself off the grid.
Jesus wasn't a system engineer.
No wonder you got modded down!