No, because I ported my number into Vonage originally from QWest. If you port your number into a company, they have to port it out. It does say in Vonage's user agreement that if they provide you a number it's theirs and they will not port it, so you're right on the money there.
What the hell? I'm not arguing one way or the other. That was an honest question.
I'm really not sure what "logic" you're following, but it certainly isn't mine. OP thinks google should not "bend to political pressure" in reference to the Japanese asking them to "follow Japanese law". Therefore, it seems obvious to me that OP's definition of "bending to political pressure" == "following Japanese law". To that end, I don't understand what DeepHurtn!'s comment was supposed to mean, unless it was mistyped.
Grand Central doesn't have my area code, but thanks for the tip. Does Gizmo connect to the PSTN, though? Or would I still need an outbound provider
I'm running Vonage on phone jack 1 and Vitelity on jack 2 of my adapter since I've unlocked it. $3/mo + $0.011/min inbound and $0/mo + $0.0139/min outbound is way better than what I've been paying Vonage, based on my usage. But I wouldn't mind staying with Vonage till the end of my second year at $5/mo rather than pay the $40 termination fee. I just wouldn't call out ($0.04/min sucks...).
I should call them up, and tell them I'm planning to switch, I suppose.
Anyway, I'd check over voip-info.org before settling on a DID (incomming) or termination (outgoing) provider.
Hmm.. I wonder if this means the return of the secret $5 unlimited inbound plan if you call to cancel. Perhaps I'll just use Vonage for inbound, and someone else for outbound, instead of just porting my number to someone else. Definitely the right time to learn how to unlock my adapters, though. Feel kind of bad for Vonage, though. I wonder who Verizon will sue next?
You said, "When everyone uses the grid as a storage cell" is wrong because, to quote the news monster again, POWER GRIDS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Yes, one can sell power back to the grid during the day and sell it at night, but the grid itself does not store power. The grid distributes power. So, in order for you to be able to provide current back into the lines, someone has to be drawing that current. This works currently because 99.9% of households and businesses are drawing from the grid. But, if "everyone," as you stated, netted energy during the day, NOBODY would be drawing it. That power wouldn't do anything. You wouldn't be able to sell it back to the grid; there would be no buyers. It doesn't "stress" the system, it just doesn't work that way.
Now, perhaps the power companies would be more active in installing large banks of batteries, etc to store the energy produced by the customers, but this currently isn't the case.
So, yes, maybe as much as 50% of energy users could use the grid as a storage device in that way, but everyone could not. It's a great use by current consumers, but if everyone were to net this kind of energy drastic changes would need to be made to how our grid system works, or people would need to keep their own batteries at home.
That number seems rather high, but also don't forget that 100% of the market supports plain-jane mp3. Existing stores that sell DRM free music do so in mp3. I expect this to continue. IIRC, Apple prefers AAC because a) the iPod supports it b) smaller file sizes --> save bandwidth (and battery in HDD based players) c) open format --> no licensing fees d) codec can be more efficient, consume less power --> better battery life
Other music stores won't care about A or D, and might not care about C--I don't know if they'd have to license MP3. They might care about B, but when 100% of the market currently supports mp3, there isn't much incentive for stores to switch unless consumers specifically demand it.
No, hardware manufactures, on the other hand, benefit from b, c, and d, and in a few years the market will definitely be different. At that point, music stores may have a reason to switch. In the short term, though, likely not.
They have the 10 years this will take to come to market to adapt. Remember, this is just an announcement that a university has done research, not that anyone even intends ends to develop it.
Nothing. They're slow and don't do everything you need. Have you actually looked at the specs or seen the UI video? This will be a good device for school children who are new to computers, but I don't think most consumers would be too interested in this.
Which is probably why they don't open it up to the general market. That would open them to dealing with distribution cost, marketing, support, etc. That's not saying I wouldn't but one, but I also don't expect it to replace anything I currently own.
AFAIK, QWest DSL is the same. I've only ever had problems with Cable. The local CableOne.net throttles your speed to half what you pay (eg to 768kbps for 1.5mbps service) for an hour or two if you go over some limit during an hour time span. Limits are in their cable modem acceptable usage policy, which is only accessible once you enter a zip code, so may very by locale.
Not being able to do his work even on Windows doesn't sound very tech to me
At home, I can heavily customize the gnome interface; I can tie into widgets with simple scripts, and I can execute commands like: for all i in `find . | grep [.]avi$`; do mv `rename 's\.*[Ss]0([0-9])[Ee]([0-9][0-9]).*\$1$2 -.avi\' $i; | cut -b23-32`/mnt/vidoes/location/; done
Now, granted that's a very specialized task that I probably wouldn't need to do at work, but similar things have been done all of the time. Back when I worked IT, I did all of my administration of our Windows and Linux servers from my Linux workstation. I was at least 200% more productive than I would have been on Windows. I used VNC to access a spare windows box if I needed to write VBS or something that required windows. The task above would easily take me 20 minutes, but I can write commands like that in my sleep that finish it in less than a minute.
I'm sorry you don't understand Window's limitations, but being able to awk and sed through source code, do mass rename and move operations like the above, and, frankly, have a desktop I'm happy would make work a lot better.
Bootable CDs don't work on password protected BIOSes set to boot only from the main HD. Not to mention Knoppix takes 3 days to boot. If you CAN boot another CD, just install Unix over the windows machine they give you. Most IT in large companies use things like AD to push out fixes, so at worst yours will just show up as never having installed the fix. Once you have a Unix machine, it's harder for them to take it away from you as you can clearly show lost productivity with it gone.
The difficult part will be obtaining a second PC. How do you show you require two PCs to do your job?
Um, no. We get angry at him because this is not Digg and that sort of behavior is not acceptable here. It may have been an honest mistake, but now he won't do it again.
yeah, but then all you get is the one explorer window. This simulates the fast user switch, but works in domain environments and other places were faster user switch is disabled.
Huh? You reply to the wrong thing? He didn't say he didn't want to play, he just said it's not exercise.
IIRC, that's actually the official Nintendo response to people throwing remotes. They said the instructions clearly state that wild arm motions are not required and the wrist is all that's needed.
I do ctrl+alt+del and kill explorer.exe. Then I use File: Run in task man and do "runas/user:administrator explorer.exe". This restores the desktop as the admin user. When I'm done, I do another ctrl+alt+del, either kill explorer or choose "Log Off Administrator" from the start menu, and then run "explorer" from the run dialog again to restore the old session.
This is faster than logging off and back on, leaves the users programs open, but gives you the full admin desktop, not just a shell or explorer window.
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Ew, that's not very good...
www.vitelity.net is who I recommend.
$8.50/mo unlimited inbound or $3/mo + 1.1c/min inbound
Outbound is always 1.39c/min US and Canada. 6 second billing.
(I included the $1.50 911 charge in the inbound prices I quoted. Oh, and I didn't provide my advertiser ID cause I'm not a dick)
Ahh, to answer a rhetorical question with a rhetorical question... I suppose that WOULD be a Slashdot thing to do ;)
No, because I ported my number into Vonage originally from QWest. If you port your number into a company, they have to port it out. It does say in Vonage's user agreement that if they provide you a number it's theirs and they will not port it, so you're right on the money there.
What the hell? I'm not arguing one way or the other. That was an honest question.
I'm really not sure what "logic" you're following, but it certainly isn't mine. OP thinks google should not "bend to political pressure" in reference to the Japanese asking them to "follow Japanese law". Therefore, it seems obvious to me that OP's definition of "bending to political pressure" == "following Japanese law". To that end, I don't understand what DeepHurtn!'s comment was supposed to mean, unless it was mistyped.
Grand Central doesn't have my area code, but thanks for the tip. Does Gizmo connect to the PSTN, though? Or would I still need an outbound provider
I'm running Vonage on phone jack 1 and Vitelity on jack 2 of my adapter since I've unlocked it. $3/mo + $0.011/min inbound and $0/mo + $0.0139/min outbound is way better than what I've been paying Vonage, based on my usage. But I wouldn't mind staying with Vonage till the end of my second year at $5/mo rather than pay the $40 termination fee. I just wouldn't call out ($0.04/min sucks...).
I should call them up, and tell them I'm planning to switch, I suppose.
Anyway, I'd check over voip-info.org before settling on a DID (incomming) or termination (outgoing) provider.
Hmm.. I wonder if this means the return of the secret $5 unlimited inbound plan if you call to cancel. Perhaps I'll just use Vonage for inbound, and someone else for outbound, instead of just porting my number to someone else. Definitely the right time to learn how to unlock my adapters, though. Feel kind of bad for Vonage, though. I wonder who Verizon will sue next?
It's ok. You can probably find a decent job in IT. I wouldn't worry about it.
You said, "When everyone uses the grid as a storage cell" is wrong because, to quote the news monster again, POWER GRIDS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY.
Yes, one can sell power back to the grid during the day and sell it at night, but the grid itself does not store power. The grid distributes power. So, in order for you to be able to provide current back into the lines, someone has to be drawing that current. This works currently because 99.9% of households and businesses are drawing from the grid. But, if "everyone," as you stated, netted energy during the day, NOBODY would be drawing it. That power wouldn't do anything. You wouldn't be able to sell it back to the grid; there would be no buyers. It doesn't "stress" the system, it just doesn't work that way.
Now, perhaps the power companies would be more active in installing large banks of batteries, etc to store the energy produced by the customers, but this currently isn't the case.
So, yes, maybe as much as 50% of energy users could use the grid as a storage device in that way, but everyone could not. It's a great use by current consumers, but if everyone were to net this kind of energy drastic changes would need to be made to how our grid system works, or people would need to keep their own batteries at home.
That number seems rather high, but also don't forget that 100% of the market supports plain-jane mp3. Existing stores that sell DRM free music do so in mp3. I expect this to continue. IIRC, Apple prefers AAC because
a) the iPod supports it
b) smaller file sizes --> save bandwidth (and battery in HDD based players)
c) open format --> no licensing fees
d) codec can be more efficient, consume less power --> better battery life
Other music stores won't care about A or D, and might not care about C--I don't know if they'd have to license MP3. They might care about B, but when 100% of the market currently supports mp3, there isn't much incentive for stores to switch unless consumers specifically demand it.
No, hardware manufactures, on the other hand, benefit from b, c, and d, and in a few years the market will definitely be different. At that point, music stores may have a reason to switch. In the short term, though, likely not.
Power grids do not work that way!
Goodnight!
They have the 10 years this will take to come to market to adapt. Remember, this is just an announcement that a university has done research, not that anyone even intends ends to develop it.
Nothing. They're slow and don't do everything you need. Have you actually looked at the specs or seen the UI video? This will be a good device for school children who are new to computers, but I don't think most consumers would be too interested in this.
Which is probably why they don't open it up to the general market. That would open them to dealing with distribution cost, marketing, support, etc. That's not saying I wouldn't but one, but I also don't expect it to replace anything I currently own.
I'd start here
AFAIK, QWest DSL is the same. I've only ever had problems with Cable. The local CableOne.net throttles your speed to half what you pay (eg to 768kbps for 1.5mbps service) for an hour or two if you go over some limit during an hour time span. Limits are in their cable modem acceptable usage policy, which is only accessible once you enter a zip code, so may very by locale.
Ah, nevermind. I continued reading and "get it" now. You can make that whooshing sound if you'd like ;)
Nice dodge. Why did you call her an officer of the court, now?
At home, I can heavily customize the gnome interface; I can tie into widgets with simple scripts, and I can execute commands like:
for all i in `find . | grep [.]avi$`; do mv `rename 's\.*[Ss]0([0-9])[Ee]([0-9][0-9]).*\$1$2 -
Now, granted that's a very specialized task that I probably wouldn't need to do at work, but similar things have been done all of the time. Back when I worked IT, I did all of my administration of our Windows and Linux servers from my Linux workstation. I was at least 200% more productive than I would have been on Windows. I used VNC to access a spare windows box if I needed to write VBS or something that required windows. The task above would easily take me 20 minutes, but I can write commands like that in my sleep that finish it in less than a minute.
I'm sorry you don't understand Window's limitations, but being able to awk and sed through source code, do mass rename and move operations like the above, and, frankly, have a desktop I'm happy would make work a lot better.
Bootable CDs don't work on password protected BIOSes set to boot only from the main HD. Not to mention Knoppix takes 3 days to boot. If you CAN boot another CD, just install Unix over the windows machine they give you. Most IT in large companies use things like AD to push out fixes, so at worst yours will just show up as never having installed the fix. Once you have a Unix machine, it's harder for them to take it away from you as you can clearly show lost productivity with it gone.
The difficult part will be obtaining a second PC. How do you show you require two PCs to do your job?
Um, no. We get angry at him because this is not Digg and that sort of behavior is not acceptable here. It may have been an honest mistake, but now he won't do it again.
yeah, but then all you get is the one explorer window. This simulates the fast user switch, but works in domain environments and other places were faster user switch is disabled.
Huh? You reply to the wrong thing? He didn't say he didn't want to play, he just said it's not exercise.
IIRC, that's actually the official Nintendo response to people throwing remotes. They said the instructions clearly state that wild arm motions are not required and the wrist is all that's needed.
I'm sorry, was that a penis joke? Haven't we gotten over the name by now? If not, what the hell are you talking about?
I do ctrl+alt+del and kill explorer.exe. Then I use File: Run in task man and do "runas /user:administrator explorer.exe". This restores the desktop as the admin user. When I'm done, I do another ctrl+alt+del, either kill explorer or choose "Log Off Administrator" from the start menu, and then run "explorer" from the run dialog again to restore the old session.
This is faster than logging off and back on, leaves the users programs open, but gives you the full admin desktop, not just a shell or explorer window.
It's too bad gksudo doesn't work on Windows...
Why is this a troll? This is the article the parent referenced. Am I missing something?