Just imagine the risk she is taking! What would happen to her if she had a flat tire, or some other mechanical breakdown in the wrong spot?
Most of the readings she took were in the milli-rem range but IIRC she said you must have 15 rem in 5 hours to die or something thereabout. She did mention two places though that are still extremely high and might cause death quickly, the Magic Woods and the Cemetary in town.
This old man lives in Chernobyl area, he is one of 3.500 people that either refused to leave or returned to their villages after 1986. I admire those people, each of them is a philosopher in own way. When you ask if they not afraid to die, they telling that at home they may die with radiation and in some other place they would definately die with home-sickness. They eat food from own gardens, drink milk of their caws and claim that they are healthy, but we can't get away from facts, only 400 of them left out of 3.500. It appears that stubborn people, those of fortitude- are first victims
I wonder how old they were on average when they went back. After 18 years I wouldn't be too surprised that many had died if they were generally seniors in the first place so how much effect does the pollution actually have? Someone must be keeping track of them if she can say how many are still alive and how many went back in. I think this is a good thing because we can study the effects of radiation exposure over long periods on willing subjects. I hope someone is checking on each resident and recording radiation levels where they live and at different times of the year.
I bash MS because they deserve it. They have abused their monopoly power to maintain their monopoly and to try to obtain new ones in related areas like office software and ISP's and game consoles. The saddest part is that they never even earned the original monopoly. It was given to them by IBM. If IBM had preloaded some other OS called Megahard Disk Operating System, then Megahard would own the market now just as MS does. On that we do seem to agree.
However, the difference between us is that you are an apologist for a corporation which has exhibited criminal behavior and never accepted responsibility for its actions nor admitted its guilt. To this day it uses its monopoly power, hordes of lawyers, and a mountain of undeserved wealth to threaten the future intellectual freedom of the entire human race. If that sounds melodramatic to you then I suggest you head over to the EFF and the ACLU to hear my side of the argument.
There are two main types of Microsoft trolls that lurk here. One actively attacks Linux and the other whines defensively that Windows is always being bashed unfairly. Guess which type you are. If Windows doesn't seem to be fairly treated to you here in this one tiny part of the internet then too damn bad. Go anywhere else online or in the real world and you will be surrounded by Bill Gates fan-boys and get along just dandy.
Imagine how it has felt to Linux users over the last 10 years. I have used it for that long and been discriminated against and ridiculed for it. But when I return just a little of that same kindness you want to call it Miscrosoft bashing and pretend that they are the underdogs. If you really believe what you say then go hang out on any of the other 99 million websites where there is a preponderance of Microsoft lovers and you will be much happier. Don't come here and act as though we are aggressors for venting some little bit of our frustration. Let us have one little refuge where we can dream of world domination and commiserate with each other about our Windows woes.
OK I believe that you have been working with PC's for a long time. But what I can hardly believe is that you expect us to evaluate Microsoft only on the merits of its latest round of products and to ignore its history of bullying and stamping out of competive innovation through the unlawful use of its OS monopoly. Take your blinders off and you can teach your own self a lesson.
Furthermore your statement that 'the first incarnations of Linux were crap' is itself crap. You hoped you could get away with it because it supports your claim that Linux is no better than Windows. But I have used Linux since kernel.95 so I know better. 'Crap' crashes. By my estimation all DOS based versions of Windows were utter crap and subsequent versions are successively less crappy. Linux has always been more stable and more versatile than Windows. I used to work with over a hundred computer techs who loaded Windows and OS2 and MacOS all day long and when I showed them Yggdrasil Linux running kernel.99 their jaws hit the floor.
You said in your first post that 'if Windows was really as crap as some people make it out to be, no-one would use it, simple as that.' But then you agree that the early versions of Windows were garbage and that OS2 was superior which disproves your statement since Windows 3.x was the version that first hit big numbers. So tell me why should I have any respect for Microsoft when they only leveraged their existing OS monopoly (DOS) into a GUI OS monopoly, never earning their position or my respect?
You must be fairly new to computers. I dare you, No I triple dog dare you to get a copy of Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and some old programs and try to actually use it for your main desktop. Say hello to UAE (Unexplainable Application error) and GPF (General Protection Fault) about every 10 frickin minutes. It won't crash that often on a clean install so use it for a while. Load some old shareware crap. Try to make a soundcard work. Get your hands dirty on it. It won't take long till you change your tune. Oh and don't try this with Windows386 or 2.0. I am just trying to teach you a lesson but I'm not sadistic.
Wood can stay preserved for thousands of years underwater. Take a look at this
page
which talks about the anaerobic deep water wrecks found in the black sea which was a large freshwater lake until a few thousand years ago. The flooding of that region is suspected to be the
genesis of the biblical flood story (and of the Gilgamesh legend before it was co-opted by the Israelites) In particular look at the "mesolithic settlement" link where the same man that found the Titanic discovered a 7000 year old house which predates the epic flood and is very well preserved.
Or maybe you have a problem with immigrants coming to the US?
Somehow, I doubt your gradparents were from the Apache...
You seem to reject my notion that America belongs to American citizens. You imply that anyone from anywhere has as much right to the land and wealth of the U.S. as an American citizen. Yet at the same time you reject that too by implying that American Indians are the rightful owners.
I guess you are a foreign grad student yourself, your real name is maybe something like Svetlana and you might be from the former Soviet Union. Am I close? Tell me, If I wished it, could I emigrate to Estonia? Would the government and the institutions there finance my education preparing me for a high paying career?
Do not worry. Welcome to America, Svetlana. I hope you are successful here. My problem is not with immigrants. My problem is with a government which uses my taxes as a subsidy for corporate research from which only the wealthy stockholders profit.
So if you want to quote some figures, like how many students were in your program, how many were receiving aid from the US (or local) government, and how many of those were foreign students, please do... but consider that you may have received a distorted impression of what was actually going on.
I'm sorry I can't quote figures or remember the names of the scholarships, grants, or amounts of stipends; it was way too many years ago. You are probably right that my perception was distorted. All my classmates were in a similar bind and our uncertainty and dread probably fed each others fears. But even if our complaints were exagerated they were still real.
Graduate students are cheap labor, your tax money is not going to "educate" them, you pay them to do research, and you pay them a puny amount barely enough to live on. Good deal for the taxpayer if you ask me.
I know that grad students are being paid little compared to the caliber of work they perform. However after that 4-7 years they command high salaries. Also it is not a great deal for the taxpayer when he pays for the tuition, housing, and admittedly small salary of these students but who benefits are the corporations that give research grants. (Okay some grants are from the government) When I graduated there were very few jobs available. Almost none of my classmates had a job lined up. Many of us applied to grad school though I tested the waters for a couple years first. We found we could generally get scholarships that would cover tuition but nothing else. When I finally tried it I had to work a fulltime job as well as fulltime school so that I could pay rent and buy groceries. I gave it my best shot but I don't believe anyone could work 50 hours a week and commute to school for an 18 credit hour load. I was falling asleep on the highway and even in mid sentence. I would have been more than happy to live in on-campus housing and work for 8 bucks an hour in a lab doing research related to my degree which is what most of the foreign students were getting in addition to the full tuition scholarships. Needless to say I burned out and dropped out, but it sure wasn't because I found some other place to 'earn good money and be appreciated'. I do agree though that it is easier for American students to be distracted both from their studies and from their academic track. i.e. One might stop with a Masters and accept a 60k job than stick with for a few more years and be worth 80k. All of the foreign students I am referring to worked hard and were very smart and I am happy for them personally, but I'll bet if I moved to China or Saudi Arabia *they* wouldn't invest money in *my* future. I'm sure they would tell me to pay my own way or "hit the road Jack!"
Ohio State's Zweben is optimistic about the continued need for technology graduates in the marketplace, and said the American university system offers unparalleled excellence at the graduate level.
When I was in grad school most of the stipends and scholarships were being given to foreign students. It bothered me then and now that my tax money and my tuition money was being used to educate people who aren't Americans. I will admit that many of them worked very hard at studying though and made top grades but I honestly don't think they were any smarter than American kids. They just didn't have anything else to do. Being in a foreign, money and sex oriented culture what else could they do with their time? They were like Fez from the 70's Show.
How much longer can grad school here stay 'excellent' if all the jobs go overseas? Not long I think. The high level tech jobs will follow and then the multi national corporations will make their donations to universities near their manufacturing and research facilities not way over here where education costs a fortune.
But if Microsoft open-sourced Windows, which Messman said he did not think would happen as this was a huge cash cow for the Redmond, Wash., software company...
Yeah the Novell management must have spent all of 5 milliseconds planning for that contingency.
Saving is really just committing to all of your changes since the last checkpoint/save point. If the idea of "Save" changes at all it might focus along those lines with an icon for the function related more to committment than to physical storage devices.
Exactly right. The icon should represent the idea behind saving rather than the actual physical media itself. And one thing that will not change in the near future is the serialization of our virtual world into a stream of bits to be laid down one by one onto a writing surface. Therefore "Serialization" should be the concept that becomes iconified so that no change of paradigm in the future will leave us mystified once again as to what is meant by some digital Picasso's amorphous pictograph.
Of course we should take care to differentiate the type of serial that we mean from its homonym 'cereal' so that we don't end up with little pictures of Lucky the Leprachaun all over our programs. Because with his fruity image and rainbow coalition colored marshmellows, Lucky could too easily be confused with the command to "change your preferences". Therefore I propose that a small picture of Charlie Manson be used to represent the Save command. Think about it. He is a universally recognized 20th century figure who will forever be associated with the word "serial". And using his image without permission shouldn't be much of a problem. After all, what's he gonna do, sue for defamation of character? Furthermore any religious types out there who don't want to explain his relevance to their children can just tell them it is Jesus and 'Jesus Saves' as the original post suggested. I mean, come on, have you ever seen a tiny picture of Charlie Manson and a tiny picture of Jesus side by side? As long as they don't get out a magnifying glass and notice the swastika on his forehead, who could tell? And if Rod and Todd do happen to notice, tell them it is just a caste mark that the Indian programmers put there because they were jealous and wish Jesus had been one of them.
The same PCs can be had with Windows XP, by the way.
Thats what I was thinking about too. In the past MS has had exclusionary contracts with the hardware vendors that only Microsoft's Windows would be pre-loaded on a line of computers. So if HP sold Linux or Solaris x86 or whatever on a line of computers then they had to pay full retail for any copies of Ms Windows they sold with that line. (IIRC about $200 for full license of W9x as opposed to ~50 OEM pricing.) Are those kind of exclusionary contracts prohibited now by the anti-trust settlement?
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Holy Crap! Your link says that this show lasted 4 seasons! I thought it was canceled quickly but I guess I just tuned it out of my concionsness after I saw one episode. There must be people out there who actually thought it was funny, either that or every pedophile in the country was tuning in and fantasizing about owning a robot like "vickie".
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What was that one show with the little girl who was really a robot and she always talked in a monotone? I want to say it was called Small Miracles or something like that. That was absolutely the worst sitcom that didn't get cancelled after one episode. No one could possibly provide a better example of totally horrific television.
No way man! A BattleMech is way cooler than any fruity ass robot that transforms into a refridgerator. Put a.50 cal on it, some recoilless rockets, maybe a laser or two and send it out looking for Osama bin laden.
What would you put into your ultimate virtual office solution?
I think the most important thing is not usability as an earlier poster claimed though that is important but maintainability. Owners of small businesses with a dozen employees can't afford to have a full time network or systems administrator. So the responsibility usually falls on someone who is an engineer or administrative assistant but who is more interested in computer stuff than their average co-worker. If you put together a package that requires them to call you back in at $120 an hour everytime something strange happens, it will put the brakes on adoption. Make your money and your reputation on doing installs and never needing to come back. Make your product and service the AK-47 of the SOHO world. BTW, if any readers don't know, the M-16 has better range and accuracy but jams when not cleaned regularly whereas the AK rifle can be dragged through swamps and get sand and mud in the chamber yet keep on firing happily, at least that is the reputation. (If any godless communists with personal experience with it want to correct me, feel free.)
As for specific cool ideas... Take the voicemail to email one step further: maybe you could get voice recognition software to translate the message to words (or just phonemes when it is unsure of a word), send that to email, and act as a proxy allowing a reply email from, for example a two way pager, to be translated back into speech by voice synthesis software, then redial the original number found by callerID, read off the reply and ask for a certain touchtone or the word 'confirmed' to be said if the correct recipient got the reply. Like this:
(Metallic Voice):
Hello Grandma... This is Peter... I am running late... Will be there after I pick up the kids at the YMCA...
(pre-recorded voice): If you are... Grandma... and you understand... Peter... 's reply, please press the '5' key or say 'confirmed' now.
What about browsers? Hmmm. Mozilla, Firefox, and Konqueror are just as easy to use as IE, and easiser to configure, especially from a security standpoint.
I only use Mozilla but I have to support IE too. It is much easier to configure proxies in IE because I can type the address once and check a box that says use this address for all proxies. But in Mozilla/NS I have to type it in repeatedly. Not a big deal until you do it a hundred times over the course of a year.
I also have a beef with Mozilla over anonymous FTP access. When IE hits an ftp site like ftp://ftp.somedamncompanyname.com and anonymous with a default password fails, it pops up a dialog box to get the needed info from the user. But Mozilla does not. This issue has been submitted as a bug/enhancement literally at least a dozen times but the developers have classified it as an IE work-alike feature and given it very low priority so it sits unfixed years after it was submitted (bug 124561). They don't understand that end user usability should be given high priority not low. And it is a very easy fix too! Talk about frustrating!
But I do love Mozilla. I just wish it's development was a little more customer driven.
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Most of the readings she took were in the milli-rem range but IIRC she said you must have 15 rem in 5 hours to die or something thereabout. She did mention two places though that are still extremely high and might cause death quickly, the Magic Woods and the Cemetary in town.
I wonder how old they were on average when they went back. After 18 years I wouldn't be too surprised that many had died if they were generally seniors in the first place so how much effect does the pollution actually have? Someone must be keeping track of them if she can say how many are still alive and how many went back in. I think this is a good thing because we can study the effects of radiation exposure over long periods on willing subjects. I hope someone is checking on each resident and recording radiation levels where they live and at different times of the year.
I bash MS because they deserve it. They have abused their monopoly power to maintain their monopoly and to try to obtain new ones in related areas like office software and ISP's and game consoles. The saddest part is that they never even earned the original monopoly. It was given to them by IBM. If IBM had preloaded some other OS called Megahard Disk Operating System, then Megahard would own the market now just as MS does. On that we do seem to agree.
.95 so I know better. 'Crap' crashes. By my estimation all DOS based versions of Windows were utter crap and subsequent versions are successively less crappy. Linux has always been more stable and more versatile than Windows. I used to work with over a hundred computer techs who loaded Windows and OS2 and MacOS all day long and when I showed them Yggdrasil Linux running kernel .99 their jaws hit the floor.
However, the difference between us is that you are an apologist for a corporation which has exhibited criminal behavior and never accepted responsibility for its actions nor admitted its guilt. To this day it uses its monopoly power, hordes of lawyers, and a mountain of undeserved wealth to threaten the future intellectual freedom of the entire human race. If that sounds melodramatic to you then I suggest you head over to the EFF and the ACLU to hear my side of the argument.
There are two main types of Microsoft trolls that lurk here. One actively attacks Linux and the other whines defensively that Windows is always being bashed unfairly. Guess which type you are. If Windows doesn't seem to be fairly treated to you here in this one tiny part of the internet then too damn bad. Go anywhere else online or in the real world and you will be surrounded by Bill Gates fan-boys and get along just dandy.
Imagine how it has felt to Linux users over the last 10 years. I have used it for that long and been discriminated against and ridiculed for it. But when I return just a little of that same kindness you want to call it Miscrosoft bashing and pretend that they are the underdogs. If you really believe what you say then go hang out on any of the other 99 million websites where there is a preponderance of Microsoft lovers and you will be much happier. Don't come here and act as though we are aggressors for venting some little bit of our frustration. Let us have one little refuge where we can dream of world domination and commiserate with each other about our Windows woes.
OK I believe that you have been working with PC's for a long time. But what I can hardly believe is that you expect us to evaluate Microsoft only on the merits of its latest round of products and to ignore its history of bullying and stamping out of competive innovation through the unlawful use of its OS monopoly. Take your blinders off and you can teach your own self a lesson.
Furthermore your statement that 'the first incarnations of Linux were crap' is itself crap. You hoped you could get away with it because it supports your claim that Linux is no better than Windows. But I have used Linux since kernel
You said in your first post that 'if Windows was really as crap as some people make it out to be, no-one would use it, simple as that.' But then you agree that the early versions of Windows were garbage and that OS2 was superior which disproves your statement since Windows 3.x was the version that first hit big numbers. So tell me why should I have any respect for Microsoft when they only leveraged their existing OS monopoly (DOS) into a GUI OS monopoly, never earning their position or my respect?
You must be fairly new to computers. I dare you, No I triple dog dare you to get a copy of Windows 3.0 or 3.1 and some old programs and try to actually use it for your main desktop. Say hello to UAE (Unexplainable Application error) and GPF (General Protection Fault) about every 10 frickin minutes. It won't crash that often on a clean install so use it for a while. Load some old shareware crap. Try to make a soundcard work. Get your hands dirty on it. It won't take long till you change your tune. Oh and don't try this with Windows386 or 2.0. I am just trying to teach you a lesson but I'm not sadistic.
Q.) What do you call a thousand lawyers jumping off buildings because the hand that feeds them closes up shop?
No I'm Brian, and so's my wife!
Wood can stay preserved for thousands of years underwater. Take a look at this page which talks about the anaerobic deep water wrecks found in the black sea which was a large freshwater lake until a few thousand years ago. The flooding of that region is suspected to be the genesis of the biblical flood story (and of the Gilgamesh legend before it was co-opted by the Israelites) In particular look at the "mesolithic settlement" link where the same man that found the Titanic discovered a 7000 year old house which predates the epic flood and is very well preserved.
You seem to reject my notion that America belongs to American citizens. You imply that anyone from anywhere has as much right to the land and wealth of the U.S. as an American citizen. Yet at the same time you reject that too by implying that American Indians are the rightful owners.
I guess you are a foreign grad student yourself, your real name is maybe something like Svetlana and you might be from the former Soviet Union. Am I close? Tell me, If I wished it, could I emigrate to Estonia? Would the government and the institutions there finance my education preparing me for a high paying career?
Do not worry. Welcome to America, Svetlana. I hope you are successful here. My problem is not with immigrants. My problem is with a government which uses my taxes as a subsidy for corporate research from which only the wealthy stockholders profit.
He has a wife you know... Incontinentia...
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I'm sorry I can't quote figures or remember the names of the scholarships, grants, or amounts of stipends; it was way too many years ago. You are probably right that my perception was distorted. All my classmates were in a similar bind and our uncertainty and dread probably fed each others fears. But even if our complaints were exagerated they were still real.
Heh heh. Nice sig. Valenti really said that?
I know that grad students are being paid little compared to the caliber of work they perform. However after that 4-7 years they command high salaries. Also it is not a great deal for the taxpayer when he pays for the tuition, housing, and admittedly small salary of these students but who benefits are the corporations that give research grants. (Okay some grants are from the government) When I graduated there were very few jobs available. Almost none of my classmates had a job lined up. Many of us applied to grad school though I tested the waters for a couple years first. We found we could generally get scholarships that would cover tuition but nothing else. When I finally tried it I had to work a fulltime job as well as fulltime school so that I could pay rent and buy groceries. I gave it my best shot but I don't believe anyone could work 50 hours a week and commute to school for an 18 credit hour load. I was falling asleep on the highway and even in mid sentence. I would have been more than happy to live in on-campus housing and work for 8 bucks an hour in a lab doing research related to my degree which is what most of the foreign students were getting in addition to the full tuition scholarships. Needless to say I burned out and dropped out, but it sure wasn't because I found some other place to 'earn good money and be appreciated'. I do agree though that it is easier for American students to be distracted both from their studies and from their academic track. i.e. One might stop with a Masters and accept a 60k job than stick with for a few more years and be worth 80k. All of the foreign students I am referring to worked hard and were very smart and I am happy for them personally, but I'll bet if I moved to China or Saudi Arabia *they* wouldn't invest money in *my* future. I'm sure they would tell me to pay my own way or "hit the road Jack!"
When I was in grad school most of the stipends and scholarships were being given to foreign students. It bothered me then and now that my tax money and my tuition money was being used to educate people who aren't Americans. I will admit that many of them worked very hard at studying though and made top grades but I honestly don't think they were any smarter than American kids. They just didn't have anything else to do. Being in a foreign, money and sex oriented culture what else could they do with their time? They were like Fez from the 70's Show.
How much longer can grad school here stay 'excellent' if all the jobs go overseas? Not long I think. The high level tech jobs will follow and then the multi national corporations will make their donations to universities near their manufacturing and research facilities not way over here where education costs a fortune.
Yeah the Novell management must have spent all of 5 milliseconds planning for that contingency.
What the hell is a cazillion? Is it higher than a gazillion or lower than a kajillion?
Exactly right. The icon should represent the idea behind saving rather than the actual physical media itself. And one thing that will not change in the near future is the serialization of our virtual world into a stream of bits to be laid down one by one onto a writing surface. Therefore "Serialization" should be the concept that becomes iconified so that no change of paradigm in the future will leave us mystified once again as to what is meant by some digital Picasso's amorphous pictograph.
Of course we should take care to differentiate the type of serial that we mean from its homonym 'cereal' so that we don't end up with little pictures of Lucky the Leprachaun all over our programs. Because with his fruity image and rainbow coalition colored marshmellows, Lucky could too easily be confused with the command to "change your preferences". Therefore I propose that a small picture of Charlie Manson be used to represent the Save command. Think about it. He is a universally recognized 20th century figure who will forever be associated with the word "serial". And using his image without permission shouldn't be much of a problem. After all, what's he gonna do, sue for defamation of character? Furthermore any religious types out there who don't want to explain his relevance to their children can just tell them it is Jesus and 'Jesus Saves' as the original post suggested. I mean, come on, have you ever seen a tiny picture of Charlie Manson and a tiny picture of Jesus side by side? As long as they don't get out a magnifying glass and notice the swastika on his forehead, who could tell? And if Rod and Todd do happen to notice, tell them it is just a caste mark that the Indian programmers put there because they were jealous and wish Jesus had been one of them.
If it had been Masters and Johnson at least it might have been interesting.
Thats what I was thinking about too. In the past MS has had exclusionary contracts with the hardware vendors that only Microsoft's Windows would be pre-loaded on a line of computers. So if HP sold Linux or Solaris x86 or whatever on a line of computers then they had to pay full retail for any copies of Ms Windows they sold with that line. (IIRC about $200 for full license of W9x as opposed to ~50 OEM pricing.) Are those kind of exclusionary contracts prohibited now by the anti-trust settlement?
Holy Crap! Your link says that this show lasted 4 seasons! I thought it was canceled quickly but I guess I just tuned it out of my concionsness after I saw one episode. There must be people out there who actually thought it was funny, either that or every pedophile in the country was tuning in and fantasizing about owning a robot like "vickie".
What was that one show with the little girl who was really a robot and she always talked in a monotone? I want to say it was called Small Miracles or something like that. That was absolutely the worst sitcom that didn't get cancelled after one episode. No one could possibly provide a better example of totally horrific television.
Bare-bottomed spankings come to mind.
I can handle that. Collect a check and never show up. Mission accomplished!
...for all those jokes we made about him on Slashdot!
No way man! A BattleMech is way cooler than any fruity ass robot that transforms into a refridgerator. Put a .50 cal on it, some recoilless rockets, maybe a laser or two and send it out looking for Osama bin laden.
I think the most important thing is not usability as an earlier poster claimed though that is important but maintainability. Owners of small businesses with a dozen employees can't afford to have a full time network or systems administrator. So the responsibility usually falls on someone who is an engineer or administrative assistant but who is more interested in computer stuff than their average co-worker. If you put together a package that requires them to call you back in at $120 an hour everytime something strange happens, it will put the brakes on adoption. Make your money and your reputation on doing installs and never needing to come back. Make your product and service the AK-47 of the SOHO world. BTW, if any readers don't know, the M-16 has better range and accuracy but jams when not cleaned regularly whereas the AK rifle can be dragged through swamps and get sand and mud in the chamber yet keep on firing happily, at least that is the reputation. (If any godless communists with personal experience with it want to correct me, feel free.)
As for specific cool ideas... Take the voicemail to email one step further: maybe you could get voice recognition software to translate the message to words (or just phonemes when it is unsure of a word), send that to email, and act as a proxy allowing a reply email from, for example a two way pager, to be translated back into speech by voice synthesis software, then redial the original number found by callerID, read off the reply and ask for a certain touchtone or the word 'confirmed' to be said if the correct recipient got the reply. Like this:
I only use Mozilla but I have to support IE too. It is much easier to configure proxies in IE because I can type the address once and check a box that says use this address for all proxies. But in Mozilla/NS I have to type it in repeatedly. Not a big deal until you do it a hundred times over the course of a year.
I also have a beef with Mozilla over anonymous FTP access. When IE hits an ftp site like ftp://ftp.somedamncompanyname.com and anonymous with a default password fails, it pops up a dialog box to get the needed info from the user. But Mozilla does not. This issue has been submitted as a bug/enhancement literally at least a dozen times but the developers have classified it as an IE work-alike feature and given it very low priority so it sits unfixed years after it was submitted (bug 124561). They don't understand that end user usability should be given high priority not low. And it is a very easy fix too! Talk about frustrating!
But I do love Mozilla. I just wish it's development was a little more customer driven.