...people who also have their X sessions running for weeks? That does include me and most of my friends and family.
I do try to keep my tab count low but it's a losing battle... most people I know have already given up and let their FF sessions grow beyond 2-digit tabs. You can't have too much of a good thing, right?
What is the point of logging in? None at all, you always trust the From: header in the emails you get anyway - it's verified and cross-checked every time, right? And you don't need passwords and that crap for e-banking, they know who you are! Why should VoIP be any different?
Why can't I just connect to my buddies' computer whose address I already have? Just like I can dial the telephone # of someone I know? You can dial the phone number of someone you know because the telco has already made sure the three A's are in place - authentication, authorization, accounting. Yes, that stuff happens with old-style telephony too. Yes, it happens for every call. That's why they can bill you and you'll have to pay the money, too - because they can prove you made the damn calls.
It is because of firewalls, dynamic IPs, and p2p stupidness
And no, you can't "punch through" a firewall. Only if one of the two people on the call does not block incoming traffic do you connect directly. Get a clue, pal. I don't think that'd stop you talking bull, but it would at least make it a bit more interesting.
Well , Dell is making some progress on it , by selling labtops with preinstalled Ubuntu , but i have no other choice than that.
I guess that means at least some loss for Acer , and some gain for Dell. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned one significant detail - Dell does not sell in the UK any Ubuntu or FreeDOS desktops or notebooks either. Acer is not an exception in that respect, they're just another supplier jumping on the Linux boat while it's floating.
It's definitely possible, that's what the AG/HS
profiles and
SCO were designed to do.
IF and WHEN manufacturers start implementing both the Audio Gateway and the Handset bluetooth profiles (providing multi-profile connections at the same time) we will be able to use our mobile (WiFi too seemingly) phones as FXS and FXO devices at the same time. Thus, an incoming call to your mobile would be passed to asterisk (or other soft-PBX), possibly checked against a blacklist etc., and then you can answer a call to your mobile phone from your desktop VoIP device, or, if you don't answer, have the caller leave a message in your local voicemailbox. Hey, you don't even need any extra telephone hardwarefor this!
If this doesn't sound intriguing, consider the possibilities in a corporate environment, utilizing bluetooth APs (one or more per floor) and routing calls from and to mobile phones. Mr. Boss' secretary would then be able to answer calls to Boss' mobile even when he's left the handset in his briefcase, while at the same time anyone using their cellulars to call landlines could get their calls routed through the landline interfaces instead of getting charged at mobile rates.
No, I don't think it would. It would belong to the Jack and ALSA-virmidi regime, as do existing softsynths. I haven't heard of any LADSPA softsynths yet, but I hope I will soon - as LADSPA hosts increase.
aRts was supposed to be a sound server for KDE. GStreamer is far from that, it's a multimedia framework - that's one level higher. aRts failed to be a proper sound server, precisely because it was designed to be - guess what: a realtime softsynth. JACK, on the other hand, IS a soundserver.
The computer is not just a browser, office suite and MP3 player.
No, it's definitely not just that. It's also a SoftSynthMIDI sequencer with audio capabilities, a DV video capture system with editing and effects facilities, a multitrack HDR and probably more. No, I see no multimedia this side of the mountain.
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BioBricks? Synthetic biology has already produced results - now all we need is an economically viable production model :-/
...people who also have their X sessions running for weeks? That does include me and most of my friends and family. I do try to keep my tab count low but it's a losing battle... most people I know have already given up and let their FF sessions grow beyond 2-digit tabs. You can't have too much of a good thing, right?
It's definitely possible, that's what the AG/HS profiles and SCO were designed to do.
IF and WHEN manufacturers start implementing both the Audio Gateway and the Handset bluetooth profiles (providing multi-profile connections at the same time) we will be able to use our mobile (WiFi too seemingly) phones as FXS and FXO devices at the same time. Thus, an incoming call to your mobile would be passed to asterisk (or other soft-PBX), possibly checked against a blacklist etc., and then you can answer a call to your mobile phone from your desktop VoIP device, or, if you don't answer, have the caller leave a message in your local voicemailbox. Hey, you don't even need any extra telephone hardwarefor this!
If this doesn't sound intriguing, consider the possibilities in a corporate environment, utilizing bluetooth APs (one or more per floor) and routing calls from and to mobile phones. Mr. Boss' secretary would then be able to answer calls to Boss' mobile even when he's left the handset in his briefcase, while at the same time anyone using their cellulars to call landlines could get their calls routed through the landline interfaces instead of getting charged at mobile rates.
No, I don't think it would. It would belong to the Jack and ALSA-virmidi regime, as do existing softsynths. I haven't heard of any LADSPA softsynths yet, but I hope I will soon - as LADSPA hosts increase.
aRts was supposed to be a sound server for KDE. GStreamer is far from that, it's a multimedia framework - that's one level higher. aRts failed to be a proper sound server, precisely because it was designed to be - guess what: a realtime softsynth. JACK, on the other hand, IS a soundserver.