Absolutely. If you do not drive a 250,000 car.... you are a guilty middle class waste of life and who really gives a shit because there are so many poor suckers out there willing to build the homes of the rich.
This is what America has become. My Aunt is a professor in criminology and you would not beleive the mentality of her students. She is in shock over the mentality of our youth. The way our youth seems to have this nazi mentality of "If you didnt to anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about"
LIFE is not that simple. LIFE is complex. Put a camera on a street corner... catch someone running a red light. He must be guilty! What the camera did not pick up, is that the driver was blinded by the evening sunset and could not make out the light.
Things are not simple. Thats why we remind each other the Salem Witch trials. An individuals rights are to be protected because the MOB mentality of "if you didnt do anything, you're ok" is complete bullshit.
NO ONE EVER SAID being found guilty is a state of reality. An individual should have every tool to protect themselves and presumption of innocence. EVEN at the risk of allowing a criminal to slip through the cracks of justice. I would rather have a criminal get away with a crime than sent an innocent man to jail.
Too bad the woman will have to give up her site. She of course is not going to win because she's a peon without any value, where as the corperation is a huge multinational giant that dictates whatever it wants.
Of course it could be a case of cybersquatting, but it could also be legit. And if it is.... Even more so important, that this woman's name and website be protected.
Even though most people on/. will be glad to hear that something will be done to support VOIP, we can be reasonably sure that any bill you draft will be in the interest of the VOIP providers and not in the interest of the public those senators were elected to represent.
BINGO.
We can also all assume that they will toss in all kinds of odd things totally unrelated to protecting the consumer. These "odd things" will of course be the hooks installed into the laws by the telecos and voip providers. These "hooks" will be used to their benefit once they find the oppurtunity.
The consumers are only getting a good deal with VoIP because a new buisness is simply undercutting the old monopoly.
Once VoIP becomes the norm... the Voip providers will of course subject their consumers/subscribers to the same harsh dictating bullshit practices that their users are trying to escape from.
The day the US government starts regulating what traffic all ISPs must carry, is the day the internet is no longer free. It'll become another utility like the existing telephone, power, and cable grids.
I'm sorry, but all broadband within our country is a PAY service. There is no "free internet" Its maintained by huge multinational telecomunication industries, local isps, etc..
There is nothing free about it. It never was free.
The $50 that i pay a month is proof that there is no free internet.
The gov should be regulating what traffic must be carried, as long as what "must be carried" is EVERYTHING that is the internet.
If we need a law that demands ISP's provide the internet as the internet is.... without any illegal monopolistic corperatist bullshit designed to twist and alter the internet into their favor... THEN SO FUCKIGN BE IT.
This is the net, and it should be for all people, all contributors, everyone. What you dl or ul should not be dictated by your ISP... ESPECIALLY when it is in their interest to curb the competive services that you chose to you pay for, while using their ISP service... THAT YOU PAY FOR.
That's nice in this case, but let's talk about a different scenario. Say I'm an ISP in rural Iowa that has roughly 15 customers because I'm small, and again in rural Iowa. Now let's say that you only had a single T1 or a fractional you were working with. Then imagine all 15 of your clients making VOIP calls at once. Your bandwidth would drop to nothing, and the clients would complain. Your only choice would be blocking vonage's ports so your clients can still "surf the net" at decent speeds. It's no different than blocking P2P traffic if you have to speed things up.
VoIP transfer rates are tiny in comparison to any other general internet use.
Look at it this way... if all 15 users in your imaginary town were on a VoIP call at the same time.... It wouldnt equal to the amount of data being uploaded by atleast 1 of their children on an warez ftp site, or bit torrent, or hosting a videogame etc.
The point is... If 15 users making a VoIP call is going to break your network... you need a new fucking network.
And this article is about unfair competition practices.
If the small imaginary ISP has 15 users using their own ISP's VoIP service, they would have the same bandwidth problems no matter if they're using Vonage vs the isp's VoIP.
No one said being an ISP was cheap either. If you have 15 users... Common buisness practice would force you to have higher prices compared to an ISP with over a million subscribers.
If you cant run a 15 user ISP, its not the problem of the vonage users on your network. Its the ISP's problem because they are the ones who want to be an ISP.
If you cant provide internet service... GO OUT OF BUISNESS.
If I understand the issue, certain ISPs are blocking the ports used by VOIP apps for whatever reason (bandwidth, probably). Assume for the moment that the VOIP complaint is valid. The logical next step would be for trojan writers to say that blocking ports that their trojans use is *also* censorship.
Are you a fucking moron? You PAY for VoIP per month where as a trojan infects your pc against your will. It is an assault on privacy. There is a huge difference between the two. I cant see at all how you conclude this as a logical step. Its completely illogical and Mr Spock should shove his Vulcan cock up your ear for this.;) (Nothing personal of course.. just some silly words)
I'm a vonage user. I signed up a month ago and i'm still waiting for my POTS phone number to be converted over to vonage.
My ISP (optonline.net AKA cablevision) has their own VOIP service known that costs $34 a month. Vonage costs $24 a month.
Cablevision is getting really flakey on their capping/throttling policy. They of course wont promise any quality of service, they do block ports etc.
Blocking vonage has been the concern of many optonline users, due to vonage being more affordable than optonline's own optimum voice VOIP service.
Cablevision loves to play games due to the power they hold in the number of subscribers. Everyone here in New York remembers the whole Yankee YES network mess where cablevision refused to carry YES and charge their subscribers $2 extra per month. YES is now on cablevision FREE, no additional charge.. but cablevision seems to have no problem with squeezing their existing customers into their digital io plan which costs $10 more than basic cable... but of course requires a box, and of course several boxes for how many tv's you happen to own. Cablevision really wants everyone to pay $90 a month for their digital cable service. The evidence is in that they are no longer supporting HBO customers that use the old cable boxes.
Point is.. Cable companies have power and they can use it as they see fit to benefit their own interests. Even at the cost of holding their subscribers hostage.
It's simple math really.
Pay for cable broadband + Pay for competing VoIP service = You paid for your own dam right to free speech.
Afterall we're all forced to sign these stupid contracts with ISP's that simply allow them to dictate their service and giving us shit power in return... I think its best we use the big stick of the government to bat their asses back into line because as consumers, even in large numbers as subscribers... are simply powerless due to their service contracts and the monopolistic advantages these corperations have over our regions. In other words... There usually isn't regional competition. And if there are... they're pulling the same bullshit.
The vonage CEO is correct. It is a free speech issue. Its also a consumer protection issue. Its also a monopoly issue, a corperate dictatorship anti competitive issue... Its a federal communications issue... Its a civil rights issue.
VoIP is a cheaper alternative to the telephone industries tight grip on the bullshit they overcharge us for.
The cable/DSL ISP's that are blocking VoIP are trying to maintain their own tight grip on the bullshit they overcharge us for. Vonage is a great example of this as it is $10 cheaper than my own isp's voip service.
Very good film. Just watched it. Frankly to those that seem concerned about the torrent link... you should realize that this is the kind of film that filmmakers have difficulty finding outlets for their great works such as this documentary/commentary of todays corperate world. I'm sure the makers of this film intended to be heard rather than profit and become billionaires. One would assume they would be all up for a torrent version if it allows people to hear their message. And that message is quite important. Excellent film.
Note Michael Moore endorsed trading of his films online because the message is more important than the money. His concern was that he makes enough money to make his distributors happy, and enough to cover the production costs and to make a small modest profit. But he always said "i dont care how you see my movie, download it, whatever... It has made enough money to cover all of the costs and my distributors have profited heavily" (or something to that effect)
Movies like this are about the message, not the box office gross. Beleive it or not, there are filmmakers that make films to be heard and not to get rich.
Oddly enough, its those kind of folks that deserve to make some good money and get the high praise. So SEE this film. Buy it preferably, but download it if you must.
All companies could do this. Have that intel chip fail in a year. Have that Sony Monitor go boom in 2 years. Have that Microsoft Mouse wire get loose and detatch (Oh yeah they did pulled that one already)
This may be a silly example (although true), but I think there's a clear and present danger that the whacked logic of the IP world could spread like a fungus into the real world, and we could indeed wake up one day to find it illegal to use a Stanley hammer on non-Stanley nails.
Too fucking late! That world is here and now! What are you going to do about it?
What is ANYONE going to do about it? NOTHING... because we're fucking worthless peons. Corperations dont make profits from sales, they make profit from ripping off rich investors, buying each other, selling each other...
You're 10$ black ink canon cartridge means dick to canon.
Face it... We've lost this battle. Corperations exist for their own endless profit at all costs. They have no geographic boundaries, no accountability, no shame.
The broadcast flag is designed to control content due to the success of TV shows on DVD sales. Also factor in the nice high resolution broadcast quality versions you could be saving/recording instead of buying on HD DVD...:) They just dont want you to record what you've already paid for. And yes sitting through commercials during a tv show is paying for a tv show. Afterall, they dont get advertising money for tv shows if they didnt have our ratings numbers. Hey according to the FCC, Them's is our airwaves!;) HAHAHAHAHA. As if fucking over the entire public wasnt enough for the FCC, spitting that bullshit back in our faces should have resulted in riots;)
I think the real shame is that as a result of this broadcast flag, Hollywood will simply fuel an entire underground HD-TV show swaping network on the internet.
There will be 10x the amount of traded HD-TV shows being swapped online. There will be a huge demand for those who can provide recorded versions of your favorite tv show.
Dont these companies realize that the more they squeeze the people, the more willing the people are to fuck them back?
We're a country of rebelling bastards, its what we do best:)
So let the corperations continue to own and control our government. It's nothing new. We've already lost that war years ago.
Hollywood, say hello to the larger than ever, more elite than ever, more unstoppable than ever, and more right than ever... underground HD-TV show scene that you have created. Way to learn from the past, you fucking morons (hollywood).
Great subject, Great cauise! Few suggestions
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Forgive me, i dont know exactly what limitations you have or how it would effect the design of a controller tailored to your needs... BUT I am almost certain a controller can be tailored to your needs.
You can buy many arcade controller devices from arcade parts manufacturers like the very legendary maker of high quality parts, http://www.happcontrols.com/
Coming from the street fighter community, guys are always making their own controllers. I did just that myself recently. Often what happens is users will take circuit board from a cheap 3rd party controller such as "madcatz" and simply wire up the arcade buttons to the boards, thus building their own fancy arcade controller.
I'm almost certain there is a way to do something similar for you. Infact i'm sure that a few talented techs could easily rig something up for you that would interface with a console gaming system and a PC as well.
I have heard of head mouse units. And again, i have complete confidence that one could be built for you, and tailored to your needs.
I'm not sure if i'm being much help but I'm just very confident that you can find a solution. Like i said, tailoring a controller for your needs would be quite easy with a few techs on the job because rigging up controllers isnt difficult at all, the only trick is when you have to use an existing board to interface your custom controls to. Figuring out the wiring etc. But again, i'm so certain someone could dismantle a PC controller and a mouse and have something working for you rather quickly and easily.
There's probably some more capable folks here on slashdot that may be up for the challenge that could or have already shared their insights. Perhaps they're willing to lend their expertise too.
I really do. When i was a young child growing up here in America, i and many others were taught of the great freedoms we have. The battles we fought for our rights, the many deaths men women and children suffered before us....
I mean just how are they teaching history in schools today?
Surely they cant be teaching the same "stories" of civil wars, civil rights, seperation of church and state, no taxation without representation, freedom of the press, monarchs in other countries, dictatorships, labor unions and works rights! etc....
Just what are they teaching in history today?
Where is America going?
Frankly i beleive we're all under control of the ruling class that taxes us, without any representation. They arent affraid for our well being, they're affraid terrorists will blow up their wealthy gated communities.
Does anyone else have that "this wasnt what i was taught in school" feeling?:)
It is King Arthur, and this is my my Knights of the Round Table. Whose castle is this?
FRENCH GUARD:
This is the castle of my master, Guy de Loimbard.
ARTHUR:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Sony PSP.
FRENCH GUARD:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got one, you see.
ARTHUR:
What?
GALAHAD:
He says they've already got one!
ARTHUR:
Are you sure he's got one?
FRENCH GUARD:
Oh, yes. It's a Japanese... (I told him we already got one.)
By your list of evil deeds, it would seem that everyone, everywhere is evil.
Well not really. There are plenty of people who give of them selves for the benefit of others before that of themselves.
There are buisnesses that reward employees for good work and there are buisnesses that do beleive that a company exists to make money for its owners as well as its employees.
There are good people and of coures good buisnesses. The problem is when a corperation decides to boost profits at the expense of all else and that includes the well being of its employees.
If i ran a multinational corperation, due to the lack of buisness ethics and morality i would HAVE to cut my american staff and relocate my work force to china because EVERYONE else is doing it. If i want to stay in buisness, i must compete!
This kind of competition becomes a horrible race to the bottom with no reguard for life itself.
I simply can not support this kind of beleif. Money exists so that we all can get a fair share of it and live a quality life. Money does not exist to maximize profit to benefit a ceo while employing slaves at slave wages with no regard for their well being.
Because they all do very evil things! Underpaid employees, exportation of jobs yet posting record profits, they clearly do not care about peoples lives, unfair end user liscenses, they lobby the government to leverage monopolistic advantages, they buy and sell each other then fire entire work forces just to get ownership of a property or to simply get rid of competition, they make nike sneakers for 3 dollars a month and sell them for $100 dollars in the US, they profit at all cost, even to the extent of ripping off our government during war time, they sell shitty food and call it happy meals, they sell even shittier food as trendy diet food such as "low carb" "low fat" which neither make them healthier foods but only trendy foods that are still as shitty as the happy meals, they all want slave labor at slave wages and some how think they deserve american price valued profits, they lie, cheat and steal...
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So much for California being classified as "Liberal"
One would think Liberals would be against government's assault on personal liberties.
We really need about 60million Americans to vote Libertarian next election.
Absolutely. If you do not drive a 250,000 car.... you are a guilty middle class waste of life and who really gives a shit because there are so many poor suckers out there willing to build the homes of the rich.
I HATE people with this mentality. ...
This is what America has become. My Aunt is a professor in criminology and you would not beleive the mentality of her students. She is in shock over the mentality of our youth. The way our youth seems to have this nazi mentality of "If you didnt to anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about"
LIFE is not that simple. LIFE is complex. Put a camera on a street corner... catch someone running a red light. He must be guilty! What the camera did not pick up, is that the driver was blinded by the evening sunset and could not make out the light.
Things are not simple. Thats why we remind each other the Salem Witch trials. An individuals rights are to be protected because the MOB mentality of "if you didnt do anything, you're ok" is complete bullshit.
NO ONE EVER SAID being found guilty is a state of reality. An individual should have every tool to protect themselves and presumption of innocence. EVEN at the risk of allowing a criminal to slip through the cracks of justice. I would rather have a criminal get away with a crime than sent an innocent man to jail.
Ab-so-fucking-lutely.
I know we have robotics research etc, but shouldnt we has a "technologoical" economy be revealing our own robots?
Too bad the woman will have to give up her site. She of course is not going to win because she's a peon without any value, where as the corperation is a huge multinational giant that dictates whatever it wants. Of course it could be a case of cybersquatting, but it could also be legit. And if it is.... Even more so important, that this woman's name and website be protected.
Even though most people on /. will be glad to hear that something will be done to support VOIP, we can be reasonably sure that any bill you draft will be in the interest of the VOIP providers and not in the interest of the public those senators were elected to represent.
BINGO.
We can also all assume that they will toss in all kinds of odd things totally unrelated to protecting the consumer. These "odd things" will of course be the hooks installed into the laws by the telecos and voip providers. These "hooks" will be used to their benefit once they find the oppurtunity.
The consumers are only getting a good deal with VoIP because a new buisness is simply undercutting the old monopoly.
Once VoIP becomes the norm... the Voip providers will of course subject their consumers/subscribers to the same harsh dictating bullshit practices that their users are trying to escape from.
The day the US government starts regulating what traffic all ISPs must carry, is the day the internet is no longer free. It'll become another utility like the existing telephone, power, and cable grids.
I'm sorry, but all broadband within our country is a PAY service. There is no "free internet" Its maintained by huge multinational telecomunication industries, local isps, etc..
There is nothing free about it. It never was free.
The $50 that i pay a month is proof that there is no free internet.
The gov should be regulating what traffic must be carried, as long as what "must be carried" is EVERYTHING that is the internet.
If we need a law that demands ISP's provide the internet as the internet is.... without any illegal monopolistic corperatist bullshit designed to twist and alter the internet into their favor... THEN SO FUCKIGN BE IT.
This is the net, and it should be for all people, all contributors, everyone. What you dl or ul should not be dictated by your ISP... ESPECIALLY when it is in their interest to curb the competive services that you chose to you pay for, while using their ISP service... THAT YOU PAY FOR.
That's nice in this case, but let's talk about a different scenario. Say I'm an ISP in rural Iowa that has roughly 15 customers because I'm small, and again in rural Iowa. Now let's say that you only had a single T1 or a fractional you were working with. Then imagine all 15 of your clients making VOIP calls at once. Your bandwidth would drop to nothing, and the clients would complain. Your only choice would be blocking vonage's ports so your clients can still "surf the net" at decent speeds. It's no different than blocking P2P traffic if you have to speed things up.
VoIP transfer rates are tiny in comparison to any other general internet use.
Look at it this way... if all 15 users in your imaginary town were on a VoIP call at the same time.... It wouldnt equal to the amount of data being uploaded by atleast 1 of their children on an warez ftp site, or bit torrent, or hosting a videogame etc.
The point is... If 15 users making a VoIP call is going to break your network... you need a new fucking network.
And this article is about unfair competition practices.
If the small imaginary ISP has 15 users using their own ISP's VoIP service, they would have the same bandwidth problems no matter if they're using Vonage vs the isp's VoIP.
No one said being an ISP was cheap either. If you have 15 users... Common buisness practice would force you to have higher prices compared to an ISP with over a million subscribers.
If you cant run a 15 user ISP, its not the problem of the vonage users on your network. Its the ISP's problem because they are the ones who want to be an ISP.
If you cant provide internet service... GO OUT OF BUISNESS.
If I understand the issue, certain ISPs are blocking the ports used by VOIP apps for whatever reason (bandwidth, probably). Assume for the moment that the VOIP complaint is valid. The logical next step would be for trojan writers to say that blocking ports that their trojans use is *also* censorship.
;) (Nothing personal of course.. just some silly words)
Are you a fucking moron? You PAY for VoIP per month where as a trojan infects your pc against your will. It is an assault on privacy. There is a huge difference between the two. I cant see at all how you conclude this as a logical step. Its completely illogical and Mr Spock should shove his Vulcan cock up your ear for this.
I'm a vonage user. I signed up a month ago and i'm still waiting for my POTS phone number to be converted over to vonage.
My ISP (optonline.net AKA cablevision) has their own VOIP service known that costs $34 a month. Vonage costs $24 a month.
Cablevision is getting really flakey on their capping/throttling policy. They of course wont promise any quality of service, they do block ports etc.
Blocking vonage has been the concern of many optonline users, due to vonage being more affordable than optonline's own optimum voice VOIP service.
Cablevision loves to play games due to the power they hold in the number of subscribers. Everyone here in New York remembers the whole Yankee YES network mess where cablevision refused to carry YES and charge their subscribers $2 extra per month. YES is now on cablevision FREE, no additional charge.. but cablevision seems to have no problem with squeezing their existing customers into their digital io plan which costs $10 more than basic cable... but of course requires a box, and of course several boxes for how many tv's you happen to own. Cablevision really wants everyone to pay $90 a month for their digital cable service. The evidence is in that they are no longer supporting HBO customers that use the old cable boxes.
Point is.. Cable companies have power and they can use it as they see fit to benefit their own interests. Even at the cost of holding their subscribers hostage.
It's simple math really.
Pay for cable broadband + Pay for competing VoIP service = You paid for your own dam right to free speech.
Afterall we're all forced to sign these stupid contracts with ISP's that simply allow them to dictate their service and giving us shit power in return... I think its best we use the big stick of the government to bat their asses back into line because as consumers, even in large numbers as subscribers... are simply powerless due to their service contracts and the monopolistic advantages these corperations have over our regions. In other words... There usually isn't regional competition. And if there are... they're pulling the same bullshit.
The vonage CEO is correct. It is a free speech issue. Its also a consumer protection issue. Its also a monopoly issue, a corperate dictatorship anti competitive issue... Its a federal communications issue... Its a civil rights issue.
VoIP is a cheaper alternative to the telephone industries tight grip on the bullshit they overcharge us for.
The cable/DSL ISP's that are blocking VoIP are trying to maintain their own tight grip on the bullshit they overcharge us for. Vonage is a great example of this as it is $10 cheaper than my own isp's voip service.
Funny headline. Nice... real cute ;)
Thank you!
Very good film. Just watched it. Frankly to those that seem concerned about the torrent link... you should realize that this is the kind of film that filmmakers have difficulty finding outlets for their great works such as this documentary/commentary of todays corperate world. I'm sure the makers of this film intended to be heard rather than profit and become billionaires. One would assume they would be all up for a torrent version if it allows people to hear their message. And that message is quite important. Excellent film.
Note Michael Moore endorsed trading of his films online because the message is more important than the money. His concern was that he makes enough money to make his distributors happy, and enough to cover the production costs and to make a small modest profit. But he always said "i dont care how you see my movie, download it, whatever... It has made enough money to cover all of the costs and my distributors have profited heavily" (or something to that effect)
Movies like this are about the message, not the box office gross. Beleive it or not, there are filmmakers that make films to be heard and not to get rich.
Oddly enough, its those kind of folks that deserve to make some good money and get the high praise. So SEE this film. Buy it preferably, but download it if you must.
It is a great film.
All companies could do this. Have that intel chip fail in a year. Have that Sony Monitor go boom in 2 years. Have that Microsoft Mouse wire get loose and detatch (Oh yeah they did pulled that one already)
This may be a silly example (although true), but I think there's a clear and present danger that the whacked logic of the IP world could spread like a fungus into the real world, and we could indeed wake up one day to find it illegal to use a Stanley hammer on non-Stanley nails.
Too fucking late! That world is here and now! What are you going to do about it?
What is ANYONE going to do about it? NOTHING... because we're fucking worthless peons. Corperations dont make profits from sales, they make profit from ripping off rich investors, buying each other, selling each other...
You're 10$ black ink canon cartridge means dick to canon.
Face it... We've lost this battle. Corperations exist for their own endless profit at all costs. They have no geographic boundaries, no accountability, no shame.
The broadcast flag is designed to control content due to the success of TV shows on DVD sales. Also factor in the nice high resolution broadcast quality versions you could be saving/recording instead of buying on HD DVD... :) They just dont want you to record what you've already paid for. And yes sitting through commercials during a tv show is paying for a tv show. Afterall, they dont get advertising money for tv shows if they didnt have our ratings numbers. Hey according to the FCC, Them's is our airwaves! ;) HAHAHAHAHA. As if fucking over the entire public wasnt enough for the FCC, spitting that bullshit back in our faces should have resulted in riots ;)
:)
I think the real shame is that as a result of this broadcast flag, Hollywood will simply fuel an entire underground HD-TV show swaping network on the internet.
There will be 10x the amount of traded HD-TV shows being swapped online. There will be a huge demand for those who can provide recorded versions of your favorite tv show.
Dont these companies realize that the more they squeeze the people, the more willing the people are to fuck them back?
We're a country of rebelling bastards, its what we do best
So let the corperations continue to own and control our government. It's nothing new. We've already lost that war years ago.
Hollywood, say hello to the larger than ever, more elite than ever, more unstoppable than ever, and more right than ever... underground HD-TV show scene that you have created. Way to learn from the past, you fucking morons (hollywood).
Forgive me, i dont know exactly what limitations you have or how it would effect the design of a controller tailored to your needs... BUT I am almost certain a controller can be tailored to your needs.
You can buy many arcade controller devices from arcade parts manufacturers like the very legendary maker of high quality parts, http://www.happcontrols.com/
Coming from the street fighter community, guys are always making their own controllers. I did just that myself recently. Often what happens is users will take circuit board from a cheap 3rd party controller such as "madcatz" and simply wire up the arcade buttons to the boards, thus building their own fancy arcade controller.
I'm almost certain there is a way to do something similar for you. Infact i'm sure that a few talented techs could easily rig something up for you that would interface with a console gaming system and a PC as well.
I have heard of head mouse units. And again, i have complete confidence that one could be built for you, and tailored to your needs.
I'm not sure if i'm being much help but I'm just very confident that you can find a solution. Like i said, tailoring a controller for your needs would be quite easy with a few techs on the job because rigging up controllers isnt difficult at all, the only trick is when you have to use an existing board to interface your custom controls to. Figuring out the wiring etc. But again, i'm so certain someone could dismantle a PC controller and a mouse and have something working for you rather quickly and easily.
There's probably some more capable folks here on slashdot that may be up for the challenge that could or have already shared their insights. Perhaps they're willing to lend their expertise too.
Vonage had a widespread outage the other day. Vonage users couldnt make calls out.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I am a vonage subscriber. I recently joined. Great price, great service.... I dumped my verizon line that costs $45 a month.
I welcome vonage and any other VOIP solution that provides BETTER service than POTS and at a cheaper price.
I never had caller id, voicemail, 3way calling, unlimited free longdistance etc with verizon.
Vonage is great. I see that many here are bashing it, but really its a nice service at a great price.
If a customer pays an ISP... that ISP should be required to fullfill their obligation... WHICH is to provide internet service.
VOIP is just another thing you can do with your internet service. ISP's have no right to dictate what you do with your service if you pay for it.
I pay for Vonage, I pay for Optonline (which also has a VOIP service of their own).
I pay for the pipe, what i do with it, is irrelevant ESPECIALLY if its using a competing service!!!
I really do. When i was a young child growing up here in America, i and many others were taught of the great freedoms we have. The battles we fought for our rights, the many deaths men women and children suffered before us....
:)
I mean just how are they teaching history in schools today?
Surely they cant be teaching the same "stories" of civil wars, civil rights, seperation of church and state, no taxation without representation, freedom of the press, monarchs in other countries, dictatorships, labor unions and works rights! etc....
Just what are they teaching in history today?
Where is America going?
Frankly i beleive we're all under control of the ruling class that taxes us, without any representation. They arent affraid for our well being, they're affraid terrorists will blow up their wealthy gated communities.
Does anyone else have that "this wasnt what i was taught in school" feeling?
Finally.
;) BUH BYE BITCH.
She was hell bent on outsourcing the entire industry. Her answer to outsourcing was "deal with it and retrain America"
She had such great insight!
ARTHUR:
It is King Arthur, and this is my my Knights of the Round Table. Whose castle is this?
FRENCH GUARD:
This is the castle of my master, Guy de Loimbard.
ARTHUR:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Sony PSP.
FRENCH GUARD:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got one, you see.
ARTHUR:
What?
GALAHAD:
He says they've already got one!
ARTHUR:
Are you sure he's got one?
FRENCH GUARD:
Oh, yes. It's a Japanese... (I told him we already got one.)
FRENCH GUARDS:
[chuckling]
Well not really. There are plenty of people who give of them selves for the benefit of others before that of themselves.
There are buisnesses that reward employees for good work and there are buisnesses that do beleive that a company exists to make money for its owners as well as its employees.
There are good people and of coures good buisnesses. The problem is when a corperation decides to boost profits at the expense of all else and that includes the well being of its employees.
If i ran a multinational corperation, due to the lack of buisness ethics and morality i would HAVE to cut my american staff and relocate my work force to china because EVERYONE else is doing it. If i want to stay in buisness, i must compete!
This kind of competition becomes a horrible race to the bottom with no reguard for life itself.
I simply can not support this kind of beleif. Money exists so that we all can get a fair share of it and live a quality life. Money does not exist to maximize profit to benefit a ceo while employing slaves at slave wages with no regard for their well being.
We've taken a huge step backwards.
Because they all do very evil things! Underpaid employees, exportation of jobs yet posting record profits, they clearly do not care about peoples lives, unfair end user liscenses, they lobby the government to leverage monopolistic advantages, they buy and sell each other then fire entire work forces just to get ownership of a property or to simply get rid of competition, they make nike sneakers for 3 dollars a month and sell them for $100 dollars in the US, they profit at all cost, even to the extent of ripping off our government during war time, they sell shitty food and call it happy meals, they sell even shittier food as trendy diet food such as "low carb" "low fat" which neither make them healthier foods but only trendy foods that are still as shitty as the happy meals, they all want slave labor at slave wages and some how think they deserve american price valued profits, they lie, cheat and steal...
Shall i go on?
Hey Farmy ;) I wonder how it'll handle /. ;)
Rogue Leader[iCE]