I had read that companies in the states gave out 10 digit phone numbers to their VOIP customers.
I (along with the rest of my company) use VoIP phones. We all have 7 digit direct dial numbers. If someone from outside the local area code wants to call, of course they must use 10 digits.
The exceptions are in some major metro areas, like Denver, CO. There, all dialing, both local and long distance, is 10 digit, both PSTN and VoIP.
Is it just me, or does the giant fish on her boat
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It's just you. Sharks like blood, you insensitive clod!
Not only did he (amongst others) crack the German Luftwaffe enigma codes, but those of the German navy, which were far more difficult.
His work was pioneering on several fronts. Surely the world is a far better place for his having lived in it.
Maybe you should have learned networking before posting that. You have a/32 block, I do, and so does everyone else here. A/32 block is a single ip address. People with DSL connections, who get more than 1 ip allocated, are perfect candadites. I can even get additional ip's from my cable company, on request, for no additional charge (at least that was the case about a year ago, I heard they charge like 3 bucks a month now).
You have a good point -- as long as the program source is truly free [speech] software then that's good.
But, what you fail to realize is one simple fact: Sun controls you when you write Java (for the most part). In fact, look at your own post:
the Java API & implementation are controlled by Sun
You cannot have a truly free program, no matter how much code you GPL, while the language itself is controlled by a corporation only interested in keeping it proprietary.
This is my opinion only, if you like Java, by all means keep using it:) I have written Visual Basic programs that I GPL'd, but at the same time, I realize that they are not truly free [speech] programs.
Bruno Souza... he was included with those recognised as leaders of the open source community... and has been championing the use of the Java platform for open source projects.
IIRC, RMS wrote a piece encouraging developers to not use Java, because Sun still wants to keep people under their thumb. That position is now kinda mitigated by GCJ but I still agree with RMS's position... To be truly free [speech] software, your language cannot be under a corporate thumb like that.
I have never seen a Java advocate counted among the champions of free software and this is a very encouraging step.
One of many? How many times have we seen this on slashdot:
Sun is opening Java!
Wait, not yet
No, for real this itme, Sun is opening Java
Well, "real soon now"
It seems like the expectations for home robotics kits greatly exceed those of the Mars rovers. Hopefully someone can explain it.
Now, I am not an astronomer, but when I apply common sense to this problem, I can readily see the following points:
home robotics kits operate on Earth, within a stable atmosphere, relatively shielded from radiation, UV, etc.
home robotics kits do not operate millions of kilometers from their bases.
home robotics kits did not make a journey through the most hostile and unforgiving environment known -- outer space. Temperatures that would kill a human within seconds, radiation that would destroy conventional electronic components, etc.
Looking at deeper martian bedrock layers is considered now a rich enough science payoff
In my humble opinion, the geological data that might be extracted fom such a deep crater is more than worth it. Just think, potentially millions of years of Martian history, and who knows, maybe even a fossil or two? Wouldn't that be sweet?
Way to go NASA, for considering the bigger picture in the face of losing such a wonderfully resilient craft. Although, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that a manned mission could someday retrieve the rover, and bring it all the way back to the Smithsonian.
Um, NO?! Ken Brown sez neither of the aforementioned people invented Linux.
better than my palm, methinks
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It looks only slightly bigger (I have a Palm VIIx) which I hafta keep in my laptop case, it's not very portable at all and I am pretty unhappy with it in general... But that's a different story.
Hell, this here little beauty could replace both the laptop and the palm. Now, instead of carrying a briefcase around, which holds my laptop, power supply, net cards (802.11, ethernet, modem [winmodem builtin:( ]), portable kb for the palm, etc etc... I can carry this cool device on my hip (?) and be just as productive while I am mobile as when I was carrying that big bag of shit around.
WMP is so slow because, when you single-click (or hover, depending on your config), it opens another instance of WMP to open that damned irritating sidebar thing that plays video/audio in Windows Explorer. I got so irritated that I turned off the "show web content" thingy in Windows Explorer altogether, since it would end up taking ~4-6 secs. to open a simple MP3 file on my 850 MHz/256MB RAM Windows 2000 Pro box (highly tweaked for performance), even with a third-party app like Winamp configured as my default app for MP3 files.
Microsoft: All your rights are belong to us!
Community: What you say!
Microsoft: You have no chance to survive make your time!
Community: For great justice!
Microsoft: Ha Ha Ha Ha
DUDE! First of all, I envy you. My wife won't even let me buy the cheese-ass playstation version of DDR...
Second, is there any way you could help me truly setup something like this? I am SO tired of pumping quarters into the DDR machine at the mall (and yes, I have made the case several times to the wife of how much cheaper it is to buy the damned thing). We could work out a trade or something if you want, I do web programming and such... Leme know! You can get ahold of me here on/. or via my website, erichv.com
Sure hope that this does not infringe on some Microsoft patent... They just might have a patent on "a mobile computing device with capacity greater than 50 gigabytes"... These days, you just never know.
Now imagine some retarded 15 year old high school loser waving an animated picture in the air in front of you.
Such a person would be a great candadite for a swift punch in the mouth, or maybe my knife being thrown into his chest, depending upon his distance from me....
Now that I think about it, roll out these phones en masse! I think this could be fun, if a bit bloody
the LinuxBios project? I would think little, if at all, since the core goals of the LinuxBios project are so specific (providing instant control of a cluster node), but maybe I am wrong? Perhaps some innovations can flow both ways.
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I had read that companies in the states gave out 10 digit phone numbers to their VOIP customers.
I (along with the rest of my company) use VoIP phones. We all have 7 digit direct dial numbers. If someone from outside the local area code wants to call, of course they must use 10 digits.
The exceptions are in some major metro areas, like Denver, CO. There, all dialing, both local and long distance, is 10 digit, both PSTN and VoIP.
It's just you. Sharks like blood, you insensitive clod!
Take off, eh!
Here is another interesting link:
i cians/Turing.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathemat
Not only did he (amongst others) crack the German Luftwaffe enigma codes, but those of the German navy, which were far more difficult. His work was pioneering on several fronts. Surely the world is a far better place for his having lived in it.
like anyone here as a /32 ip block
/32 block, I do, and so does everyone else here. A /32 block is a single ip address. People with DSL connections, who get more than 1 ip allocated, are perfect candadites. I can even get additional ip's from my cable company, on request, for no additional charge (at least that was the case about a year ago, I heard they charge like 3 bucks a month now).
Maybe you should have learned networking before posting that. You have a
Yea, true enough. But, the point was, if it had been allowed, it would only have been more ammunition for the feds.
If it had happened, I think we might have seen Microsoft suffer the same fate as ma bell. Oh well, M$ will still have their day.
You have a good point -- as long as the program source is truly free [speech] software then that's good.
:) I have written Visual Basic programs that I GPL'd, but at the same time, I realize that they are not truly free [speech] programs.
But, what you fail to realize is one simple fact: Sun controls you when you write Java (for the most part). In fact, look at your own post:
the Java API & implementation are controlled by Sun
You cannot have a truly free program, no matter how much code you GPL, while the language itself is controlled by a corporation only interested in keeping it proprietary.
This is my opinion only, if you like Java, by all means keep using it
From the article:
... he was included with those recognised as leaders of the open source community ... and has been championing the use of the Java platform for open source projects.
Bruno Souza
IIRC, RMS wrote a piece encouraging developers to not use Java, because Sun still wants to keep people under their thumb. That position is now kinda mitigated by GCJ but I still agree with RMS's position... To be truly free [speech] software, your language cannot be under a corporate thumb like that.
I have never seen a Java advocate counted among the champions of free software and this is a very encouraging step.
One of many? How many times have we seen this on slashdot:
Sun is opening Java!
Wait, not yet
No, for real this itme, Sun is opening Java
Well, "real soon now"
etc.
OK, I concede your points. I did not think through my assertion of the most hostile environment being outer space.
Now, I am not an astronomer, but when I apply common sense to this problem, I can readily see the following points:
- home robotics kits operate on Earth, within a stable atmosphere, relatively shielded from radiation, UV, etc.
- home robotics kits do not operate millions of kilometers from their bases.
- home robotics kits did not make a journey through the most hostile and unforgiving environment known -- outer space. Temperatures that would kill a human within seconds, radiation that would destroy conventional electronic components, etc.
Now trying to flame ya, just my $0.02 is all.Looking at deeper martian bedrock layers is considered now a rich enough science payoff
In my humble opinion, the geological data that might be extracted fom such a deep crater is more than worth it. Just think, potentially millions of years of Martian history, and who knows, maybe even a fossil or two? Wouldn't that be sweet?
Way to go NASA, for considering the bigger picture in the face of losing such a wonderfully resilient craft. Although, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that a manned mission could someday retrieve the rover, and bring it all the way back to the Smithsonian.
Um, NO?! Ken Brown sez neither of the aforementioned people invented Linux.
It looks only slightly bigger (I have a Palm VIIx) which I hafta keep in my laptop case, it's not very portable at all and I am pretty unhappy with it in general... But that's a different story.
:( ]), portable kb for the palm, etc etc... I can carry this cool device on my hip (?) and be just as productive while I am mobile as when I was carrying that big bag of shit around.
Hell, this here little beauty could replace both the laptop and the palm. Now, instead of carrying a briefcase around, which holds my laptop, power supply, net cards (802.11, ethernet, modem [winmodem builtin
whoever wrote the Linux kernel, which according to a recent slashdot poll, was "a sensitive clod"
Would the sensitive clod who wrote the Linux kernel please identify yourself?
I think I'll stick with:
From the article:
this technical beta lays the groundwork for the great end-to-end digital media experience coming with the final release for Windows XP
I do believe I will be forced to struggle to contain my excitement...
Microsoft: All your rights are belong to us!
Community: What you say!
Microsoft: You have no chance to survive make your time!
Community: For great justice!
Microsoft: Ha Ha Ha Ha
LOL of course, how silly of me.
DUDE! First of all, I envy you. My wife won't even let me buy the cheese-ass playstation version of DDR...
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Second, is there any way you could help me truly setup something like this? I am SO tired of pumping quarters into the DDR machine at the mall (and yes, I have made the case several times to the wife of how much cheaper it is to buy the damned thing). We could work out a trade or something if you want, I do web programming and such... Leme know! You can get ahold of me here on
Sure hope that this does not infringe on some Microsoft patent... They just might have a patent on "a mobile computing device with capacity greater than 50 gigabytes"... These days, you just never know.
Now imagine some retarded 15 year old high school loser waving an animated picture in the air in front of you.
Such a person would be a great candadite for a swift punch in the mouth, or maybe my knife being thrown into his chest, depending upon his distance from me....
Now that I think about it, roll out these phones en masse! I think this could be fun, if a bit bloody
the LinuxBios project? I would think little, if at all, since the core goals of the LinuxBios project are so specific (providing instant control of a cluster node), but maybe I am wrong? Perhaps some innovations can flow both ways.
Either way, kudos to Intel.
- All your stock are belong to us
an old DDR cabinet, KnoppixMAME, StepMania, and a few days of free time. Then I will never have to leave the house again!