Is Vonage a phone company? First, lets look up the meaning of telephone.
Telephone: Noun, An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals. (Dictionary.com)
So, by this definition the service that Vonage was offering was a telephone service. However, like practically all else, this is open to debate. So go debate.
What the title says. This just sounds like another pointless widget to me, since if you're going to be accessing things then chances are you'll remember where you put it. The only possible application I can see for it is if you are writing some kinda big paper and need to reference your already stored works, but again it seems a bit pointless. Maybe I'm just too damn sceptical...
Consider all the observations that are based on einstein's theories
Point, but everything has several explanations depending on how you look at it. If something falls over, did a sudden gust of wind knock it over or did a supernatural power? Both are equally possible within the phase space, but only one solution. People would've actually believed that it was the work of a ghost for a while, but now (most) of us reckon that it was a gust of wind. The same principle applies to scientific observations. Course, I'm not saying that Einstein was wrong or not, I'm saying there is the possibility he was.
Consider for a moment that Einstein might have been wrong? Since we can't actually study anything at the speed of light properly, it's all down to the calculations and even great minds might make errors. So, you never know...
Great news - at least some of the larger corporations *coughtakenotebillgatescough* are using open source to its full advantage, even if it's in Canada.
I reckon the thing that makes a good plot is the feeling that, while your efforts make a difference, you're part of something much, much bigger. If you look at nearly all the games out there, while you DO save the world, it's only because of a lucky set of chances on your part (or so the storytellers make out).
Whoah, a text messageable chandelier. Cool as it may be, what real use other than curiosity would it be? Admittedly, this technology could be very useful in other fields but who really needs a chandelier you can talk to?
We wouldnt have international, sprawling companies cracking down on anyone who so much as looks at their code if people weren't so obsessed with money. Before you point this out to me, of course I'm being hypocritical here. I need money, but I dont exactly lust after it. If these massive companies had no need for money they wouldnt need copyrights so everyone would have the software and be free. Course, most communistic solutions to this problem collapsed pretty much totally, so that's not the answer. But noone genuinely likes these big companies do they? So what is the answer?
*cough*Anyway, the film is most likely going to feature the crew from the latest series of Enterprise, complete with zipped up jumpsuits and chrome backgrounds. Cool.
Factor that in with the project the BBC did in the mid-1980s (A digital Domesday book, designed to be a snapshot of life at that particular moment of time) that was unreadable withing 20 years because of the fast pace of technology and no way will CDs last 100 years.
Maybe if the company and the persons who run it were actually held responsible for their actions it might make others more likely to comply with the law
Big companies are never held responsible. Or at least, they arent in the UK and the US. When Jarvis fouled up and caused a train crash they gave them a contract to continue renewing that same stretch of track. Unless the US government decides that dodgy voting systems are enough to warrant a massive response, this company will get fined a ridiculously small amount of money, noone will really get blamed and everything will just go on as if nothing happened.
Computers are cool and all, but its VERY difficult to screw up just going to the ballot box and putting your form in. Software can have bugs, hardware can have bugs but generally, ballot boxes don't. Then again, it's easier to fiddle with votes on papa er... until someone figures out how to break 128 bit encryption.
Depends where you live. In Europe, or northern Europe at least, it will be FREEZING! No more gulf sream equals some very bad weather. In other bits of the world, it will be very hot, unbalancing the climate and possibly destroying the planet. But that's all in the distant future, and when you cant accurately predict what the weather will be like in a month, you just can't trust these long term predictions.
Just what was needed. This report may well be the proverbial slap-in-the-face-with-a-wet-haddock some companies needed to kick-start their conservation projects. I don't want my gulf stream to go away!
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Is Vonage a phone company? First, lets look up the meaning of telephone. Telephone: Noun, An instrument that converts voice and other sound signals into a form that can be transmitted to remote locations and that receives and reconverts waves into sound signals. (Dictionary.com) So, by this definition the service that Vonage was offering was a telephone service. However, like practically all else, this is open to debate. So go debate.
What the title says. This just sounds like another pointless widget to me, since if you're going to be accessing things then chances are you'll remember where you put it. The only possible application I can see for it is if you are writing some kinda big paper and need to reference your already stored works, but again it seems a bit pointless. Maybe I'm just too damn sceptical...
Consider all the observations that are based on einstein's theories Point, but everything has several explanations depending on how you look at it. If something falls over, did a sudden gust of wind knock it over or did a supernatural power? Both are equally possible within the phase space, but only one solution. People would've actually believed that it was the work of a ghost for a while, but now (most) of us reckon that it was a gust of wind. The same principle applies to scientific observations. Course, I'm not saying that Einstein was wrong or not, I'm saying there is the possibility he was.
Consider for a moment that Einstein might have been wrong? Since we can't actually study anything at the speed of light properly, it's all down to the calculations and even great minds might make errors. So, you never know...
Great news - at least some of the larger corporations *coughtakenotebillgatescough* are using open source to its full advantage, even if it's in Canada.
I reckon the thing that makes a good plot is the feeling that, while your efforts make a difference, you're part of something much, much bigger. If you look at nearly all the games out there, while you DO save the world, it's only because of a lucky set of chances on your part (or so the storytellers make out).
Whoah, a text messageable chandelier. Cool as it may be, what real use other than curiosity would it be? Admittedly, this technology could be very useful in other fields but who really needs a chandelier you can talk to?
We wouldnt have international, sprawling companies cracking down on anyone who so much as looks at their code if people weren't so obsessed with money. Before you point this out to me, of course I'm being hypocritical here. I need money, but I dont exactly lust after it. If these massive companies had no need for money they wouldnt need copyrights so everyone would have the software and be free. Course, most communistic solutions to this problem collapsed pretty much totally, so that's not the answer. But noone genuinely likes these big companies do they? So what is the answer?
Beam me up Mr Spock! I gotta find me a cinema...
*cough*Anyway, the film is most likely going to feature the crew from the latest series of Enterprise, complete with zipped up jumpsuits and chrome backgrounds. Cool.
Factor that in with the project the BBC did in the mid-1980s (A digital Domesday book, designed to be a snapshot of life at that particular moment of time) that was unreadable withing 20 years because of the fast pace of technology and no way will CDs last 100 years.
Maybe if the company and the persons who run it were actually held responsible for their actions it might make others more likely to comply with the law Big companies are never held responsible. Or at least, they arent in the UK and the US. When Jarvis fouled up and caused a train crash they gave them a contract to continue renewing that same stretch of track. Unless the US government decides that dodgy voting systems are enough to warrant a massive response, this company will get fined a ridiculously small amount of money, noone will really get blamed and everything will just go on as if nothing happened.
Computers are cool and all, but its VERY difficult to screw up just going to the ballot box and putting your form in. Software can have bugs, hardware can have bugs but generally, ballot boxes don't. Then again, it's easier to fiddle with votes on papa er ... until someone figures out how to break 128 bit encryption.
Depends where you live. In Europe, or northern Europe at least, it will be FREEZING! No more gulf sream equals some very bad weather. In other bits of the world, it will be very hot, unbalancing the climate and possibly destroying the planet. But that's all in the distant future, and when you cant accurately predict what the weather will be like in a month, you just can't trust these long term predictions.
Just what was needed. This report may well be the proverbial slap-in-the-face-with-a-wet-haddock some companies needed to kick-start their conservation projects. I don't want my gulf stream to go away!