I remember going to Sam Goody at the local mall and each and every Casette Single was $2.99 if you wanted the hot new single on CD, it was $4.99, all of them. The Record Industry didn't mind that. They never argues that once a song hit #1 the single should cost $3.50, odd I think. Wait odd isn't the word, it's BULLSHIT! Yes that was the word that I was looking for. This man is full of shit.
Thank you
(I didn't RTFA disclaimer) You would need to have these call centers staffed, and fed by a few DS3 links. Even supposing that you staffed this call center with the little kids that make the soccer balls, your still talking some heavy costs. You need sales to pay your bills. Most big corporations have been using VoIP in their call centers for years now, but to compare the budget of Compaq's Tech Support division with some sales based company I don't see it happening. VoIP calls use a lot of upstream.
Scenario 2 is to have a SPIT box making one call at a time over a cable modem from 8am to 10pm everyday. Now THIS is profitable! This scares the hell out of me. I get bombarded at work with "Hi this is Sally and I'm selling crap! Press 1 now to speak with an operator about buying some of it"
I read both/. and fark for the last month or so more and more stories are taken from yesterday's fark. Perhaps the admins should read fark and post the stories as fark does, this way some newbie doesn't get credit, and we get up to date news.
Ok I'll admit it. I did a search on Limewire for some "adult" type content. Every single movie I grabbed up tried to get me to install some piece of software in order to watch the movie. 1800fastsearch, etc. I was annoyed that the spyware companies had gotten their tentacles this deep in porn. Those bastards, is nothing sacred?
Why is Comcast getting press on this for being the LAST major Cable Co to roll out VoIP?
Cablevision and Time Warner have been offering VoIP for a long time now and I can personally attest that Vonage is better then both.
I was a low level net admin at Cablevision when they rolled out their VoIP product. Sure out network was great but no one had any idea how to setup a VoIP infrastructure. Mind you Cablevision spared no expence with equipment, all high end Cisco stuff throughout. We brought in Siemans and they set everything up for us. We had four guys on staff 24-7 just sitting around working on it.
NOTHING WORKED RIGHT EVER. They would blame our BETA IOS, they would blame Corporate IS, they'd blame our Software Engineering, etc. No matter how "perfect" (by their definition) we made the environment it still never worked. When it did there would be god awful distortion. This was blamed on freak RF anamolies.
Vonage only does VoIP, they do it realy well. It works the same as when other companies (Like earthlink) Piggyback another Cable Co's modem. Once you get passed the UBR you hop onto another network entirely. If your "On Demand" works ok and your screen doesn't pixelate you should be fine. From the RF point of view all things are created equal. The only differences that you see will be directly attributable to the VoIP provider.
For the record I understand that Cablevision's VoIP is still crap and Time Warner hasn't done a full blown release yet. If the submitters point of view was accurate these companies would have a far superior product and they would have released it full blast by now without hickups. After all the have network insight that no other company posseses. It would seem obvious that they would be able to make the better product.
Another side issue is that most Cable Co's have trouble handling the overhead outbound of all these VoIP calls. Think how many Cable Providers Cap uploads low, or cap people after long periods of heavy upload. Guess what happens when you hand out VoIP modems like candy. With TCP/IP an insane network up screws up everyone's down.
Has anyone seen a Cable Co launch a VoIP service successfully?
You know who else is expensive, SUN. How come no one ever says "Sun sucks, they need to understand that their products are too expensive. I can build on x86 hardware so much cheaper....Until Sun makes an ultra sparc workstation with a 17inch lcd for under $700 I'll keep using shit."
You know that a GUI is just front end for scripts right? So any "GUI that reads the ID3 data" is ultimately a script doing the same, just with a pretty front end. Although yes GUI is nice.
No no no, that's completely not true. It looks that way as you copy it (if using "-v" for verbose mode), it also looks that way if you are browsing your newly copied songs via the finder. However, drag them into iTunes and you'll see that all the ID3 info has been preserved.
I copied 15 Gigs of data from my ipod to my friends iBook, then imported all of these newly copied songs from her home directory into her iTunes (application), then copied them from her Public folder to her brother's win XP machine, and into his iTunes. All artist, album, and track info was preserved perfectly.
I guess this just shows that/. is full of non-*nix users.
Anyone who halfway knows their way around a *nix machine could do this with their eyes closed.
For those of you who do not, enable "Hard Disk Usage" on your ipod via iTunes. Unmount/mount your ipod. Open your terminal and "cd" into the music folder of your ipod, located in your devices directory. Google search how to copy directories in any *nix environment and you're all done.
No need for someone else to write you a pretty GUI, after all you read/. so do it yourself through the terminal.
Years ago I was bored at a previous job so I started calling the 800 numbers on anything that I could find. I did the obligatory call to Poland Spring to ask "so where's the source?" The interesting thing is their scipted response is "Our sources are protected sources since we took ownership in 1977." I of course asked "Well who owned it before you?" Of course they could not provide this info.
I asked "If this source is in a rural area then you most likely purchased the land from farmers, who sprayed God knows what chemicals, which have all leached into your water. Perhaps they even dumped some of their old tractors and their pinto in the reservior. Perhaps they bathed in it. Perhaps they have leaking septic systems, maybe they let their cows swim in it." They of course had no info on this other then to tell me that it is heavily purified.
The good bottled water is NYC tap water. What makes NYC's water so good is that it comes from Reserviors in Upstate NY. The water travels through 100 mile tunnels that are over a hundred years old. These tunels are caked with MUNG like you can't belive, and all that bacteria filters our water. (Anyone with a fish tank knows what I'm talking about, biological filtration.) The only downside of our water is that once it gets here it travels throughout the city before it gets to you, through really old rusty or lead pipes way, way below the street. Some of them are near impossible to get to when one breaks, and many are near impossible to update / replace.
It sure does taste good though unless you live in certain parts of Queens where the water from the tap looks like milk until it settles. Yum.
Law enforcement has been able to do this since at least 1994. Anyone ever watch any of the crime shows, or perhaps know someone who does forensic IT stuff, or perhaps is familiar with how printers work.
There's another *New* technique that Law Enforcement will be using, it allows them to view data on your hard drive that has been erased!!!!
My point was that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, once it has run rampant on you, you have Acquired Imuno Defficiency Syndrome (forgive me spelling, went out for lunch and drank some). The people of which I'm speaking never get their imune system compromised, their T cells never get "sacked" so to speak. HIV has nothing on them. Their immune systems whip HIV down like you or I can bitch slap the 50,000 random germs and fungus we come into contact with in a given day. Oh wait, I get your point.
I'm too lazy to google search for links to back this up (I'll do it later) but as high as 4% of certain people (mostly eastern Europeans) have a genetic make up that makes them imune to HIV (but not AIDS). It is believed that their ancestors with whom they share these genetic traits were the survivors of the black plauge. As many may know there were some doctors, people etc that were constantly around the plauge working with those that were dying, yet never contracted it. Many studies have been done that find similarities in how the body reacts to each disease. Those who carry these genes can be injected with HIV (again NOT with AIDS, but with HIV) and their bodies kick the hell out of it. Inject them with the full blown AIDS variant however and they become mortal.
Actually I use my lawnmower to make pesto sauce all the time!:-P
Seriously though I didn't say anything about using software other then for it's intended purpose, IE: following the instructions to the letter. If a piece of software is specific as to how it must be installed, on what, and how it is to be used it of course isn't the fault of the software when you try to install it on your mod'ed gameboy running linux.
That's ridiculous, I was addressing this to the/. crowd, not your run of the mill office manager, or IT guy that plays "yeah but I think it will work on..." It's been my experice that if a developer or company gives you a recomended configuration or requirement, there is a reason for it.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying that system crashes are the fault of the programmers, just of the software (most of the time). For instance Home Depot is the worst, it takes half an hour to get through the checkout line. That's not the fault of the cashiers, not even of the managers, it's Home Depot Corporate. When I say "Home Depot Sucks" I mean the corporation, not the employees. When software (pick your favorite) sucks, it's because the code sucks and that is the fault of the corporation. Whomever in the corporation caused the code to suck doesn't change the fact that the code sucks.
I understand what they are trying to say, but ultimately YES it is the code. Two things cause a system crash, Hardware failure, or Software failure. If Management makes all programmers do a shot for each line of code I'm not going to blame the managers, I blame "*/wow I am so drunk" being in my code.
Assuming all my hardware is behaving nicely if a crash occurs that means a piece of software somewhere has failed, be it OS, network or what have you.
I prefer mandrake on the PC, but for the PPC patform Yellow Dog now suports (sort of) 64bit architecture. (Ooh Ahh).
Given the choice I'd go with Yellow Dog. Good to see Mandrake is keeping up with updates for mac though. I'd love to see their Live CD with PPC support (if that's even do-able)
this morning for example, the fed judge struck down part of the Patriot Act. It wasn't on the main page!? So I searched Google news and it was there but under "CollegeSports.com, NY - 22 hours ago
On the heels of what head coach Tim Landis described as Bucknell's most complete effort during his 15-game tenure, the Bison open Patriot League play this week... "
Better still was that the aformentioned Bison's (who were on there way to there 3rd straight win) had a whopping 10 articles written about them, the Patriot Act story only had 4 articles listed. I had to take a screen cap and e-mail it out to people. It was hillarious, I guess none of the news orgs had picked up the AP story at that point.
The final version of the anti-terrorism legislation, the Uniting and Strengthening America By Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (H.R. 3162, the "USA PATRIOT Act") limits judicial oversight of electronic surveillance by: (i) subjecting private Internet communications to a minimal standard of review; (ii) permitting law enforcement to obtain what would be the equivalent of a "blank warrant" in the physical world; (iii) authorizing scattershot intelligence wiretap orders that need not specify the place to be searched or require that only the target's conversations be eavesdropped upon; and (iv) allowing the FBI to use its "intelligence" authority to circumvent the judicial review of the probable cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment.
The FBI already has broad authority to monitor telephone and Internet communications. Current law already provides, for example, that wiretaps can be obtained for the crimes involved in terrorist attacks, including destruction of aircraft and aircraft piracy. Most of the changes to wiretapping authority contemplated in the USA PATRIOT Act would apply not just to surveillance of people suspected of terrorist activity, but to investigation of other crimes as well. The FBI also has authority to intercept communications without probable cause of crime for "intelligence purposes under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA"). The standards for obtaining a FISA wiretap are lower than those for obtaining a criminal wiretap.
Minimal and Inadequate Standards for Access To Internet Communications Section 216 of the USA PATRIOT Act substantially changes current law. Under current law, a law enforcement agent can get a pen register or trap and trace order requiring a telephone company to reveal the "numbers dialed" to and from a particular telephone. To obtain the order, the law enforcement agent must simply certify that the information to be obtained is "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." This a very low level of proof, far less than the probable cause standard (probable cause that a crime has occurred, is occurring or will occur.) - a standard that must be met now to authorize access to the contents of a communication. Under the proposed Section 216, the judge must grant the order upon receiving the certification. Even if the judge disagrees, and believes that law enforcement officers are on a fishing expedition that will yield up no relevant information, the judge must issue the order. The judge is therefore not positioned to protect the privacy of a person's telephone communications; he wields a rubber stamp.
Section 216 of the USA PATRIOT Act would extend this low threshold of proof to Internet communications that are far more revealing than the numbers dialed to or from a telephone, and to portions of e-mail communications that cannot readily be separated from content. Section 216 gives law enforcement agents who obtain pen register and trap and trace orders access to "dialing, routing and signaling information." The bill does not define those terms. They would apparently apply to law enforcement efforts to determine what websites a person has visited. This is like giving law enforcement the power -- based only on its own certification -- to require the librarian to report on the books you had perused while visiting the public library. This is extending a low standard of proof -- far less than probable cause -- to "content" information even while Section 216 purports to exclude content.
The contents of a telephone call are readily separated from the telephone numbers dialed to and from a telephone. However, the same cannot be said of an e-mail address and the contents of an e-mail message. This information moves together in packets. To execute the pen register and trap and trace orders authorized by Section 216, somebody must separate the e-mail address from the contents of the e-mail message of the target. The FBI's answer to this problem is troubling. It obtains access to the entire message. Then, it asser
I disagree, anyone who CAN, WILL.
It also depends on "who" wants to know what you are saying. FBI agents do not need a court order to tap any of your communications.
The spirit of the constitution wasn't based on WILL it was based on CAN, or more specificly CAN'T. Laws usually last a really long time, just because it isn't resonable for someone to use a law to a certain end now, doesn't mean they won't in the future. Look at the anti-trust laws, or whichever "This will NEVER be used to...." law of your choice for a good example.
Cunningly, the 8641D can not only appear to the host OS as two processors, but is capable of running a separate operating systems on each core.
My that is rather cunning...!?
So when the dual core G4s do come out I could run 2 separate operating systems simultaneously? That's odd, how (and which ones) is that pulled off. Getting a dual boot mac is enough of a pain in the ass, to have it multi boot is, yeah I don't see that happening.
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I remember going to Sam Goody at the local mall and each and every Casette Single was $2.99 if you wanted the hot new single on CD, it was $4.99, all of them. The Record Industry didn't mind that. They never argues that once a song hit #1 the single should cost $3.50, odd I think. Wait odd isn't the word, it's BULLSHIT! Yes that was the word that I was looking for. This man is full of shit. Thank you
Scenario 2 is to have a SPIT box making one call at a time over a cable modem from 8am to 10pm everyday. Now THIS is profitable! This scares the hell out of me. I get bombarded at work with "Hi this is Sally and I'm selling crap! Press 1 now to speak with an operator about buying some of it"
Ahhhhh, that would work nice, but can it be incorporated into the slash code?
Just a thought.
Ok I'll admit it. I did a search on Limewire for some "adult" type content. Every single movie I grabbed up tried to get me to install some piece of software in order to watch the movie. 1800fastsearch, etc. I was annoyed that the spyware companies had gotten their tentacles this deep in porn. Those bastards, is nothing sacred?
Cablevision and Time Warner have been offering VoIP for a long time now and I can personally attest that Vonage is better then both.
I was a low level net admin at Cablevision when they rolled out their VoIP product. Sure out network was great but no one had any idea how to setup a VoIP infrastructure. Mind you Cablevision spared no expence with equipment, all high end Cisco stuff throughout. We brought in Siemans and they set everything up for us. We had four guys on staff 24-7 just sitting around working on it.
NOTHING WORKED RIGHT EVER. They would blame our BETA IOS, they would blame Corporate IS, they'd blame our Software Engineering, etc. No matter how "perfect" (by their definition) we made the environment it still never worked. When it did there would be god awful distortion. This was blamed on freak RF anamolies.
Vonage only does VoIP, they do it realy well. It works the same as when other companies (Like earthlink) Piggyback another Cable Co's modem. Once you get passed the UBR you hop onto another network entirely. If your "On Demand" works ok and your screen doesn't pixelate you should be fine. From the RF point of view all things are created equal. The only differences that you see will be directly attributable to the VoIP provider.
For the record I understand that Cablevision's VoIP is still crap and Time Warner hasn't done a full blown release yet. If the submitters point of view was accurate these companies would have a far superior product and they would have released it full blast by now without hickups. After all the have network insight that no other company posseses. It would seem obvious that they would be able to make the better product.
Another side issue is that most Cable Co's have trouble handling the overhead outbound of all these VoIP calls. Think how many Cable Providers Cap uploads low, or cap people after long periods of heavy upload. Guess what happens when you hand out VoIP modems like candy. With TCP/IP an insane network up screws up everyone's down.
Has anyone seen a Cable Co launch a VoIP service successfully?
You know who else is expensive, SUN. How come no one ever says "Sun sucks, they need to understand that their products are too expensive. I can build on x86 hardware so much cheaper....Until Sun makes an ultra sparc workstation with a 17inch lcd for under $700 I'll keep using shit."
You know that a GUI is just front end for scripts right? So any "GUI that reads the ID3 data" is ultimately a script doing the same, just with a pretty front end. Although yes GUI is nice.
I copied 15 Gigs of data from my ipod to my friends iBook, then imported all of these newly copied songs from her home directory into her iTunes (application), then copied them from her Public folder to her brother's win XP machine, and into his iTunes. All artist, album, and track info was preserved perfectly.
Anyone who halfway knows their way around a *nix machine could do this with their eyes closed.
For those of you who do not, enable "Hard Disk Usage" on your ipod via iTunes. Unmount/mount your ipod. Open your terminal and "cd" into the music folder of your ipod, located in your devices directory. Google search how to copy directories in any *nix environment and you're all done.
No need for someone else to write you a pretty GUI, after all you read /. so do it yourself through the terminal.
Anyone have this?
I asked "If this source is in a rural area then you most likely purchased the land from farmers, who sprayed God knows what chemicals, which have all leached into your water. Perhaps they even dumped some of their old tractors and their pinto in the reservior. Perhaps they bathed in it. Perhaps they have leaking septic systems, maybe they let their cows swim in it." They of course had no info on this other then to tell me that it is heavily purified.
The good bottled water is NYC tap water. What makes NYC's water so good is that it comes from Reserviors in Upstate NY. The water travels through 100 mile tunnels that are over a hundred years old. These tunels are caked with MUNG like you can't belive, and all that bacteria filters our water. (Anyone with a fish tank knows what I'm talking about, biological filtration.) The only downside of our water is that once it gets here it travels throughout the city before it gets to you, through really old rusty or lead pipes way, way below the street. Some of them are near impossible to get to when one breaks, and many are near impossible to update / replace.
It sure does taste good though unless you live in certain parts of Queens where the water from the tap looks like milk until it settles. Yum.
There's another *New* technique that Law Enforcement will be using, it allows them to view data on your hard drive that has been erased!!!!
My point was that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, once it has run rampant on you, you have Acquired Imuno Defficiency Syndrome (forgive me spelling, went out for lunch and drank some). The people of which I'm speaking never get their imune system compromised, their T cells never get "sacked" so to speak. HIV has nothing on them. Their immune systems whip HIV down like you or I can bitch slap the 50,000 random germs and fungus we come into contact with in a given day. Oh wait, I get your point.
I'm too lazy to google search for links to back this up (I'll do it later) but as high as 4% of certain people (mostly eastern Europeans) have a genetic make up that makes them imune to HIV (but not AIDS). It is believed that their ancestors with whom they share these genetic traits were the survivors of the black plauge. As many may know there were some doctors, people etc that were constantly around the plauge working with those that were dying, yet never contracted it. Many studies have been done that find similarities in how the body reacts to each disease. Those who carry these genes can be injected with HIV (again NOT with AIDS, but with HIV) and their bodies kick the hell out of it. Inject them with the full blown AIDS variant however and they become mortal.
Seriously though I didn't say anything about using software other then for it's intended purpose, IE: following the instructions to the letter. If a piece of software is specific as to how it must be installed, on what, and how it is to be used it of course isn't the fault of the software when you try to install it on your mod'ed gameboy running linux. That's ridiculous, I was addressing this to the /. crowd, not your run of the mill office manager, or IT guy that plays "yeah but I think it will work on..." It's been my experice that if a developer or company gives you a recomended configuration or requirement, there is a reason for it.
Just saying.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying that system crashes are the fault of the programmers, just of the software (most of the time). For instance Home Depot is the worst, it takes half an hour to get through the checkout line. That's not the fault of the cashiers, not even of the managers, it's Home Depot Corporate. When I say "Home Depot Sucks" I mean the corporation, not the employees. When software (pick your favorite) sucks, it's because the code sucks and that is the fault of the corporation. Whomever in the corporation caused the code to suck doesn't change the fact that the code sucks.
Assuming all my hardware is behaving nicely if a crash occurs that means a piece of software somewhere has failed, be it OS, network or what have you.
I think the issue lies in the way that Macs use a bootstrap, rom etc. Installing Linux on x86 architecture is very different from doing it on a mac.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/04/10/03/2211236 .shtml?tid=106&tid=3
I prefer mandrake on the PC, but for the PPC patform Yellow Dog now suports (sort of) 64bit architecture. (Ooh Ahh).
Given the choice I'd go with Yellow Dog. Good to see Mandrake is keeping up with updates for mac though. I'd love to see their Live CD with PPC support (if that's even do-able)
Better still was that the aformentioned Bison's (who were on there way to there 3rd straight win) had a whopping 10 articles written about them, the Patriot Act story only had 4 articles listed. I had to take a screen cap and e-mail it out to people. It was hillarious, I guess none of the news orgs had picked up the AP story at that point.
The FBI already has broad authority to monitor telephone and Internet communications. Current law already provides, for example, that wiretaps can be obtained for the crimes involved in terrorist attacks, including destruction of aircraft and aircraft piracy. Most of the changes to wiretapping authority contemplated in the USA PATRIOT Act would apply not just to surveillance of people suspected of terrorist activity, but to investigation of other crimes as well. The FBI also has authority to intercept communications without probable cause of crime for "intelligence purposes under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act ("FISA"). The standards for obtaining a FISA wiretap are lower than those for obtaining a criminal wiretap.
Minimal and Inadequate Standards for Access To Internet Communications Section 216 of the USA PATRIOT Act substantially changes current law. Under current law, a law enforcement agent can get a pen register or trap and trace order requiring a telephone company to reveal the "numbers dialed" to and from a particular telephone. To obtain the order, the law enforcement agent must simply certify that the information to be obtained is "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation." This a very low level of proof, far less than the probable cause standard (probable cause that a crime has occurred, is occurring or will occur.) - a standard that must be met now to authorize access to the contents of a communication. Under the proposed Section 216, the judge must grant the order upon receiving the certification. Even if the judge disagrees, and believes that law enforcement officers are on a fishing expedition that will yield up no relevant information, the judge must issue the order. The judge is therefore not positioned to protect the privacy of a person's telephone communications; he wields a rubber stamp.
Section 216 of the USA PATRIOT Act would extend this low threshold of proof to Internet communications that are far more revealing than the numbers dialed to or from a telephone, and to portions of e-mail communications that cannot readily be separated from content. Section 216 gives law enforcement agents who obtain pen register and trap and trace orders access to "dialing, routing and signaling information." The bill does not define those terms. They would apparently apply to law enforcement efforts to determine what websites a person has visited. This is like giving law enforcement the power -- based only on its own certification -- to require the librarian to report on the books you had perused while visiting the public library. This is extending a low standard of proof -- far less than probable cause -- to "content" information even while Section 216 purports to exclude content.
The contents of a telephone call are readily separated from the telephone numbers dialed to and from a telephone. However, the same cannot be said of an e-mail address and the contents of an e-mail message. This information moves together in packets. To execute the pen register and trap and trace orders authorized by Section 216, somebody must separate the e-mail address from the contents of the e-mail message of the target. The FBI's answer to this problem is troubling. It obtains access to the entire message. Then, it asser
I disagree, anyone who CAN, WILL. It also depends on "who" wants to know what you are saying. FBI agents do not need a court order to tap any of your communications.
The spirit of the constitution wasn't based on WILL it was based on CAN, or more specificly CAN'T. Laws usually last a really long time, just because it isn't resonable for someone to use a law to a certain end now, doesn't mean they won't in the future. Look at the anti-trust laws, or whichever "This will NEVER be used to...." law of your choice for a good example.
My that is rather cunning...!?
So when the dual core G4s do come out I could run 2 separate operating systems simultaneously? That's odd, how (and which ones) is that pulled off. Getting a dual boot mac is enough of a pain in the ass, to have it multi boot is, yeah I don't see that happening.
If only I could use my mod points on this... hahahaha that is funny.