Re:Ekiga? What the hell is an Ekiga?
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Ekiga 2.0 Released
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Bet she gets strange looks putting that on official forms. If it a common foreign name, or the product of people who call their child things like "Vagina" (The USA currently has 2 Vaginas on the census, interpret how thou wilt).
Will they be able to at least keep it on the same platform? I've walked into Leeds City Station some days and seen a platform change for almost every service.
It still begs the question - why is this superior for most people than WiFi? If they need that much internal bandwidth then it makes more sense to put in CAT5 or CAT6 and push speeds up to gigabit. High speed 802.11g is plenty fast enough for most uses.
The USA doesn't have "a two party system where both parties are self-serving groups of individuals with a complete disconnect from the ordinary citizen"?
Have you installed Windows XP SP2 recently? Here's what happened:
Install XP - 6 keypresses Format HDD - OK 3 Clicks Enter Key Install - OK Detect Video - OK Detect Mouse (USB 6 Button) - OK Detect Keyboard (Multimedia with 6 function keys) - OK Detect WiFi Card - OK Find 192.168.1.1 Internet Gateway - OK Install Windows OneCare Beta (Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall etc) - 4 clicks Install Office 2003 - 4 Clicks + entering key Done, secure and ready to use for 96% of home users.
If all else fails, after changing the jumper introduce a BIOS routine which forces the user to type the following:
"I understand that by entering this text I am enabling BIOS flashing, which can potentially render my system inoperable with no chance of repair. I also confirm that I am intending to flash my BIOS."
NomiNET (The.UK registrars) are actually strict about some of the domains..gov.uk,.edu.uk,.mil.uk and.ac.uk are all quite tightly controlled..org.uk and.co.uk are fairly open.
Nah, no mag stripe. It's a smart-chip with quite a complex auth mechanism. I'm not party to the actual details (Anyone who works with it want to respond?) but from what I can tell it's a session-based encrypted system. At no point are your card details ever actually seen by the reader, only the end result of sending a key to the card. See http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/ for details.
Just cut vertical shafts through. Put a garden in the hole in the middle. You've doubled your 'window space' (Well, not doubled, but you get the idea).
Chip & Pin - recently implemented in the UK and in use in mainland Europe for some time - is a great way to avoid this. If you don't want to, you never even have to let go of the card. Basically you put your card into a reader, punch in your PIN, and take the card out again.
But will it be accessible using a web browser? I would love for it to act like a real drive on my PC, yet still be able to read/write (albeit slowly) using a browser at school.
Tablets. Without WiFi for my tablet, half the features which do things like cross-reference stop working. I quite like being able to quickly look something up, whilst still scrawling notes, then drop it straight into my work. Tap the 'save' and the whole thing is backed up off-site.
I'm only in 6th Form at the moment, but I find being able to access everything absolutely invaluable. I could live without it, but having 3 years worth of notes on-hand to search through comes in useful.
Perhaps its ideal place is in a different shipping version of the iPod, so you have 30gb Video iPod, 30gb Video iPod with Leather Sleeve, and 60gb Video iPod with Leather Sleeve.
More irritating is that the infrastructure and technology is there to distribute all that you just mentioned, but nobody uses it. iTunes supports a lossless codec (which can be DRMed to at least make a token gesture), it supports e-inserts, it supports cover art, the only issue left is the DRM. There's already a database of who bought what, so hopefully when someone comes up with a sensible DRM mechanism to prevent copying but still allow usage it can all be converted.
Why hasn't it been used yet? Because the record studios want to try make people pay more for it and buy physical copies. I can't comprehend this, since you could charge the same for physical and digital, and send exactly the same content, and digital would *still* make more profit.
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Bet she gets strange looks putting that on official forms. If it a common foreign name, or the product of people who call their child things like "Vagina" (The USA currently has 2 Vaginas on the census, interpret how thou wilt).
I believe this is correct - the 'offer to tender' is the price on the label. There's nothing which says it actually has to be sold for that price.
You may laugh, but the MS OneCare is actually a pretty damn good product, and subscription looks to be a lot cheaper than McAfee/Symantec as well.
Will they be able to at least keep it on the same platform? I've walked into Leeds City Station some days and seen a platform change for almost every service.
I notice it says "Beagle 2 Rover" - it doesn't rove.
It still begs the question - why is this superior for most people than WiFi? If they need that much internal bandwidth then it makes more sense to put in CAT5 or CAT6 and push speeds up to gigabit. High speed 802.11g is plenty fast enough for most uses.
My bad, didn't twig that parent was from Canada and thus thought they were talking about South America.
The USA doesn't have "a two party system where both parties are self-serving groups of individuals with a complete disconnect from the ordinary citizen"?
Have you installed Windows XP SP2 recently? Here's what happened:
Install XP - 6 keypresses
Format HDD - OK
3 Clicks
Enter Key
Install - OK
Detect Video - OK
Detect Mouse (USB 6 Button) - OK
Detect Keyboard (Multimedia with 6 function keys) - OK
Detect WiFi Card - OK
Find 192.168.1.1 Internet Gateway - OK
Install Windows OneCare Beta (Antivirus, Antispyware, Firewall etc) - 4 clicks
Install Office 2003 - 4 Clicks + entering key
Done, secure and ready to use for 96% of home users.
Hopefully so. But then again, there's quite a chunk of area it could be in.
If all else fails, after changing the jumper introduce a BIOS routine which forces the user to type the following:
"I understand that by entering this text I am enabling BIOS flashing, which can potentially render my system inoperable with no chance of repair. I also confirm that I am intending to flash my BIOS."
NomiNET (The .UK registrars) are actually strict about some of the domains. .gov.uk, .edu.uk, .mil.uk and .ac.uk are all quite tightly controlled. .org.uk and .co.uk are fairly open.
There was a NETGEAR phone which appeared on /. a while back, which used WiFi to Skype where available. If there was one of these with a wired dock...?
Nah, no mag stripe. It's a smart-chip with quite a complex auth mechanism. I'm not party to the actual details (Anyone who works with it want to respond?) but from what I can tell it's a session-based encrypted system. At no point are your card details ever actually seen by the reader, only the end result of sending a key to the card. See http://www.chipandpin.co.uk/ for details.
Just cut vertical shafts through. Put a garden in the hole in the middle. You've doubled your 'window space' (Well, not doubled, but you get the idea).
Possible, but there's a lot of ways to turn two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen into water.
Creative Commons surely, then you get all the funky ShareAlike and NoCommercial uses.
Chip & Pin - recently implemented in the UK and in use in mainland Europe for some time - is a great way to avoid this. If you don't want to, you never even have to let go of the card. Basically you put your card into a reader, punch in your PIN, and take the card out again.
Hang on, surely that costs Google money since they pay out to the site displaying the ads whenever clicked?
But will it be accessible using a web browser? I would love for it to act like a real drive on my PC, yet still be able to read/write (albeit slowly) using a browser at school.
Take a look at https://www.google.com/hosted/Home
Tablets. Without WiFi for my tablet, half the features which do things like cross-reference stop working. I quite like being able to quickly look something up, whilst still scrawling notes, then drop it straight into my work. Tap the 'save' and the whole thing is backed up off-site.
I'm only in 6th Form at the moment, but I find being able to access everything absolutely invaluable. I could live without it, but having 3 years worth of notes on-hand to search through comes in useful.
Perhaps its ideal place is in a different shipping version of the iPod, so you have 30gb Video iPod, 30gb Video iPod with Leather Sleeve, and 60gb Video iPod with Leather Sleeve.
More irritating is that the infrastructure and technology is there to distribute all that you just mentioned, but nobody uses it. iTunes supports a lossless codec (which can be DRMed to at least make a token gesture), it supports e-inserts, it supports cover art, the only issue left is the DRM. There's already a database of who bought what, so hopefully when someone comes up with a sensible DRM mechanism to prevent copying but still allow usage it can all be converted.
Why hasn't it been used yet? Because the record studios want to try make people pay more for it and buy physical copies. I can't comprehend this, since you could charge the same for physical and digital, and send exactly the same content, and digital would *still* make more profit.
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Roughly equivalent to a senator (I think), although there is quite a big difference in how the systems work.