With our economic resources, our country should be producing the most brilliant children on the planet.
More core fundamentals in the k-6 with focus on higher learning onward.
There is absolutely no reason why we should be as far behind as we are.
Bring on the CS, Sciences and Mathematics.
"But we live on 21 percent oxygen, just as we live at 37 degrees."
Im pretty sure the average comfort zone of humans is between 15 and 25 degrees. I find it odd that they picked such a high number. Are they trying to set the upper bound of human tolerance or something?
Would you like to register/buy your Windows Media Player?
Would you like to register/buy (whatever DVD player comes with Windows)
Would you like to sign up for AOL?
Register your MSN Messenger now!
Windows burns CD's natively (for data). Windows Media player burns music, no registration required!
Show me a retail windows PC that doesn't come with DVD support already installed and working.
Since when do you have to register or buy windows media player seperately?
I'll give you the AOL bit, they throw a lot of money at manufacturers to include their wares.
Can't recall messenger ever asking you to register either.
I use Linux day in and day out at work, along side both windows xp and vista. The OP you replied to has it exactly right, it's just not easy enough for the average joe to figure that stuff out on their own. Most people would gladly click the "don't bug me again" button on various dialogs for the first 30 minutes while they use their new computer than spend countless hours trying to figure out how to enable various basic functions which they would have mistakenly assumed function properly right of the box. I know this because those average joes are my customers.
You think whoever provides that PSTN termination isn't already paying FCC taxes???? In order to GET to the PSTN, you have to go through some sort of termination provdier, whether that be yourself, vonage, or some other third party. They're already paying to get each call on the PSTN whether it by in the form of their contract for whatever type of connectivity they may have, or per minute fees being assessed by their actual termination provider (who in turn pays the taxes).
While the article is indeed lacking technical details, the vague refrences to infringing on usage of voicemail and call-waiting really shows how desperate they are to crush vonage and anyone else in the VoIP services market.
Features such as this are in use by every other telco, both small and large, on the planet. While I also despise vonage for both their quality and customer service, it's only a matter of time before they start picking on the smaller guys offering identical services, whether it be some type of Asterisk based system, or even Cisco's CallManager platform.
AT&T offers call waiting and voicemail as well, so when are they going to get sued for infringement? There needs to be some serious facts released as to exactly what patents Vonage is infringing on.
While I am a total asterisk fanboy, I've always been impressed with skype's call quality and ease of use. Seeing them turn to the business side in this respect (namely salesforce) is a huge move for them. There are company's searching for this sort of functionality like wild packs of hungry wolves.
Asterisk really needs this sort of integration within salesforce. All it would take is a small desktop client that will talk with the asterisk box to make this work. If the asterisk community were to come up with something that would rival Skype's salesforce integration, I can think of over a dozen companies I know personally who would JUMP at the chance of implementing an open standards based system over skype (or the other provider, http://www.five9.com/.
While I know nothing about the cable and dsl architecture's on the back end. From a consumer standpoint, I can honestly say that Cox Communications absolutely has *not* allowed their services to stagnate.
My prices have gone down on a per basic service level, my download speeds and upload speeds have been increased on an almost annual basis. They've added digital telephone service, movies on demand, and have a larger HDTV channel selection than the satellite competitors do currently, in my area, at least.
Maybe in regards to, holy cow, what additional cool services could they offer me next? I have no idea.. Maybe they will let things stagnate until the next technological evoltion of IPTV is ready for prime time.
Cox is a huge monopoly in my area. Why? Because Adelphia and Comcast really do suck horribly and Cox has blown everyone out of the water with stellar customer service and top notch reliable services. Don't blame the FCC or monopolies, blame the people who run your provider for not giving two shits about their customers.
Airlines are private corporations yes. However the majority of the people asking for your ID's work for the TSA, which is a government agency included under the umbrella of homeland security.
Just days after NASA denounces any findings of life on Mars, they come up something that, while technically does not prove there is life on mars, does say that it's within the realm of possibliities !
So, technically... If millions of people RTFA at once and have the same emotional or mental reaction, they should be able to report that the devices "pinged" while the article was active within./?:)
You would be *very* surprised that with proper monitoring, you really can turn it on and walk away.
I run asterisk in a corporate environment where it supports ~120 office employees (local and remote), 2 PRI's, extensive IVR menus, robust voicemail for each employee and also custom scripts which handle meeting scheduling where the system calls YOU when your meeting time is up.
Turning it on and walking away from it has been handled nicely from the software side. It's the hardware side YOU need to take care of.
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With our economic resources, our country should be producing the most brilliant children on the planet. More core fundamentals in the k-6 with focus on higher learning onward. There is absolutely no reason why we should be as far behind as we are. Bring on the CS, Sciences and Mathematics.
Im pretty sure the average comfort zone of humans is between 15 and 25 degrees. I find it odd that they picked such a high number. Are they trying to set the upper bound of human tolerance or something?
37 degrees Celsius = 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
I use Linux day in and day out at work, along side both windows xp and vista. The OP you replied to has it exactly right, it's just not easy enough for the average joe to figure that stuff out on their own. Most people would gladly click the "don't bug me again" button on various dialogs for the first 30 minutes while they use their new computer than spend countless hours trying to figure out how to enable various basic functions which they would have mistakenly assumed function properly right of the box. I know this because those average joes are my customers.
You think whoever provides that PSTN termination isn't already paying FCC taxes???? In order to GET to the PSTN, you have to go through some sort of termination provdier, whether that be yourself, vonage, or some other third party. They're already paying to get each call on the PSTN whether it by in the form of their contract for whatever type of connectivity they may have, or per minute fees being assessed by their actual termination provider (who in turn pays the taxes).
While the article is indeed lacking technical details, the vague refrences to infringing on usage of voicemail and call-waiting really shows how desperate they are to crush vonage and anyone else in the VoIP services market. Features such as this are in use by every other telco, both small and large, on the planet. While I also despise vonage for both their quality and customer service, it's only a matter of time before they start picking on the smaller guys offering identical services, whether it be some type of Asterisk based system, or even Cisco's CallManager platform. AT&T offers call waiting and voicemail as well, so when are they going to get sued for infringement? There needs to be some serious facts released as to exactly what patents Vonage is infringing on.
While I am a total asterisk fanboy, I've always been impressed with skype's call quality and ease of use. Seeing them turn to the business side in this respect (namely salesforce) is a huge move for them. There are company's searching for this sort of functionality like wild packs of hungry wolves.
Asterisk really needs this sort of integration within salesforce. All it would take is a small desktop client that will talk with the asterisk box to make this work. If the asterisk community were to come up with something that would rival Skype's salesforce integration, I can think of over a dozen companies I know personally who would JUMP at the chance of implementing an open standards based system over skype (or the other provider, http://www.five9.com/.
While I know nothing about the cable and dsl architecture's on the back end. From a consumer standpoint, I can honestly say that Cox Communications absolutely has *not* allowed their services to stagnate.
My prices have gone down on a per basic service level, my download speeds and upload speeds have been increased on an almost annual basis. They've added digital telephone service, movies on demand, and have a larger HDTV channel selection than the satellite competitors do currently, in my area, at least.
Maybe in regards to, holy cow, what additional cool services could they offer me next? I have no idea.. Maybe they will let things stagnate until the next technological evoltion of IPTV is ready for prime time.
Cox is a huge monopoly in my area. Why? Because Adelphia and Comcast really do suck horribly and Cox has blown everyone out of the water with stellar customer service and top notch reliable services. Don't blame the FCC or monopolies, blame the people who run your provider for not giving two shits about their customers.
Airlines are private corporations yes. However the majority of the people asking for your ID's work for the TSA, which is a government agency included under the umbrella of homeland security.
Just days after NASA denounces any findings of life on Mars, they come up something that, while technically does not prove there is life on mars, does say that it's within the realm of possibliities !
So, technically... If millions of people RTFA at once and have the same emotional or mental reaction, they should be able to report that the devices "pinged" while the article was active within ./? :)
You would be *very* surprised that with proper monitoring, you really can turn it on and walk away.
I run asterisk in a corporate environment where it supports ~120 office employees (local and remote), 2 PRI's, extensive IVR menus, robust voicemail for each employee and also custom scripts which handle meeting scheduling where the system calls YOU when your meeting time is up.
Turning it on and walking away from it has been handled nicely from the software side. It's the hardware side YOU need to take care of.
3 Months from date of purchase. Can you imagine buying a PC that was only warrantied for 3 months against any and all defects or failures?