Don't laugh!:-) This reminds me of Dr. Paul LaViolette's theory on extraterrestial beacons in outerspace.
"Our modern society is dependent on accurate timekeeping, which is why we rely on atomic clocks to give the correct time for use with the myriad of timekeeping devices we use today. Just as we rely on atomic clocks for split-second accuracy, they in turn are set using pulsars. First discovered in 1967, pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves.
According to LaViolette, pulsars are not naturally occurring objects, but rather, they represent an intelligent design. One intended for timekeeping, navigation and which serves as a faster-than-light warning system for events called galactic superwaves. At best, these superwaves are an annoyance to industrialized societies. At worst, they can and do trigger extinction level events (ELE). LaViolette tells that there have already been numerous ELE cataclysms on Earth and that our planet is now moving into the cross-hairs of yet another."
Dr. Paul LaViolette has written four books and has published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He received his BA in physics from Johns Hopkins, his MBA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from Portland State University, and is currently president of the Starburst Foundation, an interdisciplinary scientific research institute. He is the developer of subquantum kinetics, a novel approach to microphysics that accounts for electric, magnetic, gravitational, and nuclear forces in a unified manner and resolves many long-standing physics problems. Based on the predictions of this theory, he developed an alternative cosmology that effectively replaces the big bang theory."
humankind will be working on printing an entire human body and assembling it. Forget sequencing the human genome, printing an entire human and getting it to function would be the greatest achievment of mankind.....
Well you never know!
I'm not certain of how eggpay differs from paypal but I'm under the impression an eggpay account is just like a normal bank account but with the slight difference that payment is accetped from an email address. That information + contact details are all that's exchanged.
Sipgate allocate UK geographical numbers to their users accounts free of charge, with the added bonus that you can you can choose any national code, it doesn't matter where you live as long as you live in the UK.
Voipbuster offer free calls to PSTN lines at these destinations.
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Norway
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
I mean compare that with skype!
The call quality is excellent and relability is good as long as you don't use the voipbuster software although admitedly I have had some problems with Voipbuster.
For software you're better off using either x-ten or firefly which are available elsewhere on the net. Configeration is fairly straightforward
As you can see with so many destinations available as a free call, there's little point in using propriatory skype unless you value the instant messaging capabilities. Unfortunately it seems http://www.tribeworks.com/home/vibe.asp google may want to buy skype. Personally I think this is a shame because a propriatry protocol will become more popular even though there are decent open alternatives. It will be interesting what google will charge for calls
I've gone slightly overboard and invested in a http://www.sipura.com/products/spa2000.htm
sipura spa 2000. It set me back about £40, has two phone lines and if you combine this with a dect phone you create a wireless SIPphone for the house. Given the price and the fact you normally need a phoneline in the firstplace, I just bought it as abit of a toy for now. By using Sipgate I can go anywhere in the world and keep the same local number which is quite cool.
You can pick up other adapters fairly cheaply but you might have to make do with a single phoneline.
"So first the government forces BBC to apologize - for a news item we later find out was correct:
the sexing up of the w.m.d report.
And if that is not enough, now they are actually going to directly interfere who runs it?
- Fire and replace those that dare challenge the Prime Minister and it's policies?
Looks like George Orwell was only but a few decades wrong in his book title.
"
btw it's called the 'British' broadcasting corporation for a reason you know....;-0
No... not because it's run by the british government but because the British public fund it, who just happen to be the people electing the government, funny that.
"So, it's dangerous to have a media organisation that isn't in the skew of a paymaster? Your quoted site is just another news source funded by a political movement, exactly the sort of thing the BBC's present situation prevents"
Proper regulation of the media industry is a real solution to that problem, rather than allowing an organisation which says it's independent to maintain dominance in the market through indirect taxation. Just because the BBC isn't funded by political organisations (although this isn't totally true) doesn't mean it can't be influenced by them. How else do you think the BBC has displayed such blatent bias over the years? Maybe the BBC is a political movement in parts?.... Surely this hasn't escaped you, it certainly has alot of power to sway public opinion.
Anyway I'd hardly call the regular distortion of facts in favour of the cause of certain groups, "independent journalism". Although rather ironically maybe it is "independent journalism" and shows the problem of having an "independent organisation" which maintains its dominance through an indirect tax on the British people.
I do not support the BBCs agenda, I know very well what it is. So why on earth did I pay my TV licence this year? Put simply I shouldn't have to pay it, and if I don't pay it I'm threatened with a prison sentence> FAIR?
It's slightly similar to microsoft maintaining dominance in the PC industry through their windows tax, actually it's worse as in this case if you use linux you go to jail. If you're a noob computer user and own a PC you have little choice but to use windows and are fed vast amounts of FUD in the process. FAIR?
I see something wrong with this business model....
The BBC itself is very biast. It's very dangerous to have a media monolith in a democracy no mater how that monolith is funded although an effectively tax funded monolith doesn't require much effort to maintain its dominance.
The situation is made worse because the BBC is the 'British' Broadcasting Corporation. Because it's 'British' the British public place a naive trust in its journalism, I know this because although perhaps anecdotal, I see it everyday. The BBC can quite happily skew stories in favour of their agenda and play on the lack of informity of the British public> As I said this is very dangerous in a democracy. The lack of informity of the British consumer is a factor but so is the continuation of an almost state funded broadcasting corporation.
It would be better if the licence fee were given to truely independent organisations and a limit were placed on the amount of advertising allowed on British television to maintain a level playing field. Alas this will never happen and the BBC will continue to have a foothold on the layman british public opinion, you know those uninformed people who go out to vote in swathes at every election.
If you want to read about BBC bias have a look at this site. You'll notice it's a pro-Israli website but this should come as no surprise as people have a habit of protecting their own people from shoddy journalism. I'm not suggesting http://www.honestreporting.com/ isn't bias, just that sites like it on both sides should be given more exposure so the British people are not duped into thinking the Israelis ( if you watch the BBC) or the majority of the palestinians (if you read alot of right wing media) are monsters.
I understand Murdoch's ventures have just if not more
The BBC itself is very biast. It's very dangerous to have a media monolith in a democracy no mater how that monolith is funded although an effectively tax funded monolith doesn't require much effort to maintain its dominance.
The situation is made worse because the BBC is the 'British' Broadcasting Corporation. Because it's 'British' the British public place a naive trust in its journalism, I know this because although perhaps anecdotal, I see it everyday. The BBC can quite happily skew stories in favour of their agenda and play on the lack of informity of the British public> As I said this is very dangerous in a democracy. The lack of informity of the British consumer is a factor but so is the continuation of an almost state funded broadcasting corporation.
It would be better if the licence fee were given to truely independent organisations and a limit were placed on the amount of advertising allowed on British television to maintain a level playing field. Alas this will never happen and the BBC will continue to have a foothold on the layman british public opinion, you know those uninformed people who go out to vote in swathes at every election.
If you want to read about BBC bias have a look at this site. You'll notice it's a pro-Israli website but this should come as no surprise as people have a habit of protecting their own people from shoddy journalism. I'm not suggesting http://www.honestreporting.com/ isn't bias, just that sites like it on both sides should be given more exposure so the British people are not duped into thinking the Israelis ( if you watch the BBC) or the majority of the palestinians (if you read alot of right wing media) are monsters.
I understand Murdoch's ventures have just if not more
Can someone please explain to me how the SIP protocol differs from Skype's and how this supposedly makes the phonegaim http://www.phonegaim.com an inferior voice messaging client?
I'm confused. Networking is quite new to me. Can someone explain to me how something like http://www.phonegaim.com/Phonegaim differs from Skype. Adding voice functionaility via SIP to gaim is a great idea if a little poorly thought out in this case. I hear they had to rewrite some poorly written opensouce code anyway.
I'm all for an opensource version of Skype but I need someone to explain to me why phoengaim isn't that.
How is Firefox supposed to garner market share if many universities (example http://www.iss.soton.ac.uk) insist on making the default web browser IE on their computers?
At Southampton/UK the only choice we have is to either use IE which of course boots up quickly or use an outdated version of netscape and have a wrapper install it. A process which can take almost a minute depending on the computer.
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Don't laugh! :-) This reminds me of Dr. Paul LaViolette's theory on extraterrestial beacons in outerspace.
"Our modern society is dependent on accurate timekeeping, which is why we rely on atomic clocks to give the correct time for use with the myriad of timekeeping devices we use today. Just as we rely on atomic clocks for split-second accuracy, they in turn are set using pulsars. First discovered in 1967, pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in the form of radio waves. According to LaViolette, pulsars are not naturally occurring objects, but rather, they represent an intelligent design. One intended for timekeeping, navigation and which serves as a faster-than-light warning system for events called galactic superwaves. At best, these superwaves are an annoyance to industrialized societies. At worst, they can and do trigger extinction level events (ELE). LaViolette tells that there have already been numerous ELE cataclysms on Earth and that our planet is now moving into the cross-hairs of yet another."
found here
Dr. Paul LaViolette has written four books and has published many original papers in physics, astronomy, climatology, systems theory, and psychology. He received his BA in physics from Johns Hopkins, his MBA from the University of Chicago, and PhD from Portland State University, and is currently president of the Starburst Foundation, an interdisciplinary scientific research institute. He is the developer of subquantum kinetics, a novel approach to microphysics that accounts for electric, magnetic, gravitational, and nuclear forces in a unified manner and resolves many long-standing physics problems. Based on the predictions of this theory, he developed an alternative cosmology that effectively replaces the big bang theory."
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"I don't get "Social Websites" Sounds like this idea is just right for you.
Martian 5: I hear bananas are quite yellow these days.
Rome? I'm more worried about Saruman finding out. :-)
humankind will be working on printing an entire human body and assembling it. Forget sequencing the human genome, printing an entire human and getting it to function would be the greatest achievment of mankind..... Well you never know!
sorry I meant the difference is that there are no transaction fees.
I'm not certain of how eggpay differs from paypal but I'm under the impression an eggpay account is just like a normal bank account but with the slight difference that payment is accetped from an email address. That information + contact details are all that's exchanged.
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I use http://www.voipbuster.com/Voipbuster to make calls and http://www.sipgate.co.uk/ Sipgate to recieve
Sipgate allocate UK geographical numbers to their users accounts free of charge, with the added bonus that you can you can choose any national code, it doesn't matter where you live as long as you live in the UK.
Voipbuster offer free calls to PSTN lines at these destinations.
I mean compare that with skype!
The call quality is excellent and relability is good as long as you don't use the voipbuster software although admitedly I have had some problems with Voipbuster.
For software you're better off using either x-ten or firefly which are available elsewhere on the net. Configeration is fairly straightforward
As you can see with so many destinations available as a free call, there's little point in using propriatory skype unless you value the instant messaging capabilities. Unfortunately it seems http://www.tribeworks.com/home/vibe.asp google may want to buy skype. Personally I think this is a shame because a propriatry protocol will become more popular even though there are decent open alternatives. It will be interesting what google will charge for calls
I've gone slightly overboard and invested in a http://www.sipura.com/products/spa2000.htm sipura spa 2000. It set me back about £40, has two phone lines and if you combine this with a dect phone you create a wireless SIPphone for the house. Given the price and the fact you normally need a phoneline in the firstplace, I just bought it as abit of a toy for now. By using Sipgate I can go anywhere in the world and keep the same local number which is quite cool.
You can pick up other adapters fairly cheaply but you might have to make do with a single phoneline.
There's also http://www.voipcheap.co.uk/ which is part of finarea, the company behind voipbuster http://www.call1899.co.uk/ and http://www.call18866.co.uk/
"So first the government forces BBC to apologize - for a news item we later find out was correct: the sexing up of the w.m.d report. And if that is not enough, now they are actually going to directly interfere who runs it? - Fire and replace those that dare challenge the Prime Minister and it's policies? Looks like George Orwell was only but a few decades wrong in his book title. " btw it's called the 'British' broadcasting corporation for a reason you know.... ;-0
No... not because it's run by the british government but because the British public fund it, who just happen to be the people electing the government, funny that.
"So, it's dangerous to have a media organisation that isn't in the skew of a paymaster? Your quoted site is just another news source funded by a political movement, exactly the sort of thing the BBC's present situation prevents"
Proper regulation of the media industry is a real solution to that problem, rather than allowing an organisation which says it's independent to maintain dominance in the market through indirect taxation. Just because the BBC isn't funded by political organisations (although this isn't totally true) doesn't mean it can't be influenced by them. How else do you think the BBC has displayed such blatent bias over the years? Maybe the BBC is a political movement in parts?.... Surely this hasn't escaped you, it certainly has alot of power to sway public opinion.
Anyway I'd hardly call the regular distortion of facts in favour of the cause of certain groups, "independent journalism". Although rather ironically maybe it is "independent journalism" and shows the problem of having an "independent organisation" which maintains its dominance through an indirect tax on the British people.
I do not support the BBCs agenda, I know very well what it is. So why on earth did I pay my TV licence this year? Put simply I shouldn't have to pay it, and if I don't pay it I'm threatened with a prison sentence> FAIR?
It's slightly similar to microsoft maintaining dominance in the PC industry through their windows tax, actually it's worse as in this case if you use linux you go to jail. If you're a noob computer user and own a PC you have little choice but to use windows and are fed vast amounts of FUD in the process. FAIR?
I see something wrong with this business model....
The BBC itself is very biast. It's very dangerous to have a media monolith in a democracy no mater how that monolith is funded although an effectively tax funded monolith doesn't require much effort to maintain its dominance.
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The situation is made worse because the BBC is the 'British' Broadcasting Corporation. Because it's 'British' the British public place a naive trust in its journalism, I know this because although perhaps anecdotal, I see it everyday. The BBC can quite happily skew stories in favour of their agenda and play on the lack of informity of the British public> As I said this is very dangerous in a democracy. The lack of informity of the British consumer is a factor but so is the continuation of an almost state funded broadcasting corporation.
It would be better if the licence fee were given to truely independent organisations and a limit were placed on the amount of advertising allowed on British television to maintain a level playing field. Alas this will never happen and the BBC will continue to have a foothold on the layman british public opinion, you know those uninformed people who go out to vote in swathes at every election.
If you want to read about BBC bias have a look at this site. You'll notice it's a pro-Israli website but this should come as no surprise as people have a habit of protecting their own people from shoddy journalism. I'm not suggesting http://www.honestreporting.com/ isn't bias, just that sites like it on both sides should be given more exposure so the British people are not duped into thinking the Israelis ( if you watch the BBC) or the majority of the palestinians (if you read alot of right wing media) are monsters.
I understand Murdoch's ventures have just if not more
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The BBC itself is very biast. It's very dangerous to have a media monolith in a democracy no mater how that monolith is funded although an effectively tax funded monolith doesn't require much effort to maintain its dominance. The situation is made worse because the BBC is the 'British' Broadcasting Corporation. Because it's 'British' the British public place a naive trust in its journalism, I know this because although perhaps anecdotal, I see it everyday. The BBC can quite happily skew stories in favour of their agenda and play on the lack of informity of the British public> As I said this is very dangerous in a democracy. The lack of informity of the British consumer is a factor but so is the continuation of an almost state funded broadcasting corporation. It would be better if the licence fee were given to truely independent organisations and a limit were placed on the amount of advertising allowed on British television to maintain a level playing field. Alas this will never happen and the BBC will continue to have a foothold on the layman british public opinion, you know those uninformed people who go out to vote in swathes at every election. If you want to read about BBC bias have a look at this site. You'll notice it's a pro-Israli website but this should come as no surprise as people have a habit of protecting their own people from shoddy journalism. I'm not suggesting http://www.honestreporting.com/ isn't bias, just that sites like it on both sides should be given more exposure so the British people are not duped into thinking the Israelis ( if you watch the BBC) or the majority of the palestinians (if you read alot of right wing media) are monsters. I understand Murdoch's ventures have just if not more
As I'm subscribed to the thread you just emailed me.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=rpm+phonega im&meta= etc :-) Email me what you think.
Can someone please explain to me how the SIP protocol differs from Skype's and how this supposedly makes the phonegaim http://www.phonegaim.com an inferior voice messaging client?
www.phonegaim.com Why is this inferior to Skype. The universal messaging capability of Gaim seems like the perfect compliment to using SIP.
I'm confused. Networking is quite new to me. Can someone explain to me how something like http://www.phonegaim.com/Phonegaim differs from Skype. Adding voice functionaility via SIP to gaim is a great idea if a little poorly thought out in this case. I hear they had to rewrite some poorly written opensouce code anyway.
I'm all for an opensource version of Skype but I need someone to explain to me why phoengaim isn't that.
How is Firefox supposed to garner market share if many universities (example http://www.iss.soton.ac.uk) insist on making the default web browser IE on their computers? At Southampton/UK the only choice we have is to either use IE which of course boots up quickly or use an outdated version of netscape and have a wrapper install it. A process which can take almost a minute depending on the computer.