what is your cable company that already provides phone? is it through the cable or through the telco lines? i'd like to find out more about a cable company that uses it already.. its not VoIP thoe is it?
I can't believe you got modded up twice for repeating hype from five years ago.
Open your door, take a look outside. The rosy worldview you have proposed has long since failed to come about.
Actually dufus I post at +1 but thanks for believeing...
Hype? maybe 5years ago it was hype man! But i work in VoIP and its gonna happen soon.. all the pieces are falling in place... it'll be here sooner than ya think... open your door! look outside! get smacked in the head by progress.. thanks and have a wonderful day:)
I would say that most of the worries of to regulate or not to regulate DSL service and CABLE(data) service will go away in the next few years.. Why you ask?
Everything is becoming a service.. IP networking, Phone Connectivity. Video(cable tv). What does this mean?
Simply you are going to see companies soon competing for the right to bring bandwith to your door. While the services you choose can be offered by anyone.
Why not have your Telephone Service offered by NuPhone(fictious) with any US based telephone number you like.
Your Cable will come from your choice of any number of Television(formerly cable companies) providers(if not stations themselves).
Why is this? Simple... Soon not only will we have DSL everywhere and CABLE lines.. but also we'll 3g and someday 4g wireless networks which can provide all the bandwith for every service we need.
Now granted local phone companies will definitely fight for thier right to be compensated for local calls, but you have to understand there is nothing stopping a new VoIP company from offering service now or in a few years to customers and providing them with a phone # that can be reached by anyone and it never need touch the their local telco CO. Everything is turning into service to be run over the bandwith providers.. thats the future.. theres no changing it..
Lastly picture this.. you have a 3G phone provided by say... cingular(just an example).. they give you a number(202-456-5000). That number would be your Personal Contact Identafier.. Someone dials that number and they can reach you where ever you are based on what you set.. Is your phone on? calls route to your cellular.. is it off? are you at home? calls route via landline bandwith pipes to your house and runs through your old POTS lines to your house phones.. or are ya not around? calls get routed to a Voice Mail system that u can of course access from your house phones, your mobile phones or your PC via the web.
think about it.. its coming.. sooner than you think...
1. Keep track of employees 2. Keep track of your boyfriend(for gurls) 3. Keep track of multiple gurlfriends(this way you can tell if one is coming towards your place when you are with another one) 4. Keep track of your boss(just wait for the multicasting version & every employee will tracking software running on his/her machine) 5. Attach one to every cop car in your town(small towns) so you know how far the cops are from ya. 6. Lock it on your bag of weed so when yer friends misplace it you can find it easily
7th and best reason! Attach it to the Senator from Disney so we can catch him meeting with church of velenti all the time(this one needs the 4+ hours of recordable media on it)(with content protection scheme so he can't erase it)
I think i felt my brain blow up into many small pieces and then collapse in to a newly formed black hole.. or whatever they are calling it now... owww i need some asprin...
Ok i'll probably be modded down...but i gotta know!!! whats insightful about that post?? eh?? help me here please... hell the insightful moderation is funnier than the post!
I think this would be great if it's proven true... although spinning at 5000 RPM to lose 2% of my wieght will definitely make me dizzy and hurl my lunch:(
The picture on the homepage shows a virtual keyboard projected on a car dash and the driver typing while driving. Don't we have enough ways for idiots to kill themselves (and others) by distracting them while driving?
--- frankly.. NO.. those people are wasting my valuable oxygen:)
Of course for tactile feedback version 2.0 would have a field where if you cross over the lines(keys) to many times or linger too long you get a big shock:) that would be some feedback... just a thought...
Woah look at the picture!! all wavy lights! fading out on the sides.... this is great! I can trip on acid without the acid.. all i need to to is be in front of the computer!!
So how long before we get the trippin laser mouse?
come on now! we all know canada is just another teritorial possesion of the united states!! why do you think we let you make us 1 arm for 120 billion dollar station...
Hehehe.. ok its 4:43am.. thats a joke... relax canuck ok:)
Who needs a fan when you can buy a new Imac from apple thats so quiet and flow-efficent ya dunt even need a stinking loud fan or a quiter one!! and u can run linux on these macs!
This postsoon to be modded down by humorless people......
Back when I worked at a.com years ago it seemed the exchange server crashed so much we could'nt keep our email longer then a few weeks if we did'nt back it up!!
Then the CEO told us to auto delete mail older then 90 days... well the exchange server crashes took care of that too:)
"In India there are a number of people who are capable of seeing free software as an ethical and social issue, whereas in many parts of the world very few people recognize the ethical and social issues, and they are more interested in the practical benefits of today's free software," Stallman said.
And err.. what are these social and ethical issues when they are more interested in the benefits of it... errr.. maybe me just tired.. can someone explain what he's saying there.. i'm lost....on this one....
I think it would be really cool if when they take all this data they are collecting, they produced a 3-d image of the COSMOS and a 3-d image of the cosmos with every star's location shifted to show its theoretical place today... or in the case of billion light year stars.... nothing if they are burned out by now.... that woould truly be an intersting map to look at:)
Somehow I doubt that Bryan Adams, or for that matter any artist, will ever see a single red cent of the money collected from these taxes. Its the record labels that get the money, and its the record labels that will keep the money.
Hehehe... you mean you don't trust the record labels to distribute this new source of income derived from the work of artists back to the actual artists!!! shame on you!;)
Perhaps every canadian should start his or her own music label and thereby lay a claim to the tax..!! it could be a new kind of social welfare.. nifty thought at least..
One intersting thing is that it specifically states that only Owners of copyrighted MUSIC can share a portion of the tarrifs... and specifically excludes "Computer Software Programs"....
Now correct me if I'm wrong.. Doesn't the Software industry claim to lose even more billions of dollars a year in piracy revenue(potential or not) then the music industry does?
Now why would the software industry not lobby for a levy like this?
1. Perhaps they know there would be a large backlash against their industry? 2. They know the whole concept is just free cash for the music producers?(granted its canadian play money but hey ya know...) 3. OR IS IT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY specifially wanted them excluded from the deal so they don't have to share there free cut of the cash cow.
I helped build one of the world's largest VoIP companies & i know a few things about the telephony networks as a result. And from what i read in the article is mostly wrong.. You can't just interconnect with out a carrier knowing who you are, Even with ss7. You need to have work orders generated, physical connections involved.. even in VoIP you need set up CICs and point codes, testing of the connection..
Also if anything the decentralization of the telephone networks have made absolutely stronger as a reliable means of transport in times of failure now. It works on the same principle in effect as the internet. Where you can reach a destination via many differnt hops.
For example.. in the old days if you wanted to call London, your call went across AT&T and that was that. Now with 5-10 serious International carriers if even 3 or 4 of the carriers have a facility outage for whatever reason(rare as it is) they can re-route calls to alternate carries where as before they would not be able to do that.
What he seems to fail to mention is that with in 10-15 years traditional telephone networks will be thing of the past and phone service will be regulated to just being another service provided through one of a number of broadband pipes(fiber to your house, g3,g4,gwhatever wireless networks that come next) and the whole concept of a telco will change to the point where companies will server merely as giant switching operation and "enhanced services" with almost zero physical infrastructure, which will also result in the fast drop of telephone pricing as the infrastructure costs dramatically.
Some 7am blurred tired thoughts.. hope that was coherent enough.
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what is your cable company that already provides phone? is it through the cable or through the telco lines? i'd like to find out more about a cable company that uses it already.. its not VoIP thoe is it?
I take it your in the half that would'nt then :)
I think what most people would love to see would be a series done on the great game Star Control II..
Seriously.. who else would love to see shofixti(sp?) running around on our TV screens getting whipped to death by Ur-Quan.
ahhhhh memories..... and the guy wrote babylon 5 should write the series... that would be perfect!
I can't believe you got modded up twice for repeating hype from five years ago.
:)
Open your door, take a look outside. The rosy worldview you have proposed has long since failed to come about.
Actually dufus I post at +1 but thanks for believeing...
Hype? maybe 5years ago it was hype man! But i work in VoIP and its gonna happen soon.. all the pieces are falling in place... it'll be here sooner than ya think... open your door! look outside! get smacked in the head by progress.. thanks and have a wonderful day
I would say that most of the worries of to regulate or not to regulate DSL service and CABLE(data) service will go away in the next few years.. Why you ask?
Everything is becoming a service.. IP networking, Phone Connectivity. Video(cable tv). What does this mean?
Simply you are going to see companies soon competing for the right to bring bandwith to your door. While the services you choose can be offered by anyone.
Why not have your Telephone Service offered by NuPhone(fictious) with any US based telephone number you like.
Your Cable will come from your choice of any number of Television(formerly cable companies) providers(if not stations themselves).
Why is this? Simple... Soon not only will we have DSL everywhere and CABLE lines.. but also we'll 3g and someday 4g wireless networks which can provide all the bandwith for every service we need.
Now granted local phone companies will definitely fight for thier right to be compensated for local calls, but you have to understand there is nothing stopping a new VoIP company from offering service now or in a few years to customers and providing them with a phone # that can be reached by anyone and it never need touch the their local telco CO. Everything is turning into service to be run over the bandwith providers.. thats the future.. theres no changing it..
Lastly picture this.. you have a 3G phone provided by say... cingular(just an example).. they give you a number(202-456-5000). That number would be your Personal Contact Identafier.. Someone dials that number and they can reach you where ever you are based on what you set.. Is your phone on? calls route to your cellular.. is it off? are you at home? calls route via landline bandwith pipes to your house and runs through your old POTS lines to your house phones.. or are ya not around? calls get routed to a Voice Mail system that u can of course access from your house phones, your mobile phones or your PC via the web.
think about it.. its coming.. sooner than you think...
1. Keep track of employees
2. Keep track of your boyfriend(for gurls)
3. Keep track of multiple gurlfriends(this way you can tell if one is coming towards your place when you are with another one)
4. Keep track of your boss(just wait for the multicasting version & every employee will tracking software running on his/her machine)
5. Attach one to every cop car in your town(small towns) so you know how far the cops are from ya.
6. Lock it on your bag of weed so when yer friends misplace it you can find it easily
7th and best reason!
Attach it to the Senator from Disney so we can catch him meeting with church of velenti all the time(this one needs the 4+ hours of recordable media on it)(with content protection scheme so he can't erase it)
:)
I think i felt my brain blow up into many small pieces and then collapse in to a newly formed black hole.. or whatever they are calling it now... owww i need some asprin...
Ok i'll probably be modded down...but i gotta know!!! whats insightful about that post?? eh?? help me here please... hell the insightful moderation is funnier than the post!
I think this would be great if it's proven true... although spinning at 5000 RPM to lose 2% of my wieght will definitely make me dizzy and hurl my lunch :(
The picture on the homepage shows a virtual keyboard projected on a car dash and the driver typing while driving. Don't we have enough ways for idiots to kill themselves (and others) by distracting them while driving?
:)
--- frankly.. NO.. those people are wasting my valuable oxygen
Of course for tactile feedback version 2.0 would have a field where if you cross over the lines(keys) to many times or linger too long you get a big shock :) that would be some feedback... just a thought...
http://www.vkb.co.il
you can read all about it in detail there...
Woah look at the picture!! all wavy lights! fading out on the sides.... this is great! I can trip on acid without the acid.. all i need to to is be in front of the computer!!
So how long before we get the trippin laser mouse?
come on now! we all know canada is just another teritorial possesion of the united states!! why do you think we let you make us 1 arm for 120 billion dollar station...
:)
Hehehe.. ok its 4:43am.. thats a joke... relax canuck ok
OR however many miles high they will take us... but thats the important part!!
1 pilot.. and room for 2!!!
3 minute quickie in space for 100 grand.. 200 if yer payin for your partner... now that will be the new IN thing... hehe...
Who needs a fan when you can buy a new Imac from apple thats so quiet and flow-efficent ya dunt even need a stinking loud fan or a quiter one!! and u can run linux on these macs!
This postsoon to be modded down by humorless people......
This will be great! nice to see it done... what happens when the lava flows shift and melt the towers to the ground thoe? :)
Back when I worked at a .com years ago it seemed the exchange server crashed so much we could'nt keep our email longer then a few weeks if we did'nt back it up!!
:)
Then the CEO told us to auto delete mail older then 90 days... well the exchange server crashes took care of that too
"In India there are a number of people who are capable of seeing free software as an ethical and social issue, whereas in many parts of the world very few people recognize the ethical and social issues, and they are more interested in the practical benefits of today's free software," Stallman said.
And err.. what are these social and ethical issues when they are more interested in the benefits of it... errr.. maybe me just tired.. can someone explain what he's saying there.. i'm lost....on this one....
thanks
Sheesh.... take all the fun of it!! hehe
I think it would be really cool if when they take all this data they are collecting, they produced a 3-d image of the COSMOS and a 3-d image of the cosmos with every star's location shifted to show its theoretical place today... or in the case of billion light year stars.... nothing if they are burned out by now.... that woould truly be an intersting map to look at :)
Somehow I doubt that Bryan Adams, or for that matter any artist, will ever see a single red cent of the money collected from these taxes. Its the record labels that get the money, and its the record labels that will keep the money.
;)
Hehehe... you mean you don't trust the record labels to distribute this new source of income derived from the work of artists back to the actual artists!!! shame on you!
Perhaps every canadian should start his or her own music label and thereby lay a claim to the tax..!! it could be a new kind of social welfare.. nifty thought at least..
One intersting thing is that it specifically states that only Owners of copyrighted MUSIC can share a portion of the tarrifs... and specifically excludes "Computer Software Programs"....
Now correct me if I'm wrong.. Doesn't the Software industry claim to lose even more billions of dollars a year in piracy revenue(potential or not) then the music industry does?
Now why would the software industry not lobby for a levy like this?
1. Perhaps they know there would be a large backlash against their industry?
2. They know the whole concept is just free cash for the music producers?(granted its canadian play money but hey ya know...)
3. OR IS IT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY specifially wanted them excluded from the deal so they don't have to share there free cut of the cash cow.
things that make ya go hmmmmmmmm..............eh?
I helped build one of the world's largest VoIP companies & i know a few things about the telephony networks as a result. And from what i read in the article is mostly wrong.. You can't just interconnect with out a carrier knowing who you are, Even with ss7. You need to have work orders generated, physical connections involved.. even in VoIP you need set up CICs and point codes, testing of the connection..
Also if anything the decentralization of the telephone networks have made absolutely stronger as a reliable means of transport in times of failure now. It works on the same principle in effect as the internet. Where you can reach a destination via many differnt hops.
For example.. in the old days if you wanted to call London, your call went across AT&T and that was that. Now with 5-10 serious International carriers if even 3 or 4 of the carriers have a facility outage for whatever reason(rare as it is) they can re-route calls to alternate carries where as before they would not be able to do that.
What he seems to fail to mention is that with in 10-15 years traditional telephone networks will be thing of the past and phone service will be regulated to just being another service provided through one of a number of broadband pipes(fiber to your house, g3,g4,gwhatever wireless networks that come next) and the whole concept of a telco will change to the point where companies will server merely as giant switching operation and "enhanced services" with almost zero physical infrastructure, which will also result in the fast drop of telephone pricing as the infrastructure costs dramatically.
Some 7am blurred tired thoughts.. hope that was coherent enough.