Those are interesting numbers actually. Sure, Research stats support your argument. However I'm struck by the quantity of non-US software development gigs in those stats you have cited.
Yeah. Internet domain names are like most of the women out there. All the ones that I could probably have any serious, long-term interest in, worth committing to, well they were already spoken for and taken a long time ago.
Both the iPad and iPod touch can make calls via wifi (or via iPad 3g) using SIP compatible VOIP clients, to the best of my knowledge, (I've never used these apple products)
Here's a nice review of iOS clients, and from a really neat site with its own tricked-out user friendly Asterisk PBX distribution called PBX-in-a-flash.
As a committed Ubuntu user and open-source developer & trainer, I thought the commercial-within-a-commercial from about 4 minutes-in to 5.30 minutes to be nostalgic and highly entertaining. Thanks for that!
Actually two, operational blowout preventers were called for in the regulatory specifications. Turns out the single blowout preventer had no battery juice available. The system is supposed to work, by the batteries closing the hole automatically when detection of the control monitoring software fails. But if the batteries to the sole preventer don't have the juice when needed, bad things can happen. Someone thought the costs vs. risks were negligible, so they settled for less.
Kamkar, by getting a user to visit his malicious Web site, used remote JavaScript and AJAX to acquire a routers MAC address. When the unsuspecting user visits the malicious Web site, JavaScript remotely scans for the type of router used, accesses the routers MAC address and sends it directly to the attacker.
So yeah, if you have noscript installed, this is not a threat to you.
All I can do is mention www.moneris.com since a friend in the CC industry suggested this fairly recently, towards a charity we're both involved in. Aside from this suggestion to research on my own for our own purposes, I have nothing else to offer you except this simple mention.
What about the Firefox Showcase extension?
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Saw the video of TFA and it seems Showcase does The Job, and is 'mature' as well; while not requiring so much manual intervention (which others might value as a Good Thing). I've been using it for at least a year and really like Showcase.
At a major Taiwanese PC tradeshow, the CEO of ASUS abruptly canceled his presentation about new Asus products. Asus immediately began towing the line regarding Microsoft products and co-promotion following that. Dell's recent promoting cohabitation with Ubuntu sounds like exactly the same thing.
Glad someone jumped in here supporting the argument for virtualized machines. Just want to add, the individual VMs all run faster when assigned only a single core. I didn't realize this at first, but learned this from a slashdot post years ago.
The idea as I understand it, is ideally you don't want to share real cores between virtual machines. And hopefully there's enough cores to spread around your virtual server farm.
They can when those tarballs are on the sand. Check out the machines from Beach-tech. These machines use mesh to 'sift', and do not 'rake'. Raking breaks up the tarballs undesirably.
An interesting factoid is these machines work much better at night in the dark, because the colder temperature coagulates the tarballs better for easier removal.
I hear you! There's a former Asus 500w Premium router I bricked once that I regret. But all in all it was worth it to me. The cost of doing business.
I really like running DD-WRT on cheap routers, and over time, I've bricked one or two; and I accept I broke the manufacturer's warranty by attempting the 'upgrade' in the first place. Those things deliver international office VPN/VOIP functions that more than offset the cost & loss of a few bricked routers overall. I can accept a few bricks
By announcing that Symbian will no longer be the OS choice for their top-end smartphones in the future, Nokia has essentially cannibalized the sales of their upcoming flagship - the Nokia N8
You are right, Nokia needs to change management and execution. Nokia as a company has so much going for it, but their marketing message is lackluster and poorly executed. No one is trying to discover Nokia's next move, because it is methodically laid-out for anyone who is not bored by Nokia's presentation, spanning months & years. Yes, announcing Symbian was mid-range before the N8 seems like a coffin-nail to me too.
Notice how Apple announces their products at a huge trade show with Steve Jobs. Android gets press as each carrier trumpets out the latest and greatest Droid, so that each phone gets marketing hype and immediate availability. Nokia has no 'hot' phone with an 'exclusive' carrier hyping & subsidizing it for mass consumption by people who have never envisioned themselves as rocket engineers. So tweak the business model and message a bit Nokia. The phones with great build-quality + OS(s) are there. So are OVI web services.
You don't need a google voice app, in fact you are better off without it. Skype for example is an extra battery-sucking application that works, but is superfluous. Google Voice is SIP-compatible.
The phones of the Nokia VOIP list allow input of SIP settings directly into the Nokia OS. This cuts down on battery usage in a Big Way. If you can avoid using Fring, Skype, or other applications this way, then you are better off.
It really does seem that as of about yesterday, Nokia re-vamped their entire web-infrastructure. (I think they are switching from a Lotus Domino back-end, to a Drupal infrastructure). The Nokia document I have known and loved, a chart of SIP devices, is now gone it seems. In its place is a new tool for the clued-in to create device SIP settings. I suppose Nokia went this route, so as not to piss off the wireless Telcos that are shutting Nokia out of multiyear consumer contract bundles.
For clients, family, & friends, I always pointed out any Nokia phone on that list handled SIP natively. However it seems today Nokia is updating their site, and that URL is unavailable. I really hope the page comes back!
My own 'ancient' N95 with a 2nd forward-facing camera (needs Fring, but then I'm making skype-compatible video calls) does pretty everything the recent 2 generations of iPhone do. Only the newer iPhone shoots in higher resolution is all. But multitasking, SIP, tethering, and A2DP bluetooth (wireless phone/music headset), I've been enjoying all that stuff for several years earlier than Apple said I could.
My favorite app is SportTracker, which allows voice-enabled AGPS, or sans-data-plan then GPS navigation (that's 2 map apps, multitasking nicely). I can ride my bike, listen to tunes, a computer lady tells me when to turn, the music fades out softly for incoming-headset SIP calls. And I can upload my trip to Nokia's SportsTracker server, for social networking/exercise, w/ Gmaps, etc. Nokia is even coming out with a 15-20 euro bike-powered-charger; I can't wait. GPS wants juice. The N79 even records Polar heart tracking data, and uploads it along with any auto-geo-tagged MP3 playlist to SportsTracker.
The N900 _IS_ a linux computer, and I'll upgrade to it, or its successor, once my N95 dies, but so far, so very good. Nokia does great with software updates too; (over the ownership of this device, Nokia has impressed me this way; it is so much better than when it was new)
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T-mobile has the lowest price for data-only service, at $40 monthly. This has been the case for years. If you've got your VOIP setup down, you already know this is all you need. One SIM allows easy-tethering also.
My brother drives a truck around Northern Arizona and I've been trying to get him to switch to such a plan, but he says there's nothing like Verizon coverage in the area, (and what he really wants is voice service). If anyone has any comments on T-mobiles coverage in N. Arizona, I'd like to hear. When I look at T-mobiles coverage map, it looks pretty good along all the highways, to me.
Please do not be offended, as I only wrote of audit-able record-keeping, not of a requirement for a full-time book-keeping employee. This simply means producing an invoice for the client, and an audit-able paper-trail of earnings.
Using the example of Amsterdam, where prostitution remains legal to this day and trade unions exist, everyone involved must still pay taxes. Money laundering is illegal. As I understand, this has also diminished another serious issue: human trafficking.
So an I.T. worker must provide the client with an invoice and somehow manage books to show how these invoices get paid into accounts receivable. If they want to take deductions allowed, they can also maintain accounts payable and figure things out.
This might reduce Ukranian mafia inspired bot-nets, for example.
Seems reasonable. I keep books myself in multi-lingual, multi-currency Gnucash that accepts MT940 transaction downloads from my bank, and I pay an auditor to inspect my books and file for me at the end of the year. I think everyone else should have to be ready for an audit as well. Seriously folks, accounts receivable/payable ain't rocket science. After years of suffering through the misery of Intuit Quicken, I really like GnuCash,and am proud of my books. Also www.mint.com is supposed to be a no-brainer in terms of difficulty, but I think they got bought-out by eViL Intuit. Whatever works for you.
Someone on the Slashdots wrote in their sig they liked taxes, because they used taxes to buy civilization. Seems reasonable, and preferential to anarchy. I think the Ukranian government is acknowledging that I.T. workers ain't exactly like waiters and waitresses collecting cash tips.
The US government tried 'policing' Al Capone to little effect. Tax evasion was what brought him down.
Lately Amsterdam has seriously 'cleaned up' its red light district in much the same manner. For a synopsis you can get a pretty good idea by reading the web page of Yab Yum, the 'leading' brothel, back in the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yab_Yum_(brothel), or just google it.
Bottom line is: The city wants to audit your books. Which stands to reason money laundering is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Anyone doing any kind of legitimate business knows this, and knows the costs and effort required to maintain audit able records. These people expect nothing less of other businesses. It seems a reasonable expectation of anyone doing any kind of legal business, and keeps a level playing field, among the tax base.
FYI, I live in a foreign (to the US) country, and I think NPR over the internet is fantastic. Better than anything else I can find for radio news. And I say this as an I.T. worker that listens to a LOT of radio every day.
FWIW, I also really enjoy 2 of the 3 www.groovera.com stations too, because what I really dislike is musical repetition; but I still need something funky and cool to work all those hours behind Le Machiné.
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Those are interesting numbers actually. Sure, Research stats support your argument. However I'm struck by the quantity of non-US software development gigs in those stats you have cited.
Yeah. Internet domain names are like most of the women out there. All the ones that I could probably have any serious, long-term interest in, worth committing to, well they were already spoken for and taken a long time ago.
Both the iPad and iPod touch can make calls via wifi (or via iPad 3g) using SIP compatible VOIP clients, to the best of my knowledge, (I've never used these apple products) Here's a nice review of iOS clients, and from a really neat site with its own tricked-out user friendly Asterisk PBX distribution called PBX-in-a-flash.
As a committed Ubuntu user and open-source developer & trainer, I thought the commercial-within-a-commercial from about 4 minutes-in to 5.30 minutes to be nostalgic and highly entertaining. Thanks for that!
Yeah, times changed about when Snoop Dogg moved from Long Beach to live on top of a high hill in Diamond Bar. See any correlation? Any at all?
Actually two, operational blowout preventers were called for in the regulatory specifications. Turns out the single blowout preventer had no battery juice available. The system is supposed to work, by the batteries closing the hole automatically when detection of the control monitoring software fails. But if the batteries to the sole preventer don't have the juice when needed, bad things can happen. Someone thought the costs vs. risks were negligible, so they settled for less.
So yeah, if you have noscript installed, this is not a threat to you.
All I can do is mention www.moneris.com since a friend in the CC industry suggested this fairly recently, towards a charity we're both involved in. Aside from this suggestion to research on my own for our own purposes, I have nothing else to offer you except this simple mention.
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Saw the video of TFA and it seems Showcase does The Job, and is 'mature' as well; while not requiring so much manual intervention (which others might value as a Good Thing). I've been using it for at least a year and really like Showcase.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1810
At a major Taiwanese PC tradeshow, the CEO of ASUS abruptly canceled his presentation about new Asus products. Asus immediately began towing the line regarding Microsoft products and co-promotion following that. Dell's recent promoting cohabitation with Ubuntu sounds like exactly the same thing.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_strikes_back_at_linux_netbook_push
Glad someone jumped in here supporting the argument for virtualized machines. Just want to add, the individual VMs all run faster when assigned only a single core. I didn't realize this at first, but learned this from a slashdot post years ago.
The idea as I understand it, is ideally you don't want to share real cores between virtual machines. And hopefully there's enough cores to spread around your virtual server farm.
They can when those tarballs are on the sand. Check out the machines from Beach-tech. These machines use mesh to 'sift', and do not 'rake'. Raking breaks up the tarballs undesirably.
An interesting factoid is these machines work much better at night in the dark, because the colder temperature coagulates the tarballs better for easier removal.
mod up seriously. Knowing what I know about Drupal + Solr, along with these fantastic examples, this is informative, truly.
Yes!! And I hope Intuit/Quicken dies painfully! Sort of like SCO, but very much more quickly. GnuCash rocks!
I hear you! There's a former Asus 500w Premium router I bricked once that I regret. But all in all it was worth it to me. The cost of doing business.
I really like running DD-WRT on cheap routers, and over time, I've bricked one or two; and I accept I broke the manufacturer's warranty by attempting the 'upgrade' in the first place. Those things deliver international office VPN/VOIP functions that more than offset the cost & loss of a few bricked routers overall. I can accept a few bricks
You are right, Nokia needs to change management and execution. Nokia as a company has so much going for it, but their marketing message is lackluster and poorly executed. No one is trying to discover Nokia's next move, because it is methodically laid-out for anyone who is not bored by Nokia's presentation, spanning months & years. Yes, announcing Symbian was mid-range before the N8 seems like a coffin-nail to me too.
Notice how Apple announces their products at a huge trade show with Steve Jobs. Android gets press as each carrier trumpets out the latest and greatest Droid, so that each phone gets marketing hype and immediate availability. Nokia has no 'hot' phone with an 'exclusive' carrier hyping & subsidizing it for mass consumption by people who have never envisioned themselves as rocket engineers. So tweak the business model and message a bit Nokia. The phones with great build-quality + OS(s) are there. So are OVI web services.
You don't need a google voice app, in fact you are better off without it. Skype for example is an extra battery-sucking application that works, but is superfluous. Google Voice is SIP-compatible.
The phones of the Nokia VOIP list allow input of SIP settings directly into the Nokia OS. This cuts down on battery usage in a Big Way. If you can avoid using Fring, Skype, or other applications this way, then you are better off.
It really does seem that as of about yesterday, Nokia re-vamped their entire web-infrastructure. (I think they are switching from a Lotus Domino back-end, to a Drupal infrastructure). The Nokia document I have known and loved, a chart of SIP devices, is now gone it seems. In its place is a new tool for the clued-in to create device SIP settings. I suppose Nokia went this route, so as not to piss off the wireless Telcos that are shutting Nokia out of multiyear consumer contract bundles.
NOKIA'S DO-IT YOURSELF SIP TOOL
http://www.forum.nokia.com/Library/Tools_and_downloads/Other/SIP_VoIP_settings_applications.xhtml
NOKIA CORP'S COMMENT ON SIP SUPPORT
http://conversations.nokia.com/2008/08/27/the-report-of-the-death-of-voip-has-been-grossly-exaggerated/
(BTW, I saw a review of a Droid X and an N900, and the N900 still looks best, I think. Especially the keyboard; not to mention OS differences)
I refer to the Nokia VOIP compatibility list a lot for times like these, and the URL that has always worked is (I hope the pages works again, soon):
VoIP support in Nokia devices - Forum Nokia Wiki
http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/voice_over_IP/voip_support_in_nokia_devices.html
For clients, family, & friends, I always pointed out any Nokia phone on that list handled SIP natively. However it seems today Nokia is updating their site, and that URL is unavailable. I really hope the page comes back!
My own 'ancient' N95 with a 2nd forward-facing camera (needs Fring, but then I'm making skype-compatible video calls) does pretty everything the recent 2 generations of iPhone do. Only the newer iPhone shoots in higher resolution is all. But multitasking, SIP, tethering, and A2DP bluetooth (wireless phone/music headset), I've been enjoying all that stuff for several years earlier than Apple said I could.
My favorite app is SportTracker, which allows voice-enabled AGPS, or sans-data-plan then GPS navigation (that's 2 map apps, multitasking nicely). I can ride my bike, listen to tunes, a computer lady tells me when to turn, the music fades out softly for incoming-headset SIP calls. And I can upload my trip to Nokia's SportsTracker server, for social networking/exercise, w/ Gmaps, etc. Nokia is even coming out with a 15-20 euro bike-powered-charger; I can't wait. GPS wants juice. The N79 even records Polar heart tracking data, and uploads it along with any auto-geo-tagged MP3 playlist to SportsTracker.
The N900 _IS_ a linux computer, and I'll upgrade to it, or its successor, once my N95 dies, but so far, so very good. Nokia does great with software updates too; (over the ownership of this device, Nokia has impressed me this way; it is so much better than when it was new)
Does corn grow well on hills(?) because I, for one, volunteer for summer popcorn 'snow'boarding patrol.
T-mobile has the lowest price for data-only service, at $40 monthly. This has been the case for years. If you've got your VOIP setup down, you already know this is all you need. One SIM allows easy-tethering also.
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/cell-phone-plans-detail.aspx?tp=tb1&rateplan=Even-More-Plus-Smartphone-Unlimited-Web-E-mail
My brother drives a truck around Northern Arizona and I've been trying to get him to switch to such a plan, but he says there's nothing like Verizon coverage in the area, (and what he really wants is voice service). If anyone has any comments on T-mobiles coverage in N. Arizona, I'd like to hear. When I look at T-mobiles coverage map, it looks pretty good along all the highways, to me.
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Please do not be offended, as I only wrote of audit-able record-keeping, not of a requirement for a full-time book-keeping employee. This simply means producing an invoice for the client, and an audit-able paper-trail of earnings.
Using the example of Amsterdam, where prostitution remains legal to this day and trade unions exist, everyone involved must still pay taxes. Money laundering is illegal. As I understand, this has also diminished another serious issue: human trafficking.
So an I.T. worker must provide the client with an invoice and somehow manage books to show how these invoices get paid into accounts receivable. If they want to take deductions allowed, they can also maintain accounts payable and figure things out.
This might reduce Ukranian mafia inspired bot-nets, for example.
Seems reasonable. I keep books myself in multi-lingual, multi-currency Gnucash that accepts MT940 transaction downloads from my bank, and I pay an auditor to inspect my books and file for me at the end of the year. I think everyone else should have to be ready for an audit as well. Seriously folks, accounts receivable/payable ain't rocket science. After years of suffering through the misery of Intuit Quicken, I really like GnuCash,and am proud of my books. Also www.mint.com is supposed to be a no-brainer in terms of difficulty, but I think they got bought-out by eViL Intuit. Whatever works for you.
Someone on the Slashdots wrote in their sig they liked taxes, because they used taxes to buy civilization. Seems reasonable, and preferential to anarchy. I think the Ukranian government is acknowledging that I.T. workers ain't exactly like waiters and waitresses collecting cash tips.
The US government tried 'policing' Al Capone to little effect. Tax evasion was what brought him down.
Lately Amsterdam has seriously 'cleaned up' its red light district in much the same manner. For a synopsis you can get a pretty good idea by reading the web page of Yab Yum, the 'leading' brothel, back in the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yab_Yum_(brothel), or just google it.
Bottom line is: The city wants to audit your books. Which stands to reason money laundering is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
Anyone doing any kind of legitimate business knows this, and knows the costs and effort required to maintain audit able records. These people expect nothing less of other businesses. It seems a reasonable expectation of anyone doing any kind of legal business, and keeps a level playing field, among the tax base.
FYI, I live in a foreign (to the US) country, and I think NPR over the internet is fantastic. Better than anything else I can find for radio news. And I say this as an I.T. worker that listens to a LOT of radio every day.
FWIW, I also really enjoy 2 of the 3 www.groovera.com stations too, because what I really dislike is musical repetition; but I still need something funky and cool to work all those hours behind Le Machiné.
Viva le internet radio!