See the citation in the first reply to my comment. All pitot tubes are vulnerable to freezing, but for whatever reason, the type used on these planes seemed more prone to these problems than usual, and they were actually planning on replacing them by the time the crash happened.
I didn't mention it both because we haven't seen any fallout yet, and because any self-respecting Linux or FOSS user will already be using a SIP client or some other free alternative. I've been getting all of my landline phone service for the last four years through an SPA-3102, which I'm soon going to replace with a Mesh Potato (which runs Asterisk/OpenWRT).
No! The borg reference is still quite relevant. Just because they can't EE&E anymore doesn't mean their mentality has changed. Look at OOXML or their Android patent extortion scheme. Same old Microsoft. Sure, their assimilation glory days are over, but they're still trying:)
Ok, but what I'm saying is that if you're on anything better than 56k, none of that is a problem, and that's probably the vast majority of Skype's userbase, and the vast majority of people here. There aren't any barriers stopping service providers from simply adding support for Speex or Codec 2 for those low-bandwidth users, either, and if they're not calling the PSTN, then it's much more likely that both ends would at least support Speex.
Well, I don't know who thought it was a good idea to duplicate info like IP and port, but I've been using SIP for my own phone service for years, and G.711 works fine, so there's actually no need to use G.729. I'm sure there are some people on 56k or something where it actually makes a difference, but for your average broadband user, G.711 is fine. There's also Codec 2, Opus, which had outstanding performance on what looks like a pretty rigorous listening test, and of course, Speex, but uptake is an issue for those, of course, since both ends have to support the codec.
In my experience, the codecs are fine. The NAT stuff is definitely still an issue for the average user, but it's one that can be solved. I think it would have been solved satisfactorily by open SIP clients by now, except that support certain badly NATed clients, you need to proxy calls through a server (or a P2P protocol), which is a more open-ended problem than just included protocol support in your client.
I've been using Linux for 5+ years with no data loss, but maybe it was more problematic before then, I don't know. Ext3 was standard by the time I switched over. As to why Linux has its own filesystems, there's actually a much more reasonable explanation for that than NIH syndrome. Besides, that accusation doesn't make sense when every other popular OS also has its own filesystem. It's not like they're deliberately avoiding a standard. Which other incompatible FS are they supposed to be compatible with?
I think it's grossly unfair to characterize the huge amount of effort that someone puts into a filesystem as merely being a case of NIH, when something genuinely interesting and better is being produced. For example, you can remove a disk from a Btrfs volume (or shrink the volume) while it's in use. There's also a tool that not only converts ext3/4 volumes to Btrfs in-place, but also does it in such a way that you can mount the volume in Btrfs, change your mind, and go back to using it in ext4, because the ext4 metadata is stored in a sparse Btrfs file, preventing the metadata's destruction until it that file is deleted, finalizing the conversion. I wish I could remember the thing I originally read, but this article I just found is also really informative.
Well, to be fair, I've done the same thing - I switched to Debian testing so that it would be easier for me to upgrade to packages that fix bugs instead of having to wait 6 months for the next release and next set of bugs.
I see where people are coming from with this sentiment, but I think that generally, it means you haven't had the fortune of working with a bunch of people that you'd actually enjoy spending lunch with. Once you've tried it, you might find yourself missing it later.
Every single time I've decided to test something in moonlight, whether it be streaming hockey, streaming the Olympics, SIPSorcery, or this Tuva thing, never have I even gotten basic access to the service in question. In this case I had to grab Moonlight, then change my user agent to IE on Windows to even get a Silverlight app to load. Then it just hangs during startup.
The sole reason Moonlight exists is so that people who use Windows and Mac OS X can be scammed into thinking that Silverlight is cross-platform. At least Flash, as bad as it is, has a working Linux client.
That's 40 weeks, not 40 months, and because of the possibility of scavengers removing carcasses, the rate is more like 100 birds per year. The authors also warn that larger facilities may result in a nonlinear increase in the number of bird deaths because of the increase in scale.
I wish you were right, but if you take a 1500mAH battery at 3.7V, and assume 100% efficiency in charging, it's more like 5 and a half hours, and I'm guessing that's not a valid assumption.
I agree with everything you just said, but it's not about which party someone sides with, it's about whether I think their comments are an honest mistake, or if they are deliberately trying to polarize the political debate. If I see someone engaging in hypocrisy or dishonesty in their public commentary, I'm obviously a lot more likely to see malicious intent in something they say later on, because that person would have lost credibility with me. Of course, Obama has also lost a lot of credibility since he was elected as well, but for different reasons than what I would talk about in relation to politicians and commentators from the right. Then there's the fact that I don't agree with tax cuts on the rich, blanket deregulation, restrictions on the rights of individuals, and the vilification of public sector unions and workers, so it's kind of hard to me to be sympathetic to the right wing cause. Where Obama has failed, I think it's because he's failed to follow through on the things he promised during his campaign in the face of opposition from right-leaning representatives in congress and the senate, and because the Democrats have failed to successfully combat the misinformation about e.g. health care that tainted the public debate. Being an outsider, though, I can't really analyze the situation with any more rigor or depth than that.
Perhaps you should check out the Pandora project. There have been concerns about it being vaporware in the past, but they've been producing about 250 per week for the last two months, and I don't know of any other pocket-sized device with openly developed first-party firmware that is still around (please reply with examples that contradict this, I would appreciate them). For $500 you can order one that would be shipped to you 7 days after you order, and you'd have an easier time compiling Linux-based software on that than an Android phone.
Neither of these sides could be considered "my team", both because I'm Canadian, and because Democrats do stupid things as well, like acting on behalf of the media lobby. If you look at my post though, nothing I said could be construed to mean that I think it's fine for left wing people to use violent rhetoric. At the same time though, referring to a figure of speech ("don't bring a knife to a gun fight"), even if it is a poor choice of words given the room for interpretation, does not automatically imply an intent to condone violence, and I don't think that was Barack Obama's intent when he said that. Meanwhile, I can't see any charitable way to interpret Glenn Beck acting out poisoning Nancy Pelosi's wine. Glenn Beck is more than just some kind of shock talk show host. A prominent example of someone taking him seriously is Victoria Jackson, who actually said "I watched Glenn Beck and he's taught me well", while explaining why she thinks Barack Obama's a communist.
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That reminds me of this brilliant comic. I wish the authors had kept working on it, it was consistently hilarious.
See the citation in the first reply to my comment. All pitot tubes are vulnerable to freezing, but for whatever reason, the type used on these planes seemed more prone to these problems than usual, and they were actually planning on replacing them by the time the crash happened.
Citation needed.
I didn't mention it both because we haven't seen any fallout yet, and because any self-respecting Linux or FOSS user will already be using a SIP client or some other free alternative. I've been getting all of my landline phone service for the last four years through an SPA-3102, which I'm soon going to replace with a Mesh Potato (which runs Asterisk/OpenWRT).
Oh, and I forgot about the fact that they basically assimilated Nokia. What a tragedy that was.
No! The borg reference is still quite relevant. Just because they can't EE&E anymore doesn't mean their mentality has changed. Look at OOXML or their Android patent extortion scheme. Same old Microsoft. Sure, their assimilation glory days are over, but they're still trying :)
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2011.74.html According to the abstract, the key contribution is an optical implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform (which is pretty cool). They only tested their work using fibre, not just laser beams or w/e is implied by the headline.
Ok, but what I'm saying is that if you're on anything better than 56k, none of that is a problem, and that's probably the vast majority of Skype's userbase, and the vast majority of people here. There aren't any barriers stopping service providers from simply adding support for Speex or Codec 2 for those low-bandwidth users, either, and if they're not calling the PSTN, then it's much more likely that both ends would at least support Speex.
Well, I don't know who thought it was a good idea to duplicate info like IP and port, but I've been using SIP for my own phone service for years, and G.711 works fine, so there's actually no need to use G.729. I'm sure there are some people on 56k or something where it actually makes a difference, but for your average broadband user, G.711 is fine. There's also Codec 2, Opus, which had outstanding performance on what looks like a pretty rigorous listening test, and of course, Speex, but uptake is an issue for those, of course, since both ends have to support the codec.
Any open SIP client can indeed send and receive calls to the real world, through the PSTN, using services from a variety of companies.
In my experience, the codecs are fine. The NAT stuff is definitely still an issue for the average user, but it's one that can be solved. I think it would have been solved satisfactorily by open SIP clients by now, except that support certain badly NATed clients, you need to proxy calls through a server (or a P2P protocol), which is a more open-ended problem than just included protocol support in your client.
I've been using Linux for 5+ years with no data loss, but maybe it was more problematic before then, I don't know. Ext3 was standard by the time I switched over. As to why Linux has its own filesystems, there's actually a much more reasonable explanation for that than NIH syndrome. Besides, that accusation doesn't make sense when every other popular OS also has its own filesystem. It's not like they're deliberately avoiding a standard. Which other incompatible FS are they supposed to be compatible with?
I think it's grossly unfair to characterize the huge amount of effort that someone puts into a filesystem as merely being a case of NIH, when something genuinely interesting and better is being produced. For example, you can remove a disk from a Btrfs volume (or shrink the volume) while it's in use. There's also a tool that not only converts ext3/4 volumes to Btrfs in-place, but also does it in such a way that you can mount the volume in Btrfs, change your mind, and go back to using it in ext4, because the ext4 metadata is stored in a sparse Btrfs file, preventing the metadata's destruction until it that file is deleted, finalizing the conversion. I wish I could remember the thing I originally read, but this article I just found is also really informative.
That's real robots to you! I didn't spent 10 years learning SSL and TLS in robot school so I could be called Mr., thank you very much!
Well, to be fair, I've done the same thing - I switched to Debian testing so that it would be easier for me to upgrade to packages that fix bugs instead of having to wait 6 months for the next release and next set of bugs.
You didn't like pulseaudio, so you switched to Fedora?
Don't worry about it!
11.04 isn't an LTS release.
I see where people are coming from with this sentiment, but I think that generally, it means you haven't had the fortune of working with a bunch of people that you'd actually enjoy spending lunch with. Once you've tried it, you might find yourself missing it later.
Every single time I've decided to test something in moonlight, whether it be streaming hockey, streaming the Olympics, SIPSorcery, or this Tuva thing, never have I even gotten basic access to the service in question. In this case I had to grab Moonlight, then change my user agent to IE on Windows to even get a Silverlight app to load. Then it just hangs during startup.
The sole reason Moonlight exists is so that people who use Windows and Mac OS X can be scammed into thinking that Silverlight is cross-platform. At least Flash, as bad as it is, has a working Linux client.
That's 40 weeks, not 40 months, and because of the possibility of scavengers removing carcasses, the rate is more like 100 birds per year. The authors also warn that larger facilities may result in a nonlinear increase in the number of bird deaths because of the increase in scale.
I wish you were right, but if you take a 1500mAH battery at 3.7V, and assume 100% efficiency in charging, it's more like 5 and a half hours, and I'm guessing that's not a valid assumption.
I agree with everything you just said, but it's not about which party someone sides with, it's about whether I think their comments are an honest mistake, or if they are deliberately trying to polarize the political debate. If I see someone engaging in hypocrisy or dishonesty in their public commentary, I'm obviously a lot more likely to see malicious intent in something they say later on, because that person would have lost credibility with me. Of course, Obama has also lost a lot of credibility since he was elected as well, but for different reasons than what I would talk about in relation to politicians and commentators from the right. Then there's the fact that I don't agree with tax cuts on the rich, blanket deregulation, restrictions on the rights of individuals, and the vilification of public sector unions and workers, so it's kind of hard to me to be sympathetic to the right wing cause. Where Obama has failed, I think it's because he's failed to follow through on the things he promised during his campaign in the face of opposition from right-leaning representatives in congress and the senate, and because the Democrats have failed to successfully combat the misinformation about e.g. health care that tainted the public debate. Being an outsider, though, I can't really analyze the situation with any more rigor or depth than that.
Perhaps you should check out the Pandora project. There have been concerns about it being vaporware in the past, but they've been producing about 250 per week for the last two months, and I don't know of any other pocket-sized device with openly developed first-party firmware that is still around (please reply with examples that contradict this, I would appreciate them). For $500 you can order one that would be shipped to you 7 days after you order, and you'd have an easier time compiling Linux-based software on that than an Android phone.
Neither of these sides could be considered "my team", both because I'm Canadian, and because Democrats do stupid things as well, like acting on behalf of the media lobby. If you look at my post though, nothing I said could be construed to mean that I think it's fine for left wing people to use violent rhetoric. At the same time though, referring to a figure of speech ("don't bring a knife to a gun fight"), even if it is a poor choice of words given the room for interpretation, does not automatically imply an intent to condone violence, and I don't think that was Barack Obama's intent when he said that. Meanwhile, I can't see any charitable way to interpret Glenn Beck acting out poisoning Nancy Pelosi's wine. Glenn Beck is more than just some kind of shock talk show host. A prominent example of someone taking him seriously is Victoria Jackson, who actually said "I watched Glenn Beck and he's taught me well", while explaining why she thinks Barack Obama's a communist.