I have similar issues with my mother and my daughter.
Can't get Mom to use Skype because it's some program that didn't actually come with her PC and it's therefore Unknown and therefore Too Scary.
Can't get the kid off Skype because none of her school friends have ever heard of Viber or Jitsi, and therefore they're Unknown and therefore Not Fully Sick.
(Dad is even worse: He just says, "This would all work out a lot better if everybody would just switch to AppleTalk." *facepalm*)
That is, he lives with the wife in Sweden, the parents live in the US, the kid lives in NSW... heh.
BTW, an interesting fact about wives which I'd forgot in between marriages: They ring their mothers and talk to them for at least 2 hours every weekend. Do you have any bloody idea what a 2-hour POTS call from Stockholm to Guangzhou costs? If it weren't for Skype, I'd be living in a cardboard box.:D
I know lots of people who Skype, especially parents with far-flung children.
TFTFY, says the bloke with US parents, an Aussie daughter, and a Chinese wife (we got married in September, if anyone cares) with whom he lives in Sweden.
Regardless of whose hands it's in, VirtualBox is free software, excluding a small extension pack which is not included by default. Unlike other proprietary products, like VMware, you have the freedom to fork it if you don't like the direction development is going or don't like the vendor. And if you're worried about security, you can always audit the software.
Not only that, but it works quite well, at least for me and my use cases, and has for years. I will definitely be checking out the new release.
Rand's works are not philosophy so much as they're extremist pseudo-intellectual quasi-anti-Bolshevik shit-fits.
She basically tried to do with political philosophy what Aleister Crowley tried to do with religion.
It also bears noting that Rand died poor and virtually friendless after screwing over most of her own inner circle in one way or another over the previous couple of decades.
This standard is supposed to help out people using Linux so you can still watch movies without installing an operating system that has a Flash player or SliverLight.
It could also help out with emerging platforms --- like say a video toaster.
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A real-life public defender instead of a Saul Goodman?
I don't get it.
We've had mind control for a few thousand years. It's called "religion".
And calling Australia costs me 0 öre/minute, since my kid is apparently the only member of my family clueful enough to install and use Skype.
It's time for POTS to be put out to pasture, in any case.
You were using Skype strictly for IM?
The Android client worked just fine prior to the MS takeover, thanks.
Since then, they've been dumbing down the interface and removing functionality from it just as fast as they can.
I sometimes get better audio quality via Skype than I do making POTS calls, on the same mobile phone.
I remember when cigarettes reached 60 cents a pack and I swore I'd quit if they ever reached a dollar.
Now they cost me about 50 Swedish crowns, so I'm not sure whether that means I have to quit now, or what. ;-)
SIP is not really something end users should be dealing with directly.
That's right. Now, can some developers kindly learn this, and apply it?
I have similar issues with my mother and my daughter.
Can't get Mom to use Skype because it's some program that didn't actually come with her PC and it's therefore Unknown and therefore Too Scary.
Can't get the kid off Skype because none of her school friends have ever heard of Viber or Jitsi, and therefore they're Unknown and therefore Not Fully Sick.
(Dad is even worse: He just says, "This would all work out a lot better if everybody would just switch to AppleTalk." *facepalm*)
That is, he lives with the wife in Sweden, the parents live in the US, the kid lives in NSW... heh.
BTW, an interesting fact about wives which I'd forgot in between marriages: They ring their mothers and talk to them for at least 2 hours every weekend. Do you have any bloody idea what a 2-hour POTS call from Stockholm to Guangzhou costs? If it weren't for Skype, I'd be living in a cardboard box. :D
I know lots of people who Skype, especially parents with far-flung children.
TFTFY, says the bloke with US parents, an Aussie daughter, and a Chinese wife (we got married in September, if anyone cares) with whom he lives in Sweden.
Actually yes, but that would have meant Russian occupation of all of Korea and more of Japan than that island north of Hokkaido...
That would be Sakhalin.
Some Americans recall the alternative, perhaps.
Or did you think that li'l ol' war was just going to end itself?
Don't you mean, "'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds"?
Well, we *did* get free international video calling and a rather nice operating system out of the deal.
But, yeah, it feels like the dream is pretty much over.
That is why they don't deliberately target innocent people....
They don't have to. "Collateral damage" and all that.
(Do you think we were all born yesterday, or what?)
The people the cartels execute by beheading are members of rival gangs.
..and the occasional teenaged girl... but please don't let this get in the way of your generalisations...
(And now I've posted my first--and hopefully last--link to a snuff video. Thanks for that.)
As opposed to all of that nice, clean cash in your wallet, which very likely carries only trace amounts of cocaine?
Really? The shared clipboard works great for me. I use it almost every day without issue between a Linux host, and some Linux and Windows guests.
Regardless of whose hands it's in, VirtualBox is free software, excluding a small extension pack which is not included by default. Unlike other proprietary products, like VMware, you have the freedom to fork it if you don't like the direction development is going or don't like the vendor. And if you're worried about security, you can always audit the software.
Not only that, but it works quite well, at least for me and my use cases, and has for years. I will definitely be checking out the new release.
Was that 5H42M or 5M42S?
Building houses suited for more northerly climates in Central Florida and then using vast amounts of power to cool them is bloody stupid.
Rand's works are not philosophy so much as they're extremist pseudo-intellectual quasi-anti-Bolshevik shit-fits.
She basically tried to do with political philosophy what Aleister Crowley tried to do with religion.
It also bears noting that Rand died poor and virtually friendless after screwing over most of her own inner circle in one way or another over the previous couple of decades.
This standard is supposed to help out people using Linux so you can still watch movies without installing an operating system that has a Flash player or SliverLight.
It could also help out with emerging platforms --- like say a video toaster.
Are you high? Seriously.