You forgot hand held computing device without a touch screen, hand held computing device with a physical keyboard, hand held computing device with a keyboard accessory (i.e. USB, wireless, or BluTooth keyboard)

Add to that the removal of all commercials during a show, and I'd be onboard. Have 5 minutes to fill between shows? Run commercials then. But don't break up the show I'm trying to enjoy with commercials. It would create a better viewing opportunity for consumers but still allow advertisements in between shows.

It would also make it easier to skip commercials. When I did watch TV (don't subscribe to any television service anymore), I'd just mute the commercials anyway. With this change, just mute after show goes off, and unmute when next show comes on.

Make it play facebook games natively.

So... how is this not the table heavily tilted towards larger companies?

But don't they have to do all of this to be able to make calls anyway? The only difference being that SMS could be sent out more frequently than calls, thus causing slightly more handing off to other carriers.

Also, I've never heard of an SMS only plan. I think the argument here is that since all of this connectivity must be maintained for the Voice network, why are we paying so much for the SMS, which essentially costs a very small amount of cost on the provider's end when looking at the fact that all of their infrastructure and interconnectivity is needed for the voice portion of the service? That's what GP means by "technically free".

But.. but... but... they added a WATCH! So of course they should get the patent

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This article is also about linux on the desktop, not server. I've used debian based and red hat based linux servers. The package management and setup requirements are basically a user preference. For example: Red Hat uses /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for networking while Debian uses /etc/network/interfaces.

For enterprise, I think that Red Hat does have a lot of enterprise level support, whereas I'm not sure about Debian. But for the desktop, I've had much more success with Debian flavor distros than Red hat.

I personally am happy to spend 5 - 30 on a single hard cover book by an author I appreciate. I'm not willing to spend more than $5 on an ebook, specifically because it's so easy to copy it.

Some ebooks I've seen are just as expensive as the paper version. I'd much rather spend that money on the paper version and add it to my bookshelves / personal library. Give me 99 cent ebooks, and I'll spend a lot more money on them.

It depends on the company. I was offered a position once for $12 an hour. I countered with $15. They called me a week later (presumably after other interviews) and offered me $15.12. If you think you're worth $15 instead of $12, then say so, but be willing to accept that the company may not agree. You never know, they might agree and give you the $15 because you are a better candidate for the job than the person willing to do it for $12.

And for the record, they hired 4 other people after me at $12 or less, but always said I was the best in the department.

*WOOSH*

Laws aside, if someone intercepts the TCP/IP stream and stores the RTP packets that carry the data for SIP calls, then the can easily be remastered into an audio recording of the call.

As far as logging calls, the provider you pay for service, and the provider at the other end of the line, have every legal right to have a log of the call, even if it's not the audio but instead a record that the call was made.

I was referring to the three CS courses, which were the main point of the article post.

If you look at the courses, one expounds on another. The first course is programming concepts with java programming, second gets more in depth, requiring a good knowledge from the first course, and uses C++, third gets pretty deep and requires a good knowledge courses 1 and 2 as well as a good knowledge of C++.

Of course, all of this information comes from the website, but I guess it's too much to ask someone on /. to look at the site... even if they are interested in "taking the course".