- take or consume (an amount) from a limited supply of something : we have used all the available funds.
- informal take (an illegal drug) : they were using heroin daily | [ intrans. ] had she been using again?
consumeNew Oxford American Dictionary:
take, hold, or deploy (something) as a means of accomplishing a purpose or achieving a result
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The Continuing Quest for Freedom from Telco TiranyRantWhy is Skype evil? They choose to create their own proprietary network rather than interoperating with SIP, for the sole purpose of building a monopoly. Sure, it makes good business sense for them, since they are doubtless far more profitable than any public SIP service trying to compete in the same space. Can we blame them for wanting to make some dinero? No, I guess not. Will we fight them for control of the network? Duh of course! Anyway, I've been using Skype for awhile since certain people I talk to also use it (there's the lock-in bit). Gizmo was pretty good, but not good enough (connection under bad conditions on public wifi etc was better under skype). Skype has its own cross-platform SIP client (using Trolltech's excellent dual-license QT library of course), which is free as in beer, but not Free Software. Anyway big woop. It also doesn't do video. FF>> 6 months, and now the market is starting to shift around a bit. Wengo, a France-based SIP provider, has produced a very interesting SIP client:
The latest Wengophone release (2.1) claims to allow connections to other SIP providers. This is important because Wengo's service:
So anyway I'm thinking that Sipphone's service might be the perfect match for Wengo's client. Testing follows, this article to document results. Sprint: Evil? Ya.The other day Sprint turned my phone off. Their Terms Of Service give a $150 penalty for terminating service in the 2nd year of your contract. Any change you make to your plan resets the contract (even changing the number of minutes) . I want out. I want cheap, flexible VoIP service with SIP. SIP interoperates with everything: other networks, hardware phones, softphones. For example, there is a version of Gizmo, a crossplatform SIP client, available for Nokia’s WLAN equiped 770 handheld. Why not Skype? Skype uses a proprietary protocol which doesn’t interoperate with much of anything (although it does have software for pocketpc). I have experienced artifacts and dropouts when talking on Skype, even over a fast cable connection. SIP softphones seem to have cleaner audio, possibly due to the automatic codec negotiation inherent in the protocol. SIPPhone, the service which backs the Gizmo client, has free SIP-to-SIP calling and cheap international POTS and mobile minutes. There is no monthly service charge, unless you lease a local phone number for $12 dollars every 3 months so that you can receive calls from regular phones. I was impressed with SIPPhone’s slick account management site: buy minutes, modify your user profile, add people to your phone book, even dial your phone via the web interface. I could definitely see using the service with a web tablet like the 770. Poppa Sprint breathing down your neck? Get SIP! |