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Leaving landline phone service for VoIP

Posted by on Jan 31, 2005 | One Comment

Following my recent move to Seattle, I’ve been debating which phone service to choose. Traditional landline services from companies like Qwest and Verizon quickly pile up fees for extra features and long distance. I’ve been thinking hard about switching to VoIP but didn’t trust the call quality until recently. Call quality on for fee services like VoicePulse and Vonage is outstanding. The other hurdle in switching to VoIP was phone hardware. I like the experience provided by landline hardware and everything associated with VoIP previously seemed like a compromise. Linksys recently released a batch of devices that connect your VoIP service to a traditional landline phone, making the switch finally feasible. A free-after-rebate special from Best Buy forced my hand and I’ve taken the VoIP plunge. Find out why VoIP may be the right decision for you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/craig.deforest Craig DeForest

    I am on occasion disgruntled that scientists themselves are (nearly?) as inconsistent as everyone else. We are taught about Popperian falsifiability and verification, and about the hypothesis-theory-falsification loop, but in practice many scientists just “wing it”, saying, in essence, “These data seem consistent with my theory, therefore my theory must be right!” even when the theory would be consistent with anything. There seems to be some innate human desire to see the world in terms of one’s favorite self-consistent paradigm, whether it be right or wrong.

    Such errors get caught in the long run, of course, by competing scientists — that is the power of the scientific method, that it is self-corrects over time. But just barely.