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I've got e-mail, that Skype decided to terminate Desktop API {see forwarded mail bellow}.
We are using many Polycom Communicator C100S, which rely on connection to Skype API.
Could you answer me, please, what will be replacement for Communicator software to keep button / LED functionality?
Thank you forward for your replay.
From: Skype Developer Support [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 8:31 PM
Subject: Important information regarding the Skype Desktop API
I am writing to inform you that due to some changes we are making to improve the overall Skype Experience, the Desktop API will cease to function correctly from September 2013 and we have made the decision to de-commission it.
As you may know, Skype has been investing in technology improvements, which will significantly benefit Skype users across all platforms, especially Mobile devices (see "Skype's Mobile Future"). These changes will significantly improve the speed of delivery of calls and messages, whilst retaining excellent battery life. In addition, as more people are using Skype on more devices, we are also working hard to create a more familiar and consistent Skype experience across all of the major platforms (see "Skype passes 100M Android Installs and Launches Redesigned 4.0").
As a consequence of this, we have decided to retire our Desktop APIs. These APIs were originally created in 2004 and do not support mobile application development. Going forward, developers will be able to write applications, which use features of Skype across all the major platforms, through the use of Skype URIs. We believe this will allow developers to create innovative mobile, web and desktop solutions, while retaining a familiar and consistent Skype experience across devices.
Although we will continue to support the Desktop API for the rest of 2013, in September the App Directory will close, chat functionality through the API will stop working and we will begin notifying users with messaging in Skype for Desktop. As a result, we wanted to give you notice now so you have the opportunity to modify your application in response to these changes.
I want to personally thank you for your investment in Skype throughout the years. This decision was not made lightly. Going forward, we hope you will consider the use of URIs as a way of developing innovative Skype powered solutions. If you have any questions or comments about the changes, please contact us at email@example.com . We'll do our best to address them in a timely fashion.
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Hello Petr,
welcome to the Polycom Community.
Skype / Microsoft develop the Skype application.
Polycom manufactures the C100S that works in conjunction with their application.
If Skype / Microsoft decide to remove the API support you can only work around this by not upgrading to their future software in order to keep that functionality.
For any further follow ups you should keep communication with Skype / Microsoft.
The C100S was launched back in 2003 so the product has been going for some time now.
Polycom plans to release a new device called SoundStation connect and details can already be found => here <=
Please ensure to provide some feedback if this reply has helped you so other users can profit from your experience.
Best Regards
Steffen Baier
Polycom Global Services
The purpose of these forums is to allow community members collaborate and help each other.
Questions posted here do not follow Polycom's SLA guidelines.
If you require assistance from Polycom technical support, please open a web service request or call us .
Above is necessary in order to track issue internally within Polycom.
Please ensure to always check the VoIP FAQ , PSTN FAQ or RPM FAQ
If you find my post helpful, and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution" and feel free to give me Kudos.


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That's about average. If you message Rudy's on eBay and let them know what you want they will set up a package for you. Also I highly recommend performance truck products they seem to have the best customer service next to spartan.
EGR delete should be a block off plate and 2 plugs plus some associated bolts. The elbow is optional but I recommend it (especially if you have over 50,000 miles on your truck). Cost is from $125-370 depending on company and whether or not you include the elbow (which is about $100-150).
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i'm not a pro by any means, but it works like this...you can do a DPF delete only or you can do DPF/CAT delete...there is not a big difference in price but it is easier, labor wise, to delete both and it is also better for your engine...you need a tuner regardless...it's weird how it works, but basically the higher HP tunes get you the best MPG's...i will add that there is not much turbo lag if any at all after the tuner is installed, i'm sure you have noticed the horrendous lag in these 6.4's...pretty much any shop can do the tune install, but you will be better off to order the package online like i did (rudy's) from ebay, most shops wont' carry these in stock, they are also going to be banned soon so hurry up!
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Questioning The Competency Of The SEC Report's Authors
The fundamental premise behind the entire SEC report is that the accelerated sale of an "outsized" ES block (of 75,000 contracts) caused an avalanche that wiped out $1 trillion in market cap in five minutes. Which very well may have been the case... if the block was indeed big. Below we present the average volume of the front month (on the run) ES traded on a daily basis since the beginning of the year: it average to around 2 million contracts a day. In fact, in the days preceding the flash crash (during which incidentally saw a surge in ES trading to almost 6 million contracts), daily volume was around 3 million contracts. Let's do the math: 75,000 of 3,000,000 is 2.5%! The SEC expects the naive sheeple to believe that a block that was VWAPed (and not slammed on the bid) and accounted for around 2.5% of recent daily volume caused the flash crash??? And that the HFts, who were supposed to provide all this massive liquidity in ES and everywhere else, but decided to shut down, and take away all liquidity, were merely an innocent bystander who gut hurt by W&R's recklessness? Good luck with that. Next week - 22 consecutive outflows from equity mutual funds. Oh, and if the statement in the report: "At the same time, HFTs traded nearly 140,000 E-Mini contracts or over 33% of the total trading volume" is indicative of the competency of the porn addict or porn addicts who wrote this report, we are all doomed.
And here is what 75,000 contracts look like scaled to the previous day's volume of around 3 million ES contracts.
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LOL! NICE visual!
I honestly cannot imagine a world without ZeroHedge. God bless you, "Tyler".
CNBS has replaced this story twice due to the reply section heckling and now apparently has negative response filter set at full retard.
Wait, so is HFT causing what would otherwise be a perfectly normal market to flash crash?
Or is HFT just the latest way to cash in on a broken market--broken by, say, fundamentals, incessant central bank manipulations, the plunge into the Greater Depression, etc?
Just askin'
I think it was just insiders dumping coordinated with FED covering their sells, huge loss to the taxpayer and now its brushed off and blamed on some firm in Kansas no one ever heard of.
lets be honest here..
if you are working at the SEC... you are not an expert. Cause if you were an expert, you'd be making a lot more money somewhere else.
figuring out what really occurred is an expert topic.
so a FAIL is to be expected.
So is ridicule!
Retards bitchez!
You should send the link of this post to SEC. If they're morons, at least we should make them know there are people out there aware of their stupidity.
Trust me. The SEC reads everything TD says.
Actually, someone should send this link to W&R for the law suit they should be filing for misrepresentation on the part of the SEC. Maybe W&R should make a large donation to Tyler and ZH crew.
You sure SEC's not too busy with the porn to read ZH?
Previous Day ES Volume graphic should be shaped like a penis. It's quite dramatic as it is, but a small graphic change could help garner the SEC's attention and perhaps they'll get the point.
When they're finished rubbing their junk, they come here and 'flag as'.
Note to SEC: Never go full retard, like this.
That's all it takes to move the markets a 1,000 Dow points? 75k e-mini's? Tempting...
good point +++
Indeed, I had the same thought...this "report" by the SEC seems more like an unintentional challenge.
If you can't beat em, join em:
Algorithms Bitchez!
Then why don't we all go short on Preparation H.
See what kind of shock wave we can send through the market.
I have a question (!!!) :
WTF is going on with futures market?!?
I dont know, what do you mean?
Food related are down by 3% on average, Energy & Metals are up. Looks like a massive re-balancing or an explosion of a commodity fund.
I might be off, jumpy too much caffeine :)
Could well be, heck at this point I wouldnt be surprised by anything at all!
Civilian govermnent employees fill me with pride.
Thank you for the outstanding analysis - its a shame that there isn't some means to contrive this issue politically - Mary Shapiro should be convicted of FRAUD & given two (2) additional years for incompetence...ohhh wait, if that were to happen she would be promoted to Larry Summer's old role -
I know someone who was working with the SEC last year as a consultant- not sure if he's still there. A lawyer - nice, smart guy, but didn't seem to have a clue about how the financial markets really worked based on the conversation I had with him.
Full disclosure: it was actually me who caused the May 6 Flash Crash that saw the stock market lose 1 trillion dollars in five minutes before rebounding. I was in New Orleans, on the laptop trying to move money from savings to my checking account to free up cash for a few more HUGE ASS BEERS, and one wrong move. . . Voila. Total meltdown
They are depressingly inept, the SEC. Another bunch of overpaid muppets.
Tyler - you know it wasn't VWAP, right? The SEC even told you that in the report:
"This large fundamental trader chose to execute this sell program via an automated execution algorithm ("Sell Algorithm") that was programmed to feed orders into the June 2010 E-Mini market to target an execution rate set to 9% of the trading volume calculated over the previous minute, but without regard to price or time."
Surely you understand the problem with a "% of Volume" algo when there's no liquidity? It tries to be a percentage of the volume, then tries to catch up when it falls behind, and basically, yes - like you said (actually, like you said it did NOT do - you seem to think it was a VWAP order) - keeps hitting bids in an attempt to catch up. Of course, that creates more volume, which requires more sell orders. Rinse, repeat. When liquidity dries up even temporarily, effects can be great and spiral quickly.
What would have been most useful in this report, and is thus why it is not included, is to see how many times since May 9 we have had identical or comparable algo executions that DID NOT result in a catastrophic collapse, and why not.
You obviously know that 99 times out of 100 (actually, probably much more than that), this order type wouldn't cause a problem. You had the perfect storm of a market that had just ripped 15% in a straight line up over 12 weeks for no good reason whatsoever, which created ansty longs, and when liquidity dried up even temporarily, given today's fragmented market structure, it didn't take much to set the whole thing ablaze.
I think the biggest battle to fight is the canceled trades one. Why are trades canceled evevery day for no good reason? LQD today definitely doesn't look like algos gone wild to me - it looks like real sellers did a crappy job executing their orders. They should pay the price.
The harder question is how much pain to we expect retail schmucks to take when they ignorantly enter bad orders.
I'm still wondering if there was a temporary pause in liquidity... where were the liquidity providers?
HFTs claim they provide liquidity. Where were they when liquidity dried up? Perhaps they provide only liquidity when it's most convenient...
This sounds like an incident of a bad trade being executed in bad market structure-- and getting very bad results. The SEC's solution, it appears, is to get rid of the bad trades.
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Surely you understand the problem with a "% of Volume" algo when there's no liquidity? It tries to be a percentage of the volume, then tries to catch up when it falls behind, and basically, yes - like you said (actually, like you said it did NOT do - you seem to think it was a VWAP order) - keeps hitting bids in an attempt to catch up. Of course, that creates more volume, which requires more sell orders. Rinse, repeat. When liquidity dries up even temporarily, effects can be great and spiral quickly.
The algos that execute this type of order subtract out their size from the previous volume traded and thus their own volume is NOT calculated into the equation. A method set up in the manner you have listed above won't even work on a simulator let alone in real life. 2x check your facts plz
didn't mean to create confusion - %Vol algos volume results in a feedback loop between other %Vol algos. In any case, the missed volume still needs to be "made up" and results in greater selling pressure into an absence of bids.
Questioning SEC competency? In what?
Their job is to manufacture plausible deniability. Granted, you make the plausibility part of it more difficult for them to obtain, but that just means they will have to deny even harder, which they seem to have no problem with.
The SEC has one job -- protect the central bank grifters and control the financial producers. Really just goons, so of course they're idiots, which also explains why they have so much free time on their hands.
It is probably very scary how thin the fabric is that holds the markets together. As Tyler points out on a very daily basis of individual flash crashes, a few of which are detected and posted, are just the cusp of the precipice we are headed towards. Although I also agree with the consensus that this robbery must end, it will most probably end badly.
"And here is what 75,000 contracts look like scaled to the previous day's volume of around 3 million ES contracts."
Tyler, that is one of the funniest things I've seen on ZeroHedge yet! Brilliant!
"At the same time, HFTs traded nearly 140,000 E-Mini contracts or over 33% of the total trading volume"
Yes, I wondered about that bit as well when I read your earlier posting about it.
I wonder what W&R have to say about being tarred as the instigator of the Flash Crash?
Im sure W&R were offered a deal to take the heat for this and the FED will hand them $5 billion and a months free trading to do as they please.
WTF, get on it Chuck ...
Flash Crashor or stash cash? Why even waste your breath on the SEC or its explanation? Just a misfire by some HFTer who was setting up his "get out of Dodge" escape pod. If he could screw up the market that much, then just think how quickly the market could vaporize if the HFTers push the eject button en mass! All together now on Goldman Sach's signal.
I'm starting to think that they are saying that human interaction in the market caused the crash. Ergo that if we just let the algos massage it up and scalp mutual funds and pensions all will be well.
New market requirement that would flush every criminal practice out of the market in 1 hour-
Institute 'Captcha' on every buy and sell trade.
If I had enough trailing zeros in my account, I would IMMEDIATELY sell 75,000 contracts. And when the market did NOTHING, or even POPPED UP after my shorting, I'd send the documentary evidence with my account statement to the WSJ, CNBC, and all the other clueless fools.
Oh, I guess the SEC too - but they'll just find out about it when the CNBC news ticker carries it across whatever tranny porn feed they happen to be rubbing one out to.
Well, I never thought a long blue line could ever make me laugh so much!
I'm still trying to figure out what the report really reports....
So far, my conclusion is:
In the afternoon of May 6th all the money (liquidity) in the US stock market suddenly dissapeared for some reason, and after about 20 minutes it suddenly re-appeared, for some reason...
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Philosopher Freidrich Nietzsche wrote, "To trace something unknown back to something known is alleviating, soothing, gratifying and gives moreover a feeling of power. Danger, disquiet, anxiety attend the unknown — the first instinct is to eliminate these distressing states. First principle: Any explanation is better than none … The cause-creating drive is thus conditioned and excited by the feeling of fear … ."
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I am frequently asked what I think will happen to the stock market depending on who wins the presidential election. The outcome is still too close to call and I'm not going to try and predict that one. We do know, however, that there have been a number of studies done on whether the market goes up or down when a Democrat or Republican wins, an incumbent wins or loses, which party controls which house, etc.
There are a lot of theories out there suggesting a particular outcome from the elections, but I suspect much of it is wishful thinking depending on which person or party you are rooting for. However, the facts seem to suggest that over the long-term it doesn't matter much in terms of what the stock market does. The long-term effect on the economy is another matter, but we're talking about the stock market for now. I know, that probably doesn't match with your personal hope, but I'm just the messenger.
According to a study by Forbes, they looked at how the market has historically performed during an election year. Of the 23 election years since 1920, 15 were positive, or 66.7 percent. However, ignoring whether or not they were election years, during those 91 years, 62 were positive anyway, or 68 percent. The market was up about 67 percent of the time whether an election year or not.
Let's look at this from a political party perspective. Of the 23 election years, the market was up 63.3 percent of the years when a Democrat was in the White House, and 66.7 percent when it was a Republican. In terms of stock market performance during an election year, we can reasonably conclude that it makes no difference which party is in the White House at election time. Therefore, it would not be wise to base investment decisions solely on that statistic.
This, of course, speaks to longer-term trends in the markets. Short-term moves in the markets can be dramatically affected by a number of things, most of which are quite unpredictable. It is important to remember that while the economy and the markets are related, fundamentals do eventually matter. However, the stock market can completely divorce itself from longer-term economic trends for awhile. The current uptrend in the market this year is in many ways being driven by financial stimulus and hope that government and central banks are coming to the rescue. Take the hope away, even briefly, and the market can fall quickly. The short-term effect of current central bank monetary policy (i.e. quantitative easing), both here and globally, is to drive asset prices up. All of that extra liquidity is going somewhere, and the stock market is one of them.
So what does the upcoming presidential election mean for the stock market short-term? If I had to guess, and it certainly is just that, I think immediately after the elections the market goes up if Obama wins and goes down if Romney wins. Before I get hate mail from all my Republican friends, hear me out. Don't get me wrong, that is not an endorsement of one or the other, but what I think will be the traders' reaction near term.
Because of the economic stimulus provided in the past few years, the market has become like a drug addict constantly needing the next fix to keep from going into withdrawal. An Obama win will be perceived as a continuation of stimulus and Ben Bernanke, i.e. continued doses of drugs. While I don't think it is good for the economy in the long run, the market likes it in the short run and doesn't want to come off the high.
If Romney wins it likely means the end of further stimulus, the end of Ben Bernanke in 2014 and the end of QE. Whether you think that is a good thing or bad thing, and I think it's a good thing, the market reaction will be a short-term sell-off as the addict realizes that the party is over and the next fix is not coming. The long-term market trend will be the exact opposite for each candidate, but that is a story for another day.
Of course, after the dust settles in the coming months, economic fundamentals will matter again and we'll have to see what our policymakers do to get us all out of this mess. As for the short-term reaction, we'll find out soon. Thanks for reading.
NICK MASSEY is a financial adviser and president of Householder Group Financial Advisors in Edmond. Massey can be reached at www.nickmassey.com. Securities offered through Securities Service Network Inc., member FINRA/SIPC.
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While "One Hour" is of course something of an overstatement, the book guides the reader through the basic functionality of the Worldox document management system, by far the leading document management program for small and medium firms.
Perhaps equally important, the book includes the tips, tricks, suggestions and "gotchas" for configuring and using Worldox that I have come across in the past 20 years of implementing Worldox. There are many tips that result from clients saying "why can't I do X" or "how do I do Y". Thus the book consolidates the over 100 posts in this blog concerning Worldox over the past seven years.
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Citgo Petroleum Co. is "in a state of near disarray" as a result of actions taken by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, whose state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is Citgo's corporate parent, the New York Times said in a report published Wednesday.
"Nearly every high-ranking executive has resigned over the last two years, including the refining chief, the chief financial officer, the head auditor and the marketing director," the Times noted.
And a former assistant treasurer Geoff Reid told the Times that he left partly because "it had become tough to track the company's cash flow, and he had become concerned about his "personal liability in approving Citgo's financial statements."
Ever since Chavez cracked down on a national strike two years ago by firing virtually all of PDVSA's professional staff and putting his political cronies in charge at both PDVSA and Citgo, oil industry experts have said that it would be extremely difficult and would take a long time for PDVSA to recover its previous levels of production, not to mention exploiting growth opportunities.
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The Times said it interviewed more than a dozen former Citgo managers who noted "a marked shift in Citgo's culture after the arrival of the Venezuelan expatriates."
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