If the public do that they get what they deserve. That's a pretty weak argument.
Arguments made directly from the pages of history books are not by definition "weak." They reflect things that have actually happened. The burden of proof lies on the party who maintains that they cannot or will not happen again.
What next you're going to argue against "normal people" having the right to vote, because they will make stupid decisions?
I'm already about 90% on board with that. There is no rational argument for my vote to carry the same weight as that of someone with twice my life experience and/or IQ.
(Shrug) Without their work, the advertisers don't have a platform. There are many ways to monetize content, but only a few ways to sell soap.
The power to say 'No' to that bullshit is in the hands of the content producers, and, ultimately, the viewers. The content producers don't care enough to lift a finger. That leaves us.
At first glance, the dancing cartoon characters and excessive commercial breaks seem like a supply-side problem. The fact that the show's producers and writers tolerate this sort of thing is a sign that you, as their audience, are very far from the top of their minds when they come to work each day. They clearly harbor the same disrespect for their own craft that they have for your time. Seems simple enough.
On the other hand, the fact that you, as their audience, keep watching their shows, is one that I don't have a ready explanation for.
My only guess is that some people just don't value their limited time here on Earth as much as they should. Either switch to Netflix, use torrents, or sell your TV on Craigslist for a bag of horse. Any of these things will be a better use of your time than watching network TV.
There should already be a default inability to track your car based on the same logic that I'm not allowed to place a bug on your car and track you now
Exactly. However, this was Tesla's car all along, so they were perfectly free to track it. The NYT did not own the car.
Article is pointless clickbait. No one is arguing that they should be able to track your car, only their car.
Yes, the telephone was obvious. Anytime the issue is decided by a foot race to the patent office, you are dealing with something that would have emerged in due time without any artificial patent incentives.
Patents should be reserved for cases where the invention is (a) very expensive to develop and bring to market, and (b) otherwise vulnerable to being guarded as a trade secret, in a way that would harm progress in the field if not disclosed. The telephone doesn't count, and neither do most software and business-method patents.
What bladerf is offering is a lot of bandwidth, both RF and baseband, for relatively little money.
The USRP and other Ettus platforms don't do USB 3.0. They offer an extremely expensive receiver with a YIG synthesizer and a 10-GbE interface that goes to 4 GHz, but if your employer has more than three letters in its name you probably will never get to mess with one. bladerf can be thought of as an entry-level platform for high-bandwidth work.
Some people have pushed the older USRP boards to grab most/all of the HF spectrum over USB 2.0, but those were/are quite a bit more expensive and had other limitations. USB 3.0 is really a much better bus for this sort of thing.
8.2 pf = 64 ohms at 300 MHz. That's enough to bypass a short line, but it would be better to parallel it with 1 nF (which by itself will probably be self-resonant around that point, turning into an inductor.)
Couple of points in your favor, in case the argument gets any more technical.:)
1) Strong out-of-band signals can actually improve the real-world dynamic range of an SDR, because their effect is more or less the same as dithering. As long as the overall input voltage range isn't exceeded, I wouldn't necessarily expect a lot of interference.
2) 8 bits gives ~50 dB of dynamic range at the full bandwidth. If your 8-bit front end is 1 GHz wide but your ultimate demodulation process runs at 1 kHz, you have about 50 + 10*log10(1E6) = 110 dB of usable dynamic range. For this reason, the people criticizing the 12-bit ADCs in the Kickstarter project are off base.
Public agencies trunked radio, with whom I am cooperating on a proprietary application. Sorry I can't say more than that, but the signal of interest is Motorola SmartNet in my case. The application sprang from having fun monitoring it, and observing the potential for an improvement to their system.
Exercise for the student: that SmartNet system carries all of information needed to locate every cop car in town, whether they know it or not. Plot 'em with Google Maps in real time!
Clue time: if other people would cheerfully do your job for free if you didn't do it, then you don't need a union. That applies to wide swaths of both the entertainment and IT industries.
If you want to pay for yet another level of gatekeepers and middle (mis)management in your career, then be my guest. But leave me out of your plans, please.
Idiot or not, all I can say is that lots of people seem to work in the food service industry without whining anywhere near as much as the people in this thread.
So if you were designing something, you'd want your CEO to come in, who is known to be a prick (Not just on leaving his daughter, but on various prick like personal behavior), and interfere with your product design?
Yes, if he has the insights and track record of a Steve Jobs. I'm not his daughter, I'm an engineer on his payroll, remember? Doing my job properly means not giving a rat's ass about anything but the end product.
I can't imagine how stressful that would be
Name any famous, influential figure, and the odds are that it is/was stressful to work for him/her. If you don't want stress, go work for Pizza Hut.
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Surface is also "supply constrained." Stuff the retail channel with a 100-unit pilot build of anything, and gee, surprise, it will sell out.
Also, the original-crust Hawaiian BBQ Chicken from California Pizza Kitchen is way better than the Nissan GT-R.
There's something to be said in favor of not letting insane people dictate the laws that the rest of us have to follow.
But I guess that's pre-9/11, pre-Sandy Hook, pre-Dunblane, pre-Oklahoma City thinking, huh.
I dunno, I got a business to run here, and only so much space in inventory. Lemme call a buddy of mine who's an expert on overpriced dot-coms.
Yeah and The Great Caesar should rule as Emperor with his advisors since the mob are so stupid, ignorant and easily deluded?
Yeah, and... that's how it works already. We just don't acknowledge it.
If the public do that they get what they deserve. That's a pretty weak argument.
Arguments made directly from the pages of history books are not by definition "weak." They reflect things that have actually happened. The burden of proof lies on the party who maintains that they cannot or will not happen again.
What next you're going to argue against "normal people" having the right to vote, because they will make stupid decisions?
I'm already about 90% on board with that. There is no rational argument for my vote to carry the same weight as that of someone with twice my life experience and/or IQ.
No, that was Mitreya. I merely answered the question s/he posed. :)
Then why bother complaining at all?
(Shrug) Without their work, the advertisers don't have a platform. There are many ways to monetize content, but only a few ways to sell soap.
The power to say 'No' to that bullshit is in the hands of the content producers, and, ultimately, the viewers. The content producers don't care enough to lift a finger. That leaves us.
At first glance, the dancing cartoon characters and excessive commercial breaks seem like a supply-side problem. The fact that the show's producers and writers tolerate this sort of thing is a sign that you, as their audience, are very far from the top of their minds when they come to work each day. They clearly harbor the same disrespect for their own craft that they have for your time. Seems simple enough.
On the other hand, the fact that you, as their audience, keep watching their shows, is one that I don't have a ready explanation for.
My only guess is that some people just don't value their limited time here on Earth as much as they should. Either switch to Netflix, use torrents, or sell your TV on Craigslist for a bag of horse. Any of these things will be a better use of your time than watching network TV.
There should already be a default inability to track your car based on the same logic that I'm not allowed to place a bug on your car and track you now
Exactly. However, this was Tesla's car all along, so they were perfectly free to track it. The NYT did not own the car.
Article is pointless clickbait. No one is arguing that they should be able to track your car, only their car.
(Shrug) Musk hasn't lied to me before. The NYT has, and at a monstrous cost.
Unfortunately we only have Broder's word on that, and he has proven to be a bit of an unreliable narrator.
It would help a great deal if Tesla were to release recordings of his support calls.
Yes, the telephone was obvious. Anytime the issue is decided by a foot race to the patent office, you are dealing with something that would have emerged in due time without any artificial patent incentives.
Patents should be reserved for cases where the invention is (a) very expensive to develop and bring to market, and (b) otherwise vulnerable to being guarded as a trade secret, in a way that would harm progress in the field if not disclosed. The telephone doesn't count, and neither do most software and business-method patents.
Unless you have your own rocket fleet.
Apparently they're getting pretty decent. So I'm guessing nobody told Obama.
They don't need all the luck in the world. They have half of the guns.
Yeah, those open-source frameworks like GNU Radio are great, up until the point where someone actually takes advantage of them. </rolleyes>
What bladerf is offering is a lot of bandwidth, both RF and baseband, for relatively little money.
The USRP and other Ettus platforms don't do USB 3.0. They offer an extremely expensive receiver with a YIG synthesizer and a 10-GbE interface that goes to 4 GHz, but if your employer has more than three letters in its name you probably will never get to mess with one. bladerf can be thought of as an entry-level platform for high-bandwidth work.
Some people have pushed the older USRP boards to grab most/all of the HF spectrum over USB 2.0, but those were/are quite a bit more expensive and had other limitations. USB 3.0 is really a much better bus for this sort of thing.
8.2 pf = 64 ohms at 300 MHz. That's enough to bypass a short line, but it would be better to parallel it with 1 nF (which by itself will probably be self-resonant around that point, turning into an inductor.)
Couple of points in your favor, in case the argument gets any more technical. :)
1) Strong out-of-band signals can actually improve the real-world dynamic range of an SDR, because their effect is more or less the same as dithering. As long as the overall input voltage range isn't exceeded, I wouldn't necessarily expect a lot of interference.
2) 8 bits gives ~50 dB of dynamic range at the full bandwidth. If your 8-bit front end is 1 GHz wide but your ultimate demodulation process runs at 1 kHz, you have about 50 + 10*log10(1E6) = 110 dB of usable dynamic range. For this reason, the people criticizing the 12-bit ADCs in the Kickstarter project are off base.
Public agencies trunked radio, with whom I am cooperating on a proprietary application. Sorry I can't say more than that, but the signal of interest is Motorola SmartNet in my case. The application sprang from having fun monitoring it, and observing the potential for an improvement to their system.
Exercise for the student: that SmartNet system carries all of information needed to locate every cop car in town, whether they know it or not. Plot 'em with Google Maps in real time!
And unions will fix this how?
Clue time: if other people would cheerfully do your job for free if you didn't do it, then you don't need a union. That applies to wide swaths of both the entertainment and IT industries.
If you want to pay for yet another level of gatekeepers and middle (mis)management in your career, then be my guest. But leave me out of your plans, please.
Idiot or not, all I can say is that lots of people seem to work in the food service industry without whining anywhere near as much as the people in this thread.
So if you were designing something, you'd want your CEO to come in, who is known to be a prick (Not just on leaving his daughter, but on various prick like personal behavior), and interfere with your product design?
Yes, if he has the insights and track record of a Steve Jobs. I'm not his daughter, I'm an engineer on his payroll, remember? Doing my job properly means not giving a rat's ass about anything but the end product.
I can't imagine how stressful that would be
Name any famous, influential figure, and the odds are that it is/was stressful to work for him/her. If you don't want stress, go work for Pizza Hut.