Unclassified half-meter imagery has been available for some time. Environmentalists have had it to view pine trees on Ft. Bragg for some endangered woodpecker.
The gov't tends to classify imagery produced from gov't sources, whereas it has some limitations in classifiying imagery from commercial sources. But, if it is a US company producing this imagery, it should expect to have Uncle Sam oversight on what product it is putting out.
I worked as a tech for an amusement company/coin-op distributor for 10 years. With all the junk in our graveyard, I have serious doubts to any claims made that old games are still profitable, with the exception of the big names - Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Galaga, etc. That 1% set aside, the other 99% are dead. Try to find a Williams Blaster (in the original round plastic cabinet) anywhere. You'll find the ROMs for MAME and nothing else. Last one I saw had been converted to a Karnov, of all things.
How about all the Playchoice 10 games that Nintendo put out? Gathering dust in a warehouse, or in a landfill is where they are now.
Had an original Cliffhanger laserdisc hanging on the wall in our shop. Fun to watch periodically if you can stand all the gallows scenes.
I certainly have no qualms about ROMs for old games being proliferated for MAME-type apps. Especially from manufacturers who screwed everyone in the food chain when they quit supporting a game after only a few months cause sales weren't what they projected. I got stuck supporting their shitty product, and when I resurrect their old ROMs to play on my PC at home they get uptight.
Anybody got an old Rock-Ola "Wriggler" around? Remember the color green they painted their cabinets?
No sympathy for the companies on the older coin-op games. The console stuff, yeah...I can understand.
You know you've worked in the coin-op biz too long when you and your coworkers have "guess that theme music" contests. And I was in it waaayyy too long.
Corporations are trying to redefine what copyright protection is without having to go through the legislation required to change the definition of copyright protection, even though copyrights are supposed to protect consumers, as well as copyright holders.
Money good...file sharing bad...even though I have some rights to determine how those files I paid for are distributed.
I wouldn't say that it was synonymous. There is no handling or manipulation of a product simply by linking. You are talking guilt by association. That is a grey area at best, and, due to the degree of moral-relativism associated with these matters, will probably be handled on a case-by-case basis. Very difficult to establish precedence.
Range limits related to frequency (especially in the SHF bands) are somewhat of a misnomer. You can apply the same principles to antennas provided that the antenna elements are in the same plane for your comparisons (vertical, horizontal, etc.). Once you start using a parabolic antenna (usually above 2.3 Ghz) there is one of those semi-obscure "laws" that come into effect regarding frequency vs. distance, and the standard thinking goes out the window. How about a 10Ghz CW shot from Russellville, Arkansas to Dallas, TX (roughly 200+ miles) pushing 4 watts into a 24 inch parabolic with a 599 +10 RST? Of course, (with some exceptions) any transmissions above 50 Mhz are line-of-sight anyway. 73 KK5WA
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Unclassified half-meter imagery has been available for some time. Environmentalists have had it to view pine trees on Ft. Bragg for some endangered woodpecker.
The gov't tends to classify imagery produced from gov't sources, whereas it has some limitations in classifiying imagery from commercial sources. But, if it is a US company producing this imagery, it should expect to have Uncle Sam oversight on what product it is putting out.
Who wouldn't want a poster of Chani with humongous breasts? I'll buy.
General was 13 wpm, Extra took 20.
I got my Extra 4 years ago, and I remember that I held out to the last minute on the code test. Even so, I wouldn't have done it any differently.
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KK5WA
I worked as a tech for an amusement company/coin-op distributor for 10 years. With all the junk in our graveyard, I have serious doubts to any claims made that old games are still profitable, with the exception of the big names - Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Galaga, etc. That 1% set aside, the other 99% are dead. Try to find a Williams Blaster (in the original round plastic cabinet) anywhere. You'll find the ROMs for MAME and nothing else. Last one I saw had been converted to a Karnov, of all things.
How about all the Playchoice 10 games that Nintendo put out? Gathering dust in a warehouse, or in a landfill is where they are now.
Had an original Cliffhanger laserdisc hanging on the wall in our shop. Fun to watch periodically if you can stand all the gallows scenes.
I certainly have no qualms about ROMs for old games being proliferated for MAME-type apps. Especially from manufacturers who screwed everyone in the food chain when they quit supporting a game after only a few months cause sales weren't what they projected. I got stuck supporting their shitty product, and when I resurrect their old ROMs to play on my PC at home they get uptight.
Anybody got an old Rock-Ola "Wriggler" around? Remember the color green they painted their cabinets?
No sympathy for the companies on the older coin-op games. The console stuff, yeah...I can understand.
You know you've worked in the coin-op biz too long when you and your coworkers have "guess that theme music" contests. And I was in it waaayyy too long.
Corporations are trying to redefine what copyright protection is without having to go through the legislation required to change the definition of copyright protection, even though copyrights are supposed to protect consumers, as well as copyright holders.
Money good...file sharing bad...even though I have some rights to determine how those files I paid for are distributed.
What a crazy planet.
Remember when a 40 MEGger was a large drive? When an 8088 with a 20 mb hard drive was "the bomb?"
My age is 238 in your "internet" years.
..as far as storytelling was concerned. For visuals it was great.
Makes it difficult to find an original copy around.
I wouldn't say that it was synonymous. There is no handling or manipulation of a product simply by linking. You are talking guilt by association. That is a grey area at best, and, due to the degree of moral-relativism associated with these matters, will probably be handled on a case-by-case basis. Very difficult to establish precedence.
Range limits related to frequency (especially in the SHF bands) are somewhat of a misnomer. You can apply the same principles to antennas provided that the antenna elements are in the same plane for your comparisons (vertical, horizontal, etc.). Once you start using a parabolic antenna (usually above 2.3 Ghz) there is one of those semi-obscure "laws" that come into effect regarding frequency vs. distance, and the standard thinking goes out the window. How about a 10Ghz CW shot from Russellville, Arkansas to Dallas, TX (roughly 200+ miles) pushing 4 watts into a 24 inch parabolic with a 599 +10 RST? Of course, (with some exceptions) any transmissions above 50 Mhz are line-of-sight anyway. 73 KK5WA
What kind of relay? I've got six miles through a hill.
73
KK5WA
Just had to say it, by golly.
Yeah...that Apple mouse is really distracting.