I almost torn out those pages from Aviation Week magazines the university library (I didn't as I know others will want stare at the photos for an hour or so). I remember KQED devoted the whole day covering Pioneer Saturn flyby, all the scientists debating "we have F and G rings, but some have doubts. We will try to enhance to determine if there is a H ring." Then comes Voyager showing a bizillion rings... so much for finding the H ring.
it is difficult follow all this. Many say RT is fake news. But if RT says a particular report is fake news but then that means it is not fake news. But wait, it is. Or is not? Kind of like the Star Trek TOS "I, Mudd" episode when androids figure everything Mudd says is a lie. Mudd then says he is lying and the androids go nutzoid and meltdown.
I frequently use FCC databases to review freq, certifications (Type Acceptance) on radios, etc. But these days much of what FCC does is all business, there are a few (and soon to be extinct) people that have technical knowledge. There was a symposium of sorts I found a online video of some years ago FCC panel of people talking about new information platforms and concepts. It seemed all talk of business, I couldn't figure out what types of systems or how does it all interconnect (RF, fiber, cable, ?). How the airwaves doesn't become a big tangled mess... then there is the internet but with few major players controlling so maybe that's why it doesn't become totally disorganized as if it did then those major companies would go broke.
Interesting comments in this thread, all began when millennials discovered antennas. Boomer here, old enough to remember aiming the antenna at one station but get ghosts on the others. Was too poor and lazy to install a rotor (which always break down the evening when showing a good movie, and weather terrible and lost the ladder). Nowadays amazed to watch these 60s shows like Batman and all the details I never saw. Still hate when they tilted the camera for the crooks hideout.
Regarding generations, someone on a forum went on a endless diatribes how millennials are destroying the car industry, housing market, etc by not buying any of these things. I responded (a quote from one of you slashdotters), "Hey Socrates, youth still terrible these days?"
People arguing taxes too high are like those arguing helicopter sales are not plentiful because they are gas guzzlers. If you can't afford the housing in Silicon Valley, taxes are a non-issue.
It's similar for this low-end computing hardware. A lot of hipster types like to exclaim how they're "makers" because it sounds good in social media discussion, yet they lack the skills, ability, interest and typically the money...
Reminds me of various websites that talk about how to build this neat gadget to do this and that and everything else. But when I want more details on how to build it, those are lacking. Or there appears lots of details but nothing substantial. Are they hiding the important proprietary stuff you need to build it, or like you said they don't really know how to build it? This is not to be confused with knowledgable person but doesn't include all the details because they're spending too much on the next project!
don't know why you are downvoted, obviously having some fun... Note that at the time NASA had the ***best*** footage because it was real during a time when there were people still living when they remembered reading fresh newspaper article of the first airplane flight. And the special effects of movies were not that great (but they sure did make up with compelling story and character development). Nowadays, show someone a raw image from Cassini spacecraft and they'll say it's a photoshop of something.
I guess they don't pay the NASA archival guys nearly enough.
Exactly. Those that are in archival/history positions are few, have tons of stuff with no time to sort through it all, and have to beg for places to put it. Then there's others with duties that have nothing to do with archiving but yet they have lots of stuff. Not proper to take it home but have to deal with limited office space so where to put it all. Perhaps in some warehouse like shown in the end of Raiders of Lost Ark movie. It will be safe but nobody will find it ever again.
War on cash, war on drugs, war on [insert diatribe here], etc. What about "war on common sense" like one of you slashdotters post as your tagline? How about a peace dividend (i.e. net revenue gain)?
"Space is a crummy place to live. Really awful. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly inhospitable it is. I mean, you may think things are pretty bad in Detroit, but that's just peanuts to space."
I love this, will save it in my Diatribes folder. It does bring up an issue a website called Rocketpunk talked about (too lazy to find URL right now). That site summarized the reason no serious manned Mars missions is it's plonklying obvious there's no good reason to live there. Like there is no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though it's a thousand times easier to settle than Mars. Reason why everybody romanticize about Mars is because it is so far away.
oh man, I almost got taken in by this one and if so I'd be assigned the Whoosh Co. I'm thinking why would anyone buy a car of any sort in a congested place like HK. Even the airport is squeezed, there's many videos that landing a typical airliner is action and adventure (means need plenty of barf bags).
per inter service rivals:
Army: You can't win the next war unless you have boots on the ground.
Air Force: You can't win the next war unless you have air superiority.
Navy: You can't win the next war unless you have command of the seas.
Marines: We don't care how you win the next war but it can't be done without an amphibious landing!
When you mentioned Navy, I was thinking how we view our manned space program is extension of the Air Force. OK except that paradigm are airplanes not mobile much of the time, and their missions are very direct. Where ships are mobile almost all the time, cruising the seas. Airplanes are short occupancy time, ships are occupied months at a time. So we want spaceships but modeling them after airplane paradigm makes them short duration (Apollo, Shuttle, Orion, Dragon, etc). We should think of having something like ISS that goes someplace instead of circles, this would be the transit vehicle to go to Mars but nobody wants to talk about that because just too expensive. OK easy to write about airplanes vs ships paradigms, just saying.
Getting back to topic, what we really need is the Space Patrol, the concept is over 60 years old. Many are concerned about NEO, we also have to think of space pirates, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I thought Britain no longer has car makers, maybe AM is a niche (I almost think AM stayed in business per the famous spy movies). Can't read the article but there was a time when British had several car companies including the legendary Rolls Royce. I think of a documentary that discussed what happened to all these companies and some reasons why. Perhaps similar reasons why Jia Yueting bit the dust (no, he didn't chew on dirt. Only expression he has significantly less earnings than before).
I was thinking and probably can search the web but I will follow SOP like everyone else to give opinion before research. What did a Nielson box look like, or however it was done. How do they find the "average viewer." It seem these days Nielson ratings are like Billboard Top 40, something from the 20th century. Maybe better measuring standard is advertisers see a jump in sales due to ads for particular shows, or comments about shows posted on forums (but then have to weed out hired trolls by competitors or governments seeking to sway opinion). Just wondering.
I find it fascinating that before SR71, the Arrow was fastest ever, Mach 3, imagine that in late fifties it was only 0.3 Mach slower than Blackbird. That's a whole story itself. I wonder if years from now someone will post of college professors, "they couldn't even talk about it they were still so angry after all these years of having to compete with 300,000 code monkeys."
When Avro cancelled the Arrow and the AvroCar, Canada lost many talented engineers and the US got all these people to work in the space program. Talk to some old timer Canucks and they are still fuming over Diefenbaker.
...remember back in the days when doing business with Soviet Russia can either create suspicion, loss of security clearance, loss of job, or land you in jail. </sarcasm >
It happened before, wasn't too pretty when SCOTUS ruled in 1920s Commerce Dept had no enforcement powers. Radio waves became the wild west as stations changed freq and power levels to whatever they wanted, listeners gave up and receiver sales plummeted (ref Gordon West book on General Radio Licensing Manual). More of that adventure from back in the days:
"Pending Radio Legislation"
from the magazine Radio Age, July 1924
CONGRESS has adjourned without acting either way on pending radio legislation, according to the news dispatches from Washington.
Unless a special session is called, which does not seem likely at this time, radio will be untouched by legal attachments until next year, at least.
The two most important measures which were shelved by the adjournment of the well-meaning but unusually deliberative governmental bodies are the White Bill and the Dill Bill. The first proposes to establish governmental control over radio broadcasting, reception and perhaps the industry eventually. This bill, while not viciously attacked, did not go through because some representatives of the people wanted to know just why such a young and untried industry as radio should suffer the bonds of law so soon. Accordingly, it is unlikely that the White Bill will ever become a law -- so the fans may rest assured they will not be hindered for some time to come in that respect.
The Dill Bill is more far reaching in its scope. It is liberal and fair-minded. It asks that the copyright laws be amended so that copyrighted music can be broadcast without the payment of levies to the music publishers. Although this bill has been opposed at every step by huge organizations and moneyed interests, as well as several prominent music publishers, it was about to be passed with a fair majority when Congress adjourned.
There is still hope for the Dill Bill, then, and we hope that when it finally reaches the President's desk it will represent the result of a fair compromise between the broadcasters and the music publishers, in the interests of the fan who listens to broadcast music and helps the sale of the published article by buying the pieces he likes best.
Government legislation, we believe, appears to be the only means yet suggested which offers any kind of a solution to the bitter enmity between the broadcasters and the so-called music "trust."
Radio's recent jump to prominence in official circles such as Congress is only one indication of its growing importance. Big capital interests, legislators and public spirited citizens are realizing more and more that radio will some day control the destinies of our nation; and accordingly they are setting out to prevent its too sudden growth to an unwieldy influence. Quick government control, the legislators aver, will prevent radio from becoming a menace instead of the help and pleasure it should be.
In a measure these radio-legislators are right. Something must be done to prevent the air from becoming a bedlam of tangled wave lengths. Something must be done to prevent the ether from being clogged with propaganda and useless stuff that will discourage interest in the world's latest miracle.
If legislation works along those lines, it will be beneficial. But if it takes a political trend, this country will see a united uprising of righteously aroused fans -- lovers and promoters of the good in radio.
you forgot specifics like Tinkerbell. Other than that, there is no free enterprise or free markets. Everything is owned and controlled. It comes down to applying regulation to avoid abusive absolute control.
Also consider crummy internet are like crummy roads. It really slows down commerce which why many third world countries remain third world countries. It gets too difficult to get around and do business.
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I almost torn out those pages from Aviation Week magazines the university library (I didn't as I know others will want stare at the photos for an hour or so). I remember KQED devoted the whole day covering Pioneer Saturn flyby, all the scientists debating "we have F and G rings, but some have doubts. We will try to enhance to determine if there is a H ring." Then comes Voyager showing a bizillion rings... so much for finding the H ring.
it is difficult follow all this. Many say RT is fake news. But if RT says a particular report is fake news but then that means it is not fake news. But wait, it is. Or is not? Kind of like the Star Trek TOS "I, Mudd" episode when androids figure everything Mudd says is a lie. Mudd then says he is lying and the androids go nutzoid and meltdown.
I frequently use FCC databases to review freq, certifications (Type Acceptance) on radios, etc. But these days much of what FCC does is all business, there are a few (and soon to be extinct) people that have technical knowledge. There was a symposium of sorts I found a online video of some years ago FCC panel of people talking about new information platforms and concepts. It seemed all talk of business, I couldn't figure out what types of systems or how does it all interconnect (RF, fiber, cable, ?). How the airwaves doesn't become a big tangled mess... then there is the internet but with few major players controlling so maybe that's why it doesn't become totally disorganized as if it did then those major companies would go broke.
Interesting comments in this thread, all began when millennials discovered antennas. Boomer here, old enough to remember aiming the antenna at one station but get ghosts on the others. Was too poor and lazy to install a rotor (which always break down the evening when showing a good movie, and weather terrible and lost the ladder). Nowadays amazed to watch these 60s shows like Batman and all the details I never saw. Still hate when they tilted the camera for the crooks hideout.
Regarding generations, someone on a forum went on a endless diatribes how millennials are destroying the car industry, housing market, etc by not buying any of these things. I responded (a quote from one of you slashdotters), "Hey Socrates, youth still terrible these days?"
Back to you, Chet..
nobody under 55 knows what you are talking about.
People arguing taxes too high are like those arguing helicopter sales are not plentiful because they are gas guzzlers. If you can't afford the housing in Silicon Valley, taxes are a non-issue.
I read Seattle internet access is like 20th century dialup.
It's similar for this low-end computing hardware. A lot of hipster types like to exclaim how they're "makers" because it sounds good in social media discussion, yet they lack the skills, ability, interest and typically the money ...
Reminds me of various websites that talk about how to build this neat gadget to do this and that and everything else. But when I want more details on how to build it, those are lacking. Or there appears lots of details but nothing substantial. Are they hiding the important proprietary stuff you need to build it, or like you said they don't really know how to build it? This is not to be confused with knowledgable person but doesn't include all the details because they're spending too much on the next project!
don't know why you are downvoted, obviously having some fun... Note that at the time NASA had the ***best*** footage because it was real during a time when there were people still living when they remembered reading fresh newspaper article of the first airplane flight. And the special effects of movies were not that great (but they sure did make up with compelling story and character development). Nowadays, show someone a raw image from Cassini spacecraft and they'll say it's a photoshop of something.
I guess they don't pay the NASA archival guys nearly enough.
Exactly. Those that are in archival/history positions are few, have tons of stuff with no time to sort through it all, and have to beg for places to put it. Then there's others with duties that have nothing to do with archiving but yet they have lots of stuff. Not proper to take it home but have to deal with limited office space so where to put it all. Perhaps in some warehouse like shown in the end of Raiders of Lost Ark movie. It will be safe but nobody will find it ever again.
Emperor was strolling along a river, stubbed his toe, "damn it!" So it was said, and so it was built.
War on cash, war on drugs, war on [insert diatribe here], etc. What about "war on common sense" like one of you slashdotters post as your tagline? How about a peace dividend (i.e. net revenue gain)?
To paraphrase Douglas Adams:
"Space is a crummy place to live. Really awful. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly inhospitable it is. I mean, you may think things are pretty bad in Detroit, but that's just peanuts to space."
I love this, will save it in my Diatribes folder. It does bring up an issue a website called Rocketpunk talked about (too lazy to find URL right now). That site summarized the reason no serious manned Mars missions is it's plonklying obvious there's no good reason to live there. Like there is no land rush to the Gobi Desert even though it's a thousand times easier to settle than Mars. Reason why everybody romanticize about Mars is because it is so far away.
oh man, I almost got taken in by this one and if so I'd be assigned the Whoosh Co. I'm thinking why would anyone buy a car of any sort in a congested place like HK. Even the airport is squeezed, there's many videos that landing a typical airliner is action and adventure (means need plenty of barf bags).
per inter service rivals:
Army: You can't win the next war unless you have boots on the ground.
Air Force: You can't win the next war unless you have air superiority.
Navy: You can't win the next war unless you have command of the seas.
Marines: We don't care how you win the next war but it can't be done without an amphibious landing!
Trump would love it.
When you mentioned Navy, I was thinking how we view our manned space program is extension of the Air Force. OK except that paradigm are airplanes not mobile much of the time, and their missions are very direct. Where ships are mobile almost all the time, cruising the seas. Airplanes are short occupancy time, ships are occupied months at a time. So we want spaceships but modeling them after airplane paradigm makes them short duration (Apollo, Shuttle, Orion, Dragon, etc). We should think of having something like ISS that goes someplace instead of circles, this would be the transit vehicle to go to Mars but nobody wants to talk about that because just too expensive. OK easy to write about airplanes vs ships paradigms, just saying.
Getting back to topic, what we really need is the Space Patrol, the concept is over 60 years old. Many are concerned about NEO, we also have to think of space pirates, https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I thought Britain no longer has car makers, maybe AM is a niche (I almost think AM stayed in business per the famous spy movies). Can't read the article but there was a time when British had several car companies including the legendary Rolls Royce. I think of a documentary that discussed what happened to all these companies and some reasons why. Perhaps similar reasons why Jia Yueting bit the dust (no, he didn't chew on dirt. Only expression he has significantly less earnings than before).
I was thinking and probably can search the web but I will follow SOP like everyone else to give opinion before research. What did a Nielson box look like, or however it was done. How do they find the "average viewer." It seem these days Nielson ratings are like Billboard Top 40, something from the 20th century. Maybe better measuring standard is advertisers see a jump in sales due to ads for particular shows, or comments about shows posted on forums (but then have to weed out hired trolls by competitors or governments seeking to sway opinion). Just wondering.
I find it fascinating that before SR71, the Arrow was fastest ever, Mach 3, imagine that in late fifties it was only 0.3 Mach slower than Blackbird. That's a whole story itself. I wonder if years from now someone will post of college professors, "they couldn't even talk about it they were still so angry after all these years of having to compete with 300,000 code monkeys."
When Avro cancelled the Arrow and the AvroCar, Canada lost many talented engineers and the US got all these people to work in the space program. Talk to some old timer Canucks and they are still fuming over Diefenbaker.
did you ever fry an egg on a street? like the opening seen in late 60s movie "Tick, Tick, Tick"
...remember back in the days when doing business with Soviet Russia can either create suspicion, loss of security clearance, loss of job, or land you in jail. < /sarcasm >
It happened before, wasn't too pretty when SCOTUS ruled in 1920s Commerce Dept had no enforcement powers. Radio waves became the wild west as stations changed freq and power levels to whatever they wanted, listeners gave up and receiver sales plummeted (ref Gordon West book on General Radio Licensing Manual). More of that adventure from back in the days:
"Pending Radio Legislation"
from the magazine Radio Age, July 1924
CONGRESS has adjourned without acting either way on pending radio legislation, according to the news dispatches from Washington.
Unless a special session is called, which does not seem likely at this time, radio will be untouched by legal attachments until next year, at least.
The two most important measures which were shelved by the adjournment of the well-meaning but unusually deliberative governmental bodies are the White Bill and the Dill Bill. The first proposes to establish governmental control over radio broadcasting, reception and perhaps the industry eventually. This bill, while not viciously attacked, did not go through because some representatives of the people wanted to know just why such a young and untried industry as radio should suffer the bonds of law so soon. Accordingly, it is unlikely that the White Bill will ever become a law -- so the fans may rest assured they will not be hindered for some time to come in that respect.
The Dill Bill is more far reaching in its scope. It is liberal and fair-minded. It asks that the copyright laws be amended so that copyrighted music can be broadcast without the payment of levies to the music publishers. Although this bill has been opposed at every step by huge organizations and moneyed interests, as well as several prominent music publishers, it was about to be passed with a fair majority when Congress adjourned.
There is still hope for the Dill Bill, then, and we hope that when it finally reaches the President's desk it will represent the result of a fair compromise between the broadcasters and the music publishers, in the interests of the fan who listens to broadcast music and helps the sale of the published article by buying the pieces he likes best.
Government legislation, we believe, appears to be the only means yet suggested which offers any kind of a solution to the bitter enmity between the broadcasters and the so-called music "trust."
Radio's recent jump to prominence in official circles such as Congress is only one indication of its growing importance. Big capital interests, legislators and public spirited citizens are realizing more and more that radio will some day control the destinies of our nation; and accordingly they are setting out to prevent its too sudden growth to an unwieldy influence. Quick government control, the legislators aver, will prevent radio from becoming a menace instead of the help and pleasure it should be.
In a measure these radio-legislators are right. Something must be done to prevent the air from becoming a bedlam of tangled wave lengths. Something must be done to prevent the ether from being clogged with propaganda and useless stuff that will discourage interest in the world's latest miracle.
If legislation works along those lines, it will be beneficial. But if it takes a political trend, this country will see a united uprising of righteously aroused fans -- lovers and promoters of the good in radio.
For some reasons someone will find tons of money
you forgot specifics like Tinkerbell. Other than that, there is no free enterprise or free markets. Everything is owned and controlled. It comes down to applying regulation to avoid abusive absolute control.
Also consider crummy internet are like crummy roads. It really slows down commerce which why many third world countries remain third world countries. It gets too difficult to get around and do business.