I'm tired of having to constantly upgrade to upgrade in order to meet the next upgrade. All of these, if not many, require online registration and create account and password. I want to install and use it. If I want an upgrade then I will seek that out. Otherwise let me use the program, offline, and don't bother me.
not really. many times searching for useful knowledge only returns marketing/sales sites or brief/vague description of something that someone wrote some time ago and a zillion other sites simply aggregate that into their useless website.
your crew's distant descendants, when they arrived,...
I think they'd be completely different group of animals, culture wise that is. I think of the Star Trek TOS episode of aliens that commandeered the Enterprise, modified it for a very long journey to another galaxy. Shortly after they (in human bodies) were becoming nutzoid with human emotions from getting drunk to jealousy. By the time they'd get to where they were going, they will be "Futurama."
I say lets first put someone on Mars, then we can argue about humans going beyond. So far we've been saying we'll put a man on Mars in 20 years for the past 50 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are commercially available Jetpacks dammit! What is wrong with you all?
Excellent comment. We all bitch about not getting flying cars but now there are jetpacks though I'm too poor to buy one. Excellent commuter vehicle, perfect for those living in constrained area like a condo. My pool area and my work site have enough clear area for takeoff/landing. Would a helicopter endorsement be required for a pilot's license? Would I need a transponder for congested airways in SF bay area? How noisy are these jetpacks? I don't have a budget like Larry Ellison to pay off noise abatement fines.
There was some program about presidential campaigns, they were interviewing this guy from New Hampshire or Iowa or one of those small states where voters get choices. His comment was he got to shake hands with every president since Kennedy. Here in Calif you need at least $50K to simply attend a fundraiser with a Party nominee.
Well, as a former VCR repair tech, I can tell you why we thought VHS beat BetaMax: the VHS machines were much easier to repair.
A friend who worked at VMI in Sunnyvale back in the days said same thing. He worked on reel to reel, and interacted with other guys who worked on VHS and Beta. To align the beta heads, the machine had to be shipped to Japan as it was that precise.
I also heard there is a documentary about the guys who developed VHS, a Japanese show where they portray these as a drama. I'd love to see it as another friend while he was in Japan he watched this docudrama. These guys went on for days, weeks, months with very little time to sleep, take baths, or eat. Entire lab was filled with huge rack mount test equipment, scopes, etc. with cables and cords going everywhere, and floor covered with empty food containers. One of the guys was given an impossible task during the project which he was seriously considering an easy out (stabbing himself to death like a Samurai). Other tasks included hundreds of insert-and-eject tasks to ensure the decks will not eat tapes. When they finally got it going, Sony and other companies rejected it. But JVC accepted it and also provided licensing for other companies to make VHS machines.
Anyway, I am old enough to remember when video cassettes arrived on the consumer market. I didn't have enough money to buy a machine so I rented. VHS was a no-brainer because I can record a 2-hour movie or two 1-hour TV shows. Or put it in EP mode and record three 2-hour movies. Beta was maximum 90 minutes which even though I heard it was better (honestly I couldn't tell the difference) but I need that last 30 minutes!!!
But wait, this guy lead a team to develop the first consumer video cassette deck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Richard Elkus knew even in 1960s video will never be popular in the consumer market unless it was a cassette. i.e. people had 8mm film but they typically only watch it once because setting up a screen, setting up and feeding the film through a projector was too tedious for most people. Unfortunately US companies didn't buy into it but the Japanese took the technology and ran with it. Rest is history.
Getting back to Beta, that was the game changer for news media. None of the "film at 11!" as that is how long it takes to develop and show 16mm film footage of an event earlier in the day. None of packing a camera with a separate recorder and wearing a 50 lb battery belt. Grab that shoulder mount, run and gun, for action reality footage, and also be able to solve the camera in a politician's face, and footage is ready to go for the 6 pm news.
I met Paul Moller at Yolo County airport in late 1980s. There was a small airshow of sorts, he had a Skycar mockup on display. I asked him why this VTOL will be so much cheaper than what typically be from aerospace companies. Moller said these large companies have only one customer, the government, so there is no reason to make any VTOL vehicle lowcost. He is (was or still is?) for the "average." Earlier in 1980s I found a AIAA paper he wrote and had a set of equations dealing with power and diameter of ducted engines (I cannot find it anywhere now). It outlined for a given amount of powered lift the total ducted area needs to be of a certain value. Moller also wrote his equations showed the Canadian Avro-Car in late 1950s was doomed to never get out of ground effect because total ducted area was too small regardless how powerful the engines may have been. I also remembered the slick brocheres, I looked up the company in the phone book and also (what's that publication that was real popular back in the days?) that lists companies, Moller Corp. business that earned money was selling mufflers that were flow efficient. Moller was also a professor at UC Davis.
Put down the Star Trek, pick up the physics and reality 101. For your own good.
Larry Krause implied this but not in those words. In a presentation he mentioned amount of energy it takes to accelerate a federation starship is way more than the mass of the ship (E=mc^2). I tried some basic calculations using KE=1/2mv^2, my values seemed quite low. However the concept seems valid (examine amount of energy it takes to put a measley 3000 lb (mass) into LEO.
I promise you, it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this. But you have to let them.
That's what New Space wants to do but nobody knows what their real plans are (we get snippets of information depending i.e. press release by Musk). Other than that they are free to do what they want though all of them want money from the guvmint.
I'm about to, CATV has been showing the same shows and movies over and over. Including TCM though sometimes they break out of their paradigm of showing same ol' film three times a month (few months ago they featured a series of Mamie Van Doren movies). PBS is nice and OTA! CSPAN-3 has interesting lectures on weekends but they are not OTA.
Then there is their broadband service (my area does not have DSL) but I don't want to pay those crooks more money. OK so I man up and cut the cord. crap someone sent me a 80MB file. I will be dead of old age by the time I download using dialup.
Whenever I hear/read "Case For Mars" I'm thinking here we go again... I'm thinking NASA is doomed to keep a single course to Mars (there's other stuff ya know). Matula posted this on NASAwatch:
I blame most of the destination argument on the creation of the Mars underground in the 1980's. Prior to that NASA was focused on using the Shuttle for industrialization in LEO with projects like demonstrating the repair and return of satellites, building structural items in orbit, tethers, etc., all logical starting points for building a Cislunar industrial capability that would have given us the Solar System. NASA didn't even have plans to send robots to Mars. By advocating that we needed to skip the Moon and go rushing off to Mars they started this entire useless destination debate that has paralyzed space policy ever since.
Although their arguments made no rational or economic sense, falling back on outdated ideas like "manifest destiny" and painting Mars like a second Earth, they struck some cord among a very vocal hard core group that has shouted down any rational space strategy ever since. We see it now with Senators force feeding the SLS with money it doesn't need while starving commercial crew because the SLS would, in theory, be able to take astronauts to Mars. As a result the ISS is only one Soyuz failure away from being abandoned.
We need to give Mars a rest and once again spend the limited budget on building capabilities in space, space tugs, orbital refueling, lunar LOX, that would serve for going to all the interesting destinations beyond Earth, not keep wasting money on plans to go to a single one that is already well mapped and explored.
chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski said helium was flammable.
I believe proper term is inflammable like when they wrote on gasoline tanker trucks but used "flammable." Otherwise some may interpret it as unflammable. Of course these days they simply put "1203" on their code sign. I think if they blimp had "1046" code sign then everything will be ok.
No more than 10 to 20 Million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
Amazing how that movie has left so many references/comparisons/insights/zanyness of nuclear war. CPAN3 had a lecture by a history professor about the Cold War to a college class (obviously all too young to remember living through the Cold War). Professor said that was just like general Lemay.
I met a B52 navigator who flew on such aircraft in the 1960s. He said Kubrick must have got SAC assistance or something because procedures were much like the A model. It shows all the tedious procedures to arm the bombs to be ready for drop.
The last thing they need is some moron claiming that they're stealing all the money when really they're just trying to survive in a broken system.
It seems just about every Republican complains about poor people getting free handouts. You make a good point they are trying to survive in a broken system.
I just don't think most people understand money that well, most of us did not go to school for accounting and finance, and find all of that stuff baffling. It doesn't help that they have multiple words that mean the same things, while the same word may have vastly different meanings in different contexts, and you will never get an answer to your question in your own words...
I wonder if that is done by purpose. This kind of stuff should be taught in public schools, however, it is not so most people become slaved to debt. In other words, you can't rule an educated population.
Perhaps all countries do this like they do with spies. As written in Mad Magazine decades ago, "When we want to know more about another countries activities, we employ intelligence agents. When another country does the same to us, we accuse them of using spies."
And they'll be on the 2050 equivalent of eham complaining about these new kids with their 100 GHz links carrying gigabit/second not knowing the real ham radio back when we had 2 Mbps on one channel and thought it was cool. (by then, the guys who pounded brass in the military, or shipboard with their GROL, will have died, so the code vs no-code dispute will have died down)
Before the code vs. no-code dispute, there was a group of radio enthusiasts who would argue, "Spark Forever!"
FCC, the regulatory body *created* to ensure that the radio spectrum within the United States doesn't become an unusable mess of noise created by overlapping bands, and horribly out of any reasonable spec transmitters blasting white noise everywhere...
It happened. Back in the days when ships were wood and men were steel (1926), the Attorney General ruled the Dept of Commerce (prior to FCC) had no legal authority to assign freq, power levels, etc. Hundreds of stations had a field day, millions of listeners across America turned off their receivers, and sale of receivers slowed to a trickle (ref GROL License Prep book by Maia and West).
Getting back to a general radio operator license (GROL), I'm not sure how applicable license questions are to wifi but someone holding a license is at least familiar with RF, frequencies, harmonics, how square waves in computers generate lots of frequencies (white noise). It seems many software people are not aware but then if talking about 2.4GHz or other ISM bands, it's all Wild West. I think FCC is probably more concerned manufacturers keep their RF emitters within this band and lot splatter out.
But then FCC mostly is a shill for broadcast industries. Much of their technical base has been lost due to budgets and political objectives. I see lots of RF products that have Part 90 ratings (which I find dubious but I've not spent time with test equipment verifying performance), and worse off are 1.2GHz wireless video transmitters that transmit in the aeronautical navigation band (950 to 1200 MHz).
The 2.4 Ghz spectrum was opened up for general use because it has relatively poor long distance characteristics thanks to it being absorbed strongly by water.
Interesting mention, and why microwave ovens use 2450MHz, water absorption helps keep RF signal local.
This lead to an explosion of use in the band where your average apartment building has dozens of devices competing for the spectrum.
Back in the days when ships were wood and men were steel, frequencies were allocated to business and public safety 2-way radios, broadcast radio, television, microwave backhaul, amateur radio, military, aviation, navigation, boaters, etc. But 2.4GHz was good for heating food as H2O molecule absorbs that freq. As these ovens are "noisy" FCC figured this will be good for general ISM devices. Then along comes computer/network/internet people wanting spectrum but it has all been taken (analogy of trying to homestead at the close of the 19th century). So only thing left was 2.4. They also seek out 5.8 and a few other slivers of spectrum. But don't think about opening up all spectrum. Cellphone and broadcasters are very possessive of their spectrum, and also many govt and businesses regularly use 2-way radios just like mechanics and plumbers use their tools. There was a time when radio had no regulation (1920s) with stations continually changing freq and increasing power, this lead to many listeners turning off radios and sales of receivers dropped (noted in Gordon West book on commercial licensing). Some services used to be licensed (CB), FCC threw in the towel but still asked manufacturers to keep their radio gear contained within that band.
Generally the FCC no longer enforces spectrum, they may call someone to locate source of interference on a cop frequency. I'm still amazed there are regular sales of 1.2GHz video transmitters that operate in the 900 to 1200 MHz band (aero nav band used by transponders) and all these RC drone sites selling 5.8GHz video transmitters (up to 2w) and everyone from commercial to hobbyists operate on this without any regard to licensing or station ID. But then it is the wild west so who cares? FCC will take action if a nipple is shown.
Over regulation is stifling innovation.
not really, the big megacorps are buying up spectrum then sell various devices where you need to subscribe and pay, pay user fees, fees for data usage, fees for using "excessive data", fees to upgrade, fees to fee.
ChrisJohnson posted this about Uber, I think it's insightful as I see many other businesses taking up this mode of operation to take advantage of Uber drivers:
Quote:
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
[snip]
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff. end quote
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I'm tired of having to constantly upgrade to upgrade in order to meet the next upgrade. All of these, if not many, require online registration and create account and password. I want to install and use it. If I want an upgrade then I will seek that out. Otherwise let me use the program, offline, and don't bother me.
not really. many times searching for useful knowledge only returns marketing/sales sites or brief/vague description of something that someone wrote some time ago and a zillion other sites simply aggregate that into their useless website.
you mean one firefighter cannot put down an entire industrial fire with just a 1.5 inch hose like in Backdraft?
your crew's distant descendants, when they arrived, ...
I think they'd be completely different group of animals, culture wise that is. I think of the Star Trek TOS episode of aliens that commandeered the Enterprise, modified it for a very long journey to another galaxy. Shortly after they (in human bodies) were becoming nutzoid with human emotions from getting drunk to jealousy. By the time they'd get to where they were going, they will be "Futurama."
I say lets first put someone on Mars, then we can argue about humans going beyond. So far we've been saying we'll put a man on Mars in 20 years for the past 50 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are commercially available Jetpacks dammit! What is wrong with you all?
Excellent comment. We all bitch about not getting flying cars but now there are jetpacks though I'm too poor to buy one. Excellent commuter vehicle, perfect for those living in constrained area like a condo. My pool area and my work site have enough clear area for takeoff/landing. Would a helicopter endorsement be required for a pilot's license? Would I need a transponder for congested airways in SF bay area? How noisy are these jetpacks? I don't have a budget like Larry Ellison to pay off noise abatement fines.
There was some program about presidential campaigns, they were interviewing this guy from New Hampshire or Iowa or one of those small states where voters get choices. His comment was he got to shake hands with every president since Kennedy. Here in Calif you need at least $50K to simply attend a fundraiser with a Party nominee.
Well, as a former VCR repair tech, I can tell you why we thought VHS beat BetaMax: the VHS machines were much easier to repair.
A friend who worked at VMI in Sunnyvale back in the days said same thing. He worked on reel to reel, and interacted with other guys who worked on VHS and Beta. To align the beta heads, the machine had to be shipped to Japan as it was that precise.
I also heard there is a documentary about the guys who developed VHS, a Japanese show where they portray these as a drama. I'd love to see it as another friend while he was in Japan he watched this docudrama. These guys went on for days, weeks, months with very little time to sleep, take baths, or eat. Entire lab was filled with huge rack mount test equipment, scopes, etc. with cables and cords going everywhere, and floor covered with empty food containers. One of the guys was given an impossible task during the project which he was seriously considering an easy out (stabbing himself to death like a Samurai). Other tasks included hundreds of insert-and-eject tasks to ensure the decks will not eat tapes. When they finally got it going, Sony and other companies rejected it. But JVC accepted it and also provided licensing for other companies to make VHS machines.
Anyway, I am old enough to remember when video cassettes arrived on the consumer market. I didn't have enough money to buy a machine so I rented. VHS was a no-brainer because I can record a 2-hour movie or two 1-hour TV shows. Or put it in EP mode and record three 2-hour movies. Beta was maximum 90 minutes which even though I heard it was better (honestly I couldn't tell the difference) but I need that last 30 minutes!!!
But wait, this guy lead a team to develop the first consumer video cassette deck, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Richard Elkus knew even in 1960s video will never be popular in the consumer market unless it was a cassette. i.e. people had 8mm film but they typically only watch it once because setting up a screen, setting up and feeding the film through a projector was too tedious for most people. Unfortunately US companies didn't buy into it but the Japanese took the technology and ran with it. Rest is history.
Getting back to Beta, that was the game changer for news media. None of the "film at 11!" as that is how long it takes to develop and show 16mm film footage of an event earlier in the day. None of packing a camera with a separate recorder and wearing a 50 lb battery belt. Grab that shoulder mount, run and gun, for action reality footage, and also be able to solve the camera in a politician's face, and footage is ready to go for the 6 pm news.
I met Paul Moller at Yolo County airport in late 1980s. There was a small airshow of sorts, he had a Skycar mockup on display. I asked him why this VTOL will be so much cheaper than what typically be from aerospace companies. Moller said these large companies have only one customer, the government, so there is no reason to make any VTOL vehicle lowcost. He is (was or still is?) for the "average." Earlier in 1980s I found a AIAA paper he wrote and had a set of equations dealing with power and diameter of ducted engines (I cannot find it anywhere now). It outlined for a given amount of powered lift the total ducted area needs to be of a certain value. Moller also wrote his equations showed the Canadian Avro-Car in late 1950s was doomed to never get out of ground effect because total ducted area was too small regardless how powerful the engines may have been. I also remembered the slick brocheres, I looked up the company in the phone book and also (what's that publication that was real popular back in the days?) that lists companies, Moller Corp. business that earned money was selling mufflers that were flow efficient. Moller was also a professor at UC Davis.
Put down the Star Trek, pick up the physics and reality 101. For your own good.
Larry Krause implied this but not in those words. In a presentation he mentioned amount of energy it takes to accelerate a federation starship is way more than the mass of the ship (E=mc^2). I tried some basic calculations using KE=1/2mv^2, my values seemed quite low. However the concept seems valid (examine amount of energy it takes to put a measley 3000 lb (mass) into LEO.
I promise you, it really is possible for people to cooperate with each other to achieve this. But you have to let them.
That's what New Space wants to do but nobody knows what their real plans are (we get snippets of information depending i.e. press release by Musk). Other than that they are free to do what they want though all of them want money from the guvmint.
when 640k got you a lot!
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Then there is their broadband service (my area does not have DSL) but I don't want to pay those crooks more money. OK so I man up and cut the cord. crap someone sent me a 80MB file. I will be dead of old age by the time I download using dialup.
I blame most of the destination argument on the creation of the Mars underground in the 1980's. Prior to that NASA was focused on using the Shuttle for industrialization in LEO with projects like demonstrating the repair and return of satellites, building structural items in orbit, tethers, etc., all logical starting points for building a Cislunar industrial capability that would have given us the Solar System. NASA didn't even have plans to send robots to Mars. By advocating that we needed to skip the Moon and go rushing off to Mars they started this entire useless destination debate that has paralyzed space policy ever since.
Although their arguments made no rational or economic sense, falling back on outdated ideas like "manifest destiny" and painting Mars like a second Earth, they struck some cord among a very vocal hard core group that has shouted down any rational space strategy ever since. We see it now with Senators force feeding the SLS with money it doesn't need while starving commercial crew because the SLS would, in theory, be able to take astronauts to Mars. As a result the ISS is only one Soyuz failure away from being abandoned.
We need to give Mars a rest and once again spend the limited budget on building capabilities in space, space tugs, orbital refueling, lunar LOX, that would serve for going to all the interesting destinations beyond Earth, not keep wasting money on plans to go to a single one that is already well mapped and explored.
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chief Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski said helium was flammable.
I believe proper term is inflammable like when they wrote on gasoline tanker trucks but used "flammable." Otherwise some may interpret it as unflammable. Of course these days they simply put "1203" on their code sign. I think if they blimp had "1046" code sign then everything will be ok.
No more than 10 to 20 Million killed, tops. Uh, depending on the breaks.
Amazing how that movie has left so many references/comparisons/insights/zanyness of nuclear war. CPAN3 had a lecture by a history professor about the Cold War to a college class (obviously all too young to remember living through the Cold War). Professor said that was just like general Lemay.
I met a B52 navigator who flew on such aircraft in the 1960s. He said Kubrick must have got SAC assistance or something because procedures were much like the A model. It shows all the tedious procedures to arm the bombs to be ready for drop.
The last thing they need is some moron claiming that they're stealing all the money when really they're just trying to survive in a broken system.
It seems just about every Republican complains about poor people getting free handouts. You make a good point they are trying to survive in a broken system.
I just don't think most people understand money that well, most of us did not go to school for accounting and finance, and find all of that stuff baffling. It doesn't help that they have multiple words that mean the same things, while the same word may have vastly different meanings in different contexts, and you will never get an answer to your question in your own words...
I wonder if that is done by purpose. This kind of stuff should be taught in public schools, however, it is not so most people become slaved to debt. In other words, you can't rule an educated population.
Yes, I also had no idea it was still on. I got bored with the series when every experiment became an explosion.
Perhaps all countries do this like they do with spies. As written in Mad Magazine decades ago, "When we want to know more about another countries activities, we employ intelligence agents. When another country does the same to us, we accuse them of using spies."
not sure how this fits into this thread, http://nist.gov/el/isd/cs/wpsm...
And they'll be on the 2050 equivalent of eham complaining about these new kids with their 100 GHz links carrying gigabit/second not knowing the real ham radio back when we had 2 Mbps on one channel and thought it was cool. (by then, the guys who pounded brass in the military, or shipboard with their GROL, will have died, so the code vs no-code dispute will have died down)
Before the code vs. no-code dispute, there was a group of radio enthusiasts who would argue, "Spark Forever!"
FCC, the regulatory body *created* to ensure that the radio spectrum within the United States doesn't become an unusable mess of noise created by overlapping bands, and horribly out of any reasonable spec transmitters blasting white noise everywhere...
It happened. Back in the days when ships were wood and men were steel (1926), the Attorney General ruled the Dept of Commerce (prior to FCC) had no legal authority to assign freq, power levels, etc. Hundreds of stations had a field day, millions of listeners across America turned off their receivers, and sale of receivers slowed to a trickle (ref GROL License Prep book by Maia and West).
Getting back to a general radio operator license (GROL), I'm not sure how applicable license questions are to wifi but someone holding a license is at least familiar with RF, frequencies, harmonics, how square waves in computers generate lots of frequencies (white noise). It seems many software people are not aware but then if talking about 2.4GHz or other ISM bands, it's all Wild West. I think FCC is probably more concerned manufacturers keep their RF emitters within this band and lot splatter out.
But then FCC mostly is a shill for broadcast industries. Much of their technical base has been lost due to budgets and political objectives. I see lots of RF products that have Part 90 ratings (which I find dubious but I've not spent time with test equipment verifying performance), and worse off are 1.2GHz wireless video transmitters that transmit in the aeronautical navigation band (950 to 1200 MHz).
The 2.4 Ghz spectrum was opened up for general use because it has relatively poor long distance characteristics thanks to it being absorbed strongly by water.
Interesting mention, and why microwave ovens use 2450MHz, water absorption helps keep RF signal local.
This lead to an explosion of use in the band where your average apartment building has dozens of devices competing for the spectrum.
Back in the days when ships were wood and men were steel, frequencies were allocated to business and public safety 2-way radios, broadcast radio, television, microwave backhaul, amateur radio, military, aviation, navigation, boaters, etc. But 2.4GHz was good for heating food as H2O molecule absorbs that freq. As these ovens are "noisy" FCC figured this will be good for general ISM devices. Then along comes computer/network/internet people wanting spectrum but it has all been taken (analogy of trying to homestead at the close of the 19th century). So only thing left was 2.4. They also seek out 5.8 and a few other slivers of spectrum. But don't think about opening up all spectrum. Cellphone and broadcasters are very possessive of their spectrum, and also many govt and businesses regularly use 2-way radios just like mechanics and plumbers use their tools. There was a time when radio had no regulation (1920s) with stations continually changing freq and increasing power, this lead to many listeners turning off radios and sales of receivers dropped (noted in Gordon West book on commercial licensing). Some services used to be licensed (CB), FCC threw in the towel but still asked manufacturers to keep their radio gear contained within that band.
Generally the FCC no longer enforces spectrum, they may call someone to locate source of interference on a cop frequency. I'm still amazed there are regular sales of 1.2GHz video transmitters that operate in the 900 to 1200 MHz band (aero nav band used by transponders) and all these RC drone sites selling 5.8GHz video transmitters (up to 2w) and everyone from commercial to hobbyists operate on this without any regard to licensing or station ID. But then it is the wild west so who cares? FCC will take action if a nipple is shown.
Over regulation is stifling innovation.
not really, the big megacorps are buying up spectrum then sell various devices where you need to subscribe and pay, pay user fees, fees for data usage, fees for using "excessive data", fees to upgrade, fees to fee.
ChrisJohnson posted this about Uber, I think it's insightful as I see many other businesses taking up this mode of operation to take advantage of Uber drivers:
Quote:
Sure, a bit. Uber's the same thing. It's designed to make maximum use of crazy people and force the others to live up to that standard or be fired.
I'll define 'crazy Uber people' not as 'danger to customers', but 'people who are bringing more value in terms of vehicle, skill and desire to please, than they are getting back in pay and benefits'. So the crazy Uber person is the one who keeps buying a new Lexus or whatever, vacuums their car three times a day and busts their ass to outperform all the other Uber drivers, so they can continue to win out over anybody else seeking to be a driver.
The key factor is that they are giving more than they get back, in the belief that they're cornering some kind of market or buying in to something important.
[snip]
Another way to be a crazy Uber person is to put more depreciation and wear and tear on your car than you can afford to repair (or replace). It's easy to be crazy in these ways. It's externalities which are easy to overlook. These Amazon/Uber business models are designed to leverage that kind of crazy as hard as possible, and kick out everybody who's not willing to lose (one way or another) on the deal. Psychology is useful in getting people to buy into this stuff.
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