In 1963, the FCC made almost all land mobile (two-way FM radio) radio equipment obsolete when they mandated new channel spacing and FM deviation standards to make more efficient use of the radio spectrum. Users had to buy new radios that complied with the new standards, at their own expense.
The government didn't take anything away from you. It has no obligation to compensate anyone for hardware that has become obsolete or useless due to new laws and regulations. This isn't the first time that this sort of thing has happened.
Much of it is just greed. Auto mechanics have been ripping people off for many decades. It's just too easy to feed the average customer some bullshit and make some quick and easy money.
Right, the "Vast Western Conspiracy" to talk trash about China. That's the sort of thing I hear from Chinese students who have little experience with other societies.
The sad part is all the people who get crippled by playing high school and college sports, motivated by the very unlikely prospect of a professional career. They are cannon fodder for a system that makes big profits for the schools and TV networks, and does little for the athlete.
It isn't the cost of the box, it's the generation of the chipset. The latest chipsets do a much better job of handling multipath. So a cheap box with a current chipset may trounce older and more expensive boxes.
I'd be interested in how the American soap operas compare to their counterparts in other countries. From what I've read, telenovelas are very popular in Latin America. When I lived in Hawaii, a local TV station used to play a Samurai soap opera series from Japan.
According to the article, the projectile had a hollow center, and the target was a cylinder that fit inside the hollow center of the projectile. That's the opposite of most descriptions of the weapon.
Sometimes you have to keep on complaining. I had a similar problem that wasn't solved until they finally sent out a team of real technicians with a spectrum analyser. Even then, it took them several visits to locate the faulty equipment that was generating interference on the local cable distribution system.
There are quite a few people who do not have a landline for voice or dialup. For poor people, there are often issues about old unpaid bills, credit checks, deposits, and the inability of the head of household to control expenditures made by other members of the household or visitors.
There's something called prosecutorial discretion. Around here, the district attorney is not interested in wasting his time on weak cases. He has a limited budget and staff. He also has an ethical obligation to not prosecute people that are innocent.
I remember reading some driver source code that included comments bitching about how some early IDE controller chips were incredibly buggy. What you are seeing could be the result of software workarounds, like disabling interrupts during transfers.
What about all of the radio stations that expect payola in return for playing a record? There were a bunch of articles written about the sleazy "independent record promotions" industry not that long ago.
Many of the pay-as-you-go phones that I see on store shelves are being sold for substantially less than the price of a replacement battery. No contract needed.
And in some things, as the sole authority in the military chain of command, especially during wartime, his word is law, his requests are orders, and if he wants to make an issue out of it, refusal to carry out his orders is a crime of treason, punishable by death.
Where did you get that idea? Refusal to obey an order, assuming it is lawful, is not treason, even if it is from the POTUS.
That isn't true. ATSC uses multiple layers of error-correcting codes. The channel error rate has to get quite bad before you start seeing uncorrectable errors. If you look at the plot of SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) vs. BER (bit-error rate), you'll see that the curve is steep. That's the "digital cliff" that some people talk about. Small increases in SNR result in large reductions in BER. Analog TV relies on the brute force approach, just like AM broadcast radio, to suppress noise. That doesn't mean that analog is better. In fact, it's the opposite.
Ref. 9/11, it wasn't just the cell towers, a huge number of high-speed data lines were cut. You can't have a working cellular system without the data lines that connect all the nodes in the network.
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In 1963, the FCC made almost all land mobile (two-way FM radio) radio equipment obsolete when they mandated new channel spacing and FM deviation standards to make more efficient use of the radio spectrum. Users had to buy new radios that complied with the new standards, at their own expense.
The FCC computer models for coverage assume that the receiving antenna is on a 30' mast. Rabbit ears are not going to work in fringe areas.
Digital TV was invented in the USA. It's the implementation that has taken forever.
The government didn't take anything away from you. It has no obligation to compensate anyone for hardware that has become obsolete or useless due to new laws and regulations. This isn't the first time that this sort of thing has happened.
Much of it is just greed. Auto mechanics have been ripping people off for many decades. It's just too easy to feed the average customer some bullshit and make some quick and easy money.
Right, the "Vast Western Conspiracy" to talk trash about China. That's the sort of thing I hear from Chinese students who have little experience with other societies.
The sad part is all the people who get crippled by playing high school and college sports, motivated by the very unlikely prospect of a professional career. They are cannon fodder for a system that makes big profits for the schools and TV networks, and does little for the athlete.
There's a big difference between historical facts and predictions of the future.
It isn't the cost of the box, it's the generation of the chipset. The latest chipsets do a much better job of handling multipath. So a cheap box with a current chipset may trounce older and more expensive boxes.
It's on the FCC web site, in excruciating detail.
I'd be interested in how the American soap operas compare to their counterparts in other countries. From what I've read, telenovelas are very popular in Latin America. When I lived in Hawaii, a local TV station used to play a Samurai soap opera series from Japan.
According to the article, the projectile had a hollow center, and the target was a cylinder that fit inside the hollow center of the projectile. That's the opposite of most descriptions of the weapon.
Sometimes you have to keep on complaining. I had a similar problem that wasn't solved until they finally sent out a team of real technicians with a spectrum analyser. Even then, it took them several visits to locate the faulty equipment that was generating interference on the local cable distribution system.
No, the problem is the design of the network. The uplink and downlink use completely different paths. The uplink path has limited capacity.
Sorry, you are quite simply incorrect. Channel capacity is a function of bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio. See the Shannon-Hartley theorem.
I know what 5.56 mm is. Say hello to my little friend.
There are quite a few people who do not have a landline for voice or dialup. For poor people, there are often issues about old unpaid bills, credit checks, deposits, and the inability of the head of household to control expenditures made by other members of the household or visitors.
Just increase the voltage. That will keep them on their toes.
There's something called prosecutorial discretion. Around here, the district attorney is not interested in wasting his time on weak cases. He has a limited budget and staff. He also has an ethical obligation to not prosecute people that are innocent.
I remember reading some driver source code that included comments bitching about how some early IDE controller chips were incredibly buggy. What you are seeing could be the result of software workarounds, like disabling interrupts during transfers.
What about all of the radio stations that expect payola in return for playing a record? There were a bunch of articles written about the sleazy "independent record promotions" industry not that long ago.
Many of the pay-as-you-go phones that I see on store shelves are being sold for substantially less than the price of a replacement battery. No contract needed.
Where did you get that idea? Refusal to obey an order, assuming it is lawful, is not treason, even if it is from the POTUS.
That isn't true. ATSC uses multiple layers of error-correcting codes. The channel error rate has to get quite bad before you start seeing uncorrectable errors. If you look at the plot of SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) vs. BER (bit-error rate), you'll see that the curve is steep. That's the "digital cliff" that some people talk about. Small increases in SNR result in large reductions in BER. Analog TV relies on the brute force approach, just like AM broadcast radio, to suppress noise. That doesn't mean that analog is better. In fact, it's the opposite.
Ref. 9/11, it wasn't just the cell towers, a huge number of high-speed data lines were cut. You can't have a working cellular system without the data lines that connect all the nodes in the network.