The energy of the photons is proportional to their frequency. 800 MHz photons have 1000x the energy of 800 kHz photons.
You are also much closer to a cell phone than you are to an AM broadcast station's antenna. Power density is proportional to the inverse square of the distance.
You can get noticable banding with 24-bit color. 8 bits for intensity (per color) is too small. 10 bits would be OK with the right correction curve (non-linear). 16 bits is often used for critical applications like radiology.
What if Jane has a laptop? My limited experience with laptops is that they are very difficult to upgrade to newer versions of Windows. The factory install has a large number of model specific device drivers and utilities. Most laptop vendors seem to be uninterested in releasing new versions of model specific software to support newer versions of Windows. They only support what was shipped on the laptop. If you need/want a newer version of Windows, their suggested solution is to buy a new laptop.
Unfortunately, the food stamp program resulted in secondary black markets for food stamps. You can buy drugs with food stamps. The drug dealers accept the food stamps at a percentage of their face value. They are eventually sold to dishonest grocers who redeem them with the government for cash. Most states now issue food stamp recipients a benefits card, like an ATM card, that can be used to purchase groceries.
Ballpoint pens are probably the best choice for signing checks and other documents. The ink is hard to bleach and the ball crushes fibers in the paper, providing a record of pressure applied to the pen.
Unfortunately, nobody bothers to look at signatures on most documents, like checks.
Am I the only person here that finds it scarier that they were relying on PCs running DOS than that they are moving to web applications on the internet?
Not me. Simplicity can be a virtue.
Consider a simple PC, running vanilla MS-DOS, with a dial-up modem. There's no network interface card and the PC is located in a physically secure location. On a prearranged schedule, it dials up the Fed's computer and sends/receives transactions. The link and the transactions are encrypted. How are you going to hack this system?
Banks used to settle accounts with real money. At least that was what I was told when I was researching the history of American currency. For an example, see the $100,000 Bank Transfer Note.
From some things that I've read, many Chinese manufacturers were/are paying $0 in patent fees for DVD players. That's supposed to be a major reason why some DVD player prices are so low.
Every time I read one of these propaganda pieces on the virtues of applying market principles to the RF spectrum, I have to ask, what about all of the users who don't have the money to buy a slice of the spectrum? Are they going to be shut out because corporate users can afford to pay far more than they could ever dream of spending? Currently, there is spectrum reserved for many people and organizations that do not have much money. Economically "efficient" is not the same thing as socially "efficient".
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Most people don't understand how television channels are allocated in the USA. Due to interference concerns, stations on the same and adjacent channels must be geographically separated by large distances. For VHF, I've been told that the FCC's rules can be approximated at 160 miles separation between stations on the same channel and 70 miles separation between stations on adjacent channels. The rules for the UHF band are stricter due to the increased susceptibility to interference of television receivers in the UHF band. The end result is that you can't just arbitrarily pack analog stations into a smaller UHF band. Digital stations (ATSC) are more resistant to interference and this allows the rules to be relaxed without resulting in unacceptable levels of interference.
I read the article. The last time I checked, the laws of physics and information theory haven't been repealed. There is nothing new about any of the technologies that were mentioned in the article.
For unknown reasons, most of the spam that I receive is in Cyrillic, advertising Russian products and services. Most of the companies appear to be located in Russia. While they may be using zombies on American broadband networks to send their spam, they are definitely not Americans.
A year ago, most of my spam was from South Korea, in the Korean language, advertising South Korean products and services.
I get surprising little spam that is written in English.
What we need is federal affirmative action programs for criminal street gangs. If we can't bust them for illegal weapons or dope, we can smother them with greedy lawyers.
I would think that would be local. I notice the delays when I select an option or do something that updates the screen, like paging through the program guide. The delays vary depending on how busy the servers are, or if there are signal quality problems with the distribution system.
From what I've read, the problem isn't really the cable box, it's the way they designed the system. Your cable box is like a web browser, making requests for data to the cable company's servers. The delays that you see are a combination of slow communication links and slow servers. Your TIVO is much faster because it caches all its data locally.
The dogs contribute a lot more to society than the prisoners in the jail.
I sympathize with Arpaio. An acquaintance showed me pictures she had received from a relative that was incarcerated in the regional jail. Their living conditions were much better than those I had been subjected to while in the Army. It really pissed me off that they were lounging around, watching cable TV, in nice air-conditioned housing units.
I'm not a color expert, but I've been told that there are many colors that can't be displayed accurately on a CRT, and I assume LCD, due to the limitations of the device.
I would like to see the law changed so that the company is forced to pay the ex-employee full wages and benefits for the length of the non-compete period. If the information is really that valuable, it would be a small price to pay. Otherwise, employees are put into a position where they can't work in their field of expertise, often with little or no compensation.
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NT on the Alpha was a crippled operating system. It was a 32-bit operating system with 64-bit hacks to allow it to run on the Alpha.
You are also much closer to a cell phone than you are to an AM broadcast station's antenna. Power density is proportional to the inverse square of the distance.
You can get noticable banding with 24-bit color. 8 bits for intensity (per color) is too small. 10 bits would be OK with the right correction curve (non-linear). 16 bits is often used for critical applications like radiology.
What if Jane has a laptop? My limited experience with laptops is that they are very difficult to upgrade to newer versions of Windows. The factory install has a large number of model specific device drivers and utilities. Most laptop vendors seem to be uninterested in releasing new versions of model specific software to support newer versions of Windows. They only support what was shipped on the laptop. If you need/want a newer version of Windows, their suggested solution is to buy a new laptop.
Unfortunately, the food stamp program resulted in secondary black markets for food stamps. You can buy drugs with food stamps. The drug dealers accept the food stamps at a percentage of their face value. They are eventually sold to dishonest grocers who redeem them with the government for cash. Most states now issue food stamp recipients a benefits card, like an ATM card, that can be used to purchase groceries.
Ballpoint pens are probably the best choice for signing checks and other documents. The ink is hard to bleach and the ball crushes fibers in the paper, providing a record of pressure applied to the pen. Unfortunately, nobody bothers to look at signatures on most documents, like checks.
Not me. Simplicity can be a virtue.
Consider a simple PC, running vanilla MS-DOS, with a dial-up modem. There's no network interface card and the PC is located in a physically secure location. On a prearranged schedule, it dials up the Fed's computer and sends/receives transactions. The link and the transactions are encrypted. How are you going to hack this system?
Banks used to settle accounts with real money. At least that was what I was told when I was researching the history of American currency. For an example, see the $100,000 Bank Transfer Note.
I wish I had some mod points, so that I could fulfill your expectations.
Repeat after me:
I am not a conformist.
I am not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
I will think for myself.
From some things that I've read, many Chinese manufacturers were/are paying $0 in patent fees for DVD players. That's supposed to be a major reason why some DVD player prices are so low.
That's not a good idea. The system is currently used for many events less catastrophic than World War III, like severe weather warnings.
Every time I read one of these propaganda pieces on the virtues of applying market principles to the RF spectrum, I have to ask, what about all of the users who don't have the money to buy a slice of the spectrum? Are they going to be shut out because corporate users can afford to pay far more than they could ever dream of spending? Currently, there is spectrum reserved for many people and organizations that do not have much money. Economically "efficient" is not the same thing as socially "efficient".
Most people don't understand how television channels are allocated in the USA. Due to interference concerns, stations on the same and adjacent channels must be geographically separated by large distances. For VHF, I've been told that the FCC's rules can be approximated at 160 miles separation between stations on the same channel and 70 miles separation between stations on adjacent channels. The rules for the UHF band are stricter due to the increased susceptibility to interference of television receivers in the UHF band. The end result is that you can't just arbitrarily pack analog stations into a smaller UHF band. Digital stations (ATSC) are more resistant to interference and this allows the rules to be relaxed without resulting in unacceptable levels of interference.
I read the article. The last time I checked, the laws of physics and information theory haven't been repealed. There is nothing new about any of the technologies that were mentioned in the article.
See the about section of the web site. I'm off to my fave chippy. Gaak.
A year ago, most of my spam was from South Korea, in the Korean language, advertising South Korean products and services.
I get surprising little spam that is written in English.
Yes, in Hawaii.
What we need is federal affirmative action programs for criminal street gangs. If we can't bust them for illegal weapons or dope, we can smother them with greedy lawyers.
I would think that would be local. I notice the delays when I select an option or do something that updates the screen, like paging through the program guide. The delays vary depending on how busy the servers are, or if there are signal quality problems with the distribution system.
From what I've read, the problem isn't really the cable box, it's the way they designed the system. Your cable box is like a web browser, making requests for data to the cable company's servers. The delays that you see are a combination of slow communication links and slow servers. Your TIVO is much faster because it caches all its data locally.
You're right. I can buy a flying car.
I sympathize with Arpaio. An acquaintance showed me pictures she had received from a relative that was incarcerated in the regional jail. Their living conditions were much better than those I had been subjected to while in the Army. It really pissed me off that they were lounging around, watching cable TV, in nice air-conditioned housing units.
I'm not a color expert, but I've been told that there are many colors that can't be displayed accurately on a CRT, and I assume LCD, due to the limitations of the device.
I would like to see the law changed so that the company is forced to pay the ex-employee full wages and benefits for the length of the non-compete period. If the information is really that valuable, it would be a small price to pay. Otherwise, employees are put into a position where they can't work in their field of expertise, often with little or no compensation.
Maybe because the firewall/NAT is configured to only pass the BitTorrent ports to a single Mac or Linux box.