The first color television sets were very expensive, $1295 in 1954. That is approximately $8200 in today's dollars. The price dropped through the 1950s and the early 1960s, but they still were not cheap. The early color television sets also had reliability problems (all those vacuum tubes) and the picture quality was terrible by modern standards.
Can we get Sally Struthers to make an infomercial?
Lars used to be a big-time rock star. Now his Rolls-Royce has been repossessed and his drug dealer will not front him any blow. There are hundreds of rock stars like Lars. Won't you find it in your heart to help just one needy rock star? If you don't help, Lars may have to get a real job.
One of my relatives is an inventor who has patents. He told me that big companies routinely rip off patented inventions. If you don't have several million dollars in spare cash for lawyers, they can get away with it.
Inertial systems drift and have to be recalibrated on a regular basis. This has always been a problem for nuclear missile submarines and one of the reasons that the Navy has spent so much money on satellite navigation systems such as Transit and GPS.
Ethernet is not digital THROUGH the cable (to the best of my knowledge), but is digital after it has been converted at the NIC. Whether you call this a modem (probably not) or a CSU/DSU (maybe) is your choice.
The thin (10BASE2) and thick coax (10BASE5) variants of 10 megabit Ethernet use digital baseband signaling. I'm not sure what 100BASE-T uses, I believe it is still baseband with a more complex encoding scheme. The only Ethernet modems that I have seen were for 10BASE36, a broadband version of Ethernet that was used on CATV systems.
It has been proven over and over again (from the Goths to the American Revolution to Vietnam) that distributed, guerilla-style fighting is less fragile (and thus usually more successful) than centralized, top-down fighting.
It depends on your definition of success. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army took far more casualties than the U.S. Army. The Viet Cong were all but destroyed in the Tet Offensive. It was North Vietnamese Army regulars who conquered the south.
It is not clear to me why anyone in the goverment thinks that a terrorist wouldn't just run a binary editor on the firmware and change the limits to some number 100 times larger. It isn't that simple. Algorithms that work at slow speeds may not work reliably or accurately at high speeds. Getting accurate results might require new firmware and a faster CPU.
After Joseph Weizenbaum wrote ELIZA, the Rogerian therapist, Kenneth Colby wrote PARRY, a simulation of a paranoid schizophrenic.It wasn't long before someone connected the two programs to each other.
Something the USAF did with the F117 program was to fly tests and training missions at night. The planes were kept inside hangars during the day. Try to take a picture of a black airplane, in the middle of nowhere, at night.
You say common carriers are required to server everyone, not just their customers -- how do phone companies and ISPs differ?
If the "Americans for the Legalization of Drugs, Terrorism and Child Pornography" opens an office, the telephone company must provide them service, assuming that they have the money for the security deposit and monthly bills. An ISP can refuse to provide them service or can terminate service, without having to give a reason.
ISPs in the USA are not common carriers. The FCC has intentionally refrained from classifying ISPs as common carriers. A common carrier is required, by law, to serve everyone, not just the customers that they wish to do business with.
Cable will become irrelevant. Hang a wire out your window, get a perfect picture. Cable doesn't want to supply the bandwidth. The FCC has also helped out, overturning CCR bans on having outdoor antennas. (info available at fcc.gov)
I had hoped that a simple, omnidirectional antenna would be sufficient for HDTV. However, viewing tests in Baltimore (Sinclair) and Philadelphia (NBC) seem to show that an urban viewer with an indoor antenna is going to have severe problems with reception. Everything may work great with a 30' tower and an LPDA antenna, but that is impractical for many viewers who live in apartments or have restrictive covenants or zoning on outside antennas.
I live in an area that has poor over-the-air NTSC quality due to mediocre signal strength and strong multipath. The local cable system is rolling out "digital cable". They haven't said if they plan to carry HDTV from the local stations.
At some point they are going to have to update or replace the DVD format to deal with HDTV and digital television. Unfortunately, HDTV is completely screwed up right now. The modulation standard, 8-VSB, has some severe problems with reception under multipath conditions. The quality of the receivers is poor. Much of the receiver software is incomplete or broken. There are no standards for the carriage of HDTV over cable. There are no standards for a digital video interface between a receiver and monitor/display. Much of the failure to set technical standards seems to be the result of Hollywood, equipment manufacturers, cable system operators, broadcast networks and station owners all being too busy stabbing each other in the back to make HDTV work. When or if HDTV is widely adopted, DVD will have to be adapted to work with wide aspect ratio, high resolution monitors with digital video interfaces. You should still be able to watch your DVDs, although this may require a new player and the quality won't be as good as high definition video since DVDs were designed for standard definition video (NTSC/PAL).
The movie studios should be pushing DVD. It is much cheaper to manufacture a DVD disc than a VHS videotape. They may be trying to follow the example of the music industry with CDs by keeping the price of DVDs higher than that of VHS tapes.
I can't share files? Does this mean I can't share data?!? Isn't that exactly the service they're trying to sell here? Hello?!?
You are supposed to be a consumer, a black hole for goods, advertising and content. They only want to allocate enough upstream bandwidth for 10,000,000 buy buttons. Producing or sharing information is a subversive act and will not be tolerated.
How long before the cable ISP part of AOL/Time-Warner decides that napster, and any other file transfer software, is an illegal server. How convenient for the rest of AOL/Time-Warner, such as Warner Records.
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That's right, you too can be a copyright terrorist, Scientology's term for anyone who publishes the secret scriptures of the CO$.
I agree that IBM would have been better off if they had given away the SDK. The OS/2 Programmer's Library CD was relatively cheap, about $50 if my memory is correct. Some of the information was also reprinted in a set of paperback books by QUE.
At that time, Microsoft was charging real money ($300?) for the Windows SDK. A friend of mine paid over $2000 for the Microsoft OS/2 2.X SDK. That was shortly before Microsoft bailed on OS/2 and announced NT. He didn't get a refund from Microsoft even though Microsoft had broken their promises to the purchasers of the SDK.
I remember hearing people say that an expensive SDK was actually a good thing for an operating system, as it kept out the unwashed masses of amateurs and shareware programmers.
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The first color television sets were very expensive, $1295 in 1954. That is approximately $8200 in today's dollars. The price dropped through the 1950s and the early 1960s, but they still were not cheap. The early color television sets also had reliability problems (all those vacuum tubes) and the picture quality was terrible by modern standards.
Lars used to be a big-time rock star. Now his Rolls-Royce has been repossessed and his drug dealer will not front him any blow. There are hundreds of rock stars like Lars. Won't you find it in your heart to help just one needy rock star? If you don't help, Lars may have to get a real job.
One of my relatives is an inventor who has patents. He told me that big companies routinely rip off patented inventions. If you don't have several million dollars in spare cash for lawyers, they can get away with it.
What about crocodiles? They can move very quickly when they want to.
Inertial systems drift and have to be recalibrated on a regular basis. This has always been a problem for nuclear missile submarines and one of the reasons that the Navy has spent so much money on satellite navigation systems such as Transit and GPS.
The data can be time tagged with time from an atomic clock. The atomic clocks can be kept in sync with a GPS timing receiver.
The thin (10BASE2) and thick coax (10BASE5) variants of 10 megabit Ethernet use digital baseband signaling. I'm not sure what 100BASE-T uses, I believe it is still baseband with a more complex encoding scheme. The only Ethernet modems that I have seen were for 10BASE36, a broadband version of Ethernet that was used on CATV systems.
It depends on your definition of success. The Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army took far more casualties than the U.S. Army. The Viet Cong were all but destroyed in the Tet Offensive. It was North Vietnamese Army regulars who conquered the south.
It is not clear to me why anyone in the goverment thinks that a terrorist wouldn't just run a binary editor on the firmware and change the limits to some number 100 times larger. It isn't that simple. Algorithms that work at slow speeds may not work reliably or accurately at high speeds. Getting accurate results might require new firmware and a faster CPU.
An altitude offset wouldn't be a big problem. The warhead would use a contact or radar fuze to control the timing of the detonation.
Yes, if you were attacking a hardened missile silo.
After Joseph Weizenbaum wrote ELIZA, the Rogerian therapist, Kenneth Colby wrote PARRY, a simulation of a paranoid schizophrenic.It wasn't long before someone connected the two programs to each other.
Something the USAF did with the F117 program was to fly tests and training missions at night. The planes were kept inside hangars during the day. Try to take a picture of a black airplane, in the middle of nowhere, at night.
Floating point may be useless for brute force attacks on keys but it would be useful for statistical analysis of ciphertext.
If the "Americans for the Legalization of Drugs, Terrorism and Child Pornography" opens an office, the telephone company must provide them service, assuming that they have the money for the security deposit and monthly bills. An ISP can refuse to provide them service or can terminate service, without having to give a reason.
ISPs in the USA are not common carriers. The FCC has intentionally refrained from classifying ISPs as common carriers. A common carrier is required, by law, to serve everyone, not just the customers that they wish to do business with.
I had hoped that a simple, omnidirectional antenna would be sufficient for HDTV. However, viewing tests in Baltimore (Sinclair) and Philadelphia (NBC) seem to show that an urban viewer with an indoor antenna is going to have severe problems with reception. Everything may work great with a 30' tower and an LPDA antenna, but that is impractical for many viewers who live in apartments or have restrictive covenants or zoning on outside antennas.
I live in an area that has poor over-the-air NTSC quality due to mediocre signal strength and strong multipath. The local cable system is rolling out "digital cable". They haven't said if they plan to carry HDTV from the local stations.
The movie studios should be pushing DVD. It is much cheaper to manufacture a DVD disc than a VHS videotape. They may be trying to follow the example of the music industry with CDs by keeping the price of DVDs higher than that of VHS tapes.
I've seen a 28V electrical system in military vehicles, to power radio equipment.
What about the tip seals and lousy gas mileage? They are fun to drive but I wouldn't want to own one.
You are supposed to be a consumer, a black hole for goods, advertising and content. They only want to allocate enough upstream bandwidth for 10,000,000 buy buttons. Producing or sharing information is a subversive act and will not be tolerated.
How long before the cable ISP part of AOL/Time-Warner decides that napster, and any other file transfer software, is an illegal server. How convenient for the rest of AOL/Time-Warner, such as Warner Records.
Don't give a dime to the bastards.
IBM OS/2 1.3 also runs on ISA machines, although it is only guaranteed to run on IBM ISA machines. I used to run it on a no-name 386 clone.
At that time, Microsoft was charging real money ($300?) for the Windows SDK. A friend of mine paid over $2000 for the Microsoft OS/2 2.X SDK. That was shortly before Microsoft bailed on OS/2 and announced NT. He didn't get a refund from Microsoft even though Microsoft had broken their promises to the purchasers of the SDK.
I remember hearing people say that an expensive SDK was actually a good thing for an operating system, as it kept out the unwashed masses of amateurs and shareware programmers.