Tell it to the large Jewish community in Medina. Sorry, I forgot, they were wiped out by Muhammad himself and his merry band of ethnic cleansers. Guess why Saudi Arabia is "Juden Frei".
When the local economy sucks, you can expect to see hundreds of applicants for every opening at Burger King. I've seen it happen. Sometimes you have no options other than eat that shit sandwich or starve.
Neil Diamond has more talent in his big toe than most of the artists that get airplay on American commercial radio. I'm not a fan of his style of music, but he is an excellent singer and songwriter.
You underestimate how much a clever programmer can do with 4kw (kiloword) on many of these systems. These programs can be very complex and difficult to understand, even with the source code.
You make a very good point. Old systems had deterministic timing. No cache, no virtual memory, no bloated-pig operating systems designed by idiots in Redmond. You could actually make statements like "there is a 13 microsecond delay between receipt of command X and the initiation of pyro Y".
Open source is not some magic wand that solves all problems. Besides knowing how to program, it takes at least several years of full-time experience in a very specialized field before someone can be expected to produce useful software.
The reporter is clueless. It's all a matter of money. It's very expensive to take an old piece of software, written in some obscure language, running on an old machine with a weird architecture, reverse engineer the requirements, rewrite it for a modern machine, and debug and test it thoroughly. You need people who understand the old system and the environment that it ran in. It's usually much cheaper to keep the old hardware running. Plus, many older systems were custom designs, optimized for a particular task, and can still do a better job than more generic modern hardware.
The demand for bandwidth is nearly infinite. I'd love to put a wideband antenna in every major city in the world, each connected to a high-speed ADC and a high-speed Internet connection. Anyone who received that data stream could use a software-defined receiver, or conventional receiver, to listen to radio broadcasts and watch television programs from that city. Think of it as a remote antenna with a really long cable. It would drive the lawyers nuts.
Time and weather are provided by Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone (now Verizon). TFA only applies to California.
Many years ago, WWV, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) time & frequency radio station was located in Greenbelt, Maryland. I saw an old map that showed its location to be where the Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center is now located. It was moved to Colorado in the '60s.
The Naval Observatory in DC has been providing time services since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
Years ago, many telephone companies replaced the analog/mechanical drum machines with digital machines that used ROMs to store digitized voice samples. No moving parts to wear out.
The local telephone company used to dedicate entire exchanges to time (844-XXXX) and weather (936-XXXX). Not that long ago, someone decided that it was a waste to use a whole exchange for one service, and changed them into normal 7-digit numbers, freeing up the other numbers in the exchange for other uses.
I'm not sure how they setup the lens, but I've seen many movies that use the technique for things like shots down city streets and rural highways. It produces a dramatic effect. From what others have said, it's the change in perspective that appears to collapse the distance between objects in the foreground and background. Everything is in focus, so I'm assuming that they stop down the lens to get the necessary depth-of-field for the shot.
Is that the same thing as when they use a telephoto lens to compress a shot? Commonly used in action movies when the hero is running towards the camera, away from something that is about to disappear in a huge explosion. It makes the scene look more dangerous than it really is.
What disturbed a lot of people was the fact that they were associating Mahomet with terrorism. Whatever gave the artists that idea? Maybe it was the fact that Mohammed was a warlord, thief and murderer who was responsible for the violent deaths of many people.
They make large RAM disk systems with built-in backup power that will automatically dump the data in RAM to an internal hard disk in the event of a power failure or other problem. They're just very expensive.
They're safe as long as they are isolated from public networks. The problem is that there is a huge temptation to use the Internet to enable remote monitoring and control, as it is much cheaper and simpler than extending a private network and installing dedicated workstations at remote locations. Many managers will ignore security concerns when they see an opportunity for large cost savings.
Radio is even worse. Many stations operate under the philosophy of 100% modulation, all the time. They also use multi-band compressors that split the audio into multiple frequency bands and independently compress each band. The result is boring and fatiguing, with no dynamic range. FM, and even AM, radio can sound very good with decent equipment and engineering. The problem isn't money or knowledge, it's station managers that have become obsessed with producing a "competitive sound".
Besides regular broadcast television, the TV spectrum is also used by public safety communications, wireless microphones, low-power TV, TV translators, and medical telemetry systems. Detecting whether a channel is in use is a real problem.
How many companies have real physical security? By that I mean trained security officers with guns, on duty 24/7/365. Most companies are vulnerable to theft, even of large items like servers. once everyone leaves for the day or weekend.
The Chinese government could stop this if they wanted to. Screw fines, seize and close any restaurant that has critically endangered wildlife on the menu. Back home, when they had problems with poaching, they changed the law to allow the game wardens to seize the vehicles of poachers. Not only did they have to pay a hefty fine, they also lost their rifle and their shiny new pickup truck. That really got their attention.
The problem with ni-cad batteries is real, see Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular 00-33A, "Nickel-Cadmium Battery Operational, Maintenance, and Overhaul Practices".
Stuff like that happens when you put a large amount of energy in a small volume. I've seen pictures of helicopters that were destroyed when their ni-cad batteries went into thermal runaway due to an electrical fault.
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Tell it to the large Jewish community in Medina. Sorry, I forgot, they were wiped out by Muhammad himself and his merry band of ethnic cleansers. Guess why Saudi Arabia is "Juden Frei".
When the local economy sucks, you can expect to see hundreds of applicants for every opening at Burger King. I've seen it happen. Sometimes you have no options other than eat that shit sandwich or starve.
Neil Diamond has more talent in his big toe than most of the artists that get airplay on American commercial radio. I'm not a fan of his style of music, but he is an excellent singer and songwriter.
You underestimate how much a clever programmer can do with 4kw (kiloword) on many of these systems. These programs can be very complex and difficult to understand, even with the source code.
You make a very good point. Old systems had deterministic timing. No cache, no virtual memory, no bloated-pig operating systems designed by idiots in Redmond. You could actually make statements like "there is a 13 microsecond delay between receipt of command X and the initiation of pyro Y".
Open source is not some magic wand that solves all problems. Besides knowing how to program, it takes at least several years of full-time experience in a very specialized field before someone can be expected to produce useful software.
The reporter is clueless. It's all a matter of money. It's very expensive to take an old piece of software, written in some obscure language, running on an old machine with a weird architecture, reverse engineer the requirements, rewrite it for a modern machine, and debug and test it thoroughly. You need people who understand the old system and the environment that it ran in. It's usually much cheaper to keep the old hardware running. Plus, many older systems were custom designs, optimized for a particular task, and can still do a better job than more generic modern hardware.
"Who's there?"
"Candygram"
The demand for bandwidth is nearly infinite. I'd love to put a wideband antenna in every major city in the world, each connected to a high-speed ADC and a high-speed Internet connection. Anyone who received that data stream could use a software-defined receiver, or conventional receiver, to listen to radio broadcasts and watch television programs from that city. Think of it as a remote antenna with a really long cable. It would drive the lawyers nuts.
Many years ago, WWV, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) time & frequency radio station was located in Greenbelt, Maryland. I saw an old map that showed its location to be where the Goddard Space Flight Center's Visitor Center is now located. It was moved to Colorado in the '60s.
The Naval Observatory in DC has been providing time services since dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
The local telephone company used to dedicate entire exchanges to time (844-XXXX) and weather (936-XXXX). Not that long ago, someone decided that it was a waste to use a whole exchange for one service, and changed them into normal 7-digit numbers, freeing up the other numbers in the exchange for other uses.
I'm not sure how they setup the lens, but I've seen many movies that use the technique for things like shots down city streets and rural highways. It produces a dramatic effect. From what others have said, it's the change in perspective that appears to collapse the distance between objects in the foreground and background. Everything is in focus, so I'm assuming that they stop down the lens to get the necessary depth-of-field for the shot.
Is that the same thing as when they use a telephoto lens to compress a shot? Commonly used in action movies when the hero is running towards the camera, away from something that is about to disappear in a huge explosion. It makes the scene look more dangerous than it really is.
Relatively opaque. 100 meters of atmosphere (sea level) will absorb about 50% of the gamma rays.
They make large RAM disk systems with built-in backup power that will automatically dump the data in RAM to an internal hard disk in the event of a power failure or other problem. They're just very expensive.
They're safe as long as they are isolated from public networks. The problem is that there is a huge temptation to use the Internet to enable remote monitoring and control, as it is much cheaper and simpler than extending a private network and installing dedicated workstations at remote locations. Many managers will ignore security concerns when they see an opportunity for large cost savings.
Radio is even worse. Many stations operate under the philosophy of 100% modulation, all the time. They also use multi-band compressors that split the audio into multiple frequency bands and independently compress each band. The result is boring and fatiguing, with no dynamic range. FM, and even AM, radio can sound very good with decent equipment and engineering. The problem isn't money or knowledge, it's station managers that have become obsessed with producing a "competitive sound".
An internal fuse will not help if there is an internal short in a lithium battery. This can be caused by a manufacturing defect or physical abuse.
Besides regular broadcast television, the TV spectrum is also used by public safety communications, wireless microphones, low-power TV, TV translators, and medical telemetry systems. Detecting whether a channel is in use is a real problem.
FCC commissioners are appointed, not elected.
How many companies have real physical security? By that I mean trained security officers with guns, on duty 24/7/365. Most companies are vulnerable to theft, even of large items like servers. once everyone leaves for the day or weekend.
The Chinese government could stop this if they wanted to. Screw fines, seize and close any restaurant that has critically endangered wildlife on the menu. Back home, when they had problems with poaching, they changed the law to allow the game wardens to seize the vehicles of poachers. Not only did they have to pay a hefty fine, they also lost their rifle and their shiny new pickup truck. That really got their attention.
The problem with ni-cad batteries is real, see Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Circular 00-33A, "Nickel-Cadmium Battery Operational, Maintenance, and Overhaul Practices".
Stuff like that happens when you put a large amount of energy in a small volume. I've seen pictures of helicopters that were destroyed when their ni-cad batteries went into thermal runaway due to an electrical fault.