We could take an idea from Hammurabi, and drop several hundred tons of concrete and steel on the heads of the government officials responsible for the safety of the bridge.
Television and films have distribution networks that can be easily regulated and controlled. That model doesn't fit the Internet, where anyone can generate and distribute content. What are they going to do when vast numbers of people, many of whom are not US residents, refuse to "go with the program" and put rating tags on their work? Are they going to demand that Project Gutenberg apply ratings to all of the books that they distribute? What about audible.com?
Even if this becomes law, I can't imagine that it would survive its first challenge in a federal court.
Public policy, as determined by the courts and legislature. "Freedom of contract" is not the carte blanche it once was for businesses to abuse employees and customers.
DirecTV has every right to try to lockup programming if they are willing to pay the price. Not when sports club owners receive large public gifts and subsidies to build/operate new stadiums and associated infrastructure. I wouldn't have given them a dime, but many of my fellow citizens disagreed with me. I was forced to pay for a new football stadium, even though there is no chance that I will ever be able to buy a ticket to see a game.
Who is going to pay for it? At one of my jobs, I had to beg my boss for a tape drive and a box of blank tapes, in order to backup our systems. In many organizations, there is a very limited budget for buying hardware, and it can take forever to get a procurement request approved, funded, and executed. Off-site backup was me taking tapes home for safekeeping. I have a lot of sympathy for the intern. Many managers don't care about disaster recovery and refuse to spend any resources on it.
Anyone who does not recognize the danger inherent in working with pressure vessels is an idiot. There's little practical difference between the rupture of a pressure vessel and the detonation of a bomb. Thousands of people used to be killed every year in boiler explosions.
Collisions are good. That's how you arbitrate access to the media. The important part of CSMA/CD is the CD part, which removes most of the penalty from collisions. Token ring salesmen spread a lot of FUD about how Ethernet behaves under load, which many people still believe.
See:
D. Boggs, J. Mogul, and C. Kent, "Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality," WRL Research Report 88/4, Western Research Laboratory, September 1988. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/boggs88measured.html
Not really. Broadband usually means FDM, like a cable plant or a microwave relay.
I like this definition:
Narrowband, Wideband, and Broadband
Narrowband is a transmission medium or channel with a single voice channel (with a carrier wave of a certain modulated frequency). Wideband is a transmission medium or channel that has a wider bandwidth than one voice channel (also with a carrier wave of a certain modulated frequency). Broadband refers to telecommunication that provides multiple channels of data over a single communications medium using frequency division multiplexing.
People were dying in droves from cancer long before the invention of radio. Cancer rates have increased because people are living longer. Without a proper statistical and medical analysis of the situation, you can't say that the GSM tower had anything to do with their deaths. Cancer clusters are more illusion than reality. People see patterns in the noise of random events.
No, it doesn't. Cell capacity depends on many factors, only one of which is transmitter power output. Clever tricks with antennas can greatly increase cell capacity without touching the transmitter. Modern cellular systems increase their capacity by dynamically adjusting their transmitter output power to the minimum needed to maintain the communications link at an acceptable error rate. Excess power reduces the capacity of the system. The whole point of cellular systems is frequency reuse.
Amateur radio operators suffer from the same problem. Put up a visible antenna and you will get blamed for all sorts of problems with your neighbors' stereos and television sets, none of which have any correlation to an active transmitter. Normally intelligent people will convince themselves that you are the cause of their problems, and even make threats, while refusing to listen to any evidence that exonerates the amateur radio operator.
Many of the design problems of modern hardware are due to economics. The manufacturer tries to cut costs by eliminating all high-cost parts. LEDs and buttons are cheap. Knobs and meters are expensive.
I just bought a new cell phone. It wasn't at all obvious how to turn it on. My first question, and one of the top questions in the support forums, was how to adjust the volume. They didn't bother discussing it in the user's guide. Some reviewers gave it poor reviews because of low audio level, not knowing that the volume could be adjusted. It has a display that is unreadable when the backlight is off. To turn the backlight on, you need to push a button, which is likely to do something that you don't want. You have to search through the user's guide to find out how to do basic things like turning off the ringer.
Composite output requires a RF modulator and all sorts of RF crap (shielding and such) which takes up a lot more room. No, it doesn't. Composite is baseband video. It is not modulated on an RF carrier.
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Don't be too smug about your good health. As you get older, your body will betray you.
Proposing conspiracy theories, without any evidence to back them up, is the mark of a delusional mind.
Why is it unpopular with airport security?
We could take an idea from Hammurabi, and drop several hundred tons of concrete and steel on the heads of the government officials responsible for the safety of the bridge.
Even if this becomes law, I can't imagine that it would survive its first challenge in a federal court.
I like it. It's no fun going out on patrol and being ordered into an area to see if you draw any enemy fire. The robot can be repaired.
The problem with global routing table entries is obvious.
Public policy, as determined by the courts and legislature. "Freedom of contract" is not the carte blanche it once was for businesses to abuse employees and customers.
I've seen a few of them develop dead columns after several years of use.
Who is going to pay for it? At one of my jobs, I had to beg my boss for a tape drive and a box of blank tapes, in order to backup our systems. In many organizations, there is a very limited budget for buying hardware, and it can take forever to get a procurement request approved, funded, and executed. Off-site backup was me taking tapes home for safekeeping. I have a lot of sympathy for the intern. Many managers don't care about disaster recovery and refuse to spend any resources on it.
Anyone who does not recognize the danger inherent in working with pressure vessels is an idiot. There's little practical difference between the rupture of a pressure vessel and the detonation of a bomb. Thousands of people used to be killed every year in boiler explosions.
Many rockets have a break-wire that runs the length of the rocket. Its used to detect structural failure and to trigger the thrust termination system.
Thread makers are a dyeing breed.
See:
D. Boggs, J. Mogul, and C. Kent, "Measured Capacity of an Ethernet: Myths and Reality," WRL Research Report 88/4, Western Research Laboratory, September 1988. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/boggs88measured.html
I like this definition:
Narrowband, Wideband, and BroadbandNarrowband is a transmission medium or channel with a single voice channel (with a carrier wave of a certain modulated frequency). Wideband is a transmission medium or channel that has a wider bandwidth than one voice channel (also with a carrier wave of a certain modulated frequency). Broadband refers to telecommunication that provides multiple channels of data over a single communications medium using frequency division multiplexing.
Through the Wires: Bandwidth
People were dying in droves from cancer long before the invention of radio. Cancer rates have increased because people are living longer. Without a proper statistical and medical analysis of the situation, you can't say that the GSM tower had anything to do with their deaths. Cancer clusters are more illusion than reality. People see patterns in the noise of random events.
No, it doesn't. Cell capacity depends on many factors, only one of which is transmitter power output. Clever tricks with antennas can greatly increase cell capacity without touching the transmitter. Modern cellular systems increase their capacity by dynamically adjusting their transmitter output power to the minimum needed to maintain the communications link at an acceptable error rate. Excess power reduces the capacity of the system. The whole point of cellular systems is frequency reuse.
Amateur radio operators suffer from the same problem. Put up a visible antenna and you will get blamed for all sorts of problems with your neighbors' stereos and television sets, none of which have any correlation to an active transmitter. Normally intelligent people will convince themselves that you are the cause of their problems, and even make threats, while refusing to listen to any evidence that exonerates the amateur radio operator.
I just bought a new cell phone. It wasn't at all obvious how to turn it on. My first question, and one of the top questions in the support forums, was how to adjust the volume. They didn't bother discussing it in the user's guide. Some reviewers gave it poor reviews because of low audio level, not knowing that the volume could be adjusted. It has a display that is unreadable when the backlight is off. To turn the backlight on, you need to push a button, which is likely to do something that you don't want. You have to search through the user's guide to find out how to do basic things like turning off the ringer.
It can also apply to government departments and agencies. Something to consider when discussing public universities.
You've convinced me. We must destroy the Sun!
The relevant parameters are bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio, not the carrier frequency. See the Shannon-Hartley theorem for details.
How many four gear models survived the war? They were installed in u-boats, which weren't noted for a long life expectancy.