For employed people there is a soft cut-off as their pay rises. The important thing is that at no point are they better off by not working, which is definitely the situation at present.
At some (quite low) point in their progress up the pay scale, they begin paying sufficient tax to balance their UBI.
The only thing which really changes is the threshold where paying net tax begins.
You haven't looked very hard. One of the fundamental aims of the UBI is to remove the tax threshold which makes it so hard for many to move of welfare.
If you do a bit of work, you get more money in your hand. So the system is encouraging you to work, unlike the present system.
The new codec isn't "competing with single-sideband modulation".
Normal SSB is unprocessed speech. So the codec is simply competing with natural speech.
The claim that SSB "is used by ham contesters to score the longest-distance communications using HF radio" is just plain wacky. So they use natural speech too talk to each other???
I do agree. I still use Windows because so much of my essential software will only run on Windows. I have a string of Unix qualifications dating back many years. I have a couple of Linux machines and periodically try new releases, but I always seem to run into some major problem...
However my main dislike of Linux is what I perceive as the childish users and flakey implementations. Really garish screens with dragons, blood, skulls and the like.
This whole thread is such a good example. The original OP asked a reasonable question, and got nothing back except a string of childish rants. If only the Linux fans could see that their schoolboy attitude is holding Linux back...
The modern clock chips (eg the Maxim DS3231) are incredibly accurate, eg around a minute per year without user calibration. http://theradioboard.com/rb/vi...
Alternatively there are many projects using a cheap GPS module to provide a time and date readout.http://geoffg.net/GPS_Synchronised_Clock.html
I'm not sure about commercial products though, sorry.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Brain Waves (eg Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta) were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century. Different brain wave frequencies have long been associated with different mental states.
Building Brain Wave Detectors was all the rage amongst hobbyists many years ago. Brain Waves are normally detected using electrodes on the scalp, but they also generate very weak fields which can be picked up by non-contact methods in a screened room.
Surely this is simply an extension of that research?
Surely the thrust of the article is that the benefits of the increase in productivity have not gone to the workers and the middle class, but to the super rich.
> Antennas are sized and shaped for the specific frequency the radio will be feeding into it. Changing the antenna size to something incompatible can destroy the radio, the radio wave, or both.
Sorry,, but this is completely wrong.
If you just changed to a different frequency dipole, then yes.
But that isn't what was suggested. You can change to a larger antenna which DOS work on the same band, eg a phased array, a yagi, capacitive loaded dipole, or in his example, a dish. The antenna must still be resonant, but have a larger capture-area.
The cheap radar detectors use a simple Direct Conversion receiver with a primitive diode mixer, so the Local Oscillator is radiated back through the antenna and hence is easily detected.
Adding an RF stage would fix the L.O. radiation, or by changing to a (slightly more complex) Superhet design.
A simple (well shielded) RF stage is all that's needed to block Local Oscillator radiation from the Antenna.
Plus the choice of IF stage decides what frequency the L.O. will be on, so false detection's will make any "radar detector, detector" pretty much useless.
The existing Radar Detectors rely on consumer grade Radar Detectors being very primitive devices with a passive detector (eg no shielding)
There is a routine way to measure Longitude on land which uses some external method the establish the exact time of local noon (eg a lunar eclipse, the transit of Venus, the position of Jupiter's moons), then this information is conveyed (by mail) to the nearest observatory, who can then calculate your position for you.
I recall that this was one of the reasons that astronomers made long voyages to carefully measure the Transit of Venus or Mercury.
It is fundamental that a well designed Spread Spectrum transmission is essentially the same as wideband noise, and unless you know the code, is un-crackable.
The Spreading Code itself provides the Encryption (eg via Gold-Codes, or if necessary, via a one-time pad)
The idea of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence using Spread Spectrum is not a new idea. It dates back to the '40's when Spread Spectrum was first declassified.
As always there were many who help develop a given technology.
Many companies marketed ISB band links, but it was Lucent (owned by NCR) who developed the WaveLan system which evolved into the various WiFi standards we have today.
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In most countries, Immunity testing is also compulsory.
I'm not familiar with US laws, but even if the FCC doesn't demand Immunity testing, any manufacture who overlooks it is begging for trouble.
Since way back in the CB radio days, manufactures have known that they must address Immunity.
The original hackers were of course Hardware Hackers. Long before software was a thing (in the hobby world).
Most were ham enthusiasts, but HiFi and RC modelling was also popular.
There was even a shop called "The Hardware Hacker" long before the term became pejorative.
You need to study the UBI proposals a lot more.
For employed people there is a soft cut-off as their pay rises. The important thing is that at no point are they better off by not working, which is definitely the situation at present.
At some (quite low) point in their progress up the pay scale, they begin paying sufficient tax to balance their UBI.
The only thing which really changes is the threshold where paying net tax begins.
You haven't looked very hard. One of the fundamental aims of the UBI is to remove the tax threshold which makes it so hard for many to move of welfare.
If you do a bit of work, you get more money in your hand. So the system is encouraging you to work, unlike the present system.
What a weird summary:
The new codec isn't "competing with single-sideband modulation".
Normal SSB is unprocessed speech. So the codec is simply competing with natural speech.
The claim that SSB "is used by ham contesters to score the longest-distance communications using HF radio" is just plain wacky. So they use natural speech too talk to each other???
Came here to say this. The inefficiency is an ADDITIONAL inefficiency to that lost in the charger.
I thought that the Lead in a CRT was in the Lead Glass.
In which case it is as about as inert as is possible.
About the same as the vitrification of radioactive waste by sintering in glass.
I do agree. I still use Windows because so much of my essential software will only run on Windows.
I have a string of Unix qualifications dating back many years. I have a couple of Linux machines and periodically try new releases, but I always seem to run into some major problem...
However my main dislike of Linux is what I perceive as the childish users and flakey implementations. Really garish screens with dragons, blood, skulls and the like.
This whole thread is such a good example. The original OP asked a reasonable question, and got nothing back except a string of childish rants. If only the Linux fans could see that their schoolboy attitude is holding Linux back...
Yes, this is correct.
The diodes are operating in their Square Law region, which means that as an RF Detector it must be woefully inefficient.
Knowledge which should be routine for any RF engineer, or for any kid who has built a Crystal Set.
And the snorkels are to reduce dust intake, not water...
At least in Australia.
Ah well...
And another who taught myself to write assembler on the Apple IIe.
Learnt to love the Orcam Macro Assembler.
My question is why (how) does the rocket suddenly stop spinning at the top of it's flight?
The modern clock chips (eg the Maxim DS3231) are incredibly accurate, eg around a minute per year without user calibration.
http://theradioboard.com/rb/vi...
Alternatively there are many projects using a cheap GPS module to provide a time and date readout.http://geoffg.net/GPS_Synchronised_Clock.html
I'm not sure about commercial products though, sorry.
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that Brain Waves (eg Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta) were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century.
Different brain wave frequencies have long been associated with different mental states.
Building Brain Wave Detectors was all the rage amongst hobbyists many years ago.
Brain Waves are normally detected using electrodes on the scalp, but they also generate very weak fields which can be picked up by non-contact methods in a screened room.
Surely this is simply an extension of that research?
I'm surprised at the comments so far.
Surely the thrust of the article is that the benefits of the increase in productivity have not gone to the workers and the middle class, but to the super rich.
> Antennas are sized and shaped for the specific frequency the radio will be feeding into it. Changing the antenna size to something incompatible can destroy the radio, the radio wave, or both.
Sorry,, but this is completely wrong.
If you just changed to a different frequency dipole, then yes.
But that isn't what was suggested. You can change to a larger antenna which DOS work on the same band, eg a phased array, a yagi, capacitive loaded dipole, or in his example, a dish. The antenna must still be resonant, but have a larger capture-area.
Here's a list of what 900MHz frequencies are available in each country
http://meshplus.com/?qa_faqs=i...
Presumably it will use the standard 900MHz ISM band. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which is only available in Region 2 (eg Americas, Greenland and some of the eastern Pacific Islands)
The paperwhite Kindles are hopeless at showing images.
They can't do what you are asking (zoom, etc).
This has nothing to do with whatever software you used to create the file.
> Here's the problem though; to pay for basic income, everyone has to earn less.
Actually, no.
Up to now the increase profits from automation have gone to the Super Rich. There has been massive transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class.
To fund "basic income", taxation has to be made fairer so that more profits stay with the people.
Probably won't happen in America though. Not till after the mass riots.
Totally correct
The cheap radar detectors use a simple Direct Conversion receiver with a primitive diode mixer, so the Local Oscillator is radiated back through the antenna and hence is easily detected.
Adding an RF stage would fix the L.O. radiation, or by changing to a (slightly more complex) Superhet design.
A simple (well shielded) RF stage is all that's needed to block Local Oscillator radiation from the Antenna.
Plus the choice of IF stage decides what frequency the L.O. will be on, so false detection's will make any "radar detector, detector" pretty much useless.
The existing Radar Detectors rely on consumer grade Radar Detectors being very primitive devices with a passive detector (eg no shielding)
There is a routine way to measure Longitude on land which uses some external method the establish the exact time of local noon (eg a lunar eclipse, the transit of Venus, the position of Jupiter's moons), then this information is conveyed (by mail) to the nearest observatory, who can then calculate your position for you.
I recall that this was one of the reasons that astronomers made long voyages to carefully measure the Transit of Venus or Mercury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It is fundamental that a well designed Spread Spectrum transmission is essentially the same as wideband noise, and unless you know the code, is un-crackable.
The Spreading Code itself provides the Encryption (eg via Gold-Codes, or if necessary, via a one-time pad)
The idea of Extra Terrestrial Intelligence using Spread Spectrum is not a new idea. It dates back to the '40's when Spread Spectrum was first declassified.
As always there were many who help develop a given technology.
Many companies marketed ISB band links, but it was Lucent (owned by NCR) who developed the WaveLan system which evolved into the various WiFi standards we have today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But it was the Australian CSIRO who patented the modulation scheme (FFT with multiple carriers) that was the foundation technology for WiFi.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...