>>>The guy is already declaring himself to be a vindictive dickhead.
Someone steals my money. I post online, "I wish that asshole would go to jail." That's me being a dichead? Or is it me being *rightfully* angry about being ripped off? It's the latter of course.
I was fired for doing nothing wrong (except "you ate too much food at lunchtime") AND I was not paid my last day of wages. I have a RIGHT to be angry. If you can't figure that out on your own, then you must have an IQ of 90. .
Nice backpeddle but I'm not buying it. Here's what you ACTUALLY said:
"I'm saying it was the company's right to do so, and if Commodore64_love wanted a different bargain Commodore64_love should have asked for it. Commodore64_love agreed to the contract, and has no one to blame but himself if the contract did not protect Commodore64_love's rights. Personal responsibility is something that Fox News viewers seem to only want for other people."
Right there. The noun phrase "Fox News viewers" connects to the antecedent noun "Commodore64_love" You were slamming ME not some nebulous crowd of people.
On the other hand, some assholes deserve to be framed. Like my previous boss who fired me because "you were eating too much food at lifetime" and "you were seen watching FOX News while eating your sandwich". What the hell? Is eating food & taking a state-mandated lunch break now a crime?
She also refused to pay my last day of work, thereby violating state law. I wouldn't mind putting some porn (just regular adult stuff) on her computer so she, too, gets fired.
Karma.
Oh. Rockwell Collins Iowa is the name of the place to be avoided. This is how they treat all their employees Like Walmart labor instead of as professionals.
I double checked and channels 43 and 48 are open channels. HOWEVER per the current FCC rules they can not be used, because they are adjacent to channels (42/44 and 47/49) with fully-licensed television stations. 43 and 48 are closed.
So we're back to being unable to use these TV Band/whitespace Devices along the Northeast/Midatlantic corridor (the I95 Megalopolis).
The Geolocation Database is nothing more than a list of TV Stations. The TV Band/whitespace Device then uses GPS to find where you're located, looks at the database for your spot, and avoids using Channels assigned to these stations (as well as the channels on either side of the station). Simple.
Note that there's no way for government to track you using this method.
If I were a politician I would be pushing for a Congress or State law mandating all phones lines be upgraded to high speed DSL within a year. THAT is the best way to cheaply and quickly get Rural users off dialup and onto faster connections. NOT this wireless nonsense.
The copper lines are already running into every American homes - all that's needed is to install the DSLAM box in each neighborhood to upgrade the speed from ~50k to ~1000k. No need to hire hundreds of thousands of ditch diggers. DSL has a reach of 15 miles, and with a fiber-to-DSLAM-to-phoneline connection, that increases to hundreds of miles.
During the Memphis floods the only thing that still worked was Broadcast TV. The cellular network had "drowned" and people were cut off completely from the internet or phone service, but TV still worked because the towers were on high hills above the waters.
Radio simply doesn't cut it. You want to be able to SEE, on a map, where the tornadoes are hitting so you know if it's on the other side of town and nothing to worry about, or if it's right next door and you should cower in the bathtub. This is why Broadcast TV is an absolute necessity.
>>>There is no reason to send the same packet of data addressed to each person.
Yeah but at some point the packet has to "split" in order to be delivered at each home. So if you've got 100,000 people in the same area watching the Super Bowl HD, the wireless cellular internet will quickly be overloaded. It will collapse. This does not happen with broadcast TV which delivers a gross bitrate of 30 Megabits every second and never overloads, regardless how many people are watching.
Also Broadcast TV is FREE. Look at these channels I get:
ABC, CBS, et cetera PBS PBSkids PBSworld PBSarts (concerts) PBSinfo (documentaries) CW MyNetTV ION Mind Link Megahertz ThisTV (movies) Weather Channel NBC Universal Sports 24 four News channel RetroTV (70s/80s) FamilyTV (50s/60s reruns) RerunTV (stargate SG1,SGA,SGU, Star Trek, South Park, and so on)
Qubo Smile of a Child Univision Telemundo Telefutura JCTV (music) ION_life Shopping channel Wellness Channel (health, etc)
I probably left some of but you get the point. There are a few cable-only shows I can't see, like Ghost Hunters and Eureka, but I just stream them off syfy.com or hulu.com..... also free. Paying ~$1000/year for television when you can get it free via antenna/hulu is illogical.
(1) It's doubtful these TV Band/whitespace Devices will have much range. The article you quote claims "50 miles" but to achieve that kind of distance on the UHF band requires at least 100,000 watts. That kind of power would drain the battery an iPad-like gadget in about 1/4 minute.
(2) Cellular phones/internet occupy 600 megahertz of space. TV only 200 megahertz. To say (or imply) that cellular only has a "sliver" while television is hogging space is backwards. Cellular space is already 3 times larger. (And if Obama's Broadband Plan goes through, TV will shrink to ~150 while Cellular will increase to 1000.) Instead of constantly picking on TV, which has already shrunk from 83 to 68 to 50 to (soon) 25 channels. How about taking the spectrum from some other service? Like shortwave?
(3) The geolocation database is good. A definite improvement over the old "sensor" but only if it is accurate. The geolocation database used by TVguide.com is not. It skips a lot of channels that I can receive, and I'm worried these TV Band Devices will have the same flaw. I'll be watching the Philadelphia or Baltimore sports, and suddenly it disappears because the kid next door has an iPad broadcasting directly over it.
(4) These whitespaces won't work in the Northeast. Why? Because there are NO empty channels. Here is a list of the open channels along the I-95 Megapololis (below). That's right. None. You won't be able to use the TV Band/whitespace Devices if you live here. Every channel from 2 through 51 is already occupied.
>>>If we impose the 1,500 foot blackout... there is what, maybe ONE place to put a tower?
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my art teacher. I said the US Congress has banned incandescent bulbs effective 2012. He immediately pointed out that the law doesn't directly ban incandescents. It requires a 50% reduction in energy usage. I replied that's the same effect as a direct ban because no incandescent can meet that standard, so what's the difference? None.
Same with this celltower law. It doesn't directly ban the towers, but the 1500 foot limit has the same effect, which I bet was the politicians' plan all along. "We did not ban celltowers in Hempstead." Yeah. Accept that you did because now no towers can be built.
Aside -
I consider Edison's incandescent bulbs to be a superior technology to CFLs. Fast turnon, can be used in cold/hot areas (or enclosed fixtures), cost consumers 1/10th to buy, use fewer materials, easy to recycle, and no mercury vapor.
Probably the whacky politicians read a report about "dangerous EM emissions causing cancer and headaches and other scary things" so they decided to ban transmitters. (Not directly of course, but this law has the same effect.)
>>>Trust me, no n-sync, boyzone song has ever been pressed to vinyl
WRONG.
Okay I feel better now.;-) I don't understand why vinyl is any more attractive than CDs. The latter have the same album art and liner notes as a record, PLUS a booklet filled with pictures/lyrics, Plus lack of skips/static, plus easy to rip to an iPod or computer.
I really hope CDs don't die out. I like the uncompressed lossless quality.
>>>a World Series where the Yankees don't even appear.
Agreed. I liked the Phillies versus Orioles game. Two cities only 80 miles apart, duking it out. It also created a lot of animosity because Orioles and Phillies fans live side-by-side. Like brother against brother.
(1) There's an error in the summary that should be corrected: "To record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR". Kinescope was nothing like a hard-drive based digital DVR. Or even an analog tape VCR. Kinescope was an old-fashioned film camera pointed at a TV screen, and was the main method to preserve Doctor Who and other early BBC shows (because the videotapes were erased).
(2) If RIAA or MPAA had existed in 1960, they would have DRMed/copy-protected the game, plus made it illegal to record it. They prevent preservation by archivists.
(3) Cassette recordings can exceed CD quality using "high bias" Chrome and Metal tapes. But according to wikipedia it wasn't the Germans but the Americans who invented bias: "The first patent for AC bias was filed by W. L. Carlson and Glenn L. Carpenter in 1921." And the second inventors were the Japanese (no surprise): "Teiji Igarishi, Mokoto Ishikawa, and Kenzo Nagai of Japan published a paper on AC biasing in 1938," then by a German in 1940, another American in 1941, and the UK War Department in 1942.
Perhaps there's a difference legally, but I don't see any difference for the common man.
"Pay us $5000 or else be prosecuted," is extortion in my mind, especially since it involves money. The law firms are acting like members of The Family. "Pay us money or else we'll rough you up."
Not really. And even though I've rented a few damaged VHS tapes, they were still playable due to their analog nature. In fact one of my tapes is 25 years old and still works despite some damage.
Not so with a damaged DVD ("error - can not read"). I've even had some brand-new DVDs refuse to play.
Yeah disagree. I went to my alma mater in the spring, and there were college women running around in sweats. i.e. Frumpy.
I still thought they looked "hot" and would have gladly dated any of them that wanted to go out. I suspect that's true for all my male colleagues too. Women may BELIEVE they have to put-on a lot of beauty work but they really don't .
>>>Even the beautiful 20-somethings know that they will end up a frumpy 50-something. Men, on the other hand
There is no other hand. Again - men get judged on age as well. If you don't believe me, withness a guy ins his late 30s or early 40s trying to ask out a college girl. Just as an older woman would fail in that situation, so too will a man, because the looks have disappeared. (No not always but in 99% of cases - yes.)
So? Back in my younger years I had women starting at my butt and thinking "nice ass". (I know because some bold ones said it directly to me.) This judging based on appearances works both ways ya know .
It probably doesn't make sense to add intermittent tiers between 200 MB and 2000 MB, when the difference is only 10 dollars in pricetag. Personally I like Cricket's wireless plan. No need to worry about getting killed with overage fees:
- $40 for unlimited - 2500 MB at full speed, and anything above that at ISDN speed.
VirginMobile is good too:
- $1.50 per MB (for people like me who barely get online) - $10 for 100 MB - $40 for unlimited ("Virgin Mobile does not restrict your speeds based on data usage caps.")
>>>And yet when you point this out to people when they make MJ jokes, or say they hate him because he was a nonce or whatever, they come out with some variant of "no smoke without fire". Fucking hate that.
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>>>The guy is already declaring himself to be a vindictive dickhead.
Someone steals my money. I post online, "I wish that asshole would go to jail." That's me being a dichead? Or is it me being *rightfully* angry about being ripped off? It's the latter of course.
I was fired for doing nothing wrong (except "you ate too much food at lunchtime") AND I was not paid my last day of wages. I have a RIGHT to be angry. If you can't figure that out on your own, then you must have an IQ of 90.
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Nice backpeddle but I'm not buying it. Here's what you ACTUALLY said:
"I'm saying it was the company's right to do so, and if Commodore64_love wanted a different bargain Commodore64_love should have asked for it. Commodore64_love agreed to the contract, and has no one to blame but himself if the contract did not protect Commodore64_love's rights. Personal responsibility is something that Fox News viewers seem to only want for other people."
Right there. The noun phrase "Fox News viewers" connects to the antecedent noun "Commodore64_love"
You were slamming ME not some nebulous crowd of people.
On the other hand, some assholes deserve to be framed. Like my previous boss who fired me because "you were eating too much food at lifetime" and "you were seen watching FOX News while eating your sandwich". What the hell? Is eating food & taking a state-mandated lunch break now a crime?
She also refused to pay my last day of work, thereby violating state law. I wouldn't mind putting some porn (just regular adult stuff) on her computer so she, too, gets fired.
Karma.
Oh. Rockwell Collins Iowa is the name of the place to be avoided.
This is how they treat all their employees
Like Walmart labor instead of as professionals.
How is this a troll???
+1 informative or Interesting is more appropriate. Or no moderation at all.
Stupid mods
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I double checked and channels 43 and 48 are open channels. HOWEVER per the current FCC rules they can not be used, because they are adjacent to channels (42/44 and 47/49) with fully-licensed television stations. 43 and 48 are closed.
So we're back to being unable to use these TV Band/whitespace Devices along the Northeast/Midatlantic corridor (the I95 Megalopolis).
Flat wrong.
The Geolocation Database is nothing more than a list of TV Stations. The TV Band/whitespace Device then uses GPS to find where you're located, looks at the database for your spot, and avoids using Channels assigned to these stations (as well as the channels on either side of the station). Simple.
Note that there's no way for government to track you using this method.
I agree.
If I were a politician I would be pushing for a Congress or State law mandating all phones lines be upgraded to high speed DSL within a year. THAT is the best way to cheaply and quickly get Rural users off dialup and onto faster connections. NOT this wireless nonsense.
The copper lines are already running into every American homes - all that's needed is to install the DSLAM box in each neighborhood to upgrade the speed from ~50k to ~1000k. No need to hire hundreds of thousands of ditch diggers. DSL has a reach of 15 miles, and with a fiber-to-DSLAM-to-phoneline connection, that increases to hundreds of miles.
P.S.
During the Memphis floods the only thing that still worked was Broadcast TV. The cellular network had "drowned" and people were cut off completely from the internet or phone service, but TV still worked because the towers were on high hills above the waters.
I've lived in tornado alley.
Radio simply doesn't cut it. You want to be able to SEE, on a map, where the tornadoes are hitting so you know if it's on the other side of town and nothing to worry about, or if it's right next door and you should cower in the bathtub. This is why Broadcast TV is an absolute necessity.
>>>There is no reason to send the same packet of data addressed to each person.
Yeah but at some point the packet has to "split" in order to be delivered at each home. So if you've got 100,000 people in the same area watching the Super Bowl HD, the wireless cellular internet will quickly be overloaded. It will collapse. This does not happen with broadcast TV which delivers a gross bitrate of 30 Megabits every second and never overloads, regardless how many people are watching.
Also Broadcast TV is FREE. Look at these channels I get:
ABC, CBS, et cetera
PBS
PBSkids
PBSworld
PBSarts (concerts)
PBSinfo (documentaries)
CW
MyNetTV
ION
Mind
Link
Megahertz
ThisTV (movies)
Weather Channel
NBC Universal Sports
24 four News channel
RetroTV (70s/80s)
FamilyTV (50s/60s reruns)
RerunTV (stargate SG1,SGA,SGU, Star Trek, South Park, and so on)
Qubo
Smile of a Child
Univision
Telemundo
Telefutura
JCTV (music)
ION_life
Shopping channel
Wellness Channel (health, etc)
I probably left some of but you get the point. There are a few cable-only shows I can't see, like Ghost Hunters and Eureka, but I just stream them off syfy.com or hulu.com..... also free. Paying ~$1000/year for television when you can get it free via antenna/hulu is illogical.
(1) It's doubtful these TV Band/whitespace Devices will have much range. The article you quote claims "50 miles" but to achieve that kind of distance on the UHF band requires at least 100,000 watts. That kind of power would drain the battery an iPad-like gadget in about 1/4 minute.
(2) Cellular phones/internet occupy 600 megahertz of space. TV only 200 megahertz. To say (or imply) that cellular only has a "sliver" while television is hogging space is backwards. Cellular space is already 3 times larger. (And if Obama's Broadband Plan goes through, TV will shrink to ~150 while Cellular will increase to 1000.) Instead of constantly picking on TV, which has already shrunk from 83 to 68 to 50 to (soon) 25 channels. How about taking the spectrum from some other service? Like shortwave?
(3) The geolocation database is good. A definite improvement over the old "sensor" but only if it is accurate. The geolocation database used by TVguide.com is not. It skips a lot of channels that I can receive, and I'm worried these TV Band Devices will have the same flaw. I'll be watching the Philadelphia or Baltimore sports, and suddenly it disappears because the kid next door has an iPad broadcasting directly over it.
(4) These whitespaces won't work in the Northeast. Why? Because there are NO empty channels. Here is a list of the open channels along the I-95 Megapololis (below). That's right. None. You won't be able to use the TV Band/whitespace Devices if you live here. Every channel from 2 through 51 is already occupied.
(null)
>>>If we impose the 1,500 foot blackout... there is what, maybe ONE place to put a tower?
This reminds me of a conversation I had with my art teacher. I said the US Congress has banned incandescent bulbs effective 2012. He immediately pointed out that the law doesn't directly ban incandescents. It requires a 50% reduction in energy usage. I replied that's the same effect as a direct ban because no incandescent can meet that standard, so what's the difference? None.
Same with this celltower law. It doesn't directly ban the towers, but the 1500 foot limit has the same effect, which I bet was the politicians' plan all along. "We did not ban celltowers in Hempstead." Yeah. Accept that you did because now no towers can be built.
Aside -
I consider Edison's incandescent bulbs to be a superior technology to CFLs. Fast turnon, can be used in cold/hot areas (or enclosed fixtures), cost consumers 1/10th to buy, use fewer materials, easy to recycle, and no mercury vapor.
Probably the whacky politicians read a report about "dangerous EM emissions causing cancer and headaches and other scary things" so they decided to ban transmitters. (Not directly of course, but this law has the same effect.)
>>>Trust me, no n-sync, boyzone song has ever been pressed to vinyl
WRONG.
Okay I feel better now. ;-) I don't understand why vinyl is any more attractive than CDs. The latter have the same album art and liner notes as a record, PLUS a booklet filled with pictures/lyrics, Plus lack of skips/static, plus easy to rip to an iPod or computer.
I really hope CDs don't die out.
I like the uncompressed lossless quality.
>>>a World Series where the Yankees don't even appear.
Agreed. I liked the Phillies versus Orioles game. Two cities only 80 miles apart, duking it out. It also created a lot of animosity because Orioles and Phillies fans live side-by-side. Like brother against brother.
(1) There's an error in the summary that should be corrected: "To record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR". Kinescope was nothing like a hard-drive based digital DVR. Or even an analog tape VCR. Kinescope was an old-fashioned film camera pointed at a TV screen, and was the main method to preserve Doctor Who and other early BBC shows (because the videotapes were erased).
(2) If RIAA or MPAA had existed in 1960, they would have DRMed/copy-protected the game, plus made it illegal to record it. They prevent preservation by archivists.
(3) Cassette recordings can exceed CD quality using "high bias" Chrome and Metal tapes. But according to wikipedia it wasn't the Germans but the Americans who invented bias: "The first patent for AC bias was filed by W. L. Carlson and Glenn L. Carpenter in 1921." And the second inventors were the Japanese (no surprise): "Teiji Igarishi, Mokoto Ishikawa, and Kenzo Nagai of Japan published a paper on AC biasing in 1938," then by a German in 1940, another American in 1941, and the UK War Department in 1942.
Good advice.
I'd probably send a "fuck off" reply but your solution is better. Like internet trolls/baiters, ignoring is probably the best policy.
>>>a guy who sent a bunch of random invoices to mid-size companies and a few of them got paid.
Hmmmm.
There's actually just two companies I'd target - the ones who didn't pay me for my last week of work.
Perhaps there's a difference legally, but I don't see any difference for the common man.
"Pay us $5000 or else be prosecuted," is extortion in my mind, especially since it involves money. The law firms are acting like members of The Family. "Pay us money or else we'll rough you up."
Not really. And even though I've rented a few damaged VHS tapes, they were still playable due to their analog nature. In fact one of my tapes is 25 years old and still works despite some damage.
Not so with a damaged DVD ("error - can not read"). I've even had some brand-new DVDs refuse to play.
>>>Jewelry, shoes, bras, lingerie...
Yeah disagree. I went to my alma mater in the spring, and there were college women running around in sweats. i.e. Frumpy.
I still thought they looked "hot" and would have gladly dated any of them that wanted to go out. I suspect that's true for all my male colleagues too. Women may BELIEVE they have to put-on a lot of beauty work but they really don't
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>>>Even the beautiful 20-somethings know that they will end up a frumpy 50-something. Men, on the other hand
There is no other hand. Again - men get judged on age as well. If you don't believe me, withness a guy ins his late 30s or early 40s trying to ask out a college girl. Just as an older woman would fail in that situation, so too will a man, because the looks have disappeared. (No not always but in 99% of cases - yes.)
>>>"nice rack"
So? Back in my younger years I had women starting at my butt and thinking "nice ass". (I know because some bold ones said it directly to me.) This judging based on appearances works both ways ya know
.
It probably doesn't make sense to add intermittent tiers between 200 MB and 2000 MB, when the difference is only 10 dollars in pricetag. Personally I like Cricket's wireless plan. No need to worry about getting killed with overage fees:
- $40 for unlimited - 2500 MB at full speed, and anything above that at ISDN speed.
VirginMobile is good too:
- $1.50 per MB (for people like me who barely get online)
- $10 for 100 MB
- $40 for unlimited ("Virgin Mobile does not restrict your speeds based on data usage caps.")
>>>And yet when you point this out to people when they make MJ jokes, or say they hate him because he was a nonce or whatever, they come out with some variant of "no smoke without fire". Fucking hate that.
Well this being slashdot my
post was modded to -1 (i.e. made invisible)
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