No, acutally, I've determined that empirically in my rockets.
Wireless power to power up radio transmitters until recently was a taboo.
Ok, now I can stop reading.
KFG
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It was something that would happen to Dilbert.
No. In Dilbert it would have been done intentionally at the behest of a consultant in order to increase your productivity with "(Per)cussive (T)eam B(u)ilding The(r)aputic Vi(b)ration mass(age).
>>>If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me.
>>So, I will provide myself with one.
>Good luck. In the middle of the jungle. >Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
I'd like to say I stopped reading here, but, unfortunately, I didn't.
. ..you still need to understand how they work . ..
It takes maybe 10 seconds to show a Boy Scout how. Most of them used to be able to put it to practial application in about 15 seconds. It may be rocket science, but it's dirt simple rocket science.
You can't filter on the code.
News to the tens of thousands of us already doing it. It's no harder; and is equivilent to, making a child's shape matching box. The square peg will only go through the square hole.
You broadcast "Everything in range report"
The hell I do.
And as for measuring the speed:
I ain't gonna do it.
Give me off-the-shelf timer providing such resolution.
What for? You don't need one. You don't directly measure it, you derive it from more easily measurable physical phenomenon. Late 1800s tech. See Michelson. Measured the speed of light by timing it across the room.
Have you ever tuned a musical instrument by listening for the beats?
You found a pet project and you're blinded by "how cool it is" neglecting some obvious difficulties.
It isn't my project and I think it's moderately stupid. It isn't, however, hard and the solution is obvious to anyone with some experience in radio/data acquisition. Which I do.
I'm saying 10 years is a good deadline for such a project.
Dude, that's about 2 years longer than going from high school graduation to a PhD; and this project is simple enough that it might not get approved for an undergraduate senior project, nevermind a Doctoral Thesis. They started giving out the Nobels for this shit 100 years ago.
If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me.
So, I will provide myself with one. In point of fact I'll get damned close to you without one, since a walkie-talkie antenna is semidirectional. Notice that its shape is not symetrical in three dimensions?
Have you grown up with only cable TV or something? Get thee hence and acquire a pair of rabbit ears and learn something.
The signal from the scanners is not directional. ..
It is if I have constructed them to be. I don't get this argument at all. It's doofey.
Like you can tell where one walkie-talkie is while 15 of them broadcast on the same frequency simultaneously.
If each one is broadcasting a unique digital pulse code and I filter on the code, not the carrier, yes.
Everything will respond.
The information I am seeking is not the code. I know the code a priori. Think about it.
As soon as you start to measure time it takes the radio waves to get to the tag and back, it will grow into a yearly project for a corporation.
So I won't do that. You are asigning me that task because your assumption that the scanners are not directional is false.
Since the only information I am seeking is direction I build my equipment to be . ..directional.
That's what happens when you make unsupportable claims about future developments for years at a time.
The "scientific doubts" one in particular refers to a technique that TFA states Allerca didn't use.
Because of a)the lawsuit and b)it didn't work out anyway. Please note also that the article questions the validity of the goal, not just the technique.
Please note also that I was just trying to do my best to provide some background information to someone else's post which failed to provide it.
You'll have to wait until he retires. He is an attorney. His job is to promote what his client believes.
You want your defense attorney should look at a jury and say,"Well, in my opinion he should swing".?
Feel free, however, to take the role of the prosecution and point out that the beliefs he is promoting just make him look like an asshole. Ms. Rosen's comments may be used as evidence.
Hence the need for three scanners to derive position.
A walkie-talkie doesn't provide position either, but if you're using one my hit team will find you. If I've only got one guy he'll find you anyway, it'll just take him a bit longer since he's working in one dimension and has to walk down the line.
the readers would crash DDoS'd from more than a few signals at once anyway.
Like your walkie-talkie crashes from all the signals at once? You should see what radio telescopes have to deal with. They're called "filters" and "unidirectional" antennas.
All the workings would be in the scanners, not the tags. All the intelligence would be in a computer. The RFID tags need only be passive and respond to a ping.
You can't find your car keys? Go to the computer, ask it where they are. The scanners sweep the room pinging the car keys. Only the car keys will respond. What's more, since we're working in a well bounded system ( a room) I'd think that two scanners would suffice. Simple parallax with the scanners placed in two corners, although precision would be reduced the closer the keys are to that wall.
. ..how proud they are that their cat has caught a few mice.
Ahhhh yes, now you too will be able to experience the joy and wonder of stumbling barefooted toward the bathroom in the middle of night and stepping on three quarters of a mouse.
That's right. If demand is high enough you can expect the price to go up. Get your reservations in now and be greatful you don't long for a $30,000 alpaca.
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The second you posted:
>Good luck. In the middle of the jungle.
>Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
KFG
you assumed "more powder=fly higher".
No, acutally, I've determined that empirically in my rockets.
Wireless power to power up radio transmitters until recently was a taboo.
Ok, now I can stop reading.
KFG
It was something that would happen to Dilbert.
No. In Dilbert it would have been done intentionally at the behest of a consultant in order to increase your productivity with "(Per)cussive (T)eam B(u)ilding The(r)aputic Vi(b)ration mass(age).
KFG
I fell prey to the argument that it had noplace else to go.
KFG
Peter Jamieson . . . does not . . .create the laws
Correct. What he does is invokeAlso of consideration is the worth of his word.
Aye! Theeeeere's the rub.
KFG
Radio iswireless power. If it weren't your antenna wouldn't work.
KFG
like the 2007 Camry (available wherever fine cars are sold,) after a long day your ass is going to be a lot more comfortable.
My ass has never been as comfortable as it was in my '67 Triumph GT6. Don't ask about my right leg resting against the tranny case though.
When I wear shorts I just tell people it came from shrapnel at Anzio.
KFG
>>>If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me.
>>So, I will provide myself with one.
>Good luck. In the middle of the jungle.
>Patents, industrial secrets, regulations, lack of documentation...
I'd like to say I stopped reading here, but, unfortunately, I didn't.
. .
It takes maybe 10 seconds to show a Boy Scout how. Most of them used to be able to put it to practial application in about 15 seconds. It may be rocket science, but it's dirt simple rocket science.
You can't filter on the code.
News to the tens of thousands of us already doing it. It's no harder; and is equivilent to, making a child's shape matching box. The square peg will only go through the square hole.
You broadcast "Everything in range report"
The hell I do.
And as for measuring the speed:
I ain't gonna do it.
Give me off-the-shelf timer providing such resolution.
What for? You don't need one. You don't directly measure it, you derive it from more easily measurable physical phenomenon. Late 1800s tech. See Michelson. Measured the speed of light by timing it across the room.
Have you ever tuned a musical instrument by listening for the beats?
You found a pet project and you're blinded by "how cool it is" neglecting some obvious difficulties.
It isn't my project and I think it's moderately stupid. It isn't, however, hard and the solution is obvious to anyone with some experience in radio/data acquisition. Which I do.
I'm saying 10 years is a good deadline for such a project.
Dude, that's about 2 years longer than going from high school graduation to a PhD; and this project is simple enough that it might not get approved for an undergraduate senior project, nevermind a Doctoral Thesis. They started giving out the Nobels for this shit 100 years ago.
Radio isn't a secret anymo'.
KFG
So how does the electric company know how much you've used if power is impossible to measure?
As per my other post under this article the author is confusing issues of measurment with issues of prediction.
KFG
Performance being difficult to measure is well known. . .
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.the EPA test, which is actually an average of multiple tests.
. gas milage. Sheesh.
it should be a simple miles-per-gallon type of calculation. .
It is. That's the problem. Mr. Krazit seems to be utterly clueless. I defy him to predict the milage I get the next time I go out for a drive.
Hasn't he ever noticed, like most of the rest of us have, that the milage he gets is not actually the same as the EPA test "prediction"?
That's because the EPA test only gives valid results for. .
There's no one simple way to measure. .
KFG
Who's Paris Hilton?
KFG
As soon as you start to measure time it takes the radio waves to get to the tag and back. .
Well understood late 1800s tech. It's available off the shelf or about ten bucks worth of parts from Radio Shack.
KFG
If you have only another walkie-talkie and no directional antenna, you won't find me.
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.directional.
So, I will provide myself with one. In point of fact I'll get damned close to you without one, since a walkie-talkie antenna is semidirectional. Notice that its shape is not symetrical in three dimensions?
Have you grown up with only cable TV or something? Get thee hence and acquire a pair of rabbit ears and learn something.
The signal from the scanners is not directional. .
It is if I have constructed them to be. I don't get this argument at all. It's doofey.
Like you can tell where one walkie-talkie is while 15 of them broadcast on the same frequency simultaneously.
If each one is broadcasting a unique digital pulse code and I filter on the code, not the carrier, yes.
Everything will respond.
The information I am seeking is not the code. I know the code a priori. Think about it.
As soon as you start to measure time it takes the radio waves to get to the tag and back, it will grow into a yearly project for a corporation.
So I won't do that. You are asigning me that task because your assumption that the scanners are not directional is false.
Since the only information I am seeking is direction I build my equipment to be . .
KFG
If it's wrong for the company, it's wrong for the company.
And you should say so, to the company.
KFG
As soon as I see a sensationalistic title ending with a question mark, I automatically skip to the next story.
He fooled you this time by leaving off the question mark.
KFG
. . .does that mean that Rosen, like any other CEO, will do whatever they think their current employer needs, regardless of personal opinion about it?
Isn't that what you expect people you pay to represent to do? Isn't it, in fact, professionally ethical for them to do so?
If their opinion is strong enough they can always leave and then speak their mind, which is, as it happens, what Ms. Rosen did, no?
KFG
Actually, our callico is fond of giving us Rabbit Asses. Never the front half of bunny... always, and only the ass.
.Braaaaaaaaaaaains!
Interesting. I used to have a cat that specialized in rabbits, but only ate the heads.
There must be something about bunny . .
KFG
The articles you linked to are both fairly old.
That's what happens when you make unsupportable claims about future developments for years at a time.
The "scientific doubts" one in particular refers to a technique that TFA states Allerca didn't use.
Because of a)the lawsuit and b)it didn't work out anyway. Please note also that the article questions the validity of the goal, not just the technique.
Please note also that I was just trying to do my best to provide some background information to someone else's post which failed to provide it.
KFG
You'll have to wait until he retires. He is an attorney. His job is to promote what his client believes.
You want your defense attorney should look at a jury and say,"Well, in my opinion he should swing".?
Feel free, however, to take the role of the prosecution and point out that the beliefs he is promoting just make him look like an asshole. Ms. Rosen's comments may be used as evidence.
KFG
RFID doesn't provide position
Hence the need for three scanners to derive position.
A walkie-talkie doesn't provide position either, but if you're using one my hit team will find you. If I've only got one guy he'll find you anyway, it'll just take him a bit longer since he's working in one dimension and has to walk down the line.
the readers would crash DDoS'd from more than a few signals at once anyway.
Like your walkie-talkie crashes from all the signals at once? You should see what radio telescopes have to deal with. They're called "filters" and "unidirectional" antennas.
All the workings would be in the scanners, not the tags. All the intelligence would be in a computer. The RFID tags need only be passive and respond to a ping.
You can't find your car keys? Go to the computer, ask it where they are. The scanners sweep the room pinging the car keys. Only the car keys will respond. What's more, since we're working in a well bounded system ( a room) I'd think that two scanners would suffice. Simple parallax with the scanners placed in two corners, although precision would be reduced the closer the keys are to that wall.
Sounds like a one week hack to me.
KFG
Spike the Cat
KFG
. . .how proud they are that their cat has caught a few mice.
Ahhhh yes, now you too will be able to experience the joy and wonder of stumbling barefooted toward the bathroom in the middle of night and stepping on three quarters of a mouse.
KFG
That's right. If demand is high enough you can expect the price to go up. Get your reservations in now and be greatful you don't long for a $30,000 alpaca.
Ahhhhhh, monopoly control, ain't it grand?
KFG
Scientific Doubts
Denver Business Journal: Law Suit
KFG
Yeah, I would have lost some good friends if it had hit NYC.
And a good chunk of my family, so it wouldn't have been all bad.
KFG