... "Success". Next is "successful people". There is an assumption that this is all about money. Of course for a business, it is. But for most people, once they have enough money to live comfortably (which the one percenters want to take from everyone for themselves), then what matters is happiness in life, such as family, and their art of living. Money is merely the means to get there because we have made that so.
Yes. Then your local cell tower might have sufficient capacity to serve the hundred or so users it has, not having to deal with several thousand pounding on it from all those airplanes high up in the sky.
Imagine most of the cell phones in all the airplanes in the air bombarding their signals over the huge coverage areas they have when up at those heights (10km and up). Each tower is going to see several thousand cell phones hitting it all day long.
Cell phone signals getting out of airplanes at height can burden cell towers as far away as 600km or more at typical long distance flight elevations. Imagine if cell phones in EVERY plane in the air was going like that. All the cell towers would be overloaded. It's the cell companies that support the ban on cell phones in the air. Special bands for air flight use that involve directional antennas are needed and hand held mobile devices are not equipped for this (maybe some day they can be, but today the costs would be huge).
Ham radio operators who also fly (in private planes) can tell you this is so. Hams have VHF and UHF band repeaters all over the place. A land based ham operator can generally activate just one repeater. Hams in the air would be activating dozens. Cell zones are now as numerous as ham repeaters. But ham repeaters are just one or a few frequencies each, so if a dozen are activated, a couple hundred are ignoring the ham op because they are on different frequencies. Cell towers are mostly on all frequencies, detecting devices near the boundaries to be ready to hand off. In the air a cell phone can easily activate hundreds of cell towers.
Cell phones are in power ranges under a watt. But that is still a lot of usable power when up high. Hams have launch weather balloons that go to 30km and up transmitting analog video with just one watt peak (sync) power (compared to 100kw and more land based TV). These one watt TV signals can go out 600km or more line of sight and be received with picture. The height makes a HUGE difference. Try taking an FM radio or TV receiver up in a private plane.
Actually, cell are better shielded than SOME electronic devices. What the cell phones emit is in specific spectral bands that aircraft avionics has filters for. SOME electronic devices have NO shielding at all, and emit noise all over the spectrum. Even while taxing, aircraft need to be in constant communication with the tower and other systems are still in use to avoid ground collisions. The rule (and what the pilot or passenger attendants announce) cannot be in the form of "well shielded electronic devices can be operated" because people just don't know what is or is not. But they know cell phones are generally well shielded because they need to be and are tested for this to get certification. Most electronic devices are probably safe during taxing. The few that are no are not the cell phones. Hence the crazy sounding distinction.
Maybe it could still work for a wider spectral range by stacking several layers at various wavelengths. They are thin, so there could be space for a lot.
I do not trust the government. That's why the people need to keep an eye on it. But I also do not trust big business. That's why we need to keep an eye on them. Democrats oppose the former while Republicans oppose the latter.
The problem with the choice between Democrats and Republicans is that it is a choice between what mechanism of destroying people's freedom we get. With Obama we get more of the same broken promises from the current kleptocracy. With Romney we get a new set of broken promises leading to a plutocracy. We get no other choice.
Indeed. All the kind, intelligent Persians I've met are all FROM Iran. I guess the the mean, stupid ones can't get out. Let them destroy themselves (or let them tempt Israel into destroying them).
Given a lack of other kinds of decent ARM based boards, those of us not interested in hacking the hardware side (and prefer to have working components instead of Broadcom ones) have to use the few boards out there. Personally, I'd like to do software hacking on a well designed "through CPU" multi-port (16 or more) ethernet switch (multiple CPUs to provide many paths and exchange points... not all ports on one CPU) based on ARM. But it's just not out there (and what pretends to be is just 16 ports into a single x86 PoS).
Let's have some better design choices in the hardware, up front, please.
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Or "I'm going to kill you if you say 'I'm going to kill you if you do that again' again".
But it is the same group of bastards that make the damned laws in the first place. It's all a scheme to shake everyone down for more money.
It's posts like this that make me wish Slashdot could do moderations above level 5.
... "Success". Next is "successful people". There is an assumption that this is all about money. Of course for a business, it is. But for most people, once they have enough money to live comfortably (which the one percenters want to take from everyone for themselves), then what matters is happiness in life, such as family, and their art of living. Money is merely the means to get there because we have made that so.
Too bad the recipe was lost with it.
Can someone please check my impact crater candidates? Maybe they have already been determined.
Yes. Then your local cell tower might have sufficient capacity to serve the hundred or so users it has, not having to deal with several thousand pounding on it from all those airplanes high up in the sky.
Imagine most of the cell phones in all the airplanes in the air bombarding their signals over the huge coverage areas they have when up at those heights (10km and up). Each tower is going to see several thousand cell phones hitting it all day long.
Cell phone signals getting out of airplanes at height can burden cell towers as far away as 600km or more at typical long distance flight elevations. Imagine if cell phones in EVERY plane in the air was going like that. All the cell towers would be overloaded. It's the cell companies that support the ban on cell phones in the air. Special bands for air flight use that involve directional antennas are needed and hand held mobile devices are not equipped for this (maybe some day they can be, but today the costs would be huge).
Ham radio operators who also fly (in private planes) can tell you this is so. Hams have VHF and UHF band repeaters all over the place. A land based ham operator can generally activate just one repeater. Hams in the air would be activating dozens. Cell zones are now as numerous as ham repeaters. But ham repeaters are just one or a few frequencies each, so if a dozen are activated, a couple hundred are ignoring the ham op because they are on different frequencies. Cell towers are mostly on all frequencies, detecting devices near the boundaries to be ready to hand off. In the air a cell phone can easily activate hundreds of cell towers.
Cell phones are in power ranges under a watt. But that is still a lot of usable power when up high. Hams have launch weather balloons that go to 30km and up transmitting analog video with just one watt peak (sync) power (compared to 100kw and more land based TV). These one watt TV signals can go out 600km or more line of sight and be received with picture. The height makes a HUGE difference. Try taking an FM radio or TV receiver up in a private plane.
Actually, cell are better shielded than SOME electronic devices. What the cell phones emit is in specific spectral bands that aircraft avionics has filters for. SOME electronic devices have NO shielding at all, and emit noise all over the spectrum. Even while taxing, aircraft need to be in constant communication with the tower and other systems are still in use to avoid ground collisions. The rule (and what the pilot or passenger attendants announce) cannot be in the form of "well shielded electronic devices can be operated" because people just don't know what is or is not. But they know cell phones are generally well shielded because they need to be and are tested for this to get certification. Most electronic devices are probably safe during taxing. The few that are no are not the cell phones. Hence the crazy sounding distinction.
But ... 3 of them could focus red, green, and blue lasers, and give us big screen images.
Maybe it could still work for a wider spectral range by stacking several layers at various wavelengths. They are thin, so there could be space for a lot.
It's just a giant antenna, minus the feed. Think of a massive yagi array, flattened. Works best in a very narrow spectrum.
... would Ron Paul support making sure we keep these rights through government laws and enforcement?
... is that there is no teeth in it. That would have to mean government laws and enforcement. He will have none of that.
I do not trust the government. That's why the people need to keep an eye on it. But I also do not trust big business. That's why we need to keep an eye on them. Democrats oppose the former while Republicans oppose the latter.
It was neither. It was both. Do not look north to the Whitehouse to find the failures. Instead, look east to the Capitol.
Someone always has freedom from and someone else has freedom to. Change the party in power and those roles are reversed.
The problem with the choice between Democrats and Republicans is that it is a choice between what mechanism of destroying people's freedom we get. With Obama we get more of the same broken promises from the current kleptocracy. With Romney we get a new set of broken promises leading to a plutocracy. We get no other choice.
No. They should get the money to put in 2:3 redundancy separate data centers, away from downtown, in widely separated locations.
The cloud is somewhere else with their own power problems.
Indeed. All the kind, intelligent Persians I've met are all FROM Iran. I guess the the mean, stupid ones can't get out. Let them destroy themselves (or let them tempt Israel into destroying them).
Given a lack of other kinds of decent ARM based boards, those of us not interested in hacking the hardware side (and prefer to have working components instead of Broadcom ones) have to use the few boards out there. Personally, I'd like to do software hacking on a well designed "through CPU" multi-port (16 or more) ethernet switch (multiple CPUs to provide many paths and exchange points ... not all ports on one CPU) based on ARM. But it's just not out there (and what pretends to be is just 16 ports into a single x86 PoS).
Let's have some better design choices in the hardware, up front, please.
Send the phone to me, instead.