You mean "up-converter," but obviously you are correct that there is an easy way to bring signals up to this device, whereas there would be no easy way to bring 3.8GHz down to a lesser device, such as an RTL-based dongle.
Well that's a brilliant question. Let's suppose we obtained 10 Gsps. How would we send those samples to the computer? Two E-SATA cables, maybe? It just doesn't seem very doable.
First, the bandwidth, or amount of spectrum that is instantaneously analyzed, is 28MHz, not 20 as I wrote.
Secondly, some troll^H^H^H^H^H nay-sayer posted that this device cannot be used for HF. In the first place, the device can receive and transmit 0-20MHz because the baseband signal pins of the ADC and DAC are available on a header. In the second place, up-converters easily solve this "problem," whereas hitting 3.8GHz is a great advantage to this device.
It covers 20x the bandwidth of an RTLSDR dongle, for 20x the price, and it also transmits and has an on-board FPGA and Arm9. So you are probably wrong.
Actually, the bladeRF has baseband input with 20MHz bandwidth, and same with output. The ADC and DAC pins are available at the baseband signal. So perhaps your nay-saying is motivated by ignorance or jealousy.
In fact, the November 15th United Airlines was a cyber attack. This was a retaliation for the severing of Russian civilian satellite control. In turn, that was a U.S. attack intended to silence Russian (RT.com) claims that the Petraeus scandal was the fall-out of a barely-discovered voting fraud "coup attempt," and that President Obama and Defense Secretary Panetta had fled the United States to Asia immediately after the coup was discovered.
Yes. MIT operates the Lincoln Laboratory for the federal government, and uses those fund to support the university budget, too. This is similar to the Caltech situation in which Caltech's budget is taken out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which they operate.
The purpose of this connector is to allow the connection of signal-processing co-processors. Two-dimensional video signal processing, similar to that sold at much cost by Texas Memory Systems, is greatly useful to Facebook, Google+, and all other cloud properties which track identity by facial recognition.
The image-processing algorithms are not as easily distributed as the search indexing. An approach which cuts through the problems at much better cost is the dedicated image processing SIMD pipeline style of processor.
In other words, the purpose of Mezzanine connectors is so that you can have a motherboard with, e.g., two AMD processors on it. You can then add your choice of accelerator via the Mezznine:
*A 2-d signal (image) processor
*A video compression/decompression accelerator
*A SHA256 / bitcoin collision accelerator ASIC
*An extremely high-bandwidth interface for a data acquisition peripheral
The purpose of Mezzanine connections has historically been just this: to provide heterogenous processor expansion to a motherboard.
In fact, the introduction of the word paradigm by Kuhn, in the book, is in the context of Chemistry, or at least phlogiston vs. Oxygen involved in combustion as a topic. See book.
Is tracking software -- the kind users install named "Find My iPhone" or "Find My Android." In anticipation of the day when their device may be stolen or lost.
Here in Seattle, WA, the police are also responding to a great surge in these theft calls. The reason is simple: if they do not respond, the owner might take the law into his or her own hands (or the hands of their posse, in some cases). The police would rather intervene and not have people get into such risky situations.
Otherwise, the usual response to property crime of such a low value would be to take a report and move on. A detective would not be assigned to a lost $600 item. A recovery would not occur. The stolen item would be gone.
With owner-installed Find My [Property] using GPS + Cloud applications, law enforcement is being moved into a citizen-responsive mode. The "dispatching detectives" are the citizen running a web app, reporting the location of the stolen item. The radio transmission relays some information along the lines of, "victim has tracked the item to a particular building and believes he can hear it ringing upon his command." And the police units are on the way post haste to intervene on that potential scenario.
The same is happening with Android, but to a reduced extent. Some cheap-o Android devices are no doubt not tracked. Possibly the user experience for person who lose their smart phone is discrepant between platforms.
At least one moving "stolen" phone I heard a report of turned out to be in the back seat of a taxi. That is where it had been lost the night before. There were multiple police chasing the location reports around while the citizen in the GPS-web loop called the moves... Eventually the taxi they were following became apparent and the case was solved.
Meanwhile, if I lost a Fluke Scopemeter (hypothetical possession; please send me one), I would be out a $2400 portable meter. It does not have a Find My Flukemeter that I could otherwise use to pursue asset using dynamics.
If the robbery was an armed robbery and the victim can identify the suspect later, the police are proactive in using the same tracking software to collar the perpetrator for the major crime.
I thought you could charge any amount you want for distribution -- that you aren't limited to covering costs of the media, but you are actually allowed to make money for the "support" you provide by compiling the open source into a binary. However small that support may be, the GPL v2 does allow a company to carve out a small branded zone here. Providing binaries in the Google Play market is a valid thing to charge a little money for, and make a little money on
I also thought that whenever a binary is made available, the source code had to be made available. I thought it was this source code distribution which must be performed for the media cost (GPL v2 coming from a day when tapes were occassionally still considered a possible choice of distribution medium).
What this would mean, to me, is that DOSBox Turbo should be making the source code freely available. Then the market will decide if $3.99 is too much to bear for the product they provide -- some service in compiling the binary, and a brand.
If the prospective editor can't use mark-up, what does that tell you about their overall intellectual ability? Keep Wikipedia great, full of high-quality articles by intellectuals -- disallow visual editing.
Loss of privacy is not ancient history
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Scott Adams compares our loss of privacy to the domestication of dogs. That is unsupportable nonsense.
According to Wikipedia, the current lineage of domesticated dogs diverged approximately 15,000 years ago. Our current American situation of lost privacy depends greatly on the electronic digital computer, which is around 75 years old. Therefore, Scott Adams was exaggerating by a factor of 200, and - more relevant - a difference of 14,925 years.
The pervasive surveillance society, including facial recognition and the networking of ubiquitous video cameras, is being implemented at present. Today is much more recent than 15,000 years ago -- 15,000 years more recent, in fact.
By suggesting that a national debate on our right to privacy is somehow not timely, and implying that we should instead accept that we have never had privacy, Scott Adams has deeply disappointed me. I really thought he was more intelligent than this, because his cartoon routinely makes fun of certain types of people for their stupidity. I figured that meant he was smart.
The appropriate time to have a national conversation about our rights to privacy and to be "secure in our persons" is now. Today.
Exactly. The latency of response in an NTP server must be consistent in order for the algorithm to converge. It doesn't matter what timing source is used for a reference, if the network communication has variable latency, the NTP precision must degrade. It's revealing that VM proponents don't seem to understand this.
I think you would enjoy the Pilot BP-S. The "S" stands for "small", which helps with small writing such as yours and mine. The "BP" stands for "Ball Point" -- in this case an exquisite ball which does not emit blobs, and is always wetted with ink and ready to roll.
The Pilot BP-S is best when combined with National Brand 42-182 graph paper.
Ahh, in the US, Organic is also a regulated term. Among other things, organic food may not be sprayed with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. Also, the soil must be tested and found to be clean of toxins.
My reference to "government 'safety standard'" was meant to be a reference to the standards for safe levels of synthetic pesticides on food not labelled organic.
Or did I misunderstand what you wanted me to understand from your post?
You're right. This is science. Science does not factor into the equation, otherwise you'd be asking why you should beleive that a natural pesticide is somehow better than a synthetic one.
Because evolution, dummy. If natural pesticides were harmful to us, they would taste bad to us. Fifty years of synthetic pesticide is not enough time for us to evolve a negative reaction to their taste.
You are a dummy and a sheepie. But at least you are a smug, anonymous, sheepie. Say "Baaaa!" sheepie.
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You mean "up-converter," but obviously you are correct that there is an easy way to bring signals up to this device, whereas there would be no easy way to bring 3.8GHz down to a lesser device, such as an RTL-based dongle.
Well that's a brilliant question. Let's suppose we obtained 10 Gsps. How would we send those samples to the computer? Two E-SATA cables, maybe? It just doesn't seem very doable.
I wanted to correct my own submission.
First, the bandwidth, or amount of spectrum that is instantaneously analyzed, is 28MHz, not 20 as I wrote.
Secondly, some troll^H^H^H^H^H nay-sayer posted that this device cannot be used for HF. In the first place, the device can receive and transmit 0-20MHz because the baseband signal pins of the ADC and DAC are available on a header. In the second place, up-converters easily solve this "problem," whereas hitting 3.8GHz is a great advantage to this device.
It covers 20x the bandwidth of an RTLSDR dongle, for 20x the price, and it also transmits and has an on-board FPGA and Arm9. So you are probably wrong.
Actually, the bladeRF has baseband input with 20MHz bandwidth, and same with output. The ADC and DAC pins are available at the baseband signal. So perhaps your nay-saying is motivated by ignorance or jealousy.
There are factions within the U.S. Government and they aren't always in coordination. What's more, Stuxnet was probably written by Mossad, not CIA.
In fact, the November 15th United Airlines was a cyber attack. This was a retaliation for the severing of Russian civilian satellite control. In turn, that was a U.S. attack intended to silence Russian (RT.com) claims that the Petraeus scandal was the fall-out of a barely-discovered voting fraud "coup attempt," and that President Obama and Defense Secretary Panetta had fled the United States to Asia immediately after the coup was discovered.
Yes. MIT operates the Lincoln Laboratory for the federal government, and uses those fund to support the university budget, too. This is similar to the Caltech situation in which Caltech's budget is taken out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which they operate.
After these events, what American in their right mind would attend MIT? I say leave that musty institution to foreigners. Let it rot.
If the Democrats open-source, and the Republicans don't, won't such a situation provide a permanent edge for the Republicans?
The purpose of this connector is to allow the connection of signal-processing co-processors. Two-dimensional video signal processing, similar to that sold at much cost by Texas Memory Systems, is greatly useful to Facebook, Google+, and all other cloud properties which track identity by facial recognition.
The image-processing algorithms are not as easily distributed as the search indexing. An approach which cuts through the problems at much better cost is the dedicated image processing SIMD pipeline style of processor.
In other words, the purpose of Mezzanine connectors is so that you can have a motherboard with, e.g., two AMD processors on it. You can then add your choice of accelerator via the Mezznine:
*A 2-d signal (image) processor
*A video compression/decompression accelerator
*A SHA256 / bitcoin collision accelerator ASIC
*An extremely high-bandwidth interface for a data acquisition peripheral
The purpose of Mezzanine connections has historically been just this: to provide heterogenous processor expansion to a motherboard.
In fact, the introduction of the word paradigm by Kuhn, in the book, is in the context of Chemistry, or at least phlogiston vs. Oxygen involved in combustion as a topic. See book.
Is tracking software -- the kind users install named "Find My iPhone" or "Find My Android." In anticipation of the day when their device may be stolen or lost.
Here in Seattle, WA, the police are also responding to a great surge in these theft calls. The reason is simple: if they do not respond, the owner might take the law into his or her own hands (or the hands of their posse, in some cases). The police would rather intervene and not have people get into such risky situations.
Otherwise, the usual response to property crime of such a low value would be to take a report and move on. A detective would not be assigned to a lost $600 item. A recovery would not occur. The stolen item would be gone.
With owner-installed Find My [Property] using GPS + Cloud applications, law enforcement is being moved into a citizen-responsive mode. The "dispatching detectives" are the citizen running a web app, reporting the location of the stolen item. The radio transmission relays some information along the lines of, "victim has tracked the item to a particular building and believes he can hear it ringing upon his command." And the police units are on the way post haste to intervene on that potential scenario.
The same is happening with Android, but to a reduced extent. Some cheap-o Android devices are no doubt not tracked. Possibly the user experience for person who lose their smart phone is discrepant between platforms.
At least one moving "stolen" phone I heard a report of turned out to be in the back seat of a taxi. That is where it had been lost the night before. There were multiple police chasing the location reports around while the citizen in the GPS-web loop called the moves... Eventually the taxi they were following became apparent and the case was solved.
Meanwhile, if I lost a Fluke Scopemeter (hypothetical possession; please send me one), I would be out a $2400 portable meter. It does not have a Find My Flukemeter that I could otherwise use to pursue asset using dynamics.
If the robbery was an armed robbery and the victim can identify the suspect later, the police are proactive in using the same tracking software to collar the perpetrator for the major crime.
I thought you could charge any amount you want for distribution -- that you aren't limited to covering costs of the media, but you are actually allowed to make money for the "support" you provide by compiling the open source into a binary. However small that support may be, the GPL v2 does allow a company to carve out a small branded zone here. Providing binaries in the Google Play market is a valid thing to charge a little money for, and make a little money on
I also thought that whenever a binary is made available, the source code had to be made available. I thought it was this source code distribution which must be performed for the media cost (GPL v2 coming from a day when tapes were occassionally still considered a possible choice of distribution medium).
What this would mean, to me, is that DOSBox Turbo should be making the source code freely available. Then the market will decide if $3.99 is too much to bear for the product they provide -- some service in compiling the binary, and a brand.
Hello! Video games are for nerds.
What has slashdot become? Terrible. This is supposed to be "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters."
What is the epitome of stuff that does not matter? Sports.
If the prospective editor can't use mark-up, what does that tell you about their overall intellectual ability? Keep Wikipedia great, full of high-quality articles by intellectuals -- disallow visual editing.
Scott Adams compares our loss of privacy to the domestication of dogs. That is unsupportable nonsense.
According to Wikipedia, the current lineage of domesticated dogs diverged approximately 15,000 years ago. Our current American situation of lost privacy depends greatly on the electronic digital computer, which is around 75 years old. Therefore, Scott Adams was exaggerating by a factor of 200, and - more relevant - a difference of 14,925 years.
The pervasive surveillance society, including facial recognition and the networking of ubiquitous video cameras, is being implemented at present. Today is much more recent than 15,000 years ago -- 15,000 years more recent, in fact.
By suggesting that a national debate on our right to privacy is somehow not timely, and implying that we should instead accept that we have never had privacy, Scott Adams has deeply disappointed me. I really thought he was more intelligent than this, because his cartoon routinely makes fun of certain types of people for their stupidity. I figured that meant he was smart.
The appropriate time to have a national conversation about our rights to privacy and to be "secure in our persons" is now. Today.
Exactly. The latency of response in an NTP server must be consistent in order for the algorithm to converge. It doesn't matter what timing source is used for a reference, if the network communication has variable latency, the NTP precision must degrade. It's revealing that VM proponents don't seem to understand this.
Indeed. For example, does it not seem dumb to virtualize an NTP server?
I think you would enjoy the Pilot BP-S. The "S" stands for "small", which helps with small writing such as yours and mine. The "BP" stands for "Ball Point" -- in this case an exquisite ball which does not emit blobs, and is always wetted with ink and ready to roll.
The Pilot BP-S is best when combined with National Brand 42-182 graph paper.
I know! Right?
It's almost like "they" are putting stuff in the food to pacify us and make us really fat...
Ahh, in the US, Organic is also a regulated term. Among other things, organic food may not be sprayed with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers. Also, the soil must be tested and found to be clean of toxins.
My reference to "government 'safety standard'" was meant to be a reference to the standards for safe levels of synthetic pesticides on food not labelled organic.
Or did I misunderstand what you wanted me to understand from your post?
Here in the real world, there is no evidence that this study is funded by corporate interests
Oh, really? What is the "Food Security Institute," and who funds it? Doesn't it have a nice, Orwellian, name? The answer is: FSI employs the shills^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hscientists who wrote this propaganda piece, and it is funded by Cargill, Monsanto, and many other villains who have an interest in spreading this disinformation.
You're right. This is science. Science does not factor into the equation, otherwise you'd be asking why you should beleive that a natural pesticide is somehow better than a synthetic one.
Because evolution, dummy. If natural pesticides were harmful to us, they would taste bad to us. Fifty years of synthetic pesticide is not enough time for us to evolve a negative reaction to their taste.
You are a dummy and a sheepie. But at least you are a smug, anonymous, sheepie. Say "Baaaa!" sheepie.
I think you might be interested in a wheat protein named "gliadin". Consider the venue, I will leave it at that.