Harry, Phil's brother, was kind enough to drop me a line and reassure me that the vast majority of AD employees are, in fact, married. I still find it hard to equate lots of late nights at work with a good family life, though.
I spent a good deal of time thinking about working for ArsDigita. I respect that man as well as the software he and his merry bunch have produced. But aftering speaking with a couple folks there (ArsDigita) and reading a good deal of Phil's pontifications, it became clear to me that most of their employees ARE single. I wish them the best, truly, but as a husband/father, I can't imagine working at a place like that.
One of the primary benefits of having position information available in radar-inacessable areas is that it allows shorter flight times between hemispheres. I believe the FAA has supported trans-artic flights via this method for several years.
Most of your concerns are being addressed at this moment by a company name Ibiquity Digital. I'm not sure why the editor god's don't think it's relevant information. I guess some people have never heard of Lucent Digtial Radio or USA Digital Radio (the two companies which recently joined to create Ibiquity). Designs and working prototypes have been proposed/tested/etc which provide for a clean transition from analog to digital radio via an IBOC (In Band On Channel) design. Oh well, I guess it would be better to just argue academic points instead of acknowledging the reasonable/existing solutions.
(Note - I happen to work for Ibiquity, so do some searches and feel free to come to your own conclusion.)
In all likelyhood, Ibiquity Digital will be bringing digital radio to the States in the near future.
In response to the VMSK article...bandwidth is good, but one must also pay attention to minor issues like the existence of several thousand existing analog stations and coverage area (i.e., robustness)...
Do we really need more gadgets? I'd like to see more tools and less toys produced by the tech sector.
Anyhow, my $.02 is that we'll see more well targetted, limitted scope devices and less do-everything (i.e., PC) devices in the near future.
(And of course, we'll all have digital radio in the near future.)
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Harry, Phil's brother, was kind enough to drop me a line and reassure me that the vast majority of AD employees are, in fact, married. I still find it hard to equate lots of late nights at work with a good family life, though.
I spent a good deal of time thinking about working for ArsDigita. I respect that man as well as the software he and his merry bunch have produced. But aftering speaking with a couple folks there (ArsDigita) and reading a good deal of Phil's pontifications, it became clear to me that most of their employees ARE single. I wish them the best, truly, but as a husband/father, I can't imagine working at a place like that.
Hmmm...I was required to purchase a PC when I entered the EE program in 1987.
One of the primary benefits of having position information available in radar-inacessable areas is that it allows shorter flight times between hemispheres. I believe the FAA has supported trans-artic flights via this method for several years.
Most of your concerns are being addressed at this moment by a company name Ibiquity Digital. I'm not sure why the editor god's don't think it's relevant information. I guess some people have never heard of Lucent Digtial Radio or USA Digital Radio (the two companies which recently joined to create Ibiquity). Designs and working prototypes have been proposed/tested/etc which provide for a clean transition from analog to digital radio via an IBOC (In Band On Channel) design. Oh well, I guess it would be better to just argue academic points instead of acknowledging the reasonable/existing solutions.
(Note - I happen to work for Ibiquity, so do some searches and feel free to come to your own conclusion.)
A man destined to have no karma,
Mike
In all likelyhood, Ibiquity Digital will be bringing digital radio to the States in the near future. In response to the VMSK article...bandwidth is good, but one must also pay attention to minor issues like the existence of several thousand existing analog stations and coverage area (i.e., robustness)...
Do we really need more gadgets? I'd like to see more tools and less toys produced by the tech sector. Anyhow, my $.02 is that we'll see more well targetted, limitted scope devices and less do-everything (i.e., PC) devices in the near future. (And of course, we'll all have digital radio in the near future.)
http://www.usadr.com (disclaimer...I happen to work for this company)