I thought the hardcore in film now, was all the dirty pictures, or the seedy and illegal films such as the snuff films from 8mm. Are we going to see people trading illegal games in back alleys in the future?
don't feel bad, i got the same illusions of grandeur flashback before my eyes that i had as when i saw back to the future. i want my flying car, dammit! or at least a hover board...
Generally, users may install a satellite dish that is 1 meter (39.37 inches) or less on their own property or property on which they have the exclusive use, such as leased or rented property. In Section 207 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress adopted the Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule. This rule applies to governmental and nongovernmental restrictions imposed on a consumer's ability to receive video programming signals from direct broadcast satellites, wireless cable providers, and television broadcast stations. The rule outlaws restrictions intended to prevent a consumer from installing, maintaining, or using an antenna. The rule applies to a broad range of potential regulatory bodies, laws, or regulations:
* Building regulations
* Condominium or cooperative association restrictions
* Homeowner association rules
* Land-use regulations
* Lease restrictions
* Other restrictions on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has an ownership or leasehold interest in the property
* Private covenants
* Zoning regulations
There is a three-part test to determine whether a particular restriction is illegal under the rule. It must:
1. Unreasonably delay or prevent the use of the antenna
2. Unreasonably increases the cost of the antenna or service
3. Prevent a person from receiving or transmitting an acceptable quality signal
The rule does not prohibit restrictions based on legitimate safety concerns, nor does it prohibit restrictions intended to preserve designated or eligible historic or prehistoric properties. In such cases, the restriction must be no more burdensome than necessary to accomplish its safety or preservation purposes.
Not that anyone on slashdot would need to buy friends, but what they really need to provide pictures for people to use to look hot along with there hot friends, otherwise it won't be believable to strangers. Although then your real friends will know the pics are fake, assuming they exist.
the short answer is: idiot drones. the long answer: people that have been brainwashed into thinking that the fancier, ie expensive, highly marked up, cables are better. for the most part this is wrong, cheap component cables are no worse or better than expensive ones. the signal that travels on them is raw. there is now loss, no risk of interference. ditto for composite cables.
coax cables on the other hand have the signal on an rf carrier, and therefore need sheilding to protect it from interference. period.
"Sure, I will look at that on Thursday between 3pm and 5pm" I would be out a job
except no one will die, nor will anyone lose money if you cant watch your episode of american idol...TV is not that important, now if you were running a business then i could see the need for that kind of service, but then you would have a business account with a guarenteed response time of four hours fromt he moment you call.
you sir have obviously never had to work in the field. two hour time frames are a neccesity, considering all the unknown factors that can keep a tech from arriving at your home. sometimes its a difficult or tedious job, sometimes its traffic. I have had days where i have had to drive 30 minutes from job to job. im only alotted 1 hour per job including travel time so if im stuck in traffic for 30 minutes, that means i only have half an hour to find and fix your problem. their are days when im actually early to the majority of my jobs. there are other days when i arrive 5 mins before the scheduled timeframe ends. life is too unpredictable. oh, and for the record, the cable company i work for use to have three hour time frames, the satellite company has 5 hour time frames, and the telephone company 12 hour timeframes. yes the lesser evil.
hmmm. As far as jobs that would take *me* 2.5hrs to do, i do one of the following:
1. contact my goto(field supervisor) and ask him for help
A. If he is busy, i contact my dispatcher and find out if
any techs are available to assist me.
B. Contact my supervisor and explain the situation.
a. I reschedule for another day, my supervisor pulls jobs in order to
allow time for me to do the job.
b. i finish the job and my jobs that i cannot complete are given to
another tech that is on some downtime.
C. I turn the job over to a contractor.
That's th jist of it. oh and in 3 yrs that i have been in this field i have only been
late once, the customer knew i was going to be late and was ok with it since i called
him to let him know; it was when i was less experienced and did not realize how big a
job i had in front of me.
i work for a cable company as a service tech, and i can assure you that we have set time frames, within a two hour time frame, for appointments. During the summer, we also have all day appointments to accomodate our customers that need service sooner than we have available appointments. i think that is a reasonable way of handling service calls considering houw busy we get in the summer
At least they wouldn't be if the oil companies didn't havev their way.
1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.]
VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved "impossible" mpg. The author said, "I will get back to you.". I am still waiting for his response.
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case test achieved about 171 MP(US)G. I can not provide any other publishing information because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My copy of page 18 is very poor.] (3/08/04. I am grateful to Lee Winslett for a copy of this book and the article from Colliers.)
Collier's magazine, in 1929, published an article "300 Miles to the gallon.
3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five-page article (Text copy here.) about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company that purchased Argosy found and mailed a copy to me. While attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug Lenzini (SP?) with the EL Paso Times. Mr. Lenzini informed me that he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG. When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.) A very simple method of extracting gasoline fumes is described in a
I dont have mod points today, so im reposting this from anonymous coward I think it warrants discussion and is relevant to the topic.
"1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.]
VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved "impossible" mpg. The author said, "I will get back to you.". I am still waiting for his response.
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case test achieved about 171 MP(US)G. I can not provide any other publishing information because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My copy of page 18 is very poor.] (3/08/04. I am grateful to Lee Winslett for a copy of this book and the article from Colliers.)
Collier's magazine, in 1929, published an article "300 Miles to the gallon.
3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five-page article (Text copy here.) about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company that purchased Argosy found and mailed a copy to me. While attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug Lenzini (SP?) with the EL Paso Times. Mr. Lenzini informed me that he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG. When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.)
ive never known anyone to use unshielded cables for catv. although they might make bad fittings, which could cause the types of interferance you refer to. even worse if combined with 59 cable, which does have shielding, but not much.
i work for the cable company in my area; i used to do installations as a contractor, but now i do field service of the cable company so i have seen many homes in my city. for the most part most of the homes have rg6 quad sheild either as prewire or postwire. most of the homes that have 59 installed are older homes that were built before rg6 was the standard. all of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years have rg6. they ones that were built before that have mostly been retrofitted already. the biggest problem is older apartments that have really old 59. usually the managment does not want to spend the money required to rewire thier buildings properly.
when they say portable, i dont think they meant in the sense that it is small, but more along the lines that everything will stay on your media (usb memory): the application, the data, user preferences. That way you can take it with you to any computer, always having all of it with you, thus making it portable. Besides 1GB usb mem isn't that expensive.
Or people who feel they already pay too damn much money to the cable company, who keep jacking up their fees every quarter, unlike Netflix.
I actually work for a cable company and we have not raised our rates in the two years I have works for them. Actually, they have lowered their rates for limited basic which is targeted at the elderly on fixed incomes and people who just want a clear picture of the locals.
It's true that analog channels require 6MHz of bandwith. What you are mistaken on is that digital will require the same. I work for a cable company and in one 6MHz slice we can fit ten digital channels. HDTV takes up more space than digital but not as much as anolog.
I used to work as a Cable TV contractor, 70-80 hr work weeks are the norm in that industry. It's supposed to be ofset by the larger paycheck (600-900 per week take home), but after analising all of the factors, including year round income ( contractors generally make more in the summer), family life, lack of benefits, high costs of operation ( Pay for own gas, maintenance, insurance, food, health insurance, etc) my actual income was in between 300-500 per week, I decided to work for the cable company directly. right now i make about 450 per week take home, but i can work overtime if necessary, plus there is great opportunity for advancement.
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I thought the hardcore in film now, was all the dirty pictures, or the seedy and illegal films such as the snuff films from 8mm. Are we going to see people trading illegal games in back alleys in the future?
Do you have a reference for where you heard that story from, a link of some sort? I'd to
hear the details, it sounds like an interesting story.
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you probably missed the next page. there was actually 27k people surveyed.
don't feel bad, i got the same illusions of grandeur flashback before my eyes
that i had as when i saw back to the future. i want my flying car, dammit! or
at least a hover board...
Not really interested in selling my UID but maybe i can be persuaded with the appropriate offer...
Aren't you one of the so called 'land barons' in second life that every new
person in second life aspires to become?
Or are you some other chang, not related to the in game chang?
im just curious.
That depends...
a tellite-and-cable
Generally, users may install a satellite dish that is 1 meter (39.37 inches) or less on their own property or property on which they have the exclusive use, such as leased or rented property. In Section 207 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress adopted the Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule. This rule applies to governmental and nongovernmental restrictions imposed on a consumer's ability to receive video programming signals from direct broadcast satellites, wireless cable providers, and television broadcast stations. The rule outlaws restrictions intended to prevent a consumer from installing, maintaining, or using an antenna. The rule applies to a broad range of potential regulatory bodies, laws, or regulations:
* Building regulations
* Condominium or cooperative association restrictions
* Homeowner association rules
* Land-use regulations
* Lease restrictions
* Other restrictions on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has an ownership or leasehold interest in the property
* Private covenants
* Zoning regulations
There is a three-part test to determine whether a particular restriction is illegal under the rule. It must:
1. Unreasonably delay or prevent the use of the antenna
2. Unreasonably increases the cost of the antenna or service
3. Prevent a person from receiving or transmitting an acceptable quality signal
The rule does not prohibit restrictions based on legitimate safety concerns, nor does it prohibit restrictions intended to preserve designated or eligible historic or prehistoric properties. In such cases, the restriction must be no more burdensome than necessary to accomplish its safety or preservation purposes.
Excerpt From:
http://law.enotes.com/everyday-law-encyclopedia/s
Not that anyone on slashdot would need to buy friends, but what they really need to provide
pictures for people to use to look hot along with there hot friends, otherwise it won't be believable to strangers. Although then your real friends will know the pics are fake, assuming they exist.
I have car insurance because the insurance companies lobbyists convince the lawmakers to make it the law
the short answer is: idiot drones.
the long answer: people that have been brainwashed into
thinking that the fancier, ie expensive, highly marked up, cables
are better. for the most part this is wrong, cheap component
cables are no worse or better than expensive ones. the signal
that travels on them is raw. there is now loss, no risk of interference.
ditto for composite cables.
coax cables on the other hand have the signal on an rf carrier, and
therefore need sheilding to protect it from interference. period.
"Sure, I will look at that on Thursday between 3pm and 5pm" I would be out a job
except no one will die, nor will anyone lose money if you cant watch your episode of
american idol...TV is not that important, now if you were running a business then i could
see the need for that kind of service, but then you would have a business account with
a guarenteed response time of four hours fromt he moment you call.
you sir have obviously never had to work in the field. two hour time frames are a neccesity, considering all the unknown factors that can keep a tech from arriving at your home. sometimes its a difficult or tedious job, sometimes its traffic. I have had days where i have had to drive 30 minutes from job to job. im only alotted 1 hour per job including travel time so if im stuck in traffic for 30 minutes, that means i only have half an hour to find and fix your problem. their are days when im actually early to the majority of my jobs. there are other days when i arrive 5 mins before the scheduled timeframe ends. life is too unpredictable. oh, and for the record, the cable company i work for use to have three hour time frames, the satellite company has 5 hour time frames, and the telephone company 12 hour timeframes. yes the lesser evil.
hmmm. As far as jobs that would take *me* 2.5hrs to do, i do one of the following: 1. contact my goto(field supervisor) and ask him for help A. If he is busy, i contact my dispatcher and find out if any techs are available to assist me. B. Contact my supervisor and explain the situation. a. I reschedule for another day, my supervisor pulls jobs in order to allow time for me to do the job. b. i finish the job and my jobs that i cannot complete are given to another tech that is on some downtime. C. I turn the job over to a contractor. That's th jist of it. oh and in 3 yrs that i have been in this field i have only been late once, the customer knew i was going to be late and was ok with it since i called him to let him know; it was when i was less experienced and did not realize how big a job i had in front of me.
i work for a cable company as a service tech, and i can assure you that we have set time frames, within a two hour time frame, for appointments. During the summer, we also have all day appointments to accomodate our customers that need service sooner than we have available appointments. i think that is a reasonable way of handling service calls considering houw busy we get in the summer
At least they wouldn't be if the oil companies didn't havev their way.
1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.]
VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved "impossible" mpg. The author said, "I will get back to you.". I am still waiting for his response.
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case test achieved about 171 MP(US)G. I can not provide any other publishing information because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My copy of page 18 is very poor.] (3/08/04. I am grateful to Lee Winslett for a copy of this book and the article from Colliers.)
Collier's magazine, in 1929, published an article "300 Miles to the gallon.
3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five-page article (Text copy here.) about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company that purchased Argosy found and mailed a copy to me. While attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug Lenzini (SP?) with the EL Paso Times. Mr. Lenzini informed me that he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG. When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.) A very simple method of extracting gasoline fumes is described in a
I dont have mod points today, so im reposting this from anonymous coward
I think it warrants discussion and is relevant to the topic.
"1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.]
VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved "impossible" mpg. The author said, "I will get back to you.". I am still waiting for his response.
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case test achieved about 171 MP(US)G. I can not provide any other publishing information because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My copy of page 18 is very poor.] (3/08/04. I am grateful to Lee Winslett for a copy of this book and the article from Colliers.)
Collier's magazine, in 1929, published an article "300 Miles to the gallon.
3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five-page article (Text copy here.) about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company that purchased Argosy found and mailed a copy to me. While attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug Lenzini (SP?) with the EL Paso Times. Mr. Lenzini informed me that he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG. When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.)
hot seller? where? from what i understand its doing miserable worldwide, but it looks like it is doing well because of unit shortages.
ive never known anyone to use unshielded cables for catv. although they might make bad fittings, which could cause the types of interferance you refer to. even worse if combined with 59 cable, which does have shielding, but not much.
i work for the cable company in my area; i used to do installations as a contractor, but now i do field service of the cable company so i have seen many homes in my city. for the most part most of the homes have rg6 quad sheild either as prewire or postwire. most of the homes that have 59 installed are older homes that were built before rg6 was the standard. all of the homes that have been built in the last 10 years have rg6. they ones that were built before that have mostly been retrofitted already. the biggest problem is older apartments that have really old 59. usually the managment does not want to spend the money required to rewire thier buildings properly.
when they say portable, i dont think they meant in the sense that it is small, but more along the lines that everything will stay on your media (usb memory): the application, the data, user preferences. That way you can take it with you to any computer, always having all of it with you, thus making it portable. Besides 1GB usb mem isn't that expensive.
It's true that analog channels require 6MHz of bandwith. What you are mistaken on is that digital will require the same. I work for a cable company and in one 6MHz slice we can fit ten digital channels. HDTV takes up more space than digital but not as much as anolog.
I used to work as a Cable TV contractor, 70-80 hr work weeks are the norm in that industry. It's supposed to be ofset by the larger paycheck (600-900 per week take home), but after analising all of the factors, including year round income ( contractors generally make more in the summer), family life, lack of benefits, high costs of operation ( Pay for own gas, maintenance, insurance, food, health insurance, etc) my actual income was in between 300-500 per week, I decided to work for the cable company directly. right now i make about 450 per week take home, but i can work overtime if necessary, plus there is great opportunity for advancement.
the u.s. is actually a democratic republic.
Opera had tabbed browsing first, does that not mean that the firefox developers copied opera? ie "Opera had it first, Firefox is just copying Opera"