I dropped pay subscription TV long before Netflix and Hulu. The price went up on the basic package. The reason is the basic package was required to carry ESPN and I could care less for commercial sports. If I wanted movies, they were permium channels requiring both a higher tier to support a decoder box and extra for the movie channels I would want.
I now subscribe to Netflix. Cable didn't lose me because of Netflix. I was gone long before that. Over the air has several oldies movies channels for free.
In the news recently is the problems with Cable subscriptions are down due to Netflix and Hulu. The subscriptions are down due to the cost.
They used to give out starter snap packs (username and password) good for a 1 hr free trial. A friend of mine used to collect them and found they didn't kick you off at 1 hr. A snap pack was good for an 8 hr session as long as you didn't get disconnected. They then started requiring a CC number to use the free hour.. Bummer.
Not all BBS'es went to 9600 baud. I only went from 300 to 1200 baud before closing my Wildcat BBS. Wildcat is the BBS software, not the BBS name. Fidonet took most BBSes offline in the wee hours for forwarding mail. This store and forward of email is the roots of the modern email and mail relay. It became much faster with always connected machines with more than one line.
For nastalgia, I still have my original 300 baud genuine Hayes Smartmodem. They were rock solid.
This tax ensures slow moving inventory is disposed of as it is not profitable to have replacement parts in stock for 10 year old TV sets. You can get generic caps, CFL lamps, etc, but a replacement custom video decoder/driver chip will be unobtainable. A broken VCR idler arm unless generic to fit many brands are unavailable. This is when I changed careers. Parts for older stuff no longer exists.
All you need to catch "Joe Trucker" is three antennas spaced one wavelength or more apart and you can get a fix on their position
My rabbit hunting days was done with 4 antennas only 1/4 wave apart. Working in pairs, they were added with a 1/4 wave delay switched in and out of each antenna. If the signal was inline with an antenna pair, one direction added in phase and the other added out of phase. This modulated the carrier based on direction. Signals from the side of one pair remained un modulated, while the pair 90 degrees to the first pair provided maximum modulation. An XY scope display showed the relative modulation and phase info to give a decent relative bearing for mobile turkey hunting. Working with an active partner to flamebait a turkey, the silent DF partner usualy had little trouble finding a mobile or base target.
In reality most of those accounts are ignored for the most part. Circles of family and friends tend to cull dormat deadwood from active use. I don't friend random strangers, but family and close friends.
At $5 per disk, I would not have them because of the player cost, unless I find a great price on a used one somewhere.
I made the mistake of buying a Laserdisk player. The disks were supposed to be cheaper than videotape because they could be easly mass produced. Video tape prices fell and laserdisk remained expensive. DVD's filled the promise with many titles in the bins under $5.
Blue-ray started at a higher price and remain at a higher price for the player and content. No thanks.
The biggest issue was with FM radios. The desired station is mixed with the local oscillator in the radio to make the Intermediate Frequency of 10.7 Mhz for the filters and FM detector.
This is not a problem with the hardness of the electronics on the plane. This issue is the local osc on many portable radios is not 100% shielded and is 10.7 Mhz above the FM station. This places a Transmitter on the air in the plane on the frequency band for aircraft communication. Many MP3 players, media players, cell phones etc, have an FM tuner. Often the tuner remains on, even when the device is playing other media.
The air distress frequency is 121.5 Mhz. Listening to an FM station on 110.8 will put the LO smack dab on frequency. This is the reason why no FM stations operate on even 100 Khz frequencies. Other aircraft frequencies are within the local oscillator range of FM radios. 105.3 FM will put the local oscillator on 116.4 MHZ in the aircraft band.
The Ernie Ball Story was my motivation to switch. Slowly the last reasons to dual boot are vanishing. One of the most recent changes is in regards to using a netbook as a DMX 512 remote for adjusting the stage lights while on a lift instead of taking a console or needing a partner and radio to turn on various lights. Drivers and software for Linux was scarce and difficult to set up until recently. QLC on Ubuntu makes the process plug and play.
FYI, they work great in microwave ovens. They are located outside the cavity and survive the short duty cycle better than any other bulb. The location is fan cooled. An LED bulb in this use will see low run hours due to intermittent use so a 2000 - 6000 hr LED will typically outlast the magnetron which has a typical 1000 hour life. The mid base 16 Chip LED bulb made for fan lights fits most microwave ovens directly.
Project Guttenberg has plenty of material for those without a need for DRM and spending large amounts of money in conspicious consumption. I've recently been enjoying the classics on a netbook.
This makes Facebook as dangerous for some as an employer owned internal blog. Be very careful of what you post on either forever.
They are not kidding when the employer's TOS includes phrases that include "up to termination" Meet moderation with God power to end your employment. You never will want to be moderated by them.
My FB page has very few posts and all posts are made with the risk carefully evaluated.
This abuse is why my Slashdot account is using a nickname. A forum for one of my hobbies uses another nickname.
The article does not mention a digital source sweeping from 5Hz to 20Khz on a typical consumer grade CD player. I've looked at a few sweeps. Forget the lack of ultrasonic material recorded above 20Khz. The real aliasing between the sample rate and sampled music is the biggest reason for dirty sound in samples with higher frequency content. Only a higher Sample Rate will fix that. The Denon technical audio CD is a good source to test this yourself. It is digitaly mastered from a digital source for all test signals without any analog resampling. Good luck finding one. They are getting rare and fetch high prices. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing http://www.amazon.com/Denon-Audio-Technical-Various-Artists/dp/B0000034ME
" AT&T still maintains the position that less than 5% of its users exceed the 3GB threshold each month."
This metric is not of just iPhone users. I have a phone I use as just a phone. No text, no data, just voice. I don't text on the phone. I'm older and hand held phones don't come in the large print edition. I use a Netbook for IM. It provides a full keyboard and usable screen.
An often made error in sample rates involve confusion between sample rate and bitrate. Bitrate is bits per second such as the rate your dial up modem can send including start/stop/parity bits with data bits. This should not be confused with sample rates. Sample rate is how often a sample is captured. For the often touted CD Quality claim of 44.1 Khz, remember that a sample is 16 bits per channel. This is a 32 bit sample taken 44.1K times per second. This does not include any framing, error correction (ECC), encoding (EFM Modulation) etc needed to support Uncompressed audio.
Without any overhead the raw data bit rate for a CD is 44.1K samples per second Times the sample size of 32 bits. This is 1411200 bits per second.
Look for an encryption product produced by a company without US government approval. Government approved encryption is difficult to break, but not impossible.
You are correct that a syncroscope is used to connect a generator. What you missed is GPS time is used to locate a fault on a line due to the time of propagation of a fault current from the fault to various substations. In a lightning storm a lightning storm and loss of GPS signal can result in bad fault location information. The line will trip out at both ends, but fail to re-energize the line due to a false indication of substations islanding. Re-connecting substations that have islanded is not automatic. The failure to re-connect can result in cascading failures.
The Intel Fin transistor design, the Tri Gate transistor cuts the leakage to a tiny value while keeping up the performance. Big transistors (500nm) have their power consumption when clocked as the device becomes a huge CCD device switching distributed capacitance from power to ground. Power per operation is high. Low K dielectrics, small dimensions, combined cut power in high speed operation. Low leakage cuts power draw in all operations. Going big dimensions to cut leakage, requires higher voltage to cut the transistors off, resulting in higher power use per clock cycle when switched.
Most likely this is a trunked radio system. Trunk following scanners have been out for years. A trunked radio system is a subscription radio system just like cell phones. Disabling a stolen radio is a simple administration task encrypted or not.
These are not simplex walkie talkies, but are duplex radios with a control channel.
The article actually said something intelligent. The products are way overpriced. Think about it. Who rips movies with a video capture card from Netflix using the analog hole on the Wii? Not worth the effort.
Who scans the entire daily local newspaper and posts it on a torrent site so their buddies don't have to buy their own copy?
Why is there piracy? The product is overpriced making the effort worth the trouble. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
I have Netflix, A VCR/DVD combo recorder, a Wii providing the analog hole, but I don't bother to burn content from Netflix simply because there is plenty of search-able readily accessible content on Netflix. If each movie was instead a $4.95 pay per view rental, I would be much more inclined to choose a much smaller pool of choices and record them so I don't have to rent it again to catch the part I missed with a phone call or other interruption.
Summary; Overpriced content makes the effort worth it. Low prices and large selection negate the desire to collect and archive the product. Lets face it, Have you kept a physical copy of every newspaper you ever bought? Why. Did you exercise your right of first sale and sell collections by season? Why or why not?
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I dropped pay subscription TV long before Netflix and Hulu. The price went up on the basic package. The reason is the basic package was required to carry ESPN and I could care less for commercial sports. If I wanted movies, they were permium channels requiring both a higher tier to support a decoder box and extra for the movie channels I would want.
I now subscribe to Netflix. Cable didn't lose me because of Netflix. I was gone long before that. Over the air has several oldies movies channels for free.
In the news recently is the problems with Cable subscriptions are down due to Netflix and Hulu. The subscriptions are down due to the cost.
They used to give out starter snap packs (username and password) good for a 1 hr free trial. A friend of mine used to collect them and found they didn't kick you off at 1 hr. A snap pack was good for an 8 hr session as long as you didn't get disconnected. They then started requiring a CC number to use the free hour.. Bummer.
Not all BBS'es went to 9600 baud. I only went from 300 to 1200 baud before closing my Wildcat BBS. Wildcat is the BBS software, not the BBS name. Fidonet took most BBSes offline in the wee hours for forwarding mail. This store and forward of email is the roots of the modern email and mail relay. It became much faster with always connected machines with more than one line.
For nastalgia, I still have my original 300 baud genuine Hayes Smartmodem. They were rock solid.
The 20 year TV went away with the introduction of the inventory tax. Parts are not kept to support the service industry any more.
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/industries/article/0,,id=100355,00.html
This tax ensures slow moving inventory is disposed of as it is not profitable to have replacement parts in stock for 10 year old TV sets. You can get generic caps, CFL lamps, etc, but a replacement custom video decoder/driver chip will be unobtainable. A broken VCR idler arm unless generic to fit many brands are unavailable. This is when I changed careers. Parts for older stuff no longer exists.
All you need to catch "Joe Trucker" is three antennas spaced one wavelength or more apart and you can get a fix on their position
My rabbit hunting days was done with 4 antennas only 1/4 wave apart. Working in pairs, they were added with a 1/4 wave delay switched in and out of each antenna. If the signal was inline with an antenna pair, one direction added in phase and the other added out of phase. This modulated the carrier based on direction. Signals from the side of one pair remained un modulated, while the pair 90 degrees to the first pair provided maximum modulation. An XY scope display showed the relative modulation and phase info to give a decent relative bearing for mobile turkey hunting. Working with an active partner to flamebait a turkey, the silent DF partner usualy had little trouble finding a mobile or base target.
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In reality most of those accounts are ignored for the most part. Circles of family and friends tend to cull dormat deadwood from active use. I don't friend random strangers, but family and close friends.
At $5 per disk, I would not have them because of the player cost, unless I find a great price on a used one somewhere.
I made the mistake of buying a Laserdisk player. The disks were supposed to be cheaper than videotape because they could be easly mass produced. Video tape prices fell and laserdisk remained expensive. DVD's filled the promise with many titles in the bins under $5.
Blue-ray started at a higher price and remain at a higher price for the player and content. No thanks.
Now if Apple then prohibited it's staff from purchasing Microsoft products with Apple funds, the trade embargo will be complete.
Apple to Microsoft,
" We will not be purchasing Office this year for our staff. We are moving to Open Office "
The biggest issue was with FM radios. The desired station is mixed with the local oscillator in the radio to make the Intermediate Frequency of 10.7 Mhz for the filters and FM detector.
This is not a problem with the hardness of the electronics on the plane. This issue is the local osc on many portable radios is not 100% shielded and is 10.7 Mhz above the FM station. This places a Transmitter on the air in the plane on the frequency band for aircraft communication. Many MP3 players, media players, cell phones etc, have an FM tuner. Often the tuner remains on, even when the device is playing other media.
The air distress frequency is 121.5 Mhz. Listening to an FM station on 110.8 will put the LO smack dab on frequency. This is the reason why no FM stations operate on even 100 Khz frequencies. Other aircraft frequencies are within the local oscillator range of FM radios. 105.3 FM will put the local oscillator on 116.4 MHZ in the aircraft band.
References..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_distress_frequency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_frequency
The Ernie Ball Story was my motivation to switch. Slowly the last reasons to dual boot are vanishing. One of the most recent changes is in regards to using a netbook as a DMX 512 remote for adjusting the stage lights while on a lift instead of taking a console or needing a partner and radio to turn on various lights. Drivers and software for Linux was scarce and difficult to set up until recently. QLC on Ubuntu makes the process plug and play.
Even though the Ernie Ball story is almost a decade old, many still hear about it and find the BSA has not changed their ways.
http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082_3-5065859.html
FYI, they work great in microwave ovens. They are located outside the cavity and survive the short duty cycle better than any other bulb. The location is fan cooled. An LED bulb in this use will see low run hours due to intermittent use so a 2000 - 6000 hr LED will typically outlast the magnetron which has a typical 1000 hour life. The mid base 16 Chip LED bulb made for fan lights fits most microwave ovens directly.
Project Guttenberg has plenty of material for those without a need for DRM and spending large amounts of money in conspicious consumption. I've recently been enjoying the classics on a netbook.
I have an account, but it is not very active.. = win. Few posts show you don't waste the day addicted to social media.
I post some of my community volunteer projects.
This makes Facebook as dangerous for some as an employer owned internal blog. Be very careful of what you post on either forever.
They are not kidding when the employer's TOS includes phrases that include "up to termination" Meet moderation with God power to end your employment. You never will want to be moderated by them.
My FB page has very few posts and all posts are made with the risk carefully evaluated.
This abuse is why my Slashdot account is using a nickname. A forum for one of my hobbies uses another nickname.
The article does not mention a digital source sweeping from 5Hz to 20Khz on a typical consumer grade CD player. I've looked at a few sweeps. Forget the lack of ultrasonic material recorded above 20Khz. The real aliasing between the sample rate and sampled music is the biggest reason for dirty sound in samples with higher frequency content. Only a higher Sample Rate will fix that. The Denon technical audio CD is a good source to test this yourself. It is digitaly mastered from a digital source for all test signals without any analog resampling. Good luck finding one. They are getting rare and fetch high prices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliasing
http://www.amazon.com/Denon-Audio-Technical-Various-Artists/dp/B0000034ME
" AT&T still maintains the position that less than 5% of its users exceed the 3GB threshold each month."
This metric is not of just iPhone users. I have a phone I use as just a phone. No text, no data, just voice. I don't text on the phone. I'm older and hand held phones don't come in the large print edition. I use a Netbook for IM. It provides a full keyboard and usable screen.
An often made error in sample rates involve confusion between sample rate and bitrate. Bitrate is bits per second such as the rate your dial up modem can send including start/stop/parity bits with data bits. This should not be confused with sample rates. Sample rate is how often a sample is captured. For the often touted CD Quality claim of 44.1 Khz, remember that a sample is 16 bits per channel. This is a 32 bit sample taken 44.1K times per second. This does not include any framing, error correction (ECC), encoding (EFM Modulation) etc needed to support Uncompressed audio.
Without any overhead the raw data bit rate for a CD is 44.1K samples per second Times the sample size of 32 bits. This is 1411200 bits per second.
When the cost to produce exceeds market value, production stops. Google Khan Academy and start with the Cupcake Factory.
Missing option.
Buy shares. It goes up. It goes down. Market crashes, it goes down more. Buy more at fire sale prices. It goes up slowly.
Remember, buy low, sell high. You may have to wait for the high and resist selling in a panic.
When people were getting out of the market, I got in.
Look for an encryption product produced by a company without US government approval. Government approved encryption is difficult to break, but not impossible.
You are correct that a syncroscope is used to connect a generator. What you missed is GPS time is used to locate a fault on a line due to the time of propagation of a fault current from the fault to various substations. In a lightning storm a lightning storm and loss of GPS signal can result in bad fault location information. The line will trip out at both ends, but fail to re-energize the line due to a false indication of substations islanding. Re-connecting substations that have islanded is not automatic. The failure to re-connect can result in cascading failures.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5542044
The Intel Fin transistor design, the Tri Gate transistor cuts the leakage to a tiny value while keeping up the performance. Big transistors (500nm) have their power consumption when clocked as the device becomes a huge CCD device switching distributed capacitance from power to ground. Power per operation is high. Low K dielectrics, small dimensions, combined cut power in high speed operation. Low leakage cuts power draw in all operations. Going big dimensions to cut leakage, requires higher voltage to cut the transistors off, resulting in higher power use per clock cycle when switched.
Most likely this is a trunked radio system. Trunk following scanners have been out for years. A trunked radio system is a subscription radio system just like cell phones. Disabling a stolen radio is a simple administration task encrypted or not.
These are not simplex walkie talkies, but are duplex radios with a control channel.
The article actually said something intelligent. The products are way overpriced. Think about it. Who rips movies with a video capture card from Netflix using the analog hole on the Wii? Not worth the effort.
Who scans the entire daily local newspaper and posts it on a torrent site so their buddies don't have to buy their own copy?
Why is there piracy? The product is overpriced making the effort worth the trouble. It doesn't get much simpler than that.
I have Netflix, A VCR/DVD combo recorder, a Wii providing the analog hole, but I don't bother to burn content from Netflix simply because there is plenty of search-able readily accessible content on Netflix. If each movie was instead a $4.95 pay per view rental, I would be much more inclined to choose a much smaller pool of choices and record them so I don't have to rent it again to catch the part I missed with a phone call or other interruption.
Summary;
Overpriced content makes the effort worth it. Low prices and large selection negate the desire to collect and archive the product. Lets face it, Have you kept a physical copy of every newspaper you ever bought? Why. Did you exercise your right of first sale and sell collections by season? Why or why not?