Just wait until all those HDTV channels start showing up on Comcast cable as well. How much information can they put through a length of RG-6 coax? You really need fiber to every house. Or run Heliax hardline to each house at 10Ghz. Then you'd have some BW. But its a bitch hooking hard line to a cable box, haha.
Remember the episode where the mayor left town and the city charter said the most intelligent people (ie nerds) would then run the town? Well one of their great ideas was to eliminate the green and red lights completely to speed up traffic. Then at the end Stephen Hawking comes to show them all the error of their ways.
Why are any of these sensitive networks connected to the Internet? Its just the ultimate in stupidity. Like the hackers who broke into the power grid in a day. Why the hell is the power grid being hooked to the Internet? They may as well install webcams in all the Pentagon offices so we can see what they are doing all day.
In a few years they will be just like 8 track tapes and cassettes. You will only find them at yard sales. Contrastingly vinyl is actually growing again in market share. Imagine that. Audiophiles simply won't listen to CD's, and rappers and DJ's want the albums and singles on vinyl.
So the record companies can stick their promo CD's up their......
And from the horrible quality of the writing and the science, I would say that cyanide would be the best performance enhancer for many University departments.
And not because I can hear someone talking. Its the principle of it. I live near a beautiful huge park and within the last 5 years I've started seeing more and more people in the park constantly on their cell phones. I always thought the idea of going to the park was to get away from all of that. Airline travel is so miserable these days that I can't imagine adding one more inconvenience to it. Gee, can you use cell phones on cruse ships?
Have some teenage girl, maybe 14 or 15 start up an online relationship in this class with a supposed cute boy. Then later on towards the end of the Internet education session, the "cute boy" is brought in and he kind of looks like Meatloaf.
because it was so long ago, but historians say that when telephones were first installed in houses, they were considered an incredible invasion of privacy. People hated it when they rang. I kind of feel the same way about cell phones, except that caller ID tells me whether I should answer or not. Text messaging seems less invasive, but I haven't used it because my fingers are too big to even properly dial in those prescription numbers to Walgreens.
If you want to find a neighborhood with FIOS, just follow their truck around until it stops somewhere. Thats how I found the Sunnyvale, CA post office.
Your remarks about limited bandwidth are patently false. See the American Radio Relay League http://www.arrl.org/ and its discussion on BPL, and on their Federal Lawsuit against the FCC for promoting the wide bandwidth BPL. There are systems that have been developed, for example, at Motorola, that reduce interference in the 1Mhz to 30Mhz range, but no one seems to want to use them or care, despite violating FCC regulations that say that unlicensed devices cannot interfere with properly licensed ham radio and public service communication stations.
Your remarks about limited bandwidth are patently false. See the American Radio Relay League www.arrl.org and its discussion on BPL, and on their Federal Lawsuit against the FCC for promoting the wide bandwidth BPL. There are systems that have been developed, for example, at Motorola, that reduce interference in the 1Mhz to 30Mhz range, but no one seems to want to use them or care, despite violating FCC regulations that say that unlicensed devices cannot interfere with properly licensed ham radio and public service communication stations.
1. Find all words "Vista" 2. Replace with "Windows 7" 3. Sell 6 different versions anywhere from $100 to $500 with various features added/removed 4. Profit
I thought the whole idea of Linux distros like Ubuntu was that you didn't have to have a book or hundreds of pages of manuals in order to use it. Am I missing something?
Freenet was around in 1998 or 1999, and its just being released? Maybe the developers should have gotten jobs with MS to work on Vista. The main problem with this program is that I have only ever gotten it to work on Windows and sometimes Linux. The program is so complicated it is extremely sensitive to Java versions, vendors, and platforms. You are lucky if you can get it working at all except for Windows which is so insecure anyway, that putting Freenet on it is like putting money in a vault that never closes. FreeBSD has never worked right with it unless you go through an incredibly convoluted process of getting the latest Sun Java.
I had much promise for the Freenet idea back in the late 90's, but now I am just bored with it. Freenet developers- please Kill the project and do something worthwhile with your life. A decade is a lot of time to waste.
It has been reproduced in submarine battery switches on demand, occasionally during shorts in electrical equipment, and of course in Tesla's big coil. He considered it a big nuisance. AFAIK, no one has ever duplicated Tesla's production of Ball Lightning.
There are all sorts of theories. One is that plasma is held in place by the presence of RF radiation somehow induced by lightning. Another theory is that is chemically based upon NO2, so its not electrical at all- other than that the lightning produces the NO2.
None of the theories currently address the eyewitness accounts of the balls going through walls, or just suddenly popping out of nowhere in peoples' houses.
There is an entire book called "Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics" by Mark Stenhoff. Available from Amazon by special order or used copies are available. Its really pricey $160, so I would go for a used copy that is $40 or so.
i saw the post above about a Q of 10,000. Thats pretty high for the freq's involved. Q= 3dB bandwidth/frequency for resonators. But for HF, its very low. When they made HF (ie 1Mhz to 30Mhz) crystals for filters in the US, Q's were 100,000 or so. The crystals you get now days are so bad that you are lucky to find one out of 20 that has a Q of 50,000. There were special crystals used in certain applications with Q's of a million, but they are no longer made. What makes crystal Q so important is that the loss of a filter made with the crystals depends on their Q. The lower the Q, the higher the loss of the filter. For VHF up through microwave you want as low a system noise figure as possible, and high loss filters just makes the task very hard.
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I've been getting my seeds from the Netherlands for some time now.
on Comcast. I wonder why?? I guess dealing with Comcast is worse than death.
Just wait until all those HDTV channels start showing up on Comcast cable as well. How much information can they put through a length of RG-6 coax? You really need fiber to every house. Or run Heliax hardline to each house at 10Ghz. Then you'd have some BW. But its a bitch hooking hard line to a cable box, haha.
Bull. Amazon has an advantage because they have excellent service, are convenient, and have a wide variety of goods. It has nothing to do with taxes.
Remember the episode where the mayor left town and the city charter said the most intelligent people (ie nerds) would then run the town? Well one of their great ideas was to eliminate the green and red lights completely to speed up traffic. Then at the end Stephen Hawking comes to show them all the error of their ways.
Why are any of these sensitive networks connected to the Internet? Its just the ultimate in stupidity. Like the hackers who broke into the power grid in a day. Why the hell is the power grid being hooked to the Internet? They may as well install webcams in all the Pentagon offices so we can see what they are doing all day.
In a few years they will be just like 8 track tapes and cassettes. You will only find them at yard sales. Contrastingly vinyl is actually growing again in market share. Imagine that. Audiophiles simply won't listen to CD's, and rappers and DJ's want the albums and singles on vinyl.
So the record companies can stick their promo CD's up their......
And from the horrible quality of the writing and the science, I would say that cyanide would be the best performance enhancer for many University departments.
And not because I can hear someone talking. Its the principle of it. I live near a beautiful huge park and within the last 5 years I've started seeing more and more people in the park constantly on their cell phones. I always thought the idea of going to the park was to get away from all of that. Airline travel is so miserable these days that I can't imagine adding one more inconvenience to it. Gee, can you use cell phones on cruse ships?
That right after college I got the rejection letter from Monolithic Memories which AMD purchased. I went to work at National Semiconductor instead.
Have some teenage girl, maybe 14 or 15 start up an online relationship in this class with a supposed cute boy. Then later on towards the end of the Internet education session, the "cute boy" is brought in and he kind of looks like Meatloaf.
because it was so long ago, but historians say that when telephones were first installed in houses, they were considered an incredible invasion of privacy. People hated it when they rang. I kind of feel the same way about cell phones, except that caller ID tells me whether I should answer or not. Text messaging seems less invasive, but I haven't used it because my fingers are too big to even properly dial in those prescription numbers to Walgreens.
If you want to find a neighborhood with FIOS, just follow their truck around until it stops somewhere. Thats how I found the Sunnyvale, CA post office.
from someone, their ISP starts shaping and blocking traffic. What is this world coming to??
What ever happened to personal responsibility? just about every vice in our society now is handled by psychologists instead of jail guards.
Your remarks about limited bandwidth are patently false. See the American Radio Relay League http://www.arrl.org/ and its discussion on BPL, and on their Federal Lawsuit against the FCC for promoting the wide bandwidth BPL. There are systems that have been developed, for example, at Motorola, that reduce interference in the 1Mhz to 30Mhz range, but no one seems to want to use them or care, despite violating FCC regulations that say that unlicensed devices cannot interfere with properly licensed ham radio and public service communication stations.
Your remarks about limited bandwidth are patently false. See the American Radio Relay League www.arrl.org and its discussion on BPL, and on their Federal Lawsuit against the FCC for promoting the wide bandwidth BPL. There are systems that have been developed, for example, at Motorola, that reduce interference in the 1Mhz to 30Mhz range, but no one seems to want to use them or care, despite violating FCC regulations that say that unlicensed devices cannot interfere with properly licensed ham radio and public service communication stations.
It looks like nobody really cares what Verizon does, considering there are no posts here.
1. Find all words "Vista"
2. Replace with "Windows 7"
3. Sell 6 different versions anywhere from $100 to $500 with various features added/removed
4. Profit
Chip sets are really vulnerable to radio waves. I know as I was drying off my laptop in the oven. Never did work right after that.
I thought the whole idea of Linux distros like Ubuntu was that you didn't have to have a book or hundreds of pages of manuals in order to use it. Am I missing something?
Well you've proved one thing: the truth is sometimes pretty unpopular.
Freenet was around in 1998 or 1999, and its just being released? Maybe the developers should have gotten jobs with MS to work on Vista. The main problem with this program is that I have only ever gotten it to work on Windows and sometimes Linux. The program is so complicated it is extremely sensitive to Java versions, vendors, and platforms. You are lucky if you can get it working at all except for Windows which is so insecure anyway, that putting Freenet on it is like putting money in a vault that never closes. FreeBSD has never worked right with it unless you go through an incredibly convoluted process of getting the latest Sun Java.
I had much promise for the Freenet idea back in the late 90's, but now I am just bored with it. Freenet developers- please Kill the project and do something worthwhile with your life. A decade is a lot of time to waste.
It has been reproduced in submarine battery switches on demand, occasionally during shorts in electrical equipment, and of course in Tesla's big coil. He considered it a big nuisance. AFAIK, no one has ever duplicated Tesla's production of Ball Lightning.
There are all sorts of theories. One is that plasma is held in place by the presence of RF radiation somehow induced by lightning. Another theory is that is chemically based upon NO2, so its not electrical at all- other than that the lightning produces the NO2.
None of the theories currently address the eyewitness accounts of the balls going through walls, or just suddenly popping out of nowhere in peoples' houses.
There is an entire book called "Ball Lightning: An Unsolved Problem in Atmospheric Physics" by Mark Stenhoff. Available from Amazon by special order or used copies are available. Its really pricey $160, so I would go for a used copy that is $40 or so.
i saw the post above about a Q of 10,000. Thats pretty high for the freq's involved. Q= 3dB bandwidth/frequency for resonators. But for HF, its very low. When they made HF (ie 1Mhz to 30Mhz) crystals for filters in the US, Q's were 100,000 or so. The crystals you get now days are so bad that you are lucky to find one out of 20 that has a Q of 50,000. There were special crystals used in certain applications with Q's of a million, but they are no longer made. What makes crystal Q so important is that the loss of a filter made with the crystals depends on their Q. The lower the Q, the higher the loss of the filter. For VHF up through microwave you want as low a system noise figure as possible, and high loss filters just makes the task very hard.