"I would like to say that we will start bombing in 15 minutes." that'll teach the.CXs and.DEs to not porm-spam, and insure everybody respects the government of the US....
I will be submitting two patents for the DO loop and the NOP very shortly. I will then order up my Bentley... oops, Bentleys, need to keep a cold one in the freezer, don't you know, in case the air conditioning conks out.......
nope, device design went all in the dumper when they got rid of tuned circuits and put in voltage-dependent non-linear sharp-edged semiconductor tuning diodes in their place. I won't even tell any 50-Hz scanning jokes, because it worked nice to shoot sound film at 25 fps to run on the beeb, and it plays well when resold over here in 24 fps territory (scan even frames twice, scan odd frames once, to map to 60 Hz scanning.)
we're all going digital sooner than we're ready as customers, and DTV in the US system may have lousy rejection of near-band interference. certainly multipath reception causes blocking in the picture.
there are narrow guard bands in each channel between video and audio, larger guard bands between channels, but only something like 120 KHZ or something (sorry, have to go by memory at this time, not at my bookcase location) between channels.
in assignment in a SMSA, FCC has kept signals at least one channel apart in the class-B contour area (referring to level of signal out to the "fringe viewing area.") some of the largest cities may indeed have adjacent channels assigned and in use. almost everywhere, cable uses them all, and occasionally has headend issues with channel bleed requiring diddling all the channel amps. certain TV brands "are just no good" per the cable guys because internal lack of shielding or broad tuning causes channel bleed on all of them.
outside the top 20 markets, I would be shocked indeed to find adjacent channels in broadcast use.
note this doesn't apply to channels 6 and 7, or channels 13 and 14, or I think it's 38 and 39, as there are frequency breaks between those channel pairs in the assignment of 6 MHz TV "slots" of air space.
the FCC is totally clueless in this iteration. there is a reason the space between TV channel assignments is called "guard bands," it keeps interference from generating third signals in the receivers (heterodynes, if you want to check the engineering details) that fall in the intermediate tuning circuits and mung up the signal. heterodynes with a strong local signal can wipe a whole TV out. and since there is no shielding worth noting in a commercial set, this means whoever puts up a wi-fi is responsible for zoning out the neighborhood.
there would of course be little impact if the darned TV sets were shielded from RF interference. they aren't because it would cost a few quarters to do it, at worst case $5 to the retail buyer when they wave plastic at the best buy counter.
if you have tried to put a cable TV or satellite box under your TV set, you know what I mean; screens full of little electronic worms.
unless FCC mandates retroactive shielding and all future sets being shielded before sale, this will become a nightmare.
ex-broadcaster, ex-ham, ex-recording engineer, I know interference is real and ugly. don't make any more.
you can't have a patent on a base RFC protocol on the internet, unless it's public domain, used to keep somebody from hijacking the technology. if cisco is filing, then the IETF has to open the process once again. just that simple.
let's see, here, now, I am going to trust my complete office tasking, confidential information and credit-card numbers, to the security of the wild and wooly internet?
yeah, right, like an Iraqi is going to trust the man in a hat who says, "Hi, I'm here from Washington, and I'm going to help you."
I would like to see a business justification for raising the prices 26 per cent, showing increased short-term costs in allowing apple to rip and post these things, or increased costs in referring the appropriate royalties to the artists involved.
I bet I don't see one.
Becaue I bet that this is just another fscking ripoff of the public, and they are trying to take control again by shutting down the economic benefits of online sales.
I do not at this time maintain that they are trying to get some quick cash to pay off a court order that they start paying long-term old back royalties to artists exceeding 50 million dollars, royalty money owed by contract to artists, that was conveniently held back because they "could not find" artists of the demure stature of madonna.
these bastards lie with every breath, have no direct impetus to reward the artist community that makes and fills their rice bowl, and doesn't give one half a shit about the public they sell to.
warning, Apple, "Morris" is trademarked by Heinz. as the Beatles so magically wrote, don't go there. Start with Fluffy perhaps, work down through Samantha and Tabby, and maybe by the time we get to Mousebreath you will be ready for OS XI.
is it gold damask, like dennis koslowski's maid's shower curtain?
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my eMac has heatpipe cooling with a tiny overload fan if needed. I haven't heard it come on, period. so, if you need silence, and even if you would rather have BSD or Linux instead of OSX, switch!
in this year's premiere episode, Darl is locked out of the prison library for filing ten frivolous lawsuits a day against individual farmers, seeking damages from all those who supplied rotten maggots in his gruel. "I require fresh maggots," he claims. other inmates on Block 27 promise Darl they can grow fresh maggots in his arms and legs....
cold fusion doesn't work, it loses a shitload of energy, everything you put in electrolyzing the cells. these are "atypical fusion" refrigerators, not "atypical fusion" generators.
show me one cold fusion researcher who has died of acute radiation poisoning while adding D2O to his cells, and I'll show you a pioneer worthy of a Nobel. you have to have enough neutrons out of one to transmute elements before you can show any net energy gain from the system.
in fact, CF cells look more like crack pipes than experiments. hmmm, can there be a connection???
I had stereo dolby recording in 1971 on cassette, worked great. there was a major difference in tapes, though, and all had bad domain reversal issues after a couple years.
old equipment can be had and refurbed to keep old media alive. there are gas stations converted to museums in north dakota full of working edison cylinder phonos, with plenty of wax cylinders to play. I myself have 2-track and 4-track heads on an NAB stereo tape deck, linn sondek turntable, cassette, CD, DVD, VCR, and U-matic VCR. there's a 4-speed turntable up in the storage room that works, needs a 470K/.0056 uF bypass filter on each channel to run into a mixer to reproduce RIAA curve off the ceramic cartridge. there is still a fleet of something under 100 of the 2-inch quadrihedral broadcast video tape machines in the hands of production companies to spin old TV stuff to modern formats. 35mm film is, of course, ubiqitous after over 100 years. I have 3 16mm projectors in fine shape, one being restored.
does anybody out there have a working 8-inch floppy, a 7-track half-inch tape deck from unisys or control data computer days, or an ascii paper tape reader for reading their archives? how about a working hollerith card reader? -- most died because the rubber feed rollers turned to snot.
not only are the old formats of electromechanical history generally readable, they are eminently restoreable (nitrate film excepted, that was guncotton flattened and coated with images.) your older (10 years and older) computer formats are virtually all useless.
a strong case can be made that analog is archival, and digital is fleeting, at this point.
namely, denial. the only piece that works is the old long lines department, now ATT business data. everything else with the "death star" logo is useless. outsourcing the people who are supposed to save you is the latest ATT lunacy, capping a string of them all the way back to divestiture.
thank god the baby bells got freed from that mess. all the folks vying to lead ATT in the 90s -- joe nacchio, mike annunziata, leo hindery, c. michael armstrong -- turned out to be a shitspread at their respective next stop in employment at the top of the tower. "little mikey" in particular broke up and sold his company down the river in several stages, then left it to hide out at comcast and count his money. "joey nachos" almost killed qwest, a fiber startup, and USWest together after he merged them to bleed the treasury at USWest. annunziata and hindery rode Global Crossing into the toilet, and hindery got into another telco startup and crashed with it.
moral: if you want to invest, check for former ATT execs on the board of a company. if you find any, flee in terror.
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spammers need to be taken out of the system forever.
we need an alternative to billg's empire. if IBM provides it, well and good. if apple or sega or yamaha or h4x0r provide it, good.
use them to carefully review SCO filings and license claims ;) in the hot midday sun :-D in Jamaica >8-D
"I would like to say that we will start bombing in 15 minutes." that'll teach the .CXs and .DEs to not porm-spam, and insure everybody respects the government of the US....
I will be submitting two patents for the DO loop and the NOP very shortly. I will then order up my Bentley... oops, Bentleys, need to keep a cold one in the freezer, don't you know, in case the air conditioning conks out.......
nope, device design went all in the dumper when they got rid of tuned circuits and put in voltage-dependent non-linear sharp-edged semiconductor tuning diodes in their place. I won't even tell any 50-Hz scanning jokes, because it worked nice to shoot sound film at 25 fps to run on the beeb, and it plays well when resold over here in 24 fps territory (scan even frames twice, scan odd frames once, to map to 60 Hz scanning.)
we're all going digital sooner than we're ready as customers, and DTV in the US system may have lousy rejection of near-band interference. certainly multipath reception causes blocking in the picture.
needs more testing is my mantra at this point.
there are narrow guard bands in each channel between video and audio, larger guard bands between channels, but only something like 120 KHZ or something (sorry, have to go by memory at this time, not at my bookcase location) between channels.
in assignment in a SMSA, FCC has kept signals at least one channel apart in the class-B contour area (referring to level of signal out to the "fringe viewing area.") some of the largest cities may indeed have adjacent channels assigned and in use. almost everywhere, cable uses them all, and occasionally has headend issues with channel bleed requiring diddling all the channel amps. certain TV brands "are just no good" per the cable guys because internal lack of shielding or broad tuning causes channel bleed on all of them.
outside the top 20 markets, I would be shocked indeed to find adjacent channels in broadcast use.
note this doesn't apply to channels 6 and 7, or channels 13 and 14, or I think it's 38 and 39, as there are frequency breaks between those channel pairs in the assignment of 6 MHz TV "slots" of air space.
the FCC is totally clueless in this iteration. there is a reason the space between TV channel assignments is called "guard bands," it keeps interference from generating third signals in the receivers (heterodynes, if you want to check the engineering details) that fall in the intermediate tuning circuits and mung up the signal. heterodynes with a strong local signal can wipe a whole TV out. and since there is no shielding worth noting in a commercial set, this means whoever puts up a wi-fi is responsible for zoning out the neighborhood.
there would of course be little impact if the darned TV sets were shielded from RF interference. they aren't because it would cost a few quarters to do it, at worst case $5 to the retail buyer when they wave plastic at the best buy counter.
if you have tried to put a cable TV or satellite box under your TV set, you know what I mean; screens full of little electronic worms.
unless FCC mandates retroactive shielding and all future sets being shielded before sale, this will become a nightmare.
ex-broadcaster, ex-ham, ex-recording engineer, I know interference is real and ugly. don't make any more.
you can't have a patent on a base RFC protocol on the internet, unless it's public domain, used to keep somebody from hijacking the technology. if cisco is filing, then the IETF has to open the process once again. just that simple.
let's see, here, now, I am going to trust my complete office tasking, confidential information and credit-card numbers, to the security of the wild and wooly internet?
yeah, right, like an Iraqi is going to trust the man in a hat who says, "Hi, I'm here from Washington, and I'm going to help you."
the worst part of soldering in your underwear is the flux you have to use to make the solder stick. it really stings.
or maybe the whole idea is fluxed up, I don't know....
I would like to see a business justification for raising the prices 26 per cent, showing increased short-term costs in allowing apple to rip and post these things, or increased costs in referring the appropriate royalties to the artists involved.
I bet I don't see one.
Becaue I bet that this is just another fscking ripoff of the public, and they are trying to take control again by shutting down the economic benefits of online sales.
I do not at this time maintain that they are trying to get some quick cash to pay off a court order that they start paying long-term old back royalties to artists exceeding 50 million dollars, royalty money owed by contract to artists, that was conveniently held back because they "could not find" artists of the demure stature of madonna.
these bastards lie with every breath, have no direct impetus to reward the artist community that makes and fills their rice bowl, and doesn't give one half a shit about the public they sell to.
RIAA, in short, is a band of thugs.
they plan to provide DRM kits to script kiddies so all viruses are signed, and thus acceptable to Windows.
warning, Apple, "Morris" is trademarked by Heinz. as the Beatles so magically wrote, don't go there. Start with Fluffy perhaps, work down through Samantha and Tabby, and maybe by the time we get to Mousebreath you will be ready for OS XI.
linux is going to be everywhere, even if only in single-machine quantities. let me know when they have one Tuxbox on every desk
is it gold damask, like dennis koslowski's maid's shower curtain?
my eMac has heatpipe cooling with a tiny overload fan if needed. I haven't heard it come on, period. so, if you need silence, and even if you would rather have BSD or Linux instead of OSX, switch!
in this year's premiere episode, Darl is locked out of the prison library for filing ten frivolous lawsuits a day against individual farmers, seeking damages from all those who supplied rotten maggots in his gruel. "I require fresh maggots," he claims. other inmates on Block 27 promise Darl they can grow fresh maggots in his arms and legs....
cold fusion doesn't work, it loses a shitload of energy, everything you put in electrolyzing the cells. these are "atypical fusion" refrigerators, not "atypical fusion" generators.
show me one cold fusion researcher who has died of acute radiation poisoning while adding D2O to his cells, and I'll show you a pioneer worthy of a Nobel. you have to have enough neutrons out of one to transmute elements before you can show any net energy gain from the system.
in fact, CF cells look more like crack pipes than experiments. hmmm, can there be a connection???
wonderful, now we get a light fixture that can be 0wned or wormed, and we'll be in the dark as well as spammed at the table. abort, retry, relamp?
I had stereo dolby recording in 1971 on cassette, worked great. there was a major difference in tapes, though, and all had bad domain reversal issues after a couple years.
old equipment can be had and refurbed to keep old media alive. there are gas stations converted to museums in north dakota full of working edison cylinder phonos, with plenty of wax cylinders to play. I myself have 2-track and 4-track heads on an NAB stereo tape deck, linn sondek turntable, cassette, CD, DVD, VCR, and U-matic VCR. there's a 4-speed turntable up in the storage room that works, needs a 470K/.0056 uF bypass filter on each channel to run into a mixer to reproduce RIAA curve off the ceramic cartridge. there is still a fleet of something under 100 of the 2-inch quadrihedral broadcast video tape machines in the hands of production companies to spin old TV stuff to modern formats. 35mm film is, of course, ubiqitous after over 100 years. I have 3 16mm projectors in fine shape, one being restored.
does anybody out there have a working 8-inch floppy, a 7-track half-inch tape deck from unisys or control data computer days, or an ascii paper tape reader for reading their archives? how about a working hollerith card reader? -- most died because the rubber feed rollers turned to snot.
not only are the old formats of electromechanical history generally readable, they are eminently restoreable (nitrate film excepted, that was guncotton flattened and coated with images.) your older (10 years and older) computer formats are virtually all useless.
a strong case can be made that analog is archival, and digital is fleeting, at this point.
nothing will change if the persons in government don't.
we're all doomed.
namely, denial. the only piece that works is the old long lines department, now ATT business data. everything else with the "death star" logo is useless. outsourcing the people who are supposed to save you is the latest ATT lunacy, capping a string of them all the way back to divestiture.
thank god the baby bells got freed from that mess. all the folks vying to lead ATT in the 90s -- joe nacchio, mike annunziata, leo hindery, c. michael armstrong -- turned out to be a shitspread at their respective next stop in employment at the top of the tower. "little mikey" in particular broke up and sold his company down the river in several stages, then left it to hide out at comcast and count his money. "joey nachos" almost killed qwest, a fiber startup, and USWest together after he merged them to bleed the treasury at USWest. annunziata and hindery rode Global Crossing into the toilet, and hindery got into another telco startup and crashed with it.
moral: if you want to invest, check for former ATT execs on the board of a company. if you find any, flee in terror.
ooops... uh, it's fire-resistant! sorry. well, it's, aaahhhhh, archival, yeah, that's it, archival! oh, not that either? mold-resistant? kid-tolerant? oh, I see.
well, they make good coasters.
next time, try stone and chisels.