It's been a pleasure to have been part of this community since 1998 or so. And the community and I thank you for your service in steering the ship for all of these years, despite system issues, trolls, and memes that would not die. (We had memes before we knew what memes were. "First Post!") And who from the early days doesn't remember things like Voices from the Hellmouth? (http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/Voices-From-The-Hellmouth) Slashdot appeared during the expansion of the World Wide Web from localized communities of geeks to ubiquitous access to practically everyone across the globe. (And in space... like Geeks in Space!) It helped pioneer large aspects of news aggregation and delivery and aspects of social networking. You know, that's one fun thing about being a geek. Sometimes in our creativity, we don't really know we're creating something new or forging new paradigms. It's good to look back and reflect on where we've been. And Slashdot will always be remembered to be a key player in this era of computing and hopefully continue to be on the cutting edge as time marches on.
P.S. You have our permission to guest post as much as you want on April Fool's Day. And turn Slashdot pink again!
However, the introduction of the last great Time War in the 2005 series by the Ninth Doctor gives current series writers more leeway between resolving issues between the original and current series. They still have to figure out how to give him more than 12 regenerations though...
It may not necessarily be transmission power. There a many factors to consider.
According to http://www.tvfool.com/, the analog transmitter for WECT is further inland than the digital one, which is right on the coast. (Some stations have both of their analog and digital transmitters on the same site. Others have them at different sites.) The direction and strength of signal received at a certain point will probably be different now. (People may have to point their antennas in a different direction and people out on the old analog fringe area may not be able to receive the digital signal at all.)
Also, their analog channel (6) is on Low-VHF and I'm assuming that their digital channel is still on UHF (44). Radio waves from the low-VHF stations (channels 2-6) travel farther than UHF ones, so it would be easier for those on the fringe to pick them up. However, Low-VHF channels are more susceptible to interference.
It's true that the transmission power for digital TV is less than analog because the quality of the picture and sound doesn't improve after a certain point. You either get a solid lock-on, some drop-outs (where the picture pixelates and the sound cuts off), or you don't get anything. Analog, especially with Low-VHF is much more forgiving. Multipath, ghosting, snow, wavy lines, or other interference may not totally ruin the analog picture and sound.
In my area, a lot of people have problems pulling in the one digital station broadcasting on high-VHF (channels 7-13) with an indoor antenna. I had to play with mine a bit to get a consistent signal lock. (In fact, I had to turn down the built-in amplifier because it was amplifying interference it was receiving!) There aren't any low-VHF digital transmitters here and from what I've heard, it could be quite difficult in some circumstances to get a digital signal on low-VHF due to its susceptibility to interference. Fortunately only a handful of stations will be broadcasting on a low-VHF channel once the transition occurs. However, the majority of the TV markets will have at least one high-VHF channel.
My advice for us tech-savvy folks is to become very familiar with the way DTV works in our respective areas and to be prepared to be pulled in to helping our friends and neighbors out in February. "Come on! You're good at computers and digital stuff. So pulling in channel 9 would be a breeze!"
Don't let the v1.10 fool you. z/OS v1.10 is a die hard direct distant descendant of the original OS/360 operating system that ran on the original System/360 back in the mid 1960's. OS/370 ran on the System/370 and OS/390 ran on the System/390, so IBM renamed the operating system z/OS for the z/Architecture machines.
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Rob,
It's been a pleasure to have been part of this community since 1998 or so. And the community and I thank you for your service in steering the ship for all of these years, despite system issues, trolls, and memes that would not die. (We had memes before we knew what memes were. "First Post!") And who from the early days doesn't remember things like Voices from the Hellmouth? (http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/04/25/1438249/Voices-From-The-Hellmouth) Slashdot appeared during the expansion of the World Wide Web from localized communities of geeks to ubiquitous access to practically everyone across the globe. (And in space... like Geeks in Space!) It helped pioneer large aspects of news aggregation and delivery and aspects of social networking. You know, that's one fun thing about being a geek. Sometimes in our creativity, we don't really know we're creating something new or forging new paradigms. It's good to look back and reflect on where we've been. And Slashdot will always be remembered to be a key player in this era of computing and hopefully continue to be on the cutting edge as time marches on.
P.S. You have our permission to guest post as much as you want on April Fool's Day. And turn Slashdot pink again!
This classic is in there too!
guest@xkcd:/$ make me a sandwich
What? Make it yourself.
guest@xkcd:/$ sudo make me a sandwich
Okay.
However, the introduction of the last great Time War in the 2005 series by the Ninth Doctor gives current series writers more leeway between resolving issues between the original and current series. They still have to figure out how to give him more than 12 regenerations though...
Anyway, bravo to David Tennant!
Dueling Banjos, we have Dueling Hemispheres.
It may not necessarily be transmission power. There a many factors to consider.
According to http://www.tvfool.com/, the analog transmitter for WECT is further inland than the digital one, which is right on the coast. (Some stations have both of their analog and digital transmitters on the same site. Others have them at different sites.) The direction and strength of signal received at a certain point will probably be different now. (People may have to point their antennas in a different direction and people out on the old analog fringe area may not be able to receive the digital signal at all.)
Also, their analog channel (6) is on Low-VHF and I'm assuming that their digital channel is still on UHF (44). Radio waves from the low-VHF stations (channels 2-6) travel farther than UHF ones, so it would be easier for those on the fringe to pick them up. However, Low-VHF channels are more susceptible to interference.
It's true that the transmission power for digital TV is less than analog because the quality of the picture and sound doesn't improve after a certain point. You either get a solid lock-on, some drop-outs (where the picture pixelates and the sound cuts off), or you don't get anything. Analog, especially with Low-VHF is much more forgiving. Multipath, ghosting, snow, wavy lines, or other interference may not totally ruin the analog picture and sound.
In my area, a lot of people have problems pulling in the one digital station broadcasting on high-VHF (channels 7-13) with an indoor antenna. I had to play with mine a bit to get a consistent signal lock. (In fact, I had to turn down the built-in amplifier because it was amplifying interference it was receiving!) There aren't any low-VHF digital transmitters here and from what I've heard, it could be quite difficult in some circumstances to get a digital signal on low-VHF due to its susceptibility to interference. Fortunately only a handful of stations will be broadcasting on a low-VHF channel once the transition occurs. However, the majority of the TV markets will have at least one high-VHF channel.
My advice for us tech-savvy folks is to become very familiar with the way DTV works in our respective areas and to be prepared to be pulled in to helping our friends and neighbors out in February. "Come on! You're good at computers and digital stuff. So pulling in channel 9 would be a breeze!"
Don't let the v1.10 fool you. z/OS v1.10 is a die hard direct distant descendant of the original OS/360 operating system that ran on the original System/360 back in the mid 1960's. OS/370 ran on the System/370 and OS/390 ran on the System/390, so IBM renamed the operating system z/OS for the z/Architecture machines.
I believe the 80-column standard goes back further than the VT100. Check out the IBM's (then) ubiquitous 80-column punch card. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card#IBM_80_col umn_punch_card_format
As I recall, a similiar event occurred almost seven years ago when a preview version of Windows 98 blue screened during a presentation.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
The Wright brothers' bicycle shop was in Dayton, Ohio. They just made their first test flight in Kitty Hawk, NC.
At least they could have an update log a la Alan Cox...