It might not be your radio. If I recall correctly, the maximum permitted deviation for a FM station is 82.5 KHz (for stations running SCA, otherwise, 75KHz), however, that is widely ignored. Many FM stations deliberatly overdeviate so they sound louder than other stations. I have measured several broadcast FM station using FM deviation of nearly 100 KHz. At 100KHz wide, it will surely be detected on the adjacent channels.
I can imagine some creative vendor using this technology to burn bar codes (or other non-standard data) of crypt keys on CDs. The software would then verify the key data existed and allow the protected content to be accessed.
Congress, forced to face re-election every 2 or 6 years, will not be willing to force every American to buy a new TV. External tuners that have either RF (channel 3) or baseband video will be widely available.
Is anybody else old enough to remember the UHF converters that downconverted UHF TV to channel 3 for all the old TVs that only received 2-13?
One of the nicest things about VMS is the glorious orthagonality of DCL. Everything worked in a similar manner. For example:
show system - kind of the same as ps -ef show network - sort of the same as netstat -i show users - kind of the same as who show queue - kind of like lpq show display - like printenv DISPLAY show terminal - like printenv TERM
to set your terminal type, you would use SET TERMINAL/DEVICE_TYPE=VT100.
The keywords could be abbreviated to as many letters that made them unique; the above would work as SET TERM/DEV=VT100
My point is, the UI was consistent; it was *engineered*, and it showed. If you wanted to SHOW something, and you did not know what it was, you could just type HELP SHOW.
VMS is in the sorry state it is in today because DEC believed in just how good it was. Ken Olson always called unix "snake oil," and never considered the unix vendors real competition, since unix was never considered to be robust and reliable enough to compete. But the customers thought they wanted a lower priced "commodity", "standard", "open" operating system... Maybe they were right. But that does not mean that unix was ever technically superior.
You should have tried LSE. It was a fabulous "Language Sensitive Editor", built on TPU. At least the editor was called EDIT, and not some strange name like "vi".
Had you read the documentation, you would have found that you could have used the SET DIRECTORY/VERSION_LIMIT=1 command to turn off the versioning. However, if you have ever wanted to revert back two levels when editing, you would understand why the old versions were kept.
I was a VMS system manager for a couple of years. One of the things I remember was going out into the lab to find the Field Circus guy swapping out a disk drive. I had never called him, or even been aware that there was a problem. The system had discovered that the drive was failing (the error counts were up) and had notified field service itself. The engineer came out and swapped the drive before any system users became aware of the problem.
The documentation truly was outstanding. The VMS 5.2 doc set was over 10 feet of three-ring binders.
I also remember the 4-hour reboot times for our 120-node MIVC (mixed-interconnect vax cluster) after power failures. (it typically took a catastrophe to bring down a vax cluster.) Our whole team would bail to a brewpub.
I worked there for 5 years, all on VMS. There were many of the smartest people I have ever met there. In my opinion, it was your loss. It's really too bad.
Cutler wasn't bored. He was pissed. His pet project, "Prism", (which was a RISC archtecture being developed at DECwest) got killed off, just like many projects got killed at DEC. He gave his whole crew a month off, then bailed to MS.
We all know that digital TV is coming. Not only will your TiVo be obsolete, your VHS VCR, your television, and whatever other hardware you have that wants a NTSC video signal.
This is not news.
There will be new products that will support digital TV. There will be a new TiVo equivalent device. You will have to buy new hardware.
Geeks don't think twice about buying the latest computing hardware, switching CPU architectures, etc., but god forbid somebody need to update their television from 60 year old technology.
The digital cable systems are just compressing the hell out of your regular old NTSC tv signal, primarily to reduce the amount of bandwidth taken by a tv signal on the cable. I have seen digital cable; it sucks.
I have also seen digital TV, which is very good, and digital HDTV, which is awesome.
For those of you in Southern NH (Hi Maddog!) check out the Nashua Area Radio Club's website for information on their field day activities. They run a huge event, this year there are 25 stations planned!
I don't see what all the fuss ia about. A secure, easily authenticable ID is not something to be feared, unless you are a criminal.
I have nothing to hide. Even the dreaded (by some) national ID plan does not bother me in the least.
Explain to me how and why a secure, easily authenticatable ID is going to reduce or degrade any constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in this country. See, you can't.
I *want* a biometrically authenticatable ID system, I want to have the FAA and airport screeners know I am not a risk so I can go through the airport security quickly. I want the INS and other federal agencies to be able to quickly identify and deport people who would harm my country. There is nothing to fear from this, unless you have something to hide.
Since the 802.11b communications link is two-way, increasing the transmit power of only one end (the access point) is not going to buy you a whole lot. To increase the range, you need to either increase the effective power on both ends, or, more simply, put the access point up higher.
A higher gain antenna on the access point would help with both transmit and receive, and this is another option, however, I think that this might be illegal in the US.
Also, it is useful to recall that microwave ovens operate on 2400 MHz because this is the most efficient frequency for heating water. One watt is enough to cause some RF heating and potentially be hazardous to you health. Don't look at the business end of that yagi!
WGBH-FM in Boston was transmitting digital audio in the mid-80s as an experiment. They were sending high-speed data over their UHF TV (Channel 44) -- you needed a special receiver to listen. I doubt it was compressed much, if at all. But with 6 MHz of bandwidth, it would not need to be compressed. I never listened to it, but I did tune in and look at the funny stuff on the TV screen.
Except for you geeks with computers in the john. For $6 you could subscrive to a real magazine, for instance The New Yorker or The Atlantic that will give you plenty to talk about at cocktail parties. Later, you can leave these pretentious looking magazines on your coffee table to impress visitors...
I stopped reading Salon a year ago, they have too much of a liberal California bias to them (and that's saying something, since I learned about liberal politics in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts...)
I do not expect them to succeed with their subscription-based content when there is still so much free content on the web, as well as being better magazines in print for less money.
How about the cloning of people in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley? That seems particularly cogent in light of recent headlines about human cloning. And then there is Orwell's 1984...
If you shipped all that stuff in those two cartons, you are to blame, not UPS. If you foolishly ship a computer in bubble plastic, you should use at least a foot of it around the computer. Monitors should never be shipped in bubble plastic, use closed-cell foam or something similarly rigid. Bubble plastic will allow the contents to migrate all over the inside of the box. The corners of the box should be rigid. If the box gets to be round, the UPS gorillas will roll it.
UPS regularly destroys shipments that are not properly packed. My rule of thumb is can this carton survive a six-foot drop onto its bottom. My other rule is that anything fragile should be shipped by air.
When I removed all 20 lug nuts from my car, I could only drive it for about 1 seconds before the wheels fell off. The brake discs got smashed on the pavement, the road got scraped up, and worst of all, I spilled my margarita!
The car is clearly defective since the wheels fell off when I removed the lug nuts.
And what's worse is that my drink tasted awful when I slurped it out of the carpet.
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It might not be your radio. If I recall correctly, the maximum permitted deviation for a FM station is 82.5 KHz (for stations running SCA, otherwise, 75KHz), however, that is widely ignored. Many FM stations deliberatly overdeviate so they sound louder than other stations. I have measured several broadcast FM station using FM deviation of nearly 100 KHz. At 100KHz wide, it will surely be detected on the adjacent channels.
I can imagine some creative vendor using this technology to burn bar codes (or other non-standard data) of crypt keys on CDs. The software would then verify the key data existed and allow the protected content to be accessed.
This started long before Powell was the chairman of the FCC.
Is anybody else old enough to remember the UHF converters that downconverted UHF TV to channel 3 for all the old TVs that only received 2-13?
And they can assert their right to throw your ass in jail.
One of the nicest things about VMS is the glorious orthagonality of DCL. Everything worked in a similar manner. For example:
show system - kind of the same as ps -ef
show network - sort of the same as netstat -i
show users - kind of the same as who
show queue - kind of like lpq
show display - like printenv DISPLAY
show terminal - like printenv TERM
to set your terminal type, you would use
SET TERMINAL/DEVICE_TYPE=VT100.
The keywords could be abbreviated to as many letters that made them unique; the above would work as SET TERM/DEV=VT100
My point is, the UI was consistent; it was *engineered*, and it showed. If you wanted to SHOW something, and you did not know what it was, you could just type HELP SHOW.
VMS is in the sorry state it is in today because DEC believed in just how good it was. Ken Olson always called unix "snake oil," and never considered the unix vendors real competition, since unix was never considered to be robust and reliable enough to compete. But the customers thought they wanted a lower priced "commodity", "standard", "open" operating system... Maybe they were right. But that does not mean that unix was ever technically superior.
You should have tried LSE. It was a fabulous "Language Sensitive Editor", built on TPU. At least the editor was called EDIT, and not some strange name like "vi".
Had you read the documentation, you would have found that you could have used the
SET DIRECTORY/VERSION_LIMIT=1 command to turn off the versioning. However, if you have ever wanted to revert back two levels when editing, you would understand why the old versions were kept.
I was a VMS system manager for a couple of years. One of the things I remember was going out into the lab to find the Field Circus guy swapping out a disk drive. I had never called him, or even been aware that there was a problem. The system had discovered that the drive was failing (the error counts were up) and had notified field service itself. The engineer came out and swapped the drive before any system users became aware of the problem.
The documentation truly was outstanding. The VMS 5.2 doc set was over 10 feet of three-ring binders.
I also remember the 4-hour reboot times for our 120-node MIVC (mixed-interconnect vax cluster) after power failures. (it typically took a catastrophe to bring down a vax cluster.) Our whole team would bail to a brewpub.
I worked there for 5 years, all on VMS. There were many of the smartest people I have ever met there. In my opinion, it was your loss. It's really too bad.
Cutler wasn't bored. He was pissed. His pet project, "Prism", (which was a RISC archtecture being developed at DECwest) got killed off, just like many projects got killed at DEC. He gave his whole crew a month off, then bailed to MS.
This is not news.
There will be new products that will support digital TV. There will be a new TiVo equivalent device. You will have to buy new hardware.
Geeks don't think twice about buying the latest computing hardware, switching CPU architectures, etc., but god forbid somebody need to update their television from 60 year old technology.
The digital cable systems are just compressing the hell out of your regular old NTSC tv signal, primarily to reduce the amount of bandwidth taken by a tv signal on the cable. I have seen digital cable; it sucks.
I have also seen digital TV, which is very good, and digital HDTV, which is awesome.
Why not just call it Cashdot. I even thought up a new logo for you: "$."
I have nothing to hide. Even the dreaded (by some) national ID plan does not bother me in the least.
Explain to me how and why a secure, easily authenticatable ID is going to reduce or degrade any constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in this country. See, you can't.
I *want* a biometrically authenticatable ID system, I want to have the FAA and airport screeners know I am not a risk so I can go through the airport security quickly. I want the INS and other federal agencies to be able to quickly identify and deport people who would harm my country. There is nothing to fear from this, unless you have something to hide.
A higher gain antenna on the access point would help with both transmit and receive, and this is another option, however, I think that this might be illegal in the US.
Also, it is useful to recall that microwave ovens operate on 2400 MHz because this is the most efficient frequency for heating water. One watt is enough to cause some RF heating and potentially be hazardous to you health. Don't look at the business end of that yagi!
WGBH-FM in Boston was transmitting digital audio in the mid-80s as an experiment. They were sending high-speed data over their UHF TV (Channel 44) -- you needed a special receiver to listen. I doubt it was compressed much, if at all. But with 6 MHz of bandwidth, it would not need to be compressed. I never listened to it, but I did tune in and look at the funny stuff on the TV screen.
I stopped reading Salon a year ago, they have too much of a liberal California bias to them (and that's saying something, since I learned about liberal politics in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts...)
I do not expect them to succeed with their subscription-based content when there is still so much free content on the web, as well as being better magazines in print for less money.
Don't get me started...
I want to be first on my block to have one.
That's all.
UPS regularly destroys shipments that are not properly packed. My rule of thumb is can this carton survive a six-foot drop onto its bottom. My other rule is that anything fragile should be shipped by air.
Sorry your stuff got wrecked.
sounds like a vaxcluster all over again.
do you think anybody would mind if I drove this around inside my office?
The car is clearly defective since the wheels fell off when I removed the lug nuts.
And what's worse is that my drink tasted awful when I slurped it out of the carpet.