Notice that Channel 14 doesn't exist and how the lower chanels skip around a bit. But the closest to 121.5Mhz is Channel 15.
I wonder if it's any coincidence that Cablevision (at least on Long Island) uses channel 14 for the "TV guide" channel instead of normal programming? Is this common?
Wasn't there a bunch of Heinlein short stories and a few novels about the nastier side of the future? I'm dredging up memories of "If This Goes On", the crazy-years period, the theocracy, media censorship in "Methusalah's Children", etc.
Yes, but even in these stories there was always the optimistic outlook and hope for the future that the parent post was talking about. Someone always saves the day, through wit, skill, determination, and usually some fairly swingin' sex involving a hot redhead (or two).
Science fiction writers are my favorite sources of predictions for the futre of technology. So, if you had to make one predicition related to technology - something we don't entirely have now but will be ubiquitous ten years from now, what would that be?
Oh, I hope his answer is "flying car" or "jetpack" - I've been waiting for those for years...
A "radio" is a device capable of wirelessly receiving audio broadcasts synchronously across dozens of channels. Assuming a modest 64 kilobits per second on one "radio" station, well-served markets such as New York City enjoy a total streaming throughput of well over two mibobites per second. This service is made available to the consumer free of charge thanks to the United States Free Communications Commission (FCC).
Not thanks to the FCC, but thanks to the people who've spent good money to build radio studios and broadcast towers, and to the commercial sponsors who pay for the operation of that equipment. All the FCC does is get in the way and create opportunities for nepotism, e.g. Michael "I would never have become Chairman if my daddy wasn't SecState" Powell.
The only time you are REQUIRED to buy a TV license is if you have TV reception equipment. Don't want to pay the license? Don't have TV reception equipment. Simple! Want to have a TV? Then expect to contribute a small amount toward the running of 8 TV and 9 national (plus dozens of local) radio stations from the BBC.
What if I want to have a TV to watch video tapes and DVDs, but not watch the Beeb? Why should I need a license for that?
Anti-matter weapons are radioactive in the same way as neutron bombs - a burst of gamma radiation. But they are NOT like fission bombs in releasing radioactive particles.
That'll be a comforting thought when the first antimatter accident leaves a 100-mile crater in your backyard...
Additionally, my friend working at Boston Water and Sewer drinks his tap water over bottled water, because tap water is subject to far more rigorous testing than is bottled water.
Hasn't he ever heard the song that goes "...and I love that dirty water, uh! Boston, you're my home!"? If you want good tap water, come to my neck o' the woods (do a text find on "Huntington"). Lawn Guyland: not only do we have big hair, gospel secretaries gone bad, an Audi in every other driveway, and the gated, guarded summer homes of the big stars, but we've got award-winning tap water, too!
The basic recurring premise ranges anywhere from a single person to an entire town (Eugene, OR) being bombarded with V/ELF and studying the effects. The results are hardly "mass-destructive", but rather annoying: nosebleeds, headaches, premature arthritis, sore throats, unexplainable bruised, etc. Supposedly, a US official working in the US Embassy in Moscow contracted a fatal rare blood disease, and hidden V/ELF transmitter was found hidden in the walls, aiming right for his desk.
I would think that it would be impossible to aim ELF transmissions in a tight beam, precisely because they are so low in frequency?
I am all for expanding nuclear power because modern standards are worlds better than the practices at Chernobyl and three mile island.
No, Three Mile Island did not turn into a Chernobyl because of the modern standards observed in the West, as opposed to the former Soviet sphere. Of course, current concepts like PBMR are even safer than that.
BTW why hasn't anybody sued MS for malpractice yet?
Because they make no formal claims regarding quality or suitability-to-task for their software, and they state this in every license? And because if such a claim bothers a would-be customer, he has every right not to buy the product?
So, if there's a safety problem with my 1998 Ford Contour, do I have to upgrade to a 2004 Ford in order to have it corrected?
Sorry, but this analogy doesn't hold. Using a defective piece of desktop PC software cannot result in bodily injury or death. Driving a defective car can.
...from my 17 inch CRT to an LCD is when it offers a higher resolution, at a low price. Right now all the LCD monitors I see offer nothing in terms of "upgrades" to resolution, etc.
I wish that they'd sell desktop monitors with the same resolution that you can get in notebook displays. I've got two at home and one at work, all with 15-inch 1600x1200 panels. Holy crap, are they gorgeous. 133 dpi (17.8K pixels per square inch!) plus anti-aliased fonts equals almost print-quality text. Meanwhile, the highest-resolution desktop 15" LCD you can get is 1024x768, a whopping 85 dpi (7.3K pixels per square inch, less than half as many). To get 1600x1200, you have to get a 20". Argh.
GDP is not a measure of the wealth of the inhabitants. It's a measure of the economic output of an area. So, if anything, an area with filled idle rich MAY even reduce GDP if they don't produce anything...
GDP is an aggregate measure of "production" of goods and services as well as foreign investments (Luxembourg has a large financial sector, e.g. foreign banks, that accounts for 22% of GDP according to the CIA World Factbook). When a wealthy Luxembourger gets a EUR500 pedicure or buys a EUR500 steak at a snooty restaurant, that counts as part of the GDP of Luxembourg, even though those services might cost a lot less somewhere else.
An island, where Donald Trump lives which contains NO production facilities, would have a very low GDP because it produces nothing of value...The only thing which MIGHT count is the payroll of his staff...
Nope. Every dollar spent there counts toward GDP, under "services".
Then why does he even bring the point up? Why not come right out in the position paper and say that he is against the war on drugs and he doesn't give a shit if people grow smokable dope between the rows of their help crop?
Oh, c'mon, you know why - 'cause the powers-that-be have convinced the American people that lighting up a joint is a slippery slope toward becoming a drooling, violent, hopped-up dusthead.
I remember driving as a child through some areas of northern Orange County and looking at tree- and scrub-covered hills that are now blanketed with houses. There are large tracts of hilly land in Southern California that are subject to development that I would love to see purchased and set aside before they can be razed.
That's right, screw those damn humans for wanting a place to live.
Actually Luxembourg has the highest PCGDP, nearly 1.5 times the US PCGDP...
Luxembourg is a small country with a lot of rich people in it. Suppose we partitioned off a small part of the US, and put only the richest few million people in it. What would that GDP/capita look like?!? Several million dollars, probably.
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Notice that Channel 14 doesn't exist and how the lower chanels skip around a bit. But the closest to 121.5Mhz is Channel 15.
I wonder if it's any coincidence that Cablevision (at least on Long Island) uses channel 14 for the "TV guide" channel instead of normal programming? Is this common?
Are we really supposed to lend credence to the threat of being hacked by a bunch of script kiddies whose leader is a marionette?
Wasn't there a bunch of Heinlein short stories and a few novels about the nastier side of the future? I'm dredging up memories of "If This Goes On", the crazy-years period, the theocracy, media censorship in "Methusalah's Children", etc.
Yes, but even in these stories there was always the optimistic outlook and hope for the future that the parent post was talking about. Someone always saves the day, through wit, skill, determination, and usually some fairly swingin' sex involving a hot redhead (or two).
Science fiction writers are my favorite sources of predictions for the futre of technology. So, if you had to make one predicition related to technology - something we don't entirely have now but will be ubiquitous ten years from now, what would that be?
Oh, I hope his answer is "flying car" or "jetpack" - I've been waiting for those for years...
Not only what will we have 10 years from now - but what major item will be gone? [Cars? TVs?...]
I'll go with either "our freedom" or "our dignity".
A "radio" is a device capable of wirelessly receiving audio broadcasts synchronously across dozens of channels. Assuming a modest 64 kilobits per second on one "radio" station, well-served markets such as New York City enjoy a total streaming throughput of well over two mibobites per second. This service is made available to the consumer free of charge thanks to the United States Free Communications Commission (FCC).
Not thanks to the FCC, but thanks to the people who've spent good money to build radio studios and broadcast towers, and to the commercial sponsors who pay for the operation of that equipment. All the FCC does is get in the way and create opportunities for nepotism, e.g. Michael "I would never have become Chairman if my daddy wasn't SecState" Powell.
What's a "radio"?
A device designed to receive the broadcast of The Howard Stern Radio Show, between 6 and 10 AM on weekdays. At least, that's all my radio is for.
The only time you are REQUIRED to buy a TV license is if you have TV reception equipment. Don't want to pay the license? Don't have TV reception equipment. Simple! Want to have a TV? Then expect to contribute a small amount toward the running of 8 TV and 9 national (plus dozens of local) radio stations from the BBC.
What if I want to have a TV to watch video tapes and DVDs, but not watch the Beeb? Why should I need a license for that?
I'm holding out for a version of NewtonOS that runs under version 3.0 of AmigaOS running under emulation on my Atari ST.
Not geeky enough. You should be running an Atari ST emulator on a hacked Xbox running Linux.
Anti-matter weapons are radioactive in the same way as neutron bombs - a burst of gamma radiation. But they are NOT like fission bombs in releasing radioactive particles.
That'll be a comforting thought when the first antimatter accident leaves a 100-mile crater in your backyard...
No contest, I can always trade in the video card
In today's hardware market, a baby will hold its market value longer than a video card.
Additionally, my friend working at Boston Water and Sewer drinks his tap water over bottled water, because tap water is subject to far more rigorous testing than is bottled water.
Hasn't he ever heard the song that goes "...and I love that dirty water, uh! Boston, you're my home!"? If you want good tap water, come to my neck o' the woods (do a text find on "Huntington"). Lawn Guyland: not only do we have big hair, gospel secretaries gone bad, an Audi in every other driveway, and the gated, guarded summer homes of the big stars, but we've got award-winning tap water, too!
The basic recurring premise ranges anywhere from a single person to an entire town (Eugene, OR) being bombarded with V/ELF and studying the effects. The results are hardly "mass-destructive", but rather annoying: nosebleeds, headaches, premature arthritis, sore throats, unexplainable bruised, etc. Supposedly, a US official working in the US Embassy in Moscow contracted a fatal rare blood disease, and hidden V/ELF transmitter was found hidden in the walls, aiming right for his desk.
I would think that it would be impossible to aim ELF transmissions in a tight beam, precisely because they are so low in frequency?
Highly unlikely. You see, they probably know how to learn from the mistakes of others, and american teams have already done this one...
Um, I would be sure never to overestimate the ability of humans to learn from mistakes, whether others' or their own...
I think that my girlfriend is comprised of this stuff. She seems to suddenly turn frigid as soon as things heat up...
Gee, I hope she's illiterate, too...
I am all for expanding nuclear power because modern standards are worlds better than the practices at Chernobyl and three mile island.
No, Three Mile Island did not turn into a Chernobyl because of the modern standards observed in the West, as opposed to the former Soviet sphere. Of course, current concepts like PBMR are even safer than that.
BTW why hasn't anybody sued MS for malpractice yet?
Because they make no formal claims regarding quality or suitability-to-task for their software, and they state this in every license? And because if such a claim bothers a would-be customer, he has every right not to buy the product?
So, if there's a safety problem with my 1998 Ford Contour, do I have to upgrade to a 2004 Ford in order to have it corrected?
Sorry, but this analogy doesn't hold. Using a defective piece of desktop PC software cannot result in bodily injury or death. Driving a defective car can.
I think so, on a laptop your eyes are much less than a meter from your screen because it's on your knees.
My "laptop" is on my desk about 350 days out of the year, and I still appreciate the very high resolution of the display.
I wish that they'd sell desktop monitors with the same resolution that you can get in notebook displays. I've got two at home and one at work, all with 15-inch 1600x1200 panels. Holy crap, are they gorgeous. 133 dpi (17.8K pixels per square inch!) plus anti-aliased fonts equals almost print-quality text. Meanwhile, the highest-resolution desktop 15" LCD you can get is 1024x768, a whopping 85 dpi (7.3K pixels per square inch, less than half as many). To get 1600x1200, you have to get a 20". Argh.
GDP is not a measure of the wealth of the inhabitants. It's a measure of the economic output of an area. So, if anything, an area with filled idle rich MAY even reduce GDP if they don't produce anything...
GDP is an aggregate measure of "production" of goods and services as well as foreign investments (Luxembourg has a large financial sector, e.g. foreign banks, that accounts for 22% of GDP according to the CIA World Factbook). When a wealthy Luxembourger gets a EUR500 pedicure or buys a EUR500 steak at a snooty restaurant, that counts as part of the GDP of Luxembourg, even though those services might cost a lot less somewhere else.
An island, where Donald Trump lives which contains NO production facilities, would have a very low GDP because it produces nothing of value...The only thing which MIGHT count is the payroll of his staff...
Nope. Every dollar spent there counts toward GDP, under "services".
Then why does he even bring the point up? Why not come right out in the position paper and say that he is against the war on drugs and he doesn't give a shit if people grow smokable dope between the rows of their help crop?
Oh, c'mon, you know why - 'cause the powers-that-be have convinced the American people that lighting up a joint is a slippery slope toward becoming a drooling, violent, hopped-up dusthead.
What we need is enlightened leadership, which acts in the interest of the people.
A. What makes you think such a thing is possible?
B. How is "the interest of the people" defined?
C. Why is your definition better than anyone else's?
I remember driving as a child through some areas of northern Orange County and looking at tree- and scrub-covered hills that are now blanketed with houses. There are large tracts of hilly land in Southern California that are subject to development that I would love to see purchased and set aside before they can be razed.
That's right, screw those damn humans for wanting a place to live.
Actually Luxembourg has the highest PCGDP, nearly 1.5 times the US PCGDP...
Luxembourg is a small country with a lot of rich people in it. Suppose we partitioned off a small part of the US, and put only the richest few million people in it. What would that GDP/capita look like?!? Several million dollars, probably.