Why? The IEEE is not a Standards Developing Organization for video. The key SDOs for video are SMPTE, ISO/IEC MPEG, ITU, ARIB, ASTC, SCTE, and ETSI/DVB .
You need: 1. A PC with support for two monitors (most) 2. Two projectors 3. Polarizing filters for the projectors (standard from photography store) 4. Polaroid sunglasses (lightweight and cheap)
I'd say in most(!) cases a specialist makes less money than their nonspecialist manager.
Yes, but being a manager is a specialization in itself (although it may be based on another specialization, such as being a software development manager.
Though I personally think people (especially in the U.S.) could really benefit from having to be more involved in the production and usage of the energy they consume.
I prefer that people stick to doing what they do best and thus provide greater wealth to humanity through specialization (as mathematically proven by Ricardo).
Sure, the coral can try to sequester it, but as soon as it is exposed to the water, it dissolves.
Ah, you are right, so genetically engineer the coral to wrap up the sequestered carbon in a waterproof membrane!
(Actually, this is really not so different from letting young forests grow, then when they get too old to be good carbon sinks, you bury them deeply in a containment that doesn't let out the methane from decomposition.)
So, basically the Western world cleaned up it's pollution by moving it to China?
Yes, but in the process we brought hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty, and they might be sold enough on capitalism now (rather than spending all day wading in rice paddies) that when they get rich enough (through increases in capital related and total factor productivity) that they will start legislating real pollution controls (actually this is slowly happening right now). For more info, see the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.
I swear I've heard about something like this happening before.
Can't a Network Access Control (NAC) enabled switch with some kind of "reasonable NIC operation metrics" shut down the port the bad NIC card is on? (While notifying the network admin, of course)
So your family just buzzes around town, walking to every market and cafe too, right? No, I didn't think they liked being kidnapped or murdered.
During the El Salvador civil war, some of my family was taken hostage by the FMLN for a week in their house, other parts of my family were taken away and killed by the right wing Death Squads (although it turns those relatives were volunteer doctors for the FMLN and trained in Cuba...not a great idea if you have kids). A friend of the family worked on unearthing a large unmarked grave of an entire village wiped out by the Death Squads.
Now that the Civil War is over and Arena and FMLN are best buddies (no worse than Republicans/Democrats), except for the kids who grew up in the US and brought back the gang culture. And yeah, some of my family members were robbed at gunpoint at their beach house recently, but generally if you know what parts of town to go to you aren't in much danger. Much like Los Angeles. Heck, someone got shot near Hollywod and Vine a few nights ago.
satellite operators will only allow it if you twist their nipples real hard
Never been a problem for me...I've personally witnessed folks putting up 0.2 alpha 30 Msps on AMC-3 Ku and a Galaxy sat that shall remain unnamed on C-band with the satellite operators happy as a clam. Mind you, these were totally bought transponders, not little carriers.
here is only one modem manufacturer that even touts being able to do a 20% filter rolloff.
The following modulators should do 0.2 alpha on DVB-DSNG: Tandberg, Newtec, Radyne, although you are right in a way because it will soon be tough to get DVB-DSNG parts as it is a no-brainer to move to DVB-S2 for greenfield builds.
On the receiver side, it doesn't really matter. I've never seen a change in BER on a receiver due to modulator alpha change (within 0.2-0.35).
the standard is still 35% and as far as more aggressive FEC techniques in C-Band
I have first-hand knowledge of someone doing 0.2 alpha on a 36 MHz C-band transponder under DVB-S2.
Are you American? If so, write to your representatives and let them know that you prioritize NASA.
Actually I think NASA's recent human-based space stuff is pretty worthless.
NASA should stick to basic research, especially on aerospace: hypersonic engines, reduced sonic boom supersonic aircraft, high-altitude airships & airship rocket launching platforms, and robotic science missions.
I'm not trying to endorse either the Cuban lifestyle or Michael Moore here, but that is actually partially true. The Cuban healthcare system runs far more efficiently than the one in the US, at least as far as the numbers are concerned.
Yes, when you pay doctors less it is amazing how efficient medical care can be! US doctors make about twice the OECD average, for example. Or you can look at how Wal-Mart medical clinics are using cheaper nurses to triage patients and treat simple problems without bringing in an expensive doctor, but of course the AMA is opposing these kinds of clinics.
On the other hand, US Medicare just blocked reducing payments to doctors, so you can imagine that "US Socialized Healthcare" will be more expensive than anyone else's with poor results, just like our socialized education system...
The US also isn't willing to engage in malpractice tort reform which could save nearly 50% of costs due to decreases in "defensive medicine"
You can pontificate about how Cuba's living standards are lower than so-and-so, but just compare to El Salvador
Dude, my family videoconferences with my family in El Salvador every week over their high-speed Internet connection. Would you like a job in the IT sector in El Salvador?
El Salvador has gone up more than 0.1 HDI points since the end of the civil war.
The embargo exists because if the embargo was lifted, there are a lot of Cuban ex pats in Florida and elsewhere that would vote the other way as a result
Simple, allow free immigration from Cuba to the US & citizenship after two years of non-criminal residence, that should balance the scales of politics.
Delta IV: 20,000 pounds or so Ares I: 50,000 pounds or so
I'm not up on this, why do we need to stick 50,000 pounds into orbit all at once? Can't we just stick up payloads on two Delta IVs and stick them together? Seems to me we've been rendezvousing in space for a while.
8PSK 2/3 DVB service, which by the way comes out to approx 53Mbps in a 36MHz transponder...one thing i'm noticing is that you guys aren't factoring in modem filter rolloff
Heh, well some people are using roll-offs of 0.2 even with DVB-DSNG 8PSK and thus getting 30 Msps in a 36 MHz transponder for 55 Mbps with 10 dB Es/N0 requirement. Not in EN 301 210, but widely supported by modulator vendors and you need to watch your OBO and also make sure you aren't stepping on your neighbors.
DVB-S2 8PSK 2/3 @ 30 Msps gives you 59 Mbps with similar required Es/N0 + OBO (~7.7 dB) of good old DVB-S QPSK 3/4. And yes, it works, I've done it on AMC-3 Ku. I would bet that C-band operations with big dishes are considering even higher FEC rates for DVB-S2 8PSK.
TheSync...now there's a blast from the past from my Cidera days.
And I'm still moving big files over satellite (though with HD video and 5.1 audio, they are getting bigger and bigger all the time) - btw, check out Cerona, they're the new upstart DVB-S2 folks in Frederick.
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I wouldn:t buy this until IEEE is on board...
Why? The IEEE is not a Standards Developing Organization for video. The key SDOs for video are SMPTE, ISO/IEC MPEG, ITU, ARIB, ASTC, SCTE, and ETSI/DVB .
Then there are the consortiums like the Blu-ray Disc Association, and trade/business organizations like the Consumer Electronics Association and the EBU.
Now all I have to do is glue two video cameras together and sell it as a "budget 3-D video camera"...
You mean like this?
You can synchronize the cameras using over LANC using this device.
You need:
1. A PC with support for two monitors (most)
2. Two projectors
3. Polarizing filters for the projectors (standard from photography store)
4. Polaroid sunglasses (lightweight and cheap)
Like this?
Oh no man, 59.94 was the NTSC's fault! (back in 1953 to avoid chroma/audio interference in color television)
If you don't like SMPTE 12M drop frame timecode would you prefer seeing timecode like this: 11:22:33:12.987013 ?
I'd say in most(!) cases a specialist makes less money than their nonspecialist manager.
Yes, but being a manager is a specialization in itself (although it may be based on another specialization, such as being a software development manager.
Though I personally think people (especially in the U.S.) could really benefit from having to be more involved in the production and usage of the energy they consume.
I prefer that people stick to doing what they do best and thus provide greater wealth to humanity through specialization (as mathematically proven by Ricardo).
Sure, the coral can try to sequester it, but as soon as it is exposed to the water, it dissolves.
Ah, you are right, so genetically engineer the coral to wrap up the sequestered carbon in a waterproof membrane!
(Actually, this is really not so different from letting young forests grow, then when they get too old to be good carbon sinks, you bury them deeply in a containment that doesn't let out the methane from decomposition.)
So, basically the Western world cleaned up it's pollution by moving it to China?
Yes, but in the process we brought hundreds of millions of people out of absolute poverty, and they might be sold enough on capitalism now (rather than spending all day wading in rice paddies) that when they get rich enough (through increases in capital related and total factor productivity) that they will start legislating real pollution controls (actually this is slowly happening right now). For more info, see the Environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis.
There is no noticeable "resistance movement" in China.
Explosions this morning in the southern Chinese city of Kunming killed at least three people and injured 13 in what appears to have been a coordinated terrorist attack.
I think methane hydrates are a much more worrying CO2 warming amplifier.
Well, coral (and shellfish) can sequester carbon, but this only works as long as the water is sufficiently non-acidic.
Awesome, let's just genetically engineer coral that can sequester carbon even in acidic water. I'm patenting this today and taking it to Exxon!
I swear I've heard about something like this happening before.
Can't a Network Access Control (NAC) enabled switch with some kind of "reasonable NIC operation metrics" shut down the port the bad NIC card is on? (While notifying the network admin, of course)
So your family just buzzes around town, walking to every market and cafe too, right? No, I didn't think they liked being kidnapped or murdered.
During the El Salvador civil war, some of my family was taken hostage by the FMLN for a week in their house, other parts of my family were taken away and killed by the right wing Death Squads (although it turns those relatives were volunteer doctors for the FMLN and trained in Cuba...not a great idea if you have kids). A friend of the family worked on unearthing a large unmarked grave of an entire village wiped out by the Death Squads.
Now that the Civil War is over and Arena and FMLN are best buddies (no worse than Republicans/Democrats), except for the kids who grew up in the US and brought back the gang culture. And yeah, some of my family members were robbed at gunpoint at their beach house recently, but generally if you know what parts of town to go to you aren't in much danger. Much like Los Angeles. Heck, someone got shot near Hollywod and Vine a few nights ago.
satellite operators will only allow it if you twist their nipples real hard
Never been a problem for me...I've personally witnessed folks putting up 0.2 alpha 30 Msps on AMC-3 Ku and a Galaxy sat that shall remain unnamed on C-band with the satellite operators happy as a clam. Mind you, these were totally bought transponders, not little carriers.
here is only one modem manufacturer that even touts being able to do a 20% filter rolloff.
The following modulators should do 0.2 alpha on DVB-DSNG: Tandberg, Newtec, Radyne, although you are right in a way because it will soon be tough to get DVB-DSNG parts as it is a no-brainer to move to DVB-S2 for greenfield builds.
On the receiver side, it doesn't really matter. I've never seen a change in BER on a receiver due to modulator alpha change (within 0.2-0.35).
the standard is still 35% and as far as more aggressive FEC techniques in C-Band
I have first-hand knowledge of someone doing 0.2 alpha on a 36 MHz C-band transponder under DVB-S2.
Are you American? If so, write to your representatives and let them know that you prioritize NASA.
Actually I think NASA's recent human-based space stuff is pretty worthless.
NASA should stick to basic research, especially on aerospace: hypersonic engines, reduced sonic boom supersonic aircraft, high-altitude airships & airship rocket launching platforms, and robotic science missions.
Everything else should be in the private sector.
I'm not trying to endorse either the Cuban lifestyle or Michael Moore here, but that is actually partially true. The Cuban healthcare system runs far more efficiently than the one in the US, at least as far as the numbers are concerned.
Yes, when you pay doctors less it is amazing how efficient medical care can be! US doctors make about twice the OECD average, for example. Or you can look at how Wal-Mart medical clinics are using cheaper nurses to triage patients and treat simple problems without bringing in an expensive doctor, but of course the AMA is opposing these kinds of clinics.
On the other hand, US Medicare just blocked reducing payments to doctors, so you can imagine that "US Socialized Healthcare" will be more expensive than anyone else's with poor results, just like our socialized education system...
The US also isn't willing to engage in malpractice tort reform which could save nearly 50% of costs due to decreases in "defensive medicine"
You can pontificate about how Cuba's living standards are lower than so-and-so, but just compare to El Salvador
Dude, my family videoconferences with my family in El Salvador every week over their high-speed Internet connection. Would you like a job in the IT sector in El Salvador?
El Salvador has gone up more than 0.1 HDI points since the end of the civil war.
So the rest of the world has somewhere to vacation without running into Americans?
All your beach are belong to US!
In 2007 the US exported $437 million dollars in goods to Cuba, mainly agricultural products (wheat, rice, etc.).
Funny kind of embargo.
Lift the embargo and there will be pressure to buy cheap sugar from Cuba
Oh yeah and make Ethanol from it rather than stupidly subsidized US corn!
The embargo exists because if the embargo was lifted, there are a lot of Cuban ex pats in Florida and elsewhere that would vote the other way as a result
Simple, allow free immigration from Cuba to the US & citizenship after two years of non-criminal residence, that should balance the scales of politics.
"NASA's current FY 2008 budget of $17.318 billion represents about 0.6% of the $2.9 trillion United States federal budget."
If you include Federal, state, and local government spending NASA is more like 0.3% of all government outlays, or 0.1% of total US GDP.
Delta IV: 20,000 pounds or so
Ares I: 50,000 pounds or so
I'm not up on this, why do we need to stick 50,000 pounds into orbit all at once? Can't we just stick up payloads on two Delta IVs and stick them together? Seems to me we've been rendezvousing in space for a while.
8PSK 2/3 DVB service, which by the way comes out to approx 53Mbps in a 36MHz transponder...one thing i'm noticing is that you guys aren't factoring in modem filter rolloff
Heh, well some people are using roll-offs of 0.2 even with DVB-DSNG 8PSK and thus getting 30 Msps in a 36 MHz transponder for 55 Mbps with 10 dB Es/N0 requirement. Not in EN 301 210, but widely supported by modulator vendors and you need to watch your OBO and also make sure you aren't stepping on your neighbors.
DVB-S2 8PSK 2/3 @ 30 Msps gives you 59 Mbps with similar required Es/N0 + OBO (~7.7 dB) of good old DVB-S QPSK 3/4. And yes, it works, I've done it on AMC-3 Ku. I would bet that C-band operations with big dishes are considering even higher FEC rates for DVB-S2 8PSK.
TheSync...now there's a blast from the past from my Cidera days.
And I'm still moving big files over satellite (though with HD video and 5.1 audio, they are getting bigger and bigger all the time) - btw, check out Cerona, they're the new upstart DVB-S2 folks in Frederick.