That gives me an interesting notion. Does the contract actually say that payment has to be in US Dollars, or could we substitute, say, Jamaican dollars?
If you scroll up a little, you'll see some comments i made along these lines. The big problem is that Class D amps, while truly magnificent at audio frequencies, really aren't feasible at UHF frequencies.
The "Class T" amplifier is a name-branded class D amp. Class D amps rock for both efficiency and energy density. As I sit here right now, i am listening to CAKE playing on a pair of Peavey speakers with built-in 400W Class D amps. Not only do they sound magnificent, but they also pack a whallop if I should just frob the Volume slide on my preamp. I know that they don't draw anywhere near the specplate figure when I have them loafing like they're doing now.
The problem with using PWM in any of its variations at microwave frequencies is that you really need to have a reference waveform running at around 10X the highest frequency you want to amplify, and that reference waveform needs to be triangular or sawtooth, and you need to have a comparator that can accuratly judge the relationship between the the reference waveform and the waveform to be amplified fast enough not to end up low-passing or distorting the amplified waveform. At audio frequencies, this is a piece of cake (no pun intended cf. the previous paragraph), and you might even be able to pull it off into MF or HF, but at UHF and up, I would have to say that current technology is just not up to the task.
That said, I think PPH nailed it. I think they have basically created a Class G (or maybe H) RF amplifier, which, as far as I know, hasn't been done before.
It's pretty simple, really. Throwing out evidence that was illegally acquired is the only tool available to ensure that evidence is not illegally acquired. After a team of police officers, investigators and lawyers have been working on a case, putting their efforts into it, they do not want to have the case fall apart, so there is, theoretically, some peer pressure on them not to screw up the evidence.
Without this incentive not to break the law, we would have police going house to house, knocking on doors, busting down the doors that don't open to them, and performing full-house searches, just looking for something, anything, to create criminal cases on. We had this in our pre-revolutionary state, and our Constitution was written to prevent it, amongst other abuses.
In one area in rural upstate New York, just a few dozen miles outside of Albany, there was a small town where they wanted cell coverage, but nobody wanted to allow the tower to go up on their property.
Eventually, one local celebrity stepped forward and said enough was enough. He didn't need the income, and didn't (at the time) have a cell phone. He just was sick and tired of hearing about it. He had done well enough for himself and had plent of land in a good, high location and let them build a tower on it.
Also, here in the US, you will find the word "tariff" used to describe the legal documents that define such a plan. The term is used in the utility and insurance industries, at the very least.
I strongly suspect that Richard O'Dwyer would disagree with you. If sanity were the reigning force, then extradition to the US for commiting, in England, something that is not, in England, a crime, in England, where he lives and has always lived, but pisses off a corporate exec or two in the US.
Many LISP implementations will, actually, allow you to represent 1/3 easily and will store it as a rational. They will also enable you to use an arbitrary number of bits, and therefore an arbitrary number of digits, in an integer. What stops most people from adopting the language is the odd syntax.
You might appreciate the thought that first came to my mind, then, and that is this: They used to put telescopic antennas on cell phones! And the best part was they actually worked well!
Now, I'm not a professional RF engineer, but I am no stranger to the RF arts (I am a ham operator) and I firmly hold the belief that there is no substitute for metal in the air. When feasible, nothing short of a 1/4 wave should be used, and it should be elevated above anything that would block it.
At present, I use a flip phone that has the antenna embedded in the upper section. This works well enough, but I do, seriously, miss having an actual whip (my last phone had a 5/8 wave, would you believe! -- perfectly feasible in a portable device at 1900 MHz) that will, beyond a question, get the signal up and above my hand and out and on its way to the tower and vice-versa.
Sometimes the newer solution overlooks the obvious. This, I think, is one of those times.
Probably a fair view of the way it works most of the time. The second gig throws periodic one-day meetups to get face time. I take a day off from the day-gig and drive out there for these. There is one coming up in a couple of weeks.
As I say, I don't think the side-gig offers the stability. That's really the only reason it is a side-gig.
You posted AC, which is unfortunate, because I think you said something insightful.
Telecommuting privileges would go a long way to making me happier with my day job. Commuting costs me 90 minutes out of every day and enough daily mileage that it would be worth $22/day if I could just expense it. I put that at a daily cost of $82, and an average monthly costs of $1804, just for commuting. This is a senseless waste that could be mitigated if I could just stay home and work from here sometimes, without having to invoke exceptional circumstances.
On my side gig, however, I have telecommuting privs (good thing, too -- the office is 200+ miles away - though even those who live close by have this priv) and flex time. I get an hourly rate, so the more work I get done, the more I get paid. Quite frankly, they don't care if I am working from the lunch room of my day job while chowing down or if I'm insomniac and banging away at 3:00 in the morning. As long as I put in a good faith effort, everyone is happy.
If I felt that my side gig offered the stability of my day job, I would be making it my day job. It is sooooo much a nicer place to work.
One was a customer satisfaction survey. For each question, it asked the question, and then followed it with this entire message: "Press 1 for strongly agree; press 2 for agree; press 3 for neither agree nor disagree; press 4 for disagree; press 5 for strongly disagree." Now, I have no problem with this kind of prompt existing, but seriously, after the first question, I get how it works. Oh, I almost forgot: It would not accept any input until it had finished reading off the entire fucking message!
The other is a bank with which we have a loan. The sequence I go through is this: "Thank you for calling the Very Big Bank customer service line. For account information, press 1. For-" I press 1. "To inquire by account number or social security number, press 1. To inquire-" I press 1, but not too early or it just restarts this message. "Please have your account number or social security number ready. To inquire by account number, press 1. To inquire by-" I pres 1. "Please enter your account number." Let's say, for the sake of the argument that the number is 555555555. "One moment, while we retrieve your account." Two seconds pass. "The account number you entered is. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. If this is correct, press 1. If-" You couldn't have asked me this before retrieving my account? Okay, fine. I press 1. "For a payoff balance or payment amount, press 1. For-" I press 1. "For payoff balance, press 1. For-" I press 1. "The following message contains payoff information. You will be given an opportunity to receive a fax copy at the end of this message. Acount number. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Date of the last payment was. September. Third. Two. Thousand. Twelve. As-of. September. Seventeenth. Two. Thousand. Twelve. Your payoff balance was. Fifteen. Thousand. Five. Hundred. Fifty. Five. Dollars-and. Fifty. Five. Cents." I think it is designed to get peoplel to use the website instead.
I once had a lady who I saw on a daily basis try three different times, on three successive days, to tell me the same joke. The third time was because she realized she botched the delivery the second time, which was because she realized that she botched the delivery the first time.
Well, at least she realized it.
Unfortunately, by the time she got to the third time, when she finally delivered it well enough, I already knew the punchline, and, quite frankly, the joke wasn't that funny anyway.
On the fourth attempt, I asked her if she would please stop.
Even sadder, the whole thing began when I asked someon a riddle. This poor lady didn't even grok the difference between a joke and a riddle. She had no chance of telling it well the first try.
I think that most of the things people hide are things about their sex lives.
Dr. House has the rule that everyone lies. I have my own rule, which is this: Everyone is a pervert. There are no exceptions. The only differences between us are what kind of pervert we are and whether or not we keep it under wraps.
The Database Of Ruin[TM] will reveal what kind of pervert everyone is. As a result, we can all come out of the closet. While ultimately this has some potential to be a Good Thing [TM], the destruction that will be caused in the short term is too terrible to contemplate.
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I bet you feel so embiggened for pointing out this incromulence.
Mine actually has thre consecutive 6's in the license number. Good thing I don't believe in that myth.
That gives me an interesting notion. Does the contract actually say that payment has to be in US Dollars, or could we substitute, say, Jamaican dollars?
I'm just going to leave this here . . . .
Yeah, I guess I did tell it like Paul Harvey a little, didn't I? Completely inadvertent.
If you scroll up a little, you'll see some comments i made along these lines. The big problem is that Class D amps, while truly magnificent at audio frequencies, really aren't feasible at UHF frequencies.
The "Class T" amplifier is a name-branded class D amp. Class D amps rock for both efficiency and energy density. As I sit here right now, i am listening to CAKE playing on a pair of Peavey speakers with built-in 400W Class D amps. Not only do they sound magnificent, but they also pack a whallop if I should just frob the Volume slide on my preamp. I know that they don't draw anywhere near the specplate figure when I have them loafing like they're doing now.
The problem with using PWM in any of its variations at microwave frequencies is that you really need to have a reference waveform running at around 10X the highest frequency you want to amplify, and that reference waveform needs to be triangular or sawtooth, and you need to have a comparator that can accuratly judge the relationship between the the reference waveform and the waveform to be amplified fast enough not to end up low-passing or distorting the amplified waveform. At audio frequencies, this is a piece of cake (no pun intended cf. the previous paragraph), and you might even be able to pull it off into MF or HF, but at UHF and up, I would have to say that current technology is just not up to the task.
That said, I think PPH nailed it. I think they have basically created a Class G (or maybe H) RF amplifier, which, as far as I know, hasn't been done before.
It's pretty simple, really. Throwing out evidence that was illegally acquired is the only tool available to ensure that evidence is not illegally acquired. After a team of police officers, investigators and lawyers have been working on a case, putting their efforts into it, they do not want to have the case fall apart, so there is, theoretically, some peer pressure on them not to screw up the evidence.
Without this incentive not to break the law, we would have police going house to house, knocking on doors, busting down the doors that don't open to them, and performing full-house searches, just looking for something, anything, to create criminal cases on. We had this in our pre-revolutionary state, and our Constitution was written to prevent it, amongst other abuses.
That would only be coercive if they take it upon themselves to send you there personally.
Reminds me of an amusing story.
In one area in rural upstate New York, just a few dozen miles outside of Albany, there was a small town where they wanted cell coverage, but nobody wanted to allow the tower to go up on their property.
Eventually, one local celebrity stepped forward and said enough was enough. He didn't need the income, and didn't (at the time) have a cell phone. He just was sick and tired of hearing about it. He had done well enough for himself and had plent of land in a good, high location and let them build a tower on it.
His name was Andy Rooney. Yes, that Andy Rooney
That's pretty close to correct.
Also, here in the US, you will find the word "tariff" used to describe the legal documents that define such a plan. The term is used in the utility and insurance industries, at the very least.
I strongly suspect that Richard O'Dwyer would disagree with you. If sanity were the reigning force, then extradition to the US for commiting, in England, something that is not, in England, a crime, in England, where he lives and has always lived, but pisses off a corporate exec or two in the US.
Many LISP implementations will, actually, allow you to represent 1/3 easily and will store it as a rational. They will also enable you to use an arbitrary number of bits, and therefore an arbitrary number of digits, in an integer. What stops most people from adopting the language is the odd syntax.
You might appreciate the thought that first came to my mind, then, and that is this: They used to put telescopic antennas on cell phones! And the best part was they actually worked well!
Now, I'm not a professional RF engineer, but I am no stranger to the RF arts (I am a ham operator) and I firmly hold the belief that there is no substitute for metal in the air. When feasible, nothing short of a 1/4 wave should be used, and it should be elevated above anything that would block it.
At present, I use a flip phone that has the antenna embedded in the upper section. This works well enough, but I do, seriously, miss having an actual whip (my last phone had a 5/8 wave, would you believe! -- perfectly feasible in a portable device at 1900 MHz) that will, beyond a question, get the signal up and above my hand and out and on its way to the tower and vice-versa.
Sometimes the newer solution overlooks the obvious. This, I think, is one of those times.
I think it may actually be the output of a Markov chain processor, something like Mark V. Shaney.
Probably a fair view of the way it works most of the time. The second gig throws periodic one-day meetups to get face time. I take a day off from the day-gig and drive out there for these. There is one coming up in a couple of weeks.
As I say, I don't think the side-gig offers the stability. That's really the only reason it is a side-gig.
You posted AC, which is unfortunate, because I think you said something insightful.
Telecommuting privileges would go a long way to making me happier with my day job. Commuting costs me 90 minutes out of every day and enough daily mileage that it would be worth $22/day if I could just expense it. I put that at a daily cost of $82, and an average monthly costs of $1804, just for commuting. This is a senseless waste that could be mitigated if I could just stay home and work from here sometimes, without having to invoke exceptional circumstances.
On my side gig, however, I have telecommuting privs (good thing, too -- the office is 200+ miles away - though even those who live close by have this priv) and flex time. I get an hourly rate, so the more work I get done, the more I get paid. Quite frankly, they don't care if I am working from the lunch room of my day job while chowing down or if I'm insomniac and banging away at 3:00 in the morning. As long as I put in a good faith effort, everyone is happy.
If I felt that my side gig offered the stability of my day job, I would be making it my day job. It is sooooo much a nicer place to work.
I learned on a mechanical typewriter in 1983. It is the obvious solution.
Here are the two worst I have encountered:
One was a customer satisfaction survey. For each question, it asked the question, and then followed it with this entire message: "Press 1 for strongly agree; press 2 for agree; press 3 for neither agree nor disagree; press 4 for disagree; press 5 for strongly disagree." Now, I have no problem with this kind of prompt existing, but seriously, after the first question, I get how it works. Oh, I almost forgot: It would not accept any input until it had finished reading off the entire fucking message!
The other is a bank with which we have a loan. The sequence I go through is this: "Thank you for calling the Very Big Bank customer service line. For account information, press 1. For-" I press 1. "To inquire by account number or social security number, press 1. To inquire-" I press 1, but not too early or it just restarts this message. "Please have your account number or social security number ready. To inquire by account number, press 1. To inquire by-" I pres 1. "Please enter your account number." Let's say, for the sake of the argument that the number is 555555555. "One moment, while we retrieve your account." Two seconds pass. "The account number you entered is. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. If this is correct, press 1. If-" You couldn't have asked me this before retrieving my account? Okay, fine. I press 1. "For a payoff balance or payment amount, press 1. For-" I press 1. "For payoff balance, press 1. For-" I press 1. "The following message contains payoff information. You will be given an opportunity to receive a fax copy at the end of this message. Acount number. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Five. Date of the last payment was. September. Third. Two. Thousand. Twelve. As-of. September. Seventeenth. Two. Thousand. Twelve. Your payoff balance was. Fifteen. Thousand. Five. Hundred. Fifty. Five. Dollars-and. Fifty. Five. Cents." I think it is designed to get peoplel to use the website instead.
That's what you both get for using an iThing.
Stupid horse! I said posse! POSSE!
Many, many people can't tell a joke.
I once had a lady who I saw on a daily basis try three different times, on three successive days, to tell me the same joke. The third time was because she realized she botched the delivery the second time, which was because she realized that she botched the delivery the first time.
Well, at least she realized it.
Unfortunately, by the time she got to the third time, when she finally delivered it well enough, I already knew the punchline, and, quite frankly, the joke wasn't that funny anyway.
On the fourth attempt, I asked her if she would please stop.
Even sadder, the whole thing began when I asked someon a riddle. This poor lady didn't even grok the difference between a joke and a riddle. She had no chance of telling it well the first try.
For those of us without the time to watch the whole episode, here's the relevant clip.
I think that most of the things people hide are things about their sex lives.
Dr. House has the rule that everyone lies. I have my own rule, which is this: Everyone is a pervert. There are no exceptions. The only differences between us are what kind of pervert we are and whether or not we keep it under wraps.
The Database Of Ruin[TM] will reveal what kind of pervert everyone is. As a result, we can all come out of the closet. While ultimately this has some potential to be a Good Thing [TM], the destruction that will be caused in the short term is too terrible to contemplate.