"Why have two seperate lines when you can run all your services over one?"
Because if I need to call 911 I don't want to have to rely on Time-Warner to get the call through. I'd have more confidence in shouting for help loudly enough to be heard over a mile away at the nearest fire station.
And that's just when a hurricane hasn't taken out the power lines, thus disabling the Time-Warner line as well, a situation in which the telephone line is often still working due to the phone company's big ol' pile of tractor batteries.
Shield isn't used to carry signal current when it's wrapped around a twisted pair that is being used in a balanced circuit, although if it's an unbalanced situation, such as single center conductor co-ax it could be argued that it does.
In the case of phantom power over a two conductor plus shield wire both of the inside conductors are at the same positive potential with respect to the negative terminal of the phantom power power supply, and the shield is the negative return (this is the conventional current viewpoint, electron current theory, to which I subscribe, says that the shield is the negative and the other two conductors are the positive "return", in cases like this it's easier to call the positive hot and the negative "return" or "ground".
Balanced "XLR-type" cables are shielded, that's why XLR has 3 pins, 2 for signal and one for shield. The 2 signal wires are a balanced low-impedence circuit with common mode rejection and all that good stuff but the shielding helps too. Also, in a phantom power situation both signal lines are at the same positive potential and the shield is needed to be used as the return.
Well, if you can get Monster Cable at a 70% discount (retails for $10 but you pay $3) then the price will be about what they are worth. Make that a sliding scale though. The higher the retail, the more of a discount will be necessary to make the price reasonable.
You have mistaken the press, that is, stuff printed by anyone who could afford to run a printing press, with stuff sent over the airwaves which belong to the public by entities holding licenses to use those airwaves in the public interest.
Also, the Fairness Doctrine was instituted in a time when most households got only a few stations (usually affiliates of NBC, ABC, and CBS) via rabbit ears or an outdoor antenna, i.e., over the publicly owned airwaves.
The Fairness Doctrine basically said that if your local station did a 5 minute editorial in favor of "issue x" that they had to give opponents of that issue equal air time to argue against it so that both sides got equal use of the publicly owned airwaves.
The local newspaper, on the other hand, could take any position they wished to (as long as it didn't drive away so many purchasers that they could no longer afford to run the presses, that's the free market at work) and said newspaper could refuse to print any differing view 'cause it's their paper.
Anyone who disagreed could go into their own pockets and print their own newspaper.
Anyone who disagreed with the TV station editorial, on the other hand, could not just start their own over the air TV station due to not being licensed to use the public airwaves, so the existing license holder was compelled to share the airtime.
"If we really cared, we'd march to the Capital Mall, in DC... and stay, until we got our troops home, and had an honest election, for a change."
You might want to familiarize yourself with what the government did to the "bonus army" (and they were all World War I vets) before you make your travel plans.
They did. Then they went back up. At least as far as PC100 DIMMs are concerned. 256M sticks got down to where 128M sticks are selling for now, but before I got around to getting any they shot back up.:-(
Well if it's a broadband internet connection the XP box might be able to avoid infection when it forgets that it has a NIC installed right in the middle of using said card.
Adelstein inagurated his term on the FCC by jamming live onstage (on harmonica) with one of the Chambers Brothers on C-SPAN so he can't be all bad, can he?
(Although the late Republican operative Lee Atwater supposedly play blues guitar so maybe that's not an iron-clad guarantee. At least Adelstein isn't a Republican.)
" Each twisted pair contains signal and ground..."
Sounds like a description of single-ended, which is what you have with co-axial cable. Wouldn't it make more sense for twisted pair to be operated as differential, so as to take advantage of common mode rejection?
I've seen that line drawing before as well. It's either an IBM machine or it's one of those Compaq computers that stored part of the BIOS on a "special" partition on the hard drive complaining about the right hard drive not being connected.
Think about it, though. If the text gets posted in the comments, which you're going to load anyway, then everyone can read them here, and save YeHaa's servers the trouble of serving the article up to all of us individually, thus leaving the internet a little less congested.
Of course that's also that many fewer people being exposed to the ads that helped pay for everything that went into the article being written and posted at the original site in the first place, but we're all too cheap to buy any of that stuff anyway:-)
" The airwaves are public domain. They are leased to companies on the condition that their broadcasts make some minium contribution to the public's welfare. This is reasonable, since radio spectrum is a seriously limited resource."
They aren't leased, the use of a particular frequency via a specific method at a specific power level at a specific location is licensed to specific individuals or organizations. In the case of over the air radio and television stations the owners are licensed to operate "in the public interest". (the devil, of course, is in the details of defining "public interest") The license holders often pay various fees but not lease payments.
"That's certainly one way of looking at it, though I'd point out that the early Americans did what you describe to a land that they'd never been to before, and America isn't a theocracy."
Yeah, but the whole time we were killing the red man and bringing in the black man as a slave we were telling ourselves that God wanted it that way. (Wonder why we didn't just enslave the red man and save on the shipping charges from Africa? Hmmm.) We certainly have plenty of people who think that the takeover of North America by the white man and the emergence of the U.S. was brought about by God and that it's prefectly okay to use the government to shove Him down everyone's throat (Prayer and religious instruction in the public schools, the Ten Commandments on the walls of every courtroom and a Nativity scene installed on city property with taxpayers' money every December).
As to Israel, the then-current residents finally got rid of the Turks after about 300 hundred years only to get saddled with the British (who, prior to World War II, told them that they could have the land and told the Jews that they could have it) for a generation or so, and then, just when they think they're going to be able to get rid of the Brits, along come the Jews, who, instead of staying and fighting the Romans (which would have resulted in either victory or annihilation, thus solving the problem one way or another), left, only to come back almost 2,000 years later thinking that they could just move right back into the old neighborhood and that the then-current residents should just suck it up and evaporate or something.
I get it, to paraphrase Ken Follet, that the Jews needed a place where it was safe for a Jew to be a Jew (which requirement disqualified most of the known world), but it would have been better if they'd chosen someplace uninhabited. With their industriousness they could have gone to Antarctica and been the citrus growing capital of the world by now.
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Because if I need to call 911 I don't want to have to rely on Time-Warner to get the call through. I'd have more confidence in shouting for help loudly enough to be heard over a mile away at the nearest fire station.
And that's just when a hurricane hasn't taken out the power lines, thus disabling the Time-Warner line as well, a situation in which the telephone line is often still working due to the phone company's big ol' pile of tractor batteries.
In the case of phantom power over a two conductor plus shield wire both of the inside conductors are at the same positive potential with respect to the negative terminal of the phantom power power supply, and the shield is the negative return (this is the conventional current viewpoint, electron current theory, to which I subscribe, says that the shield is the negative and the other two conductors are the positive "return", in cases like this it's easier to call the positive hot and the negative "return" or "ground".
Balanced "XLR-type" cables are shielded, that's why XLR has 3 pins, 2 for signal and one for shield. The 2 signal wires are a balanced low-impedence circuit with common mode rejection and all that good stuff but the shielding helps too. Also, in a phantom power situation both signal lines are at the same positive potential and the shield is needed to be used as the return.
It probably is, but, the difference in quality is nowhere nearly as great as the difference in price.
Well, if you can get Monster Cable at a 70% discount (retails for $10 but you pay $3) then the price will be about what they are worth. Make that a sliding scale though. The higher the retail, the more of a discount will be necessary to make the price reasonable.
Also, the Fairness Doctrine was instituted in a time when most households got only a few stations (usually affiliates of NBC, ABC, and CBS) via rabbit ears or an outdoor antenna, i.e., over the publicly owned airwaves.
The Fairness Doctrine basically said that if your local station did a 5 minute editorial in favor of "issue x" that they had to give opponents of that issue equal air time to argue against it so that both sides got equal use of the publicly owned airwaves.
The local newspaper, on the other hand, could take any position they wished to (as long as it didn't drive away so many purchasers that they could no longer afford to run the presses, that's the free market at work) and said newspaper could refuse to print any differing view 'cause it's their paper.
Anyone who disagreed could go into their own pockets and print their own newspaper.
Anyone who disagreed with the TV station editorial, on the other hand, could not just start their own over the air TV station due to not being licensed to use the public airwaves, so the existing license holder was compelled to share the airtime.
You might want to familiarize yourself with what the government did to the "bonus army" (and they were all World War I vets) before you make your travel plans.
They did. Then they went back up. At least as far as PC100 DIMMs are concerned. 256M sticks got down to where 128M sticks are selling for now, but before I got around to getting any they shot back up. :-(
by Ackmo (700165) on Friday March 18, @03:14PM (#11978946)
Yes it can, but you can only use it to transmit Postscript and PDF files.
Well if it's a broadband internet connection the XP box might be able to avoid infection when it forgets that it has a NIC installed right in the middle of using said card.
(Although the late Republican operative Lee Atwater supposedly play blues guitar so maybe that's not an iron-clad guarantee. At least Adelstein isn't a Republican.)
In the case of the consumer there's a slightly different orifice involved. :-)
I don't see why this cable should tire you out any more than any other kind but I can see where you might be wary of it.
Sounds like a description of single-ended, which is what you have with co-axial cable. Wouldn't it make more sense for twisted pair to be operated as differential, so as to take advantage of common mode rejection?
Nor is Ethernet limited to twisted pair, shielded or otherwise. That BNC connector on old Ethernet NICs is for co-axial cable.
I've seen that line drawing before as well. It's either an IBM machine or it's one of those Compaq computers that stored part of the BIOS on a "special" partition on the hard drive complaining about the right hard drive not being connected.
Well, now that the recording equipment has been removed it sort of is mute. :-)
Of course that's also that many fewer people being exposed to the ads that helped pay for everything that went into the article being written and posted at the original site in the first place, but we're all too cheap to buy any of that stuff anyway :-)
A lot of us weren't teenagers in the '80s.
Or perhaps I should say "were no longer teenagers". :-)
Does that include the re-labeled Conners?
They aren't leased, the use of a particular frequency via a specific method at a specific power level at a specific location is licensed to specific individuals or organizations. In the case of over the air radio and television stations the owners are licensed to operate "in the public interest". (the devil, of course, is in the details of defining "public interest") The license holders often pay various fees but not lease payments.
Only in the middle east? Is it more profitable there? But seriously, got any further details, like, say, evidence, explanations, stuff like that?
Yeah, but the whole time we were killing the red man and bringing in the black man as a slave we were telling ourselves that God wanted it that way. (Wonder why we didn't just enslave the red man and save on the shipping charges from Africa? Hmmm.) We certainly have plenty of people who think that the takeover of North America by the white man and the emergence of the U.S. was brought about by God and that it's prefectly okay to use the government to shove Him down everyone's throat (Prayer and religious instruction in the public schools, the Ten Commandments on the walls of every courtroom and a Nativity scene installed on city property with taxpayers' money every December).
As to Israel, the then-current residents finally got rid of the Turks after about 300 hundred years only to get saddled with the British (who, prior to World War II, told them that they could have the land and told the Jews that they could have it) for a generation or so, and then, just when they think they're going to be able to get rid of the Brits, along come the Jews, who, instead of staying and fighting the Romans (which would have resulted in either victory or annihilation, thus solving the problem one way or another), left, only to come back almost 2,000 years later thinking that they could just move right back into the old neighborhood and that the then-current residents should just suck it up and evaporate or something.
I get it, to paraphrase Ken Follet, that the Jews needed a place where it was safe for a Jew to be a Jew (which requirement disqualified most of the known world), but it would have been better if they'd chosen someplace uninhabited. With their industriousness they could have gone to Antarctica and been the citrus growing capital of the world by now.
Don't you feel terribly out of place around here?
There's no need to be so disrespectful of genuine whores. (This is why congressfungus is also uncalled for)
Congresscritter should be sufficiently generic.