"Sonar, Sound, and Seismic waves, are a bit below the elecrtomagnetic spectrum."
They aren't part of the electromagnetic spectrum because they aren't electromagnetic, but the frequencies at which they occur are frequencies which are also found in the electromagnetic spectrum because it basically starts at "zero plus one divided by infinity" (the smallest positive number possible) cycles per second.
This is more like Wal-Mart not being able to control shoplifting and expecting K-Mart, Target, etc. to increase their own prices and pay the extra over to Wal-Mart to cover their losses.
I don't think that your analogy really works. Your assertion that after a certain length of time the people will own a work is more like you build a house and 30 years later a bunch of strangers show up at the door saying that the house now belongs to everyone.
Wouldn't it be easier to modify the plugs? If they're the folded over type, spread them a little with a knife blade, and if the solid piece of metal type, bend them just slightly out of parallel with each other or give each one a little bit of a curve. That way you don't void any warranty by opening the unit.
You realize that the new case also includes all the electronics necessary to do all the AC to DC and DC to AC conversion and voltage step up and step down, don't you? There's no such thing as a 120 Volt 60 Hz Alternating Current battery.
Two things about your story don't sound quite right. You make no mention of plugging it in for several hours with nothing pluged in to it in order to fully charge the battery, and the real puzzler, no mention of jumping ugly with CDW for selling you some gray-market piece of junk they bought a boat load of from the Russian mafia, not to mention no story of how APC went ballistic on CDW for damaging their good name.
"A better parallel would be to radio technology. While electronic gear is typically regulated, repair of said gear typically is not."
If it's something that transmits (except perhaps for very low power devices), then the FCC says you have to be a holder of one of their radiotelephone operator licenses.
If it doesn't transmit then any old idiot can legally work on it, and unfortunately many do.
Tell Comic Book Guy if he don't like it to read something else and leave it for those who do find it interesting, and who definitely find it more interesting than his whining.
Where are you getting 75 Ohm coathangers? All I can find locally are 50 Ohm. Of course if you can get 75 Ohm hangers they can be converted from single end driven unbalanced to both ends driven balanced 300 Ohm. But then you can't use an inline SWR meter to tune it.
After enjoying The Hobbit and the trilogy and then trying Silmarillion and finding it about as much fun as the time I tried to get through a couple of pages of Karl Marx, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was it and not the parody that was originally written in Russian.
Speaking of the "Bored of the Rings" parody, I read The Hobbit and the trilogy books back in high school about '68 or '69, just before they became "trendy", and of course was quite impressed with myself for having done so. About '71 or '72 I became friends with another guy at UNC-Chapel Hill who had the Harvard Lampoon book, which I didn't properly appreciate at the time, being a little too defensive of the originals. He, being not much of a sci-fi/fantasy fan, successfully used it instead of the original to learn enough about the story line for an assignment in a lit class.
"...now to figure out exactly how much a jigawatt really is."
That's just the "phonetic" spelling of the proper pronunciation of gigaWatt (which I think is one thousand megaWatts). The root word is "gigantic" (or whatever the word gigantic is based on), hence the "j" sound. And yes, you have been mispronouncing gigabyte and gigaHertz all this time as well. But then, so have I.
"Microsoft are not evil geniuses, they are incompetent bullies."
Bullying seems to be that at which they are most competent. You might even say that it's something for which they seem to have a sort of evil genius. I just wish they were as good at software.
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I think you're thinking more along the lines of Asimov's Laws of Robotics.
Of course nowadays the presence of the GE (or RCA) logo on a product in no way guarantees that it was actually designed and/or manufactured by them.
Whatever, just so that the tariff on Jar-Jar is too high for him ever to enter the country.
So what you're saying is that he's still straight?
They are what they always were, merchandise.
Of course 40 years ago I had a slightly different view whilst putting my paper route profits into Stan Lee's pocket.
That's what I thought I saw too, which is why I bothered loading the story, figured it was a new worm or virus or something.
Now that I see what it really is I'm betting a lot of IT departments would have preferred the malware.
Doesn't the original abstract of the patent sound as though it might be describing the Adobe Acrobat PDF reader? Any chance of prior art there?
They aren't part of the electromagnetic spectrum because they aren't electromagnetic, but the frequencies at which they occur are frequencies which are also found in the electromagnetic spectrum because it basically starts at "zero plus one divided by infinity" (the smallest positive number possible) cycles per second.
This is more like Wal-Mart not being able to control shoplifting and expecting K-Mart, Target, etc. to increase their own prices and pay the extra over to Wal-Mart to cover their losses.
You, sir, are not well.
I don't think that your analogy really works. Your assertion that after a certain length of time the people will own a work is more like you build a house and 30 years later a bunch of strangers show up at the door saying that the house now belongs to everyone.
You're supposed to plug them in with nothing plugged into them for several hours anyway to charge up the battery.
Wouldn't it be easier to modify the plugs? If they're the folded over type, spread them a little with a knife blade, and if the solid piece of metal type, bend them just slightly out of parallel with each other or give each one a little bit of a curve. That way you don't void any warranty by opening the unit.
You realize that the new case also includes all the electronics necessary to do all the AC to DC and DC to AC conversion and voltage step up and step down, don't you? There's no such thing as a 120 Volt 60 Hz Alternating Current battery.
Two things about your story don't sound quite right. You make no mention of plugging it in for several hours with nothing pluged in to it in order to fully charge the battery, and the real puzzler, no mention of jumping ugly with CDW for selling you some gray-market piece of junk they bought a boat load of from the Russian mafia, not to mention no story of how APC went ballistic on CDW for damaging their good name.
If it's something that transmits (except perhaps for very low power devices), then the FCC says you have to be a holder of one of their radiotelephone operator licenses.
If it doesn't transmit then any old idiot can legally work on it, and unfortunately many do.
Tell Comic Book Guy if he don't like it to read something else and leave it for those who do find it interesting, and who definitely find it more interesting than his whining.
Where are you getting 75 Ohm coathangers? All I can find locally are 50 Ohm. Of course if you can get 75 Ohm hangers they can be converted from single end driven unbalanced to both ends driven balanced 300 Ohm. But then you can't use an inline SWR meter to tune it.
Oh, and I think the wizard was GoodGulf.
After enjoying The Hobbit and the trilogy and then trying Silmarillion and finding it about as much fun as the time I tried to get through a couple of pages of Karl Marx, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that it was it and not the parody that was originally written in Russian.
Speaking of the "Bored of the Rings" parody, I read The Hobbit and the trilogy books back in high school about '68 or '69, just before they became "trendy", and of course was quite impressed with myself for having done so. About '71 or '72 I became friends with another guy at UNC-Chapel Hill who had the Harvard Lampoon book, which I didn't properly appreciate at the time, being a little too defensive of the originals. He, being not much of a sci-fi/fantasy fan, successfully used it instead of the original to learn enough about the story line for an assignment in a lit class.
That's just the "phonetic" spelling of the proper pronunciation of gigaWatt (which I think is one thousand megaWatts). The root word is "gigantic" (or whatever the word gigantic is based on), hence the "j" sound. And yes, you have been mispronouncing gigabyte and gigaHertz all this time as well. But then, so have I.
Proprietary Internet Microsoft Protocols?
Bullying seems to be that at which they are most competent. You might even say that it's something for which they seem to have a sort of evil genius. I just wish they were as good at software.
So when they came over here from Europe they brought their own farmland with them?