Some of those vertical intervals are already being used. Radio-Electronics had an article 20 or so years ago. I seem to recall interval 19 being specifically mentioned. Anyway that's where they put stuff like closed captioning and (I think) that signal from PBS that newer VCRs use to auto-set their clocks. If anyone's desperate for info it probably won't take me but a month or so to dig out that particular R-E issue.
What legacy telco equipment operates at what frequencies that would make it susceptible to interference from DSL? Isn't DSL basically a hypersonic electrical signal running over the "last mile" wiring between the subscriber and the central office and then patched around the central office's dialing switches back over last mile wiring to the ISP? Since the only other signal on last mile wiring is at voice frequencies, and stuff attached to that last mile wiring usually has low pass filters, how would DSL cause interference?
Are you sure that you understand the true function of Underwriter's Laboritories? They don't guarantee that a product won't fail or that it's worth buying, just that if it does go bad it is very unlikely to start a fire or create a shock hazard when it does. Insurance companies don't care if you like the way your electric can opener works or not, they just want to be sure that they don't have to pay to replace your burned out kitchen.
"It's not like they're drawing frequencies out of a hat at the FCC office."
No, it's the names of who gets to buy frequencies (that should be leased rather than sold) that they draw from the hat (although I wouldn't be surprised if campaign contributions caused a few rabbits to be slipped into the hats to push certain applications to the top of the pile).
"But if I said, "I'm Mimekiller and I vote Democrat!"..."
Dead giveaway. Real Democrats (and us anti-Republicans) can tell the difference between an adjective and a noun and vote Democratic, not Democrat, whereas Republicans always use Democrat when they should say Democratic because they want to make it a dirty word the same way that they did with the word "liberal".
"An act can be retroactively be declared criminal."
Did someone white-out the part of the Constitution that prohibits ex post facto laws?
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"Cut me some slack, man, I just started learning Dvorak a few days ago."
Somewhere in there is the possibility of a pun about the composer and compositions for keyboard, but I haven't slept recently enough to come up with it.
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Yeah, you'd think ol' Marc would be more familiar with the ever-present risk of getting screwed by MS.
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Is an "infomecial" anything like an "infomercial"?
I'm just glad he never actually had anything to do with the telephone system, considering his poor understanding of it.
Actually the insect in question had gotten between the contacts of a relay, causing an open rather than a short.
It's not that easy to cause a vacuum tube to short internally, although you can bypass it externally with a short, but I don't think a moth with all the moisture cooked out of it could maintain the conduction necessary for a short circuit very long.
DIRECTV is the television channels beamed down from a satellite business. They don't know nothin' 'bout them DSL connections, Miz Scarlett. This is the equivalent of someone in 1960 calling Delco to ask about a Frigidaire product just because GM owned both at the time.
A screen saver that provides the status of various information such as weather, stock prices, etc., will probably display that information in a visual format similar to the CNN Headline News or Bloomberg TV styles, i.e., a bunch of little boxes on the screen, which, if they sit there unmoving long enough, will burn themselves into the screen.
(I used to DJ at a bar where they left a big screen on every night after closing. You can still see the CNN logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.)
Is Metropolitan the one where everybody gets their news from "the wire" (a sort of internet and cable TV amalgam), and the the title refers to a sort of part mayor, part emperor ruler of a city-state? I found it on a remainder table a few years ago, must have been a copy published before they could splash "Nebula Winner" all over the cover.
If you're saying that Clarke owned patents on satellites, communication or otherwise, I fear you are mistaken. In one of his short stories he recounts how he was unable to patent the idea at the time because the technology to put them into orbit wasn't there yet (gettting patents used to be harder) and by the time that it was the idea had achieved public domain status.
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Some of those vertical intervals are already being used. Radio-Electronics had an article 20 or so years ago. I seem to recall interval 19 being specifically mentioned. Anyway that's where they put stuff like closed captioning and (I think) that signal from PBS that newer VCRs use to auto-set their clocks. If anyone's desperate for info it probably won't take me but a month or so to dig out that particular R-E issue.
I'm not wrong about the Republicans.
What legacy telco equipment operates at what frequencies that would make it susceptible to interference from DSL? Isn't DSL basically a hypersonic electrical signal running over the "last mile" wiring between the subscriber and the central office and then patched around the central office's dialing switches back over last mile wiring to the ISP? Since the only other signal on last mile wiring is at voice frequencies, and stuff attached to that last mile wiring usually has low pass filters, how would DSL cause interference?
Are you sure that you understand the true function of Underwriter's Laboritories? They don't guarantee that a product won't fail or that it's worth buying, just that if it does go bad it is very unlikely to start a fire or create a shock hazard when it does. Insurance companies don't care if you like the way your electric can opener works or not, they just want to be sure that they don't have to pay to replace your burned out kitchen.
Yeah, like those evil arbitrary guys at DARPA :-)
No, it's the names of who gets to buy frequencies (that should be leased rather than sold) that they draw from the hat (although I wouldn't be surprised if campaign contributions caused a few rabbits to be slipped into the hats to push certain applications to the top of the pile).
Actually it's the sea creatures wearing sailor outfits of which they're really afraid.
Well, mom always told me to wait an hour after drowning before eating any ice cream.
Dead giveaway. Real Democrats (and us anti-Republicans) can tell the difference between an adjective and a noun and vote Democratic, not Democrat, whereas Republicans always use Democrat when they should say Democratic because they want to make it a dirty word the same way that they did with the word "liberal".
Slept through Physics class, didn't you?
I just checked with the judge. He said you can't have access to the full text :-)
That's tract housing, not track housing (unless you live in a private rail car like James West and Artemus Gordon :-)
Did someone white-out the part of the Constitution that prohibits ex post facto laws?
Somewhere in there is the possibility of a pun about the composer and compositions for keyboard, but I haven't slept recently enough to come up with it.
Yeah, you'd think ol' Marc would be more familiar with the ever-present risk of getting screwed by MS.
I'm just glad he never actually had anything to do with the telephone system, considering his poor understanding of it.
It's not that easy to cause a vacuum tube to short internally, although you can bypass it externally with a short, but I don't think a moth with all the moisture cooked out of it could maintain the conduction necessary for a short circuit very long.
And speaking of within the past year or so, didn't I see or something recently about a (fictional) novel about a piano in the middle of a jungle?
DIRECTV is the television channels beamed down from a satellite business. They don't know nothin' 'bout them DSL connections, Miz Scarlett. This is the equivalent of someone in 1960 calling Delco to ask about a Frigidaire product just because GM owned both at the time.
(I used to DJ at a bar where they left a big screen on every night after closing. You can still see the CNN logo in the bottom right hand corner of the screen.)
Is Metropolitan the one where everybody gets their news from "the wire" (a sort of internet and cable TV amalgam), and the the title refers to a sort of part mayor, part emperor ruler of a city-state? I found it on a remainder table a few years ago, must have been a copy published before they could splash "Nebula Winner" all over the cover.
He should have included Ayn Rand as (really bad) classic science fiction.
Why wasn't this modded +5 Funny?
null A was A.E. von Vogt.
If you're saying that Clarke owned patents on satellites, communication or otherwise, I fear you are mistaken. In one of his short stories he recounts how he was unable to patent the idea at the time because the technology to put them into orbit wasn't there yet (gettting patents used to be harder) and by the time that it was the idea had achieved public domain status.