"Why fight for the right to buy expensive gear and to consume lots of electricity to broadcast over a small geographic area, when you could reach the whole world by setting up a station on the Internet?"
How about inexpensive gear, moderate electrical consumption, and a small geographic area such as Manhattan or Beverly Hills, without the FCC expecting you to serve the public interest of *all* of New York City or Los Angeles? If the feds will let you support the station by selling ads, it could be a very profitable venture.
No but they're making a movie about one of the Lone Ranger's relatives, The Green Hornet. (Wasn't it Philip Jose Farmer who had the Lone Ranger and Tarzan distantly related or otherwise connected through some coach accident at a crossroads in Emgland with a lighting bolt thrown in for good measure?)
"If you only need 2x, and can bury pipes, you could run 120VAC to the middle of the run and install a hub as a repeaer."
Running power and communication wires in the same conduit is in violation of the National Electrical Code, which probably means that it's in violation of your local building codes and almost surely will void your homeowners insurance.
As someone else suggested about a month or two ago in another Slashdot thread, check with your local phone company about the availability of "dry" loops--like a second phone line for each house, but wired directly to each other at the phone company and not connected to the phone system at all.
I'm not advocating that consumers move to currently available passive backplanes. Industrial passive backplanes are more expensive partially because the higher quality needed for that high reliability, but also because they aren't produced in the same quantites as stuff intended for the consumer market. If there were an industry standard, like the old AT form factor, where you could put a system together out of parts from practically anywhere, then it would be much less expensive. I expect a lot of Slashdotters came up on machines built Frankenstein style out of whatever could be inherited, scrounged, or bought cheap, rather than having the financial resources to fix a flakey sound card by pitching the whole thing in a dumpster and buying the newest latest greatest.
That sort of thing is why I suggested passive backplane systems, to avoid being victimized by proprietary hardware designs any more than absoulutely necessary.
Since the days of running more than one brand of CPU on the same motherboard seem now to be in the rearview mirror, is it time for affordable standardized passive backplanes? Wouldn't it be nice not to have to replace motherboard and case just to do a processor upgrade or be tied to one CPU manufacturer?
Check places like Allied Electronics, Digi-Key, Mouser, MCM Electronics, All-Electronics, Jameco, Circuit Specialists, MECI, Marlin P. Jones, etc. Look for brand names such as Bud, Ten-Tec, Hammond.
The local community college has a much better internet connection than I have and better, faster, quieter printers than I have, but they don't have Acrobat installed on their machines (Win95), and they take a very dim view of anyone else installing anything on their machines. Is there anything (like a.exe or.com) that would fit on a floppy that would let me open and print a PDF file and then leave the machine the way I found it? I can't seem to express the question succinctly enough for search engines to find anything except a bunch of links to Adobe.
It would be interesting to see what effect outlawing poison ivy would have (other than the predictable idiot trying to smoke it). No doubt some enterprising bureaucrat could find him/herself a stepping stone or two in there somewhere. And there'd be a horrible new version of that old Coasters song.
Perhaps I could persuade you to get the ball rolling by making "Outlaw Poison Ivy" your sig and light the torch to lead this holy crusade (see how easy bandwagon jumping can be?).
The way I heard it, it was when the writing was on the wall for Prohibition that the people who had built careers and bureaucratic empires off of it started looking around for something else to demonize in order to give them a new bandwagon to jump on.
In addition to what this did for their careers, it eventually provided the same unique financial opportunities for urban blacks and Colombians that the Mafia had discovered waiting to be exploited in Prohibition, which creates a new criminal threat to escalate against, which means even more opportunities on the law enforcement side of the equation.
By the most amazing co-incidence it was at about that same time that that "Marijuana: Assassin of Youth" movie appeared. One wonders if they knew the etymology of "assassin" (comes from "hashish").
Don't you just know that Scott whatshisname over at Sun who hates Gates and MS with a purple passion is probably still rampaging around trashing the office furniture over MS's hijacking of the very idea he's been trying to push for a few years now?
BTW, anyone who thinks this is a good idea needs to be judicially restricted to only dial-up access for a year or three.
Especially if it's moving (in either direction) through a plastic tube. That's why you have to run a ground wire inside sawdust collector systems of any length. I still recommend vacuuming, but TURN OFF AND UNPLUG the equipment to be vacuumed first, and hold the vacuum wand near the business end with one hand while holding the grounded metal frame with the other hand BUT ONLY after discharging any major capacitors, especially inside television sets, monitors, and anything with a switching power supply AFTER you UNPLUG it. Of course if you already now how to do this you probably already know the reason why and vice versa, so if you don't know why, you don't know how, so find someone who does to show you how! Don't get yourself electrocuted while trying to prevent a fire.
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How about inexpensive gear, moderate electrical consumption, and a small geographic area such as Manhattan or Beverly Hills, without the FCC expecting you to serve the public interest of *all* of New York City or Los Angeles? If the feds will let you support the station by selling ads, it could be a very profitable venture.
The actor who portrayed Pembleton has a new series this fall (Gideon's Crossing?) playing a doctor so he won't be available soon enough.
No but they're making a movie about one of the Lone Ranger's relatives, The Green Hornet. (Wasn't it Philip Jose Farmer who had the Lone Ranger and Tarzan distantly related or otherwise connected through some coach accident at a crossroads in Emgland with a lighting bolt thrown in for good measure?)
Running power and communication wires in the same conduit is in violation of the National Electrical Code, which probably means that it's in violation of your local building codes and almost surely will void your homeowners insurance.
As someone else suggested about a month or two ago in another Slashdot thread, check with your local phone company about the availability of "dry" loops--like a second phone line for each house, but wired directly to each other at the phone company and not connected to the phone system at all.
Why is it that Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees, N.C. comes to mind?
Me and my budget ain't that 'leet, sad to say.
*surface mount devices
I'm not advocating that consumers move to currently available passive backplanes.
Industrial passive backplanes are more expensive partially because the higher quality needed for that high reliability, but also because they aren't produced in the same quantites as stuff intended for the consumer market.
If there were an industry standard, like the old AT form factor, where you could put a system together out of parts from practically anywhere, then it would be much less expensive.
I expect a lot of Slashdotters came up on machines built Frankenstein style out of whatever could be inherited, scrounged, or bought cheap, rather than having the financial resources to fix a flakey sound card by pitching the whole thing in a dumpster and buying the newest latest greatest.
That sort of thing is why I suggested passive backplane systems, to avoid being victimized by proprietary hardware designs any more than absoulutely necessary.
Since the days of running more than one brand of CPU on the same motherboard seem now to be in the rearview mirror, is it time for affordable standardized passive backplanes? Wouldn't it be nice not to have to replace motherboard and case just to do a processor upgrade or be tied to one CPU manufacturer?
Check places like Allied Electronics, Digi-Key, Mouser, MCM Electronics, All-Electronics, Jameco, Circuit Specialists, MECI, Marlin P. Jones, etc.
Look for brand names such as Bud, Ten-Tec, Hammond.
The local community college has a much better internet connection than I have and better, faster, quieter printers than I have, but they don't have Acrobat installed on their machines (Win95), and they take a very dim view of anyone else installing anything on their machines. Is there anything (like a .exe or .com) that would fit on a floppy that would let me open and print a PDF file and then leave the machine the way I found it? I can't seem to express the question succinctly enough for search engines to find anything except a bunch of links to Adobe.
So *that's* how Katz keeps getting over.
And not a moment too soon.
Jerk.
(ad slogan from long ago)
You should have entitled it "A Modest Proposal".
Imagine waiting for each packet to be run by the Supreme Court for a decision on whether or not they're obscene.
The impression that I got was that he was rescued from his kidnappers by federal agents. The government has plenty of other faults to correct, though.
Perhaps I could persuade you to get the ball rolling by making "Outlaw Poison Ivy" your sig and light the torch to lead this holy crusade (see how easy bandwagon jumping can be?).
In addition to what this did for their careers, it eventually provided the same unique financial opportunities for urban blacks and Colombians that the Mafia had discovered waiting to be exploited in Prohibition, which creates a new criminal threat to escalate against, which means even more opportunities on the law enforcement side of the equation.
By the most amazing co-incidence it was at about that same time that that "Marijuana: Assassin of Youth" movie appeared. One wonders if they knew the etymology of "assassin" (comes from "hashish").
In your case as well (see post #19) it seems that the drugs have won the war.
If you think the movie was bad, you should try reading the book. :(
Now you know why North Carolina refers to itself as a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.
BTW, anyone who thinks this is a good idea needs to be judicially restricted to only dial-up access for a year or three.
Especially if it's moving (in either direction) through a plastic tube. That's why you have to run a ground wire inside sawdust collector systems of any length. I still recommend vacuuming, but TURN OFF AND UNPLUG the equipment to be vacuumed first, and hold the vacuum wand near the business end with one hand while holding the grounded metal frame with the other hand BUT ONLY after discharging any major capacitors, especially inside television sets, monitors, and anything with a switching power supply AFTER you UNPLUG it. Of course if you already now how to do this you probably already know the reason why and vice versa, so if you don't know why, you don't know how, so find someone who does to show you how! Don't get yourself electrocuted while trying to prevent a fire.
Use a vacuum cleaner. That way you don't drive dust and dirt further into places that shouldn't be dirty or dusty.