You should have said something. I've got mod points right now and you could have borrowed one.:-)
Seriously, though, just 'cause there's no "-1, horribly bad pun" mod isn't an excuse to mod without knowing the meanings of the different available ones. They could have modded me "overrated" and I'd have had nothing about which to complain . I might not have agreed, but could have accepted it as an honest difference of opinion.
This post could be quite legitimately modded down as "offtopic", but, since it isn't restating the content of someone else's earlier post to this story, it isn't redundant.
Now if there were some way that this post could be modded "-1, redundant,:-)", that would be funny.
Most of the frequencies, i.e., spectrum space, currently being used for analog television will be used for digital television, and will continue to be licensed, not auctioned.
You do know that "TV stations only get to be TV stations in the first place because we allow them to use spectrum that belongs to all of us, the people, collectively", right?
If the state is already permitting the use of various frequencies for commercial companies, surely those companies should be able to use those frequencies as they see fit.
The "state", through the Federal Communications Commission, permits, or licenses, the use, by commercial companies and others, of various frequencies for specific applications. I'm speaking specifically of those chunks of spectrum which have not been auctioned off. For instance, the television broadcasters hold licenses to use particular frequencies for the purpose of broadcasting television signals. If they don't want to use that particular frequency to broadcast a television signal, then they won't get, or be allowed to retain, a license for that particular frequency.
If the frequency used for Channel 5 in Raleigh could be used for something other than television in Washington DC (I think they have a Channel 5) and the people at 5 in Washington decided to broadcast their television signal on a frequency somewhere in the business FM radio band (where taxi radios are), imagine how much fun designing television tuners would be.
A schematic? Of a recent motherboard or switching supply? You must be from a galaxy far, far away, because such things certainly aren't available around here.
Non-polarized electrolytics or non-electrolytic capacitors in a crossover network aren't subject to nearly the stresses put upon capacitors in power supplies, especially in switching supplies, or the ones clustered around a CPU, or the high voltage electrolytics used in tube-type equipment. Electrolytics that have been in constant service have a better chance of surviving than those which have been lying around unused.
It comes from scuppers, which are openings along the side of sailing ships, like pirate ships, that are there to let water run back out to the sea instead of pooling on the deck. If you hose down the deck, any trash, seaweed bits, fish guts and bones, et cetera, are "scuppered".
See also: "What shall we do with the drunken sailor?"
Not only is there a serial port, but there is also an RJ45 jack for a "smart antenna" (electrically aimed instead of mechanically), and I would be interested to see if it could be used for sending any other communications and commands in or out of the converter.
Its all part of the citizens towing the governmental line...
One doesn't "tow" a line, one "toes" it, as in someone draws a line in the dirt or on the floor and everyone is expected to line up right behind it, with their toes almost touching it but not extending over it. The kind of control freak/submission/conformity thing for which gym class and military basic training are famous.
This is all just part of the build-up for what will be the most astounding corporate marketing stunt of all time: the death and resurrection of Steve Jobs.
So the next product announcement will be for... the iCorpse?
If you spent "x" buying Apple at $50 you should have sold half of it when it hit $100. Then you would have still had "x" dollars worth of Apple and "x" dollars with which to diversify into other stocks. Even after Apple's share price takes a big hit tomorrow, it'll probably still be above $50.
When they say that Latin is a "dead language", they mean that it is no longer undergoing the changes which a "living" language does.
F'rinstance, back in the 1890s, referred to as 'the gay ninties', the word 'gay' was used to mean lighthearted, happy, fun-loving, et cetera, but it had nothing to do with whether someone was attracted to their own sex rather than the opposite one. Even in 1965 if you saw the phrase 'gay young fellow' in print, you would assume it referred to the young man's mood rather than with whom he was inclined to be reclined, by 1975, not so much, by 1985, almost certainly not, by 1995, only if you knew for certain that the writer was an out of touch geriatric penning his or her memoirs.
That's why doctors use Latin, the meaning of particular words is pretty much 'set in stone', which reduces possibly fatal misunderstandings (assuming, of course, that you can read their handwriting).
Unless they're using the replicator to solve the problem of how to be culturally sensitive to the nutritional needs of cannibals without actually having to kill anybody.
Prices are coming down right now, and the difference between direct burial and using PVC conduit may be close enough that I'll just go with direct burial. Of course, throwing in some conduit doesn't hurt either, if you're ever thinking of adding something like CAT5 for Internet or phone.
Never run low voltage wiring (telephone, TV cable, intercom, thermostat, ethernet, et cetera) in the same conduit with "electrical" wiring (120 and/or 240). It's a violation of the National Electrical Code, which in most jurisdictions has the force of law, and it's unsafe in a number of ways.
Also, the NEC has specific requirements concerning how large an inside diameter the conduit has to have, depending on how many of what gauge wires are run through it.
If you're going to run both low voltage and power conduits in the same ditch, make it wide enough and deep enough to allow for some vertical and horizontal separation between them, and mark which are which every foot or so for the sake of safety and convenience.
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So this whole "ISP subscription thingie" is really just a stealth plot to save print journalism?
You should have said something. I've got mod points right now and you could have borrowed one. :-)
Seriously, though, just 'cause there's no "-1, horribly bad pun" mod isn't an excuse to mod without knowing the meanings of the different available ones. They could have modded me "overrated" and I'd have had nothing about which to complain . I might not have agreed, but could have accepted it as an honest difference of opinion.
This post could be quite legitimately modded down as "offtopic", but, since it isn't restating the content of someone else's earlier post to this story, it isn't redundant.
Now if there were some way that this post could be modded "-1, redundant, :-)", that would be funny.
Yes, but was it .... (Score:1, Redundant)
by unitron (5733) on Wed Feb 04, '09 09:57 PM (#26732929)
Methinks that someone who doesn't understand the meaning of "redundant" got mod points.
Most of the frequencies, i.e., spectrum space, currently being used for analog television will be used for digital television, and will continue to be licensed, not auctioned.
You do know that "TV stations only get to be TV stations in the first place because we allow them to use spectrum that belongs to all of us, the people, collectively", right?
If the state is already permitting the use of various frequencies for commercial companies, surely those companies should be able to use those frequencies as they see fit.
The "state", through the Federal Communications Commission, permits, or licenses, the use, by commercial companies and others, of various frequencies for specific applications. I'm speaking specifically of those chunks of spectrum which have not been auctioned off. For instance, the television broadcasters hold licenses to use particular frequencies for the purpose of broadcasting television signals. If they don't want to use that particular frequency to broadcast a television signal, then they won't get, or be allowed to retain, a license for that particular frequency.
If the frequency used for Channel 5 in Raleigh could be used for something other than television in Washington DC (I think they have a Channel 5) and the people at 5 in Washington decided to broadcast their television signal on a frequency somewhere in the business FM radio band (where taxi radios are), imagine how much fun designing television tuners would be.
...Boron in the U.S.A.?
(with apologies to Mr. Springsteen)
Are you saying that North Korea keeps foreigners out in order to protect those high paying jobs held by the average North Korean? :-)
What retard thinks they need more than one CFL to replace one incandescent bulb?
Those who have actual experience with trying to achieve acceptable brightness levels when replacing incandescents with CFLs?
At the retail level shoplifting and employee theft are often referred to as shrinkage.
8. Provide a schematic...
A schematic? Of a recent motherboard or switching supply? You must be from a galaxy far, far away, because such things certainly aren't available around here.
Non-polarized electrolytics or non-electrolytic capacitors in a crossover network aren't subject to nearly the stresses put upon capacitors in power supplies, especially in switching supplies, or the ones clustered around a CPU, or the high voltage electrolytics used in tube-type equipment. Electrolytics that have been in constant service have a better chance of surviving than those which have been lying around unused.
Data on flash cards decay...
I had a sudden mental image of the print fading away on the original type flash cards, the index card size paper or cardboard kind.
Another reason not to phase out incandescent bulbs.
And yes, electrolytic capacitors don't age well, even if they aren't the ones produced during the "capacitor disease" debacle.
It comes from scuppers, which are openings along the side of sailing ships, like pirate ships, that are there to let water run back out to the sea instead of pooling on the deck. If you hose down the deck, any trash, seaweed bits, fish guts and bones, et cetera, are "scuppered".
See also:
"What shall we do with the drunken sailor?"
Does everything have to be hacked?
Turn in your geek card, fella! :-)
Not only is there a serial port, but there is also an RJ45 jack for a "smart antenna" (electrically aimed instead of mechanically), and I would be interested to see if it could be used for sending any other communications and commands in or out of the converter.
Its all part of the citizens towing the governmental line...
One doesn't "tow" a line, one "toes" it, as in someone draws a line in the dirt or on the floor and everyone is expected to line up right behind it, with their toes almost touching it but not extending over it. The kind of control freak/submission/conformity thing for which gym class and military basic training are famous.
This is all just part of the build-up for what will be the most astounding corporate marketing stunt of all time: the death and resurrection of Steve Jobs.
So the next product announcement will be for ... the iCorpse?
If you spent "x" buying Apple at $50 you should have sold half of it when it hit $100. Then you would have still had "x" dollars worth of Apple and "x" dollars with which to diversify into other stocks. Even after Apple's share price takes a big hit tomorrow, it'll probably still be above $50.
...and Suddenlink ads are the most irritating ads in existence...
Oh, to live somewhere where the ads are no more irritating than the Suddenlink ads.
When they say that Latin is a "dead language", they mean that it is no longer undergoing the changes which a "living" language does.
F'rinstance, back in the 1890s, referred to as 'the gay ninties', the word 'gay' was used to mean lighthearted, happy, fun-loving, et cetera, but it had nothing to do with whether someone was attracted to their own sex rather than the opposite one. Even in 1965 if you saw the phrase 'gay young fellow' in print, you would assume it referred to the young man's mood rather than with whom he was inclined to be reclined, by 1975, not so much, by 1985, almost certainly not, by 1995, only if you knew for certain that the writer was an out of touch geriatric penning his or her memoirs.
That's why doctors use Latin, the meaning of particular words is pretty much 'set in stone', which reduces possibly fatal misunderstandings (assuming, of course, that you can read their handwriting).
Everyone is constantly glancing around at everything.
Probably trying to avoid muggers and eye contact with the crazies.
Unless they're using the replicator to solve the problem of how to be culturally sensitive to the nutritional needs of cannibals without actually having to kill anybody.
Prices are coming down right now, and the difference between direct burial and using PVC conduit may be close enough that I'll just go with direct burial. Of course, throwing in some conduit doesn't hurt either, if you're ever thinking of adding something like CAT5 for Internet or phone.
Never run low voltage wiring (telephone, TV cable, intercom, thermostat, ethernet, et cetera) in the same conduit with "electrical" wiring (120 and/or 240). It's a violation of the National Electrical Code, which in most jurisdictions has the force of law, and it's unsafe in a number of ways.
Also, the NEC has specific requirements concerning how large an inside diameter the conduit has to have, depending on how many of what gauge wires are run through it.
If you're going to run both low voltage and power conduits in the same ditch, make it wide enough and deep enough to allow for some vertical and horizontal separation between them, and mark which are which every foot or so for the sake of safety and convenience.