What is to stop me from
1. downloading their design software,
2. designing my board, and then
3. printing out the board design myself, and
4. burining the board myself?
It is a realatively simple process to make pc boards once you have a design and template. It is similar to printing and developing photographs (using film and chemicals, remember that?)
COBOL will never die.
If copyrights are the property of their owners, why not treat them as property and require that property taxes be paid on copyrights
Not to morph the subject, but I have been proposing for years that, just like real estate is taxed at the local level, so too ownership of stocks, bonds, and other business entities (patents, copyrights) should be taxed. A tax of 1/2 of one percent would result in a lowering of the massive US income tax from 15%-25%-35% to a more manageable FIVE percent. It would spread the tax base and the wealth.
auction off download rates for each artist by the number of songs sold...
Really? I thought that the point of an auction was to balance the supply and demand of an item or items. But with electronic files, there is always fininte demand, but unlimited supply. Thus, the price of any song should drop to nearly zero, very fast.
even an object that needs to be handled carefully is more substantial (and in my experience, trustworthy) than 100% reliable service
If a DVD is ruined, you still have your other 99 or 999 DVDs to watch. If the network is down, your only choice would be to put up rabbit ears.
COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL
COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL
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competitive chip makers like AMD and Doritos
"Doritos" is a trademark of the advanced chip-maker Frito-Lay Company. Jay Leno is their main number-cruncher spokesman.
so, what is this 20 second rule? Is it like the 5 second rule, that if food falls on the floor, but is there for less than 5 seconds, then you can still eat it?
OK call me a nut, but I REALLY like to listen to distant AM stations at night - with all of the wow, flutter, fading and static.
First, there is the thrill of the DX, hooking up with that station thousands (well, hundreds) of miles away. Sometimes, the content is better too, like AM Coast to Coast which I can pick up on CKLW in Montreal. And let's face it, I have been doing this since I was a kid (now almost 50) so there is definitely the nostalia element. The oldies from the 60's and 70's sound the way that I remember them, with the 5kHz cutoff of the high tones.
So, with that said, you can see that everyone has his or her preferences, and these can be illogical. It can be worse, like worshipping Britney Spears or J.Lo.
If someone prefers a tube type amplifier over solid state, I say, more power to ya.
Here is what would happen if the tether snapped.
Since the counterweight would be slightly past the geosync orbit position (with the associated potential energy keeping the tether taught), at snap the counterweight satellite would drift out past the geosync position, and the resulting position of the counterweight would oscilate up and down, like going up and down hills on a bicycle.
The solution to this problem would be to have a backup tether on board the counterweight satellite, and drop it when the satellite is in the proper position.
Actually, the drop would need to be done using rockets. Ironic!
The damage caused by the nanotube tether would be negligible to all carbon based life forms. And unless it was severed in more than one place, the lower part could be rolled back in, and the upper part also rolled back in, and rejoined at the break.
Fact: At least 50% of all computer code in use today is written in COBOL. That's why Y2K was such an issue. COBOL forever!
"...there are many services using radio spectrum in the HF regions...These hobbyists, who use a very small portion of the frequencies in question...and regulations in place stating that no service is allowed to interfere with another. Period."
I live near the ocean. Now, people who own property near or on the shore have certain rights to access. However, the shore and the ocean is public property, and legal access can and should not be denied to all.
I view the radio spectrum in a similar way; as public property. And although many people or organizations may have licence to exclusive bands or frequencies, still, the public should have access to some bandwidth. The public are served to this right and privilege in the amateur radio service. Amateurs need not justify their existence by claiming public service, emergency service, technological advancement or other excuses(although these justifications are viable). The amateur radio service is justified on its own merits.
BPL, if used, will certainly incringe on the amateur radio service, just as an oil slick will ruin a public beach.
What is the highest that I can possibly score on a reply to a question that has a score of 1? Even if I am so Interesting and Funny, what is it worth? anyway...
"suitable resistor and smoothing capacitor ) straight into some voltage regulators"
You answered your own question. A voltage reg requires a resistor. Resistors leak heat, i.e. power equals current squared time resistance. The more current, the more power wasted.
Yes, it would approach 100% efficency, as the current approached zero.
Around here, the story is just the opposite. I couldn't get cable internet for years, however, I connected with Verizon DSL and am happy.
I was always wondering about "digital cable" that was advertized. What they meant was that the television signal was digital. I called the company about internet, and it was not in the offering.
how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?"
We will see DSL/Cable rates drop when an EVEN FASTER method is invented. When you would pay $100 per month for a Terabyte/second connection, then DSL will cost $10/month.
I googled my name... guess what? An email that I sent in 1988 !!! popped up. You try it. my address was zuz@nih thats it, no high level qualifier.
As an aside, I was always curious about the OLDEST file or message that still resides on a server somewhere, and you could retrieve, find on google or excite, etc. Could have a contest and awards.
//SYSIN DD * PLEASE HARD-MOUNT SCRATCH TAPES BEING REQUESTED BY JOB EIRXX99
"Eyephones"?
How about "earglasses"? If you call watching at a distance "television", then radio is "telehearing". "What are you doing with those things on your ears, Joe?" "I'm telehearing, Jake. By the way, the things on my ears are 'eyephones'."
I suppose you could call a cell phone as a "telephone". Makes sense.
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What is to stop me from
1. downloading their design software,
2. designing my board, and then
3. printing out the board design myself, and
4. burining the board myself?
It is a realatively simple process to make pc boards once you have a design and template. It is similar to printing and developing photographs (using film and chemicals, remember that?)
COBOL will never die.
If copyrights are the property of their owners, why not treat them as property and require that property taxes be paid on copyrights
Not to morph the subject, but I have been proposing for years that, just like real estate is taxed at the local level, so too ownership of stocks, bonds, and other business entities (patents, copyrights) should be taxed. A tax of 1/2 of one percent would result in a lowering of the massive US income tax from 15%-25%-35% to a more manageable FIVE percent. It would spread the tax base and the wealth.
COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL
auction off download rates for each artist by the number of songs sold...
Really? I thought that the point of an auction was to balance the supply and demand of an item or items. But with electronic files, there is always fininte demand, but unlimited supply. Thus, the price of any song should drop to nearly zero, very fast.
COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL
even an object that needs to be handled carefully is more substantial (and in my experience, trustworthy) than 100% reliable service
If a DVD is ruined, you still have your other 99 or 999 DVDs to watch. If the network is down, your only choice would be to put up rabbit ears.
COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL COBOL
competitive chip makers like AMD and Doritos
"Doritos" is a trademark of the advanced chip-maker Frito-Lay Company. Jay Leno is their main number-cruncher spokesman.
so, what is this 20 second rule? Is it like the 5 second rule, that if food falls on the floor, but is there for less than 5 seconds, then you can still eat it?
OK call me a nut, but I REALLY like to listen to distant AM stations at night - with all of the wow, flutter, fading and static.
First, there is the thrill of the DX, hooking up with that station thousands (well, hundreds) of miles away. Sometimes, the content is better too, like AM Coast to Coast which I can pick up on CKLW in Montreal. And let's face it, I have been doing this since I was a kid (now almost 50) so there is definitely the nostalia element. The oldies from the 60's and 70's sound the way that I remember them, with the 5kHz cutoff of the high tones.
So, with that said, you can see that everyone has his or her preferences, and these can be illogical. It can be worse, like worshipping Britney Spears or J.Lo.
If someone prefers a tube type amplifier over solid state, I say, more power to ya.
Joe Cotton
COBOL will never die.
Here is what would happen if the tether snapped.
Since the counterweight would be slightly past the geosync orbit position (with the associated potential energy keeping the tether taught), at snap the counterweight satellite would drift out past the geosync position, and the resulting position of the counterweight would oscilate up and down, like going up and down hills on a bicycle.
The solution to this problem would be to have a backup tether on board the counterweight satellite, and drop it when the satellite is in the proper position. Actually, the drop would need to be done using rockets. Ironic!
The damage caused by the nanotube tether would be negligible to all carbon based life forms. And unless it was severed in more than one place, the lower part could be rolled back in, and the upper part also rolled back in, and rejoined at the break.
Fact: At least 50% of all computer code in use today is written in COBOL. That's why Y2K was such an issue. COBOL forever!
"...there are many services using radio spectrum in the HF regions...These hobbyists, who use a very small portion of the frequencies in question...and regulations in place stating that no service is allowed to interfere with another. Period."
I live near the ocean. Now, people who own property near or on the shore have certain rights to access. However, the shore and the ocean is public property, and legal access can and should not be denied to all.
I view the radio spectrum in a similar way; as public property. And although many people or organizations may have licence to exclusive bands or frequencies, still, the public should have access to some bandwidth. The public are served to this right and privilege in the amateur radio service. Amateurs need not justify their existence by claiming public service, emergency service, technological advancement or other excuses(although these justifications are viable). The amateur radio service is justified on its own merits.
BPL, if used, will certainly incringe on the amateur radio service, just as an oil slick will ruin a public beach.
N3IQA
Anyone can have a solid state computer. Just go back to DOS 3.3. Who was it that said "I don't know why anybody would ever need more than 640k"?
39.37 inches * 2.54 (cm/inch) = 99.9998 cm
Close enough for government work.
COmmon Business Oriented Language. At least 50% of all code in the U.S. is in COBOL. Beats any other language.
So - go live in your car, it has a 13.5 volt power supply. Oh, you already live there?
What is the highest that I can possibly score on a reply to a question that has a score of 1? Even if I am so Interesting and Funny, what is it worth?
anyway...
"suitable resistor and smoothing capacitor ) straight into some voltage regulators"
You answered your own question. A voltage reg requires a resistor. Resistors leak heat, i.e. power equals current squared time resistance. The more current, the more power wasted.
Yes, it would approach 100% efficency, as the current approached zero.
I am fat and I don't have the energy to get up and unplug the little sucker.
Around here, the story is just the opposite. I couldn't get cable internet for years, however, I connected with Verizon DSL and am happy.
I was always wondering about "digital cable" that was advertized. What they meant was that the television signal was digital. I called the company about internet, and it was not in the offering.
how long will it be before we start seeing the cable companies (such as Comcast) start dropping their prices to levels which compete directly with dial-up?"
We will see DSL/Cable rates drop when an EVEN FASTER method is invented. When you would pay $100 per month for a Terabyte/second connection, then DSL will cost $10/month.
blast a pellet of frozen hydrogen isotopes, turning it into a tiny (and thus safe) hydrogen bomb.
You mean "nuclear fusion"?
Even after you delete it from the recycle bin, it still can be retrived from your hard drive by an expert.
As an aside, I was always curious about the OLDEST file or message that still resides on a server somewhere, and you could retrieve, find on google or excite, etc. Could have a contest and awards.
Yeh, for $999 and $1900. Chump change. I am already nearsighted, dont need to make it worse.
The chairman of IBM, in 1949, predicted that the "world could use maybe five computers".
I have five cell phones.
"Eyephones"?
How about "earglasses"? If you call watching at a distance "television", then radio is "telehearing". "What are you doing with those things on your ears, Joe?"
"I'm telehearing, Jake. By the way, the things on my ears are 'eyephones'."
I suppose you could call a cell phone as a "telephone". Makes sense.