That only works for spotters who are "directly" underneath the satellite. Anyone off of the axis by which the "video camera" points at the stars would see unexpected stars.
This really has nothing to do with Television or TV transmitters. The idea here is that since a region does not have ALL of the TV channels (frequencies) in use, the unused frequencies could be used by other providers to deliver wireless Internet.
For example: If the region has channels 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 13 (just VHF for this example), then the frequencies that correspond to channels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12 could be used by wireless ISPs.
The reason this is desired is that these frequencies are much lower than the 2.4 GHz and nearby frequencies used by current wireless network technology. Lower frequencies, on the whole, are less diminished by atmospheric moisture and other debris that blocks or absorbs radio waves. Thus, at the same power level, the signal "goes further" at lower frequencies than at higher.
Anyway, this testing of devices for use in this whitespace spectrum is to determine/assess the effectiveness of the devices at scanning a wide portion of radio frequencies, determining where existing services are, and "set up shop" on frequencies where no other service is operating -- automatically.
When did you take your driver's test? I took mine in 1994 in Texas (have also been a Texan from birth) -- it was 25 to get the learner's permit, yes. I was taking a driver's ed course, which was a joke -- taught by the coach at the high school. It was a goof-off time, no one learned anything and there was no effort to teach anything. There were no further tests than the 25 questions. In fact, at least two of my "classmates" failed by 3 questions and were given passes anyway because the lady at the DPS office thought she "deserved" it.
In the US, it's barely required to know how to breathe to get a driver's license. In Texas, there is a 25-question multiple-choice test. That's it. You have to get 70% correct at a minimum. After that, there is no further testing or training required for the remainder of your driving life.:-(
If you publish in an IEEE publication, you must transfer the copyright to IEEE, but the copyright transfer document immediately returns to the authors the right to reproduce the work as long as it's not used to imply IEEE endorsement of something described in the paper.
Actually, that's wrong. The original HP calc had a red LCD, and that damn bright alarm clock of mine that I put a shirt over every night has a green LCD.
Which brings up a pet peeve of mine -- cities/municipalities that do not trim overgrown vegetation from around corners of road intersections. There are a few intersections where I live that have so much un-pruned hedges or overgrown trees that it causes the hurried folks who want to turn right-on-red so badly that they pull INTO the intersection so they can see if it's clear to turn. It's a danger to those other hurried people on the main road who are driving so fast and not paying attention to cars in their lane at intersections. It's death waiting to happen.
Armitage isn't polarizing. He doesn't open his mouth all the time on public matters and isn't a favorite of the current Administration nor the previous. He did his job. Therefore, he's "harmless".
Also, it apparently was determined that he spilled the beans accidentally and the particular laws that govern the area in question say that it's only a crime to disclose the identity of an undercover agent with malicious intent. Sometimes when bad things happen, it is just an accident.
Soviets get defeated, terrorists sit around with no enemy, get bored and fed up of American attitude towards them
Don't forget that the "American attitude towards them" that they got fed up with was that pretty much all support (weapons, money, etc.) was immediately stopped when the Soviets were defeated, so groups fighting to regain control of their own country no longer had the resources to proceed with the next step of rebuilding a government and repairing the damages of war.
They thought the U.S. cared about them and their country, but in reality, the U.S.' goal was to defeat the Soviets.
The military does have units whose jobs are to engineer and build infrastructure. Part of the problem is that they were trained to build infrastructure for the rest of the military where that infrastructure would thereafter be guarded by well-armed soldiers.
Instead, they (and the other non-military contractors) are building infrastructure for use by the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan and therefore not guarding it with the same intensity they would if it was critical for military operations.
I agree with you that putting a group of men and women who have been trained to kill the enemy are not being as effective when put in their current position.
And funeral directors all over the U.S. almost universally claim that "state law" in whatever state they are in requires a burial vault into which the casket is placed.
Unfortunately, in most states, this is a lie. Some cities may have such requirements, but few states have burial vault requirements. Nevertheless, grieving family members are told all kinds of false regulations that cost money.
The funeral/burial industry preys on emotions and milks families out of huge amounts of money (thousands of dollars) for unnecessary funeral products or services.
Best bet, if you're going to go for the whole funeral/casket/burial thing is to pre-plan (but don't pre-pay!) your funeral services before you die. That way, you can pick out the low-cost items that you want to buy rather than have a highly emotional spouse or sibling pick "only the very best" for what is now a lump of organic material and water.
"They" who? A primary isn't a constitutional election. It's a private group (the Party) holding a private election to determine who the party will place to represent the party in the National election.
The idea of combining all parties into a single primary is absurd.
We already have "all interested candidates on one ballot". It's the national 2nd Tuesday in November election ballot. If a party wanted to put two candidates from their party into the ring, they could, but they would hardly ever win.
Prohibiting non-affiliated groups flat-out from participating in public discourse is too much like censorship or some other free-speech limitation to me.
It's a tough issue to deal with correctly, I think. There's just too much money involved in politics. That makes the stakes high, which means more money gets poured in, and so on.
I think the idea is a good one, but of course there are details to be worked out.
What about non-affiliated groups who wish to either endorse a particular candidate or endorse a position which is intimately associated with a particular candidate?
As we saw in the 2004 election, the non-affiliated groups hosted an enormous transfer of money and either had much influence with the People or with the media. At that point, it's not as fair anymore.
I think most of the group of elected persons we have in Federal government now are a bunch of crooks, regardless of party affiliation. They've been passing laws and such to cement their power and every year it gets harder to undo it.
The last time I was in an airport, about 5 months ago, I was waiting in the terminal with all the other folks, etc.
There was a lady there who was either an insurance agent or in some insurance- or heath-related business.
She was helping someone file some report or claim and happily read out, very loudly, the names, birthdays, and social security numbers of an entire family of five, complete with repeats to make sure the other person got the numbers correctly.
I considered writing it all down and showing the lady, saying, "Thanks, I'm sure I'll be able to get a few grand out of this information!"
She had no sense that her voice was filling the entire terminal (2 gates, tiny airport) or that the information she was giving out might be of any use to anyone else...
You just described the kind of hybrid that the auto makers are selling.
I believe the grandparent poster meant direct, electric-only wheel power, not the "dual-forces on one driveshaft" approach current hybrids use.
Diesel-electric locomotives have no direct mechanical linkage from the hydrocarbon-fueled engine to the wheels on the track. This is exactly the kind of car I am waiting for. I'm a EE, so I like the idea of electricity as the main transport of energy in a car. And the hydrocarbon engine plus generator could be replaced in the future by better technology. So IF someone made an inexpensive, reliable fuel cell, it could take the place of the engine.
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That only works for spotters who are "directly" underneath the satellite. Anyone off of the axis by which the "video camera" points at the stars would see unexpected stars.
It's truly irrelevant to the meat of the discussion. Just some photos of a fire in a machine room.
http://www-viz.tamu.edu/staff/kglueck/images.php3?list=vizfire
Wasn't a UPS, but a 3-phase power conditioner for a machine room. Yes, it was a freak accident.
This really has nothing to do with Television or TV transmitters. The idea here is that since a region does not have ALL of the TV channels (frequencies) in use, the unused frequencies could be used by other providers to deliver wireless Internet.
For example: If the region has channels 2, 4, 5, 8, 11, and 13 (just VHF for this example), then the frequencies that correspond to channels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 12 could be used by wireless ISPs.
The reason this is desired is that these frequencies are much lower than the 2.4 GHz and nearby frequencies used by current wireless network technology. Lower frequencies, on the whole, are less diminished by atmospheric moisture and other debris that blocks or absorbs radio waves. Thus, at the same power level, the signal "goes further" at lower frequencies than at higher.
Anyway, this testing of devices for use in this whitespace spectrum is to determine/assess the effectiveness of the devices at scanning a wide portion of radio frequencies, determining where existing services are, and "set up shop" on frequencies where no other service is operating -- automatically.
When did you take your driver's test? I took mine in 1994 in Texas (have also been a Texan from birth) -- it was 25 to get the learner's permit, yes. I was taking a driver's ed course, which was a joke -- taught by the coach at the high school. It was a goof-off time, no one learned anything and there was no effort to teach anything. There were no further tests than the 25 questions. In fact, at least two of my "classmates" failed by 3 questions and were given passes anyway because the lady at the DPS office thought she "deserved" it.
In the US, it's barely required to know how to breathe to get a driver's license. In Texas, there is a 25-question multiple-choice test. That's it. You have to get 70% correct at a minimum. After that, there is no further testing or training required for the remainder of your driving life. :-(
If you publish in an IEEE publication, you must transfer the copyright to IEEE, but the copyright transfer document immediately returns to the authors the right to reproduce the work as long as it's not used to imply IEEE endorsement of something described in the paper.
http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs_iportals/iportals/publications/rights/IEEECopyrightForm.pdf
You mean LED, not LCD.
Which brings up a pet peeve of mine -- cities/municipalities that do not trim overgrown vegetation from around corners of road intersections. There are a few intersections where I live that have so much un-pruned hedges or overgrown trees that it causes the hurried folks who want to turn right-on-red so badly that they pull INTO the intersection so they can see if it's clear to turn. It's a danger to those other hurried people on the main road who are driving so fast and not paying attention to cars in their lane at intersections. It's death waiting to happen.
Might I say, an excellent reason to sign up!
I think there's still quite a few of us early users still around...
Armitage isn't polarizing. He doesn't open his mouth all the time on public matters and isn't a favorite of the current Administration nor the previous. He did his job. Therefore, he's "harmless".
Also, it apparently was determined that he spilled the beans accidentally and the particular laws that govern the area in question say that it's only a crime to disclose the identity of an undercover agent with malicious intent. Sometimes when bad things happen, it is just an accident.
The "Reply" link is on the floating control on the left side of the page.
Don't forget that the "American attitude towards them" that they got fed up with was that pretty much all support (weapons, money, etc.) was immediately stopped when the Soviets were defeated, so groups fighting to regain control of their own country no longer had the resources to proceed with the next step of rebuilding a government and repairing the damages of war.
They thought the U.S. cared about them and their country, but in reality, the U.S.' goal was to defeat the Soviets.
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The military does have units whose jobs are to engineer and build infrastructure. Part of the problem is that they were trained to build infrastructure for the rest of the military where that infrastructure would thereafter be guarded by well-armed soldiers.
Instead, they (and the other non-military contractors) are building infrastructure for use by the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan and therefore not guarding it with the same intensity they would if it was critical for military operations.
I agree with you that putting a group of men and women who have been trained to kill the enemy are not being as effective when put in their current position.
And funeral directors all over the U.S. almost universally claim that "state law" in whatever state they are in requires a burial vault into which the casket is placed.
Unfortunately, in most states, this is a lie. Some cities may have such requirements, but few states have burial vault requirements. Nevertheless, grieving family members are told all kinds of false regulations that cost money.
The funeral/burial industry preys on emotions and milks families out of huge amounts of money (thousands of dollars) for unnecessary funeral products or services.
Best bet, if you're going to go for the whole funeral/casket/burial thing is to pre-plan (but don't pre-pay!) your funeral services before you die. That way, you can pick out the low-cost items that you want to buy rather than have a highly emotional spouse or sibling pick "only the very best" for what is now a lump of organic material and water.
So let's just have all elected officials be required to take vows of poverty, chastity, and silence! ;-)
"They" who? A primary isn't a constitutional election. It's a private group (the Party) holding a private election to determine who the party will place to represent the party in the National election.
The idea of combining all parties into a single primary is absurd.
We already have "all interested candidates on one ballot". It's the national 2nd Tuesday in November election ballot. If a party wanted to put two candidates from their party into the ring, they could, but they would hardly ever win.
To continue:
Prohibiting non-affiliated groups flat-out from participating in public discourse is too much like censorship or some other free-speech limitation to me.
It's a tough issue to deal with correctly, I think. There's just too much money involved in politics. That makes the stakes high, which means more money gets poured in, and so on.
I think the idea is a good one, but of course there are details to be worked out.
What about non-affiliated groups who wish to either endorse a particular candidate or endorse a position which is intimately associated with a particular candidate?
As we saw in the 2004 election, the non-affiliated groups hosted an enormous transfer of money and either had much influence with the People or with the media. At that point, it's not as fair anymore.
I think most of the group of elected persons we have in Federal government now are a bunch of crooks, regardless of party affiliation. They've been passing laws and such to cement their power and every year it gets harder to undo it.
Oxyd, Oxyd Magnum, etc.
A great puzzle game.
The last time I was in an airport, about 5 months ago, I was waiting in the terminal with all the other folks, etc.
There was a lady there who was either an insurance agent or in some insurance- or heath-related business.
She was helping someone file some report or claim and happily read out, very loudly, the names, birthdays, and social security numbers of an entire family of five, complete with repeats to make sure the other person got the numbers correctly.
I considered writing it all down and showing the lady, saying, "Thanks, I'm sure I'll be able to get a few grand out of this information!"
She had no sense that her voice was filling the entire terminal (2 gates, tiny airport) or that the information she was giving out might be of any use to anyone else...
I believe the grandparent poster meant direct, electric-only wheel power, not the "dual-forces on one driveshaft" approach current hybrids use.
Diesel-electric locomotives have no direct mechanical linkage from the hydrocarbon-fueled engine to the wheels on the track. This is exactly the kind of car I am waiting for. I'm a EE, so I like the idea of electricity as the main transport of energy in a car. And the hydrocarbon engine plus generator could be replaced in the future by better technology. So IF someone made an inexpensive, reliable fuel cell, it could take the place of the engine.