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2301.

Solve : New and Interesting Gadgets.?

Answer» SEARCH for the words
New and INTERESTING Gadgets
...and you MIGHT FIND the

IPOD WRITER


2302.

Solve : Happy Birthday Allan ! !?

Answer»

Have a GREAT ONE ....

patio.Thanks patio . Traveling BACK from a business trip in Naples Fl today.Safe Travelling and Happy Birthday!!!

2303.

Solve : R.I.P. Street_1?

Answer»

We MISS you.

2304.

Solve : Do Americans Now Watch Internet and not TV??

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Do Americans Now Watch Internet and not TV?
About four years some 'expert' said:
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U.S. Online Video VIEWING to Eclipse Broadcast TV by 2020
He under saw it. It is now.Right?
He also said:
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Online video is still in its infancy, with U.S. viewers only watching 22 minutes of Internet-delivered programming a week. However, in 10 years, that will rise to more than two hours of online video a day, TDG analyst Colin Dixon told me today.
One of the reasons behind such a forecast is the growing importance of devices capable of delivering Internet video straight to your TV, according to Dixon. He pointed to Google TV, which was announced by the search engine giant yesterday, as it’s capable of combining broadcast programming with online video. These two worlds will continue to grow together, he said, adding: “Consumers won’t be thinking ‘I’m watching online video;’ they’ll be thinking, ‘I’m watching TV’.”
That is so dated! With TV sit cons now on places like Netflix and Hulu, you can watch continuous video c streams for hours while eating snack food and gaining pounds. Then find another stream about how to lose the weight you put on.

Brut who cares? Well, if you work in TV advertising, you will be looking for a job.
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Netflix Long Term View
Internet TV is replacing linear TV.
Apps are replacing channels,
remote controls are disappearing,
and screens are proliferating.
As Internet TV grows from millions to billions,
Netflix is leading the way around the world.
From http://ir.netflix.com/long-term-view.cfm
Forbes takes this as a real serious thing:
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Statisticians and bean counters always make a big deal out of how many people watch a MAJOR television event like the Super Bowl. Roughly 111.5 million people watched the Seattle Seahawks trample the Denver Broncos in this year’s championship football game.
“Wow!” we exclaim. “That’s an enormous TV audience.”
But like Denver’s sputtering offense, that number shrinks when compared to other forms of viewing. While the Super Bowl is a three-hour annual event, there are WEB properties that draw in millions of viewers each and every day.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinharrington/2014/03/06/changing-the-way-we-watch-tv/
Does it matter?As for myself / household... I did away with Cable TV a few years ago, and now just pay $49.95 per month vs almost $90 per month. I'd actually go for a cheaper $34.95 package if I could do so, but I need the 7/1 bandwidth and wouldnt be able to get by on 3/1 mb/s bandwidth of the basic broadband that comcast offers.

I was sick and tired of paying for cable tv that has become increasingly full of commercials as well as they strategically tore the most popular channels into seperate packages such as seperating Nick and Disney which caused us initially to have to give the choice to our 7 yr old daughter as to... which channels do you need the most. And she wanted both, but I refused to pay for both. As far as commercials go, they seemed more frequent as well. And having netflix and other streaming options with content of my choice any time of day without commercials in most situations, I said goodbye to cable tv.

What also helped was giving my wife and daughter their own computers so they can watch whatever they want online, so the 3 of us can be all in the livingroom watching the same thing THRU the streaming bluray player or watching 3 seperate videos etc. And we are much happier now and its cheaper.

For content that we were unable to view online, mostly for content that my daughter needed such as SpongeBob Square Pants, I found that WalMart was selling the complete seasons of it on DVD for like $12.96 each season and since I also like that cartoon for the embedded adult content that is mixed in, I bought some of the complete seasons and so we can watch spongebob whenever we want without commercials.


So.... we watch Internet and Offline DVD/BluRay discs and havent had cable tv in a couple years and we dont MISS it.
2305.

Solve : Whatever Happened to Shortwave Radio??

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Note to moderator: This is OFF TOPIC. Way off!
The link below is four years ago.

Whatever Happened to Shortwave Radio?

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As recently as 25 years ago, shortwave radio was a preferred source of breaking international news in North America.
Most hours of the day, the BBC World Service boomed in, especially at night on 6175 kHz. There was also Radio Moscow — once the mouthpiece of old-style Soviet propaganda — the Voice of America, Radio Netherlands, Deutsche Welle from West Germany and Radio Berlin International from East Germany.
If you wanted to know what was HAPPENING in Cuba, Tel Aviv or what was then called Bombay, you could tune to Radio Havana, Kol Yisrael or All India Radio directly. -
That is from www.radioworld.com, a web site that still is there.

This last year I cam across my old pocket shortwave radio and tried it for a few minutes. Find something in der 19 mete band. Forgot what it was. So I logged about five minutes of SWL this past year.

Is there anybody here that ever listens to short wave?

Traditional AM shortwave broadcast radio is old technology: the transmitting power levels range from 50 kW to multiples of 1,000 kW (one million watts); this is one area where vacuum tubes still rule. A big one might have an anode ("plate") dissipation of 2,500 kW at an anode voltage of 25 to 30 kV, and around 15 V 640 A for the filament, and weigh around 150 pounds. Such tubes need big and complex cooling plants and very beefy power supplies. The tubes cost upwards of $50,000 and the cooling and PSU equipment is costly, specialized and needs a LOT of careful maintenance by trained personnel. Most shortwave stations still operating are using equipment installed 30 or more years ago and I think they are mostly not being replaced when major work and expenditure is needed.

There is a new digital system called Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM - not to be confused with Digital Rights Management) which allows SW station operators to re-use some of the equipment they have, e.g. antennas (these are also big and expensive) etc and transmit at up to 80% less power (cheaper replacement costs of Tx equipment) for the same global coverage with mono FM radio quality. An international standard is in place. A number of SW broadcasters have switched over to DRM already, and now that All India Radio has taken up DRM you can expect cheap receivers to be available soon. At the moment many people get DRM broadcasts using a communications receiver with 455 kHz out linked to a card in a PC but sets like the Chengdu DR111 are available now at around $180, although personally I would wait for models with better tuning controls.



Articles here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Radio_Mondiale

http://www.drm.org/?p=966

http://blog.dxinginfo.com/2012/08/reviews-of-dr111-drm-radio-from-chengdu.html



I have a shortwave radio that I bought from Radio Shack like 15 years ago. I rarely ever use it. I use to have a old Norelco Tube Set that was a shortwave radio. That unit picked up some good range. Russia, Hong Kong, PuertoRico, and of course the common BBC news that I listed to frequently back when i use to listen at night for the best distance picked up with the night just right in a clear night to catch a bounce that is very distant which would come in and fade out. Also sun spot solar flare activity would kill the range due to the ionosphere bombarded with electromagnetic radiation. Location used with short wave radio is New Hampshire, USA.

Strangest transmission picked up was almost 20 years ago, sounded like south america where someone was just saying numbers in spanish. Knowing some spanish i wrote down the numbers and tried to figure out what it was. I figured it was a CODED message since the numbers had no other meaning that made any sense. For all i know it could have been a coded message broadcast of drug cartels etc..LOLQuote from: DaveLembke on September 07, 2014, 10:11:41 AM
a coded message

Many governments OPERATE so-called "numbers stations", including the US. They are well known to short wave listeners. In 2001 the US Govt arrested the Cuban Five who were controlled by messages from a Cuban numbers station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

I can remember the "Woodpecker" trasnmissions from the 1970s onwards which are now publicly known to be an over-the-horizon radar system called Duga-3 by its Soviet owners and Steelyard by NATO.



I have fairly recently started getting into listening to shortwave radio. I use what is known as a SDR (Software Defined Radio) which is a USB radio device where a lot of the functionality has been implemented in software. You can almost think of an SDR as an interface between an antenna and a computer. This makes them cheap and pretty verstatile. This is the one I have which is marketed as a TV tuner but can be used as an SDR with special software (I used SDR#) - http://www.amazon.com/Receiver-Previously-Compatible-Packages-Guaranteed/dp/B009U7WZCA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1410109116&sr=8-2&keywords=sdr. This has a range of around 37MHz to 1.2GHz so I then use an upconverter (http://www.amazon.com/Ham-It-v1-2-Upconverter-Converter/dp/B009LQT3G6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1410109116&sr=8-3&keywords=sdr) to pick up shortwave.

This is my current setup (USB stick is the SDR, PCB is the upconverter, battery powers my active antenna which is up in the attic (Must use a battery as a regular switch mode power supply produces far too much noise) and the little box with the label on it injects the power from the battery into the coax that runs to the antenna):


It's a very fun device to play with and is very verstatile since it can monitor a couple of MHz at one time, you can even record parts of the spectrum and then tune to different frequencies in the recording afterwards.

The extremely cool thing with SDRs being able to capture large parts of the spectrum at the same time is that multiple users can listen to them at once. This have GIVEN rise to "WebSDRs" such as this one here: http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ which you can go to and use straight away in your browser. I'd certainly recommend having a play with this to see what you can find. What you can receive will vary based on the time of day but you should be able to pick up "The Buzzer" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76) fairly easily on 4625kHz.

This is a screenshot from the SDR software I use (SDR#):

The "waterfall" diagram shows all the different frequencies that the SDR is currently sampling and the brighter colours represent signals of some form, you can then easily zoom in and tune to different frequencies.

The other benefit with it being connected to a computer is that you can use drivers to route the audio signal back into different software allowing decoding of digital signals such as RTTY, Weather Fax and SSTV.

Quote from: DaveLembke on September 07, 2014, 10:11:41 AM
Strangest transmission picked up was almost 20 years ago, sounded like south america where someone was just saying numbers in spanish.
Ahh yes, the "numbers stations" - These were one of the main things that made me buy the SDR setup in the first place, they are pretty interesting. The most common theory is that the numbers are decoded using a "one time pad". Since it is just radio waves being broadcast, it is impossible to track down a potential spy listening to it. A good source of information on these is http://priyom.org/ which has a schedule of when they broadcast as well as information about and recordings of existing stations.camerongray,
Thank you. Excellent post.
I had no idea about SDR and how many companies offer it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software-defined_radios
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List of software-defined radios
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article provides a list of commercially available software-defined radio receivers.
Many are rather pricy, but some less than $200.
Thanks for the info on number-stations, as well as Camerons setup looks sweet. It reminds me of that movie called "The Arrival" with charlie sheen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOc01_Ty1eQ One of my favorite sci-fi movies of the 90s, and yes I have it on blu-ray
2306.

Solve : Happy Birthday GX1_Man ! !?

Answer» HOPE this FINDS you well....we miss you here.

Have a Great ONE buddy...

patio.Happy BIRTHDAY, sheriff.I miss him...
Glad you REMEMBERED Calum...
2307.

Solve : The Ebola crisis. Study the numbers.?

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Yes, not a computer TOPIC. But a story with numbers. Many of you are into STATISTICAL analysis of social issues. You kn ow numbers do not lie, people lie.
Check it out. Review the PUBLISHED statistics. I think you will agree that the Ebola threat is very real. It has an EXPONENTIAL growth rate.
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GENEVA — West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic is probably much worse than the world realizes, with health centers on the front lines warning that the actual numbers of deaths and illnesses are significantly higher than the official estimates, the World Health Organization said.
So far, 2,127 cases of the disease and 1,145 deaths have been REPORTED in four nations — Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone — the W.H.O announced Friday. But the organization has also warned that the actual number is almost certainly higher, perhaps by a very considerable margin.
From WHO, The World Heath Organization.

If anything, it is underrepresented, not exaggerated.
This seems to be an real history of the deadly disease.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/virus/filo/history.html

Here is a recent story that indicates it has been under reported.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/africa/23ebola.html?_r=0
Sadly, that makes it hard to do a true study of the growth and distribution of this threat. So far, there is no real proof that health and hygienic are a factors.

Does anybody here know where to find accurate statistics that can be studied by computer models? Maybe a computer analysis could lead to an effective prevention and or cure of this horrible pathological menace.

And don't say it will never leave Africa. Look at the numbers.
2308.

Solve : Happy Birthday Dave Lembke ! !?

Answer» KEEP on Truckin....

Hope you have a great ONE...Happy Birthday Dave I encourage you to feast UPON baked yeast infested grain products slathered in sugared WATER PASTE, on this, the anniversary of your escape from your incarceration within the womb. Happy birthday, Dave!