Re: Silly resistor values

krw wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:13:29 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

krw wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:13:02 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

JosephKK wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:03:43 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:48:06 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:05:56 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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Do OTA digital stations have a choice of modulation scheme?

No, but they picked the ATSC standard with IMHO way too little field testing. The European DTV system is much more robust in that respect.


I've noticed a decided improvement since OTA digital. I used to have
some bleed-thru from OTA into my cable, causing "ghost" images... some
runs exceed 80' from my distribution amplifier. But that's now
completely gone, because they're now UHF.

Going to UHF was IMHO a serious mistake. When channel 13 was on VHF it came through, usually with little to no ghosting. Now it's unreliable. I do not understand how one can give up a VHF channel in trade for a channel the inferior UHF band. At least not without serious monetary compensation (which I wouldn't know anything about) or without putting up a fight.
Your government at its finest ;-)

I had a chat with the station's engineer and his opinion was that UHF travels through buildings and high-rises better. I guess we lost out to them flatlanders :-)

And besides, I think the vast majority of urban dwellers in high-rises will have cable TV anyhow. IMHO it's only a matter of time until folks on the outskirts hang up on such stations and go to non-local channels on satellite. Or as the next generation already does, fulfill their media consumption wishes via the web for news and Netflix for movies. Then, ad revenue drops, station budgets begin to shrivel up, pink slips are handed out. <brag_mode> I see that coming, just as I saw the mortgage bubble burst coming </brag_mode>.
You are not the only who foresaw the mortgage / flip bubble bursting.
It was clear from the nature of the advertised mortgages in 2005. Plus
locally I also saw a previous tight housing market invert at the same
time as many new apartments and new houses were hitting the market
from late 2004 through early 2006 here locally.

It blows my mind that the chairman of the reserve either didn't see it or preferred to do nothing. It doesn't take much to foresee that the concept of ARMs and, worse, negative amortization loans is wrong and dangerous for the country. It also doesn't take much to see that the competence level of banking managers back then had sunk to a level that was insufficient. I expect more from a chairman, I expect that he does the same what a police officer would do if he saw someone entering the freeway the wrong way.
Not sure what the Fed could have done about it. Banks were still
bound by margin rules (8%, IIRC) on loans. The problem was the
repackaging of mortgage securities traded as investments. I don't
believe they fell under the Fed's purview, rather SEC. A *lot* of
people saw the housing bubble as just that, far fewer saw the real
problem, the ridiculous leveraging going on with trash securities.

Well, that's exactly what gets my blood to boil. It does not make a smidgen of a difference under whose purview this falls. We pay those guys lots of taxpayer money and we expect service for that money, not passing the buck. It's like someone on the Titanic seeing the big iceberg and not telling anyone because it's "not in his job description". If the Fed see trouble, what is so difficult about picking up the phone, calling the guys over at the SEC and arranging some crisis meetings?

The Fed doesn't have the right knobs to turn. Congress asked for this
mess.


But don't they have telephones? If I don't have the right knobs to turn I call someone who does. Like this morning when a client asked for something I usually don't do and don't have the time to do right now. One phone call later the matter was solved, now they have an engineer who can do it for them.

What prevents the higher-ups at the Fed to pick up the phone, call the higher-ups at the SEC and say "Hey, something fishy is going on and it will hurt our country, big time. Can we meet?"

I know Glass-Steagall was repealed and that was a stupid thing to do. But that shouldn't keep higher-ups from raising one heck of a stink.


Currently I am with one foot in mechanical engineering stuff. My client (rightfully) expects me to see and flag potential issues I see to their engineers. I will never say "it ain't my job", because serving my clients is my job.

Different issue.


Sorry, but here I disagree.

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