And, honestly, is there something individuals want to do that they can't already accomplish with the ham and unlicensed Wi-Fi bands that are already available?
Yes. One such use case is transmitting the output of an aftermarket DAB receiver installed in a vehicle to the FM receiver in the vehicle's head unit. Not all head units have an AUX IN jack.
For broadcasters, the iBiquity HDRadio IBOC system can also be switched to 100% digital someday, but it is not likely to happen for a very long time if ever due to all the legacy analogue FM radios out there even in brand new consumer electronic gear.
I'd bet a big part of that has to do with both patents and trade secrets that encumber HD Radio.
Read your own bloody link in the future.
It's $350k in income per year, not in net worth. There is a massive difference between the two. A house counts for the latter and not the former.
According to this article you need around $8 million in net worth to be part of the 1%:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/4880064...
So no, a house doesn't cut it.
Then there's also the premise that going out and spending 25Euro on a radio sometime in the next two years is a problem.
How would you go about installing such a 25 euro radio into your car?
Until other drivers start complaining that your microbroadcasts are interfering with their DAB reception and reporting you to the foreign counterpart of the FCC.
So how do you expect people to time-shift Internet stream programming at home to listen to it in the car? I thought one of the conditions under which licensors licensed programming to streaming providers was that the programming could not be time-shifted without an analog reconversion.
In the past, Steam was full of defects that caused it to often lose the cached receipts* that allow offline mode to work. The earliest versions (in the Half-Life 2 era) wouldn't even try to download these receipts for offline use unless the user chose "Go Offline" while online. Even the current version still has bugs that appear to require the purchase of a UPS according to Valve's page about offline mode:
Stored information that is required for offline mode to function may be lost when forcing Steam to close instead of exiting Steam correctly. Always manually close Steam before shutting your computer down or running out of battery life if you wish to use offline mode for an extended period of time.
If the required offline mode data is lost, there is no way to start Steam without an internet connection.
* "Receipts" are what the OUYA IAP system calls the associations between an item that can be purchased and a user account. Google Play Licensing calls it a cached licensing status. The terminology might differ for Steam.
The Steam version has exactly the same features.
I thought retail games were for people on slow or capped Internet connections, and the update was smaller than the full game. Good luck downloading a 10 GB game over a satellite or cellular Internet connection capped at 10 GB per month.
And you don't have to support Wal-Mart.
You still support Walmart if you buy Steam gift cards at Walmart.
Yeah, you're right. $5 seems like a good threshold to keep out the spammers.
Team Fortress 2, the free-to-play game published by the company that runs Steam, is rated M by the ESRB for "blood and gore" and "intense violence. How does the Steam service comply with the video game industry's self-regulation of sales of M games to minors?
unless you dug the device out of the trash and are also stealing electricity, I think spending $5 at one time or another isn't much to require.
Mostly I'm thinking of a middle school or high school student who received a hand-me-down device for the child's birthday or Christmas. Their parents provide free electricity and often free Internet, restaurants provide free Internet and often free electricity to laptop users, and child labor laws prohibit earning money for anything else.
There is no logical difference between execution and murder versus imprisonment and kidnapping.
Except that one of them is irreversible.
A -> B vs A -> B, X? B-> A
By your comprehension of logic, there is no logical difference between my beating you and my beating you to death either.
If there's no workable business case for it, it won't happen.
Why is there a "workable business case for" a PDA running locked-down iOS but not a PDA running open-userland Android?
There's plenty of capable hardware available off-contract.
By "off-contract", which of the following did you mean?
A law that is violated in my garden every Spring as the seeds germinate, take root, send up leaves, and decrease atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Plants are engines powered by the Sun. The very purpose of those leaves is to tap the flow of solar energy. When the giant celestial nuclear reactor is taken into account, the entropy of the entire system is increasing.
There is something fundamentally wrong about the fundamental "laws" of thermodynamics. Put succinctly, they fail to take into account that these "laws" do not apply to the observer, who is not necessarily decaying into his constituent parts during the process of observation.
Your body is using an external source of energy - the food you eat - to fight the decay.
*[Yes, I do appreciate that 'murder' implies an unlawful taking of human life.]
And I appreciate that you used appreciate correctly in the lesser known meaning of the word.
Anyhow, there is a case for capital punishment inflating the death toll even when not counting the capital punishment itself. If you face a likely death penalty, there is no incentive for you to not kill others. Killing others, like witnesses, can then be rationalized by it reducing the risk of getting caught, and thus die.
I have a strong suspicion that many mafia murders were done for that exact reason.
The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Aldo Leopold
