I have an "older" LED based alarm clock. Depending on the time of night, I can see 21 LEDs on it alone: 9:58p == 6 segments + 2 dots + 5 segments + 7 segments + 1 segment for the "alarm on" indicator (the AM/PM indicator is lit for AM).

That latency can be a real bitch let me tell you - at least with the Post Orifice. Took them over 12 days to deliver a priority package to me from Detroit to Chicago. Their response to that: sorry about that.

Never again....

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

Link is going to be pissed about this...

I think the first amendment part of this stems from the "you shall not tell anyone about this" issue. It's from the perspective of the recipient of the letter. She is commanded to "tell no one about this" under pain of incarceration. This is all backed up with the power of law. Since you have an abridgment of the right to free speech and that abridgment is codified in law (a federal law - wrote by Congress no less), that is a pretty on-it's-face contravention of the First Amendment.

Now as others have wrote, this may fall into the "obstructing an investigation" trap and that may prove a valid issue, not being to even talk with a lawyer about this makes this pretty simply a First Amendment issue.

Like many others are saying on here - you need to give us a lot more information here. There is a huge difference in the cost per gig between a Netgear and a NetApp. You also didn't mention if your cost analysis includes your OpEx costs (Operational Expenses) - things like hard costs (labor) and soft costs (power, hvac, floorspace, etc).

Tell us more and we'll be able to help you out better.

Probably because we don't have a requirements doc of any sort here. I would be quite surprised if they weren't trying to do something highly fancy (web/AJAX front end, GIS tie in, method of attaching scans of important documents to each burial (birth records, military records, death cert, etc...), method of attaching pictures to each burial, public access with requisite security and high availability, offsite data replication and encryption (EMC/NetApp), distributed database with full read/write capabilities across all nodes (MySQL probably wouldn't cut it here though it might with DRDB behind it).

I don't know - but I would bet that this really isn't that trivial a problem - especially the GIS tie in part (drawing maps/plots on a screen in an accurate manner).

Nothing felt in either Forest Park Illinois or Westland (burb of Detroit) Michigan.

For what it's worth...

I was in Chicago for a couple of months at the beginning of the year. While there, I subscribed to Clear Internet (http://www.clear.com) - a 4G provider with (I think) Sprint backing it.

My results were absolutely horrible - on average, I was getting 51k download speeds. This was as measured on the modem itself (no router/firewall/PC - right from the status screen on the modem). There was nothing I could do to improve this and the people at Clear were completely baffled by this. According to the Clear folk, I was about 1/10 mile from the nearest tower. I was getting excellent signal and PSNR.

In my mind, either Clear was totally messed up or 4G has a lot more hype than delivery.

So (pulling numbers out of the air), you are suggesting that 80% of $20,000 is more than 20% of $250,000 (presuming ridiculous levels of spending for the low income earner and ridiculous levels of savings by the "high" income earner)?

This is crap!

You will always need the analog side of electronics, even in digital systems.

As a limited example list: decoupling caps, local bus stiffeners, weak/strong pull-up and pull-down, termination, current limiting, pulse shaping, pulse doubling, one-shot generator.

Just try to implement a power supply, let alone design one, without an analog electronics understanding of how things are working and how they will work.

You really do need a good understanding of analog electronics, even in an "all-digital" world.

I would recommend you get your hands on an old copy of "Electronic Communications" by Schrader (or however you spell his name). It is a College-level book that will take you from basic DC circuits (Ohms law and friends) all the way up to the design (circuit level) of microwave transceivers.

If you need to learn your way around RF systems, this is the book to get. It is the only book I kept when I went to college many years ago...

I don't know about you folk, but I plan to be regenerated as a ghola (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghola). All I need to do now is get a few cells over to the Tleilaxu...

That whole space folding thing can be a bitch without the spice...

Unless my math is off...

Born 48602
currently at 60605
distance (according to google maps): 305 miles
305 miles in feet is 1610400 (according to google)
I am 5'6" (5.5 feet) tall
1610400 / 5.5 == 292800