Two words. Passive termination. You don't need to leave the cable box on.

The ATSC channel bandwidth is slightly more than 19 Mbps.

I can't help thinking of the major flaw of the Norden bombsight, not knowing the winds and weather conditions in the area between the aircraft and target. It could drop a bomb in a pickle barrel under ideal conditions, which rarely existed in the real world.

That's an optimistic view. I'd argue that some 15 year olds are already full-blown psychopaths, and rehabilitation is unlikely. For people like that, they aren't incarcerated for revenge, they are incarcerated in order to isolate them from society.

The important question is, will it still be actively supported in five years? Microsoft has a bad habit of releasing products in response to short-term needs, only to let them die when the threat has passed.

Congratulations, you've made quite a number of assertions, and every one of them is false. Do a little research next time.

You have to plot them on the complex plane, then all will make sense :-).

Microsoft's definition of cross-platform: Vista and Windows XP. Anything that threatens the hegemony of Windows must be destroyed. Standards are for losers.

That's much better than Voskhod 2, which also landed off-course in the Urals in similar circumstances, and was surrounded by hungry wolves.

http://www.astronautix.com/flights/voskhod2.htm

I did business with a web store that offered a cash discount to any purchaser that wrote a glowing review of them on a retailer rating site. The store owner honestly did not seem to understand what was wrong with his new method of promoting his web store. The owner of the retailer rating site had to explain to him what the rating site considered acceptable conduct. I wouldn't have been as nice about it.

The problem is that you are using an ISM (industrial, scientific, and medical) band, which is a fancy way of saying RF garbage dump. You have no regulatory protection from interference. The FCC puts things like microwave ovens in ISM bands.

It's dB (ratio), not dBm (power level). See http://www.antenna-theory.com/basics/antennapol.php.

The skulls of my enemies, tastefully stacked around my throne.

Oh and my favourite 9.7Billion freaking dollars for air traffic control. Honestly that could be done by computers for several million dollars.

That might pay for a requirements analysis, but that's about it. A real system is going to be much more expensive.

I've never seen a convincing argument for switching to DC distribution. I've seen many places that have hundreds of racks running off standard AC without problems. It's time-tested technology that is well-understood, standardized, and cheap. Telcos are a special case, as they evolved in an environment where everything ran off batteries.