26 October 1976 launched the first television of the Soviet Sputnik , the world’s first TV-satellite direct TV. It is necessary to clarify the idea a signal of “Screen” caught not the ultimate audience for the personal antenna (although not impossible), special receivers, repeaters. And they have, in turn, broadcast on the town. But, due to the small size of the receiving antenna and the low cost equipment it became possible to provide satellite TV to even small towns.
The satellite “Ekran–1” and all subsequent spacecraft series revolved around the Earth in geostationary orbit — “hovering” over a particular point on the surface at the height of almost 36 thousand kilometers. The transmitter power was 200 watts.
“Screen-1” on Soviet postage stamps
Shortly after the launch of “Экрана1-” the country began organizing collective acceptance of those repeaters. Developed two models: “Screen-CU–10” and “Screen-CU–1” — capacity of 10 and 1 W, respectively. According to calculations, the signal from the first it was possible to make in a radius of 6-7 km, and the second — 2-2,5 km. in addition, we have created a simple receiver Screen to relay on cable networks — for 8 users max. In fact it was the first individual satellite receiver.
“Screen–1” broadcast only in Siberia and the far North, but by the end of 1980, when the system adopted in the work, orbits were already six “Screens” that covered the signal bonmost of the Soviet Union. And in 1982 the country was already about three thousand satellite receivers.
In the late ‘ 80s we started to run modified versions of the satellite “Ekran-M”. The latest device has stopped work on 1 February 2009.
26 Oct 2009 on Facebook appeared accounts for the dead. Guide krupnejshej social network finally realized that people are mortal, and their pages become a virtual graves. For such cases the so-called “Memorial accounts”. If the man died, his relatives (he specifies in the settings) there are two options: either completely and permanently delete a page and all its contents or to convert it to a special status. In the second case, the account owner will not be able to enter it, which is logical, and friends of the deceased will be able to add posts with the word “Remember”.
Facebook does not report how many user accounts have already acquired a new quality, as well as whether there were cases of “resurrection”. I should add that one should responsibly choose Trustees, who will have the right to confirm your death.
On 26 October 2004, Apple released the iPod Photo — the iPod, the shortlived. In contrast to the predecessor, the iPod Classic 4th generation — a new modification had a color screen, as the name implies, allows you to store and view photos. In addition, the player could connect a digital camera and download photos.
iPod Photo
The gadget is equipped with a color LCD screen resolution of 220×176 pixels, supported formats JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF and PNG and was offered in two versions: with 40 GB and 60 GB of memory.
However, after some eight months, the company decided to make colorful screen basic features and merged conventional and Photo-version of the player in the overall lineup.