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Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marconi-would-be-proud dept.

DarrellD writes: "This story on Business Wire points out the new Wireless MAN standards approved as IEEE 802.16. More high speed wireless coming our way soon."

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  1. Discrimination! by tunah · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I get it, the men can roam free and wireless, while the women are wired to the kitchen...

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  2. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I RUle
    and whats this thing about 20 seconds between hitting reply and posting.
    I KNEW IT
    ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY

  3. smug by Cryptopotamus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I won't pay for this unless it makes coffee. Anything that runs on batteries must make me coffee.

    Mister Tee is my hero.

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  4. Heh by AbbaZabba · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I want you to use my MANhood for potentially interesting purposes.

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  5. You guys are missing the point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why are you all calling it a scooter? I'd say that's a bit of an understatement.

    I think all the people who are saying "electric scooter, big whoop. $3,000, yeah right" are slightly missing the point. Yeah, it's kind of wimpy for the price tag. Yeah, it's kind of expensive, and it's questionable who would want to use it.

    But this is just the first model. It's more sort of a proof of concept--a demonstration that the scooter can work, and looks as neat as all get-out in motion. As time goes on, the performance will improve and the price will fall.

    Look at the Palm (Pilot). The first model was, what, 128K? With no backlight, no infra-red, or anything? And how high was the price tag? And now the Visor Deluxe, which was at one time the wet dream of anybody who even looked at a Palm, is only $130 brand new.

    Look at the DVD player. The original models were expensive enough, the first bunch of discs were glitchy enough, that a lot of people scoffed and made snide remarks. But the DVD went on to become the fastest-adopted new consumer technology ever.

    So here we have a relatively slow, electric-powered self-stabilizing scooter, for $3,000. Are very many of us going to buy it? Do very many of us have the money to sink into that sort of gee-gaw? No and no. I know I'm not going to be spending three grand on something like that myself, either. Nor would I be likely to spend two grand, or even one grand for that matter.