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First, WinModems. Now, WinWiFi.
zulux writes "Microsoft is actively encouraging WiFi (802.11b) hardware manufacturers to strip their devices of costly electronics, and use Microsoft software/drivers to make up the slack. And you thought WinModems were bad!"
From the article:
The radio, about the size of a can of beer, extends the wire line and connects with any mobile devices
"...the size of a can of beer"? I love it! Let's keep this going.
Mobile devices can use a PCMCIA card, slightly smaller than a Hershey chocolate bar. Pocket computers can use a CompactFlash WiFi modem, slightly bigger than a "Fun Size" Hershey bar.
The WiFi base station connects to your computer, which of course is bigger than a bread box.
The wire line is your telephone line, which is about the size of a really, really long strand of spaghetti. This connects to the telephone office, which is about the size of a telephone office. This in turn connects you to the Internet, which is sort of hard to measure the size of... let's just say it is the size of the whole world and be done with it.
Hope this helps.
P.S. I wonder what percent of Slashdot readers actually know how big a bread box is?
steveha
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
You're forgetting the One Microsoft Way of thinking - Nobody needs to have enough machine to run more than one app at a time. If you buy more memory or CPU speed clearly the only possible reason you could have for doing so is to run a bigger application, never to run multiple applications - running more than one thing at a time? What, are you some kind of Unix propeller-head?
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
WinBoss - cannot work on anything but Microsoft Windows.
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