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Turbo Codes Promise Better Wireless Transmission
captain igor writes "IEEE is running a story about two French professors that have created a new class of encoding, called 'Turbo Codes,' that will allow engineers to pass almost twice as much data through a given communications channel, or equivalently, the same amount of data at half the power. The new codes allow the Shannon Limit (the theoretical maximum capacity of a channel) to be approached to, currently, within .5 dB. Scientists hope that this breakthrough will revolutionize wireless communications, especially with the coming reclamation of large swaths of the EM spectrum." As the article points out, such codes are in use now, but seem poised for much wider implementation.
Oh wait...
Sounds a lot like this story...
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I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Finally, by forcing more air into the cylinders than ordinary air pressure would allow, we will be able to achieve more efficient combustion, which will in turn allow us to transmit more data using radio frequencies. ...Don't you just hate it when terminology gets mis-applied to stuff it has nothing to do with?
Dang it, this software isn't made out of platinum, either.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Ahh, that would explain the "Turbo" thing: It comes from the era of Borland compilers and 486 clone boxes. If it were invented today, it would surely be called something like "iCodes".
Wonder how long until the story about a revolutionary new compression scheme called LZW hits the frontpage?
Man, crap! Echelon didn't work this time! That could have been two americans inventing this! Well just another technology they got out before US...
When will the French learn to put all their sensitive data on WinBoxes, until then they are hindering the US market.
I hope they get cracking on
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right... etc.
"much as when, in a crowded pub, you have to shout for a beer several times"
I was wondering when they would get to the practical applications.
Didn't the word "turbo" go out several years ago, along with the useless PC case button of the same name?
--- "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all..."
I'm sorry the frikking sharks with the frikking laser beams on their heads aren't here yet but for now enjoy our ill-tempered sea bass.
Yeah, I read about that new LZW thing the other day. I just hope it doesn't have patent problems.
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
If turbo codes get used in cell phones, does that mean that new cell phones will have a Turbo button? Great, now I have to use advanced duct-tape technology so that the turbo button is always activated.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Why are they not all migrating to VMSK, the magical modulation that promises to exceed the Shannon limit by orders of magnitude? Approaching it by .5dB seems to be not very much of an accomplishment, compared to that.
Checkout http://www.vmsk.org/ where all the claims are made. Supposedly you could compress all communication to 1Hz bandwidth, or so.
[of course I do not believe this]