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Universal Software Radio Peripheral From GnuRadio
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral for GNURadio has now gone into production and is
available for purchase for $450. It used to be insanely expensive to acquire this
technical equipment. Now the price has dropped by two orders of magnitude, to something about as expensive as a high-end graphics card. How long will it be till it's labeled a terrorist tool and banned?
I don't know, allow me to contact the Office of Homeland Security and inform them about this device and find out...
(Just kidding)
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
No, it GNU/runs GNU/Linux.
Regards,
RMS
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Not long. Government likes banning things. Next thing on the list: a hammer. Since it can be used for terroristic activites.
Is this just a radio tuner card for PCs?
My favorite quote ever: #137692 +(191)- [X]
:)
Procyon> I don't know the world around me!
Procyon> I'm scared, and confused!
DS> have you felt a strong desire to vote for george w. bush recently?
Same with terrorism, it sucks. But the politicians should stop banning random stuff out of fear - i want people to start using their brains, for once. In the US they already slashed constitutional rights, and want me to give my fingerprints and digital foto when i travel into US. Forget it!
Too bad the US has influence on the world - the EU is aching to introduce similar laws, what country can i migrate too now?
...was the previous price really 10x10x450=$45K?
Wow...that's some cost reduction.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
The text claims the limiting factor is the USB2 bus but when you get into the details of the circuitry, the Raceway Link, the Aquisition bus, and the Arbitar all connect through one single 32bit local data bus. I assume this is a change from the previous design and build. Now I know why the price is a few orders of magnatude lower.
On a side note, I really have no idea what I am talking about. Just pulled that out of the air based on 10 seconds looking at the two included links, Based on the current comments that no one has any idae what this thing is for (myself included), I bet I could have fooled quite a few people though.
I hope the equipment they sell holds up better than their server! ;-)