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Ultrawideband Soon To Be Legal In Europe
ukhackster writes "ZDNet UK is reporting that ultrawideband will be legalized in Europe within 6 months, but with tougher controls than in America — the only place where it is legal now. Ultrawideband offers wireless connectivity at speeds up to 1Gbps, and is meant to supersede USB and clear our desks of wires. In Europe, fears that UWB might interfere with other technologies have kept it out of the market. Opening up the European market could give manufacturers a powerful incentive to push UWB." From the article: "[S]ources confirmed to ZDNet UK that the restrictions put forward by the EC would indeed be more rigorous than those imposed in the US, although they would not be so restrictive as to make it impossible for some global harmonization of UWB devices... It is understood that the committee decision to allow UWB was based on a far from unanimous majority, with some Scandinavian countries and France opposing the proposal."
Massively Connected Architecture, or MCA?
Petabit Connected Internet, or PCI?
High Density Datalink, or HDD?
Low-range Petabit Transmissions, or LPT:?
Further examples are left as an exercise for the reader.
The same way they do with radio frequencies, telescope sizes, or spacecraft (fictional).
SHF-super high frequency
EHF-extremely high frequency
Overwhelmingly Large Telescope
Ridiculous speed
Ludicrous speed
yeah those backwards Americans, good thing I live in the forward thinking EU.. oh wait..
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Take a page from the street fighter 2 series:
UltraWideBand Turbo
Super UltraWideBand
Super UltraWideBand Turbo
And once we run out of names....
UltraWideBand 2.0! (increment and repeat)
At least they didn't use Infiniband. Where would you go from there?
Doublewideband is only useful for viewing incestuous porn and YouTube'd episodes of Dukes of Hazard.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain