Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok?

An anonymous reader writes "Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is just as effective? This is exactly how North Otago's newest television station 45 South is transmitting its signal from its studio to the top of Cape Wanbrow, in a bid to keep costs down."

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[tttonyyy]

More to the point, why pay to watch "45 South" when I can, more cheaply, scoop my eyeballs out with a rusty spoon from Honest Al's Hardware store.

MacGyver would be proud.

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you somehow add a ball point pen and chewing gum into making the dish?

MacGyver would just love that!

Re:MacGyver would be proud.

[Eudial]

Can you somehow add a ball point pen and chewing gum into making the dish?

No, that's how you make a death ray.

Wok, ball point pen, chewing gum... yeah, that's a death ray.
Wok, a froze chicken and duct tape, that's a satellite dish.

One of these will happen..

[freedom_india]

If the wok thing becomes more popular here, one or many of the following is bound to happen:
1. Prices of Wok will increase NOT due to increase in demand, but because sellers now think it serves a dual purpose.
2. FCC will jump in the bandwagon and demand wok makers put a minute dent to make sure it does not serve as a dish.
3. Homeland Security will jump on the FCC bandwagon and demand that woks be classifed as potentially "interesting" and "dangerous" weapons.
4. Carlyle Group will do a LBO against the largest Wok maker...Cheney will be richer.
5. Canada will impose a "musician's duty" on Woks since woks can be used to transmit pirated music...

that's all i can think of now.

Oblig.

[cosmocain]

...and now the image quality is more like...err...sweet and sour? or: what about the signal being chopped? (that one takes a second more) duh.

And what's more...

[thetroll123]

You can't use a $20,000 commercial link to whip up a tasty and healthy stir-fry. There's a lot of value in that $10 wok.

Re:And what's more...

[Actinide]

You can't use a $20,000 commercial link to whip up a tasty and healthy stir-fry

To be fair, have you actually tried this?

Re:And what's more...

[jayayeem]

My wife can't do that with the wok either.

Re:So basically they made a loss?

[mr_matticus]

Ah, but the Linux enthusiasts will bring in a third variable--satisfaction of doing it yourself in spite of obvious, more attractive solutions within arm's reach.

Note that Debian users cannot endorse this wok technique because the wok isn't fully open source.

Hire the guy who thought of it

[AceJohnny]

I want to hire the guy who thought about this and implemented it. Well, I wish...

I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day.

I became an engineer because of McGuyver... how disappointed I am with reality :)

Re:Hire the guy who thought of it

[16384]

I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day. Could the bikeshed be in cornflower blue?

Re:So basically they made a loss?

[tttonyyy]

Note that Debian users cannot endorse this wok technique because the wok isn't fully open source. If only you'd written "open sauce" I'd have modded you +1 Funny. ;)

Re:Silly article:

[markov_chain]

You're right, this thing will never wok.

Reruns Ought to do Well

[camperdave]

...and now the image quality is more like...err...sweet and sour? or: what about the signal being chopped?

How about: "I know I just watched the show an hour ago, but I'm hungering to see it again."?

Re:Reruns Ought to do Well

[Gryle]

I've heard the biggest problem is weight actually. Supposedly a rig like this weighs wonton.

And for personal communication...

[kanweg]

you can use a wokkie-tokkie

Bert

Re:Silly article:

[Ryatt]

if the Wok setup goes down for any reason So which part of the wok do you believe will fail first?