there's another alternative for short range wireless
this is the specs page on their site:
http://www.spike-wireless.com/specs.html
but basically, it's low latency, low power, much cheaper than bluetooth.. i think around 5-6$ per chip now, which includes a 50 mhz MIPS chip, of which you can use about 50% of the cycles for any application, so you could have a PDA built around this.
the company that developed it is http://www.eleveneng.com/
i see this as the short range solution for pda's cellphones, mp3 players, and gaming, and WiFi for long range stuff..
RMS will probably never just "shut up and show the code". And i fully admire him for that. Because all of us must understand that RMS and ESR are two different powers in our software world, and they are both doing two different things, both necessary to the survival and development of 'Open Source', 'Free Software', or whatever name you might find for it. They are like the two hemispheres of our brains, each performing a different function. It is from balancing these movements and from their coexistence that what people today call GNU/Linux was formed. If people just understood that and listened and supported both, and formed their opinions by thinking for themselvs, instead of blindly rallying for one side, like in a juveline wrestling match, this community would probably be a happier place. I don't pretend i am perfectly right, or that i know the absolute truth. But this is how i see it. Good day.
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there's another alternative for short range wireless
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this is the specs page on their site:
http://www.spike-wireless.com/specs.html
but basically, it's low latency, low power, much cheaper than bluetooth.. i think around 5-6$ per chip now, which includes a 50 mhz MIPS chip, of which you can use about 50% of the cycles for any application, so you could have a PDA built around this.
the company that developed it is http://www.eleveneng.com/
i see this as the short range solution for pda's cellphones, mp3 players, and gaming, and WiFi for long range stuff..
RIP bluetooth
RMS will probably never just "shut up and show the code". And i fully admire him for that. Because all of us must understand that RMS and ESR are two different powers in our software world, and they are both doing two different things, both necessary to the survival and development of 'Open Source', 'Free Software', or whatever name you might find for it.
They are like the two hemispheres of our brains, each performing a different function. It is from balancing these movements and from their coexistence that what people today call GNU/Linux was formed.
If people just understood that and listened and supported both, and formed their opinions by thinking for themselvs, instead of blindly rallying for one side, like in a juveline wrestling match, this community would probably be a happier place.
I don't pretend i am perfectly right, or that i know the absolute truth. But this is how i see it.
Good day.