what IS the difference between using a GPS device to track someone and just following him around?
The judge said the differnce is that it would be next to impossible for the investigotors to follow the suspect 24 hours a day, for weeks without loosing him and without being noticed.
GPS tracking is simple, cheap, and hard to detect.
But it's TV. With old NTSC, you buy a set, you plug it in, it works. No research needed. Why should HDTV to be different?
If HDTV is going to take off as a consumer product, it has to be brain dead simple.
They've sort of tried this already. In WWII, the U.S Navy experimented with sailors on a diet high in an altered form of beta-carotine. This beta-carotine was more sensitive to infra-red light than natural beta-carotine. The Navy hoped to create people who could see some of the infra-red spectrum-- these sailors would be able to receive infra-red messages sent between ships.
They were just starting to get some positive results, when mechanical infra-red sensers were invented. The program was then dropped.
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what IS the difference between using a GPS device to track someone and just following him around?
The judge said the differnce is that it would be next to impossible for the investigotors to follow the suspect 24 hours a day, for weeks without loosing him and without being noticed.
GPS tracking is simple, cheap, and hard to detect.
But it's TV. With old NTSC, you buy a set, you plug it in, it works. No research needed. Why should HDTV to be different? If HDTV is going to take off as a consumer product, it has to be brain dead simple.
They've sort of tried this already. In WWII, the U.S Navy experimented with sailors on a diet high in an altered form of beta-carotine. This beta-carotine was more sensitive to infra-red light than natural beta-carotine. The Navy hoped to create people who could see some of the infra-red spectrum-- these sailors would be able to receive infra-red messages sent between ships. They were just starting to get some positive results, when mechanical infra-red sensers were invented. The program was then dropped.