Ascom Powerline (a Swiss HQ'ed company) (http://www.ascom.com/powerline) has be piloting powerline networks for at least a year. They are going live in Germany this summer. Transfer rates of 200-500Kb/sec are 'easy', but there are some environments which nothing works (e.g. car factory floors). csw
1) Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2) One who opposes technical or technological change.
You are right. SOAP is only based on the least scalable protocol there is--the text based, and verbose HTTP/HTML. It will never fly.
There is a much more efficient protocol (from the early 1980's) which is binary--video text. The French us it on there MINITEL system. The protocol really great for MINITEL as it is limited to 1200 baud!!
Long live binary protocols and bit counting. Gee guys, I though we stopped programming in assembly code a few years ago.
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"Considering that Microsoft is a US company and Nokia Finnish, what would happen if China did not approve?"
Microsoft's new Nokia division could not to business in China.
Somebody needs to attend his Physics Classes. 3 seconds to send a signal to a low Earth orbit satellite? Non-sense.
"comfort zone" == "640KB should be enough for anybody".
True, true, too true. NOT.
...so I can download it.
Not a joke as their FTP server is maxed out.
If gives you huge satisfaction when you click the "process mail" button and you see all the spam being deleted and bounced.
csw
Ascom Powerline (a Swiss HQ'ed company) (http://www.ascom.com/powerline) has be piloting powerline networks for at least a year. They are going live in Germany this summer. Transfer rates of 200-500Kb/sec are 'easy', but there are some environments which nothing works (e.g. car factory floors). csw
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1) Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
2) One who opposes technical or technological change.
Search for Powerline communications on this page
http://www.us-epanorama.net/tele_access.html
Ascom is/will start field trials soon.
http://www.ascom.ch/plc/int_home.htm
You are right. SOAP is only based on the least scalable protocol there is--the text based, and verbose HTTP/HTML. It will never fly.
There is a much more efficient protocol (from the early 1980's) which is binary--video text. The French us it on there MINITEL system. The protocol really great for MINITEL as it is limited to 1200 baud!!
Long live binary protocols and bit counting. Gee guys, I though we stopped programming in assembly code a few years ago.
csw