This ones from last year but I'm looking for a link to the problems found by the English power authorities when they trialed this tech.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/25649.html
I'd highly reccomend Ian M Banks. Particulary Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, The phonetically (sp?) written Feersum Enjin is masterpiece of modern times. Some of his newer ones are excellent as well ( Excesion ) I'd keep clear of Look to Windward, it's a bit naff.
Highly imaginative, not just the same old reshashed stuff. Alot of the characters in his 'Culture' novels ( the culture is us lot of gibbons a few thousand down the road ) are sentient AI minds with a delicious sense of humour.
The author also writes fiction as Ian Banks, some classic there as well ( The Wasp Factory and so on). Go check him out, you will not be dissapointed.
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Unitied Utilities and Nortel Networks by all accounts. That is until they started broadcasting from teh streetlights.
This ones from last year but I'm looking for a link to the problems found by the English power authorities when they trialed this tech. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/25649 .html
Didn't we have problems with this when it was trialed a few years back i nthe UK? i'm sure I heard reports of lamposts going haywire, any URL's?
I'd highly reccomend Ian M Banks. Particulary Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, The phonetically (sp?) written Feersum Enjin is masterpiece of modern times. Some of his newer ones are excellent as well ( Excesion ) I'd keep clear of Look to Windward, it's a bit naff.
Highly imaginative, not just the same old reshashed stuff. Alot of the characters in his 'Culture' novels ( the culture is us lot of gibbons a few thousand down the road ) are sentient AI minds with a delicious sense of humour.
The author also writes fiction as Ian Banks, some classic there as well ( The Wasp Factory and so on). Go check him out, you will not be dissapointed.