I don't think they're doing it with antenna size. Its height. You can talk to just about anyone from an 850 ft mast! That's line-of-sight to anywhere in the swamps below. Let's try this downtown, shall we? Multipath is the fun part of radio engineering (if you're a massocist.) And multipath is one of the major things that WiMAX has to deal with.
This all smells like the Ultra Wideband craze that went on about 5 years ago. And now UWB is relagated to a BlueTooth replacement because they violate FCC rules if you turn up the transmitters. I bet this bit of Snake Oil is a ploy to skirt the FCC rules, yet again.
The FCC certainly does have a say-so in this. WiFi operates in the
15.247 unlicensed ISM bands, and there are very specific rules that your transmitter must pass to sell equipment for those bands.
Certainly, the ultimate resposibility lies with the operator, but the FCC demands that you make it difficult for the user to break the rules. For example, many pieces of ISM gear have either integrated antennas or really funny antenna connectors. That's not an accident. If you sell ISM gear to the general public, the FCC mandates that they can't easily strip off your antenna and mount a 12-foot dish.
HAM gear is just as subject to FCC rules. Most of the commercial HAM gear for sale today is "locked out" (at least by software) from transmitting outside of the HAM bands. Yes, most radios are modifiable, but they can't be shipped from the factory as open boxes.
...and the total stolen over just a couple of years was somewhere in the $50m-100m range.
He only stole somewhere between 50 cents and a dollar? Is it just the engineer in me or do other people hate the use of 'm' for "million" instead of 'M'? And yes, I use an ERP system at work that shows things in millidollars. Woo.
Ahh, the freedom to waste karma on a point of order...
The last time I read Xilinx's line on "radiation-tolerance" it was that you could reprogram (or refresh) sections of a Virtex while the rest of the chip was in use. So if a stray gamma particle flips a bit in your configuration SRAM you can reset it.
This seems more like radiation-dodging rather than tolerance.
Hang MPU and the OS. What's this thing using to communicate back to the earth-men? Are they still using a Motorola 400MHz walkie-talkie as Sojurner did to its base station? Or are they up in the GHz range now to get better gain from tiny dishes? More importantly, what frequency is it squawking so I can run out and build a Pringles can phased-array to hear it. The world wants to know these things!
Nice idea. Now that everyone's IPO wary they'll just label it an auction and drum up even more than the usual hype. From a moneymonger standpoint it's a great idea. It might even look like Y2K again, if only for a few days.
No, I wouldn't buy Google at auction. Its known by way too many excitable people with a credit card and a PayPal account. Or maybe Google will stiff PayPal and make you send them a cashier's check via Western Union.
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I had to blitz a memory stick for my father-in-law. As I recall, this program hung while reformatting the stick. Scary, but it did work.
Hey! That's the code to my luggage!
I don't think they're doing it with antenna size. Its height. You can talk to just about anyone from an 850 ft mast! That's line-of-sight to anywhere in the swamps below. Let's try this downtown, shall we? Multipath is the fun part of radio engineering (if you're a massocist.) And multipath is one of the major things that WiMAX has to deal with.
This all smells like the Ultra Wideband craze that went on about 5 years ago. And now UWB is relagated to a BlueTooth replacement because they violate FCC rules if you turn up the transmitters. I bet this bit of Snake Oil is a ploy to skirt the FCC rules, yet again.
IAARE.
The FCC certainly does have a say-so in this. WiFi operates in the 15.247 unlicensed ISM bands, and there are very specific rules that your transmitter must pass to sell equipment for those bands.
Certainly, the ultimate resposibility lies with the operator, but the FCC demands that you make it difficult for the user to break the rules. For example, many pieces of ISM gear have either integrated antennas or really funny antenna connectors. That's not an accident. If you sell ISM gear to the general public, the FCC mandates that they can't easily strip off your antenna and mount a 12-foot dish.
HAM gear is just as subject to FCC rules. Most of the commercial HAM gear for sale today is "locked out" (at least by software) from transmitting outside of the HAM bands. Yes, most radios are modifiable, but they can't be shipped from the factory as open boxes.
He only stole somewhere between 50 cents and a dollar? Is it just the engineer in me or do other people hate the use of 'm' for "million" instead of 'M'? And yes, I use an ERP system at work that shows things in millidollars. Woo.
Ahh, the freedom to waste karma on a point of order...
The last time I read Xilinx's line on "radiation-tolerance" it was that you could reprogram (or refresh) sections of a Virtex while the rest of the chip was in use. So if a stray gamma particle flips a bit in your configuration SRAM you can reset it.
This seems more like radiation-dodging rather than tolerance.
Hang MPU and the OS. What's this thing using to communicate back to the earth-men? Are they still using a Motorola 400MHz walkie-talkie as Sojurner did to its base station? Or are they up in the GHz range now to get better gain from tiny dishes? More importantly, what frequency is it squawking so I can run out and build a Pringles can phased-array to hear it. The world wants to know these things!
Nice idea. Now that everyone's IPO wary they'll just label it an auction and drum up even more than the usual hype. From a moneymonger standpoint it's a great idea. It might even look like Y2K again, if only for a few days.
No, I wouldn't buy Google at auction. Its known by way too many excitable people with a credit card and a PayPal account. Or maybe Google will stiff PayPal and make you send them a cashier's check via Western Union.