>The cached server approach seems to be a really,
> really bad idea.
Coincidentally, it's the lowest bandwidth means
of providing content [since bandwidth from a plane
is costly and storage on a plane is relatively
cheap.]
> I guarantee the server's cache isn't going to
> have what I want on it.
Tell your airline what you want to see.
> Some email connectivity may be better than none
> at all, however. I suspect that once the
> technology is in place customer demand and
> preference will eventually force the airlines to
> switch over to providing true real-time internet
> connecions.
We are plausibly years away from ``true real-time
internet connecions'' [sic] of any usable speed.
NATS is vulnerable to atmospherics, SATCOM is
not ubiquitous and no one's yet found a way to
catapult packet-carrying caribou reliably.
> But if Terzen is able to sell their junk . .
Tenzing. Not Terzen. Like the sherpa.
> Having said all that, I'd want to buy into
> Terzen's IPO and then sell out 6 months later
> and short the stock as much as I could. Their
> technology sucks and long-term is doomed to
> failure.
> The domain would probably identify you as a
> passenger of a given airline.
You'll be using your own laptop, and your own
email account, though SMTP envelope headers
might reveal that you were airborne with a
particular airline at the time.
> It could easily be misconfigured so that cookies
> survive between different legs of the same
> flight, so that someone on a latter leg would
> already be signed in to whatever servers the
> previous passenger had been visiting.
Only if you're generous enough to leave your laptop for the next passenger to use.
> And of course, just like with laptops, anyone
> sitting nearby can see what you're doing. So if
> you like to visit porn sites, you'll run a
> risk of offending other passengers. Air rage?
> Yet another cause. Oh wait, they'll probably use
> some censorware to solve that problem and create
> a bunch of new ones.
The contents of the airborne webpage cache will
be determined by the airline. If you need T&A
for inflight entertainment, petition your preferred airline.
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>The cached server approach seems to be a really,
> really bad idea.
Coincidentally, it's the lowest bandwidth means
of providing content [since bandwidth from a plane
is costly and storage on a plane is relatively
cheap.]
> I guarantee the server's cache isn't going to
> have what I want on it.
Tell your airline what you want to see.
> Some email connectivity may be better than none
> at all, however. I suspect that once the
> technology is in place customer demand and
> preference will eventually force the airlines to
> switch over to providing true real-time internet
> connecions.
We are plausibly years away from ``true real-time
internet connecions'' [sic] of any usable speed.
NATS is vulnerable to atmospherics, SATCOM is
not ubiquitous and no one's yet found a way to
catapult packet-carrying caribou reliably.
> But if Terzen is able to sell their junk . .
Tenzing. Not Terzen. Like the sherpa.
> Having said all that, I'd want to buy into
> Terzen's IPO and then sell out 6 months later
> and short the stock as much as I could. Their
> technology sucks and long-term is doomed to
> failure.
Everything is doomed to failure in the long-term.
> The domain would probably identify you as a
> passenger of a given airline.
You'll be using your own laptop, and your own
email account, though SMTP envelope headers
might reveal that you were airborne with a
particular airline at the time.
> It could easily be misconfigured so that cookies
> survive between different legs of the same
> flight, so that someone on a latter leg would
> already be signed in to whatever servers the
> previous passenger had been visiting.
Only if you're generous enough to leave your laptop for the next passenger to use.
> And of course, just like with laptops, anyone
> sitting nearby can see what you're doing. So if
> you like to visit porn sites, you'll run a
> risk of offending other passengers. Air rage?
> Yet another cause. Oh wait, they'll probably use
> some censorware to solve that problem and create
> a bunch of new ones.
The contents of the airborne webpage cache will
be determined by the airline. If you need T&A
for inflight entertainment, petition your preferred airline.
So be sure to tell the airlines.
``I wanna kill people at 30,000 feet!''
More like The Langoliers than Die Hard 2, I think.
When you use Tenzing's on-board email & web
stuff, you won't be calling off of the plane.
You'll be calling the server on the plane.
So the cost to use it may not be as mammoth
as back-of-the-envelope would suggest.