Being an Electronics Engineering student, I can make sense of what he is saying, but there are a few problems:
Yes, you can "tune in" to more frequencies with better equipment, but that equipment would be very expensive to do what he is talking about. The main way that waves interfere with each other is because of the way waves, well, "wave". Lets say you are receiving a signal at 100Mhz. That means the wavelength is 1/100 Meters or 10cm. That means that the peak of every wave is 10cm apart. Now, if someone down the street starts broadcasting at 200Mhz, the wavelength of their signal is 5cm which means it has a peak every 5cm. The problem is that means it also has a peak every 10cm that your receiver can easily pick up and confuse for the signal it's looking for. That's where the difference in radio quality comes in. If you have a better radio, it can tell the difference between the signals.
Yes, everyone could go buy the most expensive equipment out there, or technology advances could make it cheep for everyone to use and the FCC could start dividing up the bands into micro slices. Then you have 10, 100, 1000 times the radio signals going through the air bombarding every plant, animal, rock with electromagnetic radiation. That reminds me of the disease in Johnny Mnemonic, NAS. Where people started loosing control of their muscles because all of the "interference" in the air.
So, I don't think there is anything wrong with his theory, infact, I thought it was common sense. The question is: do we really *want* to do something like this?
That reminds me of a joke a friend told me when we were kids: He said his mom would right letters to their family, just regular letters telling what's going on and how the kids are doing, then at the end write "p.s. I would have included pictures, but I've already sealed the envelope."
I try to avoid doing this for the same reason I avoid special ordering my sandwich: to lower the (insert random bodily fluid) content in my meal. I figure the less hastle I give them, the "cleaner" my food will be.
I was in Montreal last October and I remember the price of alcohol being about the same as it is here in Oklahoma (adjusted for the exchange rate of course).
I have a sanyo 4900 through sprint pcs and i can get an irc client for it, just never really saw the point because it takes so long to type something. the cool thing is that i can plug it up to a laptop by way of USB and just surf/irc that way.
Because the manager of the butterfly division at IBM plays racquet ball with one of the managers in the playstation division at sony. He just doesn't know anybody on the gamecube floor of his building.
I don't see the point of having a "server" like that on board anyway. I understand wanting maybe a central place for data or whatever, but how much power are you going to need for the 10-20 people connected? Why not just throw an old p100 laptop under someone's seat with a wireless card to use as a server.
Or, maybe I'm under-estimating the ammount of people in this caravan.
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Being an Electronics Engineering student, I can make sense of what he is saying, but there are a few problems:
Yes, you can "tune in" to more frequencies with better equipment, but that equipment would be very expensive to do what he is talking about. The main way that waves interfere with each other is because of the way waves, well, "wave". Lets say you are receiving a signal at 100Mhz. That means the wavelength is 1/100 Meters or 10cm. That means that the peak of every wave is 10cm apart. Now, if someone down the street starts broadcasting at 200Mhz, the wavelength of their signal is 5cm which means it has a peak every 5cm. The problem is that means it also has a peak every 10cm that your receiver can easily pick up and confuse for the signal it's looking for. That's where the difference in radio quality comes in. If you have a better radio, it can tell the difference between the signals.
Yes, everyone could go buy the most expensive equipment out there, or technology advances could make it cheep for everyone to use and the FCC could start dividing up the bands into micro slices. Then you have 10, 100, 1000 times the radio signals going through the air bombarding every plant, animal, rock with electromagnetic radiation. That reminds me of the disease in Johnny Mnemonic, NAS. Where people started loosing control of their muscles because all of the "interference" in the air.
So, I don't think there is anything wrong with his theory, infact, I thought it was common sense. The question is: do we really *want* to do something like this?
That reminds me of a joke a friend told me when we were kids: He said his mom would right letters to their family, just regular letters telling what's going on and how the kids are doing, then at the end write "p.s. I would have included pictures, but I've already sealed the envelope."
I try to avoid doing this for the same reason I avoid special ordering my sandwich: to lower the (insert random bodily fluid) content in my meal. I figure the less hastle I give them, the "cleaner" my food will be.
I was in Montreal last October and I remember the price of alcohol being about the same as it is here in Oklahoma (adjusted for the exchange rate of course).
I have a sanyo 4900 through sprint pcs and i can get an irc client for it, just never really saw the point because it takes so long to type something. the cool thing is that i can plug it up to a laptop by way of USB and just surf/irc that way.
Because the manager of the butterfly division at IBM plays racquet ball with one of the managers in the playstation division at sony. He just doesn't know anybody on the gamecube floor of his building.
I don't see the point of having a "server" like that on board anyway. I understand wanting maybe a central place for data or whatever, but how much power are you going to need for the 10-20 people connected? Why not just throw an old p100 laptop under someone's seat with a wireless card to use as a server.
Or, maybe I'm under-estimating the ammount of people in this caravan.
I'm sure they do consume very little power, but four of them together? Wouldn't they still add up to more than a comperable single board unit?
Or,
why not just throw in another laptop? They are designed to operate on little power.