Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 10:41:59 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Darren Henderson <darren@nighttide.net> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DVD Players, and Not in a PC Message-ID: <v04220802b64d21e40d19@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20001130214244.D28757@peorth.iteration.net> References: <20001130172843.A28757@peorth.iteration.net> <Pine.BSF.4.30.0011302121370.488-100000@localhost> <20001130214244.D28757@peorth.iteration.net>
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At 9:42 PM -0600 2000/11/30, Michael C . Wu wrote: > No, Americans cannot seem to grasp that the earth does not contain > onlyh America. They have to use PCS instead of GSM, "imperial" > units instead of SI units, T1's instead of E1's, and so forth. 8_) Granted, there is a lot of stupidity that Americans come up with, but take for example all these 3G mobile communications services that everyone around the world is so hot-n-bothered about spending billions upon billions of dollars to build, so that they can start charging for these services in ten years. Note that all of the 3G services are based on Wideband Code Division Multiplexing (e.g., W-CDMA), which is a technology invented by Qualcomm, which is a US company. The somewhat older CDMA technology is widely recognized as being far technically superior to the older TDMA technology, and allows carriers to squeeze a lot more customers in per frequency and per cell, yet most of the existing digital services around the world (including GSM) are still based on TDMA. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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