21 May
2005
21 May
'05
9:50 a.m.
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:42 -0400, Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:
The "contest" was ridiculous. The guys
doing Morse Code had a direct
connection to each other, with what appeared to be ordinary wireless
computer routers.
Huh? Do you mean... "radios"?
The kids doing text messaging were just using their
cell
phones, which means the signal had to travel through the theater walls, onto
the cloud, and back into the theater.
Yes, a process which takes about 200ms in
good conditions in Oslo,
Norway, the worst I've ever experienced was 2 seconds.
The contest was billed as "who is the
fastest messager" but that's just silly because obviously the kids cannot
control what the phone companies do.
Well, that was part of it - they wanted to try
and see what technology
could get the message from A to B quickest - and morse code won.
--
Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>