FBJimmy
@FBJimmy@lemmus.org
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
1440p for the win!
- Comment on Huw Edwards charged with making indecent images of children 3 months ago:
“Mr Edwards left the BBC in April.”
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Nice reference: intel.com/…/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
I guess my point is that it isn’t a particularly important part of the design of Wi-Fi - it would likely have been born regardless of the invention; Bluetooth would not.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
Great to recognise this invention.
I was surprised by the choice of ‘Mother of Wi-Fi’ though - Wi-Fi hasn’t used ‘frequency hopping’ as such since 802.11b was released back in 1999 - so very few people will have ever used frequency-hopping Wi-Fi.
GPS only uses it in some extreme cases I think, but I’m not an expert.
However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.
- Comment on 5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 6 months ago:
The real question is why did they install a system based on 5.25" floppy disks in 1998 in the first place!?
The 5.25" floppy was surpassed by the 3.5" floppy by 1988 - ten years prior to this systems installation - and by 1998 most new software was being distributed on CD-ROM. So by my reckoning, in 1998 they installed a ‘new’ system based on hardware that was 1.5 generations out-of-date and haven’t updated it in the 26 years since.