On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Kevin Mark wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 09:19:19PM -0400, Jon Baer wrote: > > Saw this in the NYPost this morning ... I find it really hard to > > believe that between RFID, WiFi, WiMax, etc that no technology can > > tell me simply when the next train is arriving. The question is what > > the real problem is? Since Siemens has been in the rail business for > > a long time ... makes me wonder if there will ever be wide area > > signal coverage underground. > > > > http://www.railway-technology.com/contractors/signal/siemens/ > > > Hi Jon, > the US has hugh military contractors, the FBI, CIA, silicon valley, > ebay, YouTube, amazon.com and ... the worst cell phone standards, > internet pentration, prices and speed, and ... cant locate busses and > subway trains. Whereas norway and japan excel in cell phones, internet > speed and pentration and locating busses and trains and dont have any of > those hitech companies or a huge military that spends trillions. Exactly > what accounts for our as status as #1 in everything? Got me? I think this is incorrect. The US does not excel in everything, but we have far from the worst Internet penetration/speed etc. The US cell phone standards aren't that bad either - yes I use a GSM phone but the other systems used in the US (I assume you mean IS-95 CDMA) is no worse. Flippant anti-Americanism doesn't really ad much to the discussion. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
