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CONTENTS:
WOR 1426 / ABKHAZIA / ANDAMAN & NICOBAR / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA VL8T /
AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRIA / BAHAMAS
Very true.
> > think that you are alluding to a post-apocalyptic situation, where
> > technology would be effectively rolled back. I submit that you and I
> > probably won't be around in that case. We most certainly won't be
> > casually
> > discussing it over the internet.
>
> And, let me add not
On Sep 19, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Scott Royall wrote:
Oh yes, the internet is going to be superseded, but by something
even more
pervasive and omnipresent. Analog has its uses, definitely. I use it
whenever I key up my IC706, but the technology that actually allows
me to
talk is as digital as it
What is interesting is to overlay the concepts of "cloud computing"
over this development.
Cloud Computing is a term for the transfer of most computing
applications and data away from end user devices (i.e. your own PCs)
to networked computers somewhere else.
Examples include online banking, remo
Kevin, I hear ya, but your message seems more a lament about the lost
romance of our youth. There are more than a few people who lament the loss
of sail and horse as primary technologies. In some ways, they aren't wrong
either. However, while nostalgia affects us all, reality seems immune to it.
Re
I think the future is going to see universal wi-fi. It will be "like"
radio, but on steroids. You'll be able to use radio like portable internet
appliances and be able to have access to the data network at the same time.
Obviously, the power needs of the boxes we use will have to addressed, bu
Sandy,
To me it is not the "romance" of radio (although I feel that also), but a
practicality and its simplistic/low-cost nature for the recipient.
Unfortunately it is the high costs on the transmission side that are driving
these decisions to cut broadcasts.
Strange at it may sound when I say
It's hard to argue that there is much life left in main stream English
language short wave service at least in this part of the world. I do
miss the romance of radio, but have reluctantly joined the ranks of the
podcast/webcast generation.
SF
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Now I know shortwave is dead. The one international broadcaster who argued
most vehemently for keeping shortwave an option for all. A very sad
announcement indeed, because I am generally not a podcast or online listener,
believing still in the medium of over-the-air radio (and not necessarily
