On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 27 May 2010 09:21, <nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au> wrote: > > Why would a parking meter need a GPS? It doesn't move around. > > Same reason banking, the timing source, although surely NTP would be > good enough, NTP requires a relatively low and stable latency value on your internet connection. Cellular modems of all sorts are both expensive and have none of those qualities.
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