"Brain surgeons in Edinburgh operating on patients in New Zealand"
Odd that the inventor of the geostationary satellite doesn't appreciate the concept of latency. Still he did predict the alien invasion of 2023 so fair play to him.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 2 May 2022, 20:51,
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Hey, now. It's practically been accomplished by EE.
And there's absolutely no bullshittery going on whatsoever. Honest.
(, Mon 2 May 2022, 21:16, Reply)
Last time I checked
EE didn't have any 5G masts in New Zealand. They'll only start to install them after the 2023 alien invasion.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 2 May 2022, 22:28,
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Don't get me started on EE
Their "Landing a plane" advert winds me up something rotten - I suspect the only part of that setup that needed high bitrates was the video screens, which AFAIK were entirely redundant. If they'd said "To land a plane you need rock-solid 500Mbps upstream/downstream" I might have been vaguely impressed, but I doubt that's the case.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 3 May 2022, 6:12,
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There’s nothing in that advert that couldn’t be achieved with a VHF radio.
In fact, they’d need a local VHF radio to communicate with the crew WHO ARE ACTUALLY LANDING THE PLANE.
I’m amazed that they were allowed to get away with that advert.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 3 May 2022, 21:08,
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happened in 2001 (not Edinburgh to NZ)
effect of delay tested in 2015 without significant impact
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Not Edinburgh to NZ
I'm not sure I'd like a third of a second delay between the surgeon moving the scalpel and it cutting through my gray matter. But you're right there has been much improvement with the laying of undersea fibre replacing the old fashioned way of going up to one of Arthur C Clarke's Geostationary Satellites 37,000km away and then back down again. And he was right about the 2023 alien invasion so fair play to him.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 2 May 2022, 22:37,
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I've went to one telemedicine conference in the mid nineties, a demo had video quality that was like a wonky dvd but thankfully this wasn't being used for operations
lag might add fun but signal corruption could really spoil your day
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