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Message no. 1
From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 16:48:10 -0400
celluar phones work on radio signals...presumably the still do in 2050+...
i would not think that a cellphone would be capable of handeling all that
information. Think of this: you have lets say packets of 10Mp flying from the
deck (don't quote figures to me here i'm just using it as an example) to the
matrix per ns. now lets say you are using a cell phone...there is more than
likely no error correction on this type of correction so one little 'pop' of
static and the connection becomes drek...kinda like when my roomie picks up the
phone when i'm on line...only worse...you loose carrier more than you think and
no transfers will be seamless even if stationary.,..you'd have to park
yourself next to the receiver....

--Phlatline


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Message no. 2
From: ewok slayer <jclegg@******.FSC.MASS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 16:52:38 EDT
Ok, it says in the big book that celural phones cannot be used
for matrix connections. It is under one of the phones listed. Maby the
cyberphone od pocet-secratary. Don't remember which.

* Darkstar
Message no. 3
From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 16:04:59 +0930
>
>celluar phones work on radio signals...presumably the still do in 2050+...
>i would not think that a cellphone would be capable of handeling all that
>information.

Well, cellular phones can handle video in 2050+ (ie, the ever popular
wristphone). If they can do that, they can probably handle minimal Matrix
connection, as per the ShadowBeat rules.

--
Robert Watkins bob@**.ntu.edu.au
Real Programmers never work 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9 am,
it's because they were up all night.
Message no. 4
From: J Gavigan <csc086@*****.LANCS.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 11:51:33 +0100
> Well, cellular phones can handle video in 2050+ (ie, the ever popular
> wristphone). If they can do that, they can probably handle minimal Matrix
> connection, as per the ShadowBeat rules.

Yeah, but you seriously don't think the quality of said video is
going to be at all good, do you? It'll jump and flicker and lag
and the colors'll go weird, and so on...
Plus, the move from one transmitting station to another wouls
hang up a Matrix session, if it wasn't already hung from the
lag...
Jackin' out...

/> Dodger
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Message no. 5
From: What's this button do? <GRAFF85@********.CORTLAND.EDU>
Subject: Re: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 07:50:34 -0400
>Well, cellular phones can handle video in 2050+ (ie, the ever popular
>wristphone). If they can do that, they can probably handle minimal Matrix
>connection, as per the ShadowBeat rules.

ok fine but there is _no_ such thing as minimal matrix connection. you _need_
a high speed 'clean' connection to the matrix and a cell phone won't cut it.
you can send compressed video (as in mpeg) easily enough if the resolution is
kinda low so you _can_ transmit vid no prob but sensorium feeds, position data,
transfer of data....i'm not wastin' my brain cell on a connection like that
chum pal..

--Phlatline
Message no. 6
From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Ok here is a point....(deck questions..)
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 13:23:48 -0400
On Mon, 18 Apr 1994, Robert Watkins wrote:

> Well, cellular phones can handle video in 2050+ (ie, the ever popular
> wristphone). If they can do that, they can probably handle minimal Matrix
> connection, as per the ShadowBeat rules.
>
Hey, that makes sense. Howzabout this (I don't know if its in the
FASA rules, but it makes sense to me)...you can't have a true VR
connection over a cellular connection, but you _can_ have a two-D
representation of it if you're linked via your deck at home (that way, the
processing power still has to be paid for.)
This would make combat pretty much impossible, but you can do a
simple search or meet, or start up a self-propelled program.

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