| From: | J Gavigan <csc086@*****.LANCS.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Have you ever *grin* |
| Date: | Sat, 30 Apr 1994 18:21:29 +0100 |
> (shows a woman reading a book on a screen...gee, we can do that already...)
Hell, I do that every day! I'm reading 'Call of the Wild' by Jack
What's.his.name at the moment...
> have you ever said goodnight to your baby over the phone?
> (mother looking at baby over videophone)
Some guys here in the Computing Department are doing this thing
as their third-year project... Basically, linking two Sparcs
over the campus Ethernet, and having a little video camera over
each terminal...
With Xmosaic, I can watch TV from the States... The 'reception'
is absolutely disgusting - with the screen about 4 cm2 in area,
you get one frame every two seconds, on average... no sound,
coz there ain't any speakers on the xterms I use... Still, the
main thing is that once we get some decent bandwidth, I'll be
avle to watch it as if it were a normal TV! :)
> have you ever sent a fax...from the beach?
> (guy on the beach with AT&T's version of the Newton)
Ok, I'll admit to not having done this, but I have downloaded
details of an ENG report from a Dell i486 notebook PC to the
main studio computer via a modem link over a cellnet phone from
a moving OB unit. So, there!
The problem with this type of thing is that it _can_ be done, but
the actual hardware of the Internet isn't able to cope with it...
The head guy at Oracle said "The information superhighway did not
start in America. It began four weeks ago in Britain.", when the
world's first video-on-demand service, using cable lines, and
getting the piccies from a mainframe computer, went into operation
to a test group.
I hope to be studying this kind of thing next year, ie. the develop-
ment of the data superhighway, as part of my degree. And, in my
prelim research, I've come to the conclusion that the only thing
that's holding us back is the fact that the internet itself sucks.
If a high quality optical fibre net were to come into operation, and
the net inroduced into every home in the West, the information
superhighway sure as hell wouldn't be long in taking off like a rocket.
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