When you're talking about VHF signals that are only a few kHz apart, it pretty much is the only method available. No amount of DSP can overcome the compression in the (analog) front end you'd get without a diplexer in front of it.
This additional 32 dB of gain would greatly increase the range of the 2.4 GHz system over the VHF system, and would be available all the time -- making for a suitable Internet connection.
Unfortunately, the additional path loss more than makes up for the antenna gain over long distances, so the benefits are much smaller than you might expect. Beyond 25 miles or so, VHF is going to have less loss, even accounting for the antenna gain. That's part of the reason that low frequencies are preferred for broadcasting.
To be fair, those system require somewhat large and expensive cavity filters to work, along with a radio that is designed for such a system.
A system like this probably isn't practical for internet access in the Outback. (The filter is the set of cans on the lower right).
It is a problem - your office computers, or even home computers, aren't supposed to share an IP address. Every machine should have a unique address.
They only share addresses because there aren't enough to do it right.
So when were people required to put on pants before leaving the house?
No thanks, too much hassle. I will just stick to not wearing them.
This is Slashdot - are you sure you didn't mean
"I'll stick to not leaving the house"?
I don't know where you live, so that might be true there. However, no state of the US I've ever lived in has a law requiring two weeks notice. Generally, employment in the US is "at will". I can quit, or be fired, at any time. Two weeks is just a common courtesy.
I do think it would be cool if there was a dedicated GPS that took pictures too. You could use the GPS to geotag the picture and have it as an icon for a waypoint to help remind you what that waypoint is.
It's not exactly inexpensive, but the Garmin Oregon 550 does just that.
I realize this was meant to be funny, but the libertarian view is very limited government, not no government. Public safety and the common defense are usually accepted as proper functions of a libertarian government, and an asteroid impact probably falls into that category.
So, the libertarian solution is pretty much the same as everyone else: the government rounds up Bruce Willis, a drilling team, and a few nukes, then loads them onto a rocket heading to the asteroid...
There should have been 99.
You appear to have forgotten to convert between dollars and cents.
0.85 cents x 60000 miles = 51000 cents = $510
Which isn't overly high for a set of tires.
Personally, I don't have a problem with it.
Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth.
