it specifies that 5G networks should provide data speeds of up to 20Gbps -- 20 times faster than 4G
I just get so sick of marketing speak. "Up to" could mean anything here -- setting an upper limit of 20gbps is useless. Tell me what the average speed I can expect will be, at least then I can have some idea what I'll actually get.
Around here, it gets so humid in the summer that we had to swim to get to school.
Upstream both ways!
Yeah. You could probably replace the thing with a raspberry pi
.... at each location ... with a custom controller card.. and another one to control them all... for about $5,000 $2M ? Someone's pork barrel overfloweth.
Well, you do have to find someone to do that work, and pay them, and also pay them to warranty their work when it inevitably breaks. Nothing costs just parts, you have to include labor and the example you just gave is all custom (which is exactly what they've got now, just with modern hardware). $2M may be too much but why don't you go submit your bid for $5k and let me know how that works out for you.
With the project already billions over budget and years behind schedule
... You probably wouldn't get on a plane these guys designed
Well if they were spending that time making sure their plane wouldn't fall apart in the air, then sure I would. One of the trends of today's society is that we aren't willing to wait for things. Especially when it comes to new tech and something as risky as a nuclear reactor, I want them to take their time and get it right. Hopefully that will mean the second one they build is put up much more quickly and safely.
Kudos to them for finding their flaws now, and not after a meltdown happens.
"Every day we had shed-loads of treasure coming out of all the graves...." Holy shed, that's a lot of treasure.
I wonder how many Libraries of Congress worth of treasure they ended up with.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -- Thomas Edison