On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/5/31 Anthony <[email protected]>: > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Brian <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> I propose a cheap cellphone-sized device (OWPP) whose only purpose is to > >> read Wikipedia. > > > > > > That's probably both the wrong form (too small) and the wrong content > (too > > flighty) for people permanently without access to the Internet (who > > presumably also are without access to television - otherwise why not beam > > Wikipedia through whatever network carries the television signal?). > > Wikipedia over TV would never work. There isn't the bandwidth for it. So only broadcast a subset. > TV is a broadcast medium, that means you have to be constantly sending > everything anyone could want (or, at least, sending it fairly > frequently, like teletext does). Presumably there's a hard drive at the other end. On one channel broadcast updates, on a second channel broadcast random articles weighted by relative importance. By the way, I'm not really sure what you mean by "TV is a broadcast medium". But presumably anyone without Internet access but with TV access is receiving the TV signal through a broadcast, so I can safely ignore this nitpick. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
