JR is fully right here. You better be a bit conservative
when shuttling people around in metal tubes at 30.000+
feet.
Positive note for those who suffer from info deprivation
in aircraft: technology is being developed right now
which will allow you to use your cellphone onboard.
This will probably transform aircraft from a flying metal
tube into a flying aggegration of a few hunderd telephone
booths - without acoustical isolation. Ai me.
Leen Mak.
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> To: John Stracke
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> John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> con fecha 20/03/2001 05:35:15 PM
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> <Dave Crocker wrote:
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> <> On the way here, the flight attendant insisted that I turn
> off my Palm Pilot.
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> <> Do they make people turn off hearing aids?
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> <And, if they do, how do they tell them it's OK to turn them
> back on? :-)
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> <The remaining question, of course, is how come the airplane
> <manufacturers can't build a plane to resist this interference.
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> Could it be that IT developments take 6 months and plain
> developments takes 5 to
> 10 years.
> Who had a wireless device 5 years ago? What about 10 years
> ago? What about in
> 1969, when the first 747 started to fly?
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> Could it be that a bug in your ERP may make you loose money,
> a bug in a plain
> makes you loose your life.
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> Could it be that if "windows" crashes every couple of days
> you just reboot it,
> if a 747 crashes one single time, +400 persons die. (Who does
> reboot them)
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> I agree that plains should be better "shield" but, maybe we
> (the internet
> community) are not the ones to tell other how to do more
> reliable things and,
> fore sure we have a very week point when it comes to liabilities.
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> Anyway, do we know what a router and a switch are, becouse,
> everyone on avionics
> knows what a transponder or a flap is, with no doubt about
> its definition or
> functions.
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> Regards,
> J.R.
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