Comments on: Mesh networks and the beginning of borg http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ray http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-63975 Ray Sun, 31 Dec 2006 01:42:34 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-63975 I think this would be great for determining the traffic ahead of you if it was used on emergency vehicles. I think it may be a problem to worry about, since it is wireless is security, because someone is always trying to crack other people's hardwork and to disturb how this would operate. <a href="http://www.gpseyes4u.com" rel="nofollow">GPS Advanced Vehicle Tracking</a> I think this would be great for determining the traffic ahead of you if it was used on emergency vehicles. I think it may be a problem to worry about, since it is wireless is security, because someone is always trying to crack other people’s hardwork and to disturb how this would operate.

GPS Advanced Vehicle Tracking

]]> By: Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision… » Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-46849 Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision… » Open Source Wireless Mesh Networking Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:41:36 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-46849 [...] But more important than the purposeful social networking product she’s building, she has a vision for integrating wireless into transportation systems using “open source mesh.” Since radio geeks are a picky bunch, I’d like to nail down the definition of “open source radio” or whatever she means. Andrew Turner has blogged a little about it here. In our conversation Robin went deeper into a discussion of toll based funding of highway infrastructure that charges variable rates by time-of-day, congestion based rates, and so forth. Is the use of “open source” just a marketing marker? Or does it refer to application level stuff like GeoRSS, or what? [...] [...] But more important than the purposeful social networking product she’s building, she has a vision for integrating wireless into transportation systems using “open source mesh.” Since radio geeks are a picky bunch, I’d like to nail down the definition of “open source radio” or whatever she means. Andrew Turner has blogged a little about it here. In our conversation Robin went deeper into a discussion of toll based funding of highway infrastructure that charges variable rates by time-of-day, congestion based rates, and so forth. Is the use of “open source” just a marketing marker? Or does it refer to application level stuff like GeoRSS, or what? [...]

]]> By: Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision… » Open Source Radio… http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-46678 Listics - Frank Paynter’s Voice and Vision… » Open Source Radio… Sat, 09 Sep 2006 16:06:37 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-46678 [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave aReply [...] [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Leave aReply [...]

]]> By: Will http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-13380 Will Tue, 23 May 2006 20:58:42 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-13380 This isn't just another post about that Audrey thing of yours, right? Here in NoVA, the county government embraced Zipcar and Flexcar by providing spaces at Metro stations and 'strongly recommending' their inclusion in site plans for new development. They make sense here because there's a supportable density, alternative routes, and a technically literate population. I think they are a great system, but then I also own 2.5 cars... Elsewhere... not so sure. Which goes toward these other uses -- what level of interaction is required? what population can use this? how does this improve my life? Sure I live in a high traffic area, but when traffic jams are both predictable and difficult to avoid (there are only six bridge crossings of the Potomac from Alexandria to Great Falls), the benefits are harder to see. Now if the Porpoise (RIP) had a system where they would prepare a beer as I approached the bar, that would be worth buying. The larger point is that technologists (or programmers) should think about how we live/work/travel and how their system can integrate or extend an existing practice or gesture without requiring us to learn something completely new. I'm a fan of answering 'why?' rather than 'why not?' in these cases. Favorite example is EZ-Pass. Brilliant, convenient, easily explained. Deducts the toll price via car-mounted RFID (or something similar) at speed. Automatically deducts from an account or credit card, requires a single non-interactive piece of hardware and no user interaction after installation. Order, Velcro to your windshield and be done. Which makes this announcement interesting. http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ This isn’t just another post about that Audrey thing of yours, right?

Here in NoVA, the county government embraced Zipcar and Flexcar by providing spaces at Metro stations and ’strongly recommending’ their inclusion in site plans for new development. They make sense here because there’s a supportable density, alternative routes, and a technically literate population. I think they are a great system, but then I also own 2.5 cars…

Elsewhere… not so sure.

Which goes toward these other uses — what level of interaction is required? what population can use this? how does this improve my life? Sure I live in a high traffic area, but when traffic jams are both predictable and difficult to avoid (there are only six bridge crossings of the Potomac from Alexandria to Great Falls), the benefits are harder to see.

Now if the Porpoise (RIP) had a system where they would prepare a beer as I approached the bar, that would be worth buying.

The larger point is that technologists (or programmers) should think about how we live/work/travel and how their system can integrate or extend an existing practice or gesture without requiring us to learn something completely new. I’m a fan of answering ‘why?’ rather than ‘why not?’ in these cases.

Favorite example is EZ-Pass. Brilliant, convenient, easily explained. Deducts the toll price via car-mounted RFID (or something similar) at speed. Automatically deducts from an account or credit card, requires a single non-interactive piece of hardware and no user interaction after installation. Order, Velcro to your windshield and be done.

Which makes this announcement interesting.
http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/

]]> By: katie http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-12574 katie Mon, 22 May 2006 15:41:57 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/mesh-networks-and-the-beginning-of-borg/#comment-12574 That sounds very much along the lines of the near-future world Vernor Vinge sets up in Rainbows End. (Substituting high-tech contact lenses with high-definition display capabilities for 'in-dash displays'.) That sounds very much along the lines of the near-future world Vernor Vinge sets up in Rainbows End. (Substituting high-tech contact lenses with high-definition display capabilities for ‘in-dash displays’.)

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