Hi, Benjamin,
oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear! I just suggest you re-read your own mail, you'll
surely figure out what's inappropriate about it.
Have you ever considered that everything major mankind has achieved so far
is based on a healthy balance of:
- local experimentation
- development, selection, and adoption of *multiple* standards
Think of: cars, road signs, light bulbs, laws, constitutions, human rights,
food, hashi, power plugs, backup media, medicine, keitai, even religion
The single most important thing about the evolution of anything is:
- diversity
In your case I'm tempted to add 'tolerance'
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Kowarsch
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Sent: 7/30/01 11:10 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: old keitai
>I was thinking the other day of a good use for old keitai. If the
>manufacturers would just
>put in a circuit for simplex operation, like a walkie talkie, on some
>public family radio band, then
>old keitai could be used a walkie talkies for kids or for people who
are
>out of range of
>the cell network. I bet it wouldn't cost very much to add this
capability;
>it makes
>me flinch to see so much technology just getting thrown into the trash
when
>the next
>model comes out.
If the Japanese hadn't been so utterly and incredibly s-t-u-p-i-d to
develop their own homebreed cellular standard, but would instead have
chosen either GSM or D-AMPS *as-is* (not using any different frequency
band
or reverse the uplink/downlink direction or other silly non-standard
gimmicks like Japanese CDMA does), then those phones could be recycled
(www.recellular.com) and help countries like -say- Bangladesh to improve
their infrastructure.
That would do a lot more good than paying so called economic aid in
return
for a vote on pro-whaling from the receiver countries.
[ excessive quoting removed ]
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Received on Tue Jul 31 11:14:17 2001