Cruising through the normal WWW sites I found a link to this cute article on NetworkWorld that briefly mentions some of the technology used in amusement park rides, and is more on how a journalist can get himself into an amusement park for free to ride one cool ride.

On MSNBC is an article about some wonderful new technology that is soon to make mobile phones and wireless LAN’s work at ranges siginifcantly longer than possible at the moment. It sounds a lot like another ‘spread spectrum’ technique to me… And the arguments are not making sense.

They claim that the base station will be worth about $350K, and the chips are about $6. The problem is that the base station and the chips are effectively the same technology. Maybe not exactly, but close enough. Needless to say I am highly skeptical.

I have been hit with the French change of the decimal point again… They use the comma as a decimal point… And my software does not like this. The mod in VB.NET is
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = New
System.Globalization.CultureInfo(“en-US”)

Fairly simple really…