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Weathermen Wax Poetic While We Worry

15 Centimeters, hitting us at rush hour, high winds, slick roads, top up your tank, work from home, more near the lake, snow tires, unless you absolutely have to, washer fluid, drive for the conditions, and any other amount of palaver we get from the Weather Wise.

Nope!  Spied on the Av Sat on Thursday night, the system stalled barely reaching is icy grips past London. Stalled over Ohio and nowhere to go.  Now where do we go for the accurate synopsis?  Nowhere, that’s where.  Were we knowledgeable enough to access and thusly assess the data would we fare better?  Far better, or just a tad?

Well this weather weenie would have posited the temp. and not the precip..  10 Pm evidence was there of the Great Stall.  Seemingly throughout the following day there was a mustering in the northeast.  Again the worrisome weather for Friday had stalled and dumped its cold front right over the great lakes.  I, for a few moments, studied its movement, but alas was not diligent to the task to finally determine the outcome.

We know not now what we didn’t know then.  The 10 to 15 dumped last night.  Actually not the same system at all but the same net result, (shy of the work-a-day hassles commuting brings).   It is February, and it is Canada, and we are used to this, and we are prepared, and we are aware of the possibilities, and we know how to drive, and we don’t always need snow tyres, and we do have shovels, and we like the colour, and we have mitts and parkas and toques.

Shovel mine to the brim, Java Jo for the job.

Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side.

1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, I Bid 1000 G!

Com’on folks I gotta bid over here gimmie 50 – 55, 55 I got 60.  This is a real good deal folks, one of a kind, do I hear 70, I got 75 from the man in the red hat.  Now lady you got the bid now at 85, do I hear 95 out there anywhere?  Okay young man just put your hand up when I say a number that you can afford.  105 I hear now get me 115, anyone?  110?  115?  Going once! Going twice. I have 1000 in the back row from the man with the bald head, big eyes, and long fingers.

Holy sacrilegious cow my friends.  Pick another number before this whole race jumps the shark.  Let me explain the G systems as we know them.

“The following standards are typically branded 3G:

    The UMTS system, first offered in 2001, standardized by 3GPP, Europe, Japan, China (however with a different radio interface) and other regions  GSM 2G infrastructure.  Cell phones are UMTS and GSM hybrids.

        The original and most widespread radio interface is called W-CDMA.

        The TD-SCDMA radio interface was commercialized in 2009.

        Latest UMTS release, HSPA+, with peak data rates up to 56 Mbit/s in the downlink (28 Mbit/s in existing services) and 22 Mbit/s in the uplink.

    The CDMA2000 system, offered in 2002, standardized by 3GPP2, sharing infrastructure with the IS-95 2G standard. The cell phones are typically CDMA2000 and IS-95 hybrids. The latest release EVDO Rev B offers peak rates of 14.7 Mbit/s downstream.

Systems and radio interfaces are based on kindred spread spectrum radio transmission technology. While the GSM EDGE standard ("2.9G"), DECT cordless phones and Mobile WiMAX standards formally also fulfill the IMT-2000 requirements and are approved as 3G standards by ITU, these are typically not branded 3G, and are based on completely different technologies.

 

A new generation appears approximately every ten years since 1G systems in 1981/1982. Each is characterized by new frequency bands, higher data rates and non backwards compatible transmission technology. The first release of 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard does not completely fulfill the ITU 4G requirements called IMT-Advanced. First release LTE is not backwards compatible with 3G, but is a pre-4G or 3.9G technology, sometimes branded "4G" . Its evolution LTE Advanced is a 4G technology. WiMAX is another technology verging on or marketed as 4G.”

Clear?

How many of you skipped down to here after the first sentence or two?  For each one of you who did so, you have validated thecoffeeguy.ca over Wikiknowsnotwhat.com . Obviously my source.

I think as the G race proceeds, my own expertise is initially leaning toward the “H” Networks.  And as I approach the middle of this decade I will be receiving National Research Chair monies for development of the domestic “Zed Net”.  This leading edge networking will initially be “Ten Gig Zed”.  I will let the plebes work on the first 999,999,999 Zed Nets.

Pour it slowly my friends, I don’t like bubbles disturbing my brew.

Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, from The Dark Side.

Wagers Wafting Through Windows of Wisdom

With wisps of coffee aroma sifting through the air, targeting my nasal cavity, firing dendrites in my cranium I become conscious of the morning.  Whence cometh the orange factor no matter where I roam.  The Ontario feline oratorical and the Columbian with his anterior talons pinning me and not with a fruit communication thingy.

Speaking of which, a body in normal situ would deduce that battery life would be a paramount concern.  Mine got ripped.  1.5 to 1.25 days max then relinking to the umbilical for re-energization.  WHAT?  36 hours?  I have more zap in my zinger than that.  

Are we on a harvest and heap program where sheaves of slashed gleanings are thrashed till the lowest common denominator drops through the screen of technology?  My fruit is so small, the screen so inadequate, the depressors so precise, are they not aware that with my aging eyes worsening, and my fingers always cyclopean that the operation of such is dicommoding?

I know the Verge Company has a higher calling for culling the herd.  Those with ham like appendages, and non 20-20 fissures need not employ the technology.  I just wanna know if we are going bigger or smaller?   Or is there a dichotomy?  If you carry it, then it must get smaller,  if you have it in your abode, then it must get larger.  WIDE screen TV, Chair and a half, Deep pile carpet, thick Texas Toast, Double wide trailers, Wide are telephone service, surround sound, 4 slice toaster, jumbo paper towels.

Now in the hand held thingy market, its microprocessors, and pin headed buttons and miniscule Blue Teeth, (is that two Blue Tooth Thingy’s?) pixels so small that ants have trouble deciphering the numerals.   Nay I say, there is a limit to the non-Asian hand.  Who is doing the trial testing on these?  They have a bunch of Lilliputians on staff? Have they started a cult of less than average stature people through the Personnel Department at Verge?

So am I happy and trusting in the fruit?  Not yet. At this juncture it is a inbound tool, when I figure how to make the obverse work, I may become more productive.  Until then, I will move at galactic speed on my full size keyboard and high band width connexion.

Java Jo never tasted to good.

Mark Hull Du Calumet, First of the coterie of York, Son of Don, Scion of Karl in the House of Pfunkstadt, Connubial of Suzanne, Yeoman to the Hun of Honda, Prevailing in the Seat of Hespeler, Having been again to Australia, and now Grandad's Land, and for some, on The Dark Side.