Spectrum Crunch

Align

<div class="IPBDescription">Running out of frequencies for wireless transmission</div>It sounds like a videogame, but no:
<a href="http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spectrum-crunch" target="_blank">http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/spectrum-crunch</a>
I certainly hadn't heard of it before.

lolfighter

"You have to click on an ad. You have to." ###### that ######.

Edit: Gave up half a minute in. Note to whoever pays attention: If your essentially-just-narration-with-a-slideshow-video is so long that you need to speed everyone up to helium-voice-speed to fit within whatever length/bandwidth is allotted to you, maybe just write down. Much lower bandwidth requirement.

Anyone got a link to a similar article or something?

Scythe

Yeah... I stopped watching extra credits a while back. They say a lot without actually saying a lot, but dress it up in comfortable generalisations and profound wording. Bleh.

--Scythe--

jeffreymcfincze512

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Edit: Gave up half a minute in. Note to whoever pays attention: If your essentially-just-narration-with-a-slideshow-video is so long that you need to speed everyone up to helium-voice-speed to fit within whatever length/bandwidth is allotted to you, maybe just write down. Much lower bandwidth requirement.

Anyone got a link to a similar article or something?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

i agree the link is to long.....

Align

The TL;DR version is essentially the topic's description (under the title), so...

lolfighter

So I decided to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_allocation#Data_crunch" target="_blank">read up</a> on the issue so we can have some discussion. But I don't see any readily apparent topic for discussion.

Our electromagnetic spectrum is a limited natural resource. Okay sure. But it's not one that we can permanently damage or use up. In the absolute worst case scenario we fill out the spectrum and no further growth can happen. That's bad, but not as bad as, say, sucking our top soil dry or polluting every source of drinking water available to us. I'm just not particularly worried about this I guess.

Edit:
And another reason why this doesn't bother me: You can't rusthlessly exploit the electromagnetic spectrum for shortsighted profit and ###### future generations who cares about them. There is actually a short-term economic incentive for dealing with the problem. So it will be dealt with.

Chris0132

Also even if anyone used up all the spectrum, it should be entirely possible to just build a bigger transmitter and drown out everyone else.

lolfighter

Just like you can drown out your neighbour's too loud music by installing speakers the size of minivans in your sound system. Don't expect sympathy when people break in while you're away and smash them to cinders though.