I type at 10Gbps!
With bundled cables, it's even faster! Reliability is achieved via redundancy and statistics.
As I pointed out, American standards tend to be simpler than European standards and a lot more adaptive, with variable speed communication ( at the network layer AND wire too!).
CAN bus... 1553 was around since '80, at 1Mbps. What did the CAN bus get us besides those horrifically expensive and unreliable Benzes and Bimmers of Y2K?
The most unreliable part of my cars is the connection to the cell phone and the NAVI... Now it wants to update its maps... and it will take four hours after I download the maps onto a USB stick. The dealer won't do it because he'll charge me, so he sent me off with the instructions to do it myself.
With bundled cables, it's even faster! Reliability is achieved via redundancy and statistics.
As I pointed out, American standards tend to be simpler than European standards and a lot more adaptive, with variable speed communication ( at the network layer AND wire too!).
CAN bus... 1553 was around since '80, at 1Mbps. What did the CAN bus get us besides those horrifically expensive and unreliable Benzes and Bimmers of Y2K?
The most unreliable part of my cars is the connection to the cell phone and the NAVI... Now it wants to update its maps... and it will take four hours after I download the maps onto a USB stick. The dealer won't do it because he'll charge me, so he sent me off with the instructions to do it myself.
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Ay...... you're so literal... one of the things about Germans I find interesting... some of the most serious people around... and then they get drunk... but to get drunk they got to like drink four liters of beer.
Our current cars have Android/Apple connections... so we can use the onboard maps or the phone maps. The phone maps are obviously dynamic... but the damn car and phone require "updates" like every other month.
Nothing like have to drive off to an appointment and the car/phone says " An Upgrade is required..." or shutting the car down and "An Upgraded is required".
I miss the old days of using a key to start and stop the car, the Auto Club paper TripTik and Thomas street maps.
Do they have comedians in Germany?
Funny,
Germans invented quantum physics, Americans invented the light bulb.
If the Germans had ruled the World a million years ago, the Health and Safety regulations would have prevented the discovery of fire.
For real... he is so right!
Our current cars have Android/Apple connections... so we can use the onboard maps or the phone maps. The phone maps are obviously dynamic... but the damn car and phone require "updates" like every other month.
Nothing like have to drive off to an appointment and the car/phone says " An Upgrade is required..." or shutting the car down and "An Upgraded is required".
I miss the old days of using a key to start and stop the car, the Auto Club paper TripTik and Thomas street maps.
Do they have comedians in Germany?
Funny,
Germans invented quantum physics, Americans invented the light bulb.
If the Germans had ruled the World a million years ago, the Health and Safety regulations would have prevented the discovery of fire.
For real... he is so right!
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Reminds me of the early days of going online with a 300 bps modem and one could read the text at the speed it appeared on screen.
When 1200 bps modems came along one computer magazine stated they would never sell, because people simply can't read that fast.
Well, everyone except Evelyn Wood, but that was another time, maybe like this....
Hi Duke58,
I am impressed!
I am an immigrant from Berlin Germany and have lived in Canada and the United States since 1959.
I think Germans have a wonderful sense of humor. However, it gets lost in translation.
I have tried to translate jokes from my youth many times and failed most of the time:
Three defendants are lined up in front of a Judge, with a "lazy eye" condition.
The judge asked the first defendant: "What is your name?"
The second defendant answered: "Miller"
The judge then said: "I didn't ask you!"
Whereupon the third defendant answered: "I didn't say anything!"
Ralf