car stereo | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com Ian Bell's opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Ian Bell Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://i0.wp.com/ianbell.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cropped-electron-man.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 car stereo | Ian Andrew Bell https://ianbell.com 32 32 28174588 11th Hour for Iridium https://ianbell.com/2000/03/17/11th-hour-for-iridium/ Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:00:36 +0000 https://ianbell.com/2000/03/17/11th-hour-for-iridium/ Iridium now toast?

C’mon… maybe it’s too early for satellite-based voice, but how about lots of little low bitrate applications like paging? I can think of a thousand uses for a roving satellite signaling network that require very little bandwidth and therefore represent better economies of scale — for example, satellite-based CDDB lookups for CDs so you can display track names on your car stereo! Cool!

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Somebody’s gotta buy those satellites.

-Ian.

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