| ??? 06/20/06 20:04 Read: times |
#118639 - Definition of need Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Erik, I agree with your sentiments.
[ramble on] Today's society has replaced the term "want" with "need" at every turn. If you've every seen any reality show about Orange County you know what I mean, "I know my 16th birthday was more expensive than my parents wedding, but I totally deserved it!" I digress... (and no I don't watch them, just happened to stumble on that tidbit and walked away shaking my head). Some applications are very non-critical where it's OK to hedge words like "need" to mean "most of the time" ;-). I think it might be like arguments we see here over what is "real time". An interesting case is those wireless thermometers that are everywhere now. If it misses a packet, will anyone ever know? If it misses 10? So duplicate transmissions are acceptable, but one needs to compare that to transmit+ACK. In many cases the transmission (and ACK) are scheduled so that the two parties only use the RF circuits when they expect the other end to do the same. Moderately interesting stuff. [ramble off] GB |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Buffer management optimalization | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Simple things first ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You can use circular buffer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Fragmentation problem... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| all methods have some problems | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Start of package or End of package | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Packages explanation | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Individual buffers | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Good Idea | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| New packages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hash table unefective | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| why keep that many | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Reason of 5 or more buffer | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Protocol specifics | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One way protocol | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| One way protocol | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| never | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Definition of need | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Grant, I agree with what you post re thi | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Simply reason why one way transmission | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
then why not just do it the easy way | 01/01/70 00:00 |