Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
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Wireless. Old technology. Crap usage.

Phones. Been around a long time. Basically the first idea of it was in 1844, (Innocenzo Manzetti). Invented around 1860, (Antonio Meucci). The first successful bi-directional transmission of clear speech by Alexander Graham Belll and Thomas A. Watson was made on 10 March 1876, when Bell spoke into his device, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” and Watson answered.

Radios. Ahhhh. Wireless transmission of information. n 1893, Nikola Tesla, in America, first demonstrated the feasibility of wireless communications.

Television. Once again. Wireless transmission of information. Commercially available since the late 1930s, the television set has become a common communications receiver in homes, businesses and institutions, particularly as a source of entertainment and news.

My point? Well, the internet was first used in the 1950s but has been commmonly available to the public for about 15 years. In technology terms that's a long time. Mobile (cellular) phones, are also a fairly recent thing available to the public, as are video calls made from them.

Anyway... radios were used a long time ago to transmit information. Wirelessly. With wires though, all we got was sound, (telephone). Again, without wires, we got moving image and sound in the form of the television.

So.... if we actually got more information from a wireless network than we did with wires, so why was the internet even invented to run off phone lines, which transmitted a limited amount of information?

More importantly though, if all this wireless technology is so old, and the internet is fairly old in this technologically advanced age of ours,

WHY ARE WIRELESS INTERNET CONNECTIONS SO CRAP?

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The Radio ad-free hour


By the way, I did intend to have the last question come out this month, but time difference between me and the host made it come out in May, so the weekly thing kinda died in the arse again, and I know this one is more of a rant than a question, but still



So on the radio on Friday, the station advertised from about 11am to 12am a thousand million times, "We have an ad free 50 coming up soon!!!". So you'd think it would be non stop music by the time it gets there wouldn't you.

"Ad free 50 starts now!", the station says. So you're expecting what, 150 minutes of non stop music? Well I was. Every fucking 2 songs though, "It's our ad free 50, this is the best station ever!!!" etc etc etc etc etc. There's no paid commercials, but it definitely fucking is not ad free!!!!!!!!!

Don't they realise that this is purpose-defeating, more annoying than regular commercials that may be advertising a product that interests you, and enough to make listeners, such as myself, change the fucking station to something like Triple J which has no ads and weird music, but heaps less fucking talking?!



/rant

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