the softest of softballs

Never use a spreadsheet to do a database job.

In fairness, they do the language barrier thing in a few of the earlier episodes, but it’s a TV show. It would get very tedious if they did that every episode.

Yup, and later in the series they connect one Stargate to every other gate in the galaxy at the same time… so if you can do that, what happens if a person goes through it? Do they exit through all gates simultaneously?

1… the data already arrived so why didn’t he come out before it shut down…

I think they do address this in the episode - the problem was that the Stargate program built their own dialing computer because they didn’t have the original DHD, which is more sophisticated. I think they literally say that if they’d had a real DHD the problem would never have happened.

Better, you can just get in your sarcophagus and have all your health problems fixed in a couple hours… except for the inevitable psychosis.

I don’t know, it seems pretty half-baked to me.

You want a snake in your head?

Got lost so many times that way.

Unless you were playing Smash Brothers, then you could have 8.

That’s what you got from my comment? Do you struggle with reading comprehension?

Read this again:

You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.

Hmm, I always give my best effort, because that’s how I learn the most and sharpen my own skills. Job skills are like any other, they atrophy if you don’t stretch them, and they don’t grow if you don’t push their limits.

Give your effort for your own benefit, not because you expect a reward from your current employer. When you outgrow that relationship, and your employer doesn’t value your contributions, then move on.

You are always working for yourself, even if you’re getting a paycheck from someone else.

Well the birds still have to link to the main network somewhere to exchange packets… which I assume would still be an ISP, unless all you want is local mesh networking.

Someone will still have to install and maintain the wireless access points, physically link them to the local network trunk and negotiate for service with the backbone provider… which would just be an ISP, who would sell you access to the WiFi system like a cellular provider.

This isn’t a problem that can be solved with technology. Monopolies have to be fixed with government oversight.

Nope, you have to make an appearance in court and provide documentation of your death.

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”

what point are you trying to make?

You want a protocol that will build physical last-mile connections to peoples’ houses?

but what about boo-berry?

The Imperial March on a MakerBot

A long wire is an antenna that will gather electromagnetic noise from the air and turn it into random signal on the line. Shorter wires will be less responsive and therefore less noisy, and you can also mitigate the problem by grounding everything properly. It’s also possible that with the wires in that parallel ribbon, they may induce crosstalk on each other. If you want to be really careful, you could replace that big ribbon cable with an STP cable and ground the shielding jacket.

Also, a noisy/low quality power input to the Pi will produce noise in its circuits and ultimately the output. If you can, supply the power from something better than a wall wart.