Wandering Daliwood

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Saw two wildly different philosophies towards wireless this week. One demo had attempted to share WiFi through a folding AirWall (Big room divider) and failed, but as the chief nerd said, “Why depend on the internet for your demo if the audience won't know the difference?” Figure this, you've got maybe 10 seconds to make a 1st impression at a tradeshow. Now WHY are you using the 'net for this vitally short period of time, let alone WiFi?  So they didn't: they went with a canned-demo that looked like a live link, and it worked just fine.

The other view was 180. These guys just brought along a WiFi broadband router, and well, yah, they had all their demo stations on it. And you know, it worked... for the 1st two days of the show... then all down, 100%. Now to be fair, it could've been downed by one of their hosts being infected, there's nothing like 10,000 TCP sessions/minute to bring the party to a halt. But their first mystery has to be “What's on our wLAN?” and just how are you going to answer that in a room full of people with WiFi cards?

I was thinkin' the other day of things right-stuff, and I recalled that when John Young was asked about what he and Robert Crippen would do in the event of trouble during the launch of the maiden flight of Columbia, he quipped “Just pull the little handle.”

Then I thought of what that ride would be. And that's when the entire world around me went all watery and I thought that Einstein was nuts: when you're REALLY accelerating at the limits, it's not relativity, it's Daliwood.

So now tell me again why the US market is denied the Citroen Pluriel? Or the Diesel powered BMW's and Mercedes? Not the mid-sized MB E's, I mean the BMW 3 convertible and MB C2xx diesels. (I heard the BMW convertible is fantastic, a diesel without compromise.)

I think someone's decided that common sense prevails: Americans will not buy diesels, luxury hatch-backs, or odd Japanese projects. Piffle to all 3.

No, we're just a market of idiots when it comes to cars. Dang, the only thing the US consumer market leads the world on are guns.

Oh well, I'll rant next time on why civilians can't buy the Pilatus PC-21.