Thanks for the URL -- note that they're only PROPOSING to change the
regulations now.

Boosting power would help, but we'd also need a decent antenna and more RF
knowledge than we Squeakers have :-)

Seriously, the JukeBox idea is an alternative to streaming audio.  It's
cheaper/easier/better-quality to send around the MIDI than to stream the
played audio.  We just need a decent MIDI synthesizer on each platform.
We're also looking into how we can make the Squeak MIDI synthesizer better.

Towards that end, has anyone figured out how to create a new instrument for
the Squeak MIDI Synthesizer?  We tried to do that last week with the
EnvelopeEditor but couldn't get the process right.

Thanks for all the good comments!
  Mark


>On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, David Farber wrote:
>
>>
>> a couple of ideas crossed my mind...
>>
>> 1) why not just boost the transmitter power? the FCC decided last friday to
>> end its decades long obstinate opposition of 'micro-radio'. i don't know the
>> exact details, but output could go as high as 1000 Watts. (source, page B8
>> Wall Street Journal, Friday 1/29)
>
>The URL for the FCC proposal is at:
>http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Mass_Media/News_Releases/1999/nrmm9003.html
>
>Ivan
>
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>
>Ivan Brusic                        |  "Computers are nothing but a perfect
>Graduate Student                   |   illusion of order" - Iggy Pop
>College of Computing & GVU Center  |
>Georgia Institute of Technology    |  E-mail: ivan [at] cc.gatech.edu


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