[NUT-devel] Broadcasting nuts [PATCH]

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:00:52PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:50:05PM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> > Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:02:11PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >> > A clock this bad would drift by 1/4 an hour per day. I doubt anyone
> > >> > would buy such a clock...
> > >> 
> > >> No, but people buy various embeded devices to watch videos and their clocks
> > >> are supposed to be cheap. And while i dont think they would be off by
> > >> 15min/day i doubt you can expect more than 1min/day accuracy from them.
> > >
> > > FWIW, this matches the estimates in my other email of 0.1% error.
> > >
> > > Also, maybe this is getting OT, but truely "broadcast" (in the sense
> > > of airwaves being involved) applications have a matched-to-sender
> > > clock pulse already via the PLL or whatever similar circuits they use
> > > in the tuner equipment.
> > 
> > There is no correlation between the carrier and the data.  The carrier
> > has nothing whatsoever to do with sender/receiver synchronisation.
> 
> Not in existing devices, but there's no fundamental reason it can't be
> used for this purpose. That was my only point in mentioning this
> otherwise OT tidbit.

<pic showing rich floating in space with a screwdriver, screeming
"I must fix the satelites, so they synchronize their transmitters with
the data transmitted" >

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