Word: upstreams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...communication: a single strong signal transmitted down a tree-and-branch system to thousands of passive users who aren't sending any data back. Sending a high-bandwidth signal from head-end to home in such a system is easy; getting thousands of individual signals back upstream--which is what a neighborhood of people E-mailing one another represents--turns out to be a nightmare...
...main culprits are the amplifiers that sit along cable lines, keeping signals strong and clear during their downstream journey. Not only do these amps not work when messages are funneled upstream, they actually degrade signals already under assault from radio interference. "There's far more noise in the coaxial system than any of us expected to see," says a hardware executive who has been close to the cable-modem industry since its inception. "It's really difficult to drive the signals out over these lines. Every trial to date has run into that as a significant problem...
...During the summer, people got sick about two to three miles upstream, but that was in 90-degree heat. If it were really dangerous, the police would be shutting down the sidewalks around there...
...also available in cranberry and moss). We're proud to have brought a traditionally indolent people into the new economy, giving them dignity and a chance to contribute to their country's nascent gnp. And because we've taught the monks to scrupulously detoxify their dyes before dumping them upstream from the tiny, unspoiled Nepalese villages (whose honey-skinned children are so to die for that Jan and I actually adopted one), your purchase of our hand-stitched window dressing will help save the planet for future generations...
...June 10 contest on the Thames River in New London, Conn. the Crimson broke the upstream record for the third year in a row, Harvard (18:41.9) finished a full boat-length in front of the Eli (18:45.5), splintering the previous mark by more than 10 seconds...