O.K. engineer, here's your slow softball directly over the plate--hit it out of the park and send Surfer Mike with it, but inquiring minds want to know:
The OmniTracks division seems to be moving right smartly these days: trucks, rail cars, and I just got a little GPS chip thingie stuck in my board so that I can be rescued if ever confused with an adjacent pod of whales. What seems like it would be way cool is: why track just box cars and trailers zipping hither and yon when we could be tracking the contents inside those cubicles in the bargain? Granted the carriers find it right handy to know where the Wabash Cannonball is, and Engineer Bill (no offense) must be tickled pink to e-mail his beloved Aunt Marie to prepare for a function at the next junction, but what shippers and receivers want to know is 'WHERE'S THE BEEF?'.
I myself have just placed an order for an advance copy of 'Orthogonal Wave Formations and RF Modulation Schemes' and am gleefully tracking its progress to my doorstep on the UPS web site. (As I write, the dang thing is about 30 miles east of Turlock but I should have it by the weekend no sweat.)
Anyway, why wouldn't the Loyal Legions from San Diego assault FedEx, UPS, et.al., and offer new, enhanced, value added, HDR data delivery, and keep the boxcar and every little widget inside in an untethered continuum of spectrally efficient omnipresent real time state of the art hipness as to the scam what am and I mean like right now? Please understand that this inquiry is only intended to enhance the thread's theoretical understanding, and has nothing to do with the fact that I'm long to the gills with UPS, GSTRF, LOR, and (it need hardly be said) The Mighty Q. If this notion winds up making me richer than Scrooge (or his alter ego Ramsey), then I would reluctantly accept it as an entirely unanticipated consequence of my relentless search for techno-Wisdom.
Respectfully submitted, SM |
