While this is definitely not useful for the consumer, ensuring this fine synchronization of clocks over the Internet at a reasonable price is crucial to enable the implementation of several fundamental, basic services upon which you can then have nice dependable applications. Things like having a set of sites agreeing on something, delivering messages by the same order are extremely difficult to achieve in a wide area setting and can be made easier resorting to devices like this one.
This is not that useful for the average geek though...
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rco @ Jun 14th 2007 4:45AM
While this is definitely not useful for the consumer, ensuring this fine synchronization of clocks over the Internet at a reasonable price is crucial to enable the implementation of several fundamental, basic services upon which you can then have nice dependable applications. Things like having a set of sites agreeing on something, delivering messages by the same order are extremely difficult to achieve in a wide area setting and can be made easier resorting to devices like this one.
This is not that useful for the average geek though...