Pila

Pila may refer to:

Architecture

Places

Latin

  • Pila, a flat type of tile, used in Pilae stacks
  • Pila, the plural of pilum, a heavy javelin used in ancient Rome

Other uses

  • Pila (gastropod), a genus of African and Asian apple snails containing around 30 species
gollark: As planned.
gollark: Indeed.
gollark: There are mesh networks in a few places, but I don't think they've gotten massively wide adoption because the average consumer doesn't really care (and they still need to interact with the regular internet, which is hard and beelike).
gollark: Phones spend tons of battery power on communicating with faraway towers when they could also practically relay data via nearby devices on lower power for non-real-time data.
gollark: Anyway, as much as I somewhat disapprove of ☭ in general, the current hierarchical structure of consumer internet connectivity is ridiculous and inefficient and would probably have been replaced if it wasn't for the hardproblemness of good mesh networking.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.