2. Medical equipment - Usually use embedded OSes and Dragonball, 486s, ARM or Mot 68000 series chips
So what you're saying is that the chips in older Macs are now being used in medical equipment. Hmmm... On average, how many years would you say until the DRM'd chips in next year's PC show up in future medical equipment?
It's in either "Great Construction Disasters" or "Why Buildings Fall Down." (I forget which.) What is generally not pointed out in the hotel case is that the walkway as originally designed was strong enough but physically impossible to build. It would have required threading a nut on a rod larger than the hole in the nut. Change approval came not from the original architect but from the on-site construction engineers.
The Tacoma Narrows bridge failure was due to the (at the time) poorly understood phenomenon of vortex shedding.
The wing skins and fuselage shell are highly stressed structural members. You just can't replace them with antennas. Not only that, but replacing a bad antenna (full of millimeter-wave IC's) becomes a structural repair instead of just a black box replacement.
We have an early prototype Boeing Connexion system on a 757 (I work for NASA) and we measure ping times just over 500 ms. We get 2 megabits ground to air, and 250 kilobits air to ground. That 20 gig from the NYTimes article is obviously a typo, but based on our prototype system, I wouldn't be surprised at 20 megabits ground to air. And, yes, you will share the bandwidth with the kid on Gnutella.
Check here: http://www.boeing.com/connexion/sitemap.html
In other news, the Veep (Cheney) is getting the Boeing system on his Air Force Two. Maybe he's a Gnutella user!
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This is bizarre. Attempting to share affection with a computer. Blowfish sushi must have long term neurological effects.
Don't wait! Buy them for yourself, and let him play with them as soon as he's old enough to understand "clockwise to tighten."
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I loved them! Unfortunately, the little plastic tabs on the cross beams that fit into the slots on the uprights were prone to break off under disassembly. Maybe I should have been an architect instead of an EE.
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2. Medical equipment - Usually use embedded OSes and Dragonball, 486s, ARM or Mot 68000 series chips So what you're saying is that the chips in older Macs are now being used in medical equipment. Hmmm... On average, how many years would you say until the DRM'd chips in next year's PC show up in future medical equipment?
Yes they did. 100 seconds to a minute, 100 minutes to an hour, 10 hours to a day. There are metric clocks in French museums. It didn't catch on.
It's in either "Great Construction Disasters" or "Why Buildings Fall Down." (I forget which.) What is generally not pointed out in the hotel case is that the walkway as originally designed was strong enough but physically impossible to build. It would have required threading a nut on a rod larger than the hole in the nut. Change approval came not from the original architect but from the on-site construction engineers.
The Tacoma Narrows bridge failure was due to the (at the time) poorly understood phenomenon of vortex shedding.
The wing skins and fuselage shell are highly stressed structural members. You just can't replace them with antennas. Not only that, but replacing a bad antenna (full of millimeter-wave IC's) becomes a structural repair instead of just a black box replacement.
We have an early prototype Boeing Connexion system on a 757 (I work for NASA) and we measure ping times just over 500 ms. We get 2 megabits ground to air, and 250 kilobits air to ground. That 20 gig from the NYTimes article is obviously a typo, but based on our prototype system, I wouldn't be surprised at 20 megabits ground to air. And, yes, you will share the bandwidth with the kid on Gnutella.
Check here: http://www.boeing.com/connexion/sitemap.html
In other news, the Veep (Cheney) is getting the Boeing system on his Air Force Two. Maybe he's a Gnutella user!
This is bizarre. Attempting to share affection with a computer. Blowfish sushi must have long term neurological effects.
Don't wait! Buy them for yourself, and let him play with them as soon as he's old enough to understand "clockwise to tighten."
I loved them! Unfortunately, the little plastic tabs on the cross beams that fit into the slots on the uprights were prone to break off under disassembly. Maybe I should have been an architect instead of an EE.