The article glossed over one of the cooler aspects, or what I suspect was a cooler aspect but they didn't delve into it. What is a "renderfarm"? the article does not give enough info but it would seem that these guys have been using beowulf's of SGI boxs for a long time! Now they just may be COWS (cluster of work stations) but it seems that they may be beowulfs. Frustrating that they did not delve into this interesting use of software. Would have loved to know how they load balanced on the machines, etc. Are they using MPI? What is the flops they are ataining and the difference between SGI and Linux in that area. Also, and I may be wrong, but could this be the first ever beowulf of SGI boxs? to little info to figure out I am afraid. (and no , this is not the usual "what if we had a beowulf of these posts". I am actually curios.)
Will their be much point of installing vibratting beds in a hotel on the moon? What are the hotels going to do for extra revenue then? Kinda a long way to run spank cable....
interesting, but not suprising, that she is a small claims judge. my experience (from when I once litigated against an old landlord) is that the small claims judges are actually more in touch with the people. They will help you out and make suggestions in court. They are used to big companies mauling the little guy, consequentially they don't put up with it.
This is why one of the first actions a company will take if you small claims court them is to have it moved to circuit court (a "higher" level court) rules of evidence are harder and the judges more "impartial" (lawyer friendly, not layman friendly)
Hopefully this will start to break us free from the cable company monopolies, my area allows only one, I would love to see equal access enforced like it is for long distance carriers. (at least in the US). Maybe then they will stop this bait and switch crap they like to play with bandwidth, 120K the first month, then 90K , then 60K etc...
On a final note I would also like to say, that must be one of the most shagable judges I have ever seen...
Can I consider this another flagrant violation of my rights by a large corporation with the help of the government when the large corporation in question has never made a profit and therefore really cannot be considered a large corporation?
Please answer, as I am a bit confused.... And I am vastly concerned with categorizing the many people that screw me over through the day so I really need to figure out which category I should check this off in before I go to bed.
Ya that would be the ones listed out of the ton he made, if I spout out a ten thousand word article about the "future" I am bound to get something right. So thank you for proving my point by the way, as I said this is just more grist for 10 years from now so he can point back and say how "correct" he was now. 20% acuracy does not a prophet make, actually it makes you simply a bad guesser.....
I am SOOO tired of these "what I see for computers and the internet and etc etc etc...." articles. All they are is filler in a magazine and for someone to trot out in ten years and laugh at saying how silly the predictions were.
Ultimatly they are a fluff peice where someone seems to think I care what they think and I should listen to them, well I say Phhhhhtttt to that.
This may seem like a troll but I am honestly over these self apointed "gurus" spouting off about things no one can verify or even make a safe bet on.
So here are my predictions for the tech industry : You are going to take a long trip and meet a tall dark stranger , and ultimatly die.
Is for smokers trying to quit. I can imagine how much better my trying to quit smoking would go if everytime I tried to light a cigarette it got put out and I got a facefull of C02 to go with it.
That is until I got smart and replaced the C02 with N02 and enjoyed it a lot more....
I realize that this is portable but I have some serious misgivings about that price. I know that I won't be buying one until that price drops by about 90%. A portable HD docking station (internal PC collar and sled) runs $10 for IDE and a 20 gig HD on pricewatch today is running around $67 for just the drive. that is $77 for a equally portable solution (though a bit larger)
Now I do realize people will point out that this is requires where ever you go to have a docking station also in order for this to work. Well that is true for the iomega solution also. They will have to have one of these drives also when you arrive.so we are even on functionality in this case.
The other solution is to take the drive with you and plug it in and install it, so don't forget those install disks! In the portable HD arena we have the USB external enclosures. today on pricewatch $167 for 20 gigs of storage, and no driver disk needed to install it. We are looking at the same size and weight for these two solutions
I think that iomega has missed the first part of what we want, CHEAP portable storage. At nearly $400 for a drive and a 20 gig disk I think that a lot of people will be giving this a miss.
Apparently I am not the only one as their CEO resinged today also, 2nd one in two years, not a good sign.
Well, I will definatly watch my spelling on this reply!
I don't recomend any testing, I recomend more dynamic funding (note I did not say MORE MONEY, just better directed were it goes). Vouchers look like a good route to me, you fill your school with know nothing teachers and inept administrators and the people will leave and take their money with them. I feel that a lot of the poor performance on the part of the school system is that they are a monopoly that must be payed. Even if you put your child in a private school or home school them you must still pay the taxes that fund the school system.
As long as administrators and teachers get a free ride then they are not going to want to make things better. The only thing that is going to help the kids is more directed funding allowing a school to offer better classes with smaller groups better sorted by ability. It is just as much of an injustice to force a smart student to attend a remedial class as to force a not so bright student to take advanced classes. Both will start to fail. The smart one out of boredom and the less bright one out of lack of ability.
More money won't help the problem, the best funded public schools in the nation are amongst the poorest performers. Until their is compition in the market place we will continue to see this lack of education.
To break this down to it's points : Vouchers good, Testing Bad!
This is going to just get worse for kids. With press. Bush pushing to make standerdized testing nation wide this will become more and more common of an occurance. I live in Virginia, a state that implimented Standereds Of Learning tests (SOLs) years ago, The absolute paranoia that surrounds a test that "was just going to be used for monitorring purposes" is astounding. The schools have stopped pretending that they are teaching knowledge and instead spend all of their class time cramming facts down the students throats so they can pass the trivia quiz of the SOLs. br>
It has gotten so bad that a local city has asked to extend the school year for kids just to prepare for these test. Once the test are out of the way the kids spend three weeks until the end of the year loafing in class as the teachers have no reason to give them a final, they already had it and passed their SOL.Just and example of how the schools are warping to fit around the SOLs , soon they will be the official final.
This is the only outcome you can expect when a teacher and administrators depends on their raises based on how their school district does on the SOLs and their jobs depend on how well their own classes do on these tests. School should teach kids how to think and solve problems, not how to regurgitate facts at the drop of a hat, facts that can be easily found in a book or on the web if you were not sitting in a proctored testing room. This was a great idea to start but it is getting out of control, just like drug testing in the 80's early 90's. Seemed like a good idea until fly by night testing labs started turning in false positives by the truckload ruining people and their carrers. Kids don't need this pressure, Teachers,maybe, but this is not how to apply it, school adminsitrators definatly need to be held accoutnable. I do not think this is the way to do it though. Ultimatly we do get rid of the incompitents , but we also get rid of the talented teacher. Once the lesson plan is dictated from the state or nations capital the chance for real learning is lost and it just becomes a numbers game. Kids are not numbers, they are potentials and should be treated as such! When we takes steps like these to teach to the lowest common denominator, the brightest of our children are wasted, we need to stop this and start teaching smart.
The use I would expect to see these put to is shakedown for ISPs by the bandwidth providers (Worldcom, etal.) . With them being able to tell what the packet contains and speed it up or slow it down accordingly it is not any kind of leap to do it based on packet source. This means that they will be able to sell you a T1, but if you want the premium upgrade that will cost you. The premium upgade will contain an automatic speed up of one step for packets originating at your IP range. Want another step, that's another "premium" package purchase. If you are AOL and want you packets to route faster than the packets from mindspring you just need to get the next "premium" upgrade. That way you can run ads saying that your network is faster than theirs. It will make the final days of the ISP wars a bidding adventure.
Writers of software could kick in also on this. If the packet contains a word document then give it a speed step, microsoft pays for it, Star office on the other hand gets nothing. The individual effect is negligable, but the overall impression people will get is that Office is faster than it's compitition.
The ultimate effect will be that the larger providers and software publishers will be able to pay to get increased performance on the net. The little guy will be squeezed out of the market by a lack of being able to pay for bandwidth ability.
And let's not even talk about paying to have your competion slowed down on the net...
Unfortunatly this article was not that infromative. Darn it, the total reporting of the incident is "There were also indications that the hardware is not entirely stable yet - a crash during Nightcaster revealed a familiar looking PC boot screen, and a Microsoft representative explained that the memory configuration on the floor models was different than that of the final version."
This makes me interested in what they mean by "familiar looking PC boot screen"? Did they see an award bios memory count and bios boot? or a blue screen, or even a windows 95 splash screen?
the reason for figurring this out is that we may be seeing a scam here developing, could it be the X-box is not actually a "real" console but a stripped down standered PC running software? The newer legacy free PCs on the market look a lot like a X-box...If this is the case does that mean that I will be able to run X-box games on my PC without an emulator?
{evil conspiracy mode} could this all be a plot by microsoft to bridge the PC/console gap in order to slide all the console users over to PCs and of course onto their operating systems. Get them using the X-box then reveal that they are actually using a PC and ask them to join the dark side...{/evil conspiracy mode}
It's like some twisted tag and release system for people who have time to listen to the radio. How long before I have to fear a tranquilizer dart and the butt and I wake up with one of these things on?
I wonder what they put those sqelching slapping sounds down as that occur as my heart rate elevates? Will they be listed as "personnal time"?
Just as I find another great vacation spot to "get away from it all" slashdot has to rat me out with the help of Nasa. Now the tourists will come and ruin it for all of us! Dammit why can't I have something of my own for once!
Great with this I may be able to get to the store before it closes to get more beer for once.I also may be able to get back before someone starts hitting on my GF.
And becuase it must be said "And what if we built a beowolf cluster of these?!?"
Reminds me of my college days and my first appartment, Replace aluminum scrap with "Cable Spool" and mission control with "landlord" and I have been their and done that. Though the gravity that was naturally provided made mine a bit more pratical to use....
I was not saying you could not get more cooling devices, but that their pump , according to them, only can handle pumping to three of them. From their FAQ -
8) Q: How many liquid-cooled components can I place into a system? £
A: With our current PC model, we recommend a total of three liquid coolers for best operation. This includes the power supply-- if three coolers are needed elsewhere, please consider our alternative model with an SPI 300W power supply. Filling a case with liquid cooling components puts a heavier burden on the impeller pump, which may lead to decreased performance in the way of higher temperatures.
I couldn't tell to well from the picture but it looks like their is a plate that blocks them from the interior of the case , their docs seemed to indicate they are for cooling of the water only. I am basing my observations of their PC case picture that shows stuff mounting to the bottom of the case above the cooling unit.
After reading the site and poking at the specs I have some misgivings, some of the specs seemed cooked in their favor to me, for one I noticed that the SCSI hard drive in dual fan case is listed as running at 138 degrees Farenheit, making their HD cooling solution beat it by 34 degrees. The fact is that ALL of my SCSI enclosures run at 125 to 130 degrees. They start to alarm at 130 and warn me of failure. The average is around 127 degrees across about 30 drives. This means that they are beating the HD fan solution by 13 degrees. This also makes me wonder if that is the case since they pushed the higher numeber up did they also push the lower number down, is the total savings closer to 5 or 6 degrees? With this noted, that they are playing with the HD cooling numbers, how many of the other numbers they list are being played with? With the fact that their solution can only handle 3 devices total this does not make HD cooling overly practical.
I also noticed that their case did not contain any case fans for other circulation, with their solution only providing cooling for three devices (let's pick CPU, Power Supply and one HD) That means you have to air cool the rest. Their case does not seem to have good ariflow, and if I am having to add case fans then I am loosing the quieting fucntionalty that is desired.
this looks like a good idea , and from reading the FAQ they have put some thought into this (especially in the area of condensation) but until they can handle more device off of the pump in the case I think I would personally give this a miss.
I heard a comedian say once (name escapes me at the moment) that all great inovations have been made my man in order to get laid. The whole walking on the moon thing was so those guys could go into a bar and say "see that moon walk, that was me baby!"
I have a sneaking suspiscion that this falls into that same category if he is expecting Hooters girls at the end.
And frankly if it was me I would drink the champange BEFORE I got into the rocket, not a lot of driving involved with going up and coming down and it would do wonders for me actually performing this stunt...
Could be just a good fiction story... Or just a good idea period... you decide. Kill someone with these and fake the signal back to the server in order to make it appear that they are alive, leave town and then have it shut off when you are safely in alibi land.
"My client is inocent or all charges, from these server records it is obvious that Mr. Gates did not die until my client was in chicago!"
My real question is- Will I read this in a book first or hear it on the news first.
Wait! I had a brialliant idea! I will rambus this and patent the idea of an alibi based on internet related patient monitorring! I'm going to be rich!
As a person heavily involved in the implimentation and use of teleconfrencing I must urge you, do not spend a lot of money on this just becuase it is "cool" right now.
The reason I say this is that in both areas that I am involved in teleconfrencing and it's use as a teaching tool has been a big failure.
As a student my college has had to impliment a policy that local students at the college must wait until after the distance sites register becuase it was claimed that the local students were taking all the seats before the distance student got a chance. They implimented their hold policy and guess what. Students at the distance sites are still not registerring. It was not that the seats were being taken by local students but that distance students were plain not registerring for classes. This has caused my college a lot of wasted money that they do not want to admit to (they built a building especially for this at the cost of several million dollars.) Add to this the fact that you are hurting your future alumni in order to do this and you get a long term recipe for disaster. It's makes no sense to penalize a student because they made the mistake of singing up at your school to take a class.
I also happen to work for a company trying to introduce the H323 teleconference equipment to public schools. When we first announced the initiative we would have 2 to 3 distance sites a class. The deal was we taught the class for free on a subject teachers needed (how to use power point etc.) and we would take the equipment they needed to them and set it up for free and let them use it to see how well this works. The problem turned out to be the usual thing stopping most of these types of adventures. Bandwidth! The schools did not have enough available bandwidth to broadcast at anything but the worst speeds and frame rates causing all the conference to suffer audio and video problems. Interest quickly disipaited for the project and we have not had any distance site participants in the last 7 times we have tried to offer this teaching expereince.
My point is that you may want to evaluate very carefully the need to teleconference before you start spending money. How did professors collaborate before now? is what you are offering a better solution or does it add layers of complication that will cause them to ditch the new stuff and do it the old way. Remember: just because it's new does not mean it is better, that's why people sell antiques.
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The article glossed over one of the cooler aspects, or what I suspect was a cooler aspect but they didn't delve into it. What is a "renderfarm"? the article does not give enough info but it would seem that these guys have been using beowulf's of SGI boxs for a long time! Now they just may be COWS (cluster of work stations) but it seems that they may be beowulfs. Frustrating that they did not delve into this interesting use of software. Would have loved to know how they load balanced on the machines, etc. Are they using MPI? What is the flops they are ataining and the difference between SGI and Linux in that area. Also, and I may be wrong, but could this be the first ever beowulf of SGI boxs? to little info to figure out I am afraid. (and no , this is not the usual "what if we had a beowulf of these posts". I am actually curios.)
Will their be much point of installing vibratting beds in a hotel on the moon? What are the hotels going to do for extra revenue then? Kinda a long way to run spank cable....
interesting, but not suprising, that she is a small claims judge. my experience (from when I once litigated against an old landlord) is that the small claims judges are actually more in touch with the people. They will help you out and make suggestions in court. They are used to big companies mauling the little guy, consequentially they don't put up with it.
This is why one of the first actions a company will take if you small claims court them is to have it moved to circuit court (a "higher" level court) rules of evidence are harder and the judges more "impartial" (lawyer friendly, not layman friendly)
Hopefully this will start to break us free from the cable company monopolies, my area allows only one, I would love to see equal access enforced like it is for long distance carriers. (at least in the US). Maybe then they will stop this bait and switch crap they like to play with bandwidth, 120K the first month, then 90K , then 60K etc...
On a final note I would also like to say, that must be one of the most shagable judges I have ever seen...
Can I consider this another flagrant violation of my rights by a large corporation with the help of the government when the large corporation in question has never made a profit and therefore really cannot be considered a large corporation?
Please answer, as I am a bit confused.... And I am vastly concerned with categorizing the many people that screw me over through the day so I really need to figure out which category I should check this off in before I go to bed.
ya true, but I could not get over the idea of a little bot giving me huffs of laughing gas all day long. Kinda like Jerry Garcia does robotics....
Ya that would be the ones listed out of the ton he made, if I spout out a ten thousand word article about the "future" I am bound to get something right. So thank you for proving my point by the way, as I said this is just more grist for 10 years from now so he can point back and say how "correct" he was now. 20% acuracy does not a prophet make, actually it makes you simply a bad guesser.....
I am SOOO tired of these "what I see for computers and the internet and etc etc etc...." articles. All they are is filler in a magazine and for someone to trot out in ten years and laugh at saying how silly the predictions were.
Ultimatly they are a fluff peice where someone seems to think I care what they think and I should listen to them, well I say Phhhhhtttt to that.
This may seem like a troll but I am honestly over these self apointed "gurus" spouting off about things no one can verify or even make a safe bet on.
So here are my predictions for the tech industry : You are going to take a long trip and meet a tall dark stranger , and ultimatly die.
Is for smokers trying to quit. I can imagine how much better my trying to quit smoking would go if everytime I tried to light a cigarette it got put out and I got a facefull of C02 to go with it.
That is until I got smart and replaced the C02 with N02 and enjoyed it a lot more....
I realize that this is portable but I have some serious misgivings about that price. I know that I won't be buying one until that price drops by about 90%. A portable HD docking station (internal PC collar and sled) runs $10 for IDE and a 20 gig HD on pricewatch today is running around $67 for just the drive. that is $77 for a equally portable solution (though a bit larger)
Now I do realize people will point out that this is requires where ever you go to have a docking station also in order for this to work. Well that is true for the iomega solution also. They will have to have one of these drives also when you arrive.so we are even on functionality in this case.
The other solution is to take the drive with you and plug it in and install it, so don't forget those install disks! In the portable HD arena we have the USB external enclosures. today on pricewatch $167 for 20 gigs of storage, and no driver disk needed to install it. We are looking at the same size and weight for these two solutions
I think that iomega has missed the first part of what we want, CHEAP portable storage. At nearly $400 for a drive and a 20 gig disk I think that a lot of people will be giving this a miss.
Apparently I am not the only one as their CEO resinged today also, 2nd one in two years, not a good sign.
Well, I will definatly watch my spelling on this reply!
I don't recomend any testing, I recomend more dynamic funding (note I did not say MORE MONEY, just better directed were it goes). Vouchers look like a good route to me, you fill your school with know nothing teachers and inept administrators and the people will leave and take their money with them. I feel that a lot of the poor performance on the part of the school system is that they are a monopoly that must be payed. Even if you put your child in a private school or home school them you must still pay the taxes that fund the school system.
As long as administrators and teachers get a free ride then they are not going to want to make things better. The only thing that is going to help the kids is more directed funding allowing a school to offer better classes with smaller groups better sorted by ability. It is just as much of an injustice to force a smart student to attend a remedial class as to force a not so bright student to take advanced classes. Both will start to fail. The smart one out of boredom and the less bright one out of lack of ability.
More money won't help the problem, the best funded public schools in the nation are amongst the poorest performers. Until their is compition in the market place we will continue to see this lack of education.
To break this down to it's points : Vouchers good, Testing Bad!
This is going to just get worse for kids. With press. Bush pushing to make standerdized testing nation wide this will become more and more common of an occurance. ,maybe, but this is not how to apply it, school adminsitrators definatly need to be held accoutnable. I do not think this is the way to do it though. Ultimatly we do get rid of the incompitents , but we also get rid of the talented teacher. Once the lesson plan is dictated from the state or nations capital the chance for real learning is lost and it just becomes a numbers game. Kids are not numbers, they are potentials and should be treated as such! When we takes steps like these to teach to the lowest common denominator, the brightest of our children are wasted, we need to stop this and start teaching smart.
I live in Virginia, a state that implimented Standereds Of Learning tests (SOLs) years ago, The absolute paranoia that surrounds a test that "was just going to be used for monitorring purposes" is astounding. The schools have stopped pretending that they are teaching knowledge and instead spend all of their class time cramming facts down the students throats so they can pass the trivia quiz of the SOLs. br> It has gotten so bad that a local city has asked to extend the school year for kids just to prepare for these test. Once the test are out of the way the kids spend three weeks until the end of the year loafing in class as the teachers have no reason to give them a final, they already had it and passed their SOL.Just and example of how the schools are warping to fit around the SOLs , soon they will be the official final. This is the only outcome you can expect when a teacher and administrators depends on their raises based on how their school district does on the SOLs and their jobs depend on how well their own classes do on these tests. School should teach kids how to think and solve problems, not how to regurgitate facts at the drop of a hat, facts that can be easily found in a book or on the web if you were not sitting in a proctored testing room.
This was a great idea to start but it is getting out of control, just like drug testing in the 80's early 90's. Seemed like a good idea until fly by night testing labs started turning in false positives by the truckload ruining people and their carrers.
Kids don't need this pressure, Teachers
Thought I would see the day that "Tinkerbell" was a viable name for a line of hard drives...
The use I would expect to see these put to is shakedown for ISPs by the bandwidth providers (Worldcom, etal.) . With them being able to tell what the packet contains and speed it up or slow it down accordingly it is not any kind of leap to do it based on packet source. This means that they will be able to sell you a T1, but if you want the premium upgrade that will cost you. The premium upgade will contain an automatic speed up of one step for packets originating at your IP range. Want another step, that's another "premium" package purchase. If you are AOL and want you packets to route faster than the packets from mindspring you just need to get the next "premium" upgrade. That way you can run ads saying that your network is faster than theirs. It will make the final days of the ISP wars a bidding adventure.
Writers of software could kick in also on this. If the packet contains a word document then give it a speed step, microsoft pays for it, Star office on the other hand gets nothing. The individual effect is negligable, but the overall impression people will get is that Office is faster than it's compitition.
The ultimate effect will be that the larger providers and software publishers will be able to pay to get increased performance on the net. The little guy will be squeezed out of the market by a lack of being able to pay for bandwidth ability.
And let's not even talk about paying to have your competion slowed down on the net...
Unfortunatly this article was not that infromative. Darn it, the total reporting of the incident is "There were also indications that the hardware is not entirely stable yet - a crash during Nightcaster revealed a familiar looking PC boot screen, and a Microsoft representative explained that the memory configuration on the floor models was different than that of the final version."
This makes me interested in what they mean by "familiar looking PC boot screen"? Did they see an award bios memory count and bios boot? or a blue screen, or even a windows 95 splash screen?
the reason for figurring this out is that we may be seeing a scam here developing, could it be the X-box is not actually a "real" console but a stripped down standered PC running software? The newer legacy free PCs on the market look a lot like a X-box...If this is the case does that mean that I will be able to run X-box games on my PC without an emulator?
{evil conspiracy mode} could this all be a plot by microsoft to bridge the PC/console gap in order to slide all the console users over to PCs and of course onto their operating systems. Get them using the X-box then reveal that they are actually using a PC and ask them to join the dark side...{/evil conspiracy mode}
It's like some twisted tag and release system for people who have time to listen to the radio. How long before I have to fear a tranquilizer dart and the butt and I wake up with one of these things on?
I wonder what they put those sqelching slapping sounds down as that occur as my heart rate elevates? Will they be listed as "personnal time"?
Just as I find another great vacation spot to "get away from it all" slashdot has to rat me out with the help of Nasa. Now the tourists will come and ruin it for all of us! Dammit why can't I have something of my own for once!
Great with this I may be able to get to the store before it closes to get more beer for once.I also may be able to get back before someone starts hitting on my GF.
And becuase it must be said "And what if we built a beowolf cluster of these?!?"
Reminds me of my college days and my first appartment, Replace aluminum scrap with "Cable Spool" and mission control with "landlord" and I have been their and done that. Though the gravity that was naturally provided made mine a bit more pratical to use....
I was not saying you could not get more cooling devices, but that their pump , according to them, only can handle pumping to three of them. From their FAQ -
8) Q: How many liquid-cooled components can I place into a system? £
A: With our current PC model, we recommend a total of three liquid coolers for best operation. This includes the power supply-- if three coolers are needed elsewhere, please consider our alternative model with an SPI 300W power supply. Filling a case with liquid cooling components puts a heavier burden on the impeller pump, which may lead to decreased performance in the way of higher temperatures.
I couldn't tell to well from the picture but it looks like their is a plate that blocks them from the interior of the case , their docs seemed to indicate they are for cooling of the water only. I am basing my observations of their PC case picture that shows stuff mounting to the bottom of the case above the cooling unit.
After reading the site and poking at the specs I have some misgivings, some of the specs seemed cooked in their favor to me, for one I noticed that the SCSI hard drive in dual fan case is listed as running at 138 degrees Farenheit, making their HD cooling solution beat it by 34 degrees. The fact is that ALL of my SCSI enclosures run at 125 to 130 degrees. They start to alarm at 130 and warn me of failure. The average is around 127 degrees across about 30 drives. This means that they are beating the HD fan solution by 13 degrees. This also makes me wonder if that is the case since they pushed the higher numeber up did they also push the lower number down, is the total savings closer to 5 or 6 degrees? With this noted, that they are playing with the HD cooling numbers, how many of the other numbers they list are being played with?
With the fact that their solution can only handle 3 devices total this does not make HD cooling overly practical.
I also noticed that their case did not contain any case fans for other circulation, with their solution only providing cooling for three devices (let's pick CPU, Power Supply and one HD) That means you have to air cool the rest. Their case does not seem to have good ariflow, and if I am having to add case fans then I am loosing the quieting fucntionalty that is desired.
this looks like a good idea , and from reading the FAQ they have put some thought into this (especially in the area of condensation) but until they can handle more device off of the pump in the case I think I would personally give this a miss.
All I can hope is that this is some kind of joke or publicity stunt.....
....Unfortuantly I don't think he was that kind of guy.
It's times like these that I wish that life had a reset button and that I can load from a saved game.
I heard a comedian say once (name escapes me at the moment) that all great inovations have been made my man in order to get laid. The whole walking on the moon thing was so those guys could go into a bar and say "see that moon walk, that was me baby!"
I have a sneaking suspiscion that this falls into that same category if he is expecting Hooters girls at the end.
And frankly if it was me I would drink the champange BEFORE I got into the rocket, not a lot of driving involved with going up and coming down and it would do wonders for me actually performing this stunt...
Could be just a good fiction story... Or just a good idea period... you decide.
Kill someone with these and fake the signal back to the server in order to make it appear that they are alive, leave town and then have it shut off when you are safely in alibi land.
"My client is inocent or all charges, from these server records it is obvious that Mr. Gates did not die until my client was in chicago!"
My real question is- Will I read this in a book first or hear it on the news first.
Wait! I had a brialliant idea! I will rambus this and patent the idea of an alibi based on internet related patient monitorring! I'm going to be rich!
As a person heavily involved in the implimentation and use of teleconfrencing I must urge you, do not spend a lot of money on this just becuase it is "cool" right now.
The reason I say this is that in both areas that I am involved in teleconfrencing and it's use as a teaching tool has been a big failure.
As a student my college has had to impliment a policy that local students at the college must wait until after the distance sites register becuase it was claimed that the local students were taking all the seats before the distance student got a chance. They implimented their hold policy and guess what. Students at the distance sites are still not registerring. It was not that the seats were being taken by local students but that distance students were plain not registerring for classes. This has caused my college a lot of wasted money that they do not want to admit to (they built a building especially for this at the cost of several million dollars.) Add to this the fact that you are hurting your future alumni in order to do this and you get a long term recipe for disaster. It's makes no sense to penalize a student because they made the mistake of singing up at your school to take a class.
I also happen to work for a company trying to introduce the H323 teleconference equipment to public schools. When we first announced the initiative we would have 2 to 3 distance sites a class. The deal was we taught the class for free on a subject teachers needed (how to use power point etc.) and we would take the equipment they needed to them and set it up for free and let them use it to see how well this works. The problem turned out to be the usual thing stopping most of these types of adventures. Bandwidth! The schools did not have enough available bandwidth to broadcast at anything but the worst speeds and frame rates causing all the conference to suffer audio and video problems. Interest quickly disipaited for the project and we have not had any distance site participants in the last 7 times we have tried to offer this teaching expereince.
My point is that you may want to evaluate very carefully the need to teleconference before you start spending money. How did professors collaborate before now? is what you are offering a better solution or does it add layers of complication that will cause them to ditch the new stuff and do it the old way. Remember: just because it's new does not mean it is better, that's why people sell antiques.