The comment "Garriott had also been taking a working leave of absence for space exploration around that time." and no one bats an eyelash. A leave of absence for "space exploration"!! How awesome is that? I need to get me one of those.
In addition to freezing drives, I've also heard of putting them in a regular oven at a very low temperature, like 150F or so, to achieve the same effect. I have performed both methods (many moons ago) to try and get drives to spin up. Freezing has worked twice, and warming once for me as far as getting them to simply spin up. I don't think I was actually able to recover much data from either, but then again, like s13g3 mentioned, it wasn't worth the $ to go any further.
Actually, the lawsuit involving Major League Baseball and the fantasy leagues could make this a distinct possibility. MLB is saying that stats (numbers) generated from a ballgame are copyrighted, and owned by MLB, and therefore the fantasy leagues can't use the numbers without permission, i.e. pay. I don't think the suit has been resolved yet, but if MLB wins, it's not a big stretch to apply that to data generated by an individual.
That I didn't see one reference to MS Bob here. While I never used Bob, this seems to me that this is exactly what Bob was trying to accomplish. I always thought Bob was a great idea in theory, but apparently it suffered from being a resource hog and other typical MS problems. Wonder how it would perform on some modern hardware?
Is there any interest in pursuing this type of project? I'm by no means a programmer, but I would volunteer my time and what efforts to contribute to such a thing.
I know CNN just recently did a week long "study" and had all kinds of good information. Try searching their "Health" archives. It wasn't that long ago, so it should still be there
Why on earth would anyone consider this? This is a function of the engineering community being driven by corporate interests. Why would anyone need some new definition? Not to mention ones with ridiculous names. A megabyte is already defined, it's just that certain companies purposely misinterpret it to their advantage. Mega = 10^6 Byte=8 bits MegaByte= 8E6 Bits wow! that was difficult............
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The comment "Garriott had also been taking a working leave of absence for space exploration around that time." and no one bats an eyelash. A leave of absence for "space exploration"!! How awesome is that? I need to get me one of those.
In addition to freezing drives, I've also heard of putting them in a regular oven at a very low temperature, like 150F or so, to achieve the same effect. I have performed both methods (many moons ago) to try and get drives to spin up. Freezing has worked twice, and warming once for me as far as getting them to simply spin up. I don't think I was actually able to recover much data from either, but then again, like s13g3 mentioned, it wasn't worth the $ to go any further.
Actually, the lawsuit involving Major League Baseball and the fantasy leagues could make this a distinct possibility. MLB is saying that stats (numbers) generated from a ballgame are copyrighted, and owned by MLB, and therefore the fantasy leagues can't use the numbers without permission, i.e. pay. I don't think the suit has been resolved yet, but if MLB wins, it's not a big stretch to apply that to data generated by an individual.
This was also a central technology in Heinlein's book 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress', so this is definitely not a new idea.
That I didn't see one reference to MS Bob here. While I never used Bob, this seems to me that this is exactly what Bob was trying to accomplish. I always thought Bob was a great idea in theory, but apparently it suffered from being a resource hog and other typical MS problems. Wonder how it would perform on some modern hardware?
Is there any interest in pursuing this type of project? I'm by no means a programmer, but I would volunteer my time and what efforts to contribute to such a thing.
I know CNN just recently did a week long "study" and had all kinds of good information. Try searching their "Health" archives. It wasn't that long ago, so it should still be there
Why on earth would anyone consider this? This is a function of the engineering community being driven by corporate interests. Why would anyone need some new definition? Not to mention ones with ridiculous names. A megabyte is already defined, it's just that certain companies purposely misinterpret it to their advantage.
Mega = 10^6
Byte=8 bits
MegaByte= 8E6 Bits
wow! that was difficult............
The Alien Tech thing looks cheap. The one from poetic is much better designed, a whole bunch more features, and if I remember correctly, is cheaper.