For whatever reasons, they can't produce enough chips. Maybe manufacturing problems, maybe it's just huge demand. Whatever the case, to increase market share and get as many companies using TM as possible, they put their own plans on hold and focus on producting enough chips to meet demand...
Be careful when buying a 1U chassis. The biggest challenge when designing a 1U computer is cooling the darn thing. It's possible, but requires some very good design and analysis work. Take a close look at how many fans are being used and the airflow path through the system. Also, think about what will happen if one or more of the fans fail (which is likely at some point in the computer's life, especially with those small 40mm fans).
Does anyone know of a website with an independant review of 1U chassis, including data like operating temperature?
You can find mechanical specs for AT/ATX motherboards in the ATX form factor section of the Platform Developer site. I believe the dimension you're looking for, the distance between PCI cards, is.8" (20.32mm).
You're mostly correct, GPS requires a mostly unobstructed line of sight to at least 3 satelites (4 if you want altitude, I believe). Some receivers can still provide a signal if there is moderate tree cover.
For the most part, though, this patent is absolutely worthless and pure marketing hype. GPS signals are easily blocked; in an urban canyon such as downtown SF, it's likely your receiver may not see ANY satelites. Also, a user could easily block the antenna they're wearing with any metallic object.
A more feasible system would use a ground based triangulation system, similar to that proposed for use with cell phones.
I've done a fair amount of research into Tesla as well. Some books glamorized his theories and claims and should be viewed skeptically; I found one book that had a good scientific approach to viewing Tesla's life and work and highly recommend it: "Tesla, man out of time", by Margaret Cheney.
Oh, and I remember reading about Tesla taking advantage of the Earth's natural frequency to help him transmit energy so far.
I'm certainly no CD-ROM expert, but upon closer inspection, the bleem key is not a standard CD. There are around 10 circles (concentric) visible on the CD surface (much like the gap between tracks on those antique vinyl records;-), my guess is that a CDR will be unable to duplicate this.
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My theory for why IBM's TM notebook is on hold:
For whatever reasons, they can't produce enough chips. Maybe manufacturing problems, maybe it's just huge demand. Whatever the case, to increase market share and get as many companies using TM as possible, they put their own plans on hold and focus on producting enough chips to meet demand...
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Be careful when buying a 1U chassis. The biggest challenge when designing a 1U computer is cooling the darn thing. It's possible, but requires some very good design and analysis work. Take a close look at how many fans are being used and the airflow path through the system. Also, think about what will happen if one or more of the fans fail (which is likely at some point in the computer's life, especially with those small 40mm fans).
Does anyone know of a website with an independant review of 1U chassis, including data like operating temperature?
You can find mechanical specs for AT/ATX motherboards in the ATX form factor section of the Platform Developer site. I believe the dimension you're looking for, the distance between PCI cards, is .8" (20.32mm).
You're mostly correct, GPS requires a mostly unobstructed line of sight to at least 3 satelites (4 if you want altitude, I believe). Some receivers can still provide a signal if there is moderate tree cover.
For the most part, though, this patent is absolutely worthless and pure marketing hype. GPS signals are easily blocked; in an urban canyon such as downtown SF, it's likely your receiver may not see ANY satelites. Also, a user could easily block the antenna they're wearing with any metallic object.
A more feasible system would use a ground based triangulation system, similar to that proposed for use with cell phones.
You can find assorted sizes (4, 6, 10, 18, 36") at:
http://www.LinuxMall.com/domains/PenguinPower
I've done a fair amount of research into Tesla as well. Some books glamorized his theories and claims and should be viewed skeptically; I found one book that had a good scientific approach to viewing Tesla's life and work and highly recommend it: "Tesla, man out of time", by Margaret Cheney.
Oh, and I remember reading about Tesla taking advantage of the Earth's natural frequency to help him transmit energy so far.
I'm certainly no CD-ROM expert, but upon closer inspection, the bleem key is not a standard CD. There are around 10 circles (concentric) visible on the CD surface (much like the gap between tracks on those antique vinyl records ;-), my guess is that a CDR will be unable to duplicate this.