I did exactly that and it worked well for the 120BG drive I tried it on. I attached a USB PATA adapter onto it, then a power supply that came with the adapter, put a ziploc bag around that, sucked the air out, put tape around the opening where the wires came out. Closed the freezer door with the wires sticking out and waited an hour before hooking the drive up. No point in doing it while the drive is out of the freezer since they heat up fast. Best to do it where the cold air comes out and turn the temp down as far as it will go too.
In my case, I think it was the electronics heating up that was the problem, not a mechanical issue, but it worked.
There was a nice, slide-out keypad option for IBM Ultrabay laptops. I'm not sure if you can get it for the newer versions of Ultrabay, but one could maybe modify an old one to work with the new Ultrabay standard.
Not just in this case, but in general for medical implants. Sure it is heavier, but it is much stronger, just as corrosion resistant, and non-magnetic.
From the original article: "Tech industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February."
It seems unnecessary to make things nosier for everyone when the number of people that need the noise is very small. Why not just have an electronic transponder system so that people can know where cars are relative to them. It would even work on vibration for those that are blind and deaf. It could give out more information, like speed and direction, and it it could work from further away if necessary.
From looking at the leaked slide, they are getting rid of Altavista which has more meaning for me. Delicious as just another Web 2.0 company, but Altavista was an early pioneer on the web and could have easily been what Google is now.
Looking here we can see that, for 2009, Google made 23,651 million in revenue. Considering that 22,889 of those millions were from advertising, you have to wonder how long google will tolerate ad blocking in their products. Sure, it is fine now as not many people use chrome, and even fewer of those people install an ad blocking plug-in, but what about if it becomes more popular? Will they still tolerate it then? One wonders what would happen to google if Microsoft decided to make ad blocking default in Internet Explorer.
I go for that too. Keeps my phone from getting scratched and I can access them with my motorcycle gloves still on. I just can't get my hand in my pocket with motorcycle gloves on. The only real problem with the approach is fashion: It is almost as much of a fashion faux pas as having a cellphone on your belt.
Maybe one could get around that problem by setting their computer's clock to an earlier date, or using an alternative to the zune software to load their files?
According to Herman at gizmodo, this is the solution:
"Your zune will need a "hard reset."
To do this, use a small screwdriver to pop off the plastic shielding where the zune cable plugs into and remove the two screws on either side of the plug. Next pop the cover off and locate the battery plug at the top left corner of the zune, using your screw driver, pop the cable connection half way off, and do this to the other plug on the right side. Wait 3 seconds, then push down the right connector and then the left battery connecter. Your zune should start up immediately. Press the backing of the zune down (make sure headphone jack is aligned) and put the screws and cover back in place.
It's an easy process but if you're unsure don't attempt it if you think you'll screw it or something.:)"
Not pretty, but it might help those of you who have this problem.
According to others on the forum, it is caused by the new firmware, so you might not want to update it. Changing the clock might be a temporary fix if you want the new firmware.
I always found this hard to believe, someone wanna explain how that would work without custom hardware.Do they assume the bootloader will be left behind?
This article from a year ago shows that Google has had public implementations of facial recognition for some time. Simply appending &imgtype=face to a Google image search URL will just show images of faces.
That chip is there to up the tiny signals from the heads into something that the drive's chips on its main board can use. It is close to the head both to keep it isolated from EMI by remaining in the metal case, and to keep the wire length short in hopes of preventing signal loss.
The metal dust in there seems to be from them using a high speed cutting tool to open the case. This seems insane to me, but they obviously know what they are doing.
The best Linux development I know of for multitouch seems to be MPX. It would be nice to know if there is something more common, like something GTK apps can use.
One of the cool things that adds to the reliability in the extreme environment you mentioned is the tape it's self. It's not a tape at all actually, but a steel wire. They cracked one open on this cool old show called "The Secret Life of Machines."
The irony is that a few stories down we see a piece on how bad science reporting is having negative effects on the public's perceptions of science. These "toast cures cancer" stories are not helping when one tries to defend science in speaking to intelligent design believers.
Surely there are other comparable ISPs out there, if you think they are pulling something then take your business elsewhere. If you live in an area built up enough to get FiOS, there should be many better ones to chose from. Personally, I have found the smaller DSL providers to be better and cheaper then the one that owns the lines here.
Personally, I've always been a fan of mesh networking to distribute files anonymously. It's nice and fast, capacity is as big as the drives on the network, and all you need is a spare wi-fi card with the right software. The problem with it these days is that people simply don't have them set up. It looks as if they will become popular in portable devices first, with some limited functionality already here. If I could get new songs, which I had previously picked out, automatically added to my PMP just by going for a ride in the subway, then that would be pretty cool.
Indeed, I still have a copy of eComStation lying around here somewhere. I was under the impression that IBM had sold all the rights to it years ago. Unfortunately, the ECS installer was buggy as hell, so I never got to give it a test drive. What I miss most about OS/2 was that clicking the clock toggled it between a stop-watch and a count-down timer. That doesn't sound like much, but it was really useful. I don't miss the shoddy built-in voice recognition or the fact that it would would stall on booting if my mouse came loose.
The only reason I know anything about this movie is from blog stories and comments. They seems way out of proportion for a movie with nothing special to it. It does not seem like a movie that has build-in mass appeal like the Simpsons Movie, so that does not explain it. It got a lot of advertising, but so do many movies that never see this kind of internet coverage.
I'm really suspicious that some marketing company has paid a bunch of people to go out on the net to try to pump blogs full of comments and submissions. Things like that tend to have a snowball effect, causing legitimate fans the initial marketing created to add support to it. My best shot at another explanation for this kind of coverage is that the traditional media marketing was designed to elicit this kind of response. However, it seems there is more going on then just that.
If providers were rated like that then they would avoid taking on patients who have medical issues that are more likely to have complications from treatment. Doctors in the states already do this to a degree to keep liability insurance rates down. The solution here in Canada is that the system is setup so that it is basically impossible to sue doctors. This means much lower malpractice insurance rates for doctors here, assuming they even bother with getting it. They still have a strong discouragement from making preventable mistakes, however, through things like loss of license.
I found this article about insurance rates for doctors in the us, a few choice quotes:
Jury Verdict Research, of Horsham, Pa., reports that nearly half of all awards in medical malpractice cases topped $1 million in 1999, the most recent period for which data are complete. Simply settling a claim cost an insurer $650,000, up 30 percent in a single year.
West Virginia obstetricians paid an average of $75,155 in 2001, while their colleagues next door in Kentucky were charged only $41,661.
Obstetricians, neurosurgeons, emergency physicians and other high-risk specialists have absorbed the brunt of the blow. It can cost an ob-gyn in South Florida $209,000 a year to insure for delivery of babies.
The last time I tried using voice dictation was When I was running OS/2 Warp 4. Training took forever, and the experience of using it was nothing but an exercise in frustration, ending with me screaming at the bloody thing then seeing neat, yet random expletives on my screen. I later came across some budget software that required no training, yet worked surprisingly well compared to the $400 packages made by the big boys. That software really showed what voice diction should be like, if only it was developed further.
The training an accuracy seem like things that can be overcome, but I would really like to see a solution for things like punctuation and function keys, things that don't naturally come with speaking. Instead of having to say "delete that" or " delete" it would be nice to just have a button that I can hold down when saying things I want interpreted as commands.
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I read about this one a while back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon
It's pretty amazing how it works, I didn't know anything nearly this advanced was around until I accidnetly stumled across its wikipedia page.
I did exactly that and it worked well for the 120BG drive I tried it on. I attached a USB PATA adapter onto it, then a power supply that came with the adapter, put a ziploc bag around that, sucked the air out, put tape around the opening where the wires came out. Closed the freezer door with the wires sticking out and waited an hour before hooking the drive up. No point in doing it while the drive is out of the freezer since they heat up fast. Best to do it where the cold air comes out and turn the temp down as far as it will go too.
In my case, I think it was the electronics heating up that was the problem, not a mechanical issue, but it worked.
There was a nice, slide-out keypad option for IBM Ultrabay laptops. I'm not sure if you can get it for the newer versions of Ultrabay, but one could maybe modify an old one to work with the new Ultrabay standard.
Picture here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/dr_st/A31p-X32/IMG_0269-1.jpg
Yup, the Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500M is amazing. Never jams, great OCR software, VERY fast.
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You can just toss in receipts and odd sized documents, handles them all fine.
Not just in this case, but in general for medical implants. Sure it is heavier, but it is much stronger, just as corrosion resistant, and non-magnetic.
From the original article:
"Tech industry analysts comScore say figures show MySpace lost more than 10 million unique users worldwide between January and February."
It seems unnecessary to make things nosier for everyone when the number of people that need the noise is very small. Why not just have an electronic transponder system so that people can know where cars are relative to them. It would even work on vibration for those that are blind and deaf. It could give out more information, like speed and direction, and it it could work from further away if necessary.
From looking at the leaked slide, they are getting rid of Altavista which has more meaning for me. Delicious as just another Web 2.0 company, but Altavista was an early pioneer on the web and could have easily been what Google is now.
Looking here we can see that, for 2009, Google made 23,651 million in revenue. Considering that 22,889 of those millions were from advertising, you have to wonder how long google will tolerate ad blocking in their products. Sure, it is fine now as not many people use chrome, and even fewer of those people install an ad blocking plug-in, but what about if it becomes more popular? Will they still tolerate it then? One wonders what would happen to google if Microsoft decided to make ad blocking default in Internet Explorer.
I go for that too. Keeps my phone from getting scratched and I can access them with my motorcycle gloves still on. I just can't get my hand in my pocket with motorcycle gloves on. The only real problem with the approach is fashion: It is almost as much of a fashion faux pas as having a cellphone on your belt.
True, but you can run any linux command line programs on it if you recompile them.
Maybe one could get around that problem by setting their computer's clock to an earlier date, or using an alternative to the zune software to load their files?
According to Herman at gizmodo, this is the solution:
"Your zune will need a "hard reset."
To do this, use a small screwdriver to pop off the plastic shielding where the zune cable plugs into and remove the two screws on either side of the plug. Next pop the cover off and locate the battery plug at the top left corner of the zune, using your screw driver, pop the cable connection half way off, and do this to the other plug on the right side. Wait 3 seconds, then push down the right connector and then the left battery connecter. Your zune should start up immediately. Press the backing of the zune down (make sure headphone jack is aligned) and put the screws and cover back in place.
It's an easy process but if you're unsure don't attempt it if you think you'll screw it or something. :)"
Not pretty, but it might help those of you who have this problem.
According to others on the forum, it is caused by the new firmware, so you might not want to update it. Changing the clock might be a temporary fix if you want the new firmware.
I always found this hard to believe, someone wanna explain how that would work without custom hardware.Do they assume the bootloader will be left behind?
This article from a year ago shows that Google has had public implementations of facial recognition for some time. Simply appending &imgtype=face to a Google image search URL will just show images of faces.
That chip is there to up the tiny signals from the heads into something that the drive's chips on its main board can use. It is close to the head both to keep it isolated from EMI by remaining in the metal case, and to keep the wire length short in hopes of preventing signal loss.
The metal dust in there seems to be from them using a high speed cutting tool to open the case. This seems insane to me, but they obviously know what they are doing.
The best Linux development I know of for multitouch seems to be MPX. It would be nice to know if there is something more common, like something GTK apps can use.
One of the cool things that adds to the reliability in the extreme environment you mentioned is the tape it's self. It's not a tape at all actually, but a steel wire. They cracked one open on this cool old show called "The Secret Life of Machines."
The irony is that a few stories down we see a piece on how bad science reporting is having negative effects on the public's perceptions of science. These "toast cures cancer" stories are not helping when one tries to defend science in speaking to intelligent design believers.
Surely there are other comparable ISPs out there, if you think they are pulling something then take your business elsewhere. If you live in an area built up enough to get FiOS, there should be many better ones to chose from. Personally, I have found the smaller DSL providers to be better and cheaper then the one that owns the lines here.
Personally, I've always been a fan of mesh networking to distribute files anonymously. It's nice and fast, capacity is as big as the drives on the network, and all you need is a spare wi-fi card with the right software. The problem with it these days is that people simply don't have them set up. It looks as if they will become popular in portable devices first, with some limited functionality already here. If I could get new songs, which I had previously picked out, automatically added to my PMP just by going for a ride in the subway, then that would be pretty cool.
Indeed, I still have a copy of eComStation lying around here somewhere. I was under the impression that IBM had sold all the rights to it years ago. Unfortunately, the ECS installer was buggy as hell, so I never got to give it a test drive. What I miss most about OS/2 was that clicking the clock toggled it between a stop-watch and a count-down timer. That doesn't sound like much, but it was really useful. I don't miss the shoddy built-in voice recognition or the fact that it would would stall on booting if my mouse came loose.
The only reason I know anything about this movie is from blog stories and comments. They seems way out of proportion for a movie with nothing special to it. It does not seem like a movie that has build-in mass appeal like the Simpsons Movie, so that does not explain it. It got a lot of advertising, but so do many movies that never see this kind of internet coverage.
I'm really suspicious that some marketing company has paid a bunch of people to go out on the net to try to pump blogs full of comments and submissions. Things like that tend to have a snowball effect, causing legitimate fans the initial marketing created to add support to it. My best shot at another explanation for this kind of coverage is that the traditional media marketing was designed to elicit this kind of response. However, it seems there is more going on then just that.
I found this article about insurance rates for doctors in the us, a few choice quotes:
Jury Verdict Research, of Horsham, Pa., reports that nearly half of all awards in medical malpractice cases topped $1 million in 1999, the most recent period for which data are complete. Simply settling a claim cost an insurer $650,000, up 30 percent in a single year.
West Virginia obstetricians paid an average of $75,155 in 2001, while their colleagues next door in Kentucky were charged only $41,661.
Obstetricians, neurosurgeons, emergency physicians and other high-risk specialists have absorbed the brunt of the blow. It can cost an ob-gyn in South Florida $209,000 a year to insure for delivery of babies.
The last time I tried using voice dictation was When I was running OS/2 Warp 4. Training took forever, and the experience of using it was nothing but an exercise in frustration, ending with me screaming at the bloody thing then seeing neat, yet random expletives on my screen. I later came across some budget software that required no training, yet worked surprisingly well compared to the $400 packages made by the big boys. That software really showed what voice diction should be like, if only it was developed further.
The training an accuracy seem like things that can be overcome, but I would really like to see a solution for things like punctuation and function keys, things that don't naturally come with speaking. Instead of having to say "delete that" or " delete" it would be nice to just have a button that I can hold down when saying things I want interpreted as commands.