As far as the falling object is concerned, the gravitational force (acceleration) appears to be zero. An accelerometer cannot detect the difference between a zero gravity environment like deep interstellar space, and a free fall environment.
"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Red Queen to Alice.
>> Why are you wasting time posting? SUE!!!!!!!!!!!
I was trying to figure out what the legal status on this would be. Technically, when they close a disclosure like this, it officially means IBM has no interest in the idea and I am free to do whatever I want with the idea (subject to no compete limitations). However, since I didn't do anything with the idea (publicly dislose it, patent it or whatever), IBM or any other company was free to reinvent it and do whatever they wanted with it.
So, no grounds for sueing them. But I bet my personel file mysteriously disappears.:)
Actually, the accelerometer detectects the normal gravitational force (32 ft/sec2). When you drop it, it goes into free fall and the gravitational force becomes zero. It detects this and the disk drive parks its heads real quick before it very rapidly accelerates again when it hits the floor.
I filed a disclosure at IBM (Kingston, NY) in the early 90's on this exact idea. The problem was during the review it was clear that nobody at Kingston knew anything or was interested in disk drive technology (San Jose did the disk drives then), so it was a no go on the idea. The disclosure is on file, IBM keeps paperwork forever.
Interestingly enough, Connor came out with a disk drive 6 months later that did something similar, but it just cut write current rather than park the heads.
Microsofts security lacks somewhat and this would allow sandboxing via virtual hardware. So I could have one virtual machine running IE in slut mode and my critical apps safe on another virtual machine.
This will have interesting implications with Microsofts licensing mechanisms. All the virutal machines *should* look the same, and Microsoft shouldn't really care if I run multiple copies of their workstation version on the same desktop. That way, I can clone the OS, apply the latest patches, see if they work without blue screening the system, and then put that system into "production". Just like how they use VM on mainframes.
were they discovered a way to create extra space (from another dimension presumeably)? At first they used it to create extra closet space (everybody needs that right) but then people used it to create extra living space and extra apartments. And so extra space got tacked on to extra space and pretty soon almost everybody was living in borrowed space.
Some of us pre-alpha types prefer some of the fatter pens with cushioned barrels. Sensa looks nice and is high tech. Also high priced. I haven't tried it. I prefer parker ball points. They just came out with a new gel rollerball refill which is as good as the Pilot G2 gel pen which is probably the best gel pen there is. It also has a wider barrel and cushion grip.
What I can't find are pens with titanium barrels which would be an ideal material to make pens out of. Strong and lightweight. There are a few handmade titanium pens being made but they come with unknown refills and what's the point of owning a nice high tech pen that can't write well.
Most of the places online that sell pens, sell mainly retro fountain pens. You might as well go to Staples or Office Max and order them (their in store selection sucks) as their catalog selection is about as good as anybody's.
Actually here in the US the preferred disposal venue for TVs and refrigerators is the woods because people don't want to pay the disposal fees. Paying the disposal fees up front makes better enviromental and fiscal sense since it's easier and cheaper for all parties involved then if the TV, computer, refrigerator, or whatever is just hauled to the curb and not into the woods.
I'm thinking not so much as physical wealth, but the more intangible sort. In an era where physical resources are becoming more scarce, intangbile ones are becoming more important. Look at the fights the intellectual property holders (RIAA, MPAA, etc...) are putting up. And, increasingly, individuals are losing their intangible property rights.
I suggest that the periods of history where great amounts of wealth creation took place were those during which individual property rights were extended to the formerly disenfranchised.
I can see a market for fake RFIDs (did anybody think this won't happen). After all, those fake Guccis wouldn't be worth anything if they didn't let you pass muster at that exclusive club you are trying to get into.
They'll just call that WARE Driving
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It will be a kind of everyone lives in glass houses society. The only people with privacy will be nudists.
One sata connector is strange. I thought all the sata controllers were 2 channels or better. The main problem with PATA is the cables. Even rounded cables would be problematic. With this design you have to position the PATA drive just so and use a short PATA ribbon cable flat against side of the case in order to stay out of the way. Hopefully they add a second SATA port by the time this hits production.
Tom Robbins had problems with a IBM Selectric in Still Life with Woodpecker, so it's possible for a writer to have problems with any word processor no matter how well designed it is.
I think Intel's answer to that for desktops is hyperthreading or multi-core cpus. I would also guess there isn't enough wiggle room in their thermal specs to take an extra cpu. It's an 100+ watts per now.
It actually comes in picoBTX, microBTX, and BTX sizes. The difference is in number of PCI slots basically. (I took the precaution of downloading a copy of the spec before I submitted the article:)). This might be good if MB manufacturers start offering all three sizes for each model they make so you don't have to compromise when going to a smaller form factor.
And yes, as mentioned else where, part of the reason for the new form factor is cooling concerns. Between the CPU and GPU on top end systems we're looking at 175+ watts. So we'll avoid things like my Lian-li P50 which is a great case but has the PSU way too close to the motherboard.
Some of what is going on here is because DVD's are new. People tend to spend more when starting their collections and then maybe taper off. Music CD's are huring in part because people are shifting spending from CD's to DVD's.
That's one of my standard rants. You need power supplies without all that spagetti wiring. This place sells modded powersupplies with removeable cabling (voids the mfgr's warranty though). It would really be nice to have a powersupply with SATA power connectors built in.
What we really need is for CDR drives to have a nice, continuous, real-time indicator that measures signal strength, or quality, or something like that... something that would give that a disk, while still readable, was starting to fade.
I believe cd and dvd drives already have that at the scsi command set level. It just needs software to display the info.
What's with those giant parallel connectors. I don't even have a parallel printer cable any more. I threw it out. And they should be using SATA, not PATA. In a super tiny case even rounded PATA cable are going to substantially block air flow.
Nobody quits their job because of that. I've worked at places where everyone knew safety violations existed and nobody wanted to report those for fear of losing their job. And IBM wasn't anywhere near that bad.
Anyway, when was the last time you knew anyone in IT who quit their job because of exposure to toner powder. Yeah, it's supposed to be safe but that's only if it doesn't become airborne. Yeah, printer cartridges never break and those HEPA filters on the vacuum cleaners are always properly maintained (ever open up one of those vacuum cleaners?).
Typical chemicals used back then as far as I can remember (unless my memory was affected) were; hydrofloric acid (maybe mixed with nitric acid so you would know if it splashed on you), arsenic and phosgene used as dopants, various solvents mostly zylene which is a known carcinogen (but you can buy it at Home Depot so it must be safe for you), acetone, and silane (methane with Si instead of C) which burns on contact with air to make silicon dioxide (glass).
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Hyperqueues are faster because they go to 11. Otherwise, how would they be different than every other shared memory message queue implementation?
"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." Red Queen to Alice.
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I was trying to figure out what the legal status on this would be. Technically, when they close a disclosure like this, it officially means IBM has no interest in the idea and I am free to do whatever I want with the idea (subject to no compete limitations). However, since I didn't do anything with the idea (publicly dislose it, patent it or whatever), IBM or any other company was free to reinvent it and do whatever they wanted with it.
So, no grounds for sueing them. But I bet my personel file mysteriously disappears. :)
Actually, the accelerometer detectects the normal gravitational force (32 ft/sec2). When you drop it, it goes into free fall and the gravitational force becomes zero. It detects this and the disk drive parks its heads real quick before it very rapidly accelerates again when it hits the floor.
Interestingly enough, Connor came out with a disk drive 6 months later that did something similar, but it just cut write current rather than park the heads.
This will have interesting implications with Microsofts licensing mechanisms. All the virutal machines *should* look the same, and Microsoft shouldn't really care if I run multiple copies of their workstation version on the same desktop. That way, I can clone the OS, apply the latest patches, see if they work without blue screening the system, and then put that system into "production". Just like how they use VM on mainframes.
And then power failed on one of the first units.
That's a titanium plated finish. The barrel is contructed of brass.
Some of us pre-alpha types prefer some of the fatter pens with cushioned barrels. Sensa looks nice and is high tech. Also high priced. I haven't tried it. I prefer parker ball points. They just came out with a new gel rollerball refill which is as good as the Pilot G2 gel pen which is probably the best gel pen there is. It also has a wider barrel and cushion grip.
What I can't find are pens with titanium barrels which would be an ideal material to make pens out of. Strong and lightweight. There are a few handmade titanium pens being made but they come with unknown refills and what's the point of owning a nice high tech pen that can't write well.
Most of the places online that sell pens, sell mainly retro fountain pens. You might as well go to Staples or Office Max and order them (their in store selection sucks) as their catalog selection is about as good as anybody's.
Actually here in the US the preferred disposal venue for TVs and refrigerators is the woods because people don't want to pay the disposal fees. Paying the disposal fees up front makes better enviromental and fiscal sense since it's easier and cheaper for all parties involved then if the TV, computer, refrigerator, or whatever is just hauled to the curb and not into the woods.
I'm thinking not so much as physical wealth, but the more intangible sort. In an era where physical resources are becoming more scarce, intangbile ones are becoming more important. Look at the fights the intellectual property holders (RIAA, MPAA, etc...) are putting up. And, increasingly, individuals are losing their intangible property rights.
I suggest that the periods of history where great amounts of wealth creation took place were those during which individual property rights were extended to the formerly disenfranchised.
I can see a market for fake RFIDs (did anybody think this won't happen). After all, those fake Guccis wouldn't be worth anything if they didn't let you pass muster at that exclusive club you are trying to get into.
It will be a kind of everyone lives in glass houses society. The only people with privacy will be nudists.
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One sata connector is strange. I thought all the sata controllers were 2 channels or better. The main problem with PATA is the cables. Even rounded cables would be problematic. With this design you have to position the PATA drive just so and use a short PATA ribbon cable flat against side of the case in order to stay out of the way. Hopefully they add a second SATA port by the time this hits production.
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Tom Robbins had problems with a IBM Selectric in Still Life with Woodpecker, so it's possible for a writer to have problems with any word processor no matter how well designed it is.
I think Intel's answer to that for desktops is hyperthreading or multi-core cpus. I would also guess there isn't enough wiggle room in their thermal specs to take an extra cpu. It's an 100+ watts per now.
And yes, as mentioned else where, part of the reason for the new form factor is cooling concerns. Between the CPU and GPU on top end systems we're looking at 175+ watts. So we'll avoid things like my Lian-li P50 which is a great case but has the PSU way too close to the motherboard.
Some of what is going on here is because DVD's are new. People tend to spend more when starting their collections and then maybe taper off. Music CD's are huring in part because people are shifting spending from CD's to DVD's.
That's one of my standard rants. You need power supplies without all that spagetti wiring. This place sells modded powersupplies with removeable cabling (voids the mfgr's warranty though). It would really be nice to have a powersupply with SATA power connectors built in.
Plugins basically bypass the browser security model. This will make life harder for snoopware if they don't have a way to bypass all that stuff.
I believe cd and dvd drives already have that at the scsi command set level. It just needs software to display the info.
What's with those giant parallel connectors. I don't even have a parallel printer cable any more. I threw it out. And they should be using SATA, not PATA. In a super tiny case even rounded PATA cable are going to substantially block air flow.
Anyway, when was the last time you knew anyone in IT who quit their job because of exposure to toner powder. Yeah, it's supposed to be safe but that's only if it doesn't become airborne. Yeah, printer cartridges never break and those HEPA filters on the vacuum cleaners are always properly maintained (ever open up one of those vacuum cleaners?).
Typical chemicals used back then as far as I can remember (unless my memory was affected) were; hydrofloric acid (maybe mixed with nitric acid so you would know if it splashed on you), arsenic and phosgene used as dopants, various solvents mostly zylene which is a known carcinogen (but you can buy it at Home Depot so it must be safe for you), acetone, and silane (methane with Si instead of C) which burns on contact with air to make silicon dioxide (glass).