Oh, if reading information is not important, then I have developed a much superior technology. Simply take an affortable 10 GB hard drive, and reformat it everytime you fill it up.
Not really. They just sued a 19 year old college student who runs spymac for $1 damages, and refuse to settle. That means that he, win or lose, is stuck paying thousands of dollars for a lawyer.
I never said Apple didn't use SCSI before PCs. They did, and they stuck with it too long before they switched to IDE. It hurt them that their computers cost significantly more than an equivalant PC. Apple had their share of rediculous ideas, just like PCs. [JANUS! Cough cough...]
In further new, a NASA spokesperson announced that they had actually only sent one rover to Mars. Apparently, a last minute mixup resulted in only one rover and one Oregon Scientific WMR968 Wireless Weather Station being put into the launch craft. Researchers asked for comment claimed that "we are relieved, because this explains why all of the queries we sent Spirit returned '-34 degrees centigrate' and the accelerometer always read '10 millibars'."
Quoted: "We have developed Windows for Clusters for those computers with significant processing power, but not enough to run Longhorn" a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Thank you, I know quite a bit about SCSI, at least for a "moron". Have you ever set up an 8 disk SCSI RAID array? There is a reason people didn't use SCSI. It was only faster than IDE if you could get it to WORK without FRYING all of your drives. You Mac people didn't invent SCSI. Neither did PC people. It is a very old, very cranky protocol left over from mainframe days that refuses to die. Hopefully Serial SCSI, which resembles conventional SCSI very little, will win over people with its comforting name.
Nobody wants to touch firewire any more. Even Apple is backing away from it, after selling approximately 8 computers with Firewire 800 ports. Also, notice that Firewire 800 drives, costing hundreds of dollars apiece, are ALMOST as fast as $39 80GB IDE drives from Staples. There are much more cost effective external drives, like Serial ATA, which was meant to connect to drives internal or external. Not to mention SCSI and Fiberchannel.
Oh, and internal ports mean nothing. I have a computer with internal USB ports. Anyone expecting internal USB Harddrives anytime soon? I also have computers with internal parallel headers. Anyone have an internal printer? Those ports are mainly there for easy routing to location of your choice. On the modern PC, motherboards have headers that allow you to put ports on the front of your computer.
You would think that they would have figured out how to make a working fuel system by now. Last time a Rutan aircraft went around the world (in the late 1980s, the first 2 nostop flight around the world), their fuel system went completely, leaving them to basically manually control the fuel for much of the flight.
Never going to happen, because Firewire drives are simply ATA drives with a firewire adapter attached. Firewire is not a suitable protocol to drive a disk alone. Since it is always more expesive to ADD something, that will never happen.
The plane is very light, hence very fragile. It can only handle incredibly low accelerations, turning and altitude changes without snapping appart. Also, the small jet engine is operating at the speed at which it has maximum effiency, which is not that fast.
Think of it like cars:
An F1 race car goes over 200 mph, but need refuling every mile or two. A VW Lupo maxes out at like 75 mph, but gets 70 MPG, or 600 miles per tank.
Also, to answer the 80 hours question:
He has said that the thing basically flies itself except for the couple of hours after takeoff and before landing when the thing is struggling to change altitude. He will take cat naps during the 65 or so interviening hours, if he can sleep with the low altitude turbulance and noice from an uninsulated turbine 4 feet behind his head. I imagine he has some high quality legal stimulants to keep him aware when he needs to be.
There was a good article in Wired that answers all of your questions. He is using a really, really teeny jet engine that is one of the most efficient in the world (the 2nd most, I believe). The fuel is stored in 2 side fusalages. Most of the weight of the aircraft is in fact the fuel, and the thing is so light and frail that it can only be flown once (not including the very gentle testing flights).
I thought that the whole idea was that the patient was there in case their heart suddenly stopped after surgery. While a home sensor system like this would TELL the doctors it happened, there would not be much they could do about it for the 5 minutes that it takes an amublance to get there. If the patient is in the hospital, someone with a defibulator would be there in seconds.
Can't people take a day or two off for a triple bypass anymore? IT isn't like you are isolated from the world. Many hosipitals now have computer terminals that you can use, and free WiFi if you want to use your own. Not to mention telephones.
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Sony, seeing they had a potential hit on their hands, immediately announced a recall on all units and discontinued the model.
What if the robot won?
I think they would then try and nail court costs on him too.
Oh, if reading information is not important, then I have developed a much superior technology. Simply take an affortable 10 GB hard drive, and reformat it everytime you fill it up.
Sonnet is expected to release their 6052 upgrade chip for the dual G5 towers and day now.
Not really. They just sued a 19 year old college student who runs spymac for $1 damages, and refuse to settle. That means that he, win or lose, is stuck paying thousands of dollars for a lawyer.
The above post is a striking reminder not to post on slashdot while drunk.
Broadcasting to all 14 Symbian Smartphone owners with unlimited data plans currently in 3G coverage areas...
This announcement comes as NASA is considering abandoning yet another multi billion dollar satilite to become space junk, then complaining about it.
I never said Apple didn't use SCSI before PCs. They did, and they stuck with it too long before they switched to IDE. It hurt them that their computers cost significantly more than an equivalant PC. Apple had their share of rediculous ideas, just like PCs. [JANUS! Cough cough...]
In further new, a NASA spokesperson announced that they had actually only sent one rover to Mars. Apparently, a last minute mixup resulted in only one rover and one Oregon Scientific WMR968 Wireless Weather Station being put into the launch craft. Researchers asked for comment claimed that "we are relieved, because this explains why all of the queries we sent Spirit returned '-34 degrees centigrate' and the accelerometer always read '10 millibars'."
Quoted: "We have developed Windows for Clusters for those computers with significant processing power, but not enough to run Longhorn" a Microsoft spokesperson said.
Thank you, I know quite a bit about SCSI, at least for a "moron". Have you ever set up an 8 disk SCSI RAID array? There is a reason people didn't use SCSI. It was only faster than IDE if you could get it to WORK without FRYING all of your drives. You Mac people didn't invent SCSI. Neither did PC people. It is a very old, very cranky protocol left over from mainframe days that refuses to die. Hopefully Serial SCSI, which resembles conventional SCSI very little, will win over people with its comforting name. Nobody wants to touch firewire any more. Even Apple is backing away from it, after selling approximately 8 computers with Firewire 800 ports. Also, notice that Firewire 800 drives, costing hundreds of dollars apiece, are ALMOST as fast as $39 80GB IDE drives from Staples. There are much more cost effective external drives, like Serial ATA, which was meant to connect to drives internal or external. Not to mention SCSI and Fiberchannel. Oh, and internal ports mean nothing. I have a computer with internal USB ports. Anyone expecting internal USB Harddrives anytime soon? I also have computers with internal parallel headers. Anyone have an internal printer? Those ports are mainly there for easy routing to location of your choice. On the modern PC, motherboards have headers that allow you to put ports on the front of your computer.
Step 1: Buy laptop
Step 2: Unpack laptop
Step 3: Plug laptop power adapter into laptop
Step 4: Plug laptop power adpater into laptop
Step 5: Plug monitor into laptop
Step 6: Plug USB Keyboard into laptop
Step 7: Plug USB Mouse into laptop
Step 8: Turn laptop on
Step 9: ???
Step 10: Profit
Seems simple to me.
You would think that they would have figured out how to make a working fuel system by now. Last time a Rutan aircraft went around the world (in the late 1980s, the first 2 nostop flight around the world), their fuel system went completely, leaving them to basically manually control the fuel for much of the flight.
Yes, but only "Cats in The Cradle" by Harry Chapin.
Where do you work? IBM?!?!
Quick! Download all 2,000,000 song cheap while you still can!
Never going to happen, because Firewire drives are simply ATA drives with a firewire adapter attached. Firewire is not a suitable protocol to drive a disk alone. Since it is always more expesive to ADD something, that will never happen.
The plane is very light, hence very fragile. It can only handle incredibly low accelerations, turning and altitude changes without snapping appart. Also, the small jet engine is operating at the speed at which it has maximum effiency, which is not that fast. Think of it like cars: An F1 race car goes over 200 mph, but need refuling every mile or two. A VW Lupo maxes out at like 75 mph, but gets 70 MPG, or 600 miles per tank.
Also, to answer the 80 hours question: He has said that the thing basically flies itself except for the couple of hours after takeoff and before landing when the thing is struggling to change altitude. He will take cat naps during the 65 or so interviening hours, if he can sleep with the low altitude turbulance and noice from an uninsulated turbine 4 feet behind his head. I imagine he has some high quality legal stimulants to keep him aware when he needs to be.
There was a good article in Wired that answers all of your questions. He is using a really, really teeny jet engine that is one of the most efficient in the world (the 2nd most, I believe). The fuel is stored in 2 side fusalages. Most of the weight of the aircraft is in fact the fuel, and the thing is so light and frail that it can only be flown once (not including the very gentle testing flights).
Calis
Numbers are out. It would be
Microsoft HighSchool XP
or
Microsoft HighSchool Experience.
I thought that the whole idea was that the patient was there in case their heart suddenly stopped after surgery. While a home sensor system like this would TELL the doctors it happened, there would not be much they could do about it for the 5 minutes that it takes an amublance to get there. If the patient is in the hospital, someone with a defibulator would be there in seconds.
Can't people take a day or two off for a triple bypass anymore? IT isn't like you are isolated from the world. Many hosipitals now have computer terminals that you can use, and free WiFi if you want to use your own. Not to mention telephones.