This isn't treatment technology, it's production technology. All it will do is bring down prices.
The real "light at the end of the tunnel" is the artificial pancreas, an insulin pump + CGMS. All the pieces are there; we just need a few more generations of CGMS tech and some good algorithms.
Wireless performance is shit.
Here's the problem: Sure, 802.11g gives you a theoretical peak 54 mbps. However, not only do you never get more than 50% of it, that bandwidth is shared among every user on the network and is half-duplex. It's like having everyone on a single hubbed network - once a buch of users all start communicating at once, you get collisions, and performance drops.
1 user on wireless is fine. 5 or 10 is questionable. 50 will be like molasses.
Hell yeah. I had a LAN party today, and we played a few of the newer games for a while, then did about 3 straight hours of Quake II deathmatch. It's an amazingly fast-paced, intense, fun game.
When choosing a power supply, get a good-quality one, but don't go overboard with the wattage.
My system: Athlon64 3500+, overclocked (currently 2.4ghz, probably going to push it more) GeForce 7800GT 2gb OCZ Platinum RAM MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 1x Samsung Spinpoint 120gb hard drive 1x NEC ND-3540A DVD burner Seasonic S12-380 power supply (380 watt, obviously)
Just for fun, I stuck an ammeter on the power input. At full load, running Quake 4, with the overclocked CPU and high-end video card, the whole thing draws... 1.5 amps.
Yes, 1.5 amps. 180 watts. I absolutely agree that a quality power supply is important, but don't waste your money.
/dev/urandom produces an infinite stream of random data - just pipe that throgh MD5 for some nice numerical CPU load. Not disk- or network-bound either.
The post (Power On Self Test) in the bios completing successfully is all the insurance that the hardware works you will *ever* need.
Uh, no. All that tells you is that you didn't drop a screw under the motherboard.
It won't catch single-bit RAM errors, it won't catch CPU instability due to overheating, it won't find bad sectors on the hard drive, it won't reveal that your third USB port is fried... BIOS tests actually test almost nothing.
Type I here, Minimed Paradigm 511 and One-Touch Ultra.
Minimed's new pumps have RF interfaces (better than infrared - no line-of-sight), and there's a meter that can integrate with the latest pump to automatically calculate boluses. Extremely cool, I want one.
What I would like is completely automatic downloading - I sit in front of my computer, and it transfers all of the blood sugar and bolus data. I can deal with a few clicks to actually print it out, but I wish the download itself was completely automated.
And also probably iPod EULA (or something similar - I don't really own one) forbids you to use something different than Apple software on iPod (FIXME here).
It's the other way around. You're probably thinking of, i.e., the Mac OS X license agreement, which forbids running it on non-Apple hardware.
Costs around $10, or you can get two free samples from Dallas Semiconductor, the manufacturer.
8051 archictecture.
Also a 40-pin DIP package; just add a crystal and some capacitors.
33 MHz, and most instructions are executed in 1 clock cycle.
1k RAM, 64k Flash.
Two serial ports, 32 pins of digital I/O, timers, counters, etc.
Serial port programmable with just a MAX232 and a 74HC125; there's a bootloader program in ROM built in on the chip.
Programmable in whatever, but there's a free C compiler available, which is quite easy to get started with
And it's a recent design (last year, IIRC) - but it's based on the incredibly popular 8051 architecture, so there are tons of software tools available for it.
Another was free use of my own files. The iPod, according to the Apple Store, had two modes, which I (not they) call the Free Mode and the Big Brother Mode. The Free Mode, they proudly proclaim, lets you use it as a portable USB drive, plugging in to any computer and doing anything you like with any of your files. Anything, that is, except actually PLAY THEM. That's disabled in Free Mode. This media player won't play any media if you loaded it in Free Mode.
If you actually want to use the media files you load, you have to use Big Brother Mode, using a special loader app that doubles as a storefront for exactly one store: Apple's own. Your device has to be registered with this app and there are all sorts of arcane rules about how many units of this can be registered with that on which computer and how to properly disable one before you can move to another, etc. Bah!
Bullshit.
You connect your iPod to the computer and it appears as a standard USB (or Firewire) hard drive, working seamlessly under any OS. Your music is stored in a hidden directory (standard Fat32 "hidden" directory, nothing weird there; it's named "iPod_Control"). File formats natively supported include standard MP3, standard AAC (MP4), AIFF, and WAV. The iPod also knows how to go around Apple's copy protection code, but said copy protection is NOT REQUIRED.
There's a binary database that the metadata is stored in. Apple's iTunes knows how to access this DB, as do several other programs like ephPod, GNUpod (which I personally have used without any problems whatsoever), etc.
The arcane restrictions and "registration" of which you speak apply ONLY to Apple's "iTunes Music Store", an integrated but OPTIONAL part of the iTunes program (which you don't even have to use). They have nothing to do with music that you obtained elsewhere, i.e. from CD or an MP3 that you already have on your computer. Even if you do buy music from Apple, the restrictions on how many computers you can transfer the music to do NOT apply to the iPod.
Standard USB or 1394 interface. Standard filesystem. Standard audio codecs. Widely-supported metadata handling (GNUpod, for example, is in Debian.) If you're gonna bash the iPod, at least get your facts right.
Some time in the future, when I allow internet access from that machine, there will be a sniffing process on a separate machine that has tamper indications. The sniffed data will be grepped for our street name, phone number, name of their school, words indicative of pr0n being sent/received, etc. and any match will trigger human review.
That's not an invasion of their privacy. But once your kids know their way around the 'net, restrictions like that become an insult to their intelligence and maturity. Will you still be insisting that they hold your hand while crossing the street?
Uh, no. The drive in the 3rd-gen iPod is plain old ATA; the connector is smaller and it requires a 3.3-volt power supply, but other than that it's pinout-compatible with the one in your computer.
3) Play movies (Screen is only 2.2 inches, but its pretty) at *FULL* dvd resolution (impressive processing power for such a little guy).
Uh, the screen is 220x176 pixels and 18-bit color (262,144 colors == 2^18). Last I checked that was a bit less than a full DVD... And it doesn't have video out, so you can't get anything more than what's displayed on the screen. Sorry.
He should take the site down in compliance with their notice. Then he should report their site as a violation of that disability act, and offer to sell his compliant site layout to them at a "discount".
NO NO NO!
That may be done with the best of intentions, but keep in mind its meaning: "I noticed you're breaking the law, if you give me money then I'll make it all better." IANAL, but that seems very, very illegal.
But frames ARE needed. Not for web sites, no, but for web-based applications. You try building a Web interface for something like SlimServer without frames. In this situation, frames are needed for a good user interface. And please don't rant about XUL; that's just as much of a single-browser solution as ActiveX is. Tell me when it works in more than one browser.
But the W3C, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that "frames are bad!" Even XHTML 1.0, which claims to support frames, makes it completely impossible to have a validating borderless frameset page. It can't be done.
I'd love to use XHTML 1.1 Strict, CSS, PNG, and whatever the latest and greatest standards are for all my pages. That "validated markup" icon is great to have on any sort of site. But until the W3C stops saying that they know more about what I'm designing than I do, it ain't gonna happen.
The Squeezebox has an LED display (2x40, I believe)
The Squeezebox does not have an LED. It's a VFD - Vacuum Flourescent Display - which is way, way brighter and more readable than an LED or backlit LCD.
Of course, it's way more expensive as well; the one in the Squeezebox costs almost $100 in single quantity. Well worth it, though.
This is actually a good point. Microsoft will probably lock it out so you can only run Windows on the thing in "PC" mode. It won't be a complete, standard PC, that's for sure.
Sorry MS. I'll buy it if I can run non-Microsoft operating systems on it. Can we say "milking a cash cow"?
I hope this apparent lack of quality won't also be apparent in Roku's Soundbridge product, I've been pretty excited about that one. It looks like a good [non ugly] alternative to the Slim Devices stuff.
Yeah, but Roku basically ripped off an old version of the Slim Devices software. They say it uses SlimServer, but you can forget about using any of the zillions of SlimServer plugins with a SoundBridge since Roku used an ancient version.
This is nothing more than off-site image tracking, as has been seen in spam for ages and ages.
And yet they claim that there's no way the recipient can know that the message is being tracked (see their FAQ) It may not be complete snake oil, but the company is definitely lying about the service's transparency.
And they route all your mail through their servers. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon started selling "pre-confirmed" email address lists.
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This isn't treatment technology, it's production technology. All it will do is bring down prices. The real "light at the end of the tunnel" is the artificial pancreas, an insulin pump + CGMS. All the pieces are there; we just need a few more generations of CGMS tech and some good algorithms.
A magnet ripping out of your fingertip is bad, but not fatal. "Internal injuries" is a bit of a stretch. It'll definitely kill the CAT machine though.
Wireless performance is shit. Here's the problem: Sure, 802.11g gives you a theoretical peak 54 mbps. However, not only do you never get more than 50% of it, that bandwidth is shared among every user on the network and is half-duplex. It's like having everyone on a single hubbed network - once a buch of users all start communicating at once, you get collisions, and performance drops. 1 user on wireless is fine. 5 or 10 is questionable. 50 will be like molasses.
Hell yeah. I had a LAN party today, and we played a few of the newer games for a while, then did about 3 straight hours of Quake II deathmatch. It's an amazingly fast-paced, intense, fun game.
When choosing a power supply, get a good-quality one, but don't go overboard with the wattage.
My system:
Athlon64 3500+, overclocked (currently 2.4ghz, probably going to push it more)
GeForce 7800GT
2gb OCZ Platinum RAM
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum
1x Samsung Spinpoint 120gb hard drive
1x NEC ND-3540A DVD burner
Seasonic S12-380 power supply (380 watt, obviously)
Just for fun, I stuck an ammeter on the power input. At full load, running Quake 4, with the overclocked CPU and high-end video card, the whole thing draws... 1.5 amps.
Yes, 1.5 amps. 180 watts. I absolutely agree that a quality power supply is important, but don't waste your money.
md5sum < /dev/urandom
/dev/urandom produces an infinite stream of random data - just pipe that throgh MD5 for some nice numerical CPU load. Not disk- or network-bound either.
Type I here, Minimed Paradigm 511 and One-Touch Ultra.
Minimed's new pumps have RF interfaces (better than infrared - no line-of-sight), and there's a meter that can integrate with the latest pump to automatically calculate boluses. Extremely cool, I want one.
What I would like is completely automatic downloading - I sit in front of my computer, and it transfers all of the blood sugar and bolus data. I can deal with a few clicks to actually print it out, but I wish the download itself was completely automated.
- Costs around $10, or you can get two free samples from Dallas Semiconductor, the manufacturer.
- 8051 archictecture.
- Also a 40-pin DIP package; just add a crystal and some capacitors.
- 33 MHz, and most instructions are executed in 1 clock cycle.
- 1k RAM, 64k Flash.
- Two serial ports, 32 pins of digital I/O, timers, counters, etc.
- Serial port programmable with just a MAX232 and a 74HC125; there's a bootloader program in ROM built in on the chip.
- Programmable in whatever, but there's a free C compiler available, which is quite easy to get started with
And it's a recent design (last year, IIRC) - but it's based on the incredibly popular 8051 architecture, so there are tons of software tools available for it.There's a binary database that the metadata is stored in. Apple's iTunes knows how to access this DB, as do several other programs like ephPod, GNUpod (which I personally have used without any problems whatsoever), etc.
The arcane restrictions and "registration" of which you speak apply ONLY to Apple's "iTunes Music Store", an integrated but OPTIONAL part of the iTunes program (which you don't even have to use). They have nothing to do with music that you obtained elsewhere, i.e. from CD or an MP3 that you already have on your computer. Even if you do buy music from Apple, the restrictions on how many computers you can transfer the music to do NOT apply to the iPod.
Standard USB or 1394 interface. Standard filesystem. Standard audio codecs. Widely-supported metadata handling (GNUpod, for example, is in Debian.) If you're gonna bash the iPod, at least get your facts right.
Uh, no. The drive in the 3rd-gen iPod is plain old ATA; the connector is smaller and it requires a 3.3-volt power supply, but other than that it's pinout-compatible with the one in your computer.
I just leave my crappy old 150mhz Toshiba next to a few friends' Powerbooks.
Problem solved.
He should take the site down in compliance with their notice. Then he should report their site as a violation of that disability act, and offer to sell his compliant site layout to them at a "discount".
NO NO NO!
That may be done with the best of intentions, but keep in mind its meaning: "I noticed you're breaking the law, if you give me money then I'll make it all better." IANAL, but that seems very, very illegal.
But frames ARE needed. Not for web sites, no, but for web-based applications. You try building a Web interface for something like SlimServer without frames. In this situation, frames are needed for a good user interface. And please don't rant about XUL; that's just as much of a single-browser solution as ActiveX is. Tell me when it works in more than one browser.
But the W3C, in their infinite wisdom, has decided that "frames are bad!" Even XHTML 1.0, which claims to support frames, makes it completely impossible to have a validating borderless frameset page. It can't be done.
I'd love to use XHTML 1.1 Strict, CSS, PNG, and whatever the latest and greatest standards are for all my pages. That "validated markup" icon is great to have on any sort of site. But until the W3C stops saying that they know more about what I'm designing than I do, it ain't gonna happen.
The Squeezebox has an LED display (2x40, I believe)
The Squeezebox does not have an LED. It's a VFD - Vacuum Flourescent Display - which is way, way brighter and more readable than an LED or backlit LCD.
Of course, it's way more expensive as well; the one in the Squeezebox costs almost $100 in single quantity. Well worth it, though.
There was a lively IRC chat during the entire flight on #spaceshipone at irc.freenode.net, and it'll be back for the next launch. Be there!
This is actually a good point. Microsoft will probably lock it out so you can only run Windows on the thing in "PC" mode. It won't be a complete, standard PC, that's for sure.
Sorry MS. I'll buy it if I can run non-Microsoft operating systems on it. Can we say "milking a cash cow"?
Yeah, but Roku basically ripped off an old version of the Slim Devices software. They say it uses SlimServer, but you can forget about using any of the zillions of SlimServer plugins with a SoundBridge since Roku used an ancient version.
And yet they claim that there's no way the recipient can know that the message is being tracked (see their FAQ) It may not be complete snake oil, but the company is definitely lying about the service's transparency.
And they route all your mail through their servers. I wouldn't be surprised if they soon started selling "pre-confirmed" email address lists.