According to article, yes I admit to having read it, they have a stand-alone java based version that runs on just about anything; the 'cloud' version is constantly collecting historical data that allows the diagnostic algorithms to learn and improve themselves. I'm not sure that last part is actually true but it is a nice thought.
I'm not sure of your budget or whether you are looking at this for yourself or your son, but a trinocular scope allows human binary focus on the subject/target as well as a digital imaging output that can be displayed on a dedicated Workstation or PC. These images can then be captured and later analysed.
This is what my techs use at work for FA on PCAs... but YMMV with "bacteria to paramecium's".
The article describes a closed loop system, not one where they'd be simply dumping water down the pipe continuously from an infinate supply. Some volume of water is being pumped down, the water heated by the rock, the energy extracted, and then that same water being sent back down through the loop.
Why not just run it in a VM? I've been doing this for quite a while with: WinXP, Vista, and now Win7; all running as VMware VMs on a Linux base. I just snapshot the Windows VM after the initial install.and again after it's fully configured. If (when) the image gets itself honked up, I just restore one of the snapshots and I'm back to a known good image.
Are you sure someone actually designed the walkways?
When the University I attended built a new extension or building, they would intentionally NOT install pavement walkways between the new building and anything around it. Instead they installed grass and waited ~six months for the students/professors to collectively define the necessary paths to and from the building. The University would then install the pavement, routing them to match the paths worn into the grass. This yielded some interesting walkways but they always seemed to make sense.
I think we're talking about better up-time than that for Skype. If we believe the outage numbers presented on their Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype, they've had a total of 72 hours down time since the initial release in 2003--and assuming a 100% outage in all cases (which was not the case here)--their up-time minutes work out to something like:
99.9988%
Seven years and 72 hours of total down-tine... It might not be five nines, but does seem a pretty respectable up-time percentage.
This thread might be a bit off topic, but my guess is that the Verizon employees reckon that finding a Microsoft bug is far easier than locating your cell phone transmission even when its being directed straight into one of their towers.
I can imagine the scientists and technocrats from: China, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the USA, sitting in a room pondering the question of where to put this new fusion reactor--the biggest and baddest one ever built.
China: "India is the best place..." India: "Heck no, we reckon Russia is better..." Russia: "Nyet... How about Texas..." (room grows silent) In unison: Lets put it in "France"
France (EU): "Thank you, this quite the compliment..."
Lost MOD points for this:
Seriously, do we need any more? At this rate, there will be a unique distro for every man, woman and child in the world.
I say: why not...
In fact, I think I'm going to write a new app. It will take Ubuntu, select and assemble random packages from it, randomly design a desktop background, toss it all together and give it a random name. Then I can make a bunch of new distros too!
I like the notion of your potential app building dynamic Linux distributions but am not too keen the assembly of the random packages bit. I reckon an application able to interview, monitor, or survey current user activity and craft a bespoke Linux distribution, customised to the persons tastes would be fantastic and I wouldn't limit it to simply the "Ubuntu remixes"; there are other base sets for this. I personally prefer a RedHat/Suse base and a Gnome UI simply out of our need for support familiarity.
Well, Microsoft do seem to be having a bit of a bad run with their employees lately; last week we heard news of the rogue MS manager in Sweden petitioning business partners to join the SIS and vote blindly on the OOXML spec., and now we find that we have another bad egg taking down the MS flagship application and Windows licencing guardian WGA. These silly employees, when will they stop...
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That has got to be one of the better examples of properly applied sarcasm I've see here in a while.
Good play...
According to article, yes I admit to having read it, they have a stand-alone java based version that runs on just about anything; the 'cloud' version is constantly collecting historical data that allows the diagnostic algorithms to learn and improve themselves. I'm not sure that last part is actually true but it is a nice thought.
The Federal Appeals Court should repeat ultimatum in an even firmer tone of voice. Add the words, "or else".
Umm... I'm pretty sure hospitals already have these units deployed.
I'd swear the night nurse I had the last time I was in hospital was a robot.
Okay, I'm replying to an AC--I know it's never a good idea--but that post was really "FUNNY".
I'm not sure of your budget or whether you are looking at this for yourself or your son, but a trinocular scope allows human binary focus on the subject/target as well as a digital imaging output that can be displayed on a dedicated Workstation or PC. These images can then be captured and later analysed.
This is what my techs use at work for FA on PCAs... but YMMV with "bacteria to paramecium's".
Later...
The article describes a closed loop system, not one where they'd be simply dumping water down the pipe continuously from an infinate supply. Some volume of water is being pumped down, the water heated by the rock, the energy extracted, and then that same water being sent back down through the loop.
Why not just run it in a VM? I've been doing this for quite a while with: WinXP, Vista, and now Win7; all running as VMware VMs on a Linux base. I just snapshot the Windows VM after the initial install.and again after it's fully configured. If (when) the image gets itself honked up, I just restore one of the snapshots and I'm back to a known good image.
Wow, you're right. In binary I can count to 1023 on my fingers and 1,048,575 if I use my toes...
I think the wider application for this technology will be in the workplace... to track when/if employees are actually sitting at their desks.
Are you sure someone actually designed the walkways?
When the University I attended built a new extension or building, they would intentionally NOT install pavement walkways between the new building and anything around it. Instead they installed grass and waited ~six months for the students/professors to collectively define the necessary paths to and from the building. The University would then install the pavement, routing them to match the paths worn into the grass. This yielded some interesting walkways but they always seemed to make sense.
I think we're talking about better up-time than that for Skype. If we believe the outage numbers presented on their Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype, they've had a total of 72 hours down time since the initial release in 2003--and assuming a 100% outage in all cases (which was not the case here)--their up-time minutes work out to something like:
99.9988%
Seven years and 72 hours of total down-tine... It might not be five nines, but does seem a pretty respectable up-time percentage.
This thread might be a bit off topic, but my guess is that the Verizon employees reckon that finding a Microsoft bug is far easier than locating your cell phone transmission even when its being directed straight into one of their towers.
I can imagine the scientists and technocrats from: China, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the USA, sitting in a room pondering the question of where to put this new fusion reactor--the biggest and baddest one ever built.
China: "India is the best place..."
India: "Heck no, we reckon Russia is better..."
Russia: "Nyet... How about Texas..."
(room grows silent)
In unison: Lets put it in "France"
France (EU): "Thank you, this quite the compliment..."
An invisibility cloak eh... right then; I'll believe it when I see it.
I say: why not... In fact, I think I'm going to write a new app. It will take Ubuntu, select and assemble random packages from it, randomly design a desktop background, toss it all together and give it a random name. Then I can make a bunch of new distros too!
I like the notion of your potential app building dynamic Linux distributions but am not too keen the assembly of the random packages bit. I reckon an application able to interview, monitor, or survey current user activity and craft a bespoke Linux distribution, customised to the persons tastes would be fantastic and I wouldn't limit it to simply the "Ubuntu remixes"; there are other base sets for this. I personally prefer a RedHat/Suse base and a Gnome UI simply out of our need for support familiarity.
Well, Microsoft do seem to be having a bit of a bad run with their employees lately; last week we heard news of the rogue MS manager in Sweden petitioning business partners to join the SIS and vote blindly on the OOXML spec., and now we find that we have another bad egg taking down the MS flagship application and Windows licencing guardian WGA. These silly employees, when will they stop...
I'm sure it must be the same person...