Most of the cost of an MRI is in making the magnetic fields precise enough to be used for imaging. Take away that requirement and I reckon you take away 90% of the price. Whats left is a powerful, controlable magnetic field generator.
Its a pretty amazing idea. How about inserting a pill with a blade on the front and setting it loose on tumors? Its a creepy idea but dying of cancer is worse.
Actually, Apple pays other companies to make their hardware. The relationship is controlled by a contract. Microsoft has a different contract with hardware suppliers, but it is a contract all the same.
Unfortunately, as I understand it phones/tablets don't have a nice seperation between the OS and the code which manages the cellular and wifi radios.
You understand incorrectly. For various reasons, the cellular radios are nearly always separate processors with separate firmware; they often talk with the main processor of the devices through a dedicated serial port using AT commands.
Just because you can say "we got here this time" does not mean "we will get here when it matters". If you don't understand what the code is doing then you can't say your code is safe.
Search the code base for what may be directly calling the code.
This is what I hate about large scale OO code. You have ten thousand classes, each implementing an interface which extends an interface containing a method something like execute(). Refrerences to objects are just data. How do you find what calls that method without using a debugger? What if some execution paths are next to impossible to test? Where do you start?
There should be a container for micro sd cards which you can swallow. Its not 1TB but it could carry an OS which you use to download the rest of the data.
I saw this in a control room environment where the voice switch was controlled by a touch screen set into a console panel. Using the touch screen with the hand pulled back seemed to cause the problem so we replaced the screen with a custom mechanical keypad set flat on the desk. But I dont see the same problems with portable phones and tablets because the user is free to position the screen where it is comfortable for them to use.
Kinect is Microsoft's one and only hit in recent years. Hackers the world over are writing their own drivers for it. By making it available for windows they encourage developers to write UI software for hardware which MSFT would dearly like to sell.
but that's all because the x86 chips just havn't been small enough to be efficient and use little power to keep devices going for a long while.
I wonder why Intel doesn't rip out the x86 decoder from it chips and then write compiler back-ends that directly generate micro-ops.
Since the decoder stage is large and power-hungry, the resulting chips would be faster than any ARM variant while also being much smaller are low-power than Atoms.
For what it is worth, generational change does improve the attitudes in society over time. For example, 20 years ago you would not have seen major governments even pay lip service to the problem of global climate change. In another 20 years that may actually take it seriously. I believe change happens as reactionary people die.
Speak for yourself! I live in Indiana! Simon Property Group is a greedy company that have taken over many Malls across Indiana! I"m still going to shop online -- price and selection can not be beat!
And now you will be paying to have police and roads and schools while you shop online, yay!
He doesn't use those things. He lives in his basement;)
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Most of the cost of an MRI is in making the magnetic fields precise enough to be used for imaging. Take away that requirement and I reckon you take away 90% of the price. Whats left is a powerful, controlable magnetic field generator.
You could have all sorts of fun with that.
Its a pretty amazing idea. How about inserting a pill with a blade on the front and setting it loose on tumors? Its a creepy idea but dying of cancer is worse.
are the second most intelligent creatures on the planet.
Makes me wonder why they allow a third rate species push them around.
You have to meat the meet.
Heinlein made that point in Farmer in the Sky, in 1953.
I don't see why growing artificial meet would be morally dubious. Better than killing intelligent animals, for sure.
Actually, Apple pays other companies to make their hardware. The relationship is controlled by a contract. Microsoft has a different contract with hardware suppliers, but it is a contract all the same.
You understand incorrectly. For various reasons, the cellular radios are nearly always separate processors with separate firmware; they often talk with the main processor of the devices through a dedicated serial port using AT commands.
Yes. The openmoko works like that.
Yeah in a small town library several days ago I saw people doing their banking on public computers.
Just because you can say "we got here this time" does not mean "we will get here when it matters". If you don't understand what the code is doing then you can't say your code is safe.
Search the code base for what may be directly calling the code.
This is what I hate about large scale OO code. You have ten thousand classes, each implementing an interface which extends an interface containing a method something like execute(). Refrerences to objects are just data. How do you find what calls that method without using a debugger? What if some execution paths are next to impossible to test? Where do you start?
Bloat keeps java afloat.
MrHanky uses sockpuppets.
No I think MrHanky is the sockpuppet.
There should be a container for micro sd cards which you can swallow. Its not 1TB but it could carry an OS which you use to download the rest of the data.
I saw this in a control room environment where the voice switch was controlled by a touch screen set into a console panel. Using the touch screen with the hand pulled back seemed to cause the problem so we replaced the screen with a custom mechanical keypad set flat on the desk. But I dont see the same problems with portable phones and tablets because the user is free to position the screen where it is comfortable for them to use.
GP is satire. Not even a troll.
You don't say....
And now most leaders make speaches on climate change. Thatcher was a scientist of course.
Kinect is Microsoft's one and only hit in recent years. Hackers the world over are writing their own drivers for it. By making it available for windows they encourage developers to write UI software for hardware which MSFT would dearly like to sell.
but that's all because the x86 chips just havn't been small enough to be efficient and use little power to keep devices going for a long while.
I wonder why Intel doesn't rip out the x86 decoder from it chips and then write compiler back-ends that directly generate micro-ops.
Since the decoder stage is large and power-hungry, the resulting chips would be faster than any ARM variant while also being much smaller are low-power than Atoms.
Yeah, thats RISC.
For what it is worth, generational change does improve the attitudes in society over time. For example, 20 years ago you would not have seen major governments even pay lip service to the problem of global climate change. In another 20 years that may actually take it seriously. I believe change happens as reactionary people die.
Support fees did go sky high. Our site stopped paying. Other sites would have migrated away from it quickly. I doubt RDB had many users in 2011.
Speak for yourself! I live in Indiana! Simon Property Group is a greedy company that have taken over many Malls across Indiana! I"m still going to shop online -- price and selection can not be beat!
And now you will be paying to have police and roads and schools while you shop online, yay!
He doesn't use those things. He lives in his basement ;)
I remember when oracle bought RDB from DEC. They jacked the support fees up by a factor of ten, took a short term profit, and killed it off.
Does DECTalk posses some unique quality that is not easily replicated?
It is Hawkings voice.