Near real time would be useful but, as seen with superglue, you need a bit of time before you want it to heal. Keep in mind that the stress crack will open and separate and you want the reair to happen aftre the stress cycle so the repair is in the unstressed position. We don't need a material whee the stress cracks fill in and hold the material in the stressed position
I compete in composite R/C gliders. This has a real effect on my life and knowing how much something has used up the healing part of the mix would be somewhat important. Hell, I'd settle for something that changes color due to stressing so we're be better able to detect stress point areas
I would think that it would be easy enough to color the repairing resin a contracting color to the original material so that as more and more of it is used the object would slowly change in appearance. This would also help in the inspection/evaluation function to tell when something is weakened too much for continued use
That most of the repairs that this type of material will fix/solve are hidden within the layers of the composite and just weaken the material gradually until a catastrophic failure takes place. I'm sure they'll get the curing time and temperature problems solved now that they have an initial test material to start from. This will be very important in composite propellers and fan blades. It would be interesting to know if you can tell the difference between a fixed and unfixed defect in X-ray inspections.
>I was ok with everything til you got to the part about getting away from parellel ports...
Sure they expanded the "standard". Let's not start on the standards kick. We won't go into where RS232 and 422 started and went. My point was that while the only (no USB yet) printer/scanner options were serial and parallel on the PC, there were Mac SCSI scanners and laser printers. Sure, they weren't cheap but throughput is king. I still feel that parallel ports are a poor man's "geek" bus for hooking up stuff at TTL levels. It's just been replaced as the default interface answer on many devices. Even the PC has moved on to things like USB. One could answer that SCSI has also been replaced with ethernet for printing solutions too since we now have network-aware printers. Even our modems when you think about the move toward broadband. USB has it's place and it's doing fine in the keyboard/mouse arena. It's not the fastest bus but you can put it onto a $10 mouse. That goes a long way in some circles. I think there's still a place for intelligent peripherals like SCSI where some of the controller resides on the device but you also have to look at the fact that dumb devices like IDE and WinModems will always be cheaper and will have a place.
Sure, but you'd get the same functionality and speed from an external USRobotics serial modem. You don't NEED ISA.
>Um what are you smoking legacy on Mac means serial ports for external devices
And ADB. They were one of the first to build in Ethernet when they were moving from 68k to the initial 601 PowerMacs. I've always been happy with my SCSI laser printer and Scanner. Both of those were years ahead of the PC moving off the parallel port.
>Yeah they will, but not as much as the same thing on the PC would
But they'd give up way too much moving from the Apple hardware market to the competitive PC software arena. Everything comes down to margins. They can still get the Graphic Artists to buy into it and they still have a way with industrial design, make as much fun a you want of translucent plastic, they did innovate and people liked it. Tell me the Cube isn't sexy... and the 22" Cinema Display.
Exactly. I'm mentioning it from the standpoint of it being a Mac legacy. I have all SCSI peripherals because I've had Macs since the mid 80s. I'm not arguing current features but up until the iMac introduction, SCSI and ADB were the choices on the Mac. Hell, I'd settle for PCI. I'm stuck with a Processor Direct Slot on most of mine.
Yep, and trying to get a Pinnicle Firewire card running in my Win98 PC was horrendous but I just plugged the camera into my Mac and I was off. No IRQs, no conflicts, no hassle. He!!, even Linux is going automatic. Sure I'm a hardware junkie and have every motherboard I ever bought running on my net at home, but I've never had a problem with the Mac when installing hardware on it and I've ALWAYS had a day of hassles when trying to install a PC Plug-n-Pray device that stated I met the "System Requirements". Apple has always been kind to the user when it comes to getting things out of the box and into use.
It would be a shame to have the Mac OS X move onto x86 and then get mired in the PC legacy crap that has caused us to continue to see ISA slots on 1ghz machines. I'm much happier with the SCSI/USB/Firewire legacy the Mac hardware has fostered. Of course it's going to negatively effect hardware sales. Don't you think that the new G4s with DVD burners are specifically to generate hardware sales? Where do you think their priorities are? Why do you think they keep orphaning hardware in each release? No OS X is planned for NuBus macs, yet another "trimming/pruning" of the Apple Tree.
Intensity is just the number of photons as percieved by your eyes. More intensity means more photos hitting your receptors. So, if the photons are conserved, just stopped and then restarted and redirected in the same direction, it would be percieved as the same intensity. You do have to ask if the number of photons is modified and/or increased by the slow down/stop/speed up process.
They use copper because it's an unlikely element in the makeup of the commet and can be easily separated out of the spectrums produced. There are other choices but what would people say if it was solid gold? 8^)
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I don't know. We were writing against 1.0 of WinCE (which caused my toes to curl when they told me) and we were able to get pretty stable response. The software did field capture of patient data that was later downloaded to a server machine (over the Velo's built in modem) and then the insurance forms were automatically filled out. The biggest problem we had/faced was a portable printer because regs required you leave a copy of the paperwork on site (this was for home-based visiting nurses). The Sharp camera was good for about a dozen pictures per battery set.
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When going over the future of paperless medical data entry at the 97 fall Comdex, the main app that was felt to be a minimum was voice recognition. The need for hands free data entry while on rounds was the most important. You can use your hands when doing a patient interview but for entry during an exam, it needs to be hands free.
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Many of the current meters have the ability to download the readings. My First Step records 50 readings internally and keeps date and time information and even logs averages and trends. Upload to the PC once a week and send in.
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Sharp has a camera that plugs into their WinCE PDAs. We looked at using it at the Fall 97 Comdex. It was specifically for wound documentation on claims. The biggest problem at the time was storage and battery draw. Cameras have come a long way since.
"...will be ferried into orbit aboard Atlantis, scheduled for launch Jan. 18, or the next Progress supply ship, currently targeted for takeoff Feb. 10.
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12/26 is the likely redoclking of the Progress currently parked in a nearby orbit which they unloaded and undocked before the last shuttle mission. They're simply redocking it so they can use it for a dumpster
It just means that when you don't pay attention to it when it offers help, it'll whistle and get obnoxious until it recognizes that you do.
While I can see the value in this type of interface, there's something that scares me about putting these tools into the hands of the type of people that put popup windows into a web interface...
I wrote a Tempest certified disk formatter in the 80s and was required to do 10 passes with specific patterns to qualify. To prove their point they had me write a text file onto a disk and then run the formatter. With earlier/fewer passes they were able to print the file out and give it to me (I chose the text) This was in the 80s, so I'm sure it's better now. They used to grind up bad disk drives so that all that came out was sand, that was the preferred method to "sanitize" them
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Near real time would be useful but, as seen with superglue, you need a bit of time before you want it to heal. Keep in mind that the stress crack will open and separate and you want the reair to happen aftre the stress cycle so the repair is in the unstressed position. We don't need a material whee the stress cracks fill in and hold the material in the stressed position
I compete in composite R/C gliders. This has a real effect on my life and knowing how much something has used up the healing part of the mix would be somewhat important. Hell, I'd settle for something that changes color due to stressing so we're be better able to detect stress point areas
I would think that it would be easy enough to color the repairing resin a contracting color to the original material so that as more and more of it is used the object would slowly change in appearance. This would also help in the inspection/evaluation function to tell when something is weakened too much for continued use
That most of the repairs that this type of material will fix/solve are hidden within the layers of the composite and just weaken the material gradually until a catastrophic failure takes place. I'm sure they'll get the curing time and temperature problems solved now that they have an initial test material to start from. This will be very important in composite propellers and fan blades. It would be interesting to know if you can tell the difference between a fixed and unfixed defect in X-ray inspections.
We've had intereactive C for a while now, interactive assembler seems a reasonable extension... hmmm interrupt latency is what, 3-4 days?
CNN is reporting that the project has been given another week of deep space network time to continue getting readings observations.
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>I was ok with everything til you got to the part about getting away from parellel ports...
Sure they expanded the "standard". Let's not start on the standards kick. We won't go into where RS232 and 422 started and went. My point was that while the only (no USB yet) printer/scanner options were serial and parallel on the PC, there were Mac SCSI scanners and laser printers. Sure, they weren't cheap but throughput is king. I still feel that parallel ports are a poor man's "geek" bus for hooking up stuff at TTL levels. It's just been replaced as the default interface answer on many devices. Even the PC has moved on to things like USB. One could answer that SCSI has also been replaced with ethernet for printing solutions too since we now have network-aware printers. Even our modems when you think about the move toward broadband. USB has it's place and it's doing fine in the keyboard/mouse arena. It's not the fastest bus but you can put it onto a $10 mouse. That goes a long way in some circles. I think there's still a place for intelligent peripherals like SCSI where some of the controller resides on the device but you also have to look at the fact that dumb devices like IDE and WinModems will always be cheaper and will have a place.
Since OS X is BSD based, it wouldn't be a problem supporting it, just a waste of testing and resources.
>I still like my ISA modem
Sure, but you'd get the same functionality and speed from an external USRobotics serial modem. You don't NEED ISA.
>Um what are you smoking legacy on Mac means serial ports for external devices
And ADB. They were one of the first to build in Ethernet when they were moving from 68k to the initial 601 PowerMacs. I've always been happy with my SCSI laser printer and Scanner. Both of those were years ahead of the PC moving off the parallel port.
>Yeah they will, but not as much as the same thing on the PC would
But they'd give up way too much moving from the Apple hardware market to the competitive PC software arena. Everything comes down to margins. They can still get the Graphic Artists to buy into it and they still have a way with industrial design, make as much fun a you want of translucent plastic, they did innovate and people liked it. Tell me the Cube isn't sexy... and the 22" Cinema Display.
Exactly. I'm mentioning it from the standpoint of it being a Mac legacy. I have all SCSI peripherals because I've had Macs since the mid 80s. I'm not arguing current features but up until the iMac introduction, SCSI and ADB were the choices on the Mac. Hell, I'd settle for PCI. I'm stuck with a Processor Direct Slot on most of mine.
Yep, and trying to get a Pinnicle Firewire card running in my Win98 PC was horrendous but I just plugged the camera into my Mac and I was off. No IRQs, no conflicts, no hassle. He!!, even Linux is going automatic. Sure I'm a hardware junkie and have every motherboard I ever bought running on my net at home, but I've never had a problem with the Mac when installing hardware on it and I've ALWAYS had a day of hassles when trying to install a PC Plug-n-Pray device that stated I met the "System Requirements". Apple has always been kind to the user when it comes to getting things out of the box and into use.
It would be a shame to have the Mac OS X move onto x86 and then get mired in the PC legacy crap that has caused us to continue to see ISA slots on 1ghz machines. I'm much happier with the SCSI/USB/Firewire legacy the Mac hardware has fostered. Of course it's going to negatively effect hardware sales. Don't you think that the new G4s with DVD burners are specifically to generate hardware sales? Where do you think their priorities are? Why do you think they keep orphaning hardware in each release? No OS X is planned for NuBus macs, yet another "trimming/pruning" of the Apple Tree.
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Intensity is just the number of photons as percieved by your eyes. More intensity means more photos hitting your receptors. So, if the photons are conserved, just stopped and then restarted and redirected in the same direction, it would be percieved as the same intensity. You do have to ask if the number of photons is modified and/or increased by the slow down/stop/speed up process.
They use copper because it's an unlikely element in the makeup of the commet and can be easily separated out of the spectrums produced. There are other choices but what would people say if it was solid gold? 8^)
I don't know. We were writing against 1.0 of WinCE (which caused my toes to curl when they told me) and we were able to get pretty stable response. The software did field capture of patient data that was later downloaded to a server machine (over the Velo's built in modem) and then the insurance forms were automatically filled out. The biggest problem we had/faced was a portable printer because regs required you leave a copy of the paperwork on site (this was for home-based visiting nurses). The Sharp camera was good for about a dozen pictures per battery set.
When going over the future of paperless medical data entry at the 97 fall Comdex, the main app that was felt to be a minimum was voice recognition. The need for hands free data entry while on rounds was the most important. You can use your hands when doing a patient interview but for entry during an exam, it needs to be hands free.
Many of the current meters have the ability to download the readings. My First Step records 50 readings internally and keeps date and time information and even logs averages and trends. Upload to the PC once a week and send in.
Sharp has a camera that plugs into their WinCE PDAs. We looked at using it at the Fall 97 Comdex. It was specifically for wound documentation on claims. The biggest problem at the time was storage and battery draw. Cameras have come a long way since.
"...will be ferried into orbit aboard Atlantis, scheduled for launch Jan. 18, or the next Progress supply ship, currently targeted for takeoff Feb. 10.
"
12/26 is the likely redoclking of the Progress currently parked in a nearby orbit which they unloaded and undocked before the last shuttle mission. They're simply redocking it so they can use it for a dumpster
In case people might actually BE interested this page gives a running status of what's going on (space walk 4 is in progress)
Tom Selleck in Runaway. Besides, spiders are cooler than dogs 8^)
Extra Credit: Write the person tracking software for the missle/bullets in CobolScript
It just means that when you don't pay attention to it when it offers help, it'll whistle and get obnoxious until it recognizes that you do.
While I can see the value in this type of interface, there's something that scares me about putting these tools into the hands of the type of people that put popup windows into a web interface...
I wrote a Tempest certified disk formatter in the 80s and was required to do 10 passes with specific patterns to qualify. To prove their point they had me write a text file onto a disk and then run the formatter. With earlier/fewer passes they were able to print the file out and give it to me (I chose the text) This was in the 80s, so I'm sure it's better now. They used to grind up bad disk drives so that all that came out was sand, that was the preferred method to "sanitize" them
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