Good luck convincing your patients to give up refined sugar and junk food- c.f. how hard it is to stop diabetes patients from eating sugar, and there's a direct and proven link between blood sugar and pathology.
There have been many posts criticizing this as vaporware, and only 2 posts explaining why it doesn't have to be.
The problem is more in the summary article (both the slashdot summary and the linked article) than in the feasiblitity of the technology. Rather than compressing a dataset 25:1, the company reduces the amount of space needed to backup a dataset by eliminating some redundancy.
Repeat: not data compression- backup technique. That's why its not for home users.
It bothers me how many modpoints the trolls have gotten.
Does this shared libraries phenomenon apply to XP as well? Am I suffering a major performance penalty by running Firefox and OpenOffice instead of utilized the shared libraries between XP, Word, and IE?
Anyone else notice how many times B&H came up positively in comments?
Makes me wonder if they're really good- (there's a PICTURE of their nice storefront & the comments tend to be good ones/not entirely focused on praising B&H)
or if they put a lot of effort into "viral marketing".
try folding.stanford.edu or other distributed computing projects- your computing power/energy costs are going to a good cause while your computer idles.
Don't forget that the weight of a conventional airconditioning system- liquid working fluid and all, is greater than the peltier system that the students designed. I'd imagine a lot of the power savings coming from reduced weight increasing fuel economy.
I beg to differ, the low cost advantage of hybrid disks is really appealing to me. On silentpcreview forums someone quoted a potential price of ~$500 for 8gb and ~$1200 for 16gb- that's still out of my range.
an extra 50-100 dollar premium over a regular hdd is a small price for better quietude and performance.
That kind of misses the point of having a fuel source like this- which is that you can power something underneath your skin. To power something external to your body there are already too many much more convenient and non-invasive surgery requiring alternatives eg. photovoltaics, hand cranks, etc.
A mechanical elevator is NOT a simple design. With counterweights, pulleys, electric motors, pneumatics... its a b**ch to maintain, costwise.
If you know someone who owns a building, they'll probably tell you that an elevator is a massive headache that they could do without (if it wasn't required to fulfill Federal disabilities law).
This is a simpler, cheaper, and more elegant solution by comparison- I imagine it wouldn't be hard to scale it up to fit a wheelchair, or cargo.
Also, pulling doesn't force air onto components, if you put your hand behind a fan it doesn't get cooled because the air is not being pushed onto your hand, it can go around it. Pulling air over components only works if there is significant ductwork e.g. case exhaust fan has the case acting as a duct.
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Good luck convincing your patients to give up refined sugar and junk food- c.f. how hard it is to stop diabetes patients from eating sugar, and there's a direct and proven link between blood sugar and pathology.
There have been many posts criticizing this as vaporware, and only 2 posts explaining why it doesn't have to be.
The problem is more in the summary article (both the slashdot summary and the linked article) than in the feasiblitity of the technology. Rather than compressing a dataset 25:1, the company reduces the amount of space needed to backup a dataset by eliminating some redundancy.
Repeat: not data compression- backup technique. That's why its not for home users.
It bothers me how many modpoints the trolls have gotten.
Does this shared libraries phenomenon apply to XP as well? Am I suffering a major performance penalty by running Firefox and OpenOffice instead of utilized the shared libraries between XP, Word, and IE?
Anyone else notice how many times B&H came up positively in comments? Makes me wonder if they're really good- (there's a PICTURE of their nice storefront & the comments tend to be good ones/not entirely focused on praising B&H) or if they put a lot of effort into "viral marketing".
try folding.stanford.edu or other distributed computing projects- your computing power/energy costs are going to a good cause while your computer idles.
Don't forget that the weight of a conventional airconditioning system- liquid working fluid and all, is greater than the peltier system that the students designed. I'd imagine a lot of the power savings coming from reduced weight increasing fuel economy.
I beg to differ, the low cost advantage of hybrid disks is really appealing to me. On silentpcreview forums someone quoted a potential price of ~$500 for 8gb and ~$1200 for 16gb- that's still out of my range. an extra 50-100 dollar premium over a regular hdd is a small price for better quietude and performance.
Though if it did break the RMA would be a REAL pain in the butt. or explaining to the surgeon how it got "lost"..
That kind of misses the point of having a fuel source like this- which is that you can power something underneath your skin. To power something external to your body there are already too many much more convenient and non-invasive surgery requiring alternatives eg. photovoltaics, hand cranks, etc.
An alternate definition of terrorist is one who uses fear as a political tool. That is, violence transcends the physical.
A mechanical elevator is NOT a simple design. With counterweights, pulleys, electric motors, pneumatics... its a b**ch to maintain, costwise. If you know someone who owns a building, they'll probably tell you that an elevator is a massive headache that they could do without (if it wasn't required to fulfill Federal disabilities law). This is a simpler, cheaper, and more elegant solution by comparison- I imagine it wouldn't be hard to scale it up to fit a wheelchair, or cargo.
Also, pulling doesn't force air onto components, if you put your hand behind a fan it doesn't get cooled because the air is not being pushed onto your hand, it can go around it. Pulling air over components only works if there is significant ductwork e.g. case exhaust fan has the case acting as a duct.