What do you mean? WoW is as digital as it gets. Its not open source, but there's no reason for open source digital pitchforks and bloodhounds to exist.
Now if someone comes with a program - "OS installer for stolen laptops" which would format the drive/partitions and install a version of Linux or pirated XP with some preset parameters - that would make lives easier for laptop stealers.
You have to recalibrate your B0 values after each He fill. Its supposed to be 7T, but you have to check the center frequency each time in order to tune your RF coils correctly. We have a 4.7T system, and our center frequency has varied between 199.89MHz and 200.23MHz over the last 5 years.
Sometimes its not slavery, but acceptance that closed source programs are a better choice. You can't obtain proprietary material when the budget for development is close to nill
Linux communities don't have the resources that Google or Skype have. It would be hard to have something like Googleearth. Open Source developers can might find it hard to obtain and compile satellite images of the planet and have a high bandwidth servers to stream the data on demand.
....but is it really government's job to produce industries?
If government doesn't produce industries then the industries create governments; you know - just like in the In Soviet Russia noun verbs you kinda joke.
In my state, sales tax is 9%, which means the $399 phone will end up costing 436, while the $199 phone would be 217. Then applying the math discussed above, I would end up paying just $21 more than what I'd otherwise pay with older iPhone.
That does not mean I will be buying one for myself:p
Correct. We use it for NMR hardware diagnostics. Our Varian system runs UNIX too, but I'm talking about testing and designing volume and surface coils for which we use a 350MHz spectrum analyzer (which I've been referring to as spectroscope).
The problem arises when you are testing performance of that coil - transmission/reflection, passband characteristics, decoupling etc. Comparing with older settings with new ones on the fly is impossible because of data length limitation on the built-in applications. Transferring few gigs of data back and forth for analysis means we spend hours on doing something that can be done in minutes if it were done real time.
Well, Spectrum Analyzer is what I should've said. Thanks for correcting. But the doctors I speak of are the M.D.s, who usually follow a cheat sheet clipped next to the screen for anything they need to do. They don't care what the analyzer does, but someone must've recommended the one with embedded Windows when they were planning to buy one.
You mean Matlab isn't a windows application? Just because Excel defaults to opening CSV doesn't mean that's what they intended you to open it in. Matlab will read it perfectly fine with csvread.
Matlab isn't built within the spectroscope. We can do it, but then we lose the warranty. Like you said, csvread(filename, col, row) is the format we use when we use it on offline machine running Suse.
The scope was purchased 2 years ago, and I had no say in it. Windows based scope was purchased because thats what ALL the doctors were familiar with.
If we install anything on that machine, it would void the warranty. If we send it to them, it will take a week to get back to us. Its one of those devices we just can't do without even for a single day:( It works fine when sampling time is a few milliseconds at 10K samples/sec or so, but 200MHz for 3 seconds wasn't something they envisioned
While I agree this is questionable, I don't think they are connected to the internets (at least I hope not). So, the whole virus/worm fear is probably irrational.
There are several monitoring devices that transmit wirelessly from the procedure rooms to control rooms. We use wireless network to transmit blood pressure and heart rate information from MRI scanning room to the control computer. The control computer is connected to the centralized medical records server which is "supposed to be" super secure. But if it is broken into, you can pretty much control the communication with monitoring devices. Hope it doesn't happen.
We have a 350MHz spectroscope in our lab that has embedded XP. Now if we go for few seconds of RF sampling, it writes Time vs Signal values as a CSV file. Now the funny thing is you can't open files with more than 65000 rows in excel and since the spectroscope itself has nothing but windows applications, none of them is capable of displaying the saved samples.
You have to transfer the sample data to another computer and open them through Labview or Matlab or some such tool. Why would a spectroscope costing nearly $30,000 be running Windows.
It wasn't until 2007 that we saw the laptop hard drives hit the 250GB capacity, and they didn't hit the $0.38/GB range until a few months ago. In comparison SSD would be reaching the 250 limit in a much shorter period and as higher capacity drives flood the market, the lower capacity SSD drives would become affordable before you know it.
"If you switch today, for $120, you can buy 6 years of support with open software and at the end of that we'll give you the next version of the OS (worth $100) for free!"
You can't sell 6 years of tech support when the LTS stops putting out updates and security patches in 3 years. The current LTS expires in April 2008, so charging $120 for just over 2 years of suport makes it as pricey as Vista.
Now buying tech support for all the machines in your house/lab at $120 - thats something you can market.
Seeing how some folks are promoting abstinence as an effective means against STDs, development of electricity using photosynthesis won't even make it to the Humour section of newspaper.
"neutrality regulations would bar the use of emerging tools that ISPs can use to prevent piracy"
Seems like he's missing the point. Glickman would be all for neutrality when some of the movie websites would be blocked by certain governments or schools or such institutions all because of the 'emerging tools' that ISPs would've implemented.
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Still 10% is comparitivly a drop in the bucket.
Correction. 10% means 10% of the entire bucket.
But other than that I agree with the rest of your post
But it has already cross double digit in base-8.
@sig: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of [b]elderberries[/b]!
That's be eldeberries. @ColdWetDog: Apple users are considered normal, but Apple isn't. Hate the sin not the sinner kinda.
How can diff tell you things that haven't been entered into log files? Its against the law of thermodynamics.
The processor is gonna make humans obsolete. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
What do you mean? WoW is as digital as it gets. Its not open source, but there's no reason for open source digital pitchforks and bloodhounds to exist.
Now if someone comes with a program - "OS installer for stolen laptops" which would format the drive/partitions and install a version of Linux or pirated XP with some preset parameters - that would make lives easier for laptop stealers.
You have to recalibrate your B0 values after each He fill. Its supposed to be 7T, but you have to check the center frequency each time in order to tune your RF coils correctly. We have a 4.7T system, and our center frequency has varied between 199.89MHz and 200.23MHz over the last 5 years.
Sometimes its not slavery, but acceptance that closed source programs are a better choice. You can't obtain proprietary material when the budget for development is close to nill
Linux communities don't have the resources that Google or Skype have. It would be hard to have something like Googleearth. Open Source developers can might find it hard to obtain and compile satellite images of the planet and have a high bandwidth servers to stream the data on demand.
....but is it really government's job to produce industries?
If government doesn't produce industries then the industries create governments; you know - just like in the In Soviet Russia noun verbs you kinda joke.
In my state, sales tax is 9%, which means the $399 phone will end up costing 436, while the $199 phone would be 217. Then applying the math discussed above, I would end up paying just $21 more than what I'd otherwise pay with older iPhone.
That does not mean I will be buying one for myself :p
Correct. We use it for NMR hardware diagnostics. Our Varian system runs UNIX too, but I'm talking about testing and designing volume and surface coils for which we use a 350MHz spectrum analyzer (which I've been referring to as spectroscope). The problem arises when you are testing performance of that coil - transmission/reflection, passband characteristics, decoupling etc. Comparing with older settings with new ones on the fly is impossible because of data length limitation on the built-in applications. Transferring few gigs of data back and forth for analysis means we spend hours on doing something that can be done in minutes if it were done real time.
Well, Spectrum Analyzer is what I should've said. Thanks for correcting. But the doctors I speak of are the M.D.s, who usually follow a cheat sheet clipped next to the screen for anything they need to do. They don't care what the analyzer does, but someone must've recommended the one with embedded Windows when they were planning to buy one.
You mean Matlab isn't a windows application? Just because Excel defaults to opening CSV doesn't mean that's what they intended you to open it in. Matlab will read it perfectly fine with csvread.
Matlab isn't built within the spectroscope. We can do it, but then we lose the warranty. Like you said, csvread(filename, col, row) is the format we use when we use it on offline machine running Suse. The scope was purchased 2 years ago, and I had no say in it. Windows based scope was purchased because thats what ALL the doctors were familiar with.
If we install anything on that machine, it would void the warranty. If we send it to them, it will take a week to get back to us. Its one of those devices we just can't do without even for a single day :( It works fine when sampling time is a few milliseconds at 10K samples/sec or so, but 200MHz for 3 seconds wasn't something they envisioned
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While I agree this is questionable, I don't think they are connected to the internets (at least I hope not). So, the whole virus/worm fear is probably irrational.
There are several monitoring devices that transmit wirelessly from the procedure rooms to control rooms. We use wireless network to transmit blood pressure and heart rate information from MRI scanning room to the control computer. The control computer is connected to the centralized medical records server which is "supposed to be" super secure. But if it is broken into, you can pretty much control the communication with monitoring devices. Hope it doesn't happen.
We have a 350MHz spectroscope in our lab that has embedded XP. Now if we go for few seconds of RF sampling, it writes Time vs Signal values as a CSV file. Now the funny thing is you can't open files with more than 65000 rows in excel and since the spectroscope itself has nothing but windows applications, none of them is capable of displaying the saved samples. You have to transfer the sample data to another computer and open them through Labview or Matlab or some such tool. Why would a spectroscope costing nearly $30,000 be running Windows.
They can even do a better Robot dance than humans when they score.
But it still can't top the feeling of betrayal when I learned that Santa wasn't real.
It wasn't until 2007 that we saw the laptop hard drives hit the 250GB capacity, and they didn't hit the $0.38/GB range until a few months ago. In comparison SSD would be reaching the 250 limit in a much shorter period and as higher capacity drives flood the market, the lower capacity SSD drives would become affordable before you know it.
Oops, I meant "he current LTS expires in April 2011"
"If you switch today, for $120, you can buy 6 years of support with open software and at the end of that we'll give you the next version of the OS (worth $100) for free!"
You can't sell 6 years of tech support when the LTS stops putting out updates and security patches in 3 years. The current LTS expires in April 2008, so charging $120 for just over 2 years of suport makes it as pricey as Vista. Now buying tech support for all the machines in your house/lab at $120 - thats something you can market.
Seeing how some folks are promoting abstinence as an effective means against STDs, development of electricity using photosynthesis won't even make it to the Humour section of newspaper.