You make a good point. But your country has had socialised medicine for decades, and no doubt has resolved the initial problems and has a working system.
Here in the U.S., we are not a socialised state in most regards, and have a healthy (IMHO) suspicion of our government's ability to deliver or manage healthcare without significant waste and abuse. If we continue down this path, I suspect it will be fine. In a few decades. But the debate here is really about what sort of nation we are, and what sort of government we have and should have. We are not a socialist state. If our people decide to change that, there is a process to accomodate that. Our current Administration seems bent on making these changes without actually indulging in the process that would, in my opinion, make it actually legal (constitutional in our vernacular).
This must be an entirely entertaining debate to the rest of the world. Here, it is more important than that. But your assurance is, I assume, that socialised medicine is not necessarily bad. I agree. It's just, IMHO not yet legal in the U.S. We have rules. They are different than yours. That's all. And the natural resistance to change for many of us, though I am not afflicted with that defect in this area.
The Mayor of new York city wants to ban salt from restaurant kitchens on the grounds that his residents' health will improve. As if he has the right to tell them wnat to eat.
Soft drink makers are removing 'sugary' drinks from school vending machines, mostly to head off demands that they provide something 'healthy'.
Insurance companies already charge you more for health insurance if you smoke tobacco. When will they start charging more for obesity, especially if they ask you to lose weight, and you just refuse the request. No defense that you're 'glandular' or that it 'runs in your family'.
Is it too much of a stretch to see our shiny new healthcare system bent under the weight of the inevitable costs, and start looking for ways to avoid and reduce these burdens? When does the government tell you that your rattly old knee will have to do because it is worn due to your excess weight? Or your predeliction for playing softball three nights a week? Or that nasty spill you took at Aspen last winter? Your own damned fault, you know. Shoulda known better.
Likewise, isn't it sensible to not sink a lot of money into someone who is overweight, diabetic, with high cholsterol, if they have had their third heart attack and need quadruple bypass. When does a cost-benefit analysis become acceptable?
And how would the government gather enough information to 'assess' your health risk and cost? Well, they have to start by being able to identify you. Not too hard now, with the SSN. Much easier if just walking into a government healthcare clinic pings your RFID card and you are known. KNOWN.
How long before they just want to 'understand' the data, and ask McDonalds to let them put readers in their stores? Of course they link the data from speed cameras to your license, and then to your ID. After all, chronic speeding has to be a risk factor for more than your wallet.
As a landlord, I get a lot of potential tenants that can't rent from a complex due to a criminal record. DUI is very common, but protective orders due to a divorce are also common. I feel for these people - it doesn't take much to get a record that haunts you everywhere. Just an angry spouse and a sympathetic DA who wants to put an end to domestic violence. You don't even have to be violent.
And how do I avoid renting to illegal immigrants? Well, if they are employed, I verify that their employer did the eVerify thing. If they aren't employed, well, that's tuff. Sorry, I can't yet afford to rent for free.
Granting rights in the U.S. takes more than an Act of Congress.
This misunderstanding is at the root of many of the problems our nation is experiencing, and will yet be the cause of the Second Revolution. Watch and learn.
- China tells Google to play along. Google refuses.
- China tells Google to be nice or ELSE. Google threatens to leave.
- China says 'make my day'. Google serves Chinese queries via google.com.hk.
- China blocks google.com.hk. Google says 'fine, we are done'.
- China blocks all Google enterprises in China, Android phone rollouts are stopped, etc.
- Google rescinds licensing for Android to Chinese manufacturers. Somehow.
- Google fires off a restraint of trade action, gets U.S. Customs to impound all incoming Android phones.
- Chinese manufacturers petition their government (privately) to make nice with Google.
- China stops with the.hk blocking and merely filters.
- Google calls off the dogs.
- All quiet.
Or something like that.
Does Google have a shred of leverage with Android and any other 'products'? Maybe they stop indexing Chinese content for international use? I dunno, but this is as sensible as anything else.
Except that the Chinese may not actually care about the potential impact. And Google may yet lose out somehow. But I'm betting they feel like this is losing something they never actually had. NO loss.
Walking by the men's clothing in the local Wal-Mart yesterday, I stopped to see what the labels said on stuff I would actually want to wear.
Balgladesh.
Pakistan.
If I were in a Macy's or even a Neiman-Marcus, would I find Chinese-made garments there? Yup.
It's not as simple as you think. Wal-Mart is only chasing the cheapest goods and most favorable terms. The 'fashionable' retailers only add fashion to get the shoppers inside the door. Same race to the bottom.
None of which excuses our government for fixing the rules, the corporatists for taking the money and voting with their eyes shut, and the corporations for taking the bait and being hooked.
Or will you excuse Cole-Haan, Tommy Hilfiger, FUBU, Lexington Furniture, the whole bunch for seeking to maximize profits without regard the welfare of their remaining workers?
No, you're just changing the venue. Or the rules, depending on your chosen metaphor.
Nothing is secure. Some are more or less secure, but nothing is absolutely secure.
Now, as an interesting defense, I've taken to opening some sites on my phone. A few behave very, very badly, begging me to visit them with a 'supported' browser. Ha!
I don't want to go to a link for an overview of some cool product, hardware, or process, and get a VIDEO. that I can't skim, can't read quietly at my desk, can't even read at lunch because it is too noisy to hear the soundtrack.
The Web 2.0 is going frakking nuts over features. When do we get the next.com bubble burst so we can get rid of these people?
And this idea has NOTHING TO DO WITH MY PREFERENCES. It has everything to do with tracking my eyeballs and figuring out how to manipulate me even better than they do now.
I know it's retro, but most of the time, when I'm reading something, EFFECTS get in the way. Just give me the text.
And I want it when I want it. Think you can predict when I'm bored? It won't be a hard decision for you if this crap comes to my screen. You'll sense I'm bored about 12 seconds in, and I won't change until I navigate way from your junk.
I have a running dialogue with a webmaster of a celebrity paps site (ok, sue me) about the various bits of malware that are being served up by her various advertisers. This began a few months ago, and it took a while before I figured out they could not be expected to know this was happening. She has tracked down the source of these adverts to an agency that offered her triple the usual rate. Now she knows, among other things, that if it's too good to be true, there is a reason why.
But, she and I have synched clocks so she can know to the few seconds what I got. She has to report back precise details to get her advertisers to figure out what happened, cause most of her direct advertisers are contracting out ads to other agencies, and they sell other ads, and the chain gets long and obscure in no time at all.
So far, she is helpful, but last week I sent her a screenshot of a nasty one installing that 2010 antivirus onto one of my virtual machines, and it turned out to be her oldest and most loyal sponsor, and an entirely legitimate ad that had gotten hijacked on the way to her server. Yup, her server is compromised, and some ads are being re-written on the fly from other sources. Makes sense to me, just another vector. This is not good - even honest webmasters are vulnerable, though she called in a team/favor to fix up her server, which is supposed to be monitored for this stuff. Oh well.
Is there any defense? I'm using VPC2007 to run browsers just to be able to look at the nasty stuff being inflicted on me (not the celebs, thank you) and I can't imagine the fun of doing this from my desktop. Ewww.
When the NYT is being used, we are past blaming the source.
Not to mention the waiting time I see for ad servers. I want the damned content I asked for, thank you, perhaps webmasters need to find a way to ditch slow ads and let us see what we wanted to in the first place, ok? Thanks!
Once you've got a decent engine underneath your game, re-skinning it gives you a chance to sell it over and over and over. And re-selling what you already got is profitable, usually.
Make a few hooks so you can keep adding cool stuff to get past just new uniforms and different buildings, and you've got a franchise-builder. Which is good, cause it usually takes a long time to build a substantially new and improved engine.
Battlefield in the 1942->Vietnam->BF2 progression 'seemed' a lot like that.
I would expect as many game writers can will re-use their engines to make different games. How innovative this is, I dunno. If all you get is new maps, weapon shapes, and flags, woop-de-do.
The Viewsonic product mercifully perished some time ago, so silently I can't find any useful references to its failure. No references to success either.
It was intended to be a remote desktop to a Windows desktop, wandering around on WiFi, delivering you a 10" screen and touted as giving you a 'multimedia experience' as well. All this on that 10" screen at 800x600 resolution, with a stupid pointer and useless speaker.
I further predict here that the tablet revolution will fail and die away. Tablets don't meet our expectations. I'm not saying just the current crop of tablets. I'm saying tablets as tablets.
And I have one. It's just not all that. It's not even any of that.
That won't be as much trouble as you think. If they used a standard table, it will read fine.
Now a lot of larger MFM drives kept a CHS table on their own firmware and used that instead, but a 10 MB model probably did not. That was usually used after about 120MB, when LBA was needed but not supported. And I'm not sure how many >120MB MFM drives there were. Early IDE drives did the same thing, bypassing the BIOS tables. Often with marginal results. At one time, if you weren't careful, you could program your own I/O and let your application talk to the BIOS directly isntead of using the OS (DOS) calls. I supported one such bit of joy that, when it finally had to write to the last block, happily started over from 0. Your next data write started in writing to the partition table. When I figured it out and told the developers, they went past telling me wrong and asked that I be fired. Two days later and half of them weren't answering their phones any more. Someone learned to use Norton Disk Editor real quick. The next version of their app was much slower, but at least it didn't erase your disk.
My first IDE drive was a 30MB or 40MB Seagate ST-138, I think that was the model. There were smaller, HP made them. You can still find them for sale , though other than a collector item I wonder why.
I have an ISA slot in my spare Sempron machine that's about 6 years old or so now. ISA could be found up to about 2 years ago if you strayed off the beaten path.
There will be more trouble getting the drive booted to any new hardware.
Booting this on other hardware is unnecessary and probably won't work. Xenix and SCO Unix were terribly picky about hardware, and usually you had to boot to single-user mode and be ready with driver diskettes. Moving to new hardware was a recipe for lost weekends and lost data.
The HP 97500-60011 or -85600 were 10MB drives. But this could be am MFM drive. Check the connectors. A single IDE connector is obviuously IDE, but if there are two connectors besides power, you are in a different world.
The braking system relies on stopping the blade virtually instantaneously. Some of the math freaks on/. can calculate how long it takes to stop a 10" diameter blade in less than a tooth width, since if it goes a whole tooth after triggering, you got cut. As I understand SawStop, it fires a set of pads that stop the blade by friction. The force is such that these pads fuse to the blade. I suspect the inventor is now working on how to keep that from happening, since good blades are often $60-$100 and sometimes a lot more. How this works with dado blades I dunno. Replacing pads doesn't bother most woodworkers as much as going through blades. I could imagine a system where a brake disc is securly fastened to the blade, and just the disc gets replaced, but there are issues there also. He can have that idea gratris, I hereby license it to the inventor of SawStop for $1.00, payable to his favorite charity.
False triggering has never seemed to be a problem, and I've never read a report though I don't monitor SawStop.
And while there is probably some other way of detecting flesh contacting the blade, so far none of the other manufacturers has disclosed this.
One big reason this case ended in a judgement is probably that Ryobi actually signed up, and then withdrew. Tacit admission that there is SOME merit to the invention. A mistake. Again, to admit this is a working and useful invention would open up other saw makers to a raft of suits from previous injuries. "Knew or should have known" is the most common phrase used in such filings. "Knew" because they sought information on the invention. "Should have known" because they were informed of the invention by the inventor. No easy defense.
That's all I needed to read to understand. While East Texas juries are reknown for their patent infringement jurisprudence, Boston juries never met a victim they didn't love, no matter the circumstances. And they never met a corporation they didn't think deserved to pay out a little cash. No surprise at all here.
The secondary problem is that saw manufacturers are well aware of SawStop technology, but refuse to give it any credence. They both ignore and discreidt it for three reasons:
1) To admit it is effective is to make it desireable for their products, and implicitly state that their products are less safe than they might otherwise be.
2) To actually incorporate it in their products wuld increase prices, possibly to the point that sales could decline. A little.
3) SawStop is expensive - when it is triggered, you get to replace the triggered components AND the saw blade. Yes, please stop the flames, I KNOW IT IS CHEAPER THAN A FINGER OR THUMB. But it will annoy people who have to pay out $100-$200 or more very time they trip it. And many will claim it 'just triggered' and demand refunds and free parts. Witness the Prius fiasco, with at least one likely hoax. Multiply that by thouands. Just saying.
4) Admitting your product is this dangerous will bring out all the past victims demanding compensation. You think asbestos was expensive?
Now, I've seen SawStop demonstrated. It is frighteningly effective. And the testimonials are similarly shocking. Like a school teacher testifying that it saved him and a student's thumb the first semester it was used. I was taught safety as part of everything I did with a table saw, and the demonstration back then was, coincidentally, a hot dog. Boy, does a Delta saw go through hot dogs real good... We understood that our fingers would not be saved. And our teacher failed one kid and sent him to study hall after he violated safety procedures a third time. I know this teacher saved me a finger 25 years later. I might buy a SawStop some day, but I watch what I'm doing, and I don't do enough to become comfortable and lazy. Yet.
SawStop is expensive to use, but the cost of a finger/thumb/whatever makes that a bargain. One most saw users will just not pay. Do you know any long-time woodworkers? How many of them have all their digits? Not 100%, I bet.
But the industry is avoiding this until the patents expire, and then they can incorporate it and charge up the wazoo. IF they can get over the potential liability, the false claims of false triggering to avoid the parts cost, and the inevitable claims for injuries where the victim will say it didn't work.
And you can bypass SawStop on a saw, slice off something, and reconnect it. Niiice. Of course, who leaves blade guards and kickback pawls on anyways...
We are our own worst enemies. And we expect someone else to pay.
That's "dead cat bounce". A term I first heard from the financial industry, referring to a failed company's stock that changes price at the bottom of the range, essentially zero, but these changes are insignificant. As in going from $.05 to $10, a 100% increase, but of course proving the worthlessness of the stock that traded last month for $65 before their CEO went to jail for tax evasion and corporate chicanery. Thieves^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBrokers often use these price changes to sell stock to the unsuspecting fool and others...
'Dead man bounce' would come uncomfortably close to reminding them of the unpleasantness back in 1929. We should be more sensitive, I think... Cats can take care of themselves, and most don't really care about us anyways.
Hmm.. Geos were mostly a joint venture with Toyota, though I can't imagine the Metro was Toyota-anything. But the most Geos sold were actually Corollas. The Focus is one of Ford's 'world cars', so it's hard to call it American but it is as much as it is European. ZX3 gave people in Maine a shock when they found out how expensive tires were; shops claimed they were required to replace the Z-rated OEM tires with replacements of the same rating at $800+ a set. Niiice. So much for an economy car. And early models had a rep for engine problems, largely solved.
The Maxx I drove is based on an Opel chassis, with Saab contributions. Escorts held up well, but are boring to the point of tears. Yup, Neons are pus, along with PTs and such.
The CRX is a classic design, which is as appealing as the durability and MPG. Later Civic hatches are tolerable but Civics in general are overpriced for the used/beater market. A comparable Integra is also a good choice, but getting expensive and hard to find any that weren't riced on.
Saturns are attractive until you factor in the wind-down. After that, most beaters sacrifice MPG for reliability.
Sort of like our relationship with China, and Japan/etc. previously. Cheap goods need cheap labor among other things. And the price we actually pay is lost opportunity, lost capital, and diminished expectations.
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How do you suppose this system might be able to detect the force you use in typing?
Duh?
You make a good point. But your country has had socialised medicine for decades, and no doubt has resolved the initial problems and has a working system.
Here in the U.S., we are not a socialised state in most regards, and have a healthy (IMHO) suspicion of our government's ability to deliver or manage healthcare without significant waste and abuse. If we continue down this path, I suspect it will be fine. In a few decades. But the debate here is really about what sort of nation we are, and what sort of government we have and should have. We are not a socialist state. If our people decide to change that, there is a process to accomodate that. Our current Administration seems bent on making these changes without actually indulging in the process that would, in my opinion, make it actually legal (constitutional in our vernacular).
This must be an entirely entertaining debate to the rest of the world. Here, it is more important than that. But your assurance is, I assume, that socialised medicine is not necessarily bad. I agree. It's just, IMHO not yet legal in the U.S. We have rules. They are different than yours. That's all. And the natural resistance to change for many of us, though I am not afflicted with that defect in this area.
Thanks anyways. Your response is appreciated!
The Mayor of new York city wants to ban salt from restaurant kitchens on the grounds that his residents' health will improve. As if he has the right to tell them wnat to eat.
Soft drink makers are removing 'sugary' drinks from school vending machines, mostly to head off demands that they provide something 'healthy'.
Insurance companies already charge you more for health insurance if you smoke tobacco. When will they start charging more for obesity, especially if they ask you to lose weight, and you just refuse the request. No defense that you're 'glandular' or that it 'runs in your family'.
Is it too much of a stretch to see our shiny new healthcare system bent under the weight of the inevitable costs, and start looking for ways to avoid and reduce these burdens? When does the government tell you that your rattly old knee will have to do because it is worn due to your excess weight? Or your predeliction for playing softball three nights a week? Or that nasty spill you took at Aspen last winter? Your own damned fault, you know. Shoulda known better.
Likewise, isn't it sensible to not sink a lot of money into someone who is overweight, diabetic, with high cholsterol, if they have had their third heart attack and need quadruple bypass. When does a cost-benefit analysis become acceptable?
And how would the government gather enough information to 'assess' your health risk and cost? Well, they have to start by being able to identify you. Not too hard now, with the SSN. Much easier if just walking into a government healthcare clinic pings your RFID card and you are known. KNOWN.
How long before they just want to 'understand' the data, and ask McDonalds to let them put readers in their stores? Of course they link the data from speed cameras to your license, and then to your ID. After all, chronic speeding has to be a risk factor for more than your wallet.
As a landlord, I get a lot of potential tenants that can't rent from a complex due to a criminal record. DUI is very common, but protective orders due to a divorce are also common. I feel for these people - it doesn't take much to get a record that haunts you everywhere. Just an angry spouse and a sympathetic DA who wants to put an end to domestic violence. You don't even have to be violent.
And how do I avoid renting to illegal immigrants? Well, if they are employed, I verify that their employer did the eVerify thing. If they aren't employed, well, that's tuff. Sorry, I can't yet afford to rent for free.
"You just got the right to healthcare"
No, we just got the bill.
Granting rights in the U.S. takes more than an Act of Congress.
This misunderstanding is at the root of many of the problems our nation is experiencing, and will yet be the cause of the Second Revolution. Watch and learn.
- China tells Google to play along. Google refuses.
- China tells Google to be nice or ELSE. Google threatens to leave.
- China says 'make my day'. Google serves Chinese queries via google.com.hk.
- China blocks google.com.hk. Google says 'fine, we are done'.
- China blocks all Google enterprises in China, Android phone rollouts are stopped, etc.
- Google rescinds licensing for Android to Chinese manufacturers. Somehow.
- Google fires off a restraint of trade action, gets U.S. Customs to impound all incoming Android phones.
- Chinese manufacturers petition their government (privately) to make nice with Google.
- China stops with the .hk blocking and merely filters.
- Google calls off the dogs.
- All quiet.
Or something like that.
Does Google have a shred of leverage with Android and any other 'products'? Maybe they stop indexing Chinese content for international use? I dunno, but this is as sensible as anything else.
Except that the Chinese may not actually care about the potential impact. And Google may yet lose out somehow. But I'm betting they feel like this is losing something they never actually had. NO loss.
Walking by the men's clothing in the local Wal-Mart yesterday, I stopped to see what the labels said on stuff I would actually want to wear.
Balgladesh.
Pakistan.
If I were in a Macy's or even a Neiman-Marcus, would I find Chinese-made garments there? Yup.
It's not as simple as you think. Wal-Mart is only chasing the cheapest goods and most favorable terms. The 'fashionable' retailers only add fashion to get the shoppers inside the door. Same race to the bottom.
None of which excuses our government for fixing the rules, the corporatists for taking the money and voting with their eyes shut, and the corporations for taking the bait and being hooked.
Or will you excuse Cole-Haan, Tommy Hilfiger, FUBU, Lexington Furniture, the whole bunch for seeking to maximize profits without regard the welfare of their remaining workers?
Pah.
No, you're just changing the venue. Or the rules, depending on your chosen metaphor.
Nothing is secure. Some are more or less secure, but nothing is absolutely secure.
Now, as an interesting defense, I've taken to opening some sites on my phone. A few behave very, very badly, begging me to visit them with a 'supported' browser. Ha!
I want the text. The FRAKKING TEXT. Please.
I don't want to go to a link for an overview of some cool product, hardware, or process, and get a VIDEO. that I can't skim, can't read quietly at my desk, can't even read at lunch because it is too noisy to hear the soundtrack.
The Web 2.0 is going frakking nuts over features. When do we get the next .com bubble burst so we can get rid of these people?
And this idea has NOTHING TO DO WITH MY PREFERENCES. It has everything to do with tracking my eyeballs and figuring out how to manipulate me even better than they do now.
I know it's retro, but most of the time, when I'm reading something, EFFECTS get in the way. Just give me the text.
And I want it when I want it. Think you can predict when I'm bored? It won't be a hard decision for you if this crap comes to my screen. You'll sense I'm bored about 12 seconds in, and I won't change until I navigate way from your junk.
Arrghhh.
Like when Toshiba allegedly announced a safe, small 'neighborhood reactor'?
Or was it actually true? Hard to say...
It's either a breakthrough, or just another story. At least TerraPower seems to be real, even if they also want to try Thorium.
There, the second swing connects... Missed the preview button the first time.
Like when Toshiba allegedly announced a safe, small 'neighborhood reactor'?
Or was it actually true? A, a href="http://thinktech.honadvblogs.com/2009/12/15/the-new-high-tech-toshiba-micro-reactor/>Hard to say...
It's either a breakthrough, or just another story. At least TerraPower seems to be real, even if they also want to try Thorium.
I have a running dialogue with a webmaster of a celebrity paps site (ok, sue me) about the various bits of malware that are being served up by her various advertisers. This began a few months ago, and it took a while before I figured out they could not be expected to know this was happening. She has tracked down the source of these adverts to an agency that offered her triple the usual rate. Now she knows, among other things, that if it's too good to be true, there is a reason why.
But, she and I have synched clocks so she can know to the few seconds what I got. She has to report back precise details to get her advertisers to figure out what happened, cause most of her direct advertisers are contracting out ads to other agencies, and they sell other ads, and the chain gets long and obscure in no time at all.
So far, she is helpful, but last week I sent her a screenshot of a nasty one installing that 2010 antivirus onto one of my virtual machines, and it turned out to be her oldest and most loyal sponsor, and an entirely legitimate ad that had gotten hijacked on the way to her server. Yup, her server is compromised, and some ads are being re-written on the fly from other sources. Makes sense to me, just another vector. This is not good - even honest webmasters are vulnerable, though she called in a team/favor to fix up her server, which is supposed to be monitored for this stuff. Oh well.
Is there any defense? I'm using VPC2007 to run browsers just to be able to look at the nasty stuff being inflicted on me (not the celebs, thank you) and I can't imagine the fun of doing this from my desktop. Ewww.
When the NYT is being used, we are past blaming the source.
Not to mention the waiting time I see for ad servers. I want the damned content I asked for, thank you, perhaps webmasters need to find a way to ditch slow ads and let us see what we wanted to in the first place, ok? Thanks!
Once you've got a decent engine underneath your game, re-skinning it gives you a chance to sell it over and over and over. And re-selling what you already got is profitable, usually.
Make a few hooks so you can keep adding cool stuff to get past just new uniforms and different buildings, and you've got a franchise-builder. Which is good, cause it usually takes a long time to build a substantially new and improved engine.
Battlefield in the 1942->Vietnam->BF2 progression 'seemed' a lot like that.
I would expect as many game writers can will re-use their engines to make different games. How innovative this is, I dunno. If all you get is new maps, weapon shapes, and flags, woop-de-do.
The Viewsonic product mercifully perished some time ago, so silently I can't find any useful references to its failure. No references to success either.
It was intended to be a remote desktop to a Windows desktop, wandering around on WiFi, delivering you a 10" screen and touted as giving you a 'multimedia experience' as well. All this on that 10" screen at 800x600 resolution, with a stupid pointer and useless speaker.
I further predict here that the tablet revolution will fail and die away. Tablets don't meet our expectations. I'm not saying just the current crop of tablets. I'm saying tablets as tablets.
And I have one. It's just not all that. It's not even any of that.
That won't be as much trouble as you think. If they used a standard table, it will read fine.
Now a lot of larger MFM drives kept a CHS table on their own firmware and used that instead, but a 10 MB model probably did not. That was usually used after about 120MB, when LBA was needed but not supported. And I'm not sure how many >120MB MFM drives there were. Early IDE drives did the same thing, bypassing the BIOS tables. Often with marginal results. At one time, if you weren't careful, you could program your own I/O and let your application talk to the BIOS directly isntead of using the OS (DOS) calls. I supported one such bit of joy that, when it finally had to write to the last block, happily started over from 0. Your next data write started in writing to the partition table. When I figured it out and told the developers, they went past telling me wrong and asked that I be fired. Two days later and half of them weren't answering their phones any more. Someone learned to use Norton Disk Editor real quick. The next version of their app was much slower, but at least it didn't erase your disk.
My first IDE drive was a 30MB or 40MB Seagate ST-138, I think that was the model. There were smaller, HP made them. You can still find them for sale , though other than a collector item I wonder why.
I have an ISA slot in my spare Sempron machine that's about 6 years old or so now. ISA could be found up to about 2 years ago if you strayed off the beaten path.
There will be more trouble getting the drive booted to any new hardware.
Booting this on other hardware is unnecessary and probably won't work. Xenix and SCO Unix were terribly picky about hardware, and usually you had to boot to single-user mode and be ready with driver diskettes. Moving to new hardware was a recipe for lost weekends and lost data.
The HP 97500-60011 or -85600 were 10MB drives. But this could be am MFM drive. Check the connectors. A single IDE connector is obviuously IDE, but if there are two connectors besides power, you are in a different world.
If it's running, UUCP everything off of it. ASAP.
The braking system relies on stopping the blade virtually instantaneously. Some of the math freaks on /. can calculate how long it takes to stop a 10" diameter blade in less than a tooth width, since if it goes a whole tooth after triggering, you got cut. As I understand SawStop, it fires a set of pads that stop the blade by friction. The force is such that these pads fuse to the blade. I suspect the inventor is now working on how to keep that from happening, since good blades are often $60-$100 and sometimes a lot more. How this works with dado blades I dunno. Replacing pads doesn't bother most woodworkers as much as going through blades. I could imagine a system where a brake disc is securly fastened to the blade, and just the disc gets replaced, but there are issues there also. He can have that idea gratris, I hereby license it to the inventor of SawStop for $1.00, payable to his favorite charity.
False triggering has never seemed to be a problem, and I've never read a report though I don't monitor SawStop.
And while there is probably some other way of detecting flesh contacting the blade, so far none of the other manufacturers has disclosed this.
One big reason this case ended in a judgement is probably that Ryobi actually signed up, and then withdrew. Tacit admission that there is SOME merit to the invention. A mistake. Again, to admit this is a working and useful invention would open up other saw makers to a raft of suits from previous injuries. "Knew or should have known" is the most common phrase used in such filings. "Knew" because they sought information on the invention. "Should have known" because they were informed of the invention by the inventor. No easy defense.
It might cost anywhere from $5,000 to $20,000 to reattach a severed digit.
Now, to actually make it WORK, that is sometimes impossible.
Your cost/benefit analysis for having all your digits vs. having just one useless thumb?
It is ALWAYS cheaper to avoid the injury when it comes to table saws.
"Last week, a Boston jury ..."
That's all I needed to read to understand. While East Texas juries are reknown for their patent infringement jurisprudence, Boston juries never met a victim they didn't love, no matter the circumstances. And they never met a corporation they didn't think deserved to pay out a little cash. No surprise at all here.
The secondary problem is that saw manufacturers are well aware of SawStop technology, but refuse to give it any credence. They both ignore and discreidt it for three reasons:
1) To admit it is effective is to make it desireable for their products, and implicitly state that their products are less safe than they might otherwise be.
2) To actually incorporate it in their products wuld increase prices, possibly to the point that sales could decline. A little.
3) SawStop is expensive - when it is triggered, you get to replace the triggered components AND the saw blade. Yes, please stop the flames, I KNOW IT IS CHEAPER THAN A FINGER OR THUMB. But it will annoy people who have to pay out $100-$200 or more very time they trip it. And many will claim it 'just triggered' and demand refunds and free parts. Witness the Prius fiasco, with at least one likely hoax. Multiply that by thouands. Just saying.
4) Admitting your product is this dangerous will bring out all the past victims demanding compensation. You think asbestos was expensive?
Now, I've seen SawStop demonstrated. It is frighteningly effective. And the testimonials are similarly shocking. Like a school teacher testifying that it saved him and a student's thumb the first semester it was used. I was taught safety as part of everything I did with a table saw, and the demonstration back then was, coincidentally, a hot dog. Boy, does a Delta saw go through hot dogs real good... We understood that our fingers would not be saved. And our teacher failed one kid and sent him to study hall after he violated safety procedures a third time. I know this teacher saved me a finger 25 years later. I might buy a SawStop some day, but I watch what I'm doing, and I don't do enough to become comfortable and lazy. Yet.
SawStop is expensive to use, but the cost of a finger/thumb/whatever makes that a bargain. One most saw users will just not pay. Do you know any long-time woodworkers? How many of them have all their digits? Not 100%, I bet.
But the industry is avoiding this until the patents expire, and then they can incorporate it and charge up the wazoo. IF they can get over the potential liability, the false claims of false triggering to avoid the parts cost, and the inevitable claims for injuries where the victim will say it didn't work.
And you can bypass SawStop on a saw, slice off something, and reconnect it. Niiice. Of course, who leaves blade guards and kickback pawls on anyways...
We are our own worst enemies. And we expect someone else to pay.
They won't jump. They still have lawyers, and other people's money.
When the money is gone, then they jump. The lawyers usually leave when the money's gone.
Usually.
They aren't going to jump. They still have more lawyers, and other people's money, to use.
When the money is gone, then they jump. And the lawyers leave when the money is gone. Usually.
That's "dead cat bounce". A term I first heard from the financial industry, referring to a failed company's stock that changes price at the bottom of the range, essentially zero, but these changes are insignificant. As in going from $.05 to $10, a 100% increase, but of course proving the worthlessness of the stock that traded last month for $65 before their CEO went to jail for tax evasion and corporate chicanery. Thieves^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBrokers often use these price changes to sell stock to the unsuspecting fool and others...
'Dead man bounce' would come uncomfortably close to reminding them of the unpleasantness back in 1929. We should be more sensitive, I think... Cats can take care of themselves, and most don't really care about us anyways.
Hmm.. Geos were mostly a joint venture with Toyota, though I can't imagine the Metro was Toyota-anything. But the most Geos sold were actually Corollas. The Focus is one of Ford's 'world cars', so it's hard to call it American but it is as much as it is European. ZX3 gave people in Maine a shock when they found out how expensive tires were; shops claimed they were required to replace the Z-rated OEM tires with replacements of the same rating at $800+ a set. Niiice. So much for an economy car. And early models had a rep for engine problems, largely solved.
The Maxx I drove is based on an Opel chassis, with Saab contributions. Escorts held up well, but are boring to the point of tears. Yup, Neons are pus, along with PTs and such.
The CRX is a classic design, which is as appealing as the durability and MPG. Later Civic hatches are tolerable but Civics in general are overpriced for the used/beater market. A comparable Integra is also a good choice, but getting expensive and hard to find any that weren't riced on.
Saturns are attractive until you factor in the wind-down. After that, most beaters sacrifice MPG for reliability.
Ack.
I have enough trouble keeping track of my data now. So my quantum computer will have my data in multiple states? I have to look in how many places?
Sheesh.
Sort of like our relationship with China, and Japan/etc. previously. Cheap goods need cheap labor among other things. And the price we actually pay is lost opportunity, lost capital, and diminished expectations.
Except for the cheap stuff, of course.