I recently purchased a ThinkPad X61 Tablet, one of their latest models, and it still has the IBM branding. My ThinkPad 600 (9 years old!) still runs the same as new, except the battery died a long time ago, but that's to be expected for any battery-powered device manufactured in 1998. As I understand the situation, the majority of engineers in the ThinkPad division stayed onboard after the Lenovo split. I have nothing but great opinions of my new ThinkPad and would recommend one to anyone purchasing a new notebook.
Obviously everything needs to get power from somewhere, but there are advantages to using a contact-less power transfer method. The amount of power required by the MRI (not EEG, I must have been half asleep) is far too much to draw from a battery also mounted in the moving head mechanism. In this case the only alternative is to deal with long coiled cables, which is not only a pain but a large safety concern. An interesting characteristic of my transformer is that the primary is one large single turn (48 inches in diameter!) and the secondary is inside the moving head, along with the MRI scanner (similar to a toothbrush/shaver). The scanner then "drives" itself around the ring, circling the patient, receiving power by induction the entire time.
(I'm not being disagreeable, but I think we were discussing different points earlier)
Wiring harness? The point is that there is no wiring harness. Another application would be moving head nightclub lights, which are currently limited to about 540 degrees of rotation. How cool would it be to have a light that can spin forever on multiple axes?
What if you have a camera or scanner that needs to travel in a circle around an object of interest? As an example, my power electronics lab is currently creating just such a device for an EEG scanner that must circle travel 360 degrees around the patient. Doesn't seem so cheesy to me...
Thanks for the input--these software packages are excellent for professionals, but I don't know many people with that kind of money to drop on music as a hobby... $399 for kontakt 2, $599 for gigastudio 3.0, and $10,990 for symphonic cube! Of course to someone who is already set on Photoshop, Logic, and MS Office, money might be a moot point. For a techie on the cheap though, Linux can't be beat.
If you have any computer skills and really enjoy composing music then linux is at least as good a choice as windows. For starters, you chould checkout Rosegarden ("the closest native equivalent to Cubase® for Linux" according to Sound on Sound). If you prefer a lower-level solution then give ChucK a try. Or maybe you want a compromise of the two, perhaps similar to Max/MSP with a block diagrams interface? Look at Pure Data or jMax
If those don't tickle your fancy then maybe you should take a look at the list of Software Sound Synthesis & Music Composition Packages available for linux! Oh, and if you're completely new to linux then Ubuntu Studio offers a baby spoon-fed approach to creating a linux digital audio workstation (the project is still in its infancy, but it looks promising).
TFA states that MTI has arrangements with Gillette (who owns Duracell), which "is helping MTI Micro create a retail and distribution business for a market in disposable fuel cells." They also claim the market could demand up to 80 million units annually.
I've heard plenty about fuel cell cartridges while working in the power electronics research industry, but have yet to see any prototypes until your post inspired me to search. DMFCC has a photo on their home page of their prototype fuel cell cartridges, and judging from the style of container they could be fairly interchangeable.
In the end consumers will be at the mercy of decisions made by these large corporations, so one can only hope that standards will fall into place before too long.
So we no longer have to deal with an easily navigable touchscreen kiosk, we get to deal with something that exhibits emotion--I wonder if that includes confusion... It's also interesting that the capabilities include "reading to children" (as if video games aren't sufficient caretakers)
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actually Adderall contains dextroamphetamine, which is quite different from methamphetamine.
thanks for playing though!
welcome to offshore wind turbine generators
this is correct, it is intended for phase adjustment caused by a fast change in impedance
you're assuming nobody would go into the business of recharging electric vehicles?
obviously you wouldn't offer energy for sale the night before a long trip
+1 hilarious!
I recently purchased a ThinkPad X61 Tablet, one of their latest models, and it still has the IBM branding. My ThinkPad 600 (9 years old!) still runs the same as new, except the battery died a long time ago, but that's to be expected for any battery-powered device manufactured in 1998. As I understand the situation, the majority of engineers in the ThinkPad division stayed onboard after the Lenovo split. I have nothing but great opinions of my new ThinkPad and would recommend one to anyone purchasing a new notebook.
why can't I mod this +2 sad-but-true?
this reminds me of Snow Crash... I like =)
Obviously everything needs to get power from somewhere, but there are advantages to using a contact-less power transfer method. The amount of power required by the MRI (not EEG, I must have been half asleep) is far too much to draw from a battery also mounted in the moving head mechanism. In this case the only alternative is to deal with long coiled cables, which is not only a pain but a large safety concern. An interesting characteristic of my transformer is that the primary is one large single turn (48 inches in diameter!) and the secondary is inside the moving head, along with the MRI scanner (similar to a toothbrush/shaver). The scanner then "drives" itself around the ring, circling the patient, receiving power by induction the entire time. (I'm not being disagreeable, but I think we were discussing different points earlier)
Wiring harness? The point is that there is no wiring harness. Another application would be moving head nightclub lights, which are currently limited to about 540 degrees of rotation. How cool would it be to have a light that can spin forever on multiple axes?
a finger has no neural tissue, unlike a human embryo after 8 weeks
What if you have a camera or scanner that needs to travel in a circle around an object of interest? As an example, my power electronics lab is currently creating just such a device for an EEG scanner that must circle travel 360 degrees around the patient. Doesn't seem so cheesy to me...
it could be the xbox 360 times 100: the xbox 36000! but I think a 1.1 multiplier is more realistic... yeah, the xbox 396 sounds about right
Thanks for the input--these software packages are excellent for professionals, but I don't know many people with that kind of money to drop on music as a hobby... $399 for kontakt 2, $599 for gigastudio 3.0, and $10,990 for symphonic cube! Of course to someone who is already set on Photoshop, Logic, and MS Office, money might be a moot point. For a techie on the cheap though, Linux can't be beat.
because I don't have one (but I had to say it)
If you have any computer skills and really enjoy composing music then linux is at least as good a choice as windows. For starters, you chould checkout Rosegarden ("the closest native equivalent to Cubase® for Linux" according to Sound on Sound). If you prefer a lower-level solution then give ChucK a try. Or maybe you want a compromise of the two, perhaps similar to Max/MSP with a block diagrams interface? Look at Pure Data or jMax
If those don't tickle your fancy then maybe you should take a look at the list of Software Sound Synthesis & Music Composition Packages available for linux! Oh, and if you're completely new to linux then Ubuntu Studio offers a baby spoon-fed approach to creating a linux digital audio workstation (the project is still in its infancy, but it looks promising).
I'm intrigued by the prominence of "blah"... maybe Bill is borrowing George W's approach of deliberately dumbing down the audience
how did everyone else miss the [obligatory] underpants gnome reference?
You have raised an EXCELLENT point!
TFA states that MTI has arrangements with Gillette (who owns Duracell), which "is helping MTI Micro create a retail and distribution business for a market in disposable fuel cells." They also claim the market could demand up to 80 million units annually.
I've heard plenty about fuel cell cartridges while working in the power electronics research industry, but have yet to see any prototypes until your post inspired me to search. DMFCC has a photo on their home page of their prototype fuel cell cartridges, and judging from the style of container they could be fairly interchangeable.
In the end consumers will be at the mercy of decisions made by these large corporations, so one can only hope that standards will fall into place before too long.
So we no longer have to deal with an easily navigable touchscreen kiosk, we get to deal with something that exhibits emotion--I wonder if that includes confusion... It's also interesting that the capabilities include "reading to children" (as if video games aren't sufficient caretakers)