Bester - Slashdot User

Comment Re:It should have been phased out... (Score 4, Informative) 460

by Bester on Sunday February 28, 2010 @02:19AM (#31303262) Attached to: Will the Serial Console Ever Die?

Funny, I just walked around my ICU and everything is connected via ethernet. Monitors (philips), ventilators (dragers) and of course the computers (windows). Even the dialysis (prismaflex) machines hook via ethernet.

The ultrasound has an ethernet cable attached as do the image intensifiers. The biochem lab also works over TCP.

Certainly nothing major in the hospital that I work in uses serial connections.

Maybe the older equipment used to use serial but given the amount of data shuttled around I don't think it would be feasible so use serial. Of course I can only draw experience from where I work, other hospitals may be different.

Charles

Comment Re:Still suits next? (Score 5, Insightful) 226

by Bester on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @07:59PM (#28273329) Attached to: Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality

From a quick googling it seems that the reason that water tanks are illegal in the above states is not to do with affecting the local environment but more to do with the fact that it 'deprives' downstream users of their share.

I get the feel from the articles that downstream providers are farmers and not parched wildlife.

Charles

Submission + - High schooler is awarded $100,000 for research

Submitted by wired_LAIN on Friday March 16, 2007 @03:15AM

wired_LAIN writes: A teenager from Oklahoma was awarded $100,000 in the Intel Science Talent Search competition for building an inexpensive and accurate spectrograph that can identify the specific characteristics of different kinds of molecules. While normal spectrographs can cost between $20,000 and 100,000 to build, her spectrograph cost less than $500 dollars. The 40 finalists' projects were judged by a panel of 12 scientists, all well established in their respective fields. Among the judges were Vera Rubin , who proved Dark Matter, and Andrew Yeager, one of the pioneers of stem cell research. My only question is: why aren't these kids given more media coverage?

Enormous Amount of Frozen Water Found on Mars 442

Posted by CowboyNeal on Friday March 16, 2007 @12:50AM from the or-at-least-way-more-than-before dept.

schweini writes "Space.com is reporting that the Mars Express probe's MARSIS (Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding) experiment has detected and measured an enormous amount of water ice near Mars' south pole, which would be sufficient to submerge the whole planet's surface underneath approximately 10m of water on average."

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