Each drive has its own microprocessor, plus a Xilinx field-programmable gate array chip with a scaled-down database program burned into its circuits.
"Probably, it was on the wrong track from the beginning". With costs hitting the $44-million 44-millionaid he pulled the plug markhe ago and believesaidat the depulledntheow can embark on a drastically scaled-down plugramonths involves purchagong off-the-shelf computer softwand.
A scaled-down program called Constellation was begun, but that was canceled by President Obama after it, too, became expensive.
Vetter decided he couldn't abide the scaled-down program and began to shop his -- and his players' -- services elsewhere.
Instead, Mr. Schickele decided to present a greatly scaled-down program at a much smaller concert hall, Symphony Space, for two performances, Wednesday and yesterday.
But many schools use a scaled-down version of the program.
They instead switched to a business model in which a scaled-down version of their program can be purchased by any school district.
The Denver City Council approved $1 million, plus $180,000 in administrative costs, for a scaled-down version of the program last July that would serve just 125 households.
"Kiddie care," she called the scaled-down plan, derisively, in private.
Participation in the scaled-down plan is also uncertain.
Walter Bender, the executive director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose opinion was solicited by the Brazilian government, replied in a recent letter that "high-quality free software" has proved more effective in stimulating computer use among the poor than scaled-down versions of proprietary software.
