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Recently whilst searching the internet, i found a website with a windows dive computer on (more like an underwater laptop). Does anyone know anythign about this and whether its any good oir not? I've looked at one caled a WetPC, as i'm looking for a way of logging dives (which it looks like this can do) and recording video and taking stills...
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself,
and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water
make the deep, deep sea keep you up...
That commercial is too funny. It is also a perfect visual representation of my above comments. Would you trust a Windows computer to keep you alive underwater? If Microsoft started making regulators the dive community would get small very fast, and not because of lack of interest. Dead divers would be popping up like fish after a dynamite explosion!
Hehe, never thought of it like that. Hmm dont think i'd trust a m$ft regulator. What if it ran linux?
Surely it cant be a replacement for existing gear as like you said, if there was a blue screen - you're quite literal buggered. Executive toyy most likely, cool though
I wouldn't trust a Linux dive computer either, and I run a business that does a lot of open source consulting services.
A dive computer should be purposefully designed to provide dive computer functionality. The inclusion of a full Linux kernel (or Win32 Kernel) would be overly complicating a piece of essential gear.
Very true, i guess it shoudl be left to the technical divers then which i presume is who this thing is meant to be aimed towards. Just been looking at the other gear on the same website and it looks pretty complicated stuff, although how awesoime would it be to have a sonar, camera and computer to show you the wayt in murky waters and log videos of all those lovely fish on the barrier reef... ahhh
I don't think you'd find a technical diver diving with one of those things, EVER. Tech divers usually don't trust their life to normal dive computers, let alone complicated bloatware. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that suggesting that they would use Windows on a dive computer would be considered "fightin' words" by most tech divers...
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