Hubby has an assignment for his English class. He has to "invent" something and write a report on it. Being new parents, we came up with software that will tell you what your baby needs when it cries. Lol. It doesn’t have to be realistic, it’s kind of a fun project, I think. Anyway, it will be a baby outfit that will hook up to the computer through a USB. Once the baby begins to cry you just hook up the outfit(with baby in it) to the computer and run the software…it will then run a complete diagnostics test on the baby and let you know why the baby is crying and what you need to do to make baby happy again. This is the outline we came up with…
INTRODUCTION
I. Relate to audience
A. Talk about my experiences with my child
B. Discuss others who have had the same experiences
II. Describe the product I am inventing
A. Software
B. Hardware

BODY
I. Statistics of misinterpretations of baby’s needs
A. Common misinterpretations
II. Describing the software
A. How it works
B. Instructions for use
III. Describing the hardware
A. How it works
B. Instructions for use
IV. Advantages/Disadvantages
A. Advantages
B. Disadvantages
V. Businesses most likely to use product
A. Daycares
B. Foster Homes
C. Social Services

CONCLUSION

We are having a hard time finding the statistics of misinterpretations of baby’s needs…I guess what we were going for here was to see how many parents misinterpret their childs cry from time to time, I’m really not sure. I don’t think we thought it through too well. Any suggestions for where we can find something like that? We have to show our research if we are stating facts so I need the source. We can change it too if you have any other ideas. Actually, any ideas or suggestions you have for the entire project are more than welcome. I’m actually having fun with this:) Thanks!

My computer won’t boot, it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. It will not give me the option for safe mode when holding F8. I’ve ran the diagnostics test fully and everything passes. So I assume it’s a software problem. I could reformat the computer but I don’t want to lose my data. Any ideas how to transfer the data if it comes down to it?

I have a different video camera that I connected to the computer with the same cable, and the computer would not recognize that camcorder either. However, I have connected both camcorders to my VCR with the same firewire cable and had no problems. I also connected the other camcorder to another computer with the same firewire cable and had no problems. Therefore, I believe it's the computer, either the port itself or the software. I called Dell and they said walked me through a diagnostics test and they said it wasn't the firewire PORT, but it was a software issue…I have connected this DV camera to this computer before, so I know it'll work, but I don't know what seems to be blocking it. Any suggestions?