He said they COULD require a request be submitted via mail and povide self addressed envelope and costs, but they choose not to and will honor requests on a case by case basis.
I know the trendy thing on slashdot now is to bash NVIDIA, but at least RTFA he links to. They benchmark Counterstrike of all games. That has so little to do with new games being released and how pixel sharder performance is etc that its laughable.
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This is truly the problem of the linux crowd. Here is someone asking about linux and open minded. And the response "Hah we know and if you have to ask then that just shows what kind of person you are."
I tried out the previous release of the bootable knoppix and found it incredibly cool. But really, WHAT are the uses for this? or cluster knoppix that we should try or be interested? The only use i have for it is as a bootable cd in case my main os installation is trashed and I need to retrieve some files right away.
You HAVE to SELL the idea to people and not just <neovoice> Whoooaaa, coool dude.
In one test NVDA performance sucked and they cheated in their drivers to make it look similar to what their performance is on other tests.
In Doom ]|[, the most advanced graphics game out there currently, NVDA smokes ATI. On test equipment that NVDA only provided the card.
Am I going to "play" 3DMark or am I going to play DOOM 3. For all of you who will be playing 3DMark more than doom, go ahead and get the ATI card. I'll make my decision based upon the stellar DOOM 3 performance.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your comments, but after reading that article and looking at the results, NVIDIAs card creams the competition with over 50% performence leads in higher resolutions. It would be more accurate to say that doom3 kills ati's card if you make a statement like that.
you state: "3. A NV20 (GeForce 3) will be able to run Doom3 at 30FPS with max detail at 1024x768. It's a single-player game as well, so 60FPS+ isn't that big of a concern. With R300/350/NV30/35, you'll be able to get much higher framerates and use of anisotropic filtering and antialiasing. BUT, the game will be playable on a GF3."
Where is your proof for this??? I think it has been clearly stated that GF4 was the system that would run it good while GFFX was the best option. GF3 will only run it in scaled down mode and definitely not high quality 30 fps 1024 mode!
The reason you were "so close to that number it wasy scary" is because its science and not just a guess!!!! In one lb of fat there are 3500 calories. Pure science. Go back to happily losing weight now =)
Am I the only one that caught the Time Bandits reference???? What a wonderful movie. I remember watching this when I was young. My parents were like "this is a stupid movie". I thought it was cool though =)
Coumadin (warfarin) does not cause thickening of the blood. Why one uses heparin or a low molecular weight heparin is to provide near instantaneous anticoagulation. Coumadin takes anywhere from 48-72 hours to see the full effect of the first dose usually. So if you start taking 5 mg of coumadin on day 1 and take it every day, you are still seeing the effects of the first days dose on day 3-4 as the INR keeps rising. Once you reach therapeutic levels (INR 2.0-2.5) you can discontinue the LMW heparin.
3-500 dollars today for a card that will be severely outclassed by a card in a few months. There are no new games that demand a card this instant. I personally plan on buying a new computer and geforce fx when doom3 comes out. Unless you have to buy a new system in the next 3 months why not wait?
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken in saying that the feedback of hammers hitting the strings cannot be reproduced. While I might be healthcare, i also play classical music on the piano, and for 2500 you can get a digital piano that has as good if not better feedback as your standard uprights in the same price range. Granted a grand piano is better, but what percentage of people are able to afford a 15k to 20k grand piano?. A digital piano such as a korg for instance never requires tuning, has excellent feed back and record and play back. I suppose you may have been talking just about synths that have keys but no feed back, but i wanted to respond to the misconeption that you can't get great feed back with digital.
Carlcmc asks: "I have been trying to become more learned on the issues surrounding knife control and crime. I have had quite a time searching the internet for references about these issues. Practically everything that I have found has been written for, or is a study funded by, one of the groups that hold extreme viewpoints on the subject, e.g. the NKA or the Brady Foundation. The same holds true for references that I have found in our library. I was wondering if any of the members of the slashdot community have come across articles that are objective in dealing with these subjects, and I would also ask what ideas the members of this community have about this issue and what FACTS they can offer to support their ideas."
"Just so everyone knows where I stand, and why I am asking this, I offer the following. I enjoy knifes and regularly compete in knifing matches and hunt occasionally. I am a member of the NKA, not for political reasons, but due to the fact that most competitions are closed to non-members (which I do think is screwed up). Having said this I am undecided on what a logical path for the future is. I do believe that an unarmed nation is a bad idea, but as Michael Moore pointed out in 'Bowling for Columbine' Canada has a much higher per capita knife ownership rate compared to the US and has nowhere near the amount of violent crime that the US has. All of the statistics that I have seen about countries that have altogether outlawed knifes have been manipulated by those extreme groups. As such I find it hard to believe anything that either side presents.
Thanks, I look forward to reading all of your comments and the references that you provide."
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slashdot is regularly getting trafic from google. Being both a reader of slashdot and news.google.com, i found it funny that when i was perusing the science news on google the top level link for the "earth as art" story went to slashdot.org.
I'm on staff in the Urology division at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Mn. (www.mayo.edu www.mayoclinic.org and www.mayoclinic.com). We have one these da Vinci's and we use it for partial and total nephrectomies (removal of the kidney) and other various urological related surgeries.
In no way is this a "robot" it is a motion transference device. It reproduces your motions with multipliers applied to them (either greater than or less than 1 multiplier) for increasing or decrease the distance traveled of the instrument. It is progress when compared to plain laparoscopy because you are no longer as limited to the angles and degree of freedom.
that most of the online world detests to play with. The one that get a case of potty mouth and spews profanities when the rest of us are playing to HAVE FUN and RELAX. It is their service. You don't have to sign up for it, if you do, its under their conditions. Grow up and act like a 23 year old instead of a 13 "young boy".
sheesh, it feels good to flame someone for being retarded.
By the time it reaches anywhere CLOSE to earth's orbit you will not have a snowball's chance in orbit around the sun to survive. Gravitaitonal force will not be strong enough to deflect an asteroid as it approaches the earth.
What is the chance that you'll have an archaic CD-ROM drive in your computer to read it????
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I'm on staff in the Urology division at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Mayo has some information on the web regarding prostate cancer. I would discourage anyone here from trying to influence someone to have their prostate removed via a robot (i.e.da Vinci) for several more years.
Here at Mayo, we have performed the most RRP's (radical retropubic prostatectomies) than anywhere in the world. We have the largest database of patients that have had them out. So we have some authority to make these recommendations. It was not 1 month ago that the chair of the department, another surgeon and I were discussing this and the conclusion was that for the next year or two we can't offer prostatectomy removal by da vinci and offer the same low degree of complications as you can offer with RRP.
In prostate removal, the primary goal is removavl of the cancer. Secondary goals are preservation of quality of life such as 1)continence - the ability to control your urine and 2)erections - preservation of the nerve pathways at time of surgery. Since the nerve pathways run past the seminal vesicles directly next to the prostate it requires delicate excision to preserve these. You won't enjoy the same success statistics for quality of life if you have your prostate removed by robot right now.
IF... someone can get in undetected and hook up a dreamcast in a few minutes, your security has already been breached. If your company has something it doesn't want people to access without authorization on the computer, they should have at least the same security focus for the building.
With that in mind, when was the last time you walked into your company in non-work clothes, you knew where you were going, and walked confidently there and no one stopped and questioned you? I wear a name tag and go there every day, but in my shorts and tshirt with no name tag, I'm never stopped. I think thats the way it is in many places.
to quote: "Because the traditional modem is being replaced by more modern technologies, such as DSL, a network card is pretty much indispensable these days. However, a single interface is only sufficient if the PC is to be connected to either the Internet or a a local network, but not both. If you need to connect the PC to both, then you definitely need a second port."
for a home with more than one computer with a cable modem this makes perfect sense. For a couple dollars more, it would be stupid not to...
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Where do i find the cD dRIVE in arcade machines? I want to run this emulator on them but i'M having trouble finding the tray?
He said they COULD require a request be submitted via mail and povide self addressed envelope and costs, but they choose not to and will honor requests on a case by case basis.
I know the trendy thing on slashdot now is to bash NVIDIA, but at least RTFA he links to. They benchmark Counterstrike of all games. That has so little to do with new games being released and how pixel sharder performance is etc that its laughable.
This is truly the problem of the linux crowd. Here is someone asking about linux and open minded. And the response "Hah we know and if you have to ask then that just shows what kind of person you are."
I tried out the previous release of the bootable knoppix and found it incredibly cool. But really, WHAT are the uses for this? or cluster knoppix that we should try or be interested? The only use i have for it is as a bootable cd in case my main os installation is trashed and I need to retrieve some files right away.
You HAVE to SELL the idea to people and not just <neovoice> Whoooaaa, coool dude.
In Doom ]|[, the most advanced graphics game out there currently, NVDA smokes ATI. On test equipment that NVDA only provided the card.
Am I going to "play" 3DMark or am I going to play DOOM 3. For all of you who will be playing 3DMark more than doom, go ahead and get the ATI card. I'll make my decision based upon the stellar DOOM 3 performance.
Perhaps I'm misinterpreting your comments, but after reading that article and looking at the results, NVIDIAs card creams the competition with over 50% performence leads in higher resolutions. It would be more accurate to say that doom3 kills ati's card if you make a statement like that.
you state: "3. A NV20 (GeForce 3) will be able to run Doom3 at 30FPS with max detail at 1024x768. It's a single-player game as well, so 60FPS+ isn't that big of a concern. With R300/350/NV30/35, you'll be able to get much higher framerates and use of anisotropic filtering and antialiasing. BUT, the game will be playable on a GF3." Where is your proof for this??? I think it has been clearly stated that GF4 was the system that would run it good while GFFX was the best option. GF3 will only run it in scaled down mode and definitely not high quality 30 fps 1024 mode!
The reason you were "so close to that number it wasy scary" is because its science and not just a guess!!!! In one lb of fat there are 3500 calories. Pure science. Go back to happily losing weight now =)
Am I the only one that caught the Time Bandits reference???? What a wonderful movie. I remember watching this when I was young. My parents were like "this is a stupid movie". I thought it was cool though =)
Coumadin (warfarin) does not cause thickening of the blood. Why one uses heparin or a low molecular weight heparin is to provide near instantaneous anticoagulation. Coumadin takes anywhere from 48-72 hours to see the full effect of the first dose usually. So if you start taking 5 mg of coumadin on day 1 and take it every day, you are still seeing the effects of the first days dose on day 3-4 as the INR keeps rising. Once you reach therapeutic levels (INR 2.0-2.5) you can discontinue the LMW heparin.
3-500 dollars today for a card that will be severely outclassed by a card in a few months. There are no new games that demand a card this instant. I personally plan on buying a new computer and geforce fx when doom3 comes out. Unless you have to buy a new system in the next 3 months why not wait?
As a healthcare provider and someone that works at Mayo clinic, this article does not even merit the cursory speed read.
I'm sorry, but you are mistaken in saying that the feedback of hammers hitting the strings cannot be reproduced. While I might be healthcare, i also play classical music on the piano, and for 2500 you can get a digital piano that has as good if not better feedback as your standard uprights in the same price range. Granted a grand piano is better, but what percentage of people are able to afford a 15k to 20k grand piano?. A digital piano such as a korg for instance never requires tuning, has excellent feed back and record and play back. I suppose you may have been talking just about synths that have keys but no feed back, but i wanted to respond to the misconeption that you can't get great feed back with digital.
Carlcmc asks: "I have been trying to become more learned on the issues surrounding knife control and crime. I have had quite a time searching the internet for references about these issues. Practically everything that I have found has been written for, or is a study funded by, one of the groups that hold extreme viewpoints on the subject, e.g. the NKA or the Brady Foundation. The same holds true for references that I have found in our library. I was wondering if any of the members of the slashdot community have come across articles that are objective in dealing with these subjects, and I would also ask what ideas the members of this community have about this issue and what FACTS they can offer to support their ideas." "Just so everyone knows where I stand, and why I am asking this, I offer the following. I enjoy knifes and regularly compete in knifing matches and hunt occasionally. I am a member of the NKA, not for political reasons, but due to the fact that most competitions are closed to non-members (which I do think is screwed up). Having said this I am undecided on what a logical path for the future is. I do believe that an unarmed nation is a bad idea, but as Michael Moore pointed out in 'Bowling for Columbine' Canada has a much higher per capita knife ownership rate compared to the US and has nowhere near the amount of violent crime that the US has. All of the statistics that I have seen about countries that have altogether outlawed knifes have been manipulated by those extreme groups. As such I find it hard to believe anything that either side presents. Thanks, I look forward to reading all of your comments and the references that you provide."
slashdot is regularly getting trafic from google. Being both a reader of slashdot and news.google.com, i found it funny that when i was perusing the science news on google the top level link for the "earth as art" story went to slashdot.org.
In no way is this a "robot" it is a motion transference device. It reproduces your motions with multipliers applied to them (either greater than or less than 1 multiplier) for increasing or decrease the distance traveled of the instrument. It is progress when compared to plain laparoscopy because you are no longer as limited to the angles and degree of freedom.
sheesh, it feels good to flame someone for being retarded.
By the time it reaches anywhere CLOSE to earth's orbit you will not have a snowball's chance in orbit around the sun to survive. Gravitaitonal force will not be strong enough to deflect an asteroid as it approaches the earth.
Researcher 2: *silence*
Researcher 1: This has nothing to do with my blind-the-senior project for better visual acuity project!
What is the chance that you'll have an archaic CD-ROM drive in your computer to read it????
Here at Mayo, we have performed the most RRP's (radical retropubic prostatectomies) than anywhere in the world. We have the largest database of patients that have had them out. So we have some authority to make these recommendations. It was not 1 month ago that the chair of the department, another surgeon and I were discussing this and the conclusion was that for the next year or two we can't offer prostatectomy removal by da vinci and offer the same low degree of complications as you can offer with RRP.
In prostate removal, the primary goal is removavl of the cancer. Secondary goals are preservation of quality of life such as 1)continence - the ability to control your urine and 2)erections - preservation of the nerve pathways at time of surgery. Since the nerve pathways run past the seminal vesicles directly next to the prostate it requires delicate excision to preserve these. You won't enjoy the same success statistics for quality of life if you have your prostate removed by robot right now.
Tell me, is that green laser mounted on the head of a shark in a shark cage???????
1. Make card slower than competition 2. Charge less little for it 3. ....
4. Profit!
Our card is slower than theirs but you should use it anyway!
With that in mind, when was the last time you walked into your company in non-work clothes, you knew where you were going, and walked confidently there and no one stopped and questioned you? I wear a name tag and go there every day, but in my shorts and tshirt with no name tag, I'm never stopped. I think thats the way it is in many places.
for a home with more than one computer with a cable modem this makes perfect sense. For a couple dollars more, it would be stupid not to...