like you said, they can't have too many mod points. hell, i only get them like every two weeks or so, and i even tried to mod the robot post up again, but it wouldn't let me mod it twice. i wonder how many people are being modded down for no reason.
personally, i don't mod someone down if i disagree with them. if i keep coming across highly modded comments from the same person, and that person has a completely different philosophy or political view, and i get tired of reading the same thing in every article, i just foe them so i can filter them on MY preferences, but that way i don't censor them.
dude, i modded up your insightful robot-helping-soldiers comment, then later i saw that someone modded it down as flamebait. i couldn't see how someone thought it was flamebait, so i looked at your posting history (well, a few comments that had been labled flamebait), and it looks like you have someone following you around modding you down for no reason besides someone's personal vendetta. i've seen it happen before. i really don't know how to prevent abuse of/.'s mod system. oh well, just wanted to say don't let them bring you down.
i hope sweden falls too. they are a bunch of pussies to cave to sony/warner or US/canada. if they can't be a sovriegn state and stand up for their people, then they deserve to fall too.
as for the US, the three branches of gov have been replaced by RIAA, MPAA, and tv.
i've been very curious about the current level of built in graphics on the motherboard. turns out my PCI 5700 LE (yes, i said old school PCI card, not pci express) beats an onboard pci express nvidia 6150!!! and that 5700 LE is a crippled version of a regular 5700 even.
yes, the press SHOULD be an ally of the people. but the press IS NOT an ally of the people. dude, read some chomsky or something. the mass media is part of the mass mind rape going on. if anyone thinks the powerful big media has mine and your best interests in mind, think again. they are entirely used to spread propaganda and controll and subdue the population. GE, Disney, et al control the freaking world.
those two cards are very close to each other in performance.
as far as the memory goes, most of the benchmarks i've seen don't really show much difference between 128MB or 256MB on the card. of course, in some situations more memory will help, but overall the performance increase is usually just a few percent on average, while in many benchmarks there is NO increase.
by the way, my 5700LE PCI card is faster than any of the latest greatest integrated graphics (yes, an oldschool PCI card!), and LE means it is a much slower version of a regular 5700.
where it says "(3GHz)", that means all the cards right around and above the 5700 Ultra will need an equivalent to a 3GHz P4, or they will be CPU limited.
and "N/A" means i couldn't find them at any online stores, except used.
and "=" means the the cards with an equal sign have almost exactly the performance of the cards next to it that also have the equal sign.
i've been trying to keep track of video card comparisons, and rank the cards since the 5200. since neither i nor my friends can buy $300 cards, i kept the list to the lower end of the spectrum. what is interesting is where the current generation of integrated graphics on the motherboard compare to which cards.
wierd thing about his cancer: they caught it early, over a year ago, and after the surjury the docs said it was contained and had not spread, and even just four weeks ago he was checked out and the docs said it was in complete remission. then BANG, the lymphoma roared back so fast the docs didn't even know what hit him, he went into a coma and died before the MRI and other test results could see what the problem was.... he was in his early sixties... both my grandfathers died of cancer.
... and we are loosing that war. i've heard many times, and have even caught myself saying, that there will be a cure for cancer soon. hasn't happened yet. so whenever i hear:
important implications for the treatment of cancer
i get my hopes up for a little while, just as most of the world has since the War on Cancer was officially announced in the 50's, and untold amounts of money have been spent by the NIH. but the truth is, i probably need to quit smoking to have the best chance at not dying from cancer.
-- sorry, my uncle just died from lymphoma this weekend, and i keep staring at the cigarette i'm smoking with a pained look.
i was JUST reading a long essay by jarod lanier, the virtual reality freak (i mean scientist). and i was thinking what a hugely hyped up buzzword VR had become. so naturally, my tired eyes read this subject as an overview of VR.
i'm thinking that Virtualization is becoming just as overhyped, though.
Chavez is so communistic that he has beaten their economy into the sludge of south america. they now have to resort to stealing billions of $$$ from the rest of the world to survive.
in a speech class two years ago, myself and a classmate acted out a conversation between a bot and a human. i had found some funny logs from previous contests, and i played the computer, and she played the human. it went over horrible, no one picked up the humor of being misunderstood.
i greatly respect the man. his brilliance influences multiple worlds. he has been called the most quoted man ever, ahead of shakespear...
the main two worlds involving chomsky:
1) politics
2) linguistics
they don't mix.
in world number one, i've read plenty of chomsky, my favorite being Manufacturing Consent, which lays out in a very logical manner how Mass Media has become an extremely efficient propaganda machine since WWII. i don't recall him ever saying that the leftish Democrats (or any major political power in the US) are not just as bloodthirsty and warmongering as any other group that currently controls the goverment. what he says is that our politicians AND the media both are controlled by the richest of the rich -- that is, that the "Government" is just a front, and the media helps make the "medicine" they shove down our throats go down better.
concerning world #2, most research into neural networks and other bottom up approaches to AI have shown Chomsky's linguistic theories to be off base. but as someone else has said, it is OK for scientists to be wrong, that is part of the scientific method, and certainly he loses no respect in the scientific world.
all the media does is report on global warming. the biggest newspapers regularly have stories trying to scare their readers, and slam bush at every oppertunity. as does the mags like Time. on broadcast media, even PBS can't keep up with 60 Minutes or 20/20 for the number of prime time stories on global warming.
just within the last 24 hours, i watched two hours of shows demonstrating the effects of global climate change, and that's using an antennae (i don't even have cable or sat.)
i do keep up with robotics and ai, religiously following the progress of the field for almost twenty years. and i have read every article i could find on the DARPA race, and kept track of the race on the (awful) Flash/shockwave site. after the race was won, i've almost become burnt out on it, almost not caring to watch the NOVA footage. well, i'm glad i did, because it showed the best inside info on how Stanford's AI and sensor fusion worked. and it compared and contrasted Stanley's AI techniques with Carnigie Mellon's. of course, watching multi-ton driverless vehicles veer off course and plow full steam ahead straight towards the spectators was exciting (some of the concrete barriers were knocked farther than when hit by NASCAR stock cars!). and H1ghlander sure had a taste for chewing up haybales! props to the geniuses at all the teams!
Neurochips will replace up to 10,000 neurons in brains damaged by Alzheimer's and stroke: One day, a computer chip may do some of the work of a damaged hippocampus. check out Dr. Theodore W. Berger, University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
the brain has billions of neurons, so this will still be small scale...
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like you said, they can't have too many mod points. hell, i only get them like every two weeks or so, and i even tried to mod the robot post up again, but it wouldn't let me mod it twice. i wonder how many people are being modded down for no reason.
personally, i don't mod someone down if i disagree with them. if i keep coming across highly modded comments from the same person, and that person has a completely different philosophy or political view, and i get tired of reading the same thing in every article, i just foe them so i can filter them on MY preferences, but that way i don't censor them.
dude, i modded up your insightful robot-helping-soldiers comment, then later i saw that someone modded it down as flamebait. i couldn't see how someone thought it was flamebait, so i looked at your posting history (well, a few comments that had been labled flamebait), and it looks like you have someone following you around modding you down for no reason besides someone's personal vendetta. i've seen it happen before. i really don't know how to prevent abuse of /.'s mod system. oh well, just wanted to say don't let them bring you down.
whoever ordered the raid should be tried and hung in the hague.
i hope sweden falls too. they are a bunch of pussies to cave to sony/warner or US/canada. if they can't be a sovriegn state and stand up for their people, then they deserve to fall too.
as for the US, the three branches of gov have been replaced by RIAA, MPAA, and tv.
speaking of elligible voters, it took only 11% of them to get clinton into office.
i've been very curious about the current level of built in graphics on the motherboard. turns out my PCI 5700 LE (yes, i said old school PCI card, not pci express) beats an onboard pci express nvidia 6150!!! and that 5700 LE is a crippled version of a regular 5700 even.
Billy went through the legal process
nice pipe dream, Mr. Sheep.
you are missing the point. something WAS wrong, for years and years, everyone knew about it, yet none of the big media empires put a stop to it.
yes, the press SHOULD be an ally of the people. but the press IS NOT an ally of the people. dude, read some chomsky or something. the mass media is part of the mass mind rape going on. if anyone thinks the powerful big media has mine and your best interests in mind, think again. they are entirely used to spread propaganda and controll and subdue the population. GE, Disney, et al control the freaking world.
those two cards are very close to each other in performance.
as far as the memory goes, most of the benchmarks i've seen don't really show much difference between 128MB or 256MB on the card. of course, in some situations more memory will help, but overall the performance increase is usually just a few percent on average, while in many benchmarks there is NO increase.
by the way, my 5700LE PCI card is faster than any of the latest greatest integrated graphics (yes, an oldschool PCI card!), and LE means it is a much slower version of a regular 5700.
i remember this, it was actually on slashdot a year ago.
/ 25/168246&tid=137
/ 04/1226249&tid=152
timothy miller fills us in:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01
and this one brought us up to date:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05
i wish them well....
where it says "(3GHz)", that means all the cards right around and above the 5700 Ultra will need an equivalent to a 3GHz P4, or they will be CPU limited.
and "N/A" means i couldn't find them at any online stores, except used.
and "=" means the the cards with an equal sign have almost exactly the performance of the cards next to it that also have the equal sign.
i've been trying to keep track of video card comparisons, and rank the cards since the 5200. since neither i nor my friends can buy $300 cards, i kept the list to the lower end of the spectrum. what is interesting is where the current generation of integrated graphics on the motherboard compare to which cards.
**best price/performance**
nVid 7600 GT ($210)
ATI X1600 XT ($170)
nVid 6600 GT ($140)
**best price/performance**
the faster at top:
ATI X800 Pro ~$250 ($150 refurb)
ATI 9950 ultra (N/A)
nVid 6800 LE/XT (LE=slower)($150,$300)
ATI 9800 XT(~$185)
ATI X700 PRO($125,135)
nVid 5900U/5950 Ultra($250)
ATI 9800 PRO(~$130)
=ATI 9700 pro
=ATI 9800 ($90??)
=nVid 5900/5950
ATI 9700 ($110)
nVid 6600 ($100)???
nVid 5800 ultra
(3GHz)
nVid 5700 Ultra (N/A)
ATI X1300 PRO($105)
ATI X700 (not pro)
ATI 9500 Pro ($95 used)
(yes it beats 9600pro!)
=nVid 5600 Ultra
=ATI 9600 pro/XT ($100)
=ATI X600 PRO/XT ($100)
nVid 5800
ATI 9800 SE(128 bit)
nVid 5700/5750
nVid 6200 non-tc (under $100!)
=nVid 5600
=ATI 9500/9550/9600
ATI X300 non-Hypmem???
nVid 5700 LE (MINE)
nVid GF4 Ti 4600
nVid 5200 ULTRA
nVid 5600 XT (XT=lower)
ATI 9600 SE
this last group of expansion cards is equal to the current generation of integrated onboard graphics
***very slow***
nVid 5200/5500
nVid PCX 5300
nVid 6200 Turbocache
ATI 9200 SE
ATI X300 SE Hypermemory
current generation of integrated graphics chipsets:
-- Intel GMA950
-- nVidia 6100/6150
-- ATI xpress 200
wierd thing about his cancer: they caught it early, over a year ago, and after the surjury the docs said it was contained and had not spread, and even just four weeks ago he was checked out and the docs said it was in complete remission. then BANG, the lymphoma roared back so fast the docs didn't even know what hit him, he went into a coma and died before the MRI and other test results could see what the problem was.... he was in his early sixties... both my grandfathers died of cancer.
... and we are loosing that war. i've heard many times, and have even caught myself saying, that there will be a cure for cancer soon. hasn't happened yet. so whenever i hear:
important implications for the treatment of cancer
i get my hopes up for a little while, just as most of the world has since the War on Cancer was officially announced in the 50's, and untold amounts of money have been spent by the NIH. but the truth is, i probably need to quit smoking to have the best chance at not dying from cancer.
-- sorry, my uncle just died from lymphoma this weekend, and i keep staring at the cigarette i'm smoking with a pained look.
i was JUST reading a long essay by jarod lanier, the virtual reality freak (i mean scientist). and i was thinking what a hugely hyped up buzzword VR had become. so naturally, my tired eyes read this subject as an overview of VR.
i'm thinking that Virtualization is becoming just as overhyped, though.
Chavez is so communistic that he has beaten their economy into the sludge of south america. they now have to resort to stealing billions of $$$ from the rest of the world to survive.
i'd say he just got red flagged by the NSA. and now i just did, too.
in a speech class two years ago, myself and a classmate acted out a conversation between a bot and a human. i had found some funny logs from previous contests, and i played the computer, and she played the human. it went over horrible, no one picked up the humor of being misunderstood.
i greatly respect the man. his brilliance influences multiple worlds. he has been called the most quoted man ever, ahead of shakespear...
the main two worlds involving chomsky:
1) politics
2) linguistics
they don't mix.
in world number one, i've read plenty of chomsky, my favorite being Manufacturing Consent, which lays out in a very logical manner how Mass Media has become an extremely efficient propaganda machine since WWII. i don't recall him ever saying that the leftish Democrats (or any major political power in the US) are not just as bloodthirsty and warmongering as any other group that currently controls the goverment. what he says is that our politicians AND the media both are controlled by the richest of the rich -- that is, that the "Government" is just a front, and the media helps make the "medicine" they shove down our throats go down better.
concerning world #2, most research into neural networks and other bottom up approaches to AI have shown Chomsky's linguistic theories to be off base. but as someone else has said, it is OK for scientists to be wrong, that is part of the scientific method, and certainly he loses no respect in the scientific world.
all the media does is report on global warming. the biggest newspapers regularly have stories trying to scare their readers, and slam bush at every oppertunity. as does the mags like Time. on broadcast media, even PBS can't keep up with 60 Minutes or 20/20 for the number of prime time stories on global warming.
just within the last 24 hours, i watched two hours of shows demonstrating the effects of global climate change, and that's using an antennae (i don't even have cable or sat.)
ok, what's with the fucking "ponies" tag?
i do keep up with robotics and ai, religiously following the progress of the field for almost twenty years. and i have read every article i could find on the DARPA race, and kept track of the race on the (awful) Flash/shockwave site. after the race was won, i've almost become burnt out on it, almost not caring to watch the NOVA footage. well, i'm glad i did, because it showed the best inside info on how Stanford's AI and sensor fusion worked. and it compared and contrasted Stanley's AI techniques with Carnigie Mellon's. of course, watching multi-ton driverless vehicles veer off course and plow full steam ahead straight towards the spectators was exciting (some of the concrete barriers were knocked farther than when hit by NASCAR stock cars!). and H1ghlander sure had a taste for chewing up haybales! props to the geniuses at all the teams!
3D holography!
Neurochips will replace up to 10,000 neurons in brains damaged by Alzheimer's and stroke: One day, a computer chip may do some of the work of a damaged hippocampus. check out Dr. Theodore W. Berger, University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
the brain has billions of neurons, so this will still be small scale...