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    Why you chose linux

    Whether one has more time than money or more money than time is ancillary. I could well have more money than time, and yet still not see any benefit to paying for the proprietary solution, especially if I believe the widely-used free standards are of superior quality. We may not see eye-to-eye...
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    Why you chose linux

    First started using it a few years ago for work, to run biophysics software in a neuroscience lab. Discovered I really liked command line. Somewhere along the line I decided it was just more convenient to run it as my primary OS, because so much of the rest of the scientific community is in a...
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    Fifty Percent of Doctors Use Wikipedia

    You brought up many good points. While we're on the topic of Obama's proposed reforms, I have two main concerns. Number one. Cost. He's massively underestimating the cost of healthcare. Other countries with single-payer healthcare do not have out-of-control litigation costs (they also...
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    Fifty Percent of Doctors Use Wikipedia

    This ridiculous claim that physicians are somehow "money-making machines" is a part of the health care problem. Sure you make a six-figure salary, but you're slapped with a six-figure debt straight out of school, will be working 60-100 hours a week until the day you retire, and on top of...
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    Fifty Percent of Doctors Use Wikipedia

    Slow news day? This isn't alarming at all. Wiki is a great framework for information dissemination. As a publicly available and editable resource, it has a definite speed advantage over standard print or web-based peer-reviewed media. Doctors should definitely use Wiki for scouting out...
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    Nvidia and ATI should be worried?

    NVIDIA and ATI are going to look elsewhere for profit. Traditionally it's been the high-end GPUs for PC gamers that have made up the high-margin low-volume sales. As demand shrinks, they'll look to the HPC GPGPU market (CUDA, OpenCL) to replace this revenue. Their low-margin high-volume...
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    Want to really learn linux.

    The Rocks Cluster Distribution speciallizes in HPC clustering. It has pretty much all the standard tools gathered in one neat distribution. When you need to quickly set up a cluster, use Rocks. It seems to be in fairly common use, and certain HPC vendors (Cray) officially support it in their...
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    Carmack says market is going consoles

    I have no qualms about Rage going to consoles, but it being "designed for a controller" is a bit worrying. Guess I'll be skipping it. I'm on a 7800GTX, and I don't feel like eating a video card upgrade for Rage. The 7800GTX handled HL2:Ep2 fine, and to be honest, I'm really only looking forward...
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    Firefox With Q6600

    You're right, no 64-bit flash for Windows yet. My mistake. Not so far as I know.
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    Firefox With Q6600

    Might be an issue with 64-bit Flash. Try again with a 32-bit OS. Flash as a whole isn't a very efficient framework, for whatever reason. Combine that with all the poorly designed flash apps out there, and it's no wonder they're such CPU hogs.
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    Report Finds IBM Supercomputers Most Energy Efficient

    Except that these supercomputers are more efficient than the "average" computer. 536.24 MFLOPS/W is ridiculously good. You can't touch that with commodity x86. So it's more like a Lamborghini that gets 200 miles to the gallon.
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    Intel vs AMD. But what about price?

    What's the difference between 120 fps and 240 fps on a 60 Hz LCD panel?
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    New mechwarrior in development

    I hope it has tons of delicious hit-and-run missions a la Pirate's Moon! Nothing like dodging starboard LRM's in a 140 kph Shadowcat, taking out power generators in a fly-by shoot, and hauling ass as the whole base wakes up on you. More medium mechs = more fun. Too many of the end-game MW4...
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    General purpose GPUs will rule the Earth

    OpenCL, anyone? One standard API for programming x86, ATI GPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, Cell processor, you name it it's there. List of companies onboard: 3DLABS, Activision Blizzard, AMD, Apple, ARM, Broadcom, Codeplay, Electronic Arts, Ericsson, Freescale, Fujitsu, GE, Graphic Remedy, HI, IBM, Intel...
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    cheapest to run / coolest to run webserver

    I was about to recommend a netbook but oh wow, those Atom mini computer prices are insane. Now I'm thinking about picking one up myself.
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