Comment Re:emacs, emacs, emacs... (Score 5, Funny) 1131
"I bet whatever you where doing in emacs for 14 hours I could have done in 5 minutes with Vim. ;)"
How does it take you 5 minutes to start vim?
Comment Re:Doesn't need to be a spaceship (Score 1) 436
While, in your frame of reference, you are not moving, in the grand scheme of things you are.
There is no "grand scheme of things", this is rather the point of relativity.
Comment Re:60 cups (Score 1) 628
Replace cups of coffee with double espresso. That would give you ~3L of espresso (double shot is about 50ml). If one cup == a single espresso then it's ~1.5L.
It's a hell of a lot. Wikipedia says 100mg caffeine per espresso, so that's 6g of caffeine.
From wiki page on caffeine LD50 is somewhere in the region of 150-250mg per kilo, but with "serious symptoms of overdose requiring hospitalization occurring from as little as 2 grams of caffeine".
Comment Re:Interesting! (Score 1) 161
No, since this is a microscope. It's not an improvement on medical MRI scanners.
FTFA: "MRI is well known as a powerful tool for medical imaging, but its capability for microscopy has always been very limited,"
Comment Re:Interesting! (Score 1) 161
Unfortunately, this 3D MRI can not be applied to imaging the human brain yet
Or at all, since this is based on measuring the vibrations of a cantilever. This is a microscope, not a brain scanner.
fMRI which measure changes in metabolism (glucose metabolism to be exact)
Not quite, it measures the BOLD signal, but the actual causes for this are extremely complex and not fully understood.
Baby To Be Born Without the Gene For Breast Cancer 259
manoftin writes to tell us that next week a baby will be born without the gene for breast cancer, according to the BBC. "But he said that, in this case, not carrying the BRCA1 gene would not guarantee any daughter born to the couple would be unaffected by breast cancer because there are other genetic and environmental causes. Dr Alan Thornhill, scientific director of the London Bridge Fertility, Gynaecology and Genetics Centre, said: 'While the technology and approach used in this case is fairly routine, it is the first time in the UK that a family has successfully eliminated a mutant breast cancer gene for their child. It is a victory for both the parents and the HFEA that licensed this treatment.'"
Comment Reciprocal mice (Score 1) 456
"It's rare in human history that a billionth of anything has been shipped by one company,"
I doubt that, a billionth is *tiny*.
Comment Re:Tax Dollars (Score 1) 502
It doesn't have to be at the bottom to make money, it just has to rise above it's current value at some point in the future. Sure, you may make *more* by waiting, but you make make less.
Comment Re:ETHICS??? (Score 1) 170
Did you read the original question?
Is it just me, or is the idea of modeling any sentient or semi-sentient brain in a computer a little ethically questionable?
Are your neural nets sentient/semi sentient? No, I didn't think so.
The interesting question is this: If you create something that is a perfect simulation of a sentient entity, is it sentient? If so, should it be given the rights associated with the entity it mimics?
Comment Re:Just what I always wanted! (Score 1) 292
I have no idea why you have replied to me, since we're not talking about even remotely the same point.
His argument was against a card with 4GB ram, due to the fact that a 32 bit OS is incapable of referencing so much ram. This argument doesn't even have anything to do with nVidia apart from the fact that they are releasing a 4 gig card.
Comment Re:Just what I always wanted! (Score 5, Insightful) 292
If you're doing scientific computing requiring about 4 gigs of ram, and need the processing power of current-gen graphics cards then you should be able to figure out how to migrate from XP32 to 64 bit.
That you are using an old operating system incapable of dealing with this new hardware is not the fault of nVidia.
