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Feed Science Daily: High Triglycerides, Other Cholesterol Raise Risk Of Stroke (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Thursday January 03, 2008 @04:12PM

People with high triglycerides and another type of cholesterol tested but not usually evaluated as part of a person's risk assessment have an increased risk of a certain type of stroke, according to research published in the Dec. 26, 2007, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Submission + - Proof That Practice Does Make Perfect (physorg.com)

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eldavojohn

on Thursday January 03, 2008 @04:04PM

eldavojohn writes: "Despite earlier studies showing that the early effects of repetition are negative in learning something, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have discovered the mechanism that enforces 'practice makes perfect.' From the article, "Scientists have shown that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors are required to initiate synaptic plasticity in this mechanism, a fact that holds true in many areas of the brain. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that these receptors are required for the kind of synaptic strengthening that occurs during learning." They hope that by better understanding this long term learning, they can better understand diseases."

Feed news.com: Year in review: Chipmakers trade places (news.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @03:12PM

Intel enjoyed improved sales, while AMD did its best to limit the damage during a year plagued by a key product delay.

Feed Engadget: Passive Technologies intros Blu-ray / HD-DVD combo media center (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday December 18, 2007 @03:12PM

Filed under: Desktops, Home Entertainment

It's far from the first, but those looking to go format neutral while still keeping things neat and tidy in a media center now have another option to consider from the folks at Passive Technologies, which has just introduced its new LifestationHD unit. While exact specs are still somewhat light, in addition to that Blu-ray / HD-DVD combo drive, you'll apparently get "silent operation" courtesy of unit's DynaChill 3 cooling system, along with an AMD processor of some sort, SSD storage (or up to 9TB with the optional Lifeserver), and "audiophile grade" audio, with a Bluetooth remote and keyboard also available as an option. No word on a price, but given that these things come custom-installed, it likely won't be cheap.

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Comment Re:Wrong. (Score 4, Insightful) 282

by TallMatt on Thursday December 06, 2007 @03:28PM (#21601447) Attached to: MPAA Boss Makes Case for ISP Content Filtering

I think subscriptions like Netflix are part of the reason why people are not going to the theaters as much as they used to, not the economy. Instead of paying $10 to drive in traffic and sit in a crappy theater, I can watch as many movies as I want at home in comfort, for the whole month! Now with HD-DVD and a nice surround system, there is almost no reason to go to the theater as far as I am concerned.

Intel's 3D Transistors One Step Closer to Reality 69

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday June 12, 2006 @06:15PM from the closing-your-leaks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reducing power consumption is the name of the game in today's semiconductors and Intel today described its tri-gate transistor technology as one of the key technologies that could free the company from the trap of thinner gate insulators and increasing current leakage. Tri-gate (three gates instead of only one) could reduce the power consumption of transistors by 35% right now and drops off-voltage - one of the main sources of current leakage - by 50%. These results are the good news. The bad news is that tri-gate won't be available until 2009."

Napster Going Back to Free Downloads 260

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 02, 2006 @09:25PM from the download-like-its-1999 dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on Napster's latest move to allow the download of free music. This time the service will be supported by online ads." From the article: "With Napster's new free service, 'we'll be able to help millions of people get out of the world of 30-second clips and of having to buy individual songs,' Gorog says. 'I don't think there's anything better we could do to turn people onto the pleasures of unlimited, legal access to music.'"

The First Quad SLI Benchmarks 109

Posted by Zonk on Sunday April 30, 2006 @02:34PM from the oggle-drool-drool-oggle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "X-bit labs have a preview of NVIDIA's Quad SLI system based on two GeForce 7900 GX2 cards. On each GeForce 7900 GX2 is allocated 512 MB of on-board memory, which is connected through a special bridge chip with 16X PCIe lanes to the other daughter card and the system. The two GPUs on the card work in SLI mode. The core and memory are clocked lower than a single GPU card at 550 MHz and 1.2GHz (DDR). For Quad SLI, NVIDIA has introduced a new mode of SLI, AFR of SFR where each card alternately renders a frame split between the two GPUs of one card after the other. The GX2 cards are benched (when possible) at resolution of 2560 by 1600 with 32X SLI AA and compared to a Crossfire x1900 XTX system on a variety of games."

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