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my guess is that he's laughing at the spelling of "interesting." I was a bit disappointed this didn't refer to Software for Applied Statistics - the SAS I know and love. Or hate, depending.

ah, the non-research is the MBB (or something like that)? And the MD is more like a US PhD. Yeah, more research, better CV, but more work. I'm currently planning on doing my PhD during medical school - so there's another 2-3 years (most PhDs, even for those doing an MD/PhD is ~4 years, but...

do all "continental" programs require a thesis for the MD? In the US the majority of schools do not. In fact, I've only found a few that do. But then again it seems like you guys get streamlined into an area faster - word on the street is that most med students here in the US have only a...

PW - is your medical training structured more like the British system in which you go from high school straight to med school for a 6 year program (I think it's 6), then on to specialize?

Have you ever heard of a medical graduate not matching and then not being able to find anything after scrambling? Every year there are some people who want to go into a few select specialties, don't match, and end up doing a "transitional" or "non-categorical" internship in something other than...

Pediatricians average $145,000/year, and are among the lowest paid physicians. The only specialties earning less are Psychiatry (140K) and Family Practice (135K). The highest two groups are Cardiology and Diagnostic Radiology at $300K/year each. It's a shame the most important physician...

Since you're pretty much guaranteed a job after graduation (avg. physician salary in the US is a bit above $200K), you can take out loans to pay for school. I believe the only people who can't get the money are those with really bad credit and who want to go to the few highest-priced private...

PW - I'm not sure how your medical education is being financed, but I'm paying for mine. My first year of med school will cost $25K in tuition, with another $20K in other expenses (at least that's my school's budget - I should be able to live on much less). I'm not sure I can really afford a...

nope, no wall wort on this model. A nice an simple design. And the base lets it rotate from landscape to portorate, something many models these days don't do.

So my father recently bought his own optometry practice, and out of the blue a local news station announces that they are doing a little story on the new business. Now, the place previously has been a bit....um...run down. My dad plans on sprucing the place up, but this news story has...

just load two email accounts into your email client - a real one and a bogus one. Any email sent to both accounts is deleted.

well, I was hitting some places I used to frequent to try to catch up on computer tech, and found this aricle at Tom's on WinFS. http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/index.html The article seems a bit like kissing your sister (I don't have one, so I'm just guessing). Did they get all...

um.....is it not less efficient to use a 2.5" drive over a 3.5" drive, simply due to disk geometry? Bigger disk=more space/inch and a faster spin on the outside. But then again, are Cheetah X15 platters all 2.5" right now?

I am 50/50 split to,e-wise on my use of Linux (RH9, which I found to be very easy to use out of the box) and Windows (XP). There are a few things for which I haven't figured out how to do better in Windows - easily playing Real Media Files (for lectures online), dual monitor support (ATI Radeon...

something that occured to me regarding fans and failure. Fan failures do happen, as we all know. A fan failure on a CPU can mean CPU death in seconds (assuming the thermal protection system doesn't work as advertised). So before you know anything is wrong, your CPU melts. On the other hand...

Yeah, I remember the IOMeter switch to lower que depths, but I still did not expect my avg. que dept to be <1. I guess I was expecting 3-5. But I guess this is a good thing. (FYI - my boot drive is on a Cheetah 18XL, and my swap file is on another 18XL).

this AM I ran perfmon while doing my usual early AM surfing and whatnot (I turned off folding@home and prime95). I was pretty shocked to see that while my page depth (HD) was usually very low (avg. <1) and my CPU usage was pretty low (usually <20%, occasionally spiking to ~75%), my memory usage...

ah. Ya know, now that you mention it, Photoshop 5 seemed OK, 6 seemed really slow and 7 is just fine.

The name's "Adcadet," or even "Andy" if you wish. And it's a rat. I use Photoshop 7.0. Why?

I miss the days when I could buy two Celeron 400s and an Abit BP6 for about the same price as a high end P2/P3 and the performance we better. But now that SMP motherboards are so expensive ($190 for a Tyan Tiger MPX), and that MPs cost significantly more than an XP, it's a luxury I think I'm...

and most of what I do in Photoshop is pretty basic - crop, resize, adjust contrast/color. Those things are 98% of what I do. I would assume that for such things I would need to get a CPU that is twice as expensive to see a noticable improvement. Back in the day it seemed like most stuff I...

Blake - given my status as a poor medical student, I think you're right. I'm sure a nice dual Athlon MP 2800 or dual Xeon 2.8 GHz would be very nice, but I clearly can't afford either of those setups. I'm wondering what the difference between, oh, say a XP 2500 on a nForce2 vs. my current...

does a bunker count? I wonder if Sadam Hussein's computers were running EFS....

under encrypting file system, it says "there is no policy defined," which, I assume means I am not using EFS and thus can yank all my HDs (all have a single partition that I care about) and put them in another WinXP machine and recover the data.

ah. Then no, I'm not using EFS. At least I hope not. I sure don't remember turning it on ever.

EFS? What is this EFS you speak of?

aight....from your last post I now get the impression that as long as I'm not spanning drives (using multiple physical HDs or partitions to emulate a single partition), I should be just fine taking my dynamic disks (which all contain a single partition....or more correctly, a single volume), and...

aight....from your last post I now get the impression that as long as I'm not spanning drives (using multiple physical HDs or partitions to emulate a single partition), I should be just fine taking my dynamic disks (which all contain a single partition....or more correctly, a single volume), and...

hey all - I remember back in the day ('98-'99 ish) when I was running a pair of Celeron 400s which seemed much faster than my P2-450. At that point, I was pretty well hooked on SMP systems. Next came my dual P3-700s, which seemed much more responsive than my friend's P3-800 (though I was...

thanks for the quick reply Merc, but I'm confused. Do you mean that in a basic disk (simple) the FS is stored and the disk and can be read from any computer that it's attached to?

Hey all - I seemed to have forgotten the basics of disk management in Win2K/XP and the implications for disaster recovery. NTFS is a much more robust FS, and includes many security features from what I remember. But can I take an NTFS disk out of my computer (if it dies), and plug it into my...

it's obviously a flux capacitor. Doc: “I was standing on the edge of my toilet hanging a clock, the porcelain was wet, I slipped hit my head on the edge of the sink, and when I came to, I had a revelation, a vision, a picture in my head, a picture of this (points to the flux capacitor). This...

my old (now dead) car did. I had my wife's new/used car. If it had been my old junker I wouldn't have cared, but it's HER car. The bastard didn't even pull over.

I plugged in the LAN card (leaving the sound card out), and booted up. Again, it checks drive E: (???) and finishes booting. IE and Moz work. I tell Norton Disk Doctor to scan E:. It says that The partition table, file structures, indexes, and security descriptors are OK, and it skipped file...

So, the thing seems to work without the LAN or sound card. But I don't believe it, so I reboot the computer to prove to myself that it couldn't be either of these two PCI cards. I mean, have you ever heard of a Creative SB Live card causing problems ;) Computer boots, warning me that it can't...

arrrr.... On the way home I was mentally preparing to remove all my PCI cards and do a thourough troubleshooting. But I thought I'd see if I could get lucky... I get home, turn on the computer, and it boots into Windows. The mouse was not plugged in, and USB was disabled in the BIOS. I hit...

Last night my wife plugged in a USB thumb drive into my keyboard/USB hub to print something. The computer (WinXP) detected it, and my wife clicked on the "open in folder view" icon. It didn't pop up, but the computer made a long beep noise through the internal speaker. I came over, and tried...

what's with the med student bashing? Can't we all just get along? (I'm starting med school in the fall)

one more thing: we (I) won't have time to build this for probably another month, maybe two. Any reason to hold off? I know somebody told Clocker to buy the memory now....is that still true today (June 3rd)?

oh, what about a case and power supply. A local place that I mostly trust has a decent looking case and power supply for $35 (here http://www.tranmicro.com/case_ps.htm). Any reason I should not go with this case?

I'm torn beteween a nForce 2 with onboard LAN, sound, and video, and a vanilla alternative. If I go with a vanilla board, what sound card should I get?

Well, as a medical student I'll be taking a ton out in loans, so the budget is whatever I'm willing to pay back in the future. From looking around I was hoping to keep it under $300. Coug, you mentioned overclocking. I'm not really fond of OCing my wife's computer, but if there's a really...

I thought I'd ask in this thread since this seems to be the place where the budget upgraders are at the moment. Since I've been a bit busy for the last 6 months, I've really fallen behind in my knowledge of current computer parts. My wife finally broke down and admitted that her beloved...

I thought I'd ask in this thread since this seems to be the place where the budget upgraders are at the moment. Since I've been a bit busy for the last 6 months, I've really fallen behind in my knowledge of current computer parts. My wife finally broke down and admitted that her beloved...

didn't the Windows Update stop working for Win98 last year?

that's just sad.

So I've been listening to my new Senn HD-280s, and realized that my music seemed to sound better than before on my Cambridge Soundworks stuff, so I did a little listening test. I played one of my favorite songs, Stevie Ray Vaughan's VooDoo Chile (MP3, 192 Kbps) on the headphones and speakers...

well, the headphones are for me to wear, but they're as much for her as they are for me. Although once medical school starts up (mid-August), I'm sure I'll appreciate them more. I went with a pair of Sennheiser SD-280 Pros. They've gotten good reviews around the net for sound quality (not the...

I'm thinking I want a circumaural closed design - I don't want to hear much outside of my own little audio world, and I would prefer if people couldn't hear me. I see Amazon (yes, Amazon.com) has the Sennheiser HD-280s for $76, which seems like a phenominal price (I've seen it elsewhere online...