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The 2012 motorsport season is slowly getting up to speed, with the first F1 round this weekend in Melbourne. Keep track of which races are coming up with our 2012 Motorsport Calendar. ONE HD have a huge amount of coverage this weekend, with about 7 hours each day of the weekend. Discussion of this weekend's race here.
Encyclopaedia Britannica have announced there'll be no more printed versions. In truth, Cauz says, the death knell sounded long ago. Though the name "Britannica" calls the print sets to mind, Cauz says they represent less than 1% of the company's total sales. "The print set is an icon. But it's an icon that doesn't do justice to how much we've changed over the years," Cauz says. The online version of the encyclopedia, which was first published in 1994, represents only 15% of Britannica's revenue. The other 85% is sales of education products: online learning tools, curriculum products and more.
TechReport have info on brain overclocking, which I could certainly use this morning. Although tDCS machines do exist, GoFlow says they're too expensive and often require a prescription. Its solution: a $99 DIY kit you can build yourself. Still in prototype form, the kit will come with everything required to pump a little extra current through your gray matter, including the 9V battery that supplies the juice. Maybe I'll stick to coffee for now.
I'd drink wine more often if I had a steampunk wine opener, though! Mechanical sculptor Rob Higgs designed this amazing steampunk corkscrew contraption which takes opening and serving wine bottles to a whole new level. The Rube Goldberg styled machine is thought to be the world's largest corkscrew and took about three years to build.
Internode customers worrying that iiNet's acquisition of 'Node would affect their plans will be interested to learn that iiNet are adopting Internode's quota scheme, to some extent. iiNet’s previous plan allocations always worked off peak and off-peak times, whereas most Internode plans allowed data usage at any time. iiNet has just announced that its own plans (as well as selected plans for Westnet and Netspace customers) will now have no time restrictions, similar to the way Internode’s plans have operated for some time. The catch here (from the iiNet side of things) is that you’ve got to be on one of iiNet’s DSLAMs; if you’re an iiNet customer on an external DSLAM, you’ve still got peak and off-peak quotas to juggle.
Here's an open source game combining two classics. Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world. But what if Nintendo teamed up with Valve and recreated the famous Mario game with Portal gun mechanics?
An English student is being extradited to the USA to face copyright infringement charges. O'Dwyer's site did not appear to violate UK law, and O'Dwyer's servers weren't located in the US. This alone poses no problem to an extradition claim; courts have recognized for centuries that a person can't simply sit in another jurisdiction and direct a harm into another jurisdiction without penalty. But the general question raised in such cases is whether the alleged miscreant had a "nexus" with the target jurisdiction; had he put himself under its rule by choosing to transact business there? Or was the contact merely incidental and accidental?
VR-Zone built a powerful mATX box. "What if I have about US$5000 to spend - Could I have a true 8-core/16-thread CPU in a small form factor setup without compromising on storage, thermals or online gaming prowess?" Well, we show that we can! With that budget I'm not surprised!
TechReport meanwhile moved to six monitors. In his latest blog post, TR's Geoff Gasior chronicles his work space's journey from humble Ikea desk to six-screen monstrosity, complete with three keyboards and mice, stereo speakers, and 137 inches of liquid-crystal goodness.
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