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Deep Impact was apparently a roaring success yesterday. James summed it up nicely: A lump of copper the size of a small coffee table moving 10 miles a second hit a lump of rock half the size of the island of Manhattan 84 millions miles away from earth at approximately 2pm this afternoon Perth time. More info here.
Australia has our own bionic man now. Mr Eberle has worn several types of prosthetics since losing his arm when he was caught between two trains in 1995. The new arm is lighter, quieter, faster and six times more powerful than anything that went before. My question is: can you get/use one even if you haven't lost an arm? Coz I dunno how many times I've really needed a third hand..
Speaking of improved humans, Timbot spotted this report on gamers being faster than non-gamers. The main research interest, according to Castel, is in whether video games, through effects on visual processing, attention and movement, can be useful in rehabilitating the brain -- after a stroke, for instance, or in cases of age-related memory loss. So, buy your Grandmother a copy of DOOM3 for Christmas.
We linked this page a fair while ago but it's been updated since then.. animated versions of popular movies re-told in 30 seconds.. by bunnies. Thanks teddy!
Bit-Tech explain anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, showing how they work in games.
This looks like an interesting finding places website.. you can look for pizza near penrith, for example. Seems a bit sluggish at the moment.
EA Australia are giving away a grunty PC and a few other goodies, but you have to join their "EA Players" service.
SGOverclockers set up an SLI system with a couple of 6600GT cards.
Anandtech recently looked at Solaris 10, running on Sun's 8-core Opteron V40z workstation. Mmm, yummy.
I've wondered this myself; how do China, Iran and other net-censoring countries block huge parts of the net from being viewed by their populations? They do it with western software, just like western corporations and schools do, I guess.
A site called VOIPTower has a taking the plunge with VoIP article, where they didn't have much luck. We should have some VoIP articles on OCAU soon, hopefully with better experiences.
Quite a few people sent word that the USA will retain control of the root DNS servers, which goes against earlier statements saying they would turn control over to an international body. "It's completely an about-face if you consider the original commitment made when ICANN was created," said Milton Mueller, a Syracuse University professor who has written about policies surrounding the Internet's root servers.
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