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Sunday Afternoon #2
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Sunday, 14-May-2006 16:28:44 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Zillions of people sent in news that converting CD's to mp3 would become legal under proposed copyright laws for Australia. More info here. The changes are part of a major overhaul of copyright laws to be announced today by Attorney-General Philip Ruddock in response to millions of Australians who effectively break the law every time they reproduce copyright material for personal use.
Lots of people also sent in this Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic.. some strong language, but funny stuff.
Here's an interesting one about using computers to read non-verbal human communication. Using nothing but these simple, nonlinguistic clues--and analyzing conversations that lasted between five minutes and just over an hour, depending on the experiment--the researchers were able to calculate the likelihood of a given outcome with an average accuracy rate of almost 90%.
One`` found a blog about why Sony's new controller doesn't vibrate, while Nintendo's does. So if Sony were to incorporate vibration into a new controller before the old lawsuit was over, the judge would almost certainly call a halt to all sales of the PS3 until the issue was resolved.
This is a little old but I missed it earlier.. turns out playing World of Warcraft really can be dangerous. If your neighbour is a gun-toting loony, that is.
Interesting stuff on NordicHW: A few overclockers have come across Merom-based processors and they've been ravaging the OC scene completely obliterating a lot of the previous world records with many of the most popular benchmarking programs. Merom kills 3DMark 2001 - Far beyond 60,000 points! Merom on a crusade! The SuperPi killer - Merom.
Sudhian checked out life at the low end of graphics card performance. Despite what review sites cover, there is a market for low end graphics cards which typically don't receive as much fanfare as the latest and greatest products.
Phoronix have a tour of Bon Echo Alpha 2, a development pre-release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0. Rather than simply providing screenshots or the release notes for this feature-filled release, we have independently examined most of the changes, and today at Phoronix we have some details to share in regards to these newly implement features.
A few people have complained about this and here's a blog ranting about the BF2 Euro Force order system. Strong language as you might expect! Because after I used your system I can only assume that you don’t actually want to generate any online revenues as you have the most cumbersome, restrictive, tedious and problematic online order systems that I have ever used.
Trekkies can prick up their Vulcan pointy ears at the news of a new Star Trek game called ST: Legacy. Imagine Star Fleet battles, one on one, many on many, single player, internet, and lan play, from all five Star Trek Generations in one game.
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