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Wednesday Morning #2
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Wednesday, 15-November-2006 10:51:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Our tubes got filled up last night so we couldn't send you any internets, sorry.
Been wondering what all the fuss is about these recalled Li-Ion batteries? PCPitstop set up a situation where a Li-Ion battery would be ignited in a laptop to demonstrate how much energy is inside these things and how it can be violently released. Scary stuff and you can see why the airlines are concerned!
Google Earth now has historical maps of various regions, adding an interesting 4th dimension to exploration. They even have a map of Southeast Australia from 1844.
Apparently Moore's Law is dead. Says who, you ask? Well, Gordon Moore, apparently. In terms of size [of transistor] you can see that we're approaching the size of atoms which is a fundamental barrier, but it'll be two or three generations before we get that far - but that's as far out as we've ever been able to see. We have another 10 to 20 years before we reach a fundamental limit.
Cray have a new Opteron-powered supercomputer on the way, while NASA are spending a few bucks to upgrade one of theirs. When we deployed it, we thought 440 Tbytes of disk would be enough," says Bill Thigpen, Columbia Project lead at NASA.
At the other extreme, Tweaktown took a mini motherboard and made a car PC from it. Today Albatron enters the micro PC market with their KI51PV-754 motherboard. We’ll first take a close look at the board and then built it into a car and show you how we did it.
A few people sent word that Sun are releasing Java under the GPL, making it open source. More info on TheInq and much discussion on Slashdot, unsurprisingly.
TechPowerUp compared a few mousepads from Func, while watercoolers for your X1900 are rounded up on MadShrimps.
Marc spotted this home-made rollercoaster.. fun if you like whiplash! Nice work though, bit of a step up from having Scalectrix running all over the house. :)
3DAvenue are giving away 10 copies of Test Drive Unlimited for Xbox360. Please note, this contest is open to Australian and New Zealand residents only Contest ends 12:00AM (EST) December 1st of 2006. Good Luck!
From BradRogers: Just thought I would point out this thread. We have the Sydney Christmas car cruise coming up on the 16th of December.
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