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Wednesday Afternoon
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Wednesday, 22-November-2006 14:21:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Word on the street is that nVIDIA's GeForce 8800 can fold too, lifting the limitation from ATI cards only. Remember, OCAU's Folding team is number 24, still 2nd in the rankings.
I don't know why this is so cool, but it is. Brian sent in these videos of an uber-blender taking on (and beating) things like marbles, broom handles, cans of coke, etc.
PopSci pulled apart a Wii and broke it in the process. Dang.
The ArsMasters take a closer look at AMD's GPU/CPU fusion. In this figure, if you were to substitute the word "CPU" for "GPU" and "L2 cache" for "buffers," then you'd have a block diagram of an Athlon64 x2. In other words, this particular rendition of Fusion (there may be others) seems to be a pretty straightforward replacement of a CPU core with a GPU core.
They also have an interesting article where US-based television/movie corporation CBS say online video is not the enemy. Meanwhile, CBS conducted a poll on online viewing habits and found out that at least half of those online views were of shows the user had never seen on television, and often became a new fan of the show. That suggests that Internet video services are expanding the networks' audience rather than cannibalizing it, while giving existing audiences an additional medium in which to find shows they missed.
Having said that, in Australia it may end up being illegal to own an iPod, according to SMH. Senators from both the Labor and Democrat parties have spoken out against the changes, noting that the government is trying to push the long, complex bill through parliament before it's been properly examined.
Here's an interesting one: AMD make Opterons, sell them to HP, who put them into Blade servers, then sell them back to AMD, who use them to design CPUs, which they sell to HP, who put them in servers..
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