|
|
Advertisement:
|
|
OCAU News |
Here is some information from NASA on the Mars water development here.
From Matt: Apparently faulty online maps may have contributed to the death of online journalist James Kim. "Questionable directions given by online mapping services could have contributed to the death of James Kim, who perished while trying to save his stranded family. Kim, 35, was driving home from a vacation with his wife, Kati, and daughters, four-year-old Penelope and seven-month-old Sabine, on November 25 when he took a wrong turn and they became lost in the wilderness in Oregon, in north-west US."
The popular Bittorrent client uTorrent has been acquired by Bittorrent Inc. "Together, we are pleased to announce that BitTorrent, Inc. and µTorrent AB have decided to join forces. BitTorrent has acquired µTorrent as it recognized the merits of µTorrent's exceptionally well-written codebase and robust user community. Bringing together µTorrent's efficient implementation and compelling UI with BitTorrent's expertise in networking protocols will significantly benefit the community with what we envision will be the best BitTorrent client."
It seems that the optical video format war is over with HD-DVD coming out as the winner. "When you talk to either the HD DVD or the Blu-Ray camp you get the sense that neither actually watches movies much. Both cite features as the reason why folks will pick one or the other. Yes there is a lame shooting game in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Blu-Ray) and there are a ton of things you can do interactively in HD DVD (including changing car colors in one scene in The Fast and Furious III: Tokyo Drift). But the movie market moves on quality of movie, price of player, and price and availability of media."
The United Kingdom is set to crack down on piracy and expands fair use. "New legislation could soon be appearing in the UK that modernises its treatment of digital works. In a pre-budget statement, the results of a recent report are being turned into a proposed legal modification that clearly defines and expands fair use. The trade-off? It also makes true 'piracy' a much more serious offense."
From Komodo: The NSW Department of Education and Training is considering Linux on their desktop machines. "The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is "clearly an industry trend". In the fourth and final part of this interview, Tim Anderson, Information Services Director, claims that there are an increasing number of innovative open source solutions for the education sector and Linux on the desktop is being taken seriously."
Phoronix takes a look at screenshots of the latest dev release of Ubuntu 7.01 Feisty Fawn Herd 1 showcasing some new features. Also on the Linux front Matt reports that Suse Linux 10.2 has been released, information can be found here.
Nvidia and AMD have received subpoenas related to a federal investigation. " Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc, the two largest makers of graphic video cards used in computers, said that they have received subpoenas related to a federal investigation into potential antitrust violations."
ChileHardware checks out AMDs next gen 65nm processors (translated). It didn't really translate well, but at least there is a screenshot.
DigitalTrends takes a look at quad core megatasking. "For many of us Megatasking is old news, we’ve been doing it for some time; we just didn’t have the “word” that categorized out activities. Gamers who play two characters at once, folks that game and do email, who watch video and do email, who run virus checkers and disk defragmenters in the background while doing several other things, and those who transcode music and video for their portable player while doing these other things are, actually moving beyond Multitasking to Megatasking."
Return to OCAU's News Page
|
|
Advertisement:
All original content copyright James Rolfe.
All rights reserved. No reproduction allowed without written permission.
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|
