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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 19-December-2006 17:36:45 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Krud spotted an interesting Federal Court ruling concerning linking to copyright material. The website did not directly host any copyright-protected music, but the court held that simply providing links to the material effectively authorised copyright infringement.
From ntwc: This new release of Opera 9.10 introduces Fraud Protection and several updates. Download link here. Changelog here.
Raven sent in this article on Usability Bloopers in Movies. In the movies, checking your mail is a matter of picking out the one or two messages that are important to the plot. No information pollution or swamp of spam.
TechARP checked out three heatpipe-based video card coolers. Our competitors today are the Zalman VF900 Cu, the Sytrin VF1, and the Thermalright V1.
PCPerspective consider ray tracing and gaming, in particular in Quake 4. Imagine playing a computer game in the quality seen in the movies of the “Lord of the Rings”-series; absolute realistic lighting, details like in real life, believable skins and much more.
In an interesting twist, Time Magazine has named YOU as Time Person of the Year. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.
ScienceDaily have an update on the progress of the Large Hadron Collider and the Compact Muon Solenoid, part of the biggest physics experiment ever. Maybe I've seen too many movies, but I find myself wondering if we're going to accidently make a black hole that inhales the Earth with this stuff..
There's an interesting video on GameTrailers about The Room, an experiment in ultra-realistic surroundings for gaming. Where objects age and books have individual pages.
Phoronix consider quad-core memory performance with Intel's Clovertown. With two Intel Quad-Core Clovertown processors and eight sticks of Kingston FB-DIMM DDR2 we set out to see the level of memory performance in an octal-core environment. We had tested the memory in single, dual, and quad memory channel configurations.
From Mr_insideout: A time waster for those who like to chat with Santa. Add [email]northpole@live.com[/email] to your MSN list.
Or if you'd prefer, try Puzzle Bobble or Mercedes Drifting.
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