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Monday, 13-August-2007 19:40:57 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's speculation that Google Maps may have fuzzed out photos of Sydney prior to the APEC summit. Google says the imagery was downgraded as a result of a "commercial issue" with a supplier, but the move has aroused speculation it was done at the request of police in order to minimise the risk of a terrorist attack during the September summit, where Sydney will play host to 21 world leaders including U.S. President George W. Bush. If you are looking for Google Maps locations in Australia, remember one of the biggest collections is in our own Wiki.
LegionHW ponder why DDR3 is no faster than DDR2. For some time now reviewing high-end DDR2 memory modules has almost been boring, as high speed 1000-1200MHz modules really offer nothing new in terms of performance. For a while there we even had trouble getting together CPU and motherboard combos that could overclock far enough to reach some of the incredible DDR2 speeds manufacturers were churning out.
Sniper spotted an odd 3-way Opteron system on TheInq. Any CPU in a 3S system is one hop away from any other CPU. In a 4S system, you can be two hops away. This adds latency, and more importantly, you take a big hit on cache coherency latency. This kills performance.
Apparently Vista prevents users playing Hi-Def content, thanks Justin. Vista requires premium content like high-definition movies to be degraded in quality when sent to high-quality outputs, so users are seeing status codes that say "graphics OPM resolution too high." Gutmann calls this "probably the most bizarre status code ever."
From tumb_sc: Microsoft is doing anything and EVERYTHING to get every country to vote "YES" for their OOXML to be ISO. Recently, (a few days ago) there was a forum in Sydney to discuss this very issue. Notice how very few people know about it? *rollseyes*. Groklaw article here. If any concerned Aussies out there who wish to voice their concerns to Standards Australia (before 21st August), go here. Please be polite and constructive with your concerns.
As a kid I read the entire series of Conan, and am still a fan of Robert E Howard's work, so I've been idly following the news of an upcoming MMORPG, "Age of Conan". YouGamers are now saying the release date has been pushed back to March 2008, unfortunately.
From Daztay, about the "Museum of Particularly Bad Art": This opens tonight. It looks bad but it is a fun exhibition, I been the last couple of years. Gold coin entrance and all money goes to charity. Here's some pics from the years.
TechARP compare paper vs PDA. After so many years, there is still no clear evidence that using a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) is any better than just an old-fashioned paper organizer. Or is there?
China are rolling out a people tracking system, thanks SilentNight. Starting this month in a port neighborhood and then spreading across Shenzhen, a city of 12.4 million people, residency cards fitted with powerful computer chips programmed by the same company will be issued to most citizens.
Icidic let us know that Endeavour launched successfully, and you can keep up to date on the mission here. The mission has been extended by 3 days thanks to the successful operation of the new Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System. The SSPTS reroutes power from the space station to the shuttle during docked operations, allowing the orbiter to conserve materials needed to generate power and spend more time in space.
Goth sent in this timewaster, Winterbells. We've seen it before and it's so cute it makes my teeth hurt, but it's fun and quite addictive.
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