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Saturday, 10-November-2007 03:05:26 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Bit-Tech cover colour depth. Which to choose, which to choose...higher is better, right? And so we all flip to 32-bit, convinced that we're seeing the best that our computers can offer. We are...aren't we?
Apparently Microsoft pirates are targeting Australia, thanks Craig. Brian Williams, senior regional investigator at Microsoft APAC said US and Canada are also popular markets but Australia has emerged as a prime target.
Next time you sit on the couch watching MythBusters, you might be learning how to save someone's life. Australian company Beyond Productions, producer of MythBusters, said it plans to present Julian a "hero pack" in honour of his good deed.
Here's a cool new ad for Guinness. Shot in an Argentinian mountainside village, it features a game of dominoes which escalates to include suitcases, tyres, oil drums, fridges, wardrobes and cars.
AMD have a new stream processing platform. The FireStream 9170 features up to 500 GFlops, or 500 billion floating point operations per second. AMD's second generation stream processor is built with a 55 nanometer manufacturing process and consumes less than 150 watts of power. The processor is a single-card product with 2Gbytes of onboard GDDR3 memory to compute large datasets without CPU traffic.
MOS spotted this brain-hurting article about learning a new language in an hour by deconstructing it. During my thesis research at Princeton, which focused on neuroscience and unorthodox acquisition of Japanese by native English speakers, as well as when redesigning curricula for Berlitz, this neglected deconstruction step surfaced as one of the distinguishing habits of the fastest language learners.
From daztay: Here some old footage of early computers. The following is the first military defense computer, it was so advanced that it had a "display screen" which is a cross between a radar and tv. IBM on guard! 1956 also IBM 704 playing chess.
Next time you get beaten at chess, you could well be entitled to punch your opponent in the face, assuming you're playing the growing sport of "Chessboxing". "What a king hit!" "Ooh, he's got a wicked left rook." Hmm, what other good sports combinations could there be? Perhaps origami while racing an F1 car. The juggling marathon. Pole-vault table-tennis. Sadly it's alternate rounds of chess and boxing, probably to avoid getting a queen in the eye.
Tech-Hounds have a P35 motherboard roundup for your LGA775 CPU. We'd take a look at both DDR2 and DDR3 motherboards, which include the ASUS P5K3 and P5K Deluxe, Gigabyte P35T-DQ6 and P35-DS3P, MSI P35 Diamond, P35 Platinum and P35 Neo.
Craig sent word of a fake anti-spyware scam which has tricked thousands of victims. Apparently this "Russian Business Network" has gone offline but may re-appear again elsewhere, thanks Paul.
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