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Sunday, 23-March-2008 16:10:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Wired have a huge but fascinating article about rescuing a capsized container vessel. They're a motley mix: American, British, Swedish, Panamanian. Each has a specialty — deep-sea diving, computer modeling, underwater welding, big-engine repair. And then there's Habib, the guy who regularly helicopters onto the deck of a sinking ship, greets whatever crew is left, and takes command of the stricken vessel. Good Sunday arvo reading.
From paulh: Found this in New Scientist magazine. If you have Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 7 (its fixed in 8) and go look at the Patent List referring to this software (Help | About |Patent and Legal Notices) you will see a long list of Patents starting with 337,604. IF you then go to the US Patent Office Website and have a look at Patent 337,604 here (works best in IE.. Doesn’t seem to like Firefox) You get a patent for a Towel Rack. Not sure whether this counts as news or what.. but it's weird enough I thought you might like it. Someone somewhere actually started going through the patents. I’m sure they were surprised with their first hit.
Latest to check out NVIDIA's 790i SLI Ultra and 9800 GX2 are Motherboards.org and GamePyre. HWZone meanwhile checked out Intel's Roadmap to Nehalem and beyond.
Ah-hah, just earlier today I was whinging to one of my Apple-friendly mates that iTunes had tried to sneakly install Apple's Safari web browser onto my PC, by making it look like a normal iTunes update. Seems I'm not the only one affected.
Tweaktown took a look at Gigabyte's DES and ASUS's EPU, both power-saving technologies. First we thought we would start off with a bit on the GIGABYTE implementation for saving power which they have called Dynamic Energy Saver or DES for short. On the technical side of things, DES looks and feels to be a more involved design when it comes to how it operates compared to the ASUS implementation.
Timbot spotted these home gaming setups that are all pretty insane. Playing PS3 or Xbox 360 at any one of these awesome gaming rooms would be like immersing yourself right into the game, rather than just playing it. You can literally feel like you’re in the cockpit, on the battlefield, or surrounded by zombies at any of these ridiculous game rooms.
TrustedReviews have part 3 of their console classics guide posted. In the first two parts of our console classic guide we ran through the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. Now, in our final part we?re looking at what we?re going to call the 32-bit era, though in truth it?s more like the ?32/64/who really knows what-bit?? era.
YouTube have announced their 2007 Award Winners. You have spoken! Here are the videos that you voted to the top of the heap.
Don sent in this BBC Questionaut timewaster. He reckons it's awesome despite being a kids game. Journey through strange worlds and test your knowledge of English, Maths and Science on this magical mission to recover your friend’s hat.
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