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Sunday, 25-January-2009 12:58:53 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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People in WA will have a chance to see a partial solar eclipse tomorrow, thanks mpot. Sunglasses only cut out UV radiation, not the invisible infrared radiation that causes the damage. You should not look at the Sun through sunglasses, binoculars or a camera lens.
The Federal Government has apparently decided to not share the recent national Broadband Network report. Fair enough, it's only $4.7B taxpayer dollars. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the report, due to reach the government yesterday, had been submitted but shot down requests from the Opposition to reveal its contents.
When the new President of the USA took over, there was some online housekeeping required. A new robots.txt for the whitehouse.gov site and someone else updating the Twitter account.
Tech-Report looked at this SATA RAM disk that fits into a drive bay. The original i-RAM's total capacity was limited to 4GB of DDR SDRAM, so it's not particularly useful by today's standards. However, a company called ACard has done one better with the ANS-9010 RAM disk, which has eight DDR2 DIMM slots and support for up to 8GB of memory per slot.
Quan-Time spotted this article about free content boosting sales. Despite the entertainment industry’s constant cries about how bad they’re doing, it works. As we wrote yesterday, Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with increased sales of 23,000 percent.
Video games are apparently bad for us again. Everything we found associated with video games came out negative... [But] I don't want parents to go out and yank all video games. It's like TV. We have to choose what's good and bad and practice moderation.
Game AI may be another task handed over to your GPU soon, along with physics etc. ‘Our recent research into AI suggests that it’s not uncommon for gaming AI to spend more than 90 per cent of its time resolving these two simple questions,’ says Huddy. He also added that these two queries are ‘almost perfect for GPU implementation,’ because they ‘make excellent use of the GPU’s inherently parallel architecture and are typically not memory-bound.’ Discussion here.
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