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Monday, 19-October-2009 16:27:55 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Khalil noticed that the Internet Movie Database recently turned 19. Yes, that's older than the web! Google, by comparison, is 11. Meanwhile, Yahoo is 14. IMDb is so old in fact, that is pre-dates the first web browsers. How?
There's a lot of grumbling about CoD : MW 2. Call of Duty community manager Rob Bowling, also known as 'fourzerotwo', has confirmed in a podcast that the PC version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will not support user-created mods. Worse, it will not support dedicated servers. PC gamers will have to suffer peer-to-peer connections, just like their console-owning cousins. Is it coincidence that for much of yesterday, all of Internode was IP blocked from the developer's forum? Discussion in our forums towards the end of this giant thread.
XbitLabs have a SSD roundup. Our today’s article will talk about a new Intel solid state drive using 34 nm chips and five solid state drives from OCZ, four of which are built on the Indillinx Barefoot controller that we haven’t discussed yet in our articles.
Motherboards.org meanwhile have a video review of three 5850 cards. ATI has two products on their list which are game-changing in the fact that they will likely be the only DirectX 11 supporting video cards on the market until 2010 when the consumer version of the Fermi architecture announced by NVIDIA yesterday will be released.
Asteroid spotted this shed index from Bankwest. The "Shed Index" also revealed some disturbing facts around sheds. Five per cent of sheds have been burgled, with thieves taking off with on average, contents worth $1,911, 16 per cent of men reported they had an accident in their shed, with one in five needing a trip to the doctors. We had a 60-person wedding reception in our shed once. :)
Here's a creepy mobile blob thing. Interesting technology. The Lovecraft thrill of watching that alpha-rollout ‘bot take its first so-called “steps” is about a thousand times more viscerally effective than any neatly-bound DARPA white-paper.
Dave sent in this article comparing netbooks with older CPUs. Although the Archos is the slowest of the new machines tested with the benchmark, it still beat the 3033 mainframe running COBOL which was still a popular language in 1980. So the net processing power that took up a room in 1980 now fits in a pocket. There are dozens of ARM processors and they are the most popular processors for cell phones. Because they are used in portable devices energy efficiency is a major factor in their design.
InTheFade noticed that unauthorised Xbox360 storage devices may stop working soon. If you’ve moved your profile or saved games onto one to “back it up,” you’d better move it back onto an authorized Xbox 360 storage device prior to taking the update. If you continue to use an unauthorized Memory Unit after the update, you will not be able to access your stored profile or saved games.
Today's timewaster is this one-button scroller game. Seems to have quite loud music which I can't work out how to turn off.
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