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Saturday, 13-March-2010 20:46:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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iXBTLabs have a 59 CPU roundup posted. As we promised late in 2009, today we shall sum up test results obtained with our Test Method v4.0. Initially, we planned on publishing the article in mid-January, but then we decided to do it according to updates in manufacturers' product series. January brought us nearly ten new processors which we added to this summary.
China have warned Google to comply with the censorship laws in that country. Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong was speaking at China's annual legislation session. "We need to preserve our nation's interest, our people's interest, we cannot be relaxed with any information that will cause harm to the stability of our society, to our system, and to the health of our under-age young people," he said. Discussion continues in this thread.
A New Zealand inventor has created a cool-looking folding electric bike for scooting around the city. YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial expression of the mini-farthing concept, created up by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers.
Pink Floyd have won a lawsuit against EMI, preventing EMI from selling individual songs (as opposed to entire albums) without the band's permission. Their latest record deal, signed with EMI before legal downloads came along, said individual songs must not be sold without the band's permission. They argued that the same rule should apply to digital sales as well as CDs.
JimX sent in this video clip with a Heath Robinson contraption. Or if you're American, a Rube Goldberg machine. Either way, they're cool and fun and I must build one one day. :)
A few places are reporting that new hard drives might confuse Win XP. The big obvious name missing from this list is Windows XP (and its server counterpart, Windows Server 2003). Windows XP (along with old Linux kernels) has, somewhere within its code, a fixed assumption of 512 byte sectors. Try to use it with hard disks with 4096 byte sectors and failure will ensue.
mpot spotted this Australian dot com crash quiz. Test your knowledge about the dotcom boom and its spectacular end. It is now ten years since the bubble burst. I remember it well, because I left my "real" job and started work full-time on OCAU right as everything collapsed. Still, here we are. :)
While we're quizzing, you can test your video game knowledge. You click on the image and guess what computer game they're trying to convey. Discussion here.
And if you're STILL not quizzed out, there's another huge game-identifying image here.
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