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Wednesday, 15-September-2010 02:18:13 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There's been piracy raids across Australia recently. Twenty-one homes and businesses were searched in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney this morning. Thousands of pirated goods were seized, including music, DVDs, rip-off designer jewellery and Microsoft software worth tens of thousands of dollars.
But could you be an accidental pirate?! Tony_L sent in this handy online guide. Most of us appreciate and respect the TV and film industry, but, sadly, 1 in 3 Australians participate in content theft or "piracy" without knowing it! Golly.
Bing has passed Yahoo to become the second most popular search engine, according to Nielsen. Anyone out there use a non-Google search engine as their primary search engine? If so, let us know which, and why, in the comments. Although Google saw little change in its month-over-month search volume, it still dominates the search market, accounting for 65% of all U.S. searches.
Intel's Developer Forum is on at the moment, with interesting things like ray-traced Wolfenstein, new Gigabyte motherboards. HotHardware have keynote coverage and and OCZ RevoDrive X2 sneak peek. Tech Report blogged the keynote while LegitReviews looked at an Intel DP67BG Burrage Motherboard. PCPerspective have more on the cloud-based ray-tracing for games.
Not to be left out, AMD have more info on their Ontario and Zacate APUs, while InsideHW interviewed their marketing boss. Tech Report have more on the Zacate APU. AMD showed a Zacate test platform running in a direct-comparison demo against a Core i5-based laptop.
There's a new Portal 2 trailer which was released at PAX 2010. It's good to see GLaDOS is 'supportive' as ever. Right now, my mind is bugging out just trying to comprehend the puzzles when we can expect when the game releases in early 2011. Hrm, I hope they don't spoil the simplicity that made Portal so great.
aXLe has a new site conducting a survey of public transport in Australia. Our mission is to provide a free community service platform for the voice of any public transport commuter. Our vision is to leverage this platform to drive the improvement of service and commuter satisfaction for all public transport systems in Australia. Discussion here.
If you're still in a survey-taking mood, an ANU student has one on DRM and game pricing, with discussion here. The survey is aimed at investigating an area of consumer behaviour and considers factors such as Downloadable contents, Cloud Services and Digital Rights Management that may influence purchase decisions for software products.
Finally, LethalCorpse has a survey about DNA and DNA evidence. The study explores ways to inform jurors of some key issues relating to forensic evidence in criminal cases and aims to improve juror knowledge in Australian criminal trials.
Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame has written a book. It is a discovery of a role in life and set around an NPC in a sophisticated near-future MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) world and the book is basically around him transcending the role he has been given and experiencing the oddities about the world and eventually learning the truth behind it.
Sciby spotted this quite clever shoot the bear ad/video. If you find some funny suggestions, share them!
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