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Core Frequency

Nathan Taylor has spent way too much of his life poring over technology white papers, chip diagrams and benchmark results. How can we tell? He once had in-depth discussion about the Itanium's extreme instruction-level parallelism and how it ultimately turned out that developers really wanted thread-level parallelism.

 
 
The bad news about the NBN
May 7, 2009 11:53 AM | 1 Comment

It has been shown to be possible to deliver speeds of up to 1.6 terabits over fibre, but will a privately-owned monopoly have the motivation to deliver those speeds?


Opposition air-swings over the NBN
May 1, 2009 2:04 PM | 1 Comment

Attacking the cost to the taxpayer may win over a few conservatives, but I have little doubt that the NBN is and will remain a broadly popular move.


Ten games that qualify as art
Apr 23, 2009 11:26 AM | Comment Now

It's clear that Fallout 3 is one of those games that transcends fun and moves into the realm of art. We look back at the top ten games with an artistic sensibility


Copper is dead. Long live fibre!
Apr 8, 2009 11:54 AM | 1 Comment

Labor’s plan to build a government-controlled fibre to the home network is the best broadband news we’ve had for some time. But questions still remain, including what Telstra’s response will be to being cut off at the knees.


The GeForce 275 and Radeon HD 4890 are here
Apr 3, 2009 1:36 PM | 3 Comments

If only graphics chips were simpler. Nathan Taylor tries to keep track of the endless graphics chips released by AMD, Nvidia and Intel.


Digital radio: a stepping stone to something better?
Mar 25, 2009 10:38 AM | Comment Now

Digital radio is just a stepping stone to something even better - devices like Pure Evoke Flow and the Tivoli Audio Networks. Nathan Taylor explains how free music networks are about to change.


100 megabits: not all it's cracked up to be?
Mar 12, 2009 5:02 PM | 4 Comments

At 100mbps you could literally burn through Telstra's 25GB Bigpond Liberty cap in a little over half an hour. Nathan Taylor explains why he still won't touch Telstra Cable.


Why you won't want Windows 7 Starter on your netbook
Mar 12, 2009 12:24 PM | Comment Now

Will anyone want to use Windows 7 Starter edition? Nathan Taylor explains why he thinks this is the version you might want to avoid.


Who gives good broadband?
Mar 5, 2009 12:12 PM | 11 Comments

The results from Whirlpool’s annual Australian Broadband Survey are in, and as always they make interesting reading.


Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo: The new console wars
Feb 20, 2009 11:24 AM | 1 Comment

Anyone else get the sense that this generation of consoles is played out? Xbox is in trouble, PlayStation 3 is coming into its own with Killzone 2, and meanwhile there's talk about the future.


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