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Solar Car Speed Record Smashed 72

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 22, 2011 @02:13AM from the hats-are-off-to-you dept.

An anonymous reader writes with word from Australia that "There's a new world record for the fastest solar-powered land vehicle: 88 km/h average speed over one kilometre in a lightweight car that uses about the same power as a toaster." As the article goes on to explain, this solar racer, built last year by students from the University of New South Wales, managed to nab that speed record earlier this month on an Australian navy base airstrip.

BioWare's Star Wars MMO To Have Space Combat 122

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 23, 2010 @06:28PM from the just-in-case-they-weren't-busy-enough dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Big news for Star Wars fans looking forward to BioWare's upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG — space combat has been confirmed for the game. Players will be able to fly around the galaxy in their own personal starships, avoiding asteroid belts, landing in dangerous territory and battling other vessels. The initial news makes it sound like a cross between Mass Effect's galaxy map and a traditional space fighting game, where players will have to find 'hotspots' on the galaxy map in order to enter a particular zone."

Tom's Hardware On the Current Stable of Office Apps For Linux 121

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 29, 2010 @04:23PM from the everything-is-amazing-no-one-is-happy dept.

tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware is continuing its coverage of easy-to-install Linux applications for new users coming from Windows with the latest installment, Office Apps. This segment covers office suites, word processors, spreadsheet apps, presentation software, simple database titles, desktop publishing, project management, financial software, and more. All of these applications are available in the Ubuntu, Fedora, or openSUSE repos or as .deb or .rpm packages. All of the links to download these applications are provided — even Windows .exe and Mac OS X .dmg files when available."

Comment Re:We're looking to AUSTRALIA for advice on broadb (Score 1) 387

by betong on Friday October 30, 2009 @10:01AM (#29923193) Attached to: Obama Looks Down Under For Broadband Plan

Seriously why not Japan, or most European countries?

Because Japan, and most European countries, are geographically tiny. Australia is, AFAIK, the only USA-sized country rolling out nation-wide high-speed internet access. Our population density is an order of magnitude lower than yours, so surely, if we can make it profitable, so can the US.

Admittedly, our current infrastructure is mediocre, but the planned roll-out should address that.

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