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- RealDVD: A walk through the complaint
- RealDVD: A walk through the complaintRealMEHI'd love a way to legally copy my DVDs to my computer's HD so I can watch them without a disc in the drive. However, I'd never buy anything from Real to do it.Software doesn't copy DVDs...... people do. Real might want to talk...
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Episode 61 - The Smelly Laptop
- Episode 61 - The Smelly LaptopIt is obvious as to why you where not hiredto do these ads. ;)RE: Episode 61 - The Smelly LaptopOK, you have WAYYYYYY too much time on your hand. You really didn't have to go through all that to say you didn't like Vista....
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?
- Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"
- Community solar: "Why don't they get it in Washington?"What is the maintanance cost, and backup planshould a storm or fire destroy the structure?It's all about feeling goodThere are people who think logically, and people who think emotionally. Logically, solar is still a losing technology when factoring in all costs...
- Discussion threads 2008-08-01
- Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?
- Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I for oneI for one welcome our new giant rubber snake overlords.RE: Giant rubber snakes to capture wave power?I woke up one morning and my friend was hitting my forehead with a giant rubber snake...at least I think that's what it was.1 MW powers...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-06
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New Worldsmart & clean: grid parity within 24 monthsGiven the fact that the price for fossile fuels are constantly rising, solar energy is one of the most promising solutions to our dwelling energy problem. Within the Solar Market Thin film applications...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Swiss solar firm has come ashore in the New World
- The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon. Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Design of a Data Recovery Block for Communications Over Power Distribution Networks of Microprocessors
- This paper proposed the use of Power Distribution Network PDN of a microprocessor for ubiquitous access of internal nodes for test/debug and showed the suitability of impulse Ultra-WideBand UWB communications for the purpose. This paper presents design of a data recovery block to recover data from UWB impulses superposed on...
- White papers 2008-06-18
- The first optical pacemaker
- According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 5x)
- I don't often publish first hand rumors, but today I've something special for you, if you like tablets that is. A little birdy tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September...
- Blog posts 2008-05-23
- Synet Windy31 USB Wireless Router
- The Synet Windy31 USB Wireless Router (MW-P54SS) is not your typical router. Instead of connecting it to your DSL or cable modem to share an Internet connection, you plug it into a USB port on your PC or laptop. Once plugged in, the $60--roughly the price of a regular USB...
- Product reviews 2008-04-30
- Who's tops in wind? The Spanish.
- Courtesy: Iberdrola. An annually updated ranking of wind energy companies shows Iberdrola is now Numero Uno. Every year Emerging Energy Research tracks the top wind energy companies based on how much electricity they generate. Spanish-based Iberdrola is now ahead of the previous leader,...
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Which way is the wind blowing? Toward Europe says wind study
- Europe will lead the league in offshore windpower developement according to Emerging Energy Research. Their new study concludes that 70% of the global offshore wind investment will be in Europe from now until 2020. Other areas of development will be Canada, China, India and the U.S. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-30
- HP Sez: Turn off the lights!
- HP Sez: Turn off the lights!Are they copycatting Apple?Didn't hear about the news from Apple... apart from Greenpeace lambasting them... who's on the board of directors on that supposedly superior company that everyone else uses them as R&D for not?RE: HP Sez: Turn off the lights!What, exactly, are people...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- A 3.125Gb/s Clock and Data Recovery Circuit Using 1/4-Rate Technique
- This paper describes the design and fabrication of a Clock and Data Recovery circuit CDR. The paper proposes a new clock and data recovery which is based on a 1/4-Rate Frequency Detector QRFD. The proposed frequency detector helps reduce the VCO frequency and is thus advantageous for high speed application....
- White papers 2008-02-17
- Which way is the wind blowin' ?
- The folks at Emerging Energy are looking at the year past and the year to come. Here's their optimistic take on what's up with carbon dioxide emissions and carbon footprint reduction: "Recently, the EU acted to commit to 20% CO2 reductions by 2020. Europe is...
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- U.S. leads in a green tech besides geothermal
- Charts provided by EER. Because the U.S. energy use is so immense, it sometimes seems the whole country runs on fossil fuels. But t'ain't so. The U.S. is big in using geothermal energy. While much of Europe is looking to biodiesel, the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Storing sun and wind power
- Storing sun and wind powerRe: HistoryI'm against opening up the reserves in Alaska and the Gulf. What's great about petroleum reserves is that they never go away until we use them. Do you honestly believe we'll see an end to petroleum consumption in the next 100 years? We're going to...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-05
- Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspace
- Wi-Fi crushes Bluetooth mouse for RF airspaceMessage has been deleted.And your pavilion is an All-in-one?Not even sure why you need to resort to name calling. The computer has nothing to do with the network or bluetooth adapter anyways. Again, having them 1mm apart may have a lot to...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-28
- Vendor Value: Rating the top tech companies
- Vendor Value: Rating the top tech companiesObviously bogusWe have lots of authoritative sources here who have assured us that Red Hat is gasping its last. There is simply [u]no way[/u] that nine times the percentage of Microsoft customers would prefer to leave them compared to Red Hat's.Especially since Red...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
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