Cornell University Professor David Pimental clearly shows how creating Ethanol (gas for tractors, refining, delivery, nitrogen fertilizer, etc...) uses more power (and pollutes more, btw) than you can yield from it:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug01/corn- ba sedethanol.hrs.html
http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm
Ethanol is a scam as an "alternate fuel source" for gasoline. It ends up polluting more because of the gas used in all the growing and distribution of corn. And all the CO2 produced during the refinement. Never heard of it for use in fuel cells, but in other areas Ethanol is a total scam.
The IEEE has an article entitled "the economics of DSL regulation" which clearly outlines that the Baby Bells have an unfair monopoly position over bandwidth.
Using this monopoly over the last mile, they jack up prices (so they do not poach their T1 business).
The reason the demand is not there is because the prices are artifically high.
Bandwidth is the only economically unscalable part of the internet. (see another IEEE article on this subject) -- and it's for a reason -- the price of bandwidth is ARTIFICALLY HIGH.
This has been an economic crime. There is no free market for bandwidth.
I got my OEM-AIW Radeon 7500 at NewEgg for around $165, shipped -- the OEM version just didn't come with any games, but all drivers were included. I haven't had any problems on my W2K, Dell pentium-2 266mhz, 192mb RAM -- but my processor really is too slow for good capture for TV-on demand, scheduling with low resolutions works well, and the quality of the TV picture is EXCELLENT. I don't even have cable -- just a rabbit-ear TV antenna. I was really surprised it looked so good.
The RF remote works pretty well -- it can even control the cursor for other windows programs, but it's just about impossible to see the cursor from far away, alas.
I disagree with the user who said he "could read his closed captioning" -- mine is very clear.
I noticed that there is even a really cool feature which allows you to schedule a TV transcription with image captures to an HTML file (making it look like a storyboard). -- very cool -- and unexpected.
In general I've been happy with mine -- especially since I don't have room for both a monitor and a TV. Also I like how it has 4 different types of video capture -- and then at different resolutions, etc. (I'm at a low-res capture with my p2-266, but it still works! (sometimes with small dropouts, though))
I agree, it has a way to go to reach TIVo, but as "a poor man's tivo", I'd still wish for a faster processor than my 266mhz dinosaur. I'm actually considering gettting a new machine so I can really take advantage of its features.
In general I'm really happy with it, and look forward to future software improvements with even more features.
One thing more: I wish it had an AM/FM tuner so I could also capture Radio(!!)
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Cornell University Professor David Pimental clearly shows how creating Ethanol (gas for tractors, refining, delivery, nitrogen fertilizer, etc...) uses more power (and pollutes more, btw) than you can yield from it:
- ba sedethanol.hrs.html
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Aug01/corn
http://healthandenergy.com/ethanol.htm
Ethanol is a scam as an "alternate fuel source" for gasoline. It ends up polluting more because of the gas used in all the growing and distribution of corn. And all the CO2 produced during the refinement.
Never heard of it for use in fuel cells, but in other areas Ethanol is a total scam.
The IEEE has an article entitled "the economics of DSL regulation" which clearly outlines that the Baby Bells have an unfair monopoly position over bandwidth.
Using this monopoly over the last mile, they jack up prices (so they do not poach their T1 business).
The reason the demand is not there is because the prices are artifically high.
Bandwidth is the only economically unscalable part of the internet. (see another IEEE article on this subject) -- and it's for a reason -- the price of bandwidth is ARTIFICALLY HIGH.
This has been an economic crime.
There is no free market for bandwidth.
I got my OEM-AIW Radeon 7500 at NewEgg for around $165, shipped -- the OEM version just didn't come with any games, but all drivers were included. I haven't had any problems on my W2K, Dell pentium-2 266mhz, 192mb RAM -- but my processor really is too slow for good capture for TV-on demand, scheduling with low resolutions works well, and the quality of the TV picture is EXCELLENT. I don't even have cable -- just a rabbit-ear TV antenna. I was really surprised it looked so good.
The RF remote works pretty well -- it can even control the cursor for other windows programs, but it's just about impossible to see the cursor from far away, alas.
I disagree with the user who said he "could read his closed captioning" -- mine is very clear.
I noticed that there is even a really cool feature which allows you to schedule a TV transcription with image captures to an HTML file (making it look like a storyboard). -- very cool -- and unexpected.
In general I've been happy with mine -- especially since I don't have room for both a monitor and a TV. Also I like how it has 4 different types of video capture -- and then at different resolutions, etc. (I'm at a low-res capture with my p2-266, but it still works! (sometimes with small dropouts, though))
I agree, it has a way to go to reach TIVo, but as "a poor man's tivo", I'd still wish for a faster processor than my 266mhz dinosaur. I'm actually considering gettting a new machine so I can really take advantage of its features.
In general I'm really happy with it, and look forward to future software improvements with even more features.
One thing more: I wish it had an AM/FM tuner so I could also capture Radio(!!)