Just Basic Organic Chemistry...
This process of "upgrading" has been done for decades to create "Synthetic" oils and other hydrocarbons. They just are using something magical called "Biocatalytic Reactors" (Probably contain high temperature enzymes and catalysts but operate at lower temps than current industrial processes).
This is just reversing the hydrocarbon oxidation (burning) process using some for of "upgrader" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_industry_in_Canada_(oil_sands_and_heavy_oil)#Upgraders . These reactions to reduce CO2 into "fuel" will be VERY endothermic (absorb heat energy) and must take place at higher temps without Oxygen present.. All that energy must come from somewhere! It is just sooooo much cheaper to use hydrocarbons from the ground.
CO2 is just an acidic oxide of Carbon.
To create 'fuel' from it you must change it to something completely different by adding significant energy and removing the Oxygen... The energy is stored in the formed carbon bonds and hydrogen bonds (Why we call these type of fuels Hydro-carbons).
CO2 is a significantly lower energy state carbon oxide compound.
This process is not different than the incorrect view that H2O (water) is a as fuel. (Sure after you add massive amounts of electricity and electrolytically separate (reduce) the hydrogen from the oxygen from the hydrogen into hydrogen gas and Oxygen.
This is really the same thing using some "Biocatayltic Reactor" to add energy to CO2 to separate the carbon from the oxygen (reduction of the carbon to a non-oxidized form such as CO2 or CO)
You cannot hide from the chemistry.
The energy to do this MUST come from *SOMEWHERE*. Considering that 99% of the massive amounts of energy stored in the molecular bonds of all fossil fuels do not have to be added to these fuels in their extraction, refinement, delivery to end-users, what this "new" technology is doing is just adding the "Creation" part of the hydrocarbon fuel and that takes about 99% more energy to do because you still have the remaining three steps.
I will bet that this process is more expensive than letting mother nature create starches/sugars that we then modify into hydrocarbon "fuels".
It is VERY hard to beat the efficiency of mother nature on this one:
6CO2 + 6H2O + Light = C6H12O6 (Glucose) + 6O2
I wonder what a gallon of this "fuel" costs. (Add enough energy to most substances and you can create "fuel" to them.) CO2 is a waste product because it (and CO and H2O) is the lowest energy product of hydrocarbon combustion (oxidation). This is Basic Chemistry.
Unless Windows 7 makes me feel as good as the transition was for me from Win98 to Win2k, I will be using WinXP for apps and games that I cannot use on my OSX Hackintosh partition.
I will help pass out the coats in Hell when Apple decides to be price-competitive now that they all use the same chipset and processors (Intel) with the rest of the PC universe and also allow the free installation of their Intel OSX on standard PC hardware without hacked EFIs and BIOS's...
I am not saying I have the solution for what UAC was intended.
UAC is preventative medicine whose side effects are worse than the actual symptoms.
Most users simply click on the little boxes until the UAC goes away.
I have had people call me to read the confusing UAC boxes and choices to me over the phone, asking me what to do. (Think Grandma and Mom and Aunts)
I believe UAC is a failure because it does not address the need from the user's point of view. It tries to rubber-pad the world.
The UAC should be either somewhat intelligent and understand that you are installing this app or that app on purpose for a reason (typically user's need) and it is not a piece of spyware etc...
I believe this is why Apple has so much of a closed system, because imagine the outcry is OSX had a UAC with the same behaviors of that of Vista.
I for one, pray that Microsoft just not release any new operating systems until they are competitive with OSX in its ease and usability OUT OF THE BOX (as in Pre-SP1 etc...)
(Given that the guaranteed stability would have to be on a specific set of well-tested hardware, feel free to mod away, but other than forcing Trusted Hardware as the only option as Apple's OSX does... )
It is my hope MS can learn from Apple.. but alas they would just likely replace the UAC nag box with another one that states that the hardware is not the official super-dooper MS approved list stuff... so there is the failure to understand user needs AGAIN...
DISCLAIMER: I have used loyally used windows since version 1.0 and I am now recommending OSX systems to my family (especially those that call me with UAC questions). I hope the EFIXusa.com products are usable long term. I want to build my own. Apples are so badly overpriced (despite some of them doubling up as free Benzene huffing devices...)
Another hypothesis could be that people are signing up their "friends" (often inadvertently, but sometimes on purpose). This was really popular back in college (as I recall) by signing up known person's emails as a prank.
Remember at the Dem's convention they were collecting cell phone numbers of the numbers of family and friends of the Dem Convention attendees cell phones.
Another variant on this is that someone is likely harvesting addresses from the headers from those silly blanket-her-entire-email-list jokes my sweet and dear 65-year-old aunt keeps sending the whole family et al following her discovery of the "free postage" part of email.
If I ever forward any message to a large group, I BCC them all...
As much as I am no fan of Real Networks and their 'products', I would have hoped at least they would have shown some balls here.
Nobody can say this about Real now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ren3azMgViU
Surely someone at NASA has thought about making the first extra-terrestrial 'snow angel' with one of their landers? You know, for Kids...
(Too bad the Hubble will not be able to take a picture of it though... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/29/1846238 )
Sorta lowers expectations doesn't it?
Makes me wonder about that near-future 5-year gap where the US will have no way to get up there and repair our assets in space (like the Hubble)??...
Maybe China and their space program are rising to the challenge so we can outsource out space program to them (as well as manufacturing, etc...)...At least I can say that I was made in the USA!
Yes, that thought crossed my mind...:) Apple might help promote a collector's market.
Then again, if these dongles become prevalent and cheaper, I would have a grand old time justifying (my investment) and building another "PC" with the provided shopping list of compatible hardware to have a snappy OSX box... I see it as Win-Win.
Imagine what "copies" of the (now banned by Apple) iPhone Wi-Fi Tethering 3rd party software 'NetShare' would be selling for on Ebay (if it could be obtained on removable media)...
These things are probably too cool to stay legal (if Apple can ban them somehow)... Someone should add a "hackintosh"/. tag to this thread...
http://www.efixusa.net/product_info.php?products_id=28
They take Paypal and Credit Card and it was $169 + $10 shipping...
What's with the picture?
Are those ducks floating on top of a sea of blue foam earplugs following their release from a tragic cargo container ship accident?
When someone who was an uninvited stranger overindulged and passed out cold.... Drinking our free "beverages"... and...
Hey, what's that.... could it be a permanent marker??
Whatever could that ~possibly~ be used for... ???
Good Times.:)
Technically, Zeus emasculated his father Cronus (AKA Kronos, AKA Saturn) so really we are all just saying that Saturn is just a really a very very very old eunuch?
Why not an unlocked handset that works on ANY compatible technology carrier (INCLUDING AT&T/Cingular) with a proper SIM card?...
I would be willing to pay a little bit more for it.
After all, I will not buy a certain PC if it ONLY works with AOL or Earthlink "service providers"...
A list of their "Clients" might be useful as well as interesting while taking their numbers and the source of the "cyber attacks" into consideration...
It might be that as the US is the greatest English-speaking population with disposable income, the US may be a better target and thus is targeted from within the itself more often??
LOL...:) Our favorite friend Cyclohexane in its "chair" and "boat" conformations...
Thanks for the smile 'gilleain'.. How I hated (at first) those plastic molecular model kits...
Organic Chemistry is ESSENTIAL to the foundations of understanding HOW organic molecules interact in numerous ways within the human body.
I recall one biochemistry professor telling us all that the body is really just an exothermic bag of diluted aqueous electrolytes full of fats, proteins, and enzymes whose job was to slowly burn (oxidation) carbon-based organic fuels (food) and release waste (poop, CO2, and urine).
Of course, this is oversimplified, but it makes a clear point for this discussion... YES, Doctors need to UNDERSTAND Organic Chemistry to be able to understand BIOCHEMISTRY.
Every single Drug, Poison, and Food put into the body all have Biochemical interactions within the body and the Organic Chemistry foundation they, as Pre-Med Students who should have ALL earned A's in, is essential to the understanding of the ORGANIC Drug compaoinds they are perscribing to their patients.
Please resist the notion to take the PhD parts out of being a medical doctor,
"MD" does not now, nor should it ever stand for: "Memorization Doctor". (For the record, I earned my Bachelor's in Biochemistry and now several of my close friends and classmates are Practicing Medical Doctors.)
I couldn't agree more... *Everyone* should actually USE an SSD in the field as your OS boot drive to really experience the difference.
These things are like Apples and Oranges (SSD vs. HDD).
I posted my experience with an SSD on my Asus Eee PC 1000H (WinXP) and in this thread: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954031&cid=24926963
For the record, today I installed the cheapest 64GB SATA SSD I easily could find on ebay (the Transcend MLC type 64GB SATA SSD) into the Eee PC 1000H.
Basically, I had to use the Asus restore DVD (Version 3.0) to boot/format/restore setup the blank SSD drive with a USB DVD-R Drive. (It was interesting that the Asus restore DVD boots to Norton Ghost v11.0 to restore the various partitions and drive images after which, WinXP Home came right up...)
If this is the REAL WORLD performance and speed to be expected from even the cheapest of Taiwanese SSD drives, *WOW!* is all I can say. Magnetic HDDs are about to 'booted' as the preferred boot OS drive type... I am impressed.
If I can tell the performance difference in such a slow CPU as the 1.6GHz Atom, I wonder just what a boot SSD will do for my gaming box?...
I am now interested in obtaining an MLC chip'd SSD to see the differences in real world use.
The Eee PC 1000H, boots faster, and is very very crisp and snappy with an SSD compared to the OEM Seagate 5400.3 80GB HDD.
(Now to measure the actual power consumption with the SSD...)
I prefer use AnyDVD. It is based offshore and kept very current.:) http://www.slysoft.com/
AnyDVD can strip region Coding too... plus it rips HD-DVD and Blu-Ray HD content too (removing all CCS, Region coding, and other DRM like BD+, etc..)
You can burn back to a blank DVD (double or single layer DVDs, but DVD-R works best in most players) or to a blank Blu-Ray "BD-R" using the burner of your choice.
Standard set-top players should play the burned disks just fine in most modern DVD drives. (I use CloneDVD2 for this)...
I find taking one (or each type) of your burned disks to the store and trying it on the set-top DVD players *before* purchase (where DVD drive showrooms are available) makes pre-sales testing go smoother. Not all set-top DVD players are created equal nor are they all well-endowed by their creators...
A Blu-Ray burner is way too costly at this time, but I have ripped a few Blu-Rays with AnyDVD HD (same program, but you can pay for the more expensive HD ripping key if desired) and they sure look good playing from their DRM-Free and Region-Free images off my HDD (at 1920x1200).
Who says that HDCP (another hardware-based DRM schema) monitors are required to watch digital HDMI Blu-Ray content on my PC!
I am SURE that rips of disks that have no region coding and no CCS and BD+ or any other DRM would play on about any flavor of *nix that had a media player which can handle the format...
Blu-Ray "BD-R" burners need to come down in cost to a reasonable level and blank media needs to be under $1 per disk... then I'll just go to that. Business as usual.
(Of Course, I purchase ALL of the disks that I "rip" and copy for MY PERSONAL USE ONLY, Ahem..) You know, for my Non-Windows and Non-OSX boxes and for use in other devices that I own...
"Backup Copies". Also great for the typical destructive 2-18 year olds who want to "watch" a copy of my new movie and often return it scratched because apparently they used it as a slider to move furniture...
I Purchased AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 two years ago (and later the HD upgrade for the AnyDVD ripper) and they are still going strong with frequent and free updates and it has worked on hundreds of DVDs and a few Blu-Rays and several HD-DVD disks too ever since.
I NEVER pay Real Networks for anything...
They tested two (2) different OCZ SSD models, one with SLC NAND Flash memory chips, and the other with MLC NAND Flash memory chips. 2+1+1=4
I know, I RTA...
Ok, now I want to see the actual images of individual human brain cell deaths during the consumption of alcohol or other Drugs.
Imagine, A whole new generation enjoying the "This is your Brain (cells) on Drugs, Any Questions?", Ad Campaigns... (Might be more interesting than the egg broken into the frying pan bit)
It is under the same bottom hatch as the RAM and HDD on the bottom of the Eee PC 1000H.
It had an AzureWave AW-NE766 Mini-PCIe card factory installed so just I removed the standard white and black antenna connectors and swapped cards with my Intel 4965AGN card. (because the Intel card has more features and is well-documented.) I just had no third antenna to connect to the center "gray" antenna connection on the Intel card, but it works fine.)
Here is an article of an EeePC 1000H it with the back cover off, etc... http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1474/2/asus_eee_pc_1000h_under_the_covers/index.html
Slashdot Mirror
Just Basic Organic Chemistry... This process of "upgrading" has been done for decades to create "Synthetic" oils and other hydrocarbons. They just are using something magical called "Biocatalytic Reactors" (Probably contain high temperature enzymes and catalysts but operate at lower temps than current industrial processes). This is just reversing the hydrocarbon oxidation (burning) process using some for of "upgrader" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_petroleum_industry_in_Canada_(oil_sands_and_heavy_oil)#Upgraders . These reactions to reduce CO2 into "fuel" will be VERY endothermic (absorb heat energy) and must take place at higher temps without Oxygen present.. All that energy must come from somewhere! It is just sooooo much cheaper to use hydrocarbons from the ground.
CO2 is just an acidic oxide of Carbon.
To create 'fuel' from it you must change it to something completely different by adding significant energy and removing the Oxygen... The energy is stored in the formed carbon bonds and hydrogen bonds (Why we call these type of fuels Hydro-carbons).
CO2 is a significantly lower energy state carbon oxide compound.
This process is not different than the incorrect view that H2O (water) is a as fuel. (Sure after you add massive amounts of electricity and electrolytically separate (reduce) the hydrogen from the oxygen from the hydrogen into hydrogen gas and Oxygen.
This is really the same thing using some "Biocatayltic Reactor" to add energy to CO2 to separate the carbon from the oxygen (reduction of the carbon to a non-oxidized form such as CO2 or CO)
You cannot hide from the chemistry.
The energy to do this MUST come from *SOMEWHERE*. Considering that 99% of the massive amounts of energy stored in the molecular bonds of all fossil fuels do not have to be added to these fuels in their extraction, refinement, delivery to end-users, what this "new" technology is doing is just adding the "Creation" part of the hydrocarbon fuel and that takes about 99% more energy to do because you still have the remaining three steps.
I will bet that this process is more expensive than letting mother nature create starches/sugars that we then modify into hydrocarbon "fuels".
It is VERY hard to beat the efficiency of mother nature on this one:
6CO2 + 6H2O + Light = C6H12O6 (Glucose) + 6O2
I wonder what a gallon of this "fuel" costs. (Add enough energy to most substances and you can create "fuel" to them.) CO2 is a waste product because it (and CO and H2O) is the lowest energy product of hydrocarbon combustion (oxidation). This is Basic Chemistry.
Unless Windows 7 makes me feel as good as the transition was for me from Win98 to Win2k, I will be using WinXP for apps and games that I cannot use on my OSX Hackintosh partition.
I will help pass out the coats in Hell when Apple decides to be price-competitive now that they all use the same chipset and processors (Intel) with the rest of the PC universe and also allow the free installation of their Intel OSX on standard PC hardware without hacked EFIs and BIOS's...
I am not saying I have the solution for what UAC was intended.
UAC is preventative medicine whose side effects are worse than the actual symptoms.
Most users simply click on the little boxes until the UAC goes away.
I have had people call me to read the confusing UAC boxes and choices to me over the phone, asking me what to do. (Think Grandma and Mom and Aunts)
I believe UAC is a failure because it does not address the need from the user's point of view. It tries to rubber-pad the world.
The UAC should be either somewhat intelligent and understand that you are installing this app or that app on purpose for a reason (typically user's need) and it is not a piece of spyware etc...
I believe this is why Apple has so much of a closed system, because imagine the outcry is OSX had a UAC with the same behaviors of that of Vista.
I for one, pray that Microsoft just not release any new operating systems until they are competitive with OSX in its ease and usability OUT OF THE BOX (as in Pre-SP1 etc...)
(Given that the guaranteed stability would have to be on a specific set of well-tested hardware, feel free to mod away, but other than forcing Trusted Hardware as the only option as Apple's OSX does... )
It is my hope MS can learn from Apple.. but alas they would just likely replace the UAC nag box with another one that states that the hardware is not the official super-dooper MS approved list stuff... so there is the failure to understand user needs AGAIN... DISCLAIMER: I have used loyally used windows since version 1.0 and I am now recommending OSX systems to my family (especially those that call me with UAC questions). I hope the EFIXusa.com products are usable long term. I want to build my own. Apples are so badly overpriced (despite some of them doubling up as free Benzene huffing devices...)
*DISABLE IT*. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/12/19/turn-off-or-disable-user-account-control-uac-in-windows-vista/
(Now, does that now make my Vista SP1 more 'Windows 7ish'?)
Other methods here: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=How+to+disable+Vista+UAC
Do you live in Missouri?
I have a hypothesis: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Break+in+Republican+laptop
Another hypothesis could be that people are signing up their "friends" (often inadvertently, but sometimes on purpose). This was really popular back in college (as I recall) by signing up known person's emails as a prank.
Remember at the Dem's convention they were collecting cell phone numbers of the numbers of family and friends of the Dem Convention attendees cell phones.
Another variant on this is that someone is likely harvesting addresses from the headers from those silly blanket-her-entire-email-list jokes my sweet and dear 65-year-old aunt keeps sending the whole family et al following her discovery of the "free postage" part of email.
If I ever forward any message to a large group, I BCC them all...
Based on this, I would not put it past them... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=acorn+voter+registration+fraud&aq=1&oq=ACORN+voter+registration+fraud
It is notable that Mr. Obama was a very strong 'community organizer' for this group and he actively donated his lawyerly skills for the group's benefit for years as well.
AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 are my personal favorites for a ripper/burner. :)
(The AnyDVD ripper will also rip BlueRay and HD DVD's nicely (if you buy the HD Key for HD) and it can also rip directly to a non-DRM'd DVD or HDDVD/BlueRay image file)
http://www.slysoft.com/en/download.html
http://www.elby.ch/products/clone_dvd/index.html
As much as I am no fan of Real Networks and their 'products', I would have hoped at least they would have shown some balls here.
Nobody can say this about Real now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ren3azMgViU
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085407/
I cannot help myself... http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=god+kills+a+kitten&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Surely someone at NASA has thought about making the first extra-terrestrial 'snow angel' with one of their landers? You know, for Kids...
(Too bad the Hubble will not be able to take a picture of it though... http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/29/1846238 )
Sorta lowers expectations doesn't it? ...At least I can say that I was made in the USA!
Makes me wonder about that near-future 5-year gap where the US will have no way to get up there and repair our assets in space (like the Hubble)??...
Maybe China and their space program are rising to the challenge so we can outsource out space program to them (as well as manufacturing, etc...)
Yes, that thought crossed my mind... :) Apple might help promote a collector's market.
Then again, if these dongles become prevalent and cheaper, I would have a grand old time justifying (my investment) and building another "PC" with the provided shopping list of compatible hardware to have a snappy OSX box... I see it as Win-Win.
Imagine what "copies" of the (now banned by Apple) iPhone Wi-Fi Tethering 3rd party software 'NetShare' would be selling for on Ebay (if it could be obtained on removable media)...
These things are probably too cool to stay legal (if Apple can ban them somehow)... Someone should add a "hackintosh" /. tag to this thread...
http://www.efixusa.net/product_info.php?products_id=28
They take Paypal and Credit Card and it was $169 + $10 shipping...
Interestingly, I noticed that their Website appears to be based in England? http://geotool.servehttp.com/?ip=209.25.134.78&host=www.efixusa.net
I wonder if Apple and its vast team of Lawyers are the reason for the offshore hosting and sales site? (I bet it will be shipped from overseas too...)
Hardware Compatibility List: http://www.efixusa.net/hardware_comp.php
NOTE: The EFiX-USA Ebay Store has no inventory at this time: http://stores.ebay.com/EFiX-USA
What's with the picture?
Are those ducks floating on top of a sea of blue foam earplugs following their release from a tragic cargo container ship accident?
When someone who was an uninvited stranger overindulged and passed out cold.... Drinking our free "beverages"... and... :)
Hey, what's that.... could it be a permanent marker?? Whatever could that ~possibly~ be used for... ???
Good Times.
Technically, Zeus emasculated his father Cronus (AKA Kronos, AKA Saturn) so really we are all just saying that Saturn is just a really a very very very old eunuch?
Why not an unlocked handset that works on ANY compatible technology carrier (INCLUDING AT&T/Cingular) with a proper SIM card?... I would be willing to pay a little bit more for it.
After all, I will not buy a certain PC if it ONLY works with AOL or Earthlink "service providers"...
A list of their "Clients" might be useful as well as interesting while taking their numbers and the source of the "cyber attacks" into consideration...
It might be that as the US is the greatest English-speaking population with disposable income, the US may be a better target and thus is targeted from within the itself more often??
LOL... :) Our favorite friend Cyclohexane in its "chair" and "boat" conformations...
Thanks for the smile 'gilleain'.. How I hated (at first) those plastic molecular model kits...
Organic Chemistry is ESSENTIAL to the foundations of understanding HOW organic molecules interact in numerous ways within the human body.
I recall one biochemistry professor telling us all that the body is really just an exothermic bag of diluted aqueous electrolytes full of fats, proteins, and enzymes whose job was to slowly burn (oxidation) carbon-based organic fuels (food) and release waste (poop, CO2, and urine).
Of course, this is oversimplified, but it makes a clear point for this discussion... YES, Doctors need to UNDERSTAND Organic Chemistry to be able to understand BIOCHEMISTRY.
Every single Drug, Poison, and Food put into the body all have Biochemical interactions within the body and the Organic Chemistry foundation they, as Pre-Med Students who should have ALL earned A's in, is essential to the understanding of the ORGANIC Drug compaoinds they are perscribing to their patients.
Please resist the notion to take the PhD parts out of being a medical doctor,
"MD" does not now, nor should it ever stand for: "Memorization Doctor". (For the record, I earned my Bachelor's in Biochemistry and now several of my close friends and classmates are Practicing Medical Doctors.)
I couldn't agree more... *Everyone* should actually USE an SSD in the field as your OS boot drive to really experience the difference.
These things are like Apples and Oranges (SSD vs. HDD).
I posted my experience with an SSD on my Asus Eee PC 1000H (WinXP) and in this thread: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954031&cid=24926963
For the record, today I installed the cheapest 64GB SATA SSD I easily could find on ebay (the Transcend MLC type 64GB SATA SSD) into the Eee PC 1000H.
Basically, I had to use the Asus restore DVD (Version 3.0) to boot/format/restore setup the blank SSD drive with a USB DVD-R Drive. (It was interesting that the Asus restore DVD boots to Norton Ghost v11.0 to restore the various partitions and drive images after which, WinXP Home came right up...)
If this is the REAL WORLD performance and speed to be expected from even the cheapest of Taiwanese SSD drives, *WOW!* is all I can say. Magnetic HDDs are about to 'booted' as the preferred boot OS drive type... I am impressed.
If I can tell the performance difference in such a slow CPU as the 1.6GHz Atom, I wonder just what a boot SSD will do for my gaming box?...
I am now interested in obtaining an MLC chip'd SSD to see the differences in real world use.
The Eee PC 1000H, boots faster, and is very very crisp and snappy with an SSD compared to the OEM Seagate 5400.3 80GB HDD.
(Now to measure the actual power consumption with the SSD...)
I prefer use AnyDVD. It is based offshore and kept very current. :) http://www.slysoft.com/
AnyDVD can strip region Coding too... plus it rips HD-DVD and Blu-Ray HD content too (removing all CCS, Region coding, and other DRM like BD+, etc..)
You can burn back to a blank DVD (double or single layer DVDs, but DVD-R works best in most players) or to a blank Blu-Ray "BD-R" using the burner of your choice.
Standard set-top players should play the burned disks just fine in most modern DVD drives. (I use CloneDVD2 for this)...
I find taking one (or each type) of your burned disks to the store and trying it on the set-top DVD players *before* purchase (where DVD drive showrooms are available) makes pre-sales testing go smoother. Not all set-top DVD players are created equal nor are they all well-endowed by their creators...
A Blu-Ray burner is way too costly at this time, but I have ripped a few Blu-Rays with AnyDVD HD (same program, but you can pay for the more expensive HD ripping key if desired) and they sure look good playing from their DRM-Free and Region-Free images off my HDD (at 1920x1200).
Who says that HDCP (another hardware-based DRM schema) monitors are required to watch digital HDMI Blu-Ray content on my PC!
I am SURE that rips of disks that have no region coding and no CCS and BD+ or any other DRM would play on about any flavor of *nix that had a media player which can handle the format...
Blu-Ray "BD-R" burners need to come down in cost to a reasonable level and blank media needs to be under $1 per disk... then I'll just go to that. Business as usual.
(Of Course, I purchase ALL of the disks that I "rip" and copy for MY PERSONAL USE ONLY, Ahem..) You know, for my Non-Windows and Non-OSX boxes and for use in other devices that I own...
"Backup Copies". Also great for the typical destructive 2-18 year olds who want to "watch" a copy of my new movie and often return it scratched because apparently they used it as a slider to move furniture...
I Purchased AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 two years ago (and later the HD upgrade for the AnyDVD ripper) and they are still going strong with frequent and free updates and it has worked on hundreds of DVDs and a few Blu-Rays and several HD-DVD disks too ever since.
I NEVER pay Real Networks for anything...
They tested two (2) different OCZ SSD models, one with SLC NAND Flash memory chips, and the other with MLC NAND Flash memory chips. 2+1+1=4
I know, I RTA...
Ok, now I want to see the actual images of individual human brain cell deaths during the consumption of alcohol or other Drugs.
Imagine, A whole new generation enjoying the "This is your Brain (cells) on Drugs, Any Questions?", Ad Campaigns... (Might be more interesting than the egg broken into the frying pan bit)
It is under the same bottom hatch as the RAM and HDD on the bottom of the Eee PC 1000H.
It had an AzureWave AW-NE766 Mini-PCIe card factory installed so just I removed the standard white and black antenna connectors and swapped cards with my Intel 4965AGN card. (because the Intel card has more features and is well-documented.) I just had no third antenna to connect to the center "gray" antenna connection on the Intel card, but it works fine.)
Here is an article of an EeePC 1000H it with the back cover off, etc... http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1474/2/asus_eee_pc_1000h_under_the_covers/index.html