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For decades, scientists have explored the possibility of using space-based solar cells to power the Earth. Some see orbiting power stations as a clean and stable energy source that promises to slow global warming, while others dismiss the idea as an expensive and impractical solution to the world’s energy problems. While the discussion goes on, researchers at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have begun to develop the hardware.
JAXA, which plans to have a Space Solar Power System (SSPS) up and running by 2030, envisions a system consisting of giant solar collectors in geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. The satellites convert sunlight into powerful microwave (or laser) beams that are aimed at receiving stations on Earth, where they are converted into electricity.
Posted Oct 9th, 08 at 01:29 PM byproyb2 Updated Oct 9th, 08 at 10:16 PM byproyb2
It's 2009 soon, the Internet will change the way how we interact. What developers has new skills to learn? The RIA - Rich Internet Application.
IT industry is now focus more about user experience rather than programming, not the same old method of what we plan to have in the software but to build a personalize feature that user will find it useful and interesting. Right to note that, most user will only use 20% of the features that we develop for most of the time.
Most popular language such as Java and C/C++ have dominated the industry for years, we seen countless of software/web application developed for intend to boost the productivity and performance but often lack of interactivity would make the software less appealing, this is where Flash does narrow the end user and designers result in more personalise interaction but for RIA development, it has lack of components that designed to close the gap. That is where Adobe Flex appeared to overcome that limitation....
IT LOOKS LIKE Nvidia was being a little economical with the truth about the defective chips fiasco. The latest deviation from the official line comes once again from HP.
Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Below are the media formats accepted by Windows Movie Maker:
To import a DVD clip into Windows Movie Maker, you need to extract the clip from the DVD movie, and then add it to the Windows Movie Maker project. I'd recommend using [url=http://www.clone2go.com/products/dvdtoripper.php]Clone2Go DVD Ripper[/url] to perform the DVD ripping process.
[b]1. Add DVD movies[/b]
On the main interface, click "File -> Open DVD..." to import the DVD disc. Or you can click the "Open DVD" button to add the DVD.
If the DVD movie is saved as a folder on your computer, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate that folder, which is composed of two separate folders: VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. From the VIDEO_TS folder, select the .vob file to import and then click "OK".
[b]2. Trim the video[/b]
You can drag the "Start to trim" and "Stop to trim" buttons to get the certain segment of the DVD movie.
Windows Movie Maker needs external codec to decode mp4, xvid and mpeg2 video. To skip this trouble, please select "Customized AVI Movie(*.avi)" profile and adjust "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2", "video size" to "Original" to get AVI video accepted by Windows Movie Maker.
Now you can click the "Start Encode" button to start ripping the DVD clip to Windows Moive Maker AVI format.
[b]Tip:[/b] The output video files are easily available by clicking the "Folder" button on the main menu after the ripping/converting process is done.
[b]5. Import the DVD clip to Windows Movie Maker[/b]
After you get the output video clip ripped from the DVD movie, now you can begin to import it into your Windows Movie Maker.
Click on "File". Then click on "Import". A window will appear. In the window, navigate to the video clip you extracted from the DVD movie just now. Then double click on the file. You'll see the icon for the file in your Windows Movie Maker "Collections".
[b]Tip:[/b] Many users may wonder how they can convert Windows Movie Maker file (*.MSWMM) to other video format. Actually, A *.MSWMM file is not a video file. It is a project file of Movie Maker (more like a record file). You have to open this file in Windows Movie Maker and save the movie to your computer: Go to Movie Tasks bar -> Finish Movie -> Save to my computer. After that you will have a WMV file which can be converted to another video format or burned to DVD.
