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Consumers Fail to Take a Shine to 3-D TVs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

I'm not at all surprised it's not catching on as they'd wished. You have to wear stupid glasses, and it causes eye strain. Hardly a good selling point for an optical illusion. Consumers Fail to Take a Shine to 3-D TVs | Gadget Lab | Wired.com An even better breakdown here: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/3dtv-analysis/ In any case, I'm not buying one.

Easily identify metric and SAE tools with red electrical tape

What a simple idea! Easily identify metric and SAE tools with red electrical tape

jetset entertainment - They Say "Audacity" - I Say "Wavosaur"

I'm always on the lookout for better alternatives to my current software. This is one of them that I've recently adopted jetset entertainment - They Say "Audacity" - I Say "Wavosaur"

BBC coverage in france

I've decided to install proper satellite that will work with a Foxsat HD Freesat receiver. Currently I have 2 dishes but they're both rusty.  I need to redo the cabling, and maybe install a new dish. Near Versailles It will need to point to 28.2°E (It's actually 28.2° E of South, so if you're looking at a compass from the north it's 151.8° ) which covers Astra 2A/2B/2D & Eurobird 1 which are used by Sky Digital, but there are loads of Free to Air channels (FTA) on them, so you don't need a subscription! Here's a few useful links : Loads of good info... http://www.bigdishsat.com The bible for channel IDs! http://www.lyngsat.com/28east.html Compass alignment http://www.satalogue.com/section9/page6a.htm some other bits and bobs... http://www.digitalsat.co.uk/frontpage.html http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=169547 http://www.wickonline.com/fta.htm   I will use this for aligning the dish.  http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/astra2d....

Web Services and namespaces (or WCF?)

Nice design pattern articles

Maybe these will help to explain design patterns with some real examples Parts 1 and 2 Parts 3 and 4

Some VSTs

http://www.ariescode.com/ariesverb.html Nice unique reverb VST http://www.dasample.com/index.php?show=glaceverb More free vsts : http://www.freesoundeditor.com/incageneng.html?VSTDelay-Reverbeng.htm~main SFZ usage http://www.drealm.info/sfz/ Other popular VSTs http://www.kvraudio.com/new_year_survey_2005_results.php

Excellent site for VSTs

There's loads of very good free VSTs there.

Useful satellite info for FTA channels

http://www.lyngsat.com/tracker/astra2d.html