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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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Today it has been adopted by 23 manufacturers of laser printers, with more still signing on. It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. It first appeared in the Apple LaserWriter, which was introduced in January of 1985. San Jose, Calif.,

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

I just read the article in the June/July issue of Homepower magazine written by two firemen who have solar panels on their roofs. FROM HOMEPOWER MAGAZINE written by Fire engineer Matthew Paiss: Access, pathways, and smoke-ventilation space: Providing a 3-foot setback from the edges of the roofline. The environment?

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. It was wasteful, made being a hardware manufacturer more costly, and added to consumer confusion. Ebbing demand for personal computers has slowed innovation in advanced PCs.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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In 1969 Xerox had just bought Scientific Data Systems (SDS), a mainframe computer manufacturer. Networks that link personal computers in offices. The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.”

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Ford showcasing vehicle-to-vehicle communication for crash avoidance; potential for leveraging WiFi and smartphones to extend quickly the number of participating vehicles

Green Car Congress

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) sponsors a broad program of connected vehicle research ; the research is a multimodal program that involves using wireless communication between vehicles, infrastructure, and personal communications devices to improve safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. V2V Communications for Safety.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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In 1977, he wrote an article for Kilobaud: The Small Computer Magazine describing the “Sublogic Three-Dimensional Micrographics Package” he had created, which brought 3D to microcomputers outfitted with the popular Motorola 6800 microprocessor. Fortunately, the aircraft manufacturers had already calculated how their products would perform.

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GM's New Plan: Fewer Jobs, More Chevy Volt - Environmental Capital - WSJ

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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