Archive for December, 2007

To all our readers, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

It’s that time of year again, to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

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alun williams

2007/12/21

A Dilbert classic

I love Dilbert, and today’s strip is a classic.

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alun williams

2007/12/18

Semiconductor IP – Warren Savage’s monthly column

Just a gentle reminder that the second instalment of Warren Savage’s monthly column on Semiconductor IP is already live on the site.

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alun williams

2007/12/17

The Elektra Awards 2007, in video form

View highlights of the event for yourself with our video coverage of the ceremony. The short and snappy video covers guests arriving, a sample of the entertainments and some interviews with winners.

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alun williams

2007/12/14

Elektra Awards 2007 – The Awards Night

The location was The Hilton on Park Lane, the host was Sir Trevor McDonald, and a good night was had by all.

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alun williams

2007/12/13

Top 10 most viewed Products on ElectronicsWeekly.com

Here are the top ten most viewed Products on ElectronicsWeekly.com in the last week

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alun williams

2007/12/11

Electronics Weekly Christmas Quiz

The Electronics Weekly Christmas Quiz, which was first featured in last week’s magazine, now only has a couple of days left for entries

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alun williams

2007/12/10

Star Sledging compo – Win an Xbox 360!

To celebrate the end of a fantastic year for ElectronicsWeekly.com we are running the ’2007 Star Sledging Competition’. A little piece of fun, for the afternoon, with some great prizes.

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alun williams

2007/12/07

Education. Eductation. Education. Courses. Courses. Courses.

One for your diary, in fact dozens for your diary. We have updated our online courses directory, populating it with lots of fresh content for throughout 2008 – there’s lots of details for each month already, all the way to next December.

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alun williams

2007/12/03

Deandre Lardydell says:
Front lighting is also quite common, but tends to make the subject look flat as its casts almost no visible shadows. Lighting from the side is the less common, as it tends to produce glare near eye level. Backlighting either around or through an object is mainly for accent.
Kelli Yunes says:
General lighting fills in between the two and is intended for general illumination of an area. Indoors, this would be a basic lamp on a table or floor, or a fixture on the ceiling. Outdoors, general lighting for a parking lot may be as low as 10-20 lux (1-2 footcandles) since pedestrians and motorists already used to the dark will need little light for crossing the area.
molly says:
it is very boring
Richard says:
yep, it's 6 GBP per tonne on the basis that it's sold on for export as working equipment. Reprocessing in the Uk isn't cheap and seperation of assemblies (metals, plastics and circuit boards) takes labour, not machinery. You can't shred the waste and then say it's recycled. The mis-match of dross left over can't be seperated and there is no possibility of resource extraction from cross contaminated shredded plastics or steel. Richard http://www.it-green.co.uk
Stephen says:
Thanks for this. I was wondering how IGBTs fitted in. I am not too young to remember the impact of the geranium, oops, Germanium Power Transistor; having used thyratrons and mercury ark rectifiers, then SCRs, and now just returned to power electronics and working daily with IGBTs.
Bally says:
Yep - some good points Mark. My view is that there's just so much dross and plainly inaccurate crap on the Internet that everything gets tainted. It's a shame, because the web has so much more to offer than it currently provides. Rich