[OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread Ian Thomas
Sunday OT - way off track for .NET, but there is a 28-minute talk by Bill Gates given recently at TED 2010 called Gates on energy: Innovating to zero! I thought that some may be interested in Bill Gates' perspective. Summary: At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy

RE: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread Ian Thomas
Well, comment without fully acquainting yourself with the content is rather arrogant and pointless. Which is why I commented that I found the summary from the TED people inadequate. Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia -Original Message- From:

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread David Connors
On 21 February 2010 19:33, Ian Thomas il.tho...@iinet.net.au wrote: Summary: At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for miracles to avoid planetary catastrophe I just watched the video and it seems he is an agw worrier - which I found

Re: [OT] Bill gates on our energy futures - some tech miracles needed

2010-02-21 Thread David Connors
On 22 February 2010 10:22, Ken Schaefer k...@adopenstatic.com wrote: DC Quite right. I'd actually argue that cr4p government in most of the developing world is a cause of such problems - not a carbon debt The cause of what problems? Deforestation. -- David Connors (da...@codify.com)

PDF to JPEG

2010-02-21 Thread Girish Madan
Hi, I have a Flex 3.2 front end and .NET Web Service (Framework 3.5) as back end. The application is heavily reliant on Maps and the output needs to be converted to PDF and JPEG format. I'm using AlivePDF to create PDF and its all working fine. Now i need to create the same output as JPEG as

RE: PDF to JPEG

2010-02-21 Thread LINKLATER James
Hi, We use ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php to convert each page of a pdf to a jpg file. It's not open source but if all else fails ... James Linklater Analyst Developer Business Solutions Gold Coast City Council Ph: 5581 6189 Fax: 5581 6291 PO Box 5042 Gold Coast Mail