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Submission + - Denmark Creates World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm (inhabitat.com)

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Kevin

on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @01:56PM

Kevin writes: "Denmark has brought the world's largest offshore wind farm online as part of a project led by Dong Energy, a Danish utility company. With more than 91 turbines, the Horns Rev 2 farm will produce enough electricity to power roughly 200,000 homes. Though the project came in at a staggering $1 billion, Horns Rev 2 is a huge step toward meeting the European Union's goal of deriving 20% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020."

Submission + - Eminem sues Apple (bbc.co.uk)

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Urlich

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @11:24AM

Urlich writes: "Eminem's publishing company, Eight Mile Style is suing Apple Itunes for copyright infringement for allowing users to download Eminem songs without their permission.

"It also asks for damages of up to $150,000 (£73,800) per infringement — or each time a song is downloaded.""

Submission + - Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 released (mcox.com)

Submitted by

Artemis

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @11:20AM

Artemis writes: "Microsoft has announced the release of the second beta for both its IDE, Visual Studio 2008, and its platform, .Net 3.5. The betas for both Visual Studio 2008 and the smaller Visual Studio 2008 Express Editions are available to download for anyone who would like to try them out while in beta.

Visual Studio 2008 can be installed along-side Visual Web Developer 2008 Express or Visual Studio 2005, so you can try out 2008 without messing with your current environment. .NET 3.5 Beta 2 also include a go-live license which allows you to build and deploy applications into production.

Some of the new features of VS 2008 Beta 2 and .NET 3.5 Beta 2 are:

VS 2008 Multi-targeting support: Lets you target multiple versions of the .NET platform

VS 2008 Web Designer: A significantly improved HTML web designer — includes split-view editing, nested master pages, and much-improved CSS integration.

.NET 3.5 ASP.NET AJAX: The AJAX library is now built into the ASP.NET functionality in .NET 3.5

VS 2008 VB/C# Compilers: Now include keywords and capabilities for functional programming, which lets you write cleaner code. The compilers also now include support for LINQ (Language Integrated Query), which makes querying/working with data a first-class concept in .NET.

LINQ to SQL Improvements: LINQ to SQL is an built-in OR/M (Object Relational Mapper) in .NET 3.5. This allows you to model relational databases using a .NET object model. You can then query the database using LINQ and update/insert/delete data from it. LINQ to SQL fully supports transactions, views, and stored procedures.

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