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Bayreuth LIVE: Live Stream of the Premiere
„Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“ on July 27th, 2008, 4 p.m.
That's new: The Bayreuth Festival is coming directly to the place where you are. Richard Wagner dreamed of making the Festival accessible and affordable for everyone. We take his ideas seriously and realize them using modern technology. For the first time ever, the Bayreuth Festival offers you the unique possibility to watch a performance of Katharina Wagner’s interpretation of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” on your computer - via Live Stream on our homepage.

Join us live on July 27th, 2008, at 4 p.m., broadcasting the widely discussed production of Richard Wagner’s great-granddaughter on the internet! Be quick and get access to one of the limited tickets for this special online event – your personal and exclusive opportunity to discuss this production and be a part of this famous festival!

Only with your Online Ticket you do gain a backstage tour during the intermissions, exclusive to all users of our Live Stream!

Worried about living in a different time zone or having an important appointment? No problem! As a holder of an Online Ticket for the Live Stream, you do not only have the opportunity to view the performance live, but also once again at any time of your choice between July 27th and August 2nd, 2008, on demand.

Please note that the mentioned initial time of the Live Stream is CEST (GMT +2).

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Digital Home: An All-in-one Device To Control Most Everything
ScienceDaily (Mar. 4, 2008) — Thick instruction manuals, a confusing tangle of cables and endless different standards – trying to connect your flat screen, DVD recorder, MP3 player, surround system and computer to one another and get them to work is rather a complicated task. Help is on its way in the form of a project called WiMAC(at)home (Wireless Media and Control at Home). In this project researchers are working on the wireless connection of electronic devices for broadcasting and entertainment in home networks.

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At the heart of the system is a novel TV set which unites several functions in one device. It serves as a digital media archive that can store music, videos and photos, and make them available together with live TV programs in the home network. Pay TV contents, too, can be distributed in a protected environment and in compliance with copyright regulations.
The TV can even be connected to automated home systems, enabling heating appliances, alarm systems and air conditioners to be controlled via the screen. All devices in the wireless WiMAC(at)home network configure themselves automatically.

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July 27, 2007 -- Updated 1729 GMT (0129 HKT)
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By Matthew Knight for CNN

LONDON, England (CNN) -- It has been an indispensable fixture of computing for as long as most people can remember. But sentences beginning with the words "click on" and "click and drag" may not be part of future office parlance as the humble computer mouse comes under threat from new touch-screen technology which is being rolled out by the major players in the computer industry. It promises to be the biggest change to personal computing in a quarter of a century.

Law that has driven digital life
By Jo Twist
BBC News science and technology reporter

Moore's Law was never about pure physics or maths or science.

The proposition that the Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore, made in a 1965 paper that the number of transistors on a chip could double every 24 months, was more a guide.
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"Practically anything digital has depended critically on the swift improvement in chip density," explains Professor Mackintosh.

"We wouldn't have mobile phones, laptops, digital cameras, some of the advances in medical technology, electronic games, satellites, GPS, and on and on."

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