You're talking about HIBERNATE or S5. Suspend or S3 is practically instant, or at least faster than your monitor can turn on... I agree that hibernate is not too useful, but Suspend is awesome, and just as low power as hibernate or powered off entirely...
I did the maths and still couldn't make it cheaper than a cheap second-hand car and petrol at double the current cost
UK electricity prices must be much, MUCH higher than US electricity prices.
Until I start seeing them at second-hand prices, I have to just assume they are "purchase at top price, then throw them away because they're knackered" purchases.
Actually, that's probably because the people buying them don't want to EVER get rid of them. I know people with first generation Priuses that have a ton of miles on them, and are driving them into the ground rather than trading-up.
massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load
The Department of Energy has already said the grid can handle many millions of electric vehicles without upgrades. In fact the grid will be MORE EFFICIENT with lots of off-peak demand, eliminating peaking plants and making grid maintenance more profitable for the utilities.
I'm talking millions of people going back home after work and plugging in their power-hungry cars at roughly the same time every day
Electric vehicle chargers have timers, and people are encouraged to use them. Plug your EV in whenever you want, and it won't start charging until about 8pm, after peak demand is over, and there's plenty of excess capacity.
Besides, this is going to be a gradual process, that is dealt with just as any other increasing electrical demands are... When one neighborhood with a few EVs starts driving-up demand, the utility will have plenty of time to string another line to the area.
Honestly, EVs aren't all that special. If the grid couldn't handle them, it couldn't handle it's current, basic job of supplying electricity to homes and businesses.
Almost all appliances use only 1-2W if left on standby, the exceptions are the Wii (15W), the microwave (a massive 50W) and the desktop computers (5-10W).
Your anecdotes are based on a tiny sampling of devices. You obviously don't have, or haven't tested a digital cable or satellite set-top-box, as those draw ALMOST as much power when off as they do when turned-on. And if you unplug them, you'll be waiting about 5 minutes for them to boot-up, which most people don't like, and certainly wouldn't be okay with a car.
FWIW, my desktop computers use 3W when either powered off or in S3/Standby, so your results are anomalous. Maybe you have some USB or similar devices plugged-in that are sapping extra power? Leaving my PC on standby SAVES power over unplugging it, as it gets back to my desktop in a couple seconds, rather than a longer boot-up followed by log-in and launching a bunch of apps I want open. I'm also less reluctant to shut it down when I think I might be finished, and it automatically goes to standby when idle for a few minutes... FYI.
I have never, EVER, in the course of using probably 10 laptops over the last 10 years, had one on which suspend/resume actually worked right.
You have unusually bad luck, or your choice of OS is to blame. All the EeePCs work great with Linux. I wouldn't be surprised if your MacBook Pro suspended properly when running Linux as well.
I use suspend EXTENSIVELY, even on my desktop machines... I haven't bought one in the past decade that DIDN'T work perfectly with Linux. Only problem I've had is my current desktop, which didn't suspend with the RHEL6 2.6x kernel, and so I had to compile a 3.1x kernel from Fedora SRPM to get things working smoothly.
Posting AC in a thread where you have modded is neither bypassing nor abusing the moderation system. The system is designed to allow this, and I personally think it's the best solution to the problem
The moderation instructions clearly indicate that you are NOT supposed to comment on a story, and also moderate that story, and they explain why they feel that is important. If this was supposed to be allowed, Slashcode wouldn't force you to post as AC in the first place.
Slashcode does its best to enforce this... If you are logged-in and only click the "Post Anonymously" check box, YOUR MODS WILL BE UNDONE even though you posted as AC. (Or at least that's how it used-to work.)
To enforce this any better, Slashcode would either need extra tracking cookies, or to guess that anonymous posts from your IP are from you. The later would be dangerous, with NAT, DHCP, or proxies potentially undoing valid moderations. The former would be just a bit of work to get around, and the extra tracking might make/. readers upset.
In short, everything you said is baseless, irrational nonsense, and I can't imagine what leap of logic you used to decide that a work-around for a restriction is "designed" in, or that it's not "bypassing" the very restriction you are intentionally bypassing.
If my dad were a cat, we would have put him to sleep long ago.
The difference between humans and animals is that doctors have industrial-strength pain-killers they will administer to humans. No matter how excruciating the pain, doctors can keep you drugged into a dream world, and can similarly keep you entirely unconscious for an indefinite period. If you could choose your method of departure, being drugged out of your mind on coke would be the near the top of most people's lists, so morphine or similar isn't a bad alternative.
His smallish estate pays about $8,000 per month to keep him in this state of perpetual suffering.
Well there you go. Stop the money, and you can very quickly stop his suffering.
I'd like to proactively end his suffering and let him go out with some dignity.
Dr. Gregory House: "There's no such thing [as dying with dignity]! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; you can't die with it!"
But my government says I can't make that decision. Neither can his doctors.
No, you can't make the decision, and neither can his doctors, as it should be. But your father... HE can or could have have made the decision. Living wills, do-not resuscitate orders, etc. If he didn't want to go this way, he has (or had) that option. And it's only fair that whatever he chose, it's not for you or his doctors to second-guess.
Electrical consumers pay the electricity producers, as has always been the case... Everyone who produces less power than they consume, pays their electrical bill every month like everyone else. Those who produce more than they use, do not get paid for that excess, so they're getting screwed-over by the utility. And the later group absolutely could cut the cord to the grid and be no worse off, so the utility would suffer, and they should not encourage that outcome.
If Arizona had a problem, and wanted to fairly address it, they would charge EVEYRONE a flat monthly rate for their grid connection, and then adjust per-KWH electrical prices accordingly. Instead, they're penalizing solar producers only. Meanwhile, people like me with tiny monthly electrical bills, similarly aren't paying enough money to help maintain the grid, yet won't be penalized as solar producers are.
There's no way you can claim the Arizona rule is. remotely fair to anyone...
People who are in love with solar panels should buy their own damn solar panels with their own cash, not my tax dollars.
I'm in love with breathing, and I'm glad to have some of my tax dollars going to replacing coal. I'm not currently in a position to buy and install them directly on my home, so I'm glad of everyone else who is, getting incentives for doing so.
This is the "choosing winers and losers" that Republicans don't like. It simply isn't fair. Now subsidizing Solar ENERGY, now that I can get onboard with so long as it's sustainable
Except this story is all about Republicans making it more difficult (and trying to make it impossible) and less profitable for those who purchased solar panels, to tie them into the grid, where they help your neighbors, reduce grid losses, reduce the need for expensive peaking plants, reduce emissions, etc., etc. It's the corrupt fascists in the Republican party choosing "big coal" as the winner, and "consumer solar" as the loser.
How much outrage would there be if this were reversed, and perhaps for health reasons, the Norwegian Army would force vegetarians/vegans to eat meat once a week?
And nobody is pretending there is a good reason like health concerns behind this move. They're saving some money feeding their soldiers cheaper foods, while others have no such requirements.
Let's see all the politicians strictly holding themselves to Meatless Mondays first. Then we'll talk.
But what do you expect people in other countries to do, when the Americans export their movies in which people are living in big houses, with gigantic backyard,
According to the U.N. Population Database, the world's population in 2010 will be 6,908,688,000. The landmass of Texas is 268,820 sq mi (7,494,271,488,000 sq ft).
So, divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person. That's approximately a 33' x 33' plot of land for every person on the planet, enough space for a town house.
In mechanical systems, the odometer is controlled by a mechanical linkage
Uncommon since the early 90s.
For technical reasons, you cannot disconnect the ECU during engine operation.
You're an idiot. It would take you 30 seconds online to find out how to disconnect your speedometer/odometer. It will not otherwise impact operation in the slightest, and is trivially easy to do, as I said. Your transmission simply has a "speed sensor" that you can disconnect. I've done it on my own vehicles, so I can say, with authority, you are an idiot, spouting nonsense.
Apple charger, Android phone. How does this help? It will tell us it is bad, but we know that.
Most people DON'T know these things, so there's that.
And while Apple-branded is one thing... There are plenty of other 3rd party, unbranded or similar chargers, which DON'T SAY whether they were designed for Apple, Android, old dumb phones, etc.
Hell, they can say they are designed to fast-charge Android phones, and NOT WORK.
You're moving from regular fraud to tax fraud on a system built to be fraud-resistant
You're also dramatically increasing the incentives for fraud, while still being terribly unlikely you would get caught.
so you'd have to make some very visible changes (cut or bend aluminum to deformation) to actually manually roll the numbers.
This is silly. The odometer and speedometer is controlled by two small wires coming from the transmission. It's TRIVIAL to disconnect them, and reconnect them for inspection. Then you can drive all you want, and your odometer will never record any miles.
Or the less-fraudulent way would be to simply install larger diameter tires on your vehicle. Then your odometer will only record 90% of the miles you've actually driven, and you've got an excuse to get out of a speeding ticket...
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You've completely misread my comment, or else you dont know what SUSPEND/S3 means. I never advocated leaving your computer running all the time.
You're talking about HIBERNATE or S5. Suspend or S3 is practically instant, or at least faster than your monitor can turn on... I agree that hibernate is not too useful, but Suspend is awesome, and just as low power as hibernate or powered off entirely...
UK electricity prices must be much, MUCH higher than US electricity prices.
Actually, that's probably because the people buying them don't want to EVER get rid of them. I know people with first generation Priuses that have a ton of miles on them, and are driving them into the ground rather than trading-up.
The Department of Energy has already said the grid can handle many millions of electric vehicles without upgrades. In fact the grid will be MORE EFFICIENT with lots of off-peak demand, eliminating peaking plants and making grid maintenance more profitable for the utilities.
Electric vehicle chargers have timers, and people are encouraged to use them. Plug your EV in whenever you want, and it won't start charging until about 8pm, after peak demand is over, and there's plenty of excess capacity.
Besides, this is going to be a gradual process, that is dealt with just as any other increasing electrical demands are... When one neighborhood with a few EVs starts driving-up demand, the utility will have plenty of time to string another line to the area.
Honestly, EVs aren't all that special. If the grid couldn't handle them, it couldn't handle it's current, basic job of supplying electricity to homes and businesses.
Your anecdotes are based on a tiny sampling of devices. You obviously don't have, or haven't tested a digital cable or satellite set-top-box, as those draw ALMOST as much power when off as they do when turned-on. And if you unplug them, you'll be waiting about 5 minutes for them to boot-up, which most people don't like, and certainly wouldn't be okay with a car.
FWIW, my desktop computers use 3W when either powered off or in S3/Standby, so your results are anomalous. Maybe you have some USB or similar devices plugged-in that are sapping extra power? Leaving my PC on standby SAVES power over unplugging it, as it gets back to my desktop in a couple seconds, rather than a longer boot-up followed by log-in and launching a bunch of apps I want open. I'm also less reluctant to shut it down when I think I might be finished, and it automatically goes to standby when idle for a few minutes... FYI.
You have unusually bad luck, or your choice of OS is to blame. All the EeePCs work great with Linux. I wouldn't be surprised if your MacBook Pro suspended properly when running Linux as well.
I use suspend EXTENSIVELY, even on my desktop machines... I haven't bought one in the past decade that DIDN'T work perfectly with Linux. Only problem I've had is my current desktop, which didn't suspend with the RHEL6 2.6x kernel, and so I had to compile a 3.1x kernel from Fedora SRPM to get things working smoothly.
The moderation instructions clearly indicate that you are NOT supposed to comment on a story, and also moderate that story, and they explain why they feel that is important. If this was supposed to be allowed, Slashcode wouldn't force you to post as AC in the first place.
Slashcode does its best to enforce this... If you are logged-in and only click the "Post Anonymously" check box, YOUR MODS WILL BE UNDONE even though you posted as AC. (Or at least that's how it used-to work.)
To enforce this any better, Slashcode would either need extra tracking cookies, or to guess that anonymous posts from your IP are from you. The later would be dangerous, with NAT, DHCP, or proxies potentially undoing valid moderations. The former would be just a bit of work to get around, and the extra tracking might make /. readers upset.
In short, everything you said is baseless, irrational nonsense, and I can't imagine what leap of logic you used to decide that a work-around for a restriction is "designed" in, or that it's not "bypassing" the very restriction you are intentionally bypassing.
The difference between humans and animals is that doctors have industrial-strength pain-killers they will administer to humans. No matter how excruciating the pain, doctors can keep you drugged into a dream world, and can similarly keep you entirely unconscious for an indefinite period. If you could choose your method of departure, being drugged out of your mind on coke would be the near the top of most people's lists, so morphine or similar isn't a bad alternative.
Well there you go. Stop the money, and you can very quickly stop his suffering.
Dr. Gregory House: "There's no such thing [as dying with dignity]! Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before we're even born, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it! I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass... it's always ugly - ALWAYS! You can live with dignity; you can't die with it!"
No, you can't make the decision, and neither can his doctors, as it should be. But your father... HE can or could have have made the decision. Living wills, do-not resuscitate orders, etc. If he didn't want to go this way, he has (or had) that option. And it's only fair that whatever he chose, it's not for you or his doctors to second-guess.
Then EVERYONE should be paying it...
Electrical consumers pay the electricity producers, as has always been the case... Everyone who produces less power than they consume, pays their electrical bill every month like everyone else. Those who produce more than they use, do not get paid for that excess, so they're getting screwed-over by the utility. And the later group absolutely could cut the cord to the grid and be no worse off, so the utility would suffer, and they should not encourage that outcome.
If Arizona had a problem, and wanted to fairly address it, they would charge EVEYRONE a flat monthly rate for their grid connection, and then adjust per-KWH electrical prices accordingly. Instead, they're penalizing solar producers only. Meanwhile, people like me with tiny monthly electrical bills, similarly aren't paying enough money to help maintain the grid, yet won't be penalized as solar producers are.
There's no way you can claim the Arizona rule is. remotely fair to anyone...
I'm in love with breathing, and I'm glad to have some of my tax dollars going to replacing coal. I'm not currently in a position to buy and install them directly on my home, so I'm glad of everyone else who is, getting incentives for doing so.
Except this story is all about Republicans making it more difficult (and trying to make it impossible) and less profitable for those who purchased solar panels, to tie them into the grid, where they help your neighbors, reduce grid losses, reduce the need for expensive peaking plants, reduce emissions, etc., etc. It's the corrupt fascists in the Republican party choosing "big coal" as the winner, and "consumer solar" as the loser.
Exactly how TFA says it does...
Funny, you replied to my comment about just that without arguing with anything I said:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4463987&cid=45471781
No, the term would be Carnivores, or Atkins dieters, or similar.
How much outrage would there be if this were reversed, and perhaps for health reasons, the Norwegian Army would force vegetarians/vegans to eat meat once a week?
And nobody is pretending there is a good reason like health concerns behind this move. They're saving some money feeding their soldiers cheaper foods, while others have no such requirements.
Let's see all the politicians strictly holding themselves to Meatless Mondays first. Then we'll talk.
According to the U.N. Population Database, the world's population in 2010 will be 6,908,688,000. The landmass of Texas is 268,820 sq mi (7,494,271,488,000 sq ft).
So, divide 7,494,271,488,000 sq ft by 6,908,688,000 people, and you get 1084.76 sq ft/person. That's approximately a 33' x 33' plot of land for every person on the planet, enough space for a town house.
http://overpopulationisamyth.com/overpopulation-the-making-of-a-myth#header-5
Yes you do, because I explained it in my first reply to you. At this point it's some kind of willful ignorance.
Uncommon since the early 90s.
You're an idiot. It would take you 30 seconds online to find out how to disconnect your speedometer/odometer. It will not otherwise impact operation in the slightest, and is trivially easy to do, as I said. Your transmission simply has a "speed sensor" that you can disconnect. I've done it on my own vehicles, so I can say, with authority, you are an idiot, spouting nonsense.
Most people DON'T know these things, so there's that.
And while Apple-branded is one thing... There are plenty of other 3rd party, unbranded or similar chargers, which DON'T SAY whether they were designed for Apple, Android, old dumb phones, etc.
Hell, they can say they are designed to fast-charge Android phones, and NOT WORK.
USB charging is absolutely a confusing mess.
You're also dramatically increasing the incentives for fraud, while still being terribly unlikely you would get caught.
This is silly. The odometer and speedometer is controlled by two small wires coming from the transmission. It's TRIVIAL to disconnect them, and reconnect them for inspection. Then you can drive all you want, and your odometer will never record any miles.
Or the less-fraudulent way would be to simply install larger diameter tires on your vehicle. Then your odometer will only record 90% of the miles you've actually driven, and you've got an excuse to get out of a speeding ticket...
That sounds like giving back "to the community" to me...
I miss this guy:
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?threshold=-1&mode=nested&commentsort=0&op=Change&sid=3883481&cid=44050963&pid=44050963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi.player
Spending more money won't help. Spend all you want on an expensive Apple charger, and it still won't fast-charge your Android phone.