Ion engines are a form of electric propulsion and work by accelerating a beam of positively charged particles (or ions) away from the spacecraft using an electric field.
Cool. So can I put one on my Hummer and drive in the Carpool lane with all those Priuses?
Ars Technica aren't in it for the facts. They're in it for the hits. So if they can write up some ignorant article with some asinine premise, so be it. All they care about is the ad revenue. Seriously.
'Truveo has a proprietary technology called visual crawling that lets it automatically discover video files on Web pages, enabling customers to see updated information
And by "updated information", of course, they mean "porn".
There was a related article in November-- with evidence pointing towards a massive black hole at the center of the LMC. (The Milky Way's closest neighbor)
It uses about 59W when running normally, 3W in standby, 1W when "powered off" using the frontpanel button. Of course the powerconsumption does not drop merely by blanking the display, as with a CRT monitor. Powermanagement can set it to standby.
Then at $0.125 per Kw/h, you're saving a maximum of 18 cents per month by turning the monitor off (1w), versus letting the OS put it in standby (3w).
Doesn't sound worth it to me. Does the USB autodiscovery still happen when coming out of standby?
Hal: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Hal: I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What're you talking about, Hal?
Hal: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, Hal.
Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, Hal?
Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave: Alright, Hal. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
Hal: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave: Hal, I won't argue with you any more. Open the doors.
Hal: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.
The problem still occurs when everything is empty because there still is a hub and a couple of cardreader USB devices that are being detected, and an eager "hwscand" process that likes to find out what exciting new hardware there is to be found, automount cards, etc.
What about just leaving the monitor on? Just set the OS to blank the display after a set period of time.
You're not going to get tremendous power savings turning the monitor off anyway, since the AC adapter is sucking power as long as it's plugged in (that's why it's always warm). If you have a Kill-a-watt, it might be worth 5 minutes to see how much power the monitor draws with the screen on, with the screen blanked, and with the screen off.
Also the firewire, USB, power and Dual-DVI all come to the monitor via a single cabel, this makes thing a lot cleaner on your desktop or when mounting on a wall.
Basically, her main thesis is that plutocrats funded the large nonprofit foundations so that they could fund leftists who were not oriented towards economic oriented leftism, but instead towards identity politics. Thus, the white lower middle class was turned away from leftism in general.
Divide and conquer. We can't have the proletariat getting their shit together and organizing, can we? At least not before I pay off my 300-foot yacht.
I leave my PC switched on all the time, and switch off the monitor when I am not using it. The PC continues to perform server functions.
The result is that every switch off and on of the display it will go through the USB hardware discovery cycle, find all the cardreaders, and try to read all card types. This results in a massive amount of log messages and a very slow PC for 5-10 seconds.
Solution: Buy a $5 cardreader/usb hub. Plug said hub into your computer. Plug all permanently-connected devices/cards into that hub.
The USB ports and cardreader on the side of the monitor are for convenience (i.e. plugging in ThumbDrives, getting photos from your camera, etc). Obviously, using them as a full-time solution is not optimal.
New York Magazine has an interesting editorial stating that no one is afraid of Microsoft anymore. The article argues that Microsoft has noticeably been adrift in the wake of Gates' philanthropy,
You have Videogame Journalism (IGN, Gamespot), and then you have Journalism that occasionally touches on Video Games. I don't know that anyone takes those sites seriously, since most games never score below a 7.
I think the latter is much worse, as a lot of the time mainstream news coverage of video games is simply exploitive fear-mongering (take *any* coverage of Grand Theft Auto, for example).
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Ion engines are a form of electric propulsion and work by accelerating a beam of positively charged particles (or ions) away from the spacecraft using an electric field.
Cool. So can I put one on my Hummer and drive in the Carpool lane with all those Priuses?
What part of beta do these people not get?
Ars Technica aren't in it for the facts. They're in it for the hits. So if they can write up some ignorant article with some asinine premise, so be it. All they care about is the ad revenue. Seriously.
by "not", I meant "now". my bad. he's now a part of ZDNet.
and he still looks like a cracked-out muppet.
'Truveo has a proprietary technology called visual crawling that lets it automatically discover video files on Web pages, enabling customers to see updated information
And by "updated information", of course, they mean "porn".
Speaking of Roland Piquepaille, he's not a part of ZDNet. Here's the story, with a creepy-ass picture where he looks like a cracked-out muppet.
The warp is most clearly visible in a thin disk of hydrogen gas that extends across the entire 200,000-light-year diameter of the Milky Way.
Thin Disk? Next thing science will be telling us is that the sun doesn't revolve around the earth, and the earth is round.
There was a related article in November-- with evidence pointing towards a massive black hole at the center of the LMC. (The Milky Way's closest neighbor)
Andy over at Digital Grin got his hands on a pre-release copy of Adobe's hot new app 'Lightroom' last week
FYI, that's not exactly a difficult feat. Adobe's been giving it away for free to the public on their website.
That's like the guy who made speakers out of some old hard drives.
What did they do for the long stretches without a place to recharge?
What do you think the trailer was available for?
55'' minimum - This is a plasma tv replacement, not a replacement for the LCD sitting on your desk.
That's what you think.
Hi, you look like you're writing a suicide note! Office assistant can help you write your suicide note. First, tell us how you plan to kill yourself.
It uses about 59W when running normally, 3W in standby, 1W when "powered off" using the frontpanel button. Of course the powerconsumption does not drop merely by blanking the display, as with a CRT monitor. Powermanagement can set it to standby.
Then at $0.125 per Kw/h, you're saving a maximum of 18 cents per month by turning the monitor off (1w), versus letting the OS put it in standby (3w).
Doesn't sound worth it to me. Does the USB autodiscovery still happen when coming out of standby?
Computers That Feel our Mood
Hal: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave: Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
Hal: I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Dave: What's the problem?
Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave: What're you talking about, Hal?
Hal: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it.
Dave: I don't know what you're talking about, Hal.
Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea, Hal?
Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
Dave: Alright, Hal. I'll go in through the emergency airlock.
Hal: Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
Dave: Hal, I won't argue with you any more. Open the doors.
Hal: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose any more. Goodbye.
Is it possible to downgrade the firmware to pre v05 so that you can play mp3s still ?
Many smartphones, like the PalmOS Treo, will play MP3s regardless of deals Microsoft and Verizon make. Bittorrent->SD_Card and you're done.
Shit like "Vcast" is proprietary, excessively limited, overpriced, and thus, doomed to failure.
The problem still occurs when everything is empty because there still is a hub and a couple of cardreader USB devices that are being detected, and an eager "hwscand" process that likes to find out what exciting new hardware there is to be found, automount cards, etc.
What about just leaving the monitor on? Just set the OS to blank the display after a set period of time.
You're not going to get tremendous power savings turning the monitor off anyway, since the AC adapter is sucking power as long as it's plugged in (that's why it's always warm). If you have a Kill-a-watt, it might be worth 5 minutes to see how much power the monitor draws with the screen on, with the screen blanked, and with the screen off.
Also the firewire, USB, power and Dual-DVI all come to the monitor via a single cabel, this makes thing a lot cleaner on your desktop or when mounting on a wall.
Who the fuck mounts a computer monitor on a wall?
Basically, her main thesis is that plutocrats funded the large nonprofit foundations so that they could fund leftists who were not oriented towards economic oriented leftism, but instead towards identity politics. Thus, the white lower middle class was turned away from leftism in general.
Divide and conquer. We can't have the proletariat getting their shit together and organizing, can we? At least not before I pay off my 300-foot yacht.
I leave my PC switched on all the time, and switch off the monitor when I am not using it. The PC continues to perform server functions. The result is that every switch off and on of the display it will go through the USB hardware discovery cycle, find all the cardreaders, and try to read all card types. This results in a massive amount of log messages and a very slow PC for 5-10 seconds.
Solution: Buy a $5 cardreader/usb hub. Plug said hub into your computer. Plug all permanently-connected devices/cards into that hub.
The USB ports and cardreader on the side of the monitor are for convenience (i.e. plugging in ThumbDrives, getting photos from your camera, etc). Obviously, using them as a full-time solution is not optimal.
have you seen him? it's like if you applied Nietzsche's theory of the ubermensch to a bioengineered dashboard bobblehead.
New York Magazine has an interesting editorial stating that no one is afraid of Microsoft anymore. The article argues that Microsoft has noticeably been adrift in the wake of Gates' philanthropy,
Well, it does take a lot of effort and energy to be competing with Bono.
I'm tired of the dual monitor thing, I want one display device on my desk, just make it a very large device.
Everyone knows the real display technology of the day is Toshiba's Surface-conduction electron-emitter display.
It's 100,000:1 contrast ratio, 1ms response time, and you can get it in 55".
I can't imagine there's a large group of manufacturers for 30" LCDs, so what even differentiates this from Apple's monitor besides price?
Apple 400:1 Contrast Ratio
DELL 700:1 Contract Ratio
Oh, and the apple one has a fancier bezel.
I'm tired of the dual monitor thing, I want one display device on my desk, just make it a very large device.
that's great, except the human field of vision is wide, not tall. So the multi-monitor setup is more efficient.
You have Videogame Journalism (IGN, Gamespot), and then you have Journalism that occasionally touches on Video Games. I don't know that anyone takes those sites seriously, since most games never score below a 7.
I think the latter is much worse, as a lot of the time mainstream news coverage of video games is simply exploitive fear-mongering (take *any* coverage of Grand Theft Auto, for example).