Depends how you cut the stats. When you say "more polluting" and link to that article, you are talking about one single type of polluting - NOx emissions. Yes, it's true that motorcycle engines - in general - emit greater levels of NOx than automotive engines, basically because the space available for packaging a catalytic converter is smaller. But the CO2 emissions are much lower. CO2 emission is pretty much proportional to fuel consumption.
So while you can feel smug that your NOx emissions are low, don't kid yourself that your SUV is saving the planet...
That has always annoyed me too. Why can't you buy a laptop with plain old windows installed on it? Why does it have to have a dozen irritating utilities, all of which insist on having a taskbar icon, and most of which simply duplicate functionality that already exists within the OS?
Why would I need a branded wireless LAN config utility? The OS already does that Why would I need a "Modem Helper" utility? The OS already knows how to work a modem Why would I need a sound mixer utility? The OS has one already etc...
And so many of them are bundled / built in with the drivers for the hardware, so you can't even get rid of them!
I have heard tell that some bluetooth keyboards randomly reset the PIN each time you place them on the charger. Unless you type a heck of a lot on one battery charge I would think that would pretty much invalidate all of the currently known hacks wouldn't it?
I actually do plan on leaving the US and relocating permanently to New Zealand as soon as it is feasible for me to do so.
Come on down, you'll love it here! Sure we have our own problems, but at least these sorts of religious based ones aren't amongst them. Our government is secular, so are our schools etc. I believe it's illegal for schools to teach religion to children without their parents permission so you pretty much only see it in private schools (which parents send their kids to for exactly that reason...)
I can pretty much do my job from anywhere there is an internet connection, and I heard the kiwis just got that working recently.
Hope you don't work too fast then... the interwebnet works OK here, but probably not like what you're used to. I mean, sure 8MBit ADSL is available, just don't count on it really being more than about 2MBit or so...
In response to your post and also your.sig at the same time... The issue that I see is that the US isn't very popular right now and somebody manufactured a crisis to that affect. You want to change the way ICANN operates? Where do I sign up? You want to bash the United States and say we can't trustworthy and the UN (*shudder*) should control it? Now we have a problem.....
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I want peace on Earth and good will towards men We are the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing
Well, I think you've summed it up right there actually. I don't personally have any problem with ICANN being located in the USA. Why not, it's as good a place for it as any. And that's where it is now, so leave it there. The only part of the whole deal that bothers me slightly is the US government having veto power over ICANN. I don't see why a government needs to have control over DNS at all, let alone a single nation's government. IF there has to be a governing body involved as some sort of checks and balances type arrangement then one which is likely to represent everyone's interests rather than one which may have some bias would be preferable.
This (to me anyway) is not about US bashing, it's about the fact that the internet is now an international structure, and regulation of it should be a co-operative effort between everyone who's connected to it. I realise that is impossible, so who should do it? I would suggest an international council of some sort, probably not the UN, that sort of thing is not their function. To be honest I would have thought it would be more like the domain of someone like an ISO or IEC special committee.
So basically, I'm not a big fan of the US government having a controlling hand in things that affect the internet, not because I think they do a bad job of it necessarily, but because I don't believe that any one government should be in charge of it.
I realise that this is the third time that I've posted in this topic now, but FFS people if you don't know anything about discrete electronics (and most/.ers don't, no matter what they think) then don't pretend to.
I do know about it. It's my job to know about it. Standby power is part of what I do, I develop electronics for certain types of household goods. What they have done here is nothing new, except perhaps for the solar panel (it's unncessary, probably done for marketing reasons). It is trivial to build zero power standby circuits for most home appliances except those that use remotes to wake them up. It does not require magic, or micros, or cheating the laws of physics, or anything like that, what it does require is usually a little more cost. Hell, the standby power of most devices is double or triple what it could easily be because it saves a few cents, and a few cents on a few million items is a few years salary for a few engineers. In several of the designs I've done I've gone so far as tracking changes which would take standby power from ~1.5 Watts down to 0.2 Watts, they're on the PCB, but the parts are not fitted and the el-cheapo circuit is fitted instead. Because the beancounters said so.
Until governments require low standby powers on domestic equipment (and I mean really low, not energy star BS, although at least it's a start), manufacturers are going to continue the way they are because it's cheaper to make energy inefficient devices.
The mistake you are making is in assuming that there has to be some active monitoring involved to bring the screen out of standby. It can be done entirely passively, using a charged cap to supply the energy and a small MOSFET to switch a latching relay. The FET can be driven from the vsync pulse or from one of the TTL signals on a DVI connector. Using an appropriate cap the holdup time will be years, and the power draw will be zero. The only extra energy that will be drawn while the screen is turned on is equal to the amount required to latch the relay twice per power cycle. Which is piss all.
As for Fujitsu's 0W-standby monitor, they conveniently omit the fact that this extra relay's coil and related components will be drawing an extra 1W or so while the monitor/TV is on. I would prefer that they perfected ultra-low-power standby like 1W as the current typical appliance has 4-10W standby power: having standby rely on capacitors means standby would not work as expected every now and then if it's been too long since the previous power-up.
Not quite true. Latching relays draw no power to remain in either state, only to change states. They have a small permenant magnet or an over-centre type design which keeps them in state when the power is removed, and they are commonly used for zero-power standby devices.
A charged capacitor connected to the coil of a latching relay, through a small MOSFET, which is driven from the wakeup signal would actually use no power. No standby power at all. THe standby mode is in that case a totally passive mode, and the only discharge on the cap is the leakage through the FET and the dielectric leakage in the cap. If you chose the components carefully it should have a holdup time of weeks or months. Actually, looking at the double-layer electrolytic (supercap) datasheets from Nichicon, I would say years is more like it.
You left out the GPU, though if you're visualising the output at the same time you could probably give it a work out too. Probably talking something like a Quadro though rather than a gamer card.
Answers: 1) To get it thorough their work's email filter. A lot of workplaces block all attachments that are not considered to be work related -.doc files get through,.swf files don't. Often they use excel workbooks instead. I used to have to PDF everything to get it through my work's email filter. No.jpgs allowed, which made sending photos of faulty components to vendors a pain. It was easier to PDF them than ring up helpdesk every time and get them to release the email.
2) I guess it's an OLE thing - anything that supports the framework can render any content that is supported.
I would say more likely, if the values involved cause lower power usage, and are known to be overwritten by Windows anyway, that the HDD manufacturers are using the aggressive values which they know will cause short disk life so that they can claim lower power usage in their data sheets, and know that the drive will actually last because Windows overwrites the values in question anyway. Because the non-windows market is of no concern to them in the laptop segment.
All this assumes that windows actually DOES overwrite said values with something else though.
If people would obey them and drive like sane people, then they could be allowed to drive faster. You have to earn responsibility.
Can I have some of what you're smoking? Speeding fines are budgeted for by the state - they need them to meet their budget. Therefore a certain amount of money must be collected. If the collection methods cease to be effective, a new method of bleeding money out of the motorists is devised to allow them to meet budget again (Average Speed cameras, undercover cars, hidden cameras, etc)
Hmm - despite the fact that this is no longer true with current wear-levelling techniques, you could quite easily compile to a RAM disk if you were really all that worried.
And don't you guys use GIS (if you're civil) or CAD? What are you communicating by.pdf? General work details, personnel stuff, etc?
Nope. Generally all CAD drawings get converted to PDF for the masses. Adobe reader (or Foxit or whatever) starts way quicker than most CAD programs, and it doesn't have the massive cost associated with everyone in the office having AutoCAD installed. Generally only a couple of people in the office actually do CAD, the rest of us just mark up drawings in red pen... Honestly, I've got way better things to do than piss around with CAD software all day anyway. Thats what CADdies are for.
Note that at our business the same goes for mechanical CAD drawings, schematics, specs (generated in word or excel), or any other drawings (visio etc). They all get stored on the server as PDF + the original file, so it can be edited, and it can also be viewed by everyone.
I hate people who write in text books. Especially people who write in MY text books.
One of my friends at university used to be really bad for that - i'd lend him a text book and it would come back with notes all through the margins, bits underlined, and drawings all over the place. Even worse is one of my collegues now who insists on highlighting things in text books. It makes them really hard to read afterwards.
For 'normal' designers, humidity isn't something that's considered an issue.
Not done a lot of high-volume electronics design then have we? Humidity is one of the 3 major environmental conditions that is ALWAYS a problem - the other two being temperature and vibration. All products that I have worked on (and most products that I am aware of that are produced in reasonable quantities) are heavily tested for temperature and humidity variations. Condesation is a big killer of electronics, especially in tropical countries such as south-east asia.
Jesus, my maths lecturers at university were native english speakers and I never understood a bloody word they said. Scraped through engineering maths 1 and 2. Failed maths 3, passed it the second time only just. Maths is hard. I still understand most of the concepts, but the methods evade me.
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I don't think that word means what you think it means...
Depends how you cut the stats. When you say "more polluting" and link to that article, you are talking about one single type of polluting - NOx emissions. Yes, it's true that motorcycle engines - in general - emit greater levels of NOx than automotive engines, basically because the space available for packaging a catalytic converter is smaller. But the CO2 emissions are much lower. CO2 emission is pretty much proportional to fuel consumption.
So while you can feel smug that your NOx emissions are low, don't kid yourself that your SUV is saving the planet...
Surely that is everything to do with the compiler and nothing to do with the language though
My understanding was that the GP was talking about Washington state USA, not Western Australia...
Though I may be wrong?
The rest of your points are still valid though.
That has always annoyed me too. Why can't you buy a laptop with plain old windows installed on it? Why does it have to have a dozen irritating utilities, all of which insist on having a taskbar icon, and most of which simply duplicate functionality that already exists within the OS?
Why would I need a branded wireless LAN config utility? The OS already does that
Why would I need a "Modem Helper" utility? The OS already knows how to work a modem
Why would I need a sound mixer utility? The OS has one already
etc...
And so many of them are bundled / built in with the drivers for the hardware, so you can't even get rid of them!
I have heard tell that some bluetooth keyboards randomly reset the PIN each time you place them on the charger. Unless you type a heck of a lot on one battery charge I would think that would pretty much invalidate all of the currently known hacks wouldn't it?
I actually do plan on leaving the US and relocating permanently to New Zealand as soon as it is feasible for me to do so.
Come on down, you'll love it here! Sure we have our own problems, but at least these sorts of religious based ones aren't amongst them. Our government is secular, so are our schools etc. I believe it's illegal for schools to teach religion to children without their parents permission so you pretty much only see it in private schools (which parents send their kids to for exactly that reason...)
I can pretty much do my job from anywhere there is an internet connection, and I heard the kiwis just got that working recently.
Hope you don't work too fast then... the interwebnet works OK here, but probably not like what you're used to. I mean, sure 8MBit ADSL is available, just don't count on it really being more than about 2MBit or so...
In response to your post and also your .sig at the same time...
The issue that I see is that the US isn't very popular right now and somebody manufactured a crisis to that affect. You want to change the way ICANN operates? Where do I sign up? You want to bash the United States and say we can't trustworthy and the UN (*shudder*) should control it? Now we have a problem.....
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I want peace on Earth and good will towards men
We are the United States Government. We don't do that sort of thing
Well, I think you've summed it up right there actually.
I don't personally have any problem with ICANN being located in the USA. Why not, it's as good a place for it as any. And that's where it is now, so leave it there. The only part of the whole deal that bothers me slightly is the US government having veto power over ICANN. I don't see why a government needs to have control over DNS at all, let alone a single nation's government. IF there has to be a governing body involved as some sort of checks and balances type arrangement then one which is likely to represent everyone's interests rather than one which may have some bias would be preferable.
This (to me anyway) is not about US bashing, it's about the fact that the internet is now an international structure, and regulation of it should be a co-operative effort between everyone who's connected to it. I realise that is impossible, so who should do it? I would suggest an international council of some sort, probably not the UN, that sort of thing is not their function. To be honest I would have thought it would be more like the domain of someone like an ISO or IEC special committee.
So basically, I'm not a big fan of the US government having a controlling hand in things that affect the internet, not because I think they do a bad job of it necessarily, but because I don't believe that any one government should be in charge of it.
I'm going there this weekend - was going anyway, now nothing will keep me away!
Where does the micro come from?
/.ers don't, no matter what they think) then don't pretend to.
I realise that this is the third time that I've posted in this topic now, but FFS people if you don't know anything about discrete electronics (and most
I do know about it. It's my job to know about it. Standby power is part of what I do, I develop electronics for certain types of household goods. What they have done here is nothing new, except perhaps for the solar panel (it's unncessary, probably done for marketing reasons). It is trivial to build zero power standby circuits for most home appliances except those that use remotes to wake them up. It does not require magic, or micros, or cheating the laws of physics, or anything like that, what it does require is usually a little more cost. Hell, the standby power of most devices is double or triple what it could easily be because it saves a few cents, and a few cents on a few million items is a few years salary for a few engineers. In several of the designs I've done I've gone so far as tracking changes which would take standby power from ~1.5 Watts down to 0.2 Watts, they're on the PCB, but the parts are not fitted and the el-cheapo circuit is fitted instead. Because the beancounters said so.
Until governments require low standby powers on domestic equipment (and I mean really low, not energy star BS, although at least it's a start), manufacturers are going to continue the way they are because it's cheaper to make energy inefficient devices.
The mistake you are making is in assuming that there has to be some active monitoring involved to bring the screen out of standby. It can be done entirely passively, using a charged cap to supply the energy and a small MOSFET to switch a latching relay. The FET can be driven from the vsync pulse or from one of the TTL signals on a DVI connector. Using an appropriate cap the holdup time will be years, and the power draw will be zero. The only extra energy that will be drawn while the screen is turned on is equal to the amount required to latch the relay twice per power cycle. Which is piss all.
Not quite true. Latching relays draw no power to remain in either state, only to change states. They have a small permenant magnet or an over-centre type design which keeps them in state when the power is removed, and they are commonly used for zero-power standby devices.
A charged capacitor connected to the coil of a latching relay, through a small MOSFET, which is driven from the wakeup signal would actually use no power. No standby power at all. THe standby mode is in that case a totally passive mode, and the only discharge on the cap is the leakage through the FET and the dielectric leakage in the cap. If you chose the components carefully it should have a holdup time of weeks or months. Actually, looking at the double-layer electrolytic (supercap) datasheets from Nichicon, I would say years is more like it.
Sex. No question.
Considering that he's writing about business strategy, what does C++ have to do with it?
You left out the GPU, though if you're visualising the output at the same time you could probably give it a work out too. Probably talking something like a Quadro though rather than a gamer card.
Answers: .doc files get through, .swf files don't. Often they use excel workbooks instead. I used to have to PDF everything to get it through my work's email filter. No .jpgs allowed, which made sending photos of faulty components to vendors a pain. It was easier to PDF them than ring up helpdesk every time and get them to release the email.
1) To get it thorough their work's email filter. A lot of workplaces block all attachments that are not considered to be work related -
2) I guess it's an OLE thing - anything that supports the framework can render any content that is supported.
I would say more likely, if the values involved cause lower power usage, and are known to be overwritten by Windows anyway, that the HDD manufacturers are using the aggressive values which they know will cause short disk life so that they can claim lower power usage in their data sheets, and know that the drive will actually last because Windows overwrites the values in question anyway. Because the non-windows market is of no concern to them in the laptop segment.
All this assumes that windows actually DOES overwrite said values with something else though.
If people would obey them and drive like sane people, then they could be allowed to drive faster. You have to earn responsibility.
Can I have some of what you're smoking?
Speeding fines are budgeted for by the state - they need them to meet their budget. Therefore a certain amount of money must be collected. If the collection methods cease to be effective, a new method of bleeding money out of the motorists is devised to allow them to meet budget again (Average Speed cameras, undercover cars, hidden cameras, etc)
All in the name of public safety of course.
Hmm - despite the fact that this is no longer true with current wear-levelling techniques, you could quite easily compile to a RAM disk if you were really all that worried.
Stallman doesn't appear to see it that way, although I guess it has to be said that he represent the - shall we say, more hardline end of the spectrum
And don't you guys use GIS (if you're civil) or CAD? What are you communicating by .pdf? General work details, personnel stuff, etc?
Nope. Generally all CAD drawings get converted to PDF for the masses. Adobe reader (or Foxit or whatever) starts way quicker than most CAD programs, and it doesn't have the massive cost associated with everyone in the office having AutoCAD installed. Generally only a couple of people in the office actually do CAD, the rest of us just mark up drawings in red pen... Honestly, I've got way better things to do than piss around with CAD software all day anyway. Thats what CADdies are for.
Note that at our business the same goes for mechanical CAD drawings, schematics, specs (generated in word or excel), or any other drawings (visio etc). They all get stored on the server as PDF + the original file, so it can be edited, and it can also be viewed by everyone.
I hate people who write in text books.
Especially people who write in MY text books.
One of my friends at university used to be really bad for that - i'd lend him a text book and it would come back with notes all through the margins, bits underlined, and drawings all over the place. Even worse is one of my collegues now who insists on highlighting things in text books. It makes them really hard to read afterwards.
Honestly, make notes on your own paper.
For 'normal' designers, humidity isn't something that's considered an issue.
Not done a lot of high-volume electronics design then have we? Humidity is one of the 3 major environmental conditions that is ALWAYS a problem - the other two being temperature and vibration. All products that I have worked on (and most products that I am aware of that are produced in reasonable quantities) are heavily tested for temperature and humidity variations. Condesation is a big killer of electronics, especially in tropical countries such as south-east asia.
Jesus, my maths lecturers at university were native english speakers and I never understood a bloody word they said. Scraped through engineering maths 1 and 2. Failed maths 3, passed it the second time only just. Maths is hard. I still understand most of the concepts, but the methods evade me.
Though it's not really comparing apples with apples...
Still, I can see uses for both products already... might have to get me some to play with