t seems to also make sense to do your own conversion at the point of use.
The problem with this is it creates massive inefficiencies and waste at multiple points in almost every industrialized house around the world. Remember, these wall warts also draw power even when not charging their companion device. Having a single unit means its becomes very unlikely it won't continuously be in use which is yet another savings.
Consistently, study after study indicates as much as 20% of America's energy use could be reduced by such intelligent moves. The amount of energy consumed via inefficiency in American is literally jaw dropping and yet you're actively advocating the status quo.
Ummm...no. I'm pretty sure people understand how a power receptacle works.
Engergy efficiency has little to do with the device itself.
Completely wrong as you're not looking in the right place. Massive amounts of power in wasted on inefficient power converters. Many are frequently in the 80%. Part of this is higher efficiencies demand higher prices. So, frequently to save money, low efficiency converters are provided with consumer goods. Even many PC's have efficiencies which which range from very high 80s to very high 90s. The difference is almost always dictated by price.
Now then, if a house had a single converter, you would have a single, high efficiency unit which need only be purchased once rather than for every consumer purchase. This in turn, lowers the cost of consumer goods which dramatically increasing consumer household efficiency for many, many electronic goods. The vast majority of all electronic goods in the world comes with yet another converter; needlessly.
Most studies clearly indicate as much as 20% of American's power demands could be reduced by such moves. That's massive despite your hand waving.
There is a VAST difference between individual ignorance and bias versus a cultural ignorance and bias which actively works to ingrained it in all of its citizens. The later is very likely a life-long failing while the former can simply change in the natural course of one's life and experiences.
Don't get me started on "inferior societal practices," that is wrong on so many levels.
Isn't this exactly the point of these forums? The simple fact is, inferior societal practices are just that, especially when people are not willing to discuss and address. Ultimately, that's entirely the point of my post.
I've always thought they were both right - sort of. Tesla is right about power distribution. Edison was very, very wrong, as he all too frequently was. But, D/C does have many uses once its at a consumption point.
I never understood why we don't have converters in every house. Simply deliver the power as A/C and provide for A/C and D/C in every house. Keep A/C for things like laundry and dish washing and D/C for most everything else in the house. There would be many advantages to such a dual scheme. Just imagine how much more efficient everything would be.
Please stop asserting things I never said or implied and then shooting me for your own comprehension failings.
The simple fact is, its difficult to be well rounded and fully educated by your own schools when the teachers frequently view their position as a societal stepping stone and foreigners are culturally prohibited from properly doing their job. This all but ensures an inferior education while believing yourself to be superior. This in turn means external education it frequently demanded. After all, if its not invented there, its difficult to both have and maintain subject matter experts. And bringing in subject matter experts is frequently blunted because of societal demands.
I'm sorry you got your feelings hurt by simple statement of fact.
the press calls it "home made", which seems to imply it was name in somebodies garage at home (and it's comparable to things like the home made Chinese oil drum submarine).
I'm going to be blunt here, but this is not a troll. This is completely factually accurate. So please read the entire thing. Please do not go off and troll moderate because it offends political correctness.
Is the comparison unjust? Hate to tell you, but culturally, they do have many disadvantages to creating high quality products. For example, foreign subject matter experts can teach the subject but are almost always prohibited from grading or correcting serious failures in comprehension. This is singularly, the primary motivator for sending their kids off to Western schools because it effectively side-steps societal taboos. After all, the foreigner is a dirty, inferior, scumbag and the student doesn't really care because this is just one stepping stone in their path for societal advancement. The reality is, this plays a major reason why high quality goods are rarely, if ever, invented and manufactured in these countries. Socially, they are programmed for high quality failure. Countries like India frequent suffer a similar fate. Of course it doesn't help they are all too frequently xenophobic and hatefully intolerant.
Until these countries, with their inferior societal practices, comes to terms and openly admit they are not the superior beings of the world, as their cultures openly demand, they are doomed to failure, low quality goods, and garage creations.
Very likely radio contact is attempted. But unless the aircraft is listening on well known and procedurally established frequencies, good luck hoping they'll actually receive the message.
Besides, in a no-fly-zone, its extremely unlikely you'll find anything other than military aircraft flying.
The simple fact is, nuclear is the safest, cleanest source of energy known to man. We have far safer designs available today than those forty year old designs. And anti-nukers are literally making the world more dangerous by making nuclear competition of evolution of economically and politically inviable.
Far too much is said about nuclear waste. The simple fact is, if it were not for anti-nukers, we would have wide spread reactors feeding on this waste today. We have waste problems BECAUSE of dip shit anti-nukers.
Now that the "need" or nuclear weapons has been reduced, it literally opens the door for far, far safer reactor designs and continued development - if only we can get idiot anti-nukers to shut the fuck up and help all of mankind instead of vomiting ignorance, stupidity, and propaganda. Statistically and factually, everything anti-nukers say is either a half-lie or a whole-life and yet sadly, largely, world opinion has been shaped by these fuck-tards.
Literally, the world would be a better place without anit-nukers.
Not sure where you get your own propaganda, but this latest involvement is extremely unpopular with the majority of people in the US.
Not sure where you get your propaganda, but every poll I've seen was overwhelmingly in support of this action. As was support in NATO and the UN. This all strongly suggests you're the only one falling for propaganda.
Certainly possible, but I doubt it. Remember, the goal is to bait the enemy into engaging you with radar and AA-systems. Part of that means allowing the enemy know where you are.
When you think about it, its really incredible these aircraft can even get off the ground given the size of the balls these pilots have.
Sorry, I stated well known documented fact. Furthermore, assuming a reasonable 3G connection, 3G provides the best byte/power ratio by a wide margin. Meaning, unless you have a poor 3G connection, WIFI is consuming far more power to rx/tx the same data.
To be clear, and as I tried to express, there certainly are some corner cases where 3G can consume more power, but the signal needs to be so weak, the device is attempting to transmit at maximum power. In this corner case, its possible WIFI will beat 3G, and atypical.
Yes. They absolutely switch these off. Only the elements which are completely intended for public ears (including potential enemies) are transmitted in the clear. Position reports will typically, only be provided when flying in high traffic areas where civilian traffic is likely, such as airports or published navigation aids. Furthermore, many of the cited navigation aids are likely to have been created by the military and the name of such aid may only be known to the military. So them saying, 135' from RAFLO, or some such, has little direct meaning since the location of RAFLO is completely unknown. Furthermore, that aid may be renamed later for different missions. So even if the enemy figures out where RAFLO is at, they may not realize TRKSTOP is simply a new name for RAFLO.
Lastly, you need to understand, all of these concepts are extremely well understood in the signals discipline, which means some of these transmissions from a given flight may be completely fictitious in nature and transmitted with the full awareness the enemy is listening.
Some bastard could come along and accuse him of unauthorized "retransmission" of "illegally" intercepted signals
Extremely doubtful since the ATC frequencies he's listening to are specifically intended to be heard by public facilities. Anything heard on these frequencies are transmitted with the full intent and knowledge anyone and everyone can hear. Anything which is not intended for public consumption is transmitted over military frequencies and encrypted. The former is what he's listening to. The later would be completely unintelligible for anyone whos receivers have not been pre-programmed with the decryption keys. Programming with the proper keys is part of pre-flight procedures and handed out during the pre-mission briefing.
Absolutely nothing he's doing is secret or hard and is extremely unlikely to be illegal in any free country.
@USAfricaCommand be advised, one of your WEASEL's F-16CJ from 23th FS Spangdahlem Germany has his transponder Mode-S on! NOT secure!
That means the F-16 in question was transmitting both its altitude and GPS position for all to see. Then again, if its truly a wild weasel platform, that may be entirely its intent.
Response like this means China's propaganda absolutely is taking hold. Its really pretty sad so many so so weak minded.
They are an aristocracy of communist rule where capitalism is growing and leveraged only so long as it benefits the communist party. Its an extremely weird blend of communism and capitalism with very clear shades of every growing fascism. But no bones about it, China is still very much communist at its core.
The state still owes everything The state still takes from A and gives to B - except where that can be deferred via bribes; and then only at the whim of the party. The giving of A to B is typically to empower additional income via capitalism such that the monies can be used to further the power base and dominance of the communist party.
Even the extremely wealthy, who have made all of their money via capitalism, absolutely understand they must be gracious to the communist in power else they can lose everything over night. So while they do participate in a capitalistic trade, they do so only to further the means and reach of the communistic party.
Lastly, I also get the impression people confuse capitalism with democracy . One does not depend on the other. Which is why, for example, much of the pro-pirate community are actually advocating socialism; although frequently far too ignorant to realize it.
People all too frequently confuse device's power use with application incurred battery life. All too often, people install poorly written applications and refuse to associate poor battery life with the given application. Furthermore, Android versions prior to 2.3 do not properly account for all CPU use. Which means, a lot of applications are running down the battery but are associated with the given application. This is generally true for applications which heavily require system level services for their feature set. As a result, the system is blamed for the battery use when in fact, its a given application.
But use the navigation app for even a little while, and the battery doesn't last long with all that HW turned on: GPS, screen, graphics, network radio, etc.
Most people don't realize that Google Navigation maintains a power lock when its running. This means you can save considerable power by turning off your display. This is especially true because when navigating, the display tends to be at 100% brightness (except at night, of course). And since the display is frequently the highest power draw on a device, considerable power can be saved by simply listening to the audible prompts with the display turned off.
Also, newer versions of Google maps and navigator allow for limited map caching. Make sure you enabled this. This will prevent constant waking of your carrier data connection to download data. In other words, it allows your radio to actually enter standby and stay there longer, at the cost of some temporary disk space.
I'll also add, leaving WIFI enabled, even when not connected, drains the battery more quickly. WIFI should be turned off until explicitly required and/or desires. Leaving WIFI enabled can reduce battery life much more so than using bluetooth.
Something else I forgot to say, unused memory is absolutely wasted memory. And this is the exactly broken mentality that applications like Task Killer encourage - waste, waste, waste. Users confuse latency for efficiency and they are two completely different things. You can reduce latency in some cases with these types of applications but ALWAYS at the loss of system efficiency. And when this isn't true, it means you should seriously reconsider the installation of buggy or poorly written applications.
Having the screen on 100% brightness. (most new phones have a light level sensor and can automatically adjust the screen brightness... put it on this mode, it saves battery).
This was commonly stated when the feature first hit the market. Most testing indicates this actually makes batter life far, far worse, assuming you don't already, continuously, operate your display at 100% brightness. In other words, if you make any effort to control your screen's brightness, chances are, on average, over the span of a day, you're doing better than the automatic display adjustment.
The problem with the automatic display adjustment is the fact that the display is continuously adjusted, frequently when it shouldn't be adjusted. Furthermore, the brightness setting is frequently too high for the current conditions, especially when not in full light.
I personally use dimbot (which never shows on the battery usage list) but there are an almost endless list of options which are superior to the system's auto-adjustment feature. These applications are a great way to dramatically improve battery life.
In that same vein, letting apps remain open when you're not using them will drain the battery. There's task manager apps to close stuff you're not using, and using such an app can save battery by reducing the number of tasks running.
Completely untrue. Killing applications can not only break applications and properly semantical behavior, but actually increase battery load which is the exact opposite of your claim. By killing applications, you are preventing it from being cached for next use. Which means if the application needs to run again (especially if its heavily driven by alarms) means that instead of simply waking and running it must now be re-loaded from disk and then run. Furthermore, developers absolutely hate applications like Task Killer because it breaks so many applications. Even Google dislikes them because it slows the device, causes headaches for developers, decreases battery life, and prevents proper application caching and hurts performance.
The real problem is, in Android versions prior to 2.0 (yes, that means all Android devices prior to 2.0 are fundamentally broken), Google has an extremely broken application lifecycle which caused applications to improperly use too much memory as well as lifecycle thrashing. Applications like Task Killer did help because it allowed the system to avoid these critical bugs. Devices after 2.0 and especially 2.1, absolutely do not require applications like Task Killer and absolutely should not be killing tasks. Doing so is dumb and a completely waste of resources, cpu, and battery life. Do so is actively fighting properly application lifecycles while concurrently breaking applications.
Similarly, running many different games and switching between them increases the number of programs running in memory. If you just play one or two games and don't switch between them frequently, you can save battery because of the above.
No it doesn't. You have no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not understand the application lifecycle for Android.
Mobile data. Using it really sucks back the juice in the battery. Switching mobile data off can save a ton of battery life, or, more practically, using the built-in wifi when you're in range of a wifi network will use less power, as the mobile data will shut off while you're connected to wifi.
As a rule of thumb, you are completely wrong. Mobile data in standby is what sucks power and this is especially true on CDMA networks. Unless you go into airplane mode, you can not disable CDMA standby. Which means, there are no options for CDMA users. Furthermore, when not in standby, WIFI consumes considerably more power than does mobile carrier network. Only ever use WIFI if your carrier's network is not available or you require a big speed boost. Any time your using WIFI over your carrier's
show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
And therein lies the root of your troll.
Let's look at what you said.
comments that coal power emits more isotopes
Contrary to your hasty dismissal, most people have no idea radiation is everywhere. As was widely covered, the anti-nuke crazies had people so scared of radiation at one point, people didn't want to get medical x-rays or even MRIs. Remember, the MRI used to be called NMRI. The name was changed because people were refusing diagnoses simply because "Nuclear" was in its name.
Furthermore, its extremely important to remember, even if these reactors become substantially worse, and even including Chernobyl, nuclear power is the safest, cleanest form of energy mankind has. It also keeps energy prices extremely low and removes considerable demand from other forms dirtier energy.
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions.
That may be your simple answer, but its not the least bit reasonable nor is it grounded in reality. The simple truth is, the people who must deal with the situation have enough information to properly deal with. The closer people are in their need to critically deal with the situation have critical details. Its actually fairly responsible in what they are doing because its seemingly doing wonders in preventing blind ignorance, such as yours, from running amok and creating havoc in an already extremely chaotic situation.
That's probably resulting in more fear, panic and cost than releasing real data for open analysis would.
Absolutely no indication this is the least bit accurate. Appears to be willful thinking on your part.
Likewise, the dismissive astroturf comments and efforts to bury valuable discussion
Yes, education is nothing but active efforts to bury valuable discussion.
just show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
Can you expand on that? Because at face value, it appears to be nothing but ignorance and/or a troll.
I always associate it with a a very large, dumb person. I always assumed that's where it got its name. Capable of some heavily lifting but completely without out any smarts. Basically, all brawns and no brains. Regardless, seems like a good fit even if its not by intension.
"Oh no. Oh no. Don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad."
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t seems to also make sense to do your own conversion at the point of use.
The problem with this is it creates massive inefficiencies and waste at multiple points in almost every industrialized house around the world. Remember, these wall warts also draw power even when not charging their companion device. Having a single unit means its becomes very unlikely it won't continuously be in use which is yet another savings.
Consistently, study after study indicates as much as 20% of America's energy use could be reduced by such intelligent moves. The amount of energy consumed via inefficiency in American is literally jaw dropping and yet you're actively advocating the status quo.
Ummm...no. I'm pretty sure people understand how a power receptacle works.
Engergy efficiency has little to do with the device itself.
Completely wrong as you're not looking in the right place. Massive amounts of power in wasted on inefficient power converters. Many are frequently in the 80%. Part of this is higher efficiencies demand higher prices. So, frequently to save money, low efficiency converters are provided with consumer goods. Even many PC's have efficiencies which which range from very high 80s to very high 90s. The difference is almost always dictated by price.
Now then, if a house had a single converter, you would have a single, high efficiency unit which need only be purchased once rather than for every consumer purchase. This in turn, lowers the cost of consumer goods which dramatically increasing consumer household efficiency for many, many electronic goods. The vast majority of all electronic goods in the world comes with yet another converter; needlessly.
Most studies clearly indicate as much as 20% of American's power demands could be reduced by such moves. That's massive despite your hand waving.
There is a VAST difference between individual ignorance and bias versus a cultural ignorance and bias which actively works to ingrained it in all of its citizens. The later is very likely a life-long failing while the former can simply change in the natural course of one's life and experiences.
Don't get me started on "inferior societal practices," that is wrong on so many levels.
Isn't this exactly the point of these forums? The simple fact is, inferior societal practices are just that, especially when people are not willing to discuss and address. Ultimately, that's entirely the point of my post.
I've always thought they were both right - sort of. Tesla is right about power distribution. Edison was very, very wrong, as he all too frequently was. But, D/C does have many uses once its at a consumption point.
I never understood why we don't have converters in every house. Simply deliver the power as A/C and provide for A/C and D/C in every house. Keep A/C for things like laundry and dish washing and D/C for most everything else in the house. There would be many advantages to such a dual scheme. Just imagine how much more efficient everything would be.
Please stop asserting things I never said or implied and then shooting me for your own comprehension failings.
The simple fact is, its difficult to be well rounded and fully educated by your own schools when the teachers frequently view their position as a societal stepping stone and foreigners are culturally prohibited from properly doing their job. This all but ensures an inferior education while believing yourself to be superior. This in turn means external education it frequently demanded. After all, if its not invented there, its difficult to both have and maintain subject matter experts. And bringing in subject matter experts is frequently blunted because of societal demands.
I'm sorry you got your feelings hurt by simple statement of fact.
Nice rant,
Nice rant, but I was addressing the gp which had issue with the use of, "home made", rather than than the source of the original comment.
the press calls it "home made", which seems to imply it was name in somebodies garage at home (and it's comparable to things like the home made Chinese oil drum submarine).
I'm going to be blunt here, but this is not a troll. This is completely factually accurate. So please read the entire thing. Please do not go off and troll moderate because it offends political correctness.
Is the comparison unjust? Hate to tell you, but culturally, they do have many disadvantages to creating high quality products. For example, foreign subject matter experts can teach the subject but are almost always prohibited from grading or correcting serious failures in comprehension. This is singularly, the primary motivator for sending their kids off to Western schools because it effectively side-steps societal taboos. After all, the foreigner is a dirty, inferior, scumbag and the student doesn't really care because this is just one stepping stone in their path for societal advancement. The reality is, this plays a major reason why high quality goods are rarely, if ever, invented and manufactured in these countries. Socially, they are programmed for high quality failure. Countries like India frequent suffer a similar fate. Of course it doesn't help they are all too frequently xenophobic and hatefully intolerant.
Until these countries, with their inferior societal practices, comes to terms and openly admit they are not the superior beings of the world, as their cultures openly demand, they are doomed to failure, low quality goods, and garage creations.
So does this invalidate the pebble bed reactor entirely or does this mean its still a viable design yet still requires additional research and study?
Whooosh!
Very likely radio contact is attempted. But unless the aircraft is listening on well known and procedurally established frequencies, good luck hoping they'll actually receive the message.
Besides, in a no-fly-zone, its extremely unlikely you'll find anything other than military aircraft flying.
Coal deaths per terrawatt-hour: 161 (avg); 278 china, 15 US
The simple fact is, nuclear is the safest, cleanest source of energy known to man. We have far safer designs available today than those forty year old designs. And anti-nukers are literally making the world more dangerous by making nuclear competition of evolution of economically and politically inviable.
Far too much is said about nuclear waste. The simple fact is, if it were not for anti-nukers, we would have wide spread reactors feeding on this waste today. We have waste problems BECAUSE of dip shit anti-nukers.
Now that the "need" or nuclear weapons has been reduced, it literally opens the door for far, far safer reactor designs and continued development - if only we can get idiot anti-nukers to shut the fuck up and help all of mankind instead of vomiting ignorance, stupidity, and propaganda. Statistically and factually, everything anti-nukers say is either a half-lie or a whole-life and yet sadly, largely, world opinion has been shaped by these fuck-tards.
Literally, the world would be a better place without anit-nukers.
I guess he better not visit US then.
Ok ok, I know flaimbait, but I just couldn't resist.
Ironically, everything he's doing is completely legal in the US. But as others have pointed out, he better not visit the UK.
Not sure where you get your own propaganda, but this latest involvement is extremely unpopular with the majority of people in the US.
Not sure where you get your propaganda, but every poll I've seen was overwhelmingly in support of this action. As was support in NATO and the UN. This all strongly suggests you're the only one falling for propaganda.
Certainly possible, but I doubt it. Remember, the goal is to bait the enemy into engaging you with radar and AA-systems. Part of that means allowing the enemy know where you are.
When you think about it, its really incredible these aircraft can even get off the ground given the size of the balls these pilots have.
Sorry, I stated well known documented fact. Furthermore, assuming a reasonable 3G connection, 3G provides the best byte/power ratio by a wide margin. Meaning, unless you have a poor 3G connection, WIFI is consuming far more power to rx/tx the same data.
To be clear, and as I tried to express, there certainly are some corner cases where 3G can consume more power, but the signal needs to be so weak, the device is attempting to transmit at maximum power. In this corner case, its possible WIFI will beat 3G, and atypical.
Yes. They absolutely switch these off. Only the elements which are completely intended for public ears (including potential enemies) are transmitted in the clear. Position reports will typically, only be provided when flying in high traffic areas where civilian traffic is likely, such as airports or published navigation aids. Furthermore, many of the cited navigation aids are likely to have been created by the military and the name of such aid may only be known to the military. So them saying, 135' from RAFLO, or some such, has little direct meaning since the location of RAFLO is completely unknown. Furthermore, that aid may be renamed later for different missions. So even if the enemy figures out where RAFLO is at, they may not realize TRKSTOP is simply a new name for RAFLO.
Lastly, you need to understand, all of these concepts are extremely well understood in the signals discipline, which means some of these transmissions from a given flight may be completely fictitious in nature and transmitted with the full awareness the enemy is listening.
Some bastard could come along and accuse him of unauthorized "retransmission" of "illegally" intercepted signals
Extremely doubtful since the ATC frequencies he's listening to are specifically intended to be heard by public facilities. Anything heard on these frequencies are transmitted with the full intent and knowledge anyone and everyone can hear. Anything which is not intended for public consumption is transmitted over military frequencies and encrypted. The former is what he's listening to. The later would be completely unintelligible for anyone whos receivers have not been pre-programmed with the decryption keys. Programming with the proper keys is part of pre-flight procedures and handed out during the pre-mission briefing.
Absolutely nothing he's doing is secret or hard and is extremely unlikely to be illegal in any free country.
@USAfricaCommand be advised, one of your WEASEL's F-16CJ from 23th FS Spangdahlem Germany has his transponder Mode-S on! NOT secure!
That means the F-16 in question was transmitting both its altitude and GPS position for all to see. Then again, if its truly a wild weasel platform, that may be entirely its intent.
Response like this means China's propaganda absolutely is taking hold. Its really pretty sad so many so so weak minded.
They are an aristocracy of communist rule where capitalism is growing and leveraged only so long as it benefits the communist party. Its an extremely weird blend of communism and capitalism with very clear shades of every growing fascism. But no bones about it, China is still very much communist at its core.
The state still owes everything The state still takes from A and gives to B - except where that can be deferred via bribes; and then only at the whim of the party. The giving of A to B is typically to empower additional income via capitalism such that the monies can be used to further the power base and dominance of the communist party.
Even the extremely wealthy, who have made all of their money via capitalism, absolutely understand they must be gracious to the communist in power else they can lose everything over night. So while they do participate in a capitalistic trade, they do so only to further the means and reach of the communistic party.
Lastly, I also get the impression people confuse capitalism with democracy . One does not depend on the other. Which is why, for example, much of the pro-pirate community are actually advocating socialism; although frequently far too ignorant to realize it.
Base load power is typically generated at $0.02-$0.04 per kWh. Non-base load frequently starts at around $0.07 (and goes much higher) per kWh.
People all too frequently confuse device's power use with application incurred battery life. All too often, people install poorly written applications and refuse to associate poor battery life with the given application. Furthermore, Android versions prior to 2.3 do not properly account for all CPU use. Which means, a lot of applications are running down the battery but are associated with the given application. This is generally true for applications which heavily require system level services for their feature set. As a result, the system is blamed for the battery use when in fact, its a given application.
But use the navigation app for even a little while, and the battery doesn't last long with all that HW turned on: GPS, screen, graphics, network radio, etc.
Most people don't realize that Google Navigation maintains a power lock when its running. This means you can save considerable power by turning off your display. This is especially true because when navigating, the display tends to be at 100% brightness (except at night, of course). And since the display is frequently the highest power draw on a device, considerable power can be saved by simply listening to the audible prompts with the display turned off.
Also, newer versions of Google maps and navigator allow for limited map caching. Make sure you enabled this. This will prevent constant waking of your carrier data connection to download data. In other words, it allows your radio to actually enter standby and stay there longer, at the cost of some temporary disk space.
I'll also add, leaving WIFI enabled, even when not connected, drains the battery more quickly. WIFI should be turned off until explicitly required and/or desires. Leaving WIFI enabled can reduce battery life much more so than using bluetooth.
Something else I forgot to say, unused memory is absolutely wasted memory. And this is the exactly broken mentality that applications like Task Killer encourage - waste, waste, waste. Users confuse latency for efficiency and they are two completely different things. You can reduce latency in some cases with these types of applications but ALWAYS at the loss of system efficiency. And when this isn't true, it means you should seriously reconsider the installation of buggy or poorly written applications.
Having the screen on 100% brightness. (most new phones have a light level sensor and can automatically adjust the screen brightness... put it on this mode, it saves battery).
This was commonly stated when the feature first hit the market. Most testing indicates this actually makes batter life far, far worse, assuming you don't already, continuously, operate your display at 100% brightness. In other words, if you make any effort to control your screen's brightness, chances are, on average, over the span of a day, you're doing better than the automatic display adjustment.
The problem with the automatic display adjustment is the fact that the display is continuously adjusted, frequently when it shouldn't be adjusted. Furthermore, the brightness setting is frequently too high for the current conditions, especially when not in full light.
I personally use dimbot (which never shows on the battery usage list) but there are an almost endless list of options which are superior to the system's auto-adjustment feature. These applications are a great way to dramatically improve battery life.
In that same vein, letting apps remain open when you're not using them will drain the battery. There's task manager apps to close stuff you're not using, and using such an app can save battery by reducing the number of tasks running.
Completely untrue. Killing applications can not only break applications and properly semantical behavior, but actually increase battery load which is the exact opposite of your claim. By killing applications, you are preventing it from being cached for next use. Which means if the application needs to run again (especially if its heavily driven by alarms) means that instead of simply waking and running it must now be re-loaded from disk and then run. Furthermore, developers absolutely hate applications like Task Killer because it breaks so many applications. Even Google dislikes them because it slows the device, causes headaches for developers, decreases battery life, and prevents proper application caching and hurts performance.
The real problem is, in Android versions prior to 2.0 (yes, that means all Android devices prior to 2.0 are fundamentally broken), Google has an extremely broken application lifecycle which caused applications to improperly use too much memory as well as lifecycle thrashing. Applications like Task Killer did help because it allowed the system to avoid these critical bugs. Devices after 2.0 and especially 2.1, absolutely do not require applications like Task Killer and absolutely should not be killing tasks. Doing so is dumb and a completely waste of resources, cpu, and battery life. Do so is actively fighting properly application lifecycles while concurrently breaking applications.
Similarly, running many different games and switching between them increases the number of programs running in memory. If you just play one or two games and don't switch between them frequently, you can save battery because of the above.
No it doesn't. You have no idea what you're talking about and clearly do not understand the application lifecycle for Android.
Mobile data. Using it really sucks back the juice in the battery. Switching mobile data off can save a ton of battery life, or, more practically, using the built-in wifi when you're in range of a wifi network will use less power, as the mobile data will shut off while you're connected to wifi.
As a rule of thumb, you are completely wrong. Mobile data in standby is what sucks power and this is especially true on CDMA networks. Unless you go into airplane mode, you can not disable CDMA standby. Which means, there are no options for CDMA users. Furthermore, when not in standby, WIFI consumes considerably more power than does mobile carrier network. Only ever use WIFI if your carrier's network is not available or you require a big speed boost. Any time your using WIFI over your carrier's
show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
And therein lies the root of your troll.
Let's look at what you said.
comments that coal power emits more isotopes
Contrary to your hasty dismissal, most people have no idea radiation is everywhere. As was widely covered, the anti-nuke crazies had people so scared of radiation at one point, people didn't want to get medical x-rays or even MRIs. Remember, the MRI used to be called NMRI. The name was changed because people were refusing diagnoses simply because "Nuclear" was in its name.
Furthermore, its extremely important to remember, even if these reactors become substantially worse, and even including Chernobyl, nuclear power is the safest, cleanest form of energy mankind has. It also keeps energy prices extremely low and removes considerable demand from other forms dirtier energy.
The simple answer is that the authorities, as evidenced by this article, are not releasing enough information for individuals to make sensible decisions.
That may be your simple answer, but its not the least bit reasonable nor is it grounded in reality. The simple truth is, the people who must deal with the situation have enough information to properly deal with. The closer people are in their need to critically deal with the situation have critical details. Its actually fairly responsible in what they are doing because its seemingly doing wonders in preventing blind ignorance, such as yours, from running amok and creating havoc in an already extremely chaotic situation.
That's probably resulting in more fear, panic and cost than releasing real data for open analysis would.
Absolutely no indication this is the least bit accurate. Appears to be willful thinking on your part.
Likewise, the dismissive astroturf comments and efforts to bury valuable discussion
Yes, education is nothing but active efforts to bury valuable discussion.
just show how little we can trust the nuclear power industry to manage events without open scrutiny.
Can you expand on that? Because at face value, it appears to be nothing but ignorance and/or a troll.
I always associate it with a a very large, dumb person. I always assumed that's where it got its name. Capable of some heavily lifting but completely without out any smarts. Basically, all brawns and no brains. Regardless, seems like a good fit even if its not by intension.
"Oh no. Oh no. Don't do that. If you shoot him, you'll just make him mad."