Dude... the total energy consumption remains constant. Think about it. For the capacitors to run the monitor that long, they MUST HAVE DRAWN THE POWER IN THE FIRST PLACE.
According to the article:
Fujitsu Siemens showed two 22in widescreen test monitors with power meters attached at a press event in Augsburg, Germany. The display drew 0.6-0.9W when the monitor was switched off using its standby button and with an active video signal from a VGA cable present. When the display signal was switchedc off the monitor drew zero power even though the standby/power button was not pressed
This technology would appear to charge the capacitors with a one time burst as it goes into it's standby mode (and the charge is kept up via solar power). Ordinarily monitors are drawing 0.6 - 0.9W constantly while they are on (for minutes... or hours... or weeks.) The article doesn't state how much power is used to initially charge the capacitors, but I can't imagine that it would take more (or as much) power to charge them once than it would to let the monitor constantly bleed 0.6 - 0.9W over five days...
A more useful version would be one that used solar cells on the top of the LCD to absorb the already expended energy of ambient lighting.
Looks like it does...
From TFA:
Solar panels provide enough power to maintain zero consumption mode for up to five days, after which you have to press a regular power button to bring the machine out of standby.
The interesting thing is to note the difference in the types of movies being riffed by the Mike-lead MST3k alumni and the Joel-lead MST3k alumni. Mike's Rifftrax stuff generally (with a few exceptions) is making fun of modern blockbusters starring and directed by people we have actually heard of. While based on the description of Joel's first movie as "making 'Manos the Hands of Fate' look like 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' in a car wreck with 'Eegah!', it seems that Joel will be tackling the really obscure B-movies of the type they did on the original show.
Personally, one of the things I loved about the original series was not just the jokes, but the absolutely bizarre films that they got their hands on. I mean there are too many hilarious WTF moments in the films of say, Coleman Francis, that you simply will not find in modern films made by "professionals".
So, the fact that we'll be getting another batch of unheard of films to watch (with help) makes this announcement great news in my books...
(That said, Mike's group, The Film Crew, did do a set of obscure B-movies... but for some reason haven't announced any past the initial batch of four that they did.)
No surprise that identity thieves aren't big on using the Internet. I mean, think of the risks of their putting personal information out on the 'net... They could have their identities stolen!
f Comcast thinks an "overwhelming majority" of their 25 million customers are very satisfied with their service, they'got their heads in the sand. I'll bet you most of them have gripes enough to be dissatisfied, just not enough to switch to DirecTV or Dish Network.
There's an old joke:
Two guys are out camping... Suddenly they hear the sounds of a tiger outside their tent.
The two guys look at each other.
One man starts putting his running shoes on.
Despite the situation, his friend starts chuckling at him. "What are you thinking? You can't outrun a tiger!"
The man looks back at his friend and says, "I don't have to outrun... the tiger."
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Like you say. Comcast doesn't have to be the best. They just have to outrace Direct TV and Dish Network.
I can't figure out whether I want to go out and smash office equipment with a hammer, or I want this woman to come in and smash my office equipment with a hammer.
Which end of this fight is the right end? I CAN'T DECIDE!!
Keep in mind that the "95% of all email is spam" figure probably also includes emails sent to a server with a bad/non-existent address. Spammers will use a list of commonly used usernames and send an email to a domain to each username on that list. Most of these will have associated mailboxes on a given server, but there's probably a significant amount that simply bounces back, keeping that signal to noise ratio very very low.
The device doesn't infringe. The machine making some parts of the device infringes. They aren't preventing the manufacturing machine from being imported. They are preventing the hard disk drive from being imported
I agree that the device itself does not infringe, but the process that created the device does.
IANAL, but patent law prevents Company/Person X from using or selling something that doesn't belong to Company/Person X. In this case, X is profiting by the use of something patented which doesn't belong to them, and they (the law says) shouldn't be allowed to do that. It shouldn't matter where in the process the violation occurs.
If you use A to make B, and A doesn't belong to you, why should you be able to benefit from B?
I thought that US Patent protection did not extend to foriegn countries?
Two things from the article:
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has announced that it plans to begin an investigation into several companies that either make or use certain hard drives.[...]The two filed a complaint with the ITC in September, saying that the importation of the hard drives violates section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
Section 337 of the Tariff Act bars the importation of products into the US that infringe on patents owned by others in the US.
The article, from the Washington Post, says that infrared cameras capable of detecting human skin will be installed, rather than the visible-spectrum cameras in use today. So much for using dummies in the front seat.
Oh, the dummies will still work... You'll just have to keep them warm and glue lots and lots of dandruff to them.
Although, to be fair, you do that every time you see an old movie.
True! In fact I recall an episode of MST3k where the short film in question features a line of dancing girls on ice sweeping majestically across the ice rink. Joel deadpans, "Wow, and to think *all* these people are dead now."
Although not immediately related to the subject at hand, I found this interesting:
By far the most prominent time lady was Jane Barbe, who succeeded Moore at Audichron in the 1960s. A former big band singer, Barbe (pronounced "Barbie") went on to become the voice of recorded telephone messages in the 1970s and '80s in the United States and elsewhere.
Along with her interpretations of the time and current temperature, Barbe delivered the bad news too, telling you that circuits in a specific area were busy, please try again later, or that your call cannot be completed as dialed.
And who will ever forget her heartbreaking rendition of "I'm sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer in service"?
Barbe died of cancer-related complications in 2003 at age 74. It's estimated that at the height of her fame, Barbe's voice was heard worldwide about 40 million times a day.
I'm going to be freaked out the next time I hear that voice and realize that -- like that old lady in the episode of THE TWILIGHT ZONE -- I'm hearing a voice from the grave...
The command is UNSUBscribe (or the old SIGNOFF which also works) AND
yout can TELL/SEND or email an UNSUB for any list to any handy LISTSERV
and let the LISTSERV figure out which specific surver to forward the
request to. Unless a new one's been put on line lately, the nearest
LISTSERV to SNYBUFVA would be LISTSERV@UBVM
True, but misleading. If you want to reduce an alleged "crime" to purely physical actions, then you could make anything sound ridiculous. You could say, "They arrested me! And all I did was curl my finger slightly inward! It's the end-times; the government won't let me move parts of my own body around!" Now, if you neglect to say that the aforementioned finger was wrapped around the trigger of the gun at the time that you moved it, your statement is true, but totally misleading. In this case, surely the intention of the person is what's important. The movement of the hand isn't important, it's what that action produced that is.
"I didn't write a virus, I just happened to arrange some letters, numbers and symbols into patterns and place those patterns onto the Internet! It's just like sending an email!"
"I didn't commit perjury, I just started speaking English sentences! The government wants to outlaw English!"
"I'm not a spammer, I just connected to a SMTP server and sent it some standard commands. It's not *my* fault the mail server sent out 3,000 emails a second..."
The problem then would be that the responsible companies would suddenly stop reporting when their records were stolen / went missing. When person X's identity is stolen the burden would be on that person to prove that the information came via company Y...
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FYI, Wikipedia has a fantastic hi-res image of the radio telescope.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K): Gumby in Robot Rumpus
As a fan of the original series, I excited.
The interesting thing is to note the difference in the types of movies being riffed by the Mike-lead MST3k alumni and the Joel-lead MST3k alumni. Mike's Rifftrax stuff generally (with a few exceptions) is making fun of modern blockbusters starring and directed by people we have actually heard of. While based on the description of Joel's first movie as "making 'Manos the Hands of Fate' look like 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians' in a car wreck with 'Eegah!', it seems that Joel will be tackling the really obscure B-movies of the type they did on the original show.
Personally, one of the things I loved about the original series was not just the jokes, but the absolutely bizarre films that they got their hands on. I mean there are too many hilarious WTF moments in the films of say, Coleman Francis, that you simply will not find in modern films made by "professionals".
So, the fact that we'll be getting another batch of unheard of films to watch (with help) makes this announcement great news in my books...
(That said, Mike's group, The Film Crew, did do a set of obscure B-movies... but for some reason haven't announced any past the initial batch of four that they did.)
No surprise that identity thieves aren't big on using the Internet. I mean, think of the risks of their putting personal information out on the 'net... They could have their identities stolen!
There's an old joke:
Two guys are out camping... Suddenly they hear the sounds of a tiger outside their tent.
The two guys look at each other.
One man starts putting his running shoes on.
Despite the situation, his friend starts chuckling at him. "What are you thinking? You can't outrun a tiger!"
The man looks back at his friend and says, "I don't have to outrun... the tiger."
-------
Like you say. Comcast doesn't have to be the best. They just have to outrace Direct TV and Dish Network.
Damn.
I can't figure out whether I want to go out and smash office equipment with a hammer, or I want this woman to come in and smash my office equipment with a hammer.
Which end of this fight is the right end? I CAN'T DECIDE!!
Why is it I get the feeling that Window's minimum footprint and Bigfoot will have something in common...?
Keep in mind that the "95% of all email is spam" figure probably also includes emails sent to a server with a bad/non-existent address. Spammers will use a list of commonly used usernames and send an email to a domain to each username on that list. Most of these will have associated mailboxes on a given server, but there's probably a significant amount that simply bounces back, keeping that signal to noise ratio very very low.
You're not a member of the public or a tax-payer?
IANAL, but patent law prevents Company/Person X from using or selling something that doesn't belong to Company/Person X. In this case, X is profiting by the use of something patented which doesn't belong to them, and they (the law says) shouldn't be allowed to do that. It shouldn't matter where in the process the violation occurs.
If you use A to make B, and A doesn't belong to you, why should you be able to benefit from B?
I see the federal government isn't waiting around for the San Andreas Fault do to its work... they're cutting California free now!
You guys can have the flying car. I'll stick with the lawnchair tied to helium filled weather balloons.
Indeed, here's a pertinent post (and thread) from 1989:
"I didn't write a virus, I just happened to arrange some letters, numbers and symbols into patterns and place those patterns onto the Internet! It's just like sending an email!"
"I didn't commit perjury, I just started speaking English sentences! The government wants to outlaw English!"
"I'm not a spammer, I just connected to a SMTP server and sent it some standard commands. It's not *my* fault the mail server sent out 3,000 emails a second..."
At least we got it eventually... They never did release a version 8.0 of Flash for Linux...
The problem then would be that the responsible companies would suddenly stop reporting when their records were stolen / went missing. When person X's identity is stolen the burden would be on that person to prove that the information came via company Y...
In case anyone is confused by the title/summary: Big Blue = IBM; Deep Blue = The Chess Playing Computer.