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They are called Akercocke, I thought this was the cover of one of their albums called Goat of Mendes but it's only on their T-Shirts....
http://www.akercocke.com/index2.htm...
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My wallpaper... carbon fiber. You need to tile it to make sense. It's good for low-light power user stuff (lots of windows, want a subtle wallpaper).
Also... tiling is incredible efficient and low memory usage. Good for laptops as big wallpapers do actually affect battery life, as do wallpapers that are mostly light colours.
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but, seriously, what VB said ^^, you want a dark background to save energy.
that's why notebook's where made for porn, not for surfing on "bright" google.Not sure the 'light colours' use more power thing is relevant to LCD displays (it's certainly true for CRTs), I might be wrong but let me give you my thinking.
Unlike the phosphors in a CRT, an LCD display switches colours by applying a charge to the liquid crystal filled pixels - agreed? - but it does not change luminance, luminance is supplied by the backlight and even when held in a 'black state' (racist) the backlight is still switched on.
A completely black screen still has the backlight switched fully on, black on an LCD is not a lack of light (like it would be when you switch out the phosphors on a CRT) - it's just the liquid crystal held in a different state - and when held in the black state it is simply blocking the backlight.
Moreover, it takes more voltage to hold a pixel at black than at white - - - - from Wikipedia:
If the applied voltage is large enough, the liquid crystal molecules in the center of the layer are almost completely untwisted and the polarization of the incident light is not rotated as it passes through the liquid crystal layer. This light will then be mainly polarized perpendicular to the second filter, and thus be blocked and the pixel will appear black.
So, a large(r) voltage gives you black.
I think it is a common idea (and reasonable - but wrong - one) that an LCD device emitting less light uses less power, but with an LCD display - which itself emits no light (the separate backlight does that job) this is not the case.
Without boring you with too much detail, it is easy to set up (at manufacture) an LCD display (with a backlight) so that it appears bright with no voltage applied and dark with a voltage applied. And that's what they do. The argument does not end there, there are a few other considerations, but it's enough to say having your screen black does not save energy on an LCD.
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Put more simply:
CRT:
Shine a torch at a wall.
You want to make the wall dark - switch the torch off.
Result: dark wall - energy required goes down (torch is not using power)
LCD
Shine a torch at a wall.
You want to make the wall dark - put your hand in front of the torch.
Result: dark wall - energy required goes up (torch is still on, power needed to block light).
Shit analogy I know, but I expect by now at least 2/3rds of the forum visitors are drunk, so it might be clearer like this.
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OK, I have had an idea . . . . .
It's a 'green' idea, and people love a bit of that kind of shit.
An LCD saves power only when the screen is rendered black by switching the thing off, a 'blackened' screen with the pixels held at 'black' which blocks the backlight but leaves it on full power does not save power (and as I have suggested above there are arguments to suggest it actually uses more power) . . . .
So, we need to switch the bastards off . . .
Can we agree that everyone (or the overwhelming majority) of people who use a computer do so from a chair . . .
So all we need do is fit a simple (and very very cheap) pressure switch into the seat, so that when you lift your fat arse off it the screen switches off.
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You wonderfully lonely and desperate man.
I've just held my laptop against a wall with my hand in front of it.No !!!
You have it all wrong !! In the - frankly rubbish - analogy the torch is the backlight of your LCD display not the display itself . . . oh Jesus I give up, someone's going to get it bad tonight, where is my tool bag . . .
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Tynan, if you want to know I can have a chat with my brother.. Currently PhDing at Imperial and specialised in LCDs for a while
Do it ! Cheers ! I would love to know, I suspect (when all the other factors are considered) a dark background on an LCD display offers only negligible (if any) power saving as all the power is being used by the backlight - which remains on even when the screen is completely (pixel) black - and a black screen possibly uses more.
I Googled it but couldn't find any definitive stuff.
It would be cool if you could ask him:
Does an LCD display use more power whether it is displaying black or white pixels. - To remove any ambiguity from the question maybe the question should be: does an LCD display, where the left half of the screen is white and the right half of the screen is black, use more power for either of the two halves ?
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In the words of 's record played backwards
If you can make a connection between 'back masking' (satanic word's recorded backwards on records) and climate change I will send you £10.
(it's got to be famous, well known connections, not made up stuff, basically what I am thinking of.)
There are only 2 steps to work out.
Back masking - - step 2 - - step 3 - - climate change.
Just think, 10 pounds, that kind of money could turn the whole thing around for you, sweets, comics, porn mags, McDonald's
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A nice bit of crack
I'm on this, might take all night but fuck it haven't got anything else to do (except uni assignments for two weeks but £10 is £10)
I can give you two clues, both steps 2 and 3 feature famous people, moreover these two people are related.
Think about it, ten whole English pounds !!
Festerban
badtmy
Object
tynan
andy.w
CYOA
wibble
Dylan
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or if by any chance your laptop has three monitors, you can link em up to show off different angles of the same subject. :)
but, seriously, what VB said ^^, you want a dark background to save energy.
that's why notebook's where made for porn, not for surfing on "bright" google.