It's a worthwhile mission to help businesses simplify the complexities of social media monitoring and drive social conversations online.
That is borne out by the book "PCs for Dummies," which used to cover just PC technology -- the hard drive, the monitor and the disk drive.
Beginning with a limited number of initial monitoring points, we aim to provide a 'first pass' mechanistic understanding of the plume's fate at the aquifer/stream interface using a novel combination of streambed diffusion samplers, riparian monitoring wells and drive-point mini-piezometers in a spatially nested sampling configuration.
It's got a Celeron processor, 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, Windows XP, CRT monitor, and a DVD drive.
When he was 14, his father a patents consultant to a pharmaceutical company gave him his first computer: a Sinclair ZX81, a black slab with 1 kilobyte of memory, no monitor and an audiocassette drive for storage.
For saving some battery energy for a laptop, if you want to turn off only the monitor then you can set "Power Options" to do that, or you may even turn off both the monitor and the hard drive after "different or the same" set lengths of time, but the CPU can remain awake.
"When I was young and my baby sitters came over and turned on music videos, I was inspired by that," Mr. Trecartin said in his office, where a desk with a large Mac monitor and 10 hard drives shares space with the rumpled mattress he often sleeps on.
It gives you a simple control panel to specify when to turn off monitors and disk drives and put the machine to sleep.
The picture was not all rosy for the company, however; sales of personal computer monitors and disk drives were weak in the quarter.
