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   From: Paul Ratcliffe    
      
   On Sun, 22 May 2011 18:51:06 +0000 (UTC), Doug Bissett   
    wrote:   
      
   >> but it doesn't save any power; just avoids   
   >> burn-in.   
   >    
   > The ONLY reasons to use a "screen saver" since about 1990, is to blank   
   > the screen so that others cannot read it, or to turn the power off    
   > (more important, especially on laptops). "Burn in" is a thing of the    
   > very distant past, and was never a problem with LCD screens.   
      
   Bullshit as usual from Bissett. I've got plenty of LCD screens at work   
   with signs of burn in through sitting on mostly the same image all day   
   (they're touchscreens just before you make some smart-arsed comment about   
   why they are left on the same image all day).   
      
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