LOL, I bet this gets posted on bulletin boards in Mountain View, but my favourite was:
Dogberry2;371498 Wrote: > 3) > I think Logitech should get on the greenwagon and start designing > electronic gear that doesn't need so much electricity because after all > we have to save the planet. I'm sitting here typing on a computer with a > 24-inch monitor in my climate-controlled house with central air, central > heat, hot running water, a refrigerator, a commercial freezer, two > microwave ovens, five TVs (including a 90-inch plasma), three > DVD/BLU-Ray players, four computers, 8TB of disk storage, a big home > theater system, and six different video game boxes, but I notice that > my SBC cradle uses a whopping .001 milliwatts of power when the > controller isn't even in it! I don't really know just what a watt is, > but still, that seems like an awful lot. Why does it waste so much > power? Doesn't anybody care about saving the planet? I think it could > be made greener. I never studied physics or electronics, don't have an > engineering degree, have absolutely no knowledge of nor experience in > the field of electronics engineering, but I'm ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that > the recharging cradle could be designed better if the Logitech people > would just think green. Let's focus on the tiny, minuscule, > infinitesimal, little things, people, so we can save the planet! Get on > the green stick, Logitech! Now I'm going to go turn the oven on to > preheat so I can make some pizza rolls. Oh too true...and you're not allowed to say this or else you're branded a non-greenie, which is at least as bad as a racist these days. -- Mark Lanctot Current: SB2, Transporter, Boom (PQP3 - late beta) Stored: Boom (PQP1 - early beta), SBC (beta - no battery) Sold: SB3, Duet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=56600 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
