Amithony wrote:
Why use a PC at all if you can save the environment or lights for that matter?
You can use a machine to achieve a task that would otherwise take more time and consume more energy if it were done manually. For example the energy used to send an email is probably a fraction of what it would take to deliver a normal letter, especially if it was international mail. That doesn't mean to say you should leave that machine on all the time.
Never mind that industrial countries are pumping pollution in the air at billions of times greater than a PC.
So non-industrial countries have PC's that are made by processes that produce little pollution and run on clean energy... or maybe producing machines like PC's are a major cause of the waste industrial countries produce and the energy used to operate those machines goes on to further the waste generated.
Even the humble cow emits as much as a car
Emit what -- co2? Well the cow problem isn't the cows fault is it? It's not like cows by nature bread themselves in high densities in order to supply the human population with meat. But they are tasty.
im sure you wont be thinking about the environment when a cure is available. I guess i was wrong about all amiga users being fairly intelligent.
Maybe a lot of the problems we have today are a result of all the energy we've wasted? Whats the point of curing people when we might not have enough food to keep even the originally healthy people alive? Has anything worth while been found by any of these distributed projects yet?
If all Amiga users were intelligent they wouldn't be on forums ranting about the second coming of Amiga now would they?
n.b. I was originally joking. There are figures somewhere of how much energy gentoo users waste rebuilding their software somewhere. Might be interesting for you to have a look at.
