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Baby steps in green computing.

July 29, 2008

A few months back, we commented on the slow baby-steps the computer industry is taking to green consumer computers, which comes across as one-part morality and one-part bandwagon-hopping at best. Take Dell’s Studio Hybrid PC for example, which was last reported to have an external bamboo casing as a sign of how green it is. [...]

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Why the 3G iPhone is underwhelming.

June 9, 2008

As we expected, the 3G iPhone was released with much fanfare, but we’re not quite sure why. Sure, a 3G data network and GPS sounds good, but there’s a lot of fine-print that Steve Jobs doesn’t want people to see, especially existing iPhone users. Let’s state the obvious: push e-mail, the enterprise solution, and all [...]

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Transmutation of CDs/DVDs into records.

May 11, 2008

It’s an alchemical breakthrough: the transmutation of optical media to an older, analog format. According to Boing Boing, Aleks Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutter to cut grooves into CDs/DVDs such that they can be played on a record player. This physical mutilation obviously destroys the ability to keep playing the old CDs/DVDs in [...]

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Green computers an oxymoron?

April 23, 2008

We’re not sure how many dead kittens it takes to manufacture a computer, but we happen to think it’s at least a few, at least if the computer can crank out more than a few cycles each second. That is to say, computer innards aren’t exactly grown on trees, so it’s a bit silly to [...]

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