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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!world!bsn
- From: bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda)
- Subject: Re: leave OS/2 running - the monitor too?
- Message-ID: <Bzpsq1.A80@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <4706@drsrv1.hmi.de>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:41:59 GMT
- Lines: 25
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- I recently worked in an office where it was customary to leave the
- computers on. I believe I was the only one out of hundreds who
- turned my machine off each night. The reason they left there machines
- on, sometimes several machines per engineer, was, I believe, because
- they were so proud of their awesome screen savers.
-
- The business owners did not mind this practice because they paid a fixed
- lease and did not pay extra for the tons of extra electricity used.
-
- This leave-it-on behaviour was very hard for me to understand, particularly
- because outside the window of the office building we could see the
- power plant. This plant input oil and output electricity, which we
- could see on the form of awesome screen savers, and also output
- tons of pollution, much of which we could see in the form of darks
- clouds coming from the smokestacks. I use to point out the window at
- the smoke and say "There's your awesome screen saver."
-
- TURN IT OFF. If you're not making smogulous smog you can see then you're
- making smogulous smog you can't see, and if you're not making smogulous
- smog then you're flooding people from their homelands and poisoning the
- waterways.
-
- If you were designing a computer, wouldn't you design it so that it could
- withstand the tremendous pressures of being turned on and off once a day
- for a few years?
-