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Manufacturing 1 PC Takes 1.8 Tons Of Raw Material
remy writes "Although most of it (1.5 metric tons) is water, a study from the United Nations University details the raw materials used in the manufacture of a PC and 17" CRT. That's an incredible environmental cost per PC, and a very strong argument for trying to leverage older equipment, not to mention upgrading rather than replacing."
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One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *BSD community when IDC confirmed that *BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBSD Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.
Fact: *BSD is dying
When exactly did "leverage" become an accepted verb?! "Leverage" is the action or mechanical advantage of a lever, which makes sense. It is a NOUN. I don't remember ever seeing it verbified before the internet boom. Thanks, dotcommies.
Gentoo is faster, and works wonders on old computers. I have it running on my old 1.6Ghz machine and it feels like a 3.4Ghz HT.
Now that there is the Gentoo reference platform, there is no need to worry about compiling for ages either.
So give your computer a new lease of life, get gentoo!
The study didn't take into account the water savings of being a smelly geek. Save the precious water! We need it for the production of personal computers!
AFAIK a ton is always one Mg (megagram).
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
WHY is there a doubleclick ad on slashdot?!
we should be happy
according to it's weight compared to PC's
they had to make real disaster to build ENIAC
/ss
So that piss I took off the side of the boat didn't bother ya?
For the average /. reader, I would argue there IS a huge ecological impact swimming in a lake.
smell ya later
I guess the ecological impact might depend upon whether you pee in the lake or not...
The US did not enter WWII until the Japanese forced us to. We stayed out as long as we could.
The UN wasn't considered a mistake until recent American presidents decided they didn't want to play nice with the rest of the world. Nobody else seems to have a problem with the UN, really, other than countries that abuse their own people (Zimbabwe, etc.)
I certainly don't mind "guidance" from the UN, as you put it, in light of the "guidance" we get from the US administration. They've brought us the Patriot Act, John Ashcroft, bans on medically-useful research because it might piss off some fundamentalists, etc.
yeah but once we were in,we cleaned house,though the primary motivation was gone.
The u.n. has been concidered a mistake by all but the t.v. hypnotized since its inception.
I'd much rather have guidance from government that I elected and can petition than a buncha parasite infested hoodlums bent on harnessing and muzzling the u.s. If you dont like the way things go now,write your represenatives.
Try that with the U.N.,go ahead,write them a letter,send em a card,beg,plead.do any good?...thot not.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
This statement is patently false. The Soviet Union in fact has more vetos than any other permanent member.
Now, historically speaking, that may be the U.S's fault. The U.S. used to introduce resolutions condemning the USSR for this or that, just to embarass the USSR and force them into the veto, so you can't squarly place the blame anywhere. However, the fact is, the USSR (now Russia, but quickly heading back to being the USSR) is the leading user of vetors.
Sarcasm and hyperbole are the final refuges for weak minds