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Game Console Energy Usage Comparison
Broadband writes "Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise with their cooling systems compared to their brethren a decade ago.
While it's obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands then a Playstation 1, the curious question is by how much? Even more importantly is the question of whether your console might be costing you money while you sleep. Preposterous you say? Actually quite the opposite!
We put every console in our lab through rigorous testing to find the answers to these questions and see who the energy hogs really are. "
Ah, nothing brightens my morning like a little fanboy bickering about which completely arbitrary label to apply to a certain game console.
Energy comes from oil.
/Fox News told me so
Some energy, yes.
Oil comes from dirty Arabs.
Some oil, yes. (Assuming you are living in the US,) not as much as you probably thing though, unless Canada and Mexico are now Arab countries. And that doesn't even take into account the domestically produced oil.
Dirty Arabs are terrorists.
Some of them, yes. A lot of terrorists are also Persian/Iranian, Pakistani, Indian Muslim, Afghan (not Arabs for those who don't know), Indonesian, Chechen, Somali, Sudanese, etc. It's not their "Arabness" that binds most terrorists; it's something else, and if you think really hard, you may be able to figure out what it is. On another note, most terrorists are in fact not dirty -- especially as a lot of them lived very lavish life styles before they decided to try to kill people (and a lot of them even after).
If you play the Xbox360 you are supporting terrorism.
To a certain extent, yes. To a certain extent, you are also supporting the People's Republic of China, which is currently rearming in an attempt to take Taiwan (Republic of China) by military force. To a certain extent, you are also supporting a lot of other bad things.
I doubt it. And I have no idea what the "/" at the beginning of that sentence is supposed to indicate.
P.S. I realize the parent was supposed to be some sort of joke. I just didn't find it very funny.
Uttering logically derived and empirically supported truths to the disciples of the orthodox establishment.
The Nazis thought as you do. At some point, one can no longer dignify your remarks with responses. It's pretty clear where you stand: "crapping out children" is what you think of 3rd world nations.