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College To Save Money By Switching Email Font
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay has come up with an unusual way of saving money: changing their email font. The school expects to use 30% less ink by switching from Arial to Century Gothic. From the article: "Diane Blohowiak is the school's director of computing. She says the new font uses about 30 percent less ink than the previous one. That could add up to real savings, since the cost of printer ink works out to about $10,000 per gallon. Blohowiak says the decision is part of the school's five-year plan to go green. She tells Wisconsin Public Radio it's great that a change that's eco-friendly also saves money."
professors think they are gods of there classrooms and can demand paper copies.
We also think we can demand proper spelling. Now bow before me!
This feels .... so wrong.
Next up - saving electricity by using smaller fonts on the computer screens.
I have a bad feeling about this....
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
I worked in a DoD office a few years ago that was run by a Colonel who had all of his emails printed out in triplicate (one for his office, one for home, and one to file) by his secretary. He never read any of his email on his computer.
End of line..
Since it is a smaller, lighter font, you can save a lot of money by not needing such large hard disks to store them.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
That's a good idea, but I think there's more money to be saved where people are using entire colons when semi-colons would suffice.
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Thanks for the technical help but ... I really hate it when people take a perfectly weak joke post and then try to make it sensible by adding some bit of erudition or a fact or two. It ruins whatever humorous implications that were originally present, minimal though they be.
In summary let me just say this one thing:
WHOOSH !
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Agreed
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Please consider the environment before reading all this drivel.
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I'm actually glad it fills up more space on the page, because it means I can write short papers again instead of having to drone on and on (or repeat myself) in the text to meet the length requirement after I met the requirements for the paper itself 4 pages ago.
It's not funny people! My boss used to do the same! Only thing is he told me it's a paper trail used to cover his ass in case something goes wrong. And usually things did go wrong. Running Windows was sometimes the cause ...
I print out all my emails on glossy photo paper and file them in an index card box.
(or to use a more common vernacular, we're 'loosers').
And since most people can't tell the difference between loose and lose, most of them just wind up calling you a loser......ah, the stupidity of the masses.....
Since it is a smaller, lighter font, you can save a lot of money by not needing such large hard disks to store them.
Or you can save lots of disk space by OR'ing all the bits in those pesky e-mails with 1, since we all know 1 takes less space than 0 since it's not as wide :D