Has anybody considered the amount of power wasted by computers when they go into an infinite loop (or thrash the disk).
If buggy software causes 100,000,000 windows machines to go 100 % cpu at say an extra 10 watts per machine. That is 1 billion megawatts !
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Has anybody considered the amount of power wasted by computers when they go into an infinite loop (or thrash the disk). If buggy software causes 100,000,000 windows machines to go 100 % cpu at say an extra 10 watts per machine. That is 1 billion megawatts !