In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:05:34 +0100
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> Politicians call for all interfaces to be the same
Well, there you have it then. Replace everything with
Microsoft Windows Vista, and declare it the standard.
The VoleLovers(tm) would *love* that.
I hope they're calling for documented standards as well.
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> | Everyone came in for criticism, with even the Vole being
> | accused by Lib Democrat of adding to "the mountain of
> | computers" with Windows Vista. "The effect on the waste
> | stream is in no doubt," said Pugh.
> |
> | Pugh really overegged the cake with this statement: "
> | I am broadly sympathetic with the thrust of the directive.
> | I view old machinery fondly as children of the human spirit.
> | I grieve over old TVs when I throw them out. I even repair
> | old computers and printers, and am something of a specialist
> | on Hewlett Packard. I am emotionally shocked by skips full of
> | perfectly usable equipment and repelled by the apparent
> | wastefulness. "
> |
> | Nigel Evans of the Wibble ValleyNigel Evans (conservative,
> | Wibble Valley), said he was waiting with bated breath to get
> | his hands on an Iphone, which he described as the "wonderful
> | new Apple product". He said: "We all carry such items as
> | fashion accessories."
*snort*
I have a 20x4 company-issued Motorola pager. It's so
old it just beeps (though one can select from several
precanned beep varieties -- no tunes, though, just chirps).
No graphics, no ringtones. It can send and receive short
text emails.
Wonder when 20x4 will become fashionable again?
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40945
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> Also see:
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> Ipods attract lightning
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40936
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> Apparently the whole nano iPhone thing was a lie --- a bait
> that some analysts ended up biting.
>
>
> Related:
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> Waste computer edict finally hits UK
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> | The long-awaited Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE)
> | directive finally comes into force on Sunday, 1 July.
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> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/weee_directive_computer_aid/
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> WEEE directive threatens Microsoft OEM sales
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> | There's a possibility Microsoft may well dump the OEM scheme and that
> | could prompt small firms that don't want to be WEEEing to install Linux
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | or even pirate OSes.
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40305
There's a fair amount of toxicity in computer equipment.
Gold in particular is used on the connectors (corrosion-resistance).
Batteries, too.
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