...and because, for "enterprise" scenarios where there are thousands of
machines that are intended to be backed up/updated/whatever overnight, the IT
guys couldn't get "wake on LAN" to work.
Yeah, but at least they try to limit it to something like 5W. My parents had
one of those old color TVs with the "instant on" feature that worked by
keeping the tube filament running all the time... I'm sure that was far worse.
Speaking of filaments... California might not let you use them for lighting in
the not-so-distant future:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/energy_california_lightbulbs_dc . I'm all for
compact fluorescents, but I think it's too bad they oversell them a little in
that article (a 20W CF is more like a 60W incandescent, not 75W) and don't
mention the drawbacks (many take a significant time to achieve full brightness
in cold weather, etc.). And of course it's just evil to try to outright ban
incandescents rather than, say, using the carrot approach of subsidizing the
price of CFs, if they're so convinced they're that much better.
---Joel