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Please Turn Off Your Computers Over Vacation
from the thanks dept
Canon is apparently worried about the impact of people leaving their printers and other office equipment on over the holidays. They've done a study in the UK, noting that a tremendous amount of energy will be wasted by office workers leaving computers, printers and other equipment powered up while they're off from work. All in all, they say the excess wasted juice will cost companies £8.66 million (~$17 million), and would apparently be enough to roast 4.4 million holiday turkeys. Of course, it's not Canon's printers doing most of the damage (it's their study after all). The big energy suckers are the PCs, of course, representing 87% of the problem. So, apparently, Canon's holiday message to the world is, please, when you leave the office for the holidays, turn off your PC.
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Server's Too
Sincerely, The BOfH
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Standby Mode
The article indicates that this level of usage is for electronics left in standby mode.
Better advice would be to unplug everything because even when these devices are turned off they are still drawing electricity.
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Don't they know that giving people days off supports terrorism?
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Make Me...
Happy Holidays!
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Wait!
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Ironic
Screw wasted energy, I'm worried about wasted money on my electric bill.
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Misleading title
Perhaps it's just my stupidity, but it would help if it said "Please turn off your computers at work over vacation"
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It's Holiday - Not Vacation
At any rate - I'm voting for turning off and unplugging all electronic equipment when away in case there is an electrical storm or outage in your absence - avoid the deadly power surge!
Otherwise, my pc's will be on throughout this holiday/vacation!
(I get one whole day of holiday and one whole day I took for vacation - blended nicely, thank you very much!)
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Nonsense
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Re: Ironic
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That's christmas, by the way
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Re: That's christmas, by the way
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Re: That's christmas, by the way
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DON'T TURN THEM OFF!!
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NOW THAT'S FUNNY !
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If you're going to try to be funny, at least be smart, and realize that your joke would refer to The 4th of July (Independence Day).
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I'll Use My Elecricity If I Wanna
If I wanna leave my computer on in case I wanna run background tasks, or log in remotely to check on things, or whatever, well then I'm d***ed well gonna.
Canon should read the other Techdirt articles that talk about how so many people no longer have a "work-free" vacation and end up mixing work with vacation, never TOTALLY leaving the office behind. In other words, I'm not WASTING electricity, I'm USING IT how I *want* to use it.
Moreover, Mike, many articles like this you don't just put out the company view, but you also balance it with other Techdirt articles in the past or other current points of view. Maybe you just got lazy or just thought if you presented the one view that it would be funny to stir up the fire and see what kinda inflamatory comments would result. But really it's exactly this kind of article that makes we want to dismiss Techdirt authors as just a bunch of whiney b****es whose musings are mostly junk , but who occasionally give me a heads-up on a tech topic I hadn't heard about elsewhere yet.
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"but... we must say *something* ..."
See also the actual causes of shifts in human behavior, and note that none of them are a memorandum. Or a news article. Or even an essay. It takes someone's livelihood being interrupted, and regrettably, this is much more likely to happen when sensible practises are legislated.
I agree with the idea, and I'm aligned with the cultural elements who are likely to continue reminding us that we have actually passed the energy watershed. However, the ownership of the mass media is concentrated in the hands of the same people who've invested heavily in petroleum, and in Middle East "stability" (read "run by white people"), and in other concerns which dictate continued global warming and genocide.
I fully expect the deck chairs to be maintained, even as the vessel comes apart and sinks with us on it.
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BOINC will be running
Dingo
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10 Days OFF?!?
damn you all that work as non-sweatshop laborers (or if you're in the uk, labourers)
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Bah ! Humbug !
P.S. http://boinc-australia.net welcomes Poms too! (well, they let me in!)
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Holidays?
Certainly not my PC's. Boinc will be crunching and chomping like every other day, with a bit of F.E.A.R thrown in for fun.
There is no rest for the weary at Boinc@ Australia.
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Re: That's christmas, by the way
that's bizarre and culturally prejudiced.
there are other holidays around the same time.
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Re: Server's Too
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Mine stay on
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Re: "but... we must say *something* ..."
somebody makes a suggestion regarding energy and you have to turn it into racism? Get off your soapbox... wasted energy concerns everybody...has nothing to do with any race...
**** agree with the idea, and I'm aligned with the cultural elements who are likely to continue reminding us that we have actually passed the energy watershed. However, the ownership of the mass media is concentrated in the hands of the same people who've invested heavily in petroleum, and in Middle East "stability" (read "run by white people"), and in other concerns which dictate continued global warming and genocide.***
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Proliferation of Viruses
End result, the antivirus software gives them a false sense of security, while never actually being run. Oh, but it will download upgrades and incur recurring charges on the corporate bank account...
Pessimist Peet.
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Keep them up
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o..my..god
do yourselves a favor and turn off your computers forever.
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Re: Wait!
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But then furnaces will work harder!
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Re:
Now that's funny!
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Waste Management Has You Covered.
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Not that that's secure...
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Re: That's christmas, by the way
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Re: Idiot
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Re: Make Me...
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Re: Re: Idiot
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Tell to run Folding @ home instead
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Other Reason
www.AdminSeek.net :: When you need forum staff!
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Laugh all you want but
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Re: Laugh all you want but
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Power...
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Re: furnaces will work harder
PCs may produce a lot of heat but that's all INEFFICIENCY. A lot of research has gone into making them produce as little heat as possible, though clearly there's a long way to go with that one.
Whereas a 'furnace' is optimised to produce heat as efficiently as possible. There's virtually no processing power generated as an unwanted by-product of a furnace.
So generally, a furnace produces more heat with less energy than even an AMD Athlon! (don't get me wrong - I'm an AMD person but that was one hot processor family!)
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Re: Power...
Idiot!!
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It's all about the president!
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Re: 10 Days OFF?!?
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WHAT? AND MISS MY SECURITY UPDATES?!
We are BEGGING people to leave the PC's on all the time so that Marimba can get the pc's updated. They have to get their securit updates, patches, and fixes. Not to mention that the symantec services go out and find the definition updates a bit better when there's power to the cpu.
IBM, you have your Bean Counters running your IT department.
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Re: But then furnaces will work harder!
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Re: WHAT? AND MISS MY SECURITY UPDATES?!
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Re: Re: WHAT? AND MISS MY SECURITY UPDATES?!
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be forewarned
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Re: Holidays?
and wanted to know is it OK to leave your PC on
24/7 ...I turn my off every night. Is that not good?
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