Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 22:37:52 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com (Brett Glass) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: It isn't easy being "green"... Message-ID: <199604040537.WAA20986@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9603038285.AA828590959@ccgate.infoworld.com> from "Brett Glass" at Apr 3, 96 08:55:53 pm
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > 8-). It's *illegal* in the US to tamper with this if you are getting > > the tax break for the green-ness hardware (it's called "tax evasion"). > > Nope. The tax break only requires a certain percentage of machines to be > "green." And "green" machines are only supposed to save energy while > inactive. Clearly, if you're installing an OS on the machine or using it > to run tasks constantly or frequently (as UNIX does), it's legitimate (in > fact, essential) to keep the hard drive spun up. Yeah, but given "what idiot would leave it on for a desktop?", you could quickly drop below the required percentage. 8-) 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199604040537.WAA20986>