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Intel's great green debate goes bad

IDF San Francisco Runs out of steam
Tue Aug 19 2008, 21:57

LURED BY THE PROMISE of a truly stimulating debate on what the press pack called the "hot topic of Green IT", tech journos from far and wide queued excitedly for Intel's five hour extravaganza dubbed the 'Eco Technology Great Debate' event.

Sadly, despite its goal of trying to promote an understanding of all things 'efficiency', the set-up of the event was anything but.

Everyone knows that energy efficiency is all about the proper use and allocation of resources, so it was somewhat of a mystery as to why Intel decided to ignore the amazing resources at its disposal and instead attempt to cram 200 journalists into a room with a capacity for only 50. Perhaps it was in the name of generating heat energy effectively at low cost.

As we stood at the back of the room sweating and craning to see what was going on, it became clear, that in the name of energy conservation, the speakers had decided not to switch on their microphones. And, of course, it would have been wildly eco unfriendly to actually switch on both presentation screens, so only the one in the far opposite corner was actually up and running.

We would tell you a little bit about the debate, but unfortunately after serious overheating, we didn't even manage to make it through the first hour of long winded introductions. But we blame that on the organisers of the whole event being just a bit green. µ

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Re: Ahoy Sylvie

Tiny Bubbles, lay off the meth, your whole post did not make a bit of sense.

posted by : the_Dude, 20 August 2008 Complain about this comment
First hour?

<i>we didn't even manage to make it through the first hour of long winded introductions</i>

Smirk.

posted by : Darien, 20 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Ahoy Sylvie!!

I don't mean to stick out like a boorish tool in a classroom, but I could 
Barrett get in here, meself. Here's the skinny I got on the great green debate: it's all about Otellini's smaller package. Apparently, he's now off the halogens, and is getting the lead out between the lines. It's on Craig's list too. These blokes fancy that it's not the size of your deed that matters, but that you have a deed at all, and is it buoyant? So it's the motion of the ocean notion, and we all know heatsinks, whilst cold sicks through the roof. Paul said he did not know that, and Dave's not here, so Bob's your uncle.

posted by : Tiny Bubbles, 19 August 2008 Complain about this comment
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