What was that Google mantra again?
Evil has many shades of grey but wasting a computer that could literally educate an entire schoolhouse in Africa and keeping this old, stupid joke going must be somewhere south of good.
Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
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Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not just simply an environmental cost - there are other costs associated with the preponderance of disposable possessions, and the leaking over into the category of disposable of things that were once considered permanent. To start with, it is simply wasteful for the reasons you describe. However it also contributes in a small way to the paradigm of exponential growth that permeates everything about human civil…
I'd love to have a laptop whose sum parts are made out of reusable/biodegradable materials as much as possible. Corn/potato based cases, even if they need to be replaced often - or solid aluminum ones that are a set form factor and I simply replace the guts every time I upgrade. I wish that apple would require/request/desire that any old apple product gets returned to them for disposal/credit when it reaches true EOL…
>I'd love to have a laptop whose sum parts are made out of reusable/biodegradable materials as much as possible.
I present the cardboard computer (case): http://recomputepc.com
Unfortunately it's prohibitively expensive compared to conventional options, as you would expect. And you obviously can't fab the boards from card and the chips from potato, as it were.
>It has been said too many times by others greater than myself; Our garbage and waste will be the downfall of our species.
We can learn to recycle our waste. Mining landfill is going to be big business one day. It will however be much harder to repair the environmental and human damage caused by the extraction of the raw materials in the first place.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#13This is particularly awesome because my Cr-48 came with a piece of paper that said something like:
"Do not crush, incinerate, blend (guess we'll never find out if it'll blend...), ...(several other things)..."
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's advertising. Admittedly, I don't have the numbers to back it up, but I would imagine that the economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended.
>...economic impact of this advertising is worth more than the cost for Google to send a CR-48 to be blended. I know what it is called - but it is still clearly waste. I was not referring to the economic impact but rather the environmental. Sure, we can all say "who cares" -- I do, which is why I ask. Have you seen the garbage problems we have? The toxic waste dumps that are china and other places. I am not trying to…
You do not have nearly enough information to make this determination. If tablets like this reduce the demand for bigger laptops and desktops, making them more popular through various forms of marketing may in fact reduce overall environmental impact.
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#15I find it somewhat ironic that this video will not play on my CR-48.
I wouldn't say that's irony- sounds to me like your CR-48 just doesn't want to watch the execution of it's brother.
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#16Google did another advertisement where they destroy at least 5 laptops: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm-Vnx58UYo&feature I used to think that "Will it blend" was funny. Maybe the novelty of it has warn off. Instead of laughing, watching this video made me wince.
I had the same weird feeling watching that video. There is something fundamentally wrong there. I'm especially worried about the last part when the little girl destroying the last CR-48: she was so calm to do that without a blink. I was shocked. This is not the way we teach our children.
[edit]: there's a tagline said by the demo guy in the video: “good thing I get a new one every time”. This kinda thinking bothers me.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#17While funny etc. We have so much waste in the world as it is - the last thing we need is the toxic waste of a perfectly good machine being blended and thrown out. I have never had respect for the 'will it blend' concept, regardless of how funny one may find it. It is simply wasteful.
By what criteria do you distinguish wasteful environmental impact from justified environmental impact?
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#18I actually wanted to test my application on a Cr-48, but I didn't get one.
Oh well. I keep forgetting that it's Microsoft that says "developers, developers, developers, developers".
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#19While funny etc. We have so much waste in the world as it is - the last thing we need is the toxic waste of a perfectly good machine being blended and thrown out. I have never had respect for the 'will it blend' concept, regardless of how funny one may find it. It is simply wasteful.
While we sit here thinking about this though much worse waste is going on it the world unseen. My uni gets big dumpsters and throws out 100's of computers each year. Granted they are usually getting old though.
Re: Google sends Cr-48 to "Will it Blend?"
#20Now blend the cloud!!!!