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Big Blue wants world+dog to know it's deadly serious about green technology, and to underline that commitment, the company has launched its "Ready for Energy & Environment" validation program for biz partners. Cynics may suggest that IBM's failure to consult any environmental groups about its plans before going ahead and …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Greenpeace, environmental! WTF?

    What does Greenpeace know about the environment? I thought they were just a bunch of granola eating, hemp wearing (and smoking), animal loving, people hating, hippie throwback, anti-capitalist, anti-democracy, terrorists?

    What would they know about saving trillions of watts of power by reducing the cpu speed by 1 one millionth of a hertz on a billion cpu's, or changing the thermal properties of a heat sink to dissapate 4 one thousands of a watt more power on millions and millions of cores that result in reduced power consumption, effectively reducing carbon output by 20 times as compared to replacing incandescant light bulbs with compact florescents, which costs more and consume more energy to manufactur and have no where near the advertised life span and twice the toxic poisons.

    Or whatever the hell the big brains at IBM are suggesting.

    Greenpeace, bunch of farking terrorist hipocrites. Isn't the rainbow warrior a non-peaceful name for a diesel burning sea-witch.

    greenpeace, feh!

    --Pete

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    @Pete McPhedran

    Best-composed rant of the year. There should be a hall of fame.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Nice rant dude

    You got it on for that!

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  4. Ian Michael Gumby
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    Yeah, but think about the irony of IBM...

    In terms of Information Management, good ol' IBM is pushing DB2. Yet if they really were concerned about going green, they'd be promoting IDS, their Informix database software. They'd be talking about a certain gaming company that was able to reduce the number of database servers running SQLServer by a factor of 10, just by switching to Informix.

    Yet IBM is pretty much silent on that.

    Its no wonder that they are partnering with Greenpeace. Aren't they against nuclear energy which is currently our cleanest and 'greenest' form of energy?

    Tux, because if you head over to the IIUG.org website, you can get a copy of Informix for Linux (certain restrictions apply of course) for 'free'.

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