Stopping and starting an engine also wastes energy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Fortwo

Oh well so much for that starving artist spiel

They can't program a program either their skill is in finding someone who can and telling them to "get it done" then having the resources to write their paycheck.

Generators typically use Honda (or similar) 5 to 10 HP motors that have very little emission controls. Never mind the reduced MPG from towing a trailer. The following compares lawn mower (i know they are not the same as a generator but they have similar motors) to a car. http://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/faq-environment.htm

What happened to people being literate and having common sense. Next there will be a plugin stop this plugin from doing something nefarious. Educate yourselves people and stop relying on a magical program to save on a bit of reading, if you have time to be on facebook you have time to read their policies.

Yay the French revolution all over again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_3DO_games

Well that popped into my head as soon as as I seen Elo in the story headline. And I'm only 30 and 2 days and I actually have one of their 8-track a couple of CD's.

As long as someone else pays the bill...like the government (ie forest ranger)

We already have that in Canada. Buy a TV and that $25 (other items cost +/-). Now if you keep that crappy thermal paper receipt (receipt probably won't last for the warranty period) for the life of that TV when you take it to the dump doesn't cost anything. Lose the receipt and you have to pay another $25 to drop it off at the dump. Funny thing is if you bought that TV you already had to pay the compulsory $25 fee so why should you need to show a receipt? Money grab in the name of greenness anyone?
Yah we put all our old electronics in our own personal museum (garden shed behind the barn at my parents farm) who knows someday I may need that 386DX processor to repair the space shuttle so I can avoid the zombie hordes and head to Mars. I hear to women there have three um ...things of interest.

I have 64 bit hardware but I run x86 based distros. 64 bit is only good for the extra ram maybe to the desktop user. And there still is a lot of issues getting older programs to run on a 64 bit distro.

to see what kind of cpu I had. Built this system myself 4 gb ram, 4 seagate hard drives (actually gets confusing when in fdisk or your favourite equivalent.), yada yada. I went to the computer store I said I needed a motherbord/cpu that didn't have any issues with my flavour of OS. The dude behind the counter said this one will do fine blah blah. My point is I was concerned about the Hard Drives, ram, case, and how many slots were on the motherboard. Nowadays I buy based on the best deal cpu manufacture/ speed doesn't matter to the desktop user / possible occasional gamer. But $50 means I could buy extra ram or Hard Drive space.

http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=2648

My biggest problem with the 360 is the controlers and the fact that MS makes it.
But then again Sony is almost so evil I want to throw my PS3 away.