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Online Shopping May Actually Increase Pollution 410

destinyland writes "British researchers have reached a startling conclusion. Unless online shoppers order 25 items at a time, they're polluting more than if they shopped at their local mall. An environmental benefit only occurs 'if online shopping replaces 3.5 traditional shopping trips, or if 25 orders are delivered at the same time, or, if the distance traveled to where the purchase is made is more than 50 kilometers. Shopping online does not offer net environmental benefits unless these criteria are met.' The study was conducted by Newcastle University's Institution of Engineering and Technology, which blames the environmental impact of transportation, warning that 'policy makers must do their homework to ensure that rebound effects do not negate the positive benefits of their policy initiatives.' But one technology site notes the study was conducted in Britain, which could have an impact on its conclusions."

Comment Re:Eclipse and Netbeans (Score 1) 1055

I agree with you, I was using eclipse for a project in the past and it puts more than 1MB of plugins and other stuff in each project that I used, I've been using netbeans for a year and a half, and since than I dond't want to change it for nothing, sometimes it is slower, yes it is, but I prefer the syntax highlighting, better than visualstudio, that lacks with a simple brace highlight And after I learn hotkeys like ctrl+1, ctrl+2, and others, I don't wanna change it for nothing. Other good pro its the code models that really helps to speed up the coding. One cons is that subversion plugin that comes within netbeans it's slower than running a command line to update or commit,

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