Tuesday, February 2, 2010

File Attachments

I just got this awesome little diddy in the signature from somebody's email.



Besides the fact that the difference is probably negligible from the energy used transmitting a 10MB file versus an 8MB file, I think whoever made up this little "green tip" forgot that it uses CPU cycles (and therefore energy) both to make a zip file (compress) and to extract files from a zip file (decompress). In fact, I would posit that you use more energy doing this than is saved by zipping them in the first place.

But I guess every bit of green counts, right?

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