Remember remember the random trivia

[torkell]

I should probably make some 5th of November post today, it being the 5th of November and all, but katayamma stole my posting idea. So let's go for random trivia instead!

Did you know...

... that a packet of Walker's crisps is apparently worth 75 grams of carbon, even know you only get 34.5 grams of crisps?

... that a desktop computer uses about the same amount of power as an incandescent light bulb?

... that a laptop uses about the same amount of power as an energy-saving light bulb?

... that the London-to-Brighton express travels at up to 100mph?

... that, until yesterday, Microsoft was still selling Windows 3?

Comments

[pleaseremove.livejournal.com]

Where was MS still selling it? Who knows what the cost of 3.1 is now...

I would be impressed if my desktop ever used that little. To be fair most of the drives should be powered down a fair bit, but still...

And the express, yey that train, it is a good way to get into London.

[torkell]

Various niche markets. For example, one of the major airlines (I forget which) was using it to run their in-flight entertainment software. Horsham library was also using it until a few months ago on their catalogue PCs - they've since "upgraded" them to a web-based interface, which is less user-friendly, slower, requires more steps to find out anything and doesn't give you the information you want. But it's web-based, so it therefore must be an upgrade.