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Before John Hodgman became a Daily Show correspondent and the physical embodiment of a PC computer, he enjoyed a bookish life as a freelance writer and author of fake trivia. His second book, More Information Than You Require, contains factually incorrect passages about U.S. Presidents, gambling, and the secret underground world of mole-men. Hodgman plans to turn his trivia books into a trilogy, but for the time being readers must be content with only two. More Information Than You Require comes out Oct. 21; Hodgman talks to TIME about the financial crisis, his accidental role as a minor television...
...when your publisher calls. Usually it's the author who calls and says, "Did you see? My book went from 643 to 627, think we should order more copies?" I looked, and the book was at Number 14. Later it went up to 7. And then came the Mac-PC ads, and I was torn immediately from a very happy, satisfied, mature career as a freelance magazine writer and author of books of fake trivia. The Daily Show was a real turning point in my life...
...desktop computers. Shapiro points to Intel, whose new microprocessors are designed to use 40% less energy to generate 40% more power than the previous generation of chips - just 18 months old. Dell itself has rolled out a new desktop that is up to 70% more efficient than the average PC - an attractive quality for server farms, the computer banks that make up the backbone of the Internet, which have grown increasingly energy hungry in recent years. Reducing energy consumption does a lot for carbon emissions - but even more for the balance sheets of IT companies. "The total cost of powering...
...teaching fellows for Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science” each received a free tablet PC laptop from the Microsoft Corporation last Tuesday—a donation valued at more than $70,000 in total...
According to Shafeen Charania, the director of marketing in Microsoft’s education product group, Microsoft agreed to donate a tablet PC to each of the course’s TFs “to facilitate better teaching outcomes and help students effectively visualize the concepts of computer science...