Re: [nycwireless] alt.coffee ixnays the owerpay

[Dana Spiegel]

This is interesting... We should try to do some digging to find out how 
much power is really an issue. If you are sitting with your laptop for 
2 hours, how much $$$ are you costing alt.coffee in electricity? I 
would have expected this to be only a few cents, but perhaps this is 
not the case?

Anyone interested in doing some research? Perhaps there are better, 
alternative solutions...

Dana�Spiegel
Director, NYCwireless
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www.nycwireless.net
On Feb 2, 2004, at 3:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
wrote:

From: Peter Johanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: February 2, 2004 2:32:56 PM EST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [nycwireless] alt.coffee ixnays the owerpay
just a heads up to all those laptop users, i stopped by alt.coffee 
today
to catch up on email and get some good coffee, only to find new 
messages
posted all over the place. they're no longer allowing laptops or even
cellphones to use their outlets. The sign states it's because of
"liability and a few bad apples" (paraphrasing) but when i asked the
woman at the counter, she claimed it was my fault cause people like me 
were
lurking for hours using their electricity. (i always make a point of
buying things semi-regularly if i'm there for any significant time.)

maybe it's time to buy that ultrabay battery for my thinkpad after
all... ):
-pete

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