The German organization WWF has released a file format similar to Adobe's PDF that does not allow printing. You can do the same right now with Acrobat's 'no print' option.
I think this is a great idea, Scott, though I can see the point Javeria makes below about farm-raised pulp forests. Thing is, if demand goes up, loggers will continually encroach wilderness in order to expand their silvaculture.
So anything we can do to stem the demand should help the environment.
I think the decision to print or not to print should be the users.There would always be need to print to certain documnets. I think the whole idea will fail because users will block any attachment with a .wwf suffix.
Besides the paper companies own millions of acres of forest that were planted specifically to be used for pulp. When sections are harvested, they are re-planted.
Twitter has produced some great results for the world of bloggers: It's cleared the inter-sphere of those 600-word posts that always only contained 140 characters worth of content.
For users with large numbers of Twitter followers, the service has become irrelevant. Is this the beginning of the end for the short message service we have allegedly loved?
Inexpensive metals (nickel and iron) combine to create super-fast memory devices that promise faster boot times and lower power consumption. Old muscle-cars in your smartphone.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Facebook's Graph Search may face some profound challenges and risks, first, because Facebook users haven't been thinking of their posts as product reviews; and second, because Facebook will now have to contend with the social-network equivalent of SEO "gaming" of results.
Apple may want to do a TV offering, but to meet its goal it would have to address three specific issues that have been exposed by earlier attempts to make Internet TV work.
The new UltraViolet online DRM model has people upset, but the question we should ask ourselves is whether we want a flexible model to harmonize content owner and content consumer rights, or a one-takes-all model that probably results in less online content.
LED lightbulbs will be used not only for home and business lighting automation, but possibly also for locating shoppers inside stores and transmitting data at hundreds of megabits per second.
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