the(new)mediaslut

Passing through the new Bangkok International Airport, formally known as Suvarnabhumi, Smartbrain couldn’t help but notice how one of the depature annoucement signs looked a bit different.

Obviously someone had plugged in a new device to the wrong PC, one which was actually driving the sign boards.

We immediately know that they are in fact generic PC they use rather than some embedded, special purpose device, and that they also use ATI graphics cards.

The fact that all the other screens were normal means that each screen (or perhaps bank of screens) is in fact run off one PC, rather than simply have one PC replicated over the dozens of displays across the airport.

Interesting, and one heck of a waste of computing power.