I've got eighteen years in the Computer Services department at the local University, and that doesn't include a few years before that working part-time as a student assistant (mis-spent youth). I'm not expecting that's the longest of you folks, but who else has been in IT at one place for a longish time?
I'm hoping to retire from the same place, after another 25 years or so.
DEC is the One True Company, forged by the Dark Lord Olsen in the fires of Maynard.
All those who covet it for themselves are slowly consumed by it. Compaq no longer exists in its original form. HP is trying to wield it, but it wants to be found by its original master.
I^H My son (7yo) received Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention Kit 2.0 today. It's time to better the odds on that nature or nurture crap, and work on the boy's inner geek.
His sister is only four, so I'll have to give her another year or so, even if she can type barbie.com
Let's face it: anti-matter is anti-matter simply by definition. Let's call the normal stuff we have all around us anti-matter, and the fuel production problem will be solved. Then, all we need to do is create a ship out of matter which won't annihilate...
...because as everyone who's see Mars Attacks knows, Martians breathe nitrogen. The side effect of this little demonstration is to release nitrogen vapour into the atmosphere, which is in effect assisting their efforts to terraform (err, marsaform) Earth in preparation for landing. This story alone might not have been enough to reveal their diabolical plan, but when you read the other story on Slashdot which tells of their bombardment of the English countryside with a so-called "meteorite", it becomes only too clear that their plans are more fully realized then I had feared.
Geeks of the world unite! It may already be too late to stop our enslavement, but it will fall to us to overthrow our Martian overlords in the due course of history.
If you're not familiar with the device, it consists of a rigid clipboard onto which you attach a ordinary notepad. You write on the pad with the accompanying pen, and the clipboard records your penstrokes for later upload. It has handwriting recognition, but my handwriting was a little too inconsistent to use that aspect of it.
I find it tremendously useful for diagrams, meeting notes, documentation done in the "field", and so on. The main benefit I find is that I can file this kind of information along with the myriad e-mail messages, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and other such files that make up my life.
Like many other people have stated, there's something about paper that you just can't replace digitally, at least not yet. I tend to file things electronically, but print them out when I need to "work" with them. The CrossPad helps to cross the digital/analogue streams.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a trace of the CrossPad anywhere. Last time I looked I couldn't find it on the Cross site (the one I have I got through eBay). Seiko has a similar kind of device, which I believe uses the same technology that Cross licensed from IBM, but it transmits the images to your Palm-like device. I've never used one, but to me uploading directly to my PC is more useful than to my Palm.
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Which reminds me, we should all visit the Brain Slug planet, and wander about without helmets.
Just waiting for someone to complain about it not being called Emacsscame.
I'm hoping to retire from the same place, after another 25 years or so.
Oh hell, now I'm depressed...
size matters.
All those who covet it for themselves are slowly consumed by it. Compaq no longer exists in its original form. HP is trying to wield it, but it wants to be found by its original master.
His sister is only four, so I'll have to give her another year or so, even if she can type barbie.com
Oh. Never mind.
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... girlfriend remote?
Geeks of the world unite! It may already be too late to stop our enslavement, but it will fall to us to overthrow our Martian overlords in the due course of history.
Legumes, must plant more legumes...
I find it tremendously useful for diagrams, meeting notes, documentation done in the "field", and so on. The main benefit I find is that I can file this kind of information along with the myriad e-mail messages, documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, and other such files that make up my life.
Like many other people have stated, there's something about paper that you just can't replace digitally, at least not yet. I tend to file things electronically, but print them out when I need to "work" with them. The CrossPad helps to cross the digital/analogue streams.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find a trace of the CrossPad anywhere. Last time I looked I couldn't find it on the Cross site (the one I have I got through eBay). Seiko has a similar kind of device, which I believe uses the same technology that Cross licensed from IBM, but it transmits the images to your Palm-like device. I've never used one, but to me uploading directly to my PC is more useful than to my Palm.