Damn its nice to see someone mentioning ruby. Of the hundred some odd graduate students at my university I believe I am the only one who has ever heard of ruby.
I am also the only one who is in violent love with the language.
Oddly enough my college used to provide typewriters to students to fill out forms that weren't automated.
What did we do? When to the art building scanned the form and then photoshopped in the information. In all it took _much_ less time than using the typewriter.
Most of the mentioned bits of technology continue to be in usage because most people don't have the money for the more advanced versions. Radios and pagers are excellent examples of these.
The more interesting bits are the items that are, in many cases, cheaper in their newer versions. Specifially mainframe computers. I've read report after report citing these as quick targets of replacement by distrubuted networks et al. Yet they keep being both made and purchased.
Fax continues because people are lazy. Come on! Learn to print out an email and stop expecting your printer to do it for you!
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Well more of you wanted the form to look neat.
Instead of messy.
Like handwriting tends to be.
Damn its nice to see someone mentioning ruby. Of the hundred some odd graduate students at my university I believe I am the only one who has ever heard of ruby.
I am also the only one who is in violent love with the language.
Oddly enough my college used to provide typewriters to students to fill out forms that weren't automated.
What did we do? When to the art building scanned the form and then photoshopped in the information. In all it took _much_ less time than using the typewriter.
Most of the mentioned bits of technology continue to be in usage because most people don't have the money for the more advanced versions. Radios and pagers are excellent examples of these.
The more interesting bits are the items that are, in many cases, cheaper in their newer versions. Specifially mainframe computers. I've read report after report citing these as quick targets of replacement by distrubuted networks et al. Yet they keep being both made and purchased.
Fax continues because people are lazy. Come on! Learn to print out an email and stop expecting your printer to do it for you!
I've always been fascinated by a seeming mini-obsession with making things into other things.
My dream is a toliet that also makes coffee.
Think of the time saved in the morning.
Think of the health risks.
Wait what's a screw and where do I get one?