On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The > > > large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy to step thru your > > > program, making notes, side calculations, etc. Think of them as > > > magic whiteboards that you could lay on your desk and didn't need > > > thick, stinky, messy markers to write with. > > You certainly are correct in that the wide paper left sufficient room to > > make notes, etc. I'd use the side for comments and corrections and the > > back for flow charts and such. > > And here I thought the whole point of computerizing was to save the > trees. My illusions are shattered! > > So much for the mythical "paperless office."
Indeed. *thinking about my printer at home, which hasn't even been connected to anything since I last moved 2.5 years ago* As a company that a friend worked at for a couple years said, "You can't grep a dead tree." -- Windows Vista must be the first OS in history to have error codes for things like "display quality too high" - Peter Gutmann, "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]