On Friday 03 February 2006 17:49, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:29:58PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: > > The US Navy is trying to do (did?) it on ships. My aunt was working on > > it. They were able to save tons of weight on each destoyer, etc by > > converting away from paper to electronic media. That means they can > > make the ship faster/less draft/carry more weapons & ammo. > > I heard about something like that, all manuals were digitized and they > had a giant laser printer on board that would print and bind books > on an as needed basis. Incredibly quickly. > > And when you were done with the manual, you just dropped it on the enemy > to get rid of it.
Couldn't they just download the manual to a PDA? Not that I want to make the military even more efficient at killing people, but... -Fred _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
