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Offline Paddy

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« on: August 08, 2007, 01:49:47 PM »
Entertaining article in this month's Spectrum (IEEE magazine):

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug07/5387
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« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2007, 03:41:10 PM »
You did notice that the new iMac is available with a TERABYTE drive...and it not just a coincidence that .Mac now provides 10GB to "normal" people! smile.gif
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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2007, 06:09:31 PM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Aug 8 2007, 01:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
...and it not just a coincidence that .Mac now provides 10GB to "normal" people! smile.gif

Oh. Well. That leaves me out. harhar.gif

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Interesting article.

Information pollution, information fatigue ... yeah I can relate.

E-mail fatigue - most definitely. Some days I don't even launch my email program. I feel like, "Who cares?!"

Digital pack rats -- not any longer. In fact, with our move 2 years ago (can you believe it was 2 years ago today that we signed the papers buying our property and the contract for our house?!?) ... anyhow that was when I decided that minimalism had a certain appeal.
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« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2007, 07:14:48 AM »
Too much information? Nah!

Just go to the grocery store, er, Supermarket and pick out what you need... from a gazillion choices! wacko.gif
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« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2007, 09:38:57 AM »
Gregg - I just pick up one of each at the supermarket; this probably accounts for why my wife insists that I not go alone!  smile.gif

A lot of us here are by definition "survivors" of technology and we'd have to be men and woman of iron not to be a little burned out by technology!  You just have to try to get things to work the best you can and get on with things!
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« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2007, 12:20:32 AM »
Excellent!!  Thinking.gif
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