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Makes it easier to shred evidence.
Makes it easier to shred evidence.
this reminds me of the iphone commercial with the pilot that used his iphone to determine that the storm delaying them was gone and told the control tower to double-check the weather. it scares me that the pilot's iphone gave him more information than whatever the hell the control tower had.
@headon: I'm a systems administrator (read: computer geek), and I still prefer pen and paper to electronic devices most of the time. I won't go near a blackberry. Sometimes writing things down is just better.
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Hey, maybe regulation is the answer.
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@catcherintheeye: I used to be like you. Then I got my 8525 and became a PDA convert. Instant-on, always charged, paper PDAs (notebooks) do have their place but having your calendar, task list, contacts and internet in your pocket is a TREMENDOUS tool for efficiency.
If only I had waited a month, I could have gotten the Tilt for the same price :/
How far off topic have I gone?
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Not mentioned were the hangman games, \"I (heart) (initials)\" scrawlings and doodles of giant aluminum jet Transformers eating all the TSA agents.
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If only there was some electronic program that allowed people to arrange pieces of information into rows and columns. It could potentially be a killer app for recording and maintaining small sets of data for the airline industry! It could change the way they store data!
I thought I had clicked on my RSS feed for The Onion when I saw this headline.
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For everyone that thinks airlines are efficient companies because they fly airplanes, guess what they ain't. There are computers that do a lot of the work that was once by hand, but in the end, everything that makes a plane go from one point to another is a people driven, manual process.
As for the iPhone commercial, it's probly true. Some flight was diverted and he's sitting in SUX just waiting for his dispatcher (the person with the real power) to reroute 10-15 flights. The pilot checks the weather, calls the dispatcher, tells him to check the weather along Jetroute 123. Weather has moved on, Dispatcher files a new flight plan, pilot programs it into the FMC and off they go. All because some pilot has an iphone.
All which could have been done with any internet connected cell phone.
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\"Okay people, listen up! We gotta storm coming and need to divert our airplanes! Who has a slide rule?\"
@headon: Yes, but that was before 20 million people were flying over Thanksgiving. If that system was still in place, we'd be royally screwed.
My photo from Friday's Flickr Finds [consumerist.com] was from this event! We arrived late, sat on the plane for a couple hours, then had to sleep in the terminal because all the hotels were booked.
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The guy in the picture is not writing on a legal pad.
This photo doesn't belong here. In the photo, an Egyptian well known actor, his name is \"Nour El Sherif\". In the picture he is reviewing a script in Arabic.
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@CurbRunner: @convex: Picky, picky. ;)
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Airlines are no more or less efficient than any other company. Sometimes the poo hits the fan and you have to do things the Old School way. Things are supposedly a lot more \"efficient\" nowadays with technology permeating everything, but I feel like when I was flying 15 years ago everything went much more smoothly than it does now. Technology is great, but it works like spicing your food; too much will ruin it.
Being pre-calculator in school, and pre internet in college, yes, the printed word, paper and pen can be a powerful tool for information handling.
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i use to be an air traffic controller... and guess what? all your flight information is either hand written or printed on little pieces of paper called \"flight strips\" [images.google.com]
writing 130 diverted flights on a legal pad is no big deal.
From the article...
\"The technology improvements at American are, in one sense, encouraging. Pen and paper have been replaced by computer programs that display flight information in ways that are supposed to help prevent long waits on tarmacs and other service disruptions that most infuriate passengers. Top managers also now automatically receive text messages when things begin to go awry.\"
Seems to me like Consumerist is being a little uppity with their comments. Corporations are not infallible and it looks like AA has taken the appropriate steps to make sure this doesn't happen again.
As the former flight controller from above mentioned, all flight control is done using pad and paper. For more on this, see Malcolm Gladwell's piece in the New Yorker from 2002, \"The Social Life of Paper\". It's pretty fascinating.
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@overbysara: Regarding the \"Pilot\" iPhone commercial, last Friday's (11/16) 'Ask The Pilot' column in Salon.com directly addressed this very issue...and he laid the smackdown on the ad pretty hard. [www.salon.com]
Thanksgiving is almost upon us. And I’m giving thanks that I’m not traveling this holiday. But in the spirit of the season, how about an upgrade/downgrade cornucopia: Downgraded: Hooters Style Kyla Ebbert, the Southwest miniskirt bandit, has posed for Playboy.
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Hey whippersnapper, We did just fine, some may even say better before you computer geeks turned everything electronic. When I was younger we had paper issued tickets that were handwritten. You know what, the airlines had better service better on time averages and fewer lost pieces of luggage. Maybe a legal pad is the answer.