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From: -hh on 1 Apr 2010 23:01 ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > > > Sitting around in these meetings, there's _never_ an external drive, > > and virtually never any USB mice. About the only mouse that I can > > recall seeing in the past ~5 years was a miniature Bluetooth one about > > the size of a matchbox car. > > how often are you on the road? ;D Oh, I'm just a homebody...or something like that: <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/CO-FF_2010.jpg> > my experiences are very > different. i continue to see usb thumb drives everywhere, and mice > often. even in the airline lounges people bust out mice. aircards i > see, but not that often compared to usb drives an mice. Experiences will vary, of course. As I said, l agree that I used to see a lot of thumb drives, but with our IT banning them, that clearly has had an impact and this would of course be localized to our business circles. I do have to admit that I've been moderately surprised by how well we've been able to 'survive' without them...and the trickle-down is that it has changed my workflows overall: I don't even use them much at all on my Macs (where they're not banned): without moving from wherever I'm sitting, I'll just wirelessly login, then do a wireless transfer. Insofar as the rest, I simply don't see nearly as many mice on laptops as 3G cards. And what neither of us have apparently seen at all is an external hard drive. -hh
From: ed on 1 Apr 2010 23:22 On Apr 1, 8:01 pm, -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > > > > Sitting around in these meetings, there's _never_ an external drive, > > > and virtually never any USB mice. About the only mouse that I can > > > recall seeing in the past ~5 years was a miniature Bluetooth one about > > > the size of a matchbox car. > > > how often are you on the road? ;D > > Oh, I'm just a homebody...or something like that: > <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/CO-FF_2010.jpg> looks like you didn't do much traveling last year, as your status is expired. ;D > > my experiences are very > > different. i continue to see usb thumb drives everywhere, and mice > > often. even in the airline lounges people bust out mice. aircards i > > see, but not that often compared to usb drives an mice. > > Experiences will vary, of course. As I said, l agree that I used to > see a lot of thumb drives, but with our IT banning them, that clearly > has had an impact and this would of course be localized to our > business circles. > > I do have to admit that I've been moderately surprised by how well > we've been able to 'survive' without them...and the trickle-down is > that it has changed my workflows overall: I don't even use them much > at all on my Macs (where they're not banned): without moving from > wherever I'm sitting, I'll just wirelessly login, then do a wireless > transfer. > > Insofar as the rest, I simply don't see nearly as many mice on laptops > as 3G cards. And what neither of us have apparently seen at all is an > external hard drive. i didn't see that- i see external drives once in a while, but definitely not often.
From: -hh on 2 Apr 2010 08:31
ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > > ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > > > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > > > > > Sitting around in these meetings, there's _never_ an external drive, > > > > and virtually never any USB mice. About the only mouse that I can > > > > recall seeing in the past ~5 years was a miniature Bluetooth one about > > > > the size of a matchbox car. > > > > how often are you on the road? ;D > > > Oh, I'm just a homebody...or something like that: > > <http://www.huntzinger.com/photo/2010/CO-FF_2010.jpg> > > looks like you didn't do much traveling last year, as your status is > expired. ;D Or something like that <g>. Prognosticating on 2010/11, I'm expecting fewer trips to EU and more to DC, so I'll get dramatically fewer miles while keeping just as many segments; will probably result in a bump down in level after 2/11. > > Insofar as the rest, I simply don't see nearly as many mice on laptops > > as 3G cards. And what neither of us have apparently seen at all is an > > external hard drive. > > i didn't see that- i see external drives once in a while, but > definitely not often. Exactly, which is contrary to the claims of "Doom!" by the iPundits, which isn't particularly surprising, since there's a lot more FFM Travel Poseurs than Warriors. -hh |