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Hail the "paperless office". Mine is one such office and our paper consumption has tripled, in 5 years.
It's getting so that I can't reach the tops of the piling (we don't have time for filing) stacks.
So, we've invented a forklift, like a mini pallet stacking system, that magnetically encodes
each piece of paper and then stacks it in a pile, so it can come back to it, upon demand. Very thin tines on the fork make it possible to slip betwen sheets without damaging them.
"Shut that bloody window! There's a breeze outside!"
A short story about the "paperless office"
http://www.theage.c.../1051987642384.html
[UnaBubba, Oct 26 2005]
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Ooh, a floppy hard drive! |
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Yeah. I first heard the term "paperless office" more than 20 years ago. I'm still waiting for my silver jumpsuit and my flying car, too. |
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Coal? Heck - I've made diamonds! |
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Haven't we all? Coal's easier, as it's just sedimentary layers on buried carbonaceous material. |
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I would love to watch it defragment. |
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Hey, all I wanted was a way to staple without making the paper thicker. And now, a forklift? And coal at the bottom? All I know is that the guy in the office below is using pit props. |
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I don't know why, but to proof read something, I print it out. Somehow I can see errors more easily on DTM(see UB's link). |
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I guess this would be another reason to thread RFID tags into standard copy and printer paper. |
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No need for that - you could, in theory, print barcodes on the paper edges that a scanner could read, much the way some printers are now printing minute codes for government tracking purposes. |
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You're accumulating large masses of paper, while heating oil costs skyrocket. |
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I think the solution is clear. |
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I live in a semitropical location in the Southerm Hemisphere. It's already hot and it's just 7:30am. Why do I need heating oil? |
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[Una] Your giving more and more clues as to your location. Soon I will be able to say "I know where you sleep!" Mwa ha ha! |
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You're assuming that I sleep. :-) |
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