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Alex Herbert deleted GEOMETRY-134:
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> Wireless Technology
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> Key: GEOMETRY-134
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEOMETRY-134
> Project: Apache Commons Geometry
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Basia Burch
> Priority: Major
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> It may sound Neanderthal, (and I am hesitant to admit it), but the first time
> I touched or had anything to do with computers and such technology was when I
> was twenty-three years old. I was sweaty-palmed, breathing shallowly; heart
> pounding and my anxiety levels were in the red. My, then, boss was taking on
> the megalith task of teaching me how to use a computer! At the end of my
> first lesson I knew what the C Drive was. I was elated. Emancipated! And it
> was then that a parallel technological universe opened itself up to me and
> swallowed me whole. Technology made itself manifest in my life. I mean, I
> suddenly had 'skills'.
> Susan is a twenty nine-year old mother of two. She and her spouse manage a
> successful nucleus business with offices which they administer from home. She
> is up at 5am every morning, pops off to the gym, and makes sure she is back
> in time to wake up the kids and get them ready for the day that lies ahead.
> John, her husband, is tasked with getting the kids to their day-care while
> Susan quickly showers and gets busy with the first order of their business
> day. By the time John gets back business is in full swing. Susan has already
> sent out her first batch of e-mails, confirmed both of her meetings for the
> day, forwarded that ever-so-important proposal for the 'big-wigs' and is in
> the middle of the conference call with the importer that could change their
> lives.
> Upon closer inspection the office seems sparse. True it has the harmonious
> flow of its Feng Shui design. The designer rug and art do make that
> understated statement. The minimalistic retro office furniture is suited to
> their profile but what is strikingly missing are the large fax machines and
> computers, laptops even, modems and the endless array of office equipment one
> would expect to see to make an office an office. Susan needs to leave to get
> to her first meeting on time. Things have run smoothly for the day so that
> she will be able to do her projections and reports just as she had hoped to
> do. She is on track. She picks up her keys, her handbag and her state of the
> art mobile phone. That's it. She goes to her meeting which runs without a
> hitch. She makes the presentation to the client and looks forward to the
> positive outcome from the effort that she has put into the project.
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> I, on the other hand, can now 'help' myself on a PC. I am no longer
> intimidated into a corner by Facebook or Outlook! The difference between
> Susan and I is that Susan has cutting edge technology that makes her cutting
> edge. In the past twenty odd years since I was twenty- three, (I am not at
> liberty to say how many odd years), I have become reliant on technology to
> run and administer not only my professional life but my personal one too.
> Susan, and I suspect you, actually inhabit the twenty-first century. Susan
> and I suspect you, live at a pace and under very real pressures of performing
> well to be able to sustain a modicum of lifestyle for yourselves and those
> around you. It is not enough to tap into technology as a crutch, when the use
> of technology at its most effective can be a support system that is not only
> reliable but convenient and aesthetic to boot. How much more efficient do you
> get than picking up your phone encased in its Bluetooth Ultra-Thin Slide-Out
> Wireless Keyboard that takes your office and business to where you really
> need it - to where you are. How simple is that?
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