PDA/Blackberry or Pen & Paper?

[DocHolliday]

I don't even have a cell phone, much less a PDA. For notetaking, I have a small leather padholder.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by retronotmetro

The Blackberry is just a pocket email/calendar/address book device with a miniature thumb operated keyboard. It may or may not have the ability to make and place telephone calls. The real beauty is that it can be set up to work with corporate email accounts so that all the data in your mobile is duplicated on your computer, and vice versa.

The addictiveness factor of the Blackberry is just about the same as it is with keitai text messaging in Japan--once you have 'round the clock ability to send and receive emails, you may find yourself actually sending and receiving emails 'round the clock.

As I assumed, my keitai (mobile phone) makes the Blackberry obsolete. *****cat and I email fairly regularly. I can take pictures with the 2 megapixel camera and send them by email in a matter of seconds. It will even take 60-second videos. When I was last in the States, I got an email explaining how to place calls before I was even off the plane. It is Bluetooth capable. I can keep a schedule, memos, etc. Actually, I forget I own the thing most of the time. Must be a generational thing.

Oh, and here, once again, is the photo on my keitai screen.

 

[Vaclav]

Originally Posted by Nantucket Red

PCBF,

I like your shoes.

How is that problem, you were having with your face?

I have not read Andy's recent to see. I hope you're feeling again better.

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by Vaclav

PCBF,

I like your shoes.

How is that problem, you were having with your face?

I have not read Andy's recent to see. I hope you're feeling again better.

My face is almost completely healed now. Thanks for asking.

And congratulations, Vaclav, on attaining Senior Member status!

 

[Vaclav]

Originally Posted by Nantucket Red

My face is almost completely healed now. Thanks for asking.
I'm happy to know.

Originally Posted by Nantucket Red

And congratulations, Vaclav, on attaining Senior Member status!
Thank you for telling, I didn't see. How did it happen?

 

[whoopee]

The requirements have become less stringent in the resurrected SF: 100 posts does it.

 

[LabelKing]

I'm afraid of what this Blackberry might do to my clothing:

 

[Nantucket Red]

Originally Posted by whoopee

The requirements have become less stringent in the resurrected SF: 100 posts does it.

Damn, still only half way there!

 

[SGladwell]

Originally Posted by javyn

Still, I reserved my anger for all the incessant foreign jibberish cell phone babblers. Sorry, I may be a crude, unsophisticated American, but answering a cell phone during a lecture and chatting away in your mother tongue is bullshit.

The moral bankruptcy of the American right, neatly encapsulated in two sentences.

As someone who deals with 18-22 year olds daily, I assure you that no one group has a monopoly on such behaviors. However, it's also very easy for an instructor to control things, by codifying in advance what is unacceptable and actually doing what you say you will.