Desk Riders
I sure would like to know more about this system/device/technology, but I can't google up anything else. Maybe WU-vies can help!
Original article here.
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Sorry, I've not got time to Czech it out.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/07/16 at 09:05 AM
Like riding a amusement park ride all day at work
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/07/16 at 11:59 AM
This picture first made me think of the filing cabinet walls of the central bureaucracy in the Futurama episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", and then of the movie "Brazil". The image from "Brazil": http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_7QzTivhVTs4/SD09eYDEDvI/AAAAAAAAASY/4i5K7tvR1Nw/s400/brazil_11.jpg
Posted by Fritz G on 01/08/16 at 08:54 AM
Where do they go for potty breaks? Is it built into the desk?
Posted by KDP on 01/08/16 at 09:21 AM
Trucker's helper, KDP.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/08/16 at 10:27 AM
You could probably fit all that on a flash drive these days.
Posted by ges on 01/10/16 at 12:56 AM
Before the advent of bloatware and ASCii was king it would take a typist many a year to fill up a DVD.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 01/10/16 at 04:16 AM
It's a pic of their Social Security Administration. Here's an article about a tiny bit of the mechanics that's fairly readable using google chrome to translate: http://www.novinky.cz/domaci/318594-devet-tisic-supliku-obsahuje-udaje-temer-vsech-obyvatel-cr.html
And totally readable if you know Czech. :p
And totally readable if you know Czech. :p
Posted by Jackie on 01/14/16 at 08:26 AM
Well sourced, Jackie! Thanks!
Posted by Paul on 01/14/16 at 05:14 PM
The video is pretty interesting, especially when they open a drawer just after the 2 minute mark.
Posted by ges on 01/14/16 at 07:33 PM
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