释义 |
pencil and paper pencil and paperAn archaic information storage and transmission device thatworks by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp.More recent developments in paper-based technology includeimproved "write-once" update devices which use tiny rollingheads similar to mouse balls to deposit coloured pigment. Allthese devices require an operator skilled at so-called"handwriting" technique. These technologies are ubiquitousoutside hackerdom, but nearly forgotten inside it. Mosthackers had terrible handwriting to begin with, and years ofkeyboarding tend to have encouraged it to degrade further.Perhaps for this reason, hackers deprecate pencil-and-papertechnology and often resist using it in any but the mosttrivial contexts. |