Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On a less serious note, as someone who hasn't been on a plane in years,
> I've gotten really tired of "I can work on an airplane" as the poster
> child for disconnected operation. I'm sure it's very important to
> consultants who are jetting around the country every other week--say, to
> give talks about distributed version control tools--but there are a
> large class of developers who could care less whether they can work on
> an airplane.
It's just a figure of speech, like the phrase "bus factor". "On an
airplane" means "not having reliable Net access"; you don't actually
have to be on an airplane for that to happen.
It may also be the case that you've not been anywhere without Net
access in years, but that's not only due to your not flying :-).
-K
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Received on Thu Nov 1 20:56:11 2007