At HP, I would repair the equipment folks would be writing to the firmware and software to gambling machines in Rhode Island. This was in a corporate park far away from any casinos. They wore the usual work office apparel and unless I looked at the equipment of asked them what they were doing, I would NEVER be able to tell that they were working on slots. Small teams, good camaraderie, good working environment, and no impossible deadlines. Hell, just tell the next recruiter that you were working on random number generators!

LOL. REAL MONEY is a piece of paper or a diamond! Books are permanent and last for ages! Hate to break it to you bro, but both are false. Paper money is only as good as the FAITH people put into it. Diamonds are only worth money as they have had the LONGEST ad campaign out of pretty much any product. The Library of Alexandria (the largest ancient library) was burned to the ground wiping out generations of unique and one of books. The Library of Congress books could all conceivably be copied onto a few hard drives. What preserves knowledge is REDUNDANCY not just preservation.

Agree with this reply completely. Books will go digital sooner rather than later. Paper books have an LONG history but it is just a way to get the printed word to a reader. The only thing holding e books back is large format books/magazines with color photos or figures. Once there is a non LCD reader for this, the age of "books" will be numbered. I use the SONY e-reader for most fiction books these days and much prefer them to actual books. I can change the font size for instance so a "paperback" is now a "book". Total in the past 2 years or so, must be over 200 books read on the e-reader. They are all stored on a SDMC card 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch in size. I have not bought a fiction paper book in over a year and a half.