Agreed. I use one to take business notes. I feel you get the best of both worlds - paper and electronic.

To a point this could be true. However, if you are customer facing (and specifically are required to be onsite at customer sites frequently) it would be difficult to be out-sourced. I have been fortunate to officially office from home my almost 9 years at my current company - and I've been customer facing (requiring lots of travel and onsite) the whole time.

This is one reason why I typically just use my 3G data card nowadays.

Petroleum Engineering

How 'bout a Beowulf of chimps...

Absolutely. Further, a lot of commissioned officers would be better off as warrant officers as they could concentrate on doing their job. Commissioned officers are generalists and tend to get promoted out of doing the technical stuff once they make Major.

I don't understand - what's it to you? You're not the one spending the money. He can do what he pleases with his money.

If you read TFA you will see that cutting consumption is not necessary. His goal is not to go totally solar, but to "feel good" and supplement his bill. I see no reason why he should cut consumption. The system is working as designed and should deliver its payoff in the allotted time. His job requires high energy consumption and he now has a multi-fuel power source (grid plus his solar).

When I'm not on the road I work in my home office, so I walk from wherever in my house to the home office. Otherwise I'm on an airplane to my job site.

Thanks for pointing that out. You are correct in your statement, I didn't see the parent post.

Your link goes to a Seagate Free Agent.