Another tradition down the tubes.

No big loss. I understand the sentimental attachment, especially if you spent your days reading and writing like this, but there's no need to continue old technological constraints "for old times sake".
 
What's next Holmes? Calling bulkheads, walls? ladders, stairways? Decks, floors? Overheads, ceilings? All to make it easier for you? It's what I've learned to expect from folks who salute without a cover on. :p 

Doc
 
Funny actually. Schools stop teaching cursive and allow one case script, and the Military goes the other way.
 
Devil Doc said:
What's next Holmes? Calling bulkheads, walls? ladders, stairways? Decks, floors? Overheads, ceilings?
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The Navy guy I share an office with keeps mentioning the second deck, but I'll be damned if I can even find the first one. I don't see any decks attached to the building we work in. My old house in Colorado had a deck, though. Pretty nice.
 
Devil Doc said:
 It's what I've learned to expect from folks who salute without a cover on. :p 

Doc
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Ouch!  Pretty funny though...
 
No big loss here, however.  DMS was a PITA to work with largely because of that format.  The research is correct... all caps are tough as sh!t to read.  If they conducted some sort of study of official message traffic, I'm sure it would be pretty glaring how much data failed to be communicated due to the antiquated format.  Air Tasking Orders may actually start making sense now... 
 
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Engineering drawing, which is my trade, still requires the use of all uppercase letters.
 
I think my trade may be the only one left where all caps is mandatory unless the rare lowercase is required due following a specific national or international standard.
 
When my son started school a few years ago, I had to real work to relearn to mix upper and lowercase letters.
 
I had printed in all caps since I was about 15, was heavy into drafting, and developing a printing style for drawings. 
 
I piss off a lot of new young engineers when I correct their drawings. They want to argue a national standard over a hundred years old, or they think I'm yelling at them.
 
mjolnir01 said:
 
 It's what I've learned to expect from folks who salute without a cover on. :p 

Doc
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Ouch!  Pretty funny though...
 
No big loss here, however.  DMS was a PITA to work with largely because of that format.  The research is correct... all caps are tough as sh!t to read.  If they conducted some sort of study of official message traffic, I'm sure it would be pretty glaring how much data failed to be communicated due to the antiquated format.  Air Tasking Orders may actually start making sense now... 
 
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What exactly did this DMS system do?  This is the thing I couldn't understand.  The article makes it sound like we were paying for this DMS system that converts from mixed case to all upper case.  I hope that's not the case, but if it is it's a perfect example of how every governmental entity pisses money out the window.
 
MadMonk said:
Engineering drawing, which is my trade, still requires the use of all uppercase letters.
 
I think my trade may be the only one left where all caps is mandatory unless the rare lowercase is required due following a specific national or international standard.
 
When my son started school a few years ago, I had to real work to relearn to mix upper and lowercase letters.
 
I had printed in all caps since I was about 15, was heavy into drafting, and developing a printing style for drawings. 
 
I piss off a lot of new young engineers when I correct their drawings. They want to argue a national standard over a hundred years old, or they think I'm yelling at them.
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It was probably really tough to stop dipping your pen in the cup on the table, too, right?
 
tomthirtysix said:
 
Engineering drawing, which is my trade, still requires the use of all uppercase letters.
 
I think my trade may be the only one left where all caps is mandatory unless the rare lowercase is required due following a specific national or international standard.
 
When my son started school a few years ago, I had to real work to relearn to mix upper and lowercase letters.
 
I had printed in all caps since I was about 15, was heavy into drafting, and developing a printing style for drawings. 
 
I piss off a lot of new young engineers when I correct their drawings. They want to argue a national standard over a hundred years old, or they think I'm yelling at them.
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It was probably really tough to stop dipping your pen in the cup on the table, too, right?
 
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Hahaha! good one, whippersnapper......yes..
 
MrAnderson41 said:
 
 


 It's what I've learned to expect from folks who salute without a cover on. :p 

Doc
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Ouch!  Pretty funny though...
 
No big loss here, however.  DMS was a PITA to work with largely because of that format.  The research is correct... all caps are tough as sh!t to read.  If they conducted some sort of study of official message traffic, I'm sure it would be pretty glaring how much data failed to be communicated due to the antiquated format.  Air Tasking Orders may actually start making sense now... 
 
edited to add some thoughts...
 
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What exactly did this DMS system do?  This is the thing I couldn't understand.  The article makes it sound like we were paying for this DMS system that converts from mixed case to all upper case.  I hope that's not the case, but if it is it's a perfect example of how every governmental entity pisses money out the window.
 


 
DMS and AMHS predate the wide-distribution of email.  They're redundant systems now, so it makes sense to phase them out.
 
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