Posted on 04/02/2013 11:54:18 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
“We have a lot of ancient knuckel—draggers around here... ( I am One )....that when they buy something....they expect it to have a life cycle measured in the decades.....”
Guilty in part to your quote.
My wife refuses to get rid of her decades old Princess Phone, and every time there is a power failure. She is vindicated.
Our RCA tv is about 25 years and refuses to die. The picture is so good cable installers have offered to buy it.
We have tags on the back of art and other belongings, and our relatives sign and date the tag to be in line to inherit the items. We noticed after last Xmas, we had tags and names on the back of the tv and the Princess phone with two names on each tag.
I have electronic gear for fishing and other outside activities. My main depth/fish finder/GPS is well over 10 years old, and my Grandson wants it. I have a water proof Olympus Stylus 1050 SW digital camera which, still works in spite having to use its life jacket while trying to swim several times and being dropped which normally doa’s most digital cameras.
Both the depth finder and camera are still being sold at higher prices versus the purchase price.
I have to admit my new handheld Garmin Oregon 550T GPS with a touch screen is really good. The older and different Garmin GPS literally died in our family room due to not being used. The new Oregon 550 T is like having a mini computer with a GPS and a lot of touch screen options.
I recently retired my ancient TracFone, a Motorola as it was too hard to send texts. Its picture taking ability and sound was better than the new one. I will be sending it on to go to our military.
It has been a long time since IT USED TO BE and it's not just electronics. It was in the '80s that I began to curse everything I bought. I came up with a general saying about new purchases. 'First it goes to the shop to be fixed, reinforced and/or rebuilt.' Without JB Weld most products wouldn't be worth buying in the first place.
But you have to figure out how to run that damn gadget,...and the srceens are impossible to read for my ancient eyes.
Your gonna have to get wet to learn how to swim.
It is also expected to explode in half the time of regular lithium batteries.
But I fixed my TV Viewing....got me a 60” LG Plasma screen at a very good price at Fry’s
Some show a while back (quite a while) had a contest between cell-phone texters and actual, real-life guys who were experts at, of all things, a real honest to God telegraph.
The telegraph dudes using dots and dashes blew the cell phone kiddies out of the park. Something like 3 times the message rate...
And they actually spelt the words all the way out, none of this using 4 instead of FOR.
LOL!
Just watch!
By the time they are 30 or so, alot of these kids will have some weird form of carpal-tunnel thumbajiggie...
They’ll walk around all day looking like a victim in an old Vincent Price movie...
Text messaging is the stupidest thing anyone ever invented!”
I guess there’s another adjective I will have to use to describe myself. Up until now it’s only been a Bible thumpin’ gun totin’ Granny so will amend it to include knuckle draggin’.
But there are a lot of things I hate worse than text messaging - like voice mail which only results in a day long game of phone tag; like pushing buttons to get where I think I need to be only to finally reach someone who tells me they need to transfer me to another department and then another voice mail, etc.; like having to pay for a warranty for anything you buy because it’s not guaranteed beyond 30 minutes or a distance of 30 miles from where it was purchased; like having to have everyone you are talking to now spell their names in case you have to prove you did call; like not being able to buy something, take it out of a box and use it without first going through a 54 page instruction book, of which only 2 pages is written in English, and still then having to contact someone with customer service to explain the instructions and, of course, you receive their voice mail...; like having to deal with some twit at an electronics store try and tell me why I need to be able to download apps on my phone... And the list gets longer every year.
My favorite appliance in my kitchen? A microwave I bought 15 years ago. It has one dial, when I turn it, it comes on. Works fine and it doesn’t have a clock that I have to get out the 54 page instruction book twice a year to try and figure out how to change.
The device shown in the picture will be inserted onto a circuit board within new battery charger designs. It is not a stand alone device or replacement part.
Smart phones should be smart enough to act like dumb and simple phones if the user wants it that way...it should be the default mode at first power up.
If the user if geeky and wants all the frills running then they will be able to figure out how to enable them.
Text message is great a great concept.
You can ask a question/get an answer with a long protracted conversation.
wow.
If you have a smart phone you and expand the view or perhaps put on your glasses.
Well,...I didn't know where it would go,....and since TI has a part of it doing microprocessors for smartphones,...sounded to me like it might be something for those.
My son is always complaining about his Droid running out of juice ...
Anyway we are having some fun conversation here.
Still not clear to me where it goes....
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