General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Is technology driving you nuts?

From returning books to a talking machine in the library to self-service tills,
in the shops, computers are everywhere.


Do you remember when you had to get a family member to hold the ariel and then perch it on a shelf to get a picture on the television?


What about the telephone box on the corner of the road? Now you can have a mobile, that does everything apart from making a call!


Instead of holding a book, you can read from a small machine called a Kindle!


Take gentle care
With best wishes
Elizabeth, EOS
xx

I have to admit that i quite like it...

well that is the things i understand..lol
:-D

I agree got a new mobile phone .touch phone .I am at a loss .so much on it . its going back to the shop .updating my old un ;-) ;-) :-D

I've always been nuts :-D

It is worrying. As we get older it's more difficult to learn new technology.
Many of our parents age are having their options limited and are being turned into second class citizens.

I've realised I'm quite good at technology, learning how to use new systems etc, however, the worst thing about technology is the number of 'not fit for purpose' systems the Public Sector is sold, at a vast cost to us, and their insistence in them as a replacement for people. Not just financially, but personally, from the recipient to the user.
This is from 2008

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/jan/05/computing.egovernment

It mentions:
NHS
Police
CSA

Since then we've had the DWP, which isn't working as it should, and we've yet to see how the car Tax system works (or doesn't).
Then there are all the Councils .....

From personal experience, working with a system that is, basically cr*p is very stressful, as those in 'power', have no idea how the thing works, how it's not working, and blame the workers!!

Easy access to wi-fi and the internet has eliminated or, at least, reduces the need for us to actually talk to each other face to face.

You can go out to lunch these days with a group of six people and, at any given time, at least two of them are receiving or sending texts on their mobile phones.

A little less conversation & a little more texting, as Elvis might have put it if he had not meandered off this mortal coil.

Dermot, you've reminded me of something.
A friend and I were sat having a pint in Salisbury's Market Square.
A couple came and sat down, with their drinks, about 2 tables from us. He was on his phone.
She started sipping her drink.
He was on the phone.
She tried to make eye contact with him.
He turned away - he was on the phone.
After 10 minutes of him being on the phone, she started to look embarrassed.
He was still on the phone.
She stood up and walked away

About a minute after she'd left, he noticed.
He stood up to see where she was - still on the phone.

I have to admit, a lot of us sat at he tabless openly laughed at him. A table of 4 next to us shouted to him: 'She went that-away' and each pointed in a different direction :-D

Do you think he learnt anything?

I hate all this new technology - having problems with the internet at the minute, this morning my Sky has no sound - I bought one of those all singing all dancing mobiles - can't use the blasted thing at all - still using my old one - can't text either - so many things "bleep" - have no idea what's going on :-(

"Keep in touch" is a frequent personal departing phrase said with the sincerity of the moment. And yet, it is sad that we do not always back our words with actions despite all the new vaunted technology.

How many of us, me included, limit our promised contacts to the annual birthday & Christmas cards? It's not that they are all semi-detached friends or just acquaintances.

Deeply demoralising, isn't it? "I'll be in touch" is probably one of the great British throwaway exaggerated comments.

Bye for now. I'll keep in touch - definitely. Cross my heart & hope to die! I promise!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Android-Phones-For-Dummies-Gookin/dp/1118169522

Having studied and worked in IT for 30-odd years, I have embraced PCs and the Internet to the extent I would not like to be without them. I'm not a hardware freak and prefer my laptop to tablets and I-phones. Don't like e-readers, prefer a real book. One thing that does drive me nutty is people wandering around glued to their phone, what can be so interesting? I went on a boat trip down the Thames a while back and there was a crowd of students on board. Their time was taken up with taking selfies, and various group shots, lurching from one side of the boat to the other to vary the background. So self-obsessed whilst a thousand years of history glides by unnoticed.

Funny you should say that Sheila, my wife and I went on a lunch cruise on the Thames today. I must admit that I didn't notice anyone using a mobile phone. I left mine at home as usual.

I was in Oxford today. I noticed those walking along with phones clasped to their ears were shouting.
I decided it must be socially acceptable to shout as long as you have your hand to your ear.

My friend didn't agree.......

...it was a long walk back.....

Have any of you been in a school lately?
Modern whiteboards are a bewildering addition.

I don't get involved with them, but when I'm volunteering, I do sometimes have to use the photocopier.
I grew up in an era when our teacher would use a big ink pad and a roller to copy maps for us. That was the nearest we got to easier copying.

Now with the photo copier I have to select size of paper, number of copies, double sided or single, sorted or not, all stapled?
By the time I 've truely mastered it, they will have updated the machine, I expect.

.....and then you get a paper jam!! :-|

MORNING ELIZABETH AND ALL
THIS MADE ME REALLY LAUGH
ALL THIS TECNO STUFF AND
APPS THINGS,THERES MY OH IN THE
GARDEN MENDING DAUGHTERS
BIKE TYRE AS SHE STARTED OFF TO
TAKE GRANDDAUGHTER TO SCHOOL
AND THEN RIDE ON TO WORK AND SHE GOT
A PUNCTURE
NOW THAT'S ONE THING A LAP TOP CAN'T
REPAIR,IT HASN'T GOT FINGERS

MORNING ELIZABETH AND ALL
THIS MADE ME REALLY LAUGH
ALL THIS TECNO STUFF AND
APPS THINGS,THERES MY OH IN THE
GARDEN MENDING DAUGHTERS
BIKE TYRE AS SHE STARTED OFF TO
TAKE GRANDDAUGHTER TO SCHOOL
AND THEN RIDE ON TO WORK AND SHE GOT
A PUNCTURE
NOW THAT'S ONE THING A LAP TOP CAN'T
REPAIR,IT HASN'T GOT FINGERS

I have to say technology has probably saved my sanity. Since I became practically stone deaf, meaning no radio and no telephone, the computer and a text phone and now my tablet are my main way of communication. I often think what a difference it
would have made to my equally (hereditary) deaf father who didn't even have television subtitles!

Old fashioned bank robbers, on early release for good behaviour, are now increasingly turning to technology to get their grubby fingers on our hard earned cash.

Easier & much safer than walking into a bank wearing a mask & pointing a gun. That's progress of sorts!