Technology can you keep up

**Ashore** · 28th July 2005, 11:10 AM

Do you keep up with Technology or just use what you can. Does it bother you that you can't understand how something works or is it just me.

I recently had a technology reality check , I bought a new phone as the batteries died in the old one
It took 5 minutes with the instruction book to make a call
Let alone add phone Nos , did I want a picture with this a special ring tone (100 plus diffrent tones built in ) do I want voice activetion for this No, are there other Nos ie work Mobil etc to link, do I want to add to speed dial , store to phone or card
This thing has a function for adding text that guesses the word your typing and remembers your more used words.
Video , still pictures with 4 zoom, exposure control and 3 resolution settings, bluetooth, speaker phone , voice activation , alarm, notepad, text,instant messaging, chat, email, network,Web Access and download, audio recorder,mp3 player,calculator,Datebook,fax send and recieve,currency converter, Games, GPRS,over 2 Gig total memory for sound & pics, Plugs into a usb socket , and acts as a modum, all in a 14mm x 50mm x 95mm package weighing 105 grams.
I can answer , ring out , add phone nos and take pics as for the rest still learning, but how some of it works will never know.

The only normal thing was first bill, phone company billed at higher rate than I signed for , when I rang was told to go back to shop to sort out , asked for supervisor and get the manager ready as well was put on hold and when the operator came back could all of a sudden fix it over the phone.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge (Disraeli)

**shaunburgess** · 29th July 2005, 10:40 AM

my new phone even has word, excel and powerpoint....The TV module should arrive next week. But no buttons gets confusing some days

**Forest Gump** · 29th July 2005, 11:50 AM

I work in the Technology area, so anything other than work is as simple as can be, within reason.

I used to be into all the hight tech stuff at home but it's to hard to keep up with it, so I have turned my back on it and live a happier life now.

The last high tech gaget I bought for home was a combo DVD-VCR player. Mind you I could of bought a DVD recorder with hard drive but thats getting out of my confort zone these days.

Daniel

**Ashore** · 29th July 2005, 01:15 PM

Originally Posted by Forest Gump

Mind you I could of bought a DVD recorder with hard drive but thats getting out of my confort zone these days.

Daniel

You need to watch as some of them record in a format that doesn't read on other dvd players

The trouble with life is there's no background music.

**Wood Borer** · 29th July 2005, 02:45 PM

Like Forest Gump I too work in a technology field.

I don't buy many high tech items or use them outside work. I find them interesting enough but not nearly as interesting as things like woodwork, people, nature etc.

Things like mobile phones with all the ripper features - I don't use those features and I couldn't give two hoots about those features. I hardly even watch TV and when I do, Meg presses all the buttons in case I stuff it up.

When I was a tech, I spent all my spare time mucking around with the latest technology in my own time at my own expense. As I got more involved at work on high tech gear, my out of work interest in technology faded quickly.

A lot of it is unecessary, an overkill and an opportunity for providers of such equipment to make a killing.

Give me a nice piece of wood and a good plane anytime.

**Gingermick** · 29th July 2005, 08:13 PM

I got jack of the whole keyboard / mouse thing, so I'm usiong thee neww telepathically controlleeed interface

**Ashore** · 29th July 2005, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by Gingermick

I got jack of the whole keyboard / mouse thing, so I'm usiong thee neww telepathically controlleeed interface

I thought you were

**Iain** · 29th July 2005, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by Ashore

I thought you were

I KNEW you were

**Gingermick** · 29th July 2005, 08:49 PM

Can't think of a reply now as I'm listening tto "On Green Dolphin Street", Davis and Coltrane

**rodm** · 29th July 2005, 10:05 PM

The trouble with new technology is the need to read manuals to make it work. I hate reading manuals so I hate getting new items like DVD players, cameras, microwave ovens and the like. All I want to do is start and stop and because they have so many buttons and options I can't be bothered working it out. It took me months to find the play button on my DVD player because it is a combined play/pause feature and the button has pause printed on it.

Until I discovered this I just opened and closed the tray and it started automatically.

Microwave ovens must be the most unfriendly appliances even invented. I only need to simply heat something for a period of time. The one I have a home (one moth old) displays seconds but there is no second button. I haven't worked that one out yet but I'll keep pressing buttons and one day it will be clear as mud.

If the manufacturers could work out an easier way to operate these things like green button for go and red button for stop then they might interest more buyers. My machinery has this simple human interface and I don't have to resort to a manual to make it work.
I am not anti technology just hate wasting my time learning how to operate the technology.

**davo453** · 29th July 2005, 10:26 PM

I noticed a while back that they started marketing a no frills Mobile phone, haven't seen it advertised for a while though i'd have got one but mine was still under contract at the time.

Cameras, video cameras, Mp3 players radios and even tv's in phones is a world gone mad in my opinion.

Cheers

Dave

**kiwigeo** · 29th July 2005, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Gingermick

Can't think of a reply now as I'm listening tto "On Green Dolphin Street", Davis and Coltrane

Trane and Davis.......thats jazz .

**Ausworkshop** · 30th July 2005, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by Wood Borer

things like woodwork, people, nature etc.

Give me a nice piece of wood and a good plane anytime.

I Agree, I left the electronics field because its just too fast moving.
(only work part time in it now)
You work your butt off on something for 2 years only to release it when its 1 year out of date, no satisfaction in that. Make something out of wood however & it could even be worth more in 100 or more years time!

**Iain** · 30th July 2005, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by Andrew from AWC

I Agree, I left the electronics field because its just too fast moving.
(only work part time in it now)
You work your butt off on something for 2 years only to release it when its 1 year out of date, no satisfaction in that. Make something out of wood however & it could even be worth more in 100 or more years time!

Back in the early 70's I was sent to the US of A with Motorola to become proficient in the workings of TTL, I was gone for 3 months and when I arrived back CMOS was flavour of the month.
Now back in, in the field of digital security with the current terrorist tactics.
They figure my background in electronics, psychology, criminology and imaging may be of some value.
Bugger, there goes my early retirement.

**Wood Borer** · 1st August 2005, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by Iain

They figure my background in electronics, psychology, criminology and imaging may be of some value.
Bugger, there goes my early retirement.

:eek: Iain who is "they"??????

To put it another way, will you be wearing an akubra, 10 gallon, bowler, turban or a chequered scarf?

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