You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

Do you:

a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fingers?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mYfpWEAADZiw.jpg

OR

b) Sit back and use the proper tool for the job?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mfUtXAAAOd5Z.jpg

Simon Mason wrote

You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

Do you:

a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fingers?

My fingers arent greasy or pudgy. Yours are ? Your problem.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mYfpWEAADZiw.jpg

OR

b) Sit back and use the proper tool for the job?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mfUtXAAAOd5Z.jpg

Depends on where I am checking it. And I use a desktop
with a proper keyboard, not a ****ing laptop too.

"Simon Mason" wrote in message
...
You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

Do you:

a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fingers?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mYfpWEAADZiw.jpg

OR

b) Sit back and use the proper tool for the job?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mfUtXAAAOd5Z.jpg

And when I am wandering around a place I am visiting and
need to find some place to stay because my plans have
changed, its a hell of a lot more convenient to use the
phone and have it pop up the best public transport
to get there, or to whistle up a uber etc than to lug
a ****ing great laptop around with me to do that on.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 00:31:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


And when I am wandering around a place I am visiting and
need to find some place to stay because my plans have
changed, its a hell of a lot more convenient to use the
phone and have it pop up the best public transport
to get there, or to whistle up a uber etc than to lug
a ****ing great laptop around with me to do that on.

Wrong. Last night, I had to change at Manchester Piccadilly on the way home and our train from Glasgow was 5 minutes late. The platform display showed that we needed platform 2 and we were on 11, so we had to run like the clappers to get to 2 before our train left at 1841.

The train at 2 was locked, so I was stood there with my finger on the button when a bloke asked me where I was going - Hull I said and he told me that the train in front of this one had just left and that the next one was at 1932.

Being an old hand since age 14 at train timetables, I knew that this was ********, so I whipped out my 1300g Acer, accessed the Cloud and saw that there was a train to Sheffield at 1848 where we had come from on 11, so we ran there and got to Hull at 2110 and not 2230 had we listened to the "expert"..

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 00:31:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


And when I am wandering around a place I am visiting and
need to find some place to stay because my plans have
changed, its a hell of a lot more convenient to use the
phone and have it pop up the best public transport
to get there, or to whistle up a uber etc than to lug
a ****ing great laptop around with me to do that on.

I have this to do that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw4EOlXXgAA96U4.jpg

Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

And when I am wandering around a place I am visiting
and need to find some place to stay because my plans
have changed, its a hell of a lot more convenient to use
the phone and have it pop up the best public transport
to get there, or to whistle up a uber etc than to lug
a ****ing great laptop around with me to do that on.

Wrong.

Nope, I've actually done it like that and the phone leaves
a ****ing great laptop for dead in that situation.

I managed to miss the train by minutes, there is only one a day,
so had to find somewhere to stay, somewhere to dump my bag
while I visited various places during the day to pass the time and
I did that using the phone, used it to reserve the accommodation,
used it to navigate on foot to the place to dump my bag so I
didnt have to cart it around all day. Used it to find the public
transport to get to the places I wanted to go, used it to find
a good pub to get dinner near where I was staying, used it
to navigate to there. And next year I will be able to use the
phone itself to tap on and tap of the public transport system.
You lot can do that already in London etc.

Last night, I had to change at Manchester Piccadilly on the
way home and our train from Glasgow was 5 minutes late.
The platform display showed that we needed platform 2
and we were on 11, so we had to run like the clappers to
get to 2 before our train left at 1841.

If you'd had enough of a clue to have a decent smartphone
you could have seen that the train was going to get in late
on the last leg of the trip, seen where you had to go to catch
the second train well before you arrived at Manchester Piccadilly,
and had the phone tell you where to go step by step too.

The train at 2 was locked, so I was stood there with my finger
on the button when a bloke asked me where I was going -
Hull I said and he told me that the train in front of this one
had just left and that the next one was at 1932.

You could have seen all that on your phone on the last leg.

Being an old hand since age 14 at train timetables, I knew
that this was ********, so I whipped out my 1300g Acer,
accessed the Cloud and saw that there was a train to
Sheffield at 1848 where we had come from on 11,

You could have done that much more conveniently on
your phone on the last leg into Manchester Piccadilly
and would not have had to run around like a mad thing
once you had arrived at Manchester Piccadilly.

so we ran there and got to Hull at 2110
and not 2230 had we listened to the "expert".

see above.

"Simon Mason" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 10 November 2016 00:31:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


And when I am wandering around a place I am visiting and
need to find some place to stay because my plans have
changed, its a hell of a lot more convenient to use the
phone and have it pop up the best public transport
to get there, or to whistle up a uber etc than to lug
a ****ing great laptop around with me to do that on.

I have this to do that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw4EOlXXgAA96U4.jpg

Much more convenient to have it all in the one device that
isnt much bigger a thick credit card that can not only tell you
how you are going time wise in the run into Sydney in the car
to catch the train back, but does all the other stuff I listed in
the other post and allowed me to talk to the kids who I had
driven to Sydney in the car when I quite literally jumped out
of the drivers seat at the traffic lights and ran into the station
to try to catch the train, leaving him who had never driven
in a big city to take the car to where they were going.

It would have been completely ****ing hopeless with
a bag full of laptop, that thing, camera etc instead.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 05:27:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


It would have been completely ****ing hopeless with
a bag full of laptop, that thing, camera etc instead.

On the three trains I was on yesterday, there were endless people on their chavphones trying to have conversations in tunnels, cuttings and amongst high buildings where their connections got cut off every 30 secs or so to their immense surprise.

If I could have been arsed, I'd have plugged in a headset and used Skype via the on board WiFi on my Acer, so even as a PHONE they're useless, never mind GPS, camera, 25000 songs, SW radio, OS map etc.

Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that there are
spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users say you can even ask
Siri and get the details from voice over. Sounds almost decadent I thought.
Brian

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"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Simon Mason wrote
You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

Do you:

a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fingers?

My fingers arent greasy or pudgy. Yours are ? Your problem.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mYfpWEAADZiw.jpg

OR

b) Sit back and use the proper tool for the job?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mfUtXAAAOd5Z.jpg

Depends on where I am checking it. And I use a desktop with a proper
keyboard, not a ****ing laptop too.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 08:24:57 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that there are
spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users say you can even ask
Siri and get the details from voice over. Sounds almost decadent I thought.
Brian

Don't need a Siri, whatever it is, as I have a device which has taken 10000s of years in development and it's called a BRAIN.

Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

It would have been completely ****ing hopeless with
a bag full of laptop, that thing, camera etc instead.

On the three trains I was on yesterday, there were endless people
on their chavphones trying to have conversations in tunnels,
cuttings and amongst high buildings where their connections
got cut off every 30 secs or so to their immense surprise.

Ours are done much better with full service in all of those, including the
tunnels.

If I could have been arsed, I'd have plugged in a headset and used Skype
via the on board WiFi on my Acer, so even as a PHONE they're useless,

Like hell they are.

never mind GPS, camera, 25000 songs, SW radio, OS map etc.

Works fine on our trains. And only a dinosaur like you lugs around
a ****ing great bag of **** when a phone that no bigger than a thick
credit card does it all, particularly when walking around not on the train.

I dont bother with a bag at all, just the phone in my pocket.

On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 22:19:09 UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

for your £500 satellite phone?


Interesting ebay history you have :-)

Owain

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 08:40:34 UTC, wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 November 2016 22:19:09 UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

for your £500 satellite phone?

Bargain - they're £1100 new.

Brian Gaff wrote

Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that there are
spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users say you can even
ask Siri and get the details from voice over.

Yes, I do that myself even tho my sight is fine.

I don’t bother with a bedside clock, its much more
convenient to ask siri what the time is than to put
my glasses on and turn to face the clock and read it
in the dark. I also ask it what the temperature is too.

Sounds almost decadent I thought.

Whoever scripted it has a decent sense of humor with some
of the snide remarks it makes when you ask some questions.

Bit quirky too, it uses my first name during the day
and my second name at night for some reason.

"Rod Speed" wrote in message
...
Simon Mason wrote
You want to check your e-bay delivery estimate date.

Do you:

a) Prod at a little screen with your greasy and pudgy fingers?

My fingers arent greasy or pudgy. Yours are ? Your problem.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mYfpWEAADZiw.jpg

OR

b) Sit back and use the proper tool for the job?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw2mfUtXAAAOd5Z.jpg

Depends on where I am checking it. And I use a desktop with a proper
keyboard, not a ****ing laptop too.

On 10/11/2016 06:37, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 10 November 2016 05:27:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


It would have been completely ****ing hopeless with
a bag full of laptop, that thing, camera etc instead.

On the three trains I was on yesterday, there were endless people on their chavphones trying to have conversations in tunnels, cuttings and amongst high buildings where their connections got cut off every 30 secs or so to their immense surprise.

If I could have been arsed, I'd have plugged in a headset and used Skype via the on board WiFi on my Acer, so even as a PHONE they're useless, never mind GPS, camera, 25000 songs, SW radio, OS map etc.

How does on board WiFi get to the train?

Mike

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 08:49:48 UTC, Muddymike wrote:
On 10/11/2016 06:37, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 10 November 2016 05:27:38 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:


It would have been completely ****ing hopeless with
a bag full of laptop, that thing, camera etc instead.

On the three trains I was on yesterday, there were endless people on their chavphones trying to have conversations in tunnels, cuttings and amongst high buildings where their connections got cut off every 30 secs or so to their immense surprise.

If I could have been arsed, I'd have plugged in a headset and used Skype via the on board WiFi on my Acer, so even as a PHONE they're useless, never mind GPS, camera, 25000 songs, SW radio, OS map etc.

How does on board WiFi get to the train?


Dunno - but the icon was never showing less than a full signal.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw45yO5XEAAAWGC.jpg

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 08:49:35 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:

I dont bother with a bedside clock, its much more
convenient to ask siri what the time is than to put
my glasses on and turn to face the clock and read it
in the dark.

I do this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw47FsmW8AAAa_o.jpg

Simon Mason wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that there are
spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users say you can even
ask
Siri and get the details from voice over. Sounds almost decadent I
thought.

Don't need a Siri, whatever it is, as I have a device which has
taken 10000s of years in development and it's called a BRAIN.

Fools like you run the same line about aircraft autopilots too.

Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I dont bother with a bedside clock, its much more convenient
to ask siri what the time is than to put my glasses on and turn
to face the clock and read it in the dark.

I do this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw47FsmW8AAAa_o.jpg

More fool you. You still have to roll over and look at it.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 09:10:59 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that there are
spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users say you can even
ask
Siri and get the details from voice over. Sounds almost decadent I
thought.

Don't need a Siri, whatever it is, as I have a device which has
taken 10000s of years in development and it's called a BRAIN.

Fools like you run the same line about aircraft autopilots too.

Which still needs a pilot to fly it if and when the thing goes tits up.

So when your chavphone gets cut off, you cry like a baby about it being a "nightmare" as you can't ring your wife to see if she will be happy with 2x225g tins of beans as they have run out of 445g ones.

"Snowflakes" is the modern term, I believe.

On Thursday, 10 November 2016 09:14:37 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I dont bother with a bedside clock, its much more convenient
to ask siri what the time is than to put my glasses on and turn
to face the clock and read it in the dark.

I do this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw47FsmW8AAAa_o.jpg

More fool you. You still have to roll over and look at it.

Nope - it's on my wrist.
It even has the day of the week on it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwFMG7pW8AA_QOD.jpg

Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Simon Mason wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

Obviously this thread is based on pictures, but I'm told that
there are spoken info for all of this, in fact some Iphone users
say you can even ask Siri and get the details from voice over.
Sounds almost decadent I thought.

Don't need a Siri, whatever it is, as I have a device which has
taken 10000s of years in development and it's called a BRAIN.

Fools like you run the same line about aircraft autopilots too.

Which still needs a pilot to fly it if and when the thing goes tits up.

Irrelevant to whether it does a much better job than any human can do.

So when your chavphone gets cut off,

Never has, thanks.

you cry like a baby about it being a "nightmare" as
you can't ring your wife to see if she will be happy with
2x225g tins of beans as they have run out of 445g ones.

Just another of your pathetic little drunken fantasys.

I never ever do that and the phone has never ever
not been able to make any call I want to make either.

And I do it a lot during the garage/yard sale run too.

Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Simon Mason wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I dont bother with a bedside clock, its much more convenient
to ask siri what the time is than to put my glasses on and turn
to face the clock and read it in the dark.

I do this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cw47FsmW8AAAa_o.jpg

More fool you. You still have to roll over and look at it.

Nope - it's on my wrist.

Still have to fart around to look at it.

It even has the day of the week on it.

Siri will tell you the day of the week and the
date and a hell of a lot more besides too.

It is happy to tell you when some place opens too.
That dinosaur can't do any of that.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwFMG7pW8AA_QOD.jpg