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Why, as technology gets more sophisticated, do the things we are prepared to accept get poorer in quality? We buy bigger TVs with HD and cameras that produce photos of 16 mega pixels, but what do we do? We watch stuff on tiny mobile phone screens, and photo files are so large they take forever to download.
I wish everything had stopped about 10 years ago when cameras produced pictures of 3 mega pixels max and I wasn't expected to view stuff on a 2 inch screen. I used to get emails with photos I could work with, moving heads from one picture to another, creating the perfect group, even inserting people who weren't there at all. Now I receive screen shows with photos 13KB in size that are no use to me. I have to ask the sender to send me the original size file and they can never find it.
Come on people! Use the technology you have to it's best potential! Learn how to do something simple like sending a photo of reasonable size over tinternet. I email photos to family and they say, "I never look at them. I can't see them well enough on my mobile and I can't be bothered to look on my computer."
People these days only read "sound bytes" on Twitter. What's the point in that!? And they watch YouTube on their mobiles. Who wants to squint to watch TV on a phone?
Another techno-gripe is sound quality. Huge TV, loads of channels, but I have to use subtitles. I've even had my hearing tested at the hospital. They tell me it's perfect. Well not for watching US TV it ain't!
Today's "music collections" are only transitory. There's going to be no nostalgic music to listen to in future. Downloading an MP3 is nowhere near as satisfying as having a CD to keep forever.
It may be handy having an Ebook in your suitcase or pocket but they can't replace the smell or feel of a favourite book, or the bar code art that a bookcase or CD collection adds to a wall.
Why are we going backwards with our technology? It doesn't mean that because we can, we blindly should.
By: JuneyHod
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What the hell is wrong with people who have to play with their smartphone every few minutes?
I liken it to............. mental-finger-fidget-braindead-chewing gum.
Most apparent were a group of four teenagers opposite me who, as soon as they sat down, all four got out their smartphones and started to play with them, this went on for at least one hour at which point, having eaten, I got up and left.
The same can be seen everywhere, all age groups, on the street, buses, trains, etc.
Is it no longer possible for someone to just sit, without playing with their phone?
What the hell is wrong with people today?
Before you say "another old fart" I posses a number of gadgets myself, netbook, laptop, tablet, mainframe, Ubuntu Linux, Kahli Linux, WinXp Win7 and Android, so I am well up with todays technology.
Boblet..............I also remember "dwell angle" good point..... pun intended
NETBOOK about £200
Touchpad with add on keyboard £400+
Do they really think the public are that daft?
Answer: yes they are.
This beast packs no pouch to keep it in. This beast will soon have a scratched screen.
As a touch screen tablet it is slower than a slug, covered with greasy finger marks.
It is does not have the full features of the previous Kindle. No 3G access.
It's operating system is clumsy. It is wholly user unfriendly.
The accessories are junk. The so-called "leather" case and stand @ £37 is complete junk.
Forget this Jabberwocky and move on,
I'm willing to bet that a lot of firms have to limit access to the internet to stop these morons from endlessly posting dull boring minutia about their dull boring lives all day long and doing some bloody work which they get paid for...
There clue is in the words 'works' and 'all day long'. Facebook is a pathetic game for mindless cretins who have nothing better to do than engage in the type of voyeurism that it promotes. People who work don't have time for such frippery.
I now have 5 complete tv series on it and can easily take it into the living room to plug into the telly; as well as loads of other stuff!
All it does is make those people sound stupid, useless and ignorant."
Some of us have more important things to do and we employ others to carry out these mundane tasks. You are free to live your life as you wish, but don't impose it on others.
All it does is make those people sound stupid, useless and ignorant.
"This is another comment which is not at all based on the original gripe"
Ta ra
If you say so. You would no doubt have some knowledge of these matters.
I have never touched an iron or a washing machine in my life. On the other hand, I don't need to be bribed to cook, it's the only way I get a decent meal! I find washing up by hand quite therapeutic in its mindless repetitivenes, and far preferable to the gurgling and swishing of the infernal dishwashing machine which never gets things really clean anyway.
It's been done, it's called Husband.
The only problem is that it only works if you bribe him.
Jethro