Tesla Syndrome...

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Thursday, August 31, 2023 at 10:29:43 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:

On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 10:46:35 PM UTC-7, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 2:39:54 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Monday, August 28, 2023 at 7:00:12 PM UTC-7, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 10:24:12 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 7:06:54 AM UTC-7, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 11:30:13 PM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 4:15:15 AM UTC-7, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 3:33:50 AM UTC+10, Flyguy wrote:
On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 7:47:31 AM UTC-7, Anthony William Sloman wrote:
On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 12:17:34 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 05:12:36 GMT, Jan Panteltje <al....@comet.invalid> wrote:
On a sunny day (Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:26:23 -0700) it happened John Larkin <jlarkin@highland_atwork_technology.com> wrote in <5th7eipmc8nacnjbc...@4ax.com>:

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NOBODY designs with parts that are FIFTY YEARS OLD, you fool! How LONG AGO did you do that, FORTY YEARS?

I designed out the 741 in 1987 (which is 36 years ago. The guy that had designed it in ten years earlier had some bad habits - it wouldn\'t have been a good choice even back in 1977.

People actually do design in parts that are fifty years old. It\'s rarely a good idea and I have pointed this out here from time to time. Something like the LM324 is an exception - it was always cheap crap, but if that\'s all you need it is hard to find something cheaper.

\"Rarely a good idea\"? Sort of like NUKING and FIREBOMBING your OWN COUNTRY!!!

That\'s your deliberate misunderstanding of a couple of things that I posted. I have explained quite how thoroughly you do misrepresent them, but you seem unwilling to realise that you got it wrong.

I understand TOTALLY what you said, but you don\'t.

You do seem to be convinced of this. but it still isn\'t true,

That\'s how I described it in the list of 153 op amps I put together around 1989, and it\'s probably still true.

As usual, you have ignored the point I was making and chosen to re-run your usual lie.

Again, you lie about lying - a KNOWN trait of a congenital liar.

Of course you aren\'t a congenital liar. You are just too pig-ignorant to realise that you are lying, and quite how obvious your lies are.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Sylvia Else]

On 24-Aug-23 12:39 am, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Wednesday, August 23, 2023 at 8:37:25 AM UTC-4, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 23-Aug-23 10:01 pm, Fred Bloggs wrote:
On Tuesday, August 22, 2023 at 9:03:48 PM UTC-4, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 22-Aug-23 6:26 am, John Larkin wrote:

Pretty good rant:

https://dnyuz.com/2023/08/21/tesla-syndrome-explains-why-tech-is-making-us-miserable/


My wife\'s Honda Fit is great. If you want to change the hvac settings,
you grab a knob and turn it. You don\'t even have to take your eyes off
the road.

A car I had to hire a few days ago had the A/C control on a touch
screen. Just as well I had a passenger, because there\'s no way I could
safely have adjusted it while driving.

Most people familiarize themselves with the controls on an unfamiliar car BEFORE they drive off.
That\'s not the issue. You have to look at a touch screen to use it.

Okay, but even that shouldn\'t be a problem if the display is backlit and symbols are big enough. What make/ model was it?



On another note about inappropriately designed technology, I was using
on-line check-in for a flight (what does it even mean to check-in
online?). They said they\'d send the boarding pass to my phone. But what
they emailed was a link to a page that could be retrieved to show the
boarding pass. So it wasn\'t on the phone.

I don\'t have broadband access on my phone - I have almost no need for
such a thing, and see no reason to pay for it. At check-in time, the
airport\'s free WiFi was down. So I had no access to the boarding pass.

Nest time print out a backup of the pass to take with you.
Funny how I thought of that before the flight out, but my printer was
too heavy to take with me on the trip to print out the one for the
flight back.

Can\'t you save the boarding pass as a JPG to Gallery folder or something similar?

There are various potential solutions, but one first has to realise that
the problem exists. I print out important stuff when I can because the
phone could always die at an inopportune moment. Clearly, saving screen
shots, etc., somewhere on the phone does not address that. I hadn\'t
realised until shortly before boarding that the pass was not on the phone.

Sylvia.