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"Jason Goatcher"
Mar 2005
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Everybody knows about conservative politics, people simply wanting things to stay the same and not change. But what about conservative electronics?
What about a version of Windows 7 that looks and acts like XP? What about cellphones that JUST make phone calls? I've actually seen that last part, the ads tend to show up in magazines that are either read by older people or those who are expected to influence older people, like I've seen some ads in Discover magazine, with the huge buttons and a fairly cheap looking calling plan. Lastly(there's more, but I'm ending this particular post here) how about installation programs that don't try to trick you with the checkboxes? Those things are infuriating when you fall for them, I have no idea why they think potentially alienating potential customers is a good idea. Last fiddled with by jasong on 2013-06-21 at 14:14 Reason: ADD for the win |
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"Richard B. Woods"
Aug 2002
Wisconsin USA
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Just give the electrons sufficient private financial incentive.
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#3 |
May 2013
East. Always East.
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I'll bite.
If there is a market for devices that do less, as opposed to the many that are trying to always do more, then they will sell. I'm surprised to never have personally seen a cell phone that does not take phone calls. I don't know where your thing about the checkboxes game from though. |
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"Jeff"
Feb 2012
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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Romulan Interpreter
Jun 2011
Thailand
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#6 |
If I May
"Chris Halsall"
Sep 2002
Barbados
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#7 |
May 2013
East. Always East.
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What I actually meant was a cell-phone like device which sends (and accepts, too, since the semantics police are on the fugging prowl tonight) texts but does not take (or make) phone calls.
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Romulan Interpreter
Jun 2011
Thailand
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Ok, ok...
![]() Now you talk about a pager... (I however don't know if the pagers were able to send messages too, or only to receive, I never had one in my hands). (and sorry for take/make confusion, I am not native speaker and for me these things have different semantic, some other people here use to make fun of me because of this reason, see my title above the avatar, which title I did not choose, it was assigned to me forcibly, but I am trying to be proud of it ![]() Last fiddled with by LaurV on 2013-06-22 at 05:53 |
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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Isn't that called "Classic Mode" or some such thing? I seem to remember that one could make XP resemble Windows 95/98/2000 (e.g. a gray taskbar instead of the "colorful" one).
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Here's a similar idea for an easy-to-use "seniors' computer": the "WOW computer". I imagine that the marketability of this is fading away even faster than that of the Jitterbug. Quote:
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"Nathan"
Jul 2008
Maryland, USA
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Isn't that called "Classic Mode" or some such thing? I seem to remember that one could make XP resemble Windows 95/98/2000 (e.g. a gray taskbar instead of the "colorful" one).
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Here's a similar idea for an easy-to-use "seniors' computer": the "WOW computer". I imagine that the marketability of this is fading away even faster than that of the Jitterbug. Quote:
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"Serge"
Mar 2008
Phi(4,2^7658614+1)/2
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