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From: Phil Taylor on 1 Apr 2010 07:42 In article <o_-dnZSEmNFg5CnWnZ2dnUVZ8gBi4p2d(a)brightview.co.uk>, David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole wrote: > > David Kennedy<davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > > > >>> They are superb cooks. > >> > >> They would improve immeasurably if they chose to use the Aga rather than > >> just having it for show. > > > > Of course they *use* it. In the same way that in the mountains they use > > a wood-burning range. But they need a proper cooker *as well*. > > How quaint. Still, electricity does have a certain charm... Has its drawbacks too. Tuesday night I had a power cut while cooking dinner. This being an isolated country house it's not an uncommon event, especially during snow storms, so I lit candles and got out a couple of camping gas cookers to finish my dinner on. An AGA would have been useful. Later on I went to sleep rolled in a duvet in front of the coal fire, much to the entertainment of the dog and cat. The power was not restored until Wednesday afternoon. It took me an hour to notice that two rings on the cooker were still on. Isn't it a good job that I hadn't left the gas cookers sitting on top of the electric cooker? Phil Taylor
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 1 Apr 2010 07:42 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:47:22 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> My dad used a touchscreen Lifebook for a while, and then traded the 9" >> one up to a 12". They're geeky toys, and barely practical - not small >> enough to be pocketable, small enough to be fiddly to work with, >> particularly the mousing. I'd be quite astonished if PeterC's s-i-l >> didn't hate it after five minutes. > >I wasn't thinking of a touchscreen device, but a Netbook with a >keyboard. It was a netbook with a touchscreen, so best of both worlds - or not, depending on your viewpoint. >Personally, if she wanted to get going, I'd point her at a Macbook, but >they are fairly pricey for what would be a very small part of her life. Previous gen Whitebooks go past on Refurb for �525 occasionally. Not likely a lot of difference between that and an iPad, when we finally get pricing. Cheers - Jaimie -- "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky, University of California
From: Peter Ceresole on 1 Apr 2010 07:43 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >And she has friends and a daughter in Geneva who use Macs, and so have > >access to Mac techies locally. > > But I guess she may have a greater range of help still if it were a > Windows box (statistically)? Statistics are not much help here; she will know people who know two Mac techs, and that will be plenty, if it gets that far. Most of the stuff I reckon I could do over the phone. I do that with 'my' iMac ladies in London, and on the phone Geneva is no further away than Kew. -- Peter
From: T i m on 1 Apr 2010 07:54 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 12:43:30 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> >And she has friends and a daughter in Geneva who use Macs, and so have >> >access to Mac techies locally. >> >> But I guess she may have a greater range of help still if it were a >> Windows box (statistically)? > >Statistics are not much help here; she will know people who know two Mac >techs, and that will be plenty, if it gets that far. As long as they are available at the time and there's not a Windows-ready kid standing by helpless. > >Most of the stuff I reckon I could do over the phone. I do that with >'my' iMac ladies in London, and on the phone Geneva is no further away >than Kew. For most non tech users I've found it's often just the basics and even I can resolve them no matter what OS they are on. Do you really have *no* idea how to use Windows Peter (genuine question, can't remember your background outside TV etc). Cheers, T i m
From: R on 1 Apr 2010 08:01
Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > > > Media (music, videos, books, podcasts etc) - yes. > > > > Yes - if you don't mind the poor quality. Poor quality sound, > > low resolution video and books, etc etc. > > The quality of sound and video is much higher than was available to most > people in the history of TVs and computers I'm struggling the recall those 3.5" cinema screens. |