Depth of field - two of them?

On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:54:10 -0500, Tony Cooper
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On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 20:03:54 -0600, Savageduck
wrote:

Savageduck wrote:
Eric Stevens wrote:
On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 05:46:22 -0600, Savageduck
wrote:

Eric Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:49:32 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:


And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

What is the problem?

I am currently on a trip with my iPhone 8+ and iPad Pro (with Smart
Keyboard and Apple Pencil) as my only computing devices, and I am unaware
of this "clumsy and slow" stuff you are talking about.

My iPad Pro is far from "slow", it is actually pretty snappy, and as far as
"clumsy" goes, it has yet to trip over anything, or drop anything.

Using a keyboard with my iPad would deal with half my criticism but,
whether you like it or not, the fact that you have bought a keyboard
shows that you share at least some of my sentiments.

Having a keyboard is nice. However, I have no complains when using the
screen keyboard in either or split mode.

The keyboard didn't do me any good handling those typos and omissions ;-)

...I have no COMPLAINTS, and ...in either STANDARD, or split mode.

That is the clumsy part of using an iPad in my case. I have mini, and
enter far too many wrong letters touching the screen compared to using
a keypad. Worse, though, on a mobile phone.

Agreed.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

nonsense. it's as fast or faster than a laptop or desktop.

I can't answer for the hardware you use.

the hardware is irrelevant. displaying search results is not cpu
intensive.

But maybe you only do simple
searches.

the complexity or simplicity of a search is also irrelevant.

Yep. You only ask simple questions.

nope.

as usual, you blame everything but yourself for not knowing how to do
something.

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:42:38 -0000, Eric Stevens wrote:

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:08:55 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:03:28 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Saturday, 26 January 2019 00:38:32 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:30:25 -0000, Eric Stevens wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:06:17 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:12:48 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 18:19:19 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:37:50 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 15:59:55 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:39:12 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 15:12:57 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:03:11 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:


If I block friends of friends, and also friends, I'd see nothing. So what would be the point? Anyone I actually want to speak to, I email, phone, text, or visit in person. Why would I want to discuss things with friends where everyone can see them?

Although I only have ~80 friends on FB most I don't see anything from, but they can messege me or contact me in a group message or post, I don't see what they have for dinner as I have seleted not to see every post they make.
I think I only have 2 friends on FB that I haven't met in real life anyway.
If you know how to use FB it can be useful, but like any method of communication you should be able to control it and I can.

It just seems completely pointless to me. If you want to contact your friend, why not just email them? You can send them videos or photos that way quite easily, and even to more than one friend at a time.

But what if I want all the followers of a friends band to see the video I recordeed of them, I don;t have all their email address and there might be others that liike the band that are not my friends, I might not even like them but why should that stop them from watching the video ?

My Aunt is in several communities of 50 people. She simply has mailing lists in her email program.

and can those in the mailing list contact each other easily almost without thought ?

Just how difficult do you think it is to send an email?

It isn't difficult but it's easier with FB to a group of people that are actually interested. They can subscribe to the group or not there decision on a day to day basis.
I know peolpe in bands and maintaining a list of a few hundred emails address and keeping it up to date with who wants to recieve what isn't easy.
It;s OK for soem who have half a dozen friends but witha few hundred sometimes 1000s it gets more difficult.
But people with a handful of friends might never understand such problems.

The trouble is FB is web-based - if you've ever had the misfortune to use webmail you'll know it's nothing like the real thing. Too much fluffy ****ing about, far better with a program on your own computer. As for large groups of 1000, what's the chances of all those people actually having a FB account?

But I do use youtube to store the video and FB to publicise it, and I don't want 100s of people knowing my email address and I don't want their email addresses.

Why would you want to show a video to people you don't like?

Why not, I'm pretty sure attenbough wouldn't like everyone that views what he does, it's sort of against the laws of probability.

Youtube can publicise a video without using FB.

Yes it can but it isn't as effective as FB is.

I've not found FB to be effective for anything. It's so full of junk adverts and things from people you're not interested in, you're bound to miss the things you actually want to see.

And Hitler was a vegitarian does that make all vegatarians bad , don;t answer that ;-)

Maybe that's what made him think clearly.

Depending on your definition of clearly, as clearly he lost.

Against huge odds. If you entered a chess tournament and were beaten by 7 grandmasters, but won against 3, you'd say you were pretty damn good.

The Germany they built was pretty damned good, but still not good
enough.

If an enormous bodybuilder gets beaten up by 50 wimps, would you say the bodybuilder was useless at fighting?

Most body builders aren;t much good at fighting as they 'train' the wrong muscles i.e. the ones that look good rather than the ones that are usful in strengh.
Body building and fighting isn't the same.

Someone with any muscle 5 times stronger than average will be able to beat them up.

Jimmy Page (my old sergeant major) would quickly demonstrate that
wasn't necessary.
https://magazine.fighttimes.com/reco...o1-jimmy-page/

Without meaning any disrespect, he looks wimpy to me. I guess he took the enemy by surprise.

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:16:31 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 31 January 2019 21:13:07 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:44:03 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 19:23:43 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:37:16 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

The trouble is FB is web-based -

So ? it doesn't really matter in the 21st century.

Why would he century make a difference?

Then explain what the problem of a web based FB is.

Because it's web based. Slow. Full of adverts and other fluff.

you don't even know what web based means do you.

Yes. It means you access the emails through a webpage. A very convoluted method.

So, explain the problem(s) you're having.

The problem is not contacting someone on webmail, but using webmail yourself.

Why would I want to do that.

You wouldn't, which is my point.

Webmail is for emergency use, like when you're on holiday and borrowing a hotel computer. It really is a horrid thing for everyday use.

I see so emergency use is slow is it.?

It's all that's available. Unless you want to install an email program on a hotel computer and set it up just to read one email.

Too much fluffy ****ing about, far better with a program on your own computer.

If yuo even have one.

You need one for the web too.

Most use smartphones now.

Most people are not 2 foot tall with fingers about 2mm across.

Most people have a working brain of some sort.

Doesn't change the size of their fingers.

Phones are far too small to use the internet properly.

Most manage.

Kids might. Adults have large fingers.

Why do you think most people have fairly large desktop screens and not piddly little 14" ones?

similar reason for why people have 50+ inch TVs rather than the small cirular sub 6" screen then had before WWII.

Because they're far easier to use.

Bull****, do you really honestly think that everyone uses facebook?

No I don't think that, but then again I donlt need to contact 100% of the people in the world.

But you would need to contact everyone in the football/rugby/etc club you're controlling. They'll all have email addresses, but they won't all use facebook.

There's no evidence of that,

The chances of everyone in your club having facebook is pretty slim.

and even if they do have email I know people that don't use email to conntact friends and family, and I doubt many large in stitions use email nowerdays. Most of mine just use FB.

Everyone on the internet uses email. In fact FB emailed me when I had a notification.

How the **** would you maintain an email addresses of 100s or thousands of 'fans' you haven't a clue have you.

Many people manage it easily. Almost every email program has a function for this.

I've not found FB to be effective for anything.

That's you're problem.

"your".

And it's not my problem at all, I simply stopped using a system which doesn't give me any advantages.

then that is your problem assement only.

It's a silly little kid's game, that's all.

Lots of people donlt use FB for all sorts of reasons.

WTF is that supposed to mean?

poor & 3rd world countries,
in 2018 there were 2.27 billion active FB users and in 2018 there were about 7.6 billion in the world.
So you see more peole don;t use FB in teh world than do use it.
Can you do the maths to get an idea of how many.
Didn't think so...

You're trying to persuade me that most people don't use FB. Well er.... you've swapped sides, that's MY argument.

I can cope, but I realise it's ****. And there's no point in using it for communication when not everyone has it. Everyone has email.

No they do not.

According to a 2018 Radicati Group study, there will be more than 3.8 billion email users before the start of 2019.

So about 1/2 the people in the world uses email.

3.8 is more than 2.27. Your numbers not mine.

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 22:33:52 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:42:38 -0000, Eric Stevens wrote:

On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:08:55 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:03:28 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Saturday, 26 January 2019 00:38:32 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:30:25 -0000, Eric Stevens wrote:

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:06:17 -0000, "Commander Kinsey"
wrote:

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:12:48 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 18:19:19 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:37:50 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 15:59:55 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:39:12 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 15:12:57 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 15:03:11 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:


If I block friends of friends, and also friends, I'd see nothing. So what would be the point? Anyone I actually want to speak to, I email, phone, text, or visit in person. Why would I want to discuss things with friends where everyone can see them?

Although I only have ~80 friends on FB most I don't see anything from, but they can messege me or contact me in a group message or post, I don't see what they have for dinner as I have seleted not to see every post they make.
I think I only have 2 friends on FB that I haven't met in real life anyway.
If you know how to use FB it can be useful, but like any method of communication you should be able to control it and I can.

It just seems completely pointless to me. If you want to contact your friend, why not just email them? You can send them videos or photos that way quite easily, and even to more than one friend at a time.

But what if I want all the followers of a friends band to see the video I recordeed of them, I don;t have all their email address and there might be others that liike the band that are not my friends, I might not even like them but why should that stop them from watching the video ?

My Aunt is in several communities of 50 people. She simply has mailing lists in her email program.

and can those in the mailing list contact each other easily almost without thought ?

Just how difficult do you think it is to send an email?

It isn't difficult but it's easier with FB to a group of people that are actually interested. They can subscribe to the group or not there decision on a day to day basis.
I know peolpe in bands and maintaining a list of a few hundred emails address and keeping it up to date with who wants to recieve what isn't easy.
It;s OK for soem who have half a dozen friends but witha few hundred sometimes 1000s it gets more difficult.
But people with a handful of friends might never understand such problems.

The trouble is FB is web-based - if you've ever had the misfortune to use webmail you'll know it's nothing like the real thing. Too much fluffy ****ing about, far better with a program on your own computer. As for large groups of 1000, what's the chances of all those people actually having a FB account?

But I do use youtube to store the video and FB to publicise it, and I don't want 100s of people knowing my email address and I don't want their email addresses.

Why would you want to show a video to people you don't like?

Why not, I'm pretty sure attenbough wouldn't like everyone that views what he does, it's sort of against the laws of probability.

Youtube can publicise a video without using FB.

Yes it can but it isn't as effective as FB is.

I've not found FB to be effective for anything. It's so full of junk adverts and things from people you're not interested in, you're bound to miss the things you actually want to see.

And Hitler was a vegitarian does that make all vegatarians bad , don;t answer that ;-)

Maybe that's what made him think clearly.

Depending on your definition of clearly, as clearly he lost.

Against huge odds. If you entered a chess tournament and were beaten by 7 grandmasters, but won against 3, you'd say you were pretty damn good.

The Germany they built was pretty damned good, but still not good
enough.

If an enormous bodybuilder gets beaten up by 50 wimps, would you say the bodybuilder was useless at fighting?

Most body builders aren;t much good at fighting as they 'train' the wrong muscles i.e. the ones that look good rather than the ones that are usful in strengh.
Body building and fighting isn't the same.

Someone with any muscle 5 times stronger than average will be able to beat them up.

Jimmy Page (my old sergeant major) would quickly demonstrate that
wasn't necessary.
https://magazine.fighttimes.com/reco...o1-jimmy-page/

Without meaning any disrespect, he looks wimpy to me. I guess he took the enemy by surprise.

Ho yes! Very much by surprise.

To my knowledge he was never taken down by anybody, although many have
tried. There was a famous British training film where 10 red caps
(military police) tried and all but him ended up in a heap.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:00:22 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

nonsense. it's as fast or faster than a laptop or desktop.

I can't answer for the hardware you use.

the hardware is irrelevant. displaying search results is not cpu
intensive.

But maybe you only do simple
searches.

the complexity or simplicity of a search is also irrelevant.

Yep. You only ask simple questions.

nope.

as usual, you blame everything but yourself for not knowing how to do
something.

Who said I couldn't do it? I said "It's clumsy and slow".
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a
Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like
it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google
either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

nonsense. it's as fast or faster than a laptop or desktop.

I can't answer for the hardware you use.

the hardware is irrelevant. displaying search results is not cpu
intensive.

But maybe you only do simple
searches.

the complexity or simplicity of a search is also irrelevant.

Yep. You only ask simple questions.

nope.

as usual, you blame everything but yourself for not knowing how to do
something.

Who said I couldn't do it? I said "It's clumsy and slow".

what makes it clumsy and slow is how *you* choose to do it and other
things. that's *your* doing, not a flaw in the ipad.

as i said, searching on an ipad is as fast or faster than on a laptop
or desktop.

you said you use the google app to do searches. that right there is a
huge mistake. that's one reason you find it clumsy.

again, don't blame the ipad because you don't know how to use it to its
fullest potential.

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:27:41 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:20:50 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:42:28 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 21:16:58 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:00:17 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Friday, 25 January 2019 19:32:37 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 10:23:53 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

On Monday, 21 January 2019 18:37:59 UTC, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 16:48:13 -0000, Whisky-dave wrote:

If I'm looking for something, I want to buy it today, not when an ad happens to appear.

How do you get soemthing today from amazon via china.
You see I order lots of things on behalf of the students and they often want things yesterday.

If I'm in a hurry I buy from a UK Ebay seller who has a 1st class post option. You could get it the next day, as fast as any mail order outlet like CPC, RS etc.

Finaince dept

Stop letting them control you.

They don't control me.

You said they prevent you from using Ebay, so they're controlling you..

No they aren;t controlling me I can yuo ebay anytime I like.
I did so about 3 weeks ago spending over £300 on ebay.
It was my own money for personal stuff.
What I can't do is spend tax payers money on ebay.

That's what I was referring to. They're choosing where you spend their money. You're the buyer, you know best where to source stuff. You have the knowledge of the item you're purchasing, they don't.

Our finance department banned us from buying inkjet printers.

Us too, so we don't buy injet printers in generazl it does make sense to some extent.

No it doesn't. Inkjets are cheap and local, everyone can have one and print in colour without leaving their desk.

which takes up space needs support and consumables, and it's difficult finding out who's printing what. we staff of around 4000 sorting out printers for them all isn't easy.

It's better than having them all walk up and down the building to collect printouts. And why do you need to know what they're printing? I just bought everyone an inkjet, and all but the most clueless I gave a big box of cartridges. Only a very few needed me to replace them for them.

They claimed that using the colour photocopier they rented from Xerox was only 6p a page vs. 14p a page for inkjet. I looked into it. 14p a page was using HP printers with genuine HP ink. Using the Brother printers I bought on Ebay, with fake ink, was 1p a page.

Who pays for the paper and ink ? as that's where he money goes.

WTF? 1p a page is far less than 6p a page.

who pays for any maintaonce adn downtime or are you saying brother printer never go wrong.

At £30 a printer, I just bought another one. When I had spare time, I'd see if any were worth fixing.

I built a stack of printers once - I got some square shaped Brother printers, I think they were 130C, which you could put on top of each other. The ink went in the front, the paper in the back, and the paper came out the front. No need to open the top unless you were scanning. Connected them all to the same computer with USB, and made a Windows printer pool. I used it to do stuff like printing 1000s of copies of a calendar. Just left them all running and every time I passed I shoved in some paper or ink into one that was flashing an LED.

We are charged 4p for A4 printed page 6p for double sided. Most of our printers are photocopies and scanners too.

Very expensive. My 1p a page was using fake cartridges. If you use a CISS system it's even less. The paper becomes the main cost.

Don't you have a petty cash system to allow people to wander off to B&Q etc? Use that.

Yes, but not many of us order from B&Q.

You said you wander off to get hard disks from PC World.

Only for myself for personal use at home.
I can order from anywhere I like with my own money, but not with tax payers money.

I thought you said you went to PC World when a student needed a hard disk that day?

They introduced a stupid access system at the school, you actually had to swipe your access card on a plate on the wall.

We have that system.

They could have paid a bit extra to have one that worked without removing it from your pocket. What if you're carrying stuff?

That's one problem with NFC type systems, but it's cheaper than other systems when it comes to replacing cards that students lose.
Sure they should have auto open doors and automated trollys delivering things so you don't have to carry anything not even a cup of coffee.

How hard can it be to make a cheap system that can detect a card in your pocket? Surely it could be similar to what they use in supermarkets to prevent theft of TVs? It can pick up those fobs when they're inside your bag or trolley full of stuff.

We just had a problem with ebay and we will continiue to aviod them..
We sent off for 11 motors, thye came in a boxm they were given to the lecturer who has told us after 1 week that there;s only 8 in there.
SO we've had to order another 3 but they are needed TODAY, so that means cancelling the lab and delaying 30 or so studetns until nbext week..
So no We avoid ebay they aren't the same as our regualer suppliers.

You need to educate your lecturers to plan in advance, who needs stuff today?!

He brought them a week in advance he should have checked the box, and on the invoice which was sent to finance it said sorry only 8 in stock you've been credited for the 3 that are out of stock.
we contacted them and they said sorry we can't get any more motors and we're closing for chinese new year so it'll, be another week at least.

Ah, so the order was split between him and finance. Was there not also a delivery note? And I'm surprised anyone on Ebay did a seperate invoice to another location.

I used freecycle a lot too, mostly in the other direction. The council tried to charge us for disposal of old desks, computers, filing cabinets, etc, so I just photographed them, stuck them on freecycle, and people came and collected them.

Not practilcel here.

Why not? All the work is done by the person collecting.

Tried it and it failed.
Previoously I;ve asked for teh 20 or so millivolt meters we have and no longer used so we put them on a special site for schools and colleges if anyone wanted them they are still here after a couple of years.
Luckily they are small, unlike the 30 or so benches that are 2 or 3 metres in lenght.

Freecycle or freegle will get rid of them easily. I gave away 40 filing cabinets, they went within the day. It was no more trouble for me to help a few folk with them to their cars than to take them to the skip.

In one case (as I happened to own a Transit van at the time) I took 30 pieces of furniture to a local charity. They got free perfectly usable stuff, we had to pay no disposal fee. People just don't think outside the box enough nowadays.

Trouble is we haven't a van and if we did and I was in that then we couldn't have students in the lab.

I took the furniture on my way home.

Most places close around the time I leave here at 5:15pm

Ah, I left at 3:30 (supposed to be 4 but not much happened after 3:30).

And I don't think I coudl carry 30 odd 2 & 3 metre tables on my own.

Can't you just ask the nearest student for a hand?

And I don't think I could get them on the cenral line.

We have lots of free tables to dispose off so we have a place in the uni that stores and recycles such things.

Recycles? Reusing is better.

Either is OK.

No, recycling is a waste when someone could be making use of it.

What about repurposing them ?

That's what I meant.

I just got a free Art Deco 1930s wardrobe from Gumtree. Now that was fun strapping it on my car roofrack. Luckily no police saw me. Not sure a thing bigger than the car on top of the car is entirely legal.

would a 3 metre bench be legal, 30 of them ?

I think that would break the laws of physics. I don't think there's a length limit, I've often put 4 metre beams and joists on my roof rack, well overhanging the ends of the car. Technically I think I'm supposed to put some silly hi vis thing on the end but I never bother. If you can't see a huge piece of wood....

Ok, I rephrase, they're ASKING me if I would like to buy something.

So it's an ad then isn't it.

Yes, and all ads are annoying.

Most are, some are funny,

Maybe once. But you see them 50 times, then they get ****ing annoying.

Same as a comedy sketch and most jokes.

But you don't usually watch those several times. The same ****ing ads are shown in every program.

I avoid all ads.

So how do you use ebay it's full of them.

Not here, I have adblockers. I just see blank spaces.

just checked ebay a banner which takes up 30% of the screen offering 40% of kids bikes. !

I've never ebven looked at kids bikes not at home or work.

Very easy to block them with adblock etc. Any it misses you click one and tell it it's an ad, and you never see one like it again. Occasionally I get a site complaining I use an adblocker. I ignore the complaint, or if it won't let me in I email the admin and tell them to go **** themselves.

That ebay is better or cheaper for the WD 4TB drive I can buy and collect in about 15mins.

Clearly if it's a WD 4TB drive, they're all the same, all made by WD. And Ebay is cheaper than anywhere else, everyone knows this.

So show me this option to buy the drive from ebay.

Everything is on Ebay.

So show me,

Already answered below.

and not everything is on ebay.

Like what?

I want it for £84.99 and I want it in ~15mins, so show me how this is achievable on ebay.

Ok that surprised me. PC World is usually way overpriced, I guess they've seen the light and become competitive. But I'd buy it here, from PC World via Ebay! No need for me to go collect it. http://www.ebay..co.uk/itm/113375654487

It's NOT cheaper though, you said ebays was cheaper.

It usually is.

It can be can so why not look elsewhere ?

It can be can? What is that supposed to mean?

And how will I get this drive if I don't collect it ?

By post. Let the postman do the legwork. What are you doing driving about for stuff when you should be at your desk?

I'm not ****wit I got it after work on my way home.
If I'd ordred it I would have needed to take a day off work or find somewhere else for them to deliver it but I don't think ebay offers that.

Er, anything delivered to my house when I'm out is left with a neighbour or in my shed. Or you can simply select your work address to deliver it to.

So why do you have to have this drive today and not tomorrow?

Why do I have to wait until tomorrow ?

Why can't anyone plan ahead? It's simply not possible for any normal person to not know what they require a few days beforehand.

I had planed it for about a week, I was going to order it from amazon, then I found out I could get it in 10 mins.
So explain why I should wait at home all day for delivery when I can collect it when convenient to me rather than the postman ?

Wait at home?! Get it delivered to your office.

Can't they don't allow private delivers,

WTF? Whyever not? And how do they know it's private anyway?

and it gets delivered to a postroom in the college that records everything then they email me to collect it.
Otherwise anyone could order anything for themseleves if they have the CC.
They also don't want 4000 people using the one postroom for their ebay account.

I never had that problem. A parcel arrived with my name on it, it was delivered to my office or I was emailed, depending how busy they were.

In the office next door I have 96 dell all in one PC's and 96 exteranal monitors,
that will be installed upstairs but we have to wait until the next desks are wired up and installed, otherwoise they'll sit on the floor, without power or network connections.

Can't you move desks, is that too difficult for you?

Nothing to do with me it's an external company paid to install and cut the holes in the tables/benches, apparently they were doing it at the weekend.
They needed deliverign first and if I'm working on the 2nd floor then I can't be on the 3rd floor moving them around.

You should have bought desks with holes already in them.

Buying them a month or so beforehand isn't a problem, the prices won't change much and they're available from the moment someone walks into your office.

I can't order stuff before it is asked for. I can predict some thin gs but not everything.
The last new kit came from germany 5000 euros just for P&P maybe you could have collected the stuff using your roof rack.

Stuff like hard disks and memory and batteries are always going to be needed, you might aswell have stocks of that.

On Sun, 03 Feb 2019 18:56:23 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a
Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like
it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google
either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

nonsense. it's as fast or faster than a laptop or desktop.

I can't answer for the hardware you use.

the hardware is irrelevant. displaying search results is not cpu
intensive.

But maybe you only do simple
searches.

the complexity or simplicity of a search is also irrelevant.

Yep. You only ask simple questions.

nope.

as usual, you blame everything but yourself for not knowing how to do
something.

Who said I couldn't do it? I said "It's clumsy and slow".

what makes it clumsy and slow is how *you* choose to do it and other
things. that's *your* doing, not a flaw in the ipad.

It's slow because it relies on a wifi link. My desktop is many times
faster.

as i said, searching on an ipad is as fast or faster than on a laptop
or desktop.

Google searching is not done on the ipad. In the meantime there is all
the stuff that Google sends backwards and forwards to suppot it's
interface.

you said you use the google app to do searches. that right there is a
huge mistake. that's one reason you find it clumsy.

I agree.

But Google is the best search engine for my purposes so I have to put
up with it's interface even if I search via Safari.

again, don't blame the ipad because you don't know how to use it to its
fullest potential.

Where there is no difference in user skill for all but the simplest
applications a desk top will always wind hands down over a small
touch-screen.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 02:56:21 -0800 (PST), Whisky-dave
wrote:

On Saturday, 2 February 2019 08:37:43 UTC, Eric Stevens wrote:
On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 19:49:32 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:


And at no time do I really want to use my iPad to do, say, a Google
search, but there are occasions when I have to. But I don't like it.

why not? searching works quite well, and not just with google either.
there's no point in dragging a desktop around just to do a search.

It's clumsy and it's slow.

No it isn't but perhaps you have an andriod tablet.

I have a desk top on a fibre connection.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens