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David S Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 18352 Credit: 27,761,924 RAC: 12 |
Play Store remembered all my previous apps and I installed many of them. Now I have to remember the usernames and passwords for all of them. David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri. |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13130 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Just out of curiosity. What phone did you get? Actually, Eric got it for me, after years of nagging on his part. I use a Nexus 5 and Eric uses a Nexus 6. We're both on Google Fi. |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3327 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
I think I must be on Fee Fi Fo Fum LOL! ~Sue~ |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20264 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
You see these young kids age 5-7 on the bus clutching a smartphone in their hands, and both thumbs going 19 to the dozen sending a text. And you think how the hell do they do that on such a tiny touch screen? I'm a one finger merchant on a phone, or 3 fingers and a thumb on a keyboard. Now you laugh, but I can copy type at 40 wpm, and time was when you could get a Pitmans certificate for that speed albeit on a manual typewriter. I can do two thumbs on the small screen. I'm not the fastest touch typer. But I manage to muddle along. My iPad gets some added finger action on it's bigger screen. |
James Sotherden Send message Joined: 16 May 99 Posts: 10436 Credit: 110,373,059 RAC: 54 |
You see these young kids age 5-7 on the bus clutching a smartphone in their hands, and both thumbs going 19 to the dozen sending a text. And you think how the hell do they do that on such a tiny touch screen? I'm a one finger merchant on a phone, or 3 fingers and a thumb on a keyboard. Now you laugh, but I can copy type at 40 wpm, and time was when you could get a Pitmans certificate for that speed albeit on a manual typewriter. I'm a ham handed one finger texting dude on my phone. And I still screw up and have to delete. I have grandkids that can do the thumb texting. The sad thing is that some schools don't teach how to write Cursive anymore. So I think in the not to distant future you will have kids signing documents by using block letters because they were never taught Cursive. And to take that further. What if they are not taught how to even do block letters by hand? I'm 64 years old I can remember trying to make a letter appear readable while learning to write. [/quote] Old James |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20264 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I use the predictive word aid as a spelling aid. |
Mark Stevenson Send message Joined: 8 Sep 11 Posts: 1736 Credit: 174,899,165 RAC: 91 |
How many people today could produce a simple handwritten thank you note for a birthday or Christmas present? I know i can and probably lots of the people here can also , can't belive that people don't know how to write properly . Some can't for different reasons but sure most people are able to . Then again you get a GCSE grade A for spelling your name correctly and a A* for doing joined up ;-) ( or maybe it's just us yoakes in Suffolk , ain't guna guess for Norfolk like ;-) ) Life is what you make of it :-) When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
( or maybe it's just us yoakes in Suffolk , ain't guna guess for Norfolk like ;-) ) Don't forget us lefties :-) Was so glad when word processors came out :-) |
Mark Stevenson Send message Joined: 8 Sep 11 Posts: 1736 Credit: 174,899,165 RAC: 91 |
Don't forget us lefties :-) Was so glad when word processors came out :-) Don't worry I'm left handed matey , but that's about it for the " left" with me ;-) ( i just sorted the worlds problems out over on boinic politics :-) ) Life is what you make of it :-) When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
LOL. I'm okay when not under a deadline. If I am, my handwriting tends to speed up & end up an illegible scrawl :-( |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
A quiz. Who signed this? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19060 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
I admit to having the world's worst handwriting. I blame it on going to 5 different schools before the age of 8. Each having a different style of writing an/or a different policies on using pencil or pen and ink. Ballpoints were banned in that period, you had to master the intricacies of a nib pen. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
That 1st word sure looks like Donald. Trump's by any chance? |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
A quiz. Arnold Schwarzenneger. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
My younger brother had great handwriting until he went to medical school. By the end of his first year it was illegible. Methinks they teach bad handwriting in a class as prerequisite to become Doctor. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
That 1st word sure looks like Donald. Trump's by any chance? You won:) Are you a graphologist by any chance? @betreger Bad handwriting in a class is a prerequisite to become a Doctor. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20264 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
A quiz. I'm with you on this one. Now just watch it be someone else. |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 20264 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
I'm sure there is a course in how to read doctors handwriting. I have seen pharmacist call doctors to decipher what was written down. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
All the prescriptions I've had over the past few years have been computer printed. Bet the Docs love that :-) |
Michael Belanger, W1DGL Send message Joined: 30 Jul 00 Posts: 1887 Credit: 7,441,278 RAC: 49 |
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