and maybe thats my problem right there mate.
While there is a lot of new tech coming out, there is no need for me
to actually move with the times.
While I do go on about my tech work, most of it is fixing systems at
home, testing software and a few other things.
90% of my work is done online or at least on site.
I don't usually need any complex reports to do so I don't even have
an updated or legal coppy of office which is not 10 years old.
As a result of this and the fact most stuff is via email or sms I
don't even have a phone that needs to be even half as updated as I do.
in fact if things didn't get insecure I could continue with win98 or
even dos quite happily.
well maybe not win 98 or dos but sertainly win2000 or xp.
For the work I do offsite and its not much, i use the device thats there.
My upgrades are usually performance, security to the minimal specs or
because its required.
Which was why I didn't upgrade jaws, though if I went to work jaws is
what is expected for business so I'd have to keep that updated.
yunger people are using braille dvices and other things, but with
what I do right now, I really don't need that much.
Ofcause as I build myself up here and online as a self employed
contracter for sound, testing and a little bit of lite hacking and
other tests that may become something I can afford/ need, however I
doubt I will ever upgrade unnecessarily.
Even if I have the cash which I don't.
I am also in my 30s, if I had the cash who knows.
The only thing I really want is a quad core with maybe 8-16gb ram,
win 7 x64 and the ability to have hardware vertualisation so I could
run vertual machines, heck maybe a linux or apple machine to but to
be honest I only upgrade what I need.
A friend just gave me their c005 nokia, and while its a bit stupid to
get talks for that now eventually I may end up doing just that.
I have not been as exposed to the fullness of the newer stuf as
others have or have needed to move as fast as most have had to.
in fact if security was not a major concern I could have stayed in
the mud and not given a stiff such is the nature of my current
project based work.
At 02:34 a.m. 27/10/2014, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
While I can identify with newer tech being alien, strange to someone
who is use to something else, the fact of the matter is people need to
be flexible. Need to learn to roll with the change, because new tech
is always coming out and it isn't wise to get use to any particular
technology as it can and will change at some point.
I am a man in his mid 30's and I can say much has changed between when
I started school and now. When I was in elementary school the greatest
thing was the Apple II-E. A lot of people who could afford one had
one, and those who didn't could use one at school which I did. Now
days a person's iPhone is light years ahead of anything we had in the
mid 80's, and I foresee a day in the not too distant future where
desktops, laptops, etc will be more or less a thing of the past. Most
people will probably have tablets running iOS, Android, or Windows.
computers as we understand them now will be reserved for businesses
where it would be impractical to type via touchscreen or run a
computer for 8 to 12 hours a day in an office. So it seems to me to be
prudent to begin thinking about that change and preparing for it by
learning those skills now rather than later.
As far as anyone thinking keyboards suck that sounds to me that person
is pretty narrow minded. While touchscreens are nice and handy
different input methods are available precisely because they are
better at different things. Its not a case of either/or but a case of
use the input method that does the best job at the time. Nobody is
going to want to write a 500 page novel on a touchscreen, in fact
would be a bit crazy, but is no problem on a keyboard. Likewise there
is no argument that touchscreens are freer nice because they are like
having a mouse and keyboard in one device, allowing movement around
the screen, and are perfectly suited to browsing information,
selecting a phone number from an addressbook, for pointing to screen
elements and activating them, but are lousy at large amounts of input
such as writing a novel. Only a stupid ignorant sod would say one
input method is better than the other without first considering the
use it is being put to.
Cheers!
On 10/25/14, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree josh, I had to do for a customer a general cleanout of
> windows and update and install of some major systems.
> I also had to run a couple clearout programs which I did overnight.
> I did not like win8, and while I was able with a bit of help get win
> 8.1 up, I worked through the night to get the system ready for a
> morning pickup,, because although I could have kept it for a wek or 2
> win 8 really didn't settle with me and I wanted to get it out of the door
> asap!
> My cousin has had issues with his net and whenever that happens, and
> he can not log in he has no system access till he can get the
> networking which is why I really don't like the idea of an net
> account as my primary login without a fallback.
> that and the fact that after all the stories on us cert, about nas
> storage hacks, ssl3 hacks and online cloud hacks that I could be
> online unnecessarily.
> On this 7 box while I am online, I don't need to login to be online,
> in fact I can be offline full stop!
> if I do get this win8 or 10 or whatever I get next, then when I make
> the system go I will make sure that I turn off my router before
> installing for the first time.
> It seems the easiest way to get round making an ms account.
> i also don't like all my info just sitting there for any person to
> access and me not being in control.
> in 7 at least I can shut everything off delete all ms live files and
> say I don't want to be online.
> When I do all my payed work and other things, no drop box, no bt
> sync, no messenger no mail, nothing, when my nose hits that
> grindstone I don't want distractions at all!
> And that will include live tiles, its probable that I will end up
> with something like classic shell with win7 or xp start menu loaded
> and whatever classic adjustments I can get with a local account
> though I will be missing out on a lot of store features and metro
> apps its not like I hav needed them up to now, and I have used a
> desktop for the last 20 years this way though I can see the potentual
> for the newer people that start its the same with the iphone, etc, I
> have never used a tablet so don't know what I am missing,. and since
> I have inherited another phone as long as I can spend the large load
> of cash on talks its probably what I will end up doing though I have
> used a tablet once and can see why people like it.
> Its all what you grow up with and I am sure if i was born now, that
> I'd think the keyboard a bunch of crap and that I like touch, however
> I was round when it was all keyboards and touch devices are as forign
> to me as aliens and I have no need to actually use one right now,
> maybe that will change.
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