Modern technology which is shït.

Ticket Master.

Any RIM Blackberry hardware

turbbo

Facebook

turbbo

Siri

turbbo

Inkjet printers - still as rubbish as ever

ForestFire

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Day Light Running lights...I fücking hate them as all they have done is make stupid people even stupider. Arseholes are now driving around at night with no rear lights because they think their DRLs are headlights. I came up behind one of these clowns on the way back from Dublin at 2am a few weeks ago. I flashed my lights a few times to try and warn them but no joy. I eventually passed them out and switched my own lights of and on to try and give them a clue but no joy, he/she was simply too dumb and stupid to realise.

Agree with some manufactures implementation of this, but my Octavia I traded in and my leon both activate the rear LEDS also with drl. All drl should be like this so the rear lights are always on.

davidk1394 wrote: »

A friend had a Passat parked on a hill. Battery went flat and we couldn’t leave off the handbrake to roll start it

I have a feeling a read in the manual that there is a way to manually release handbrake if power is gone?

Reisers

Lucky Bags


Never anything decent in them

cournioni

dotsman wrote: »

You do realise petrol stations require power to operate? Without electricity, the pumps don't pump.

They don’t necessarily need power to operate. It’s just easier to operate them with power because of how they’re set up. You don’t NEED power to fill a vehicle with petrol or diesel.

Reisers

cournioni wrote: »

They don’t necessarily need power to operate. It’s just easier to operate them with power because of how they’re set up. You don’t NEED power to fill a vehicle with petrol or diesel.

This is too funny

Moomoomacshoe

Any machine that takes your notes. For feck sake..put in a fiver, spits it out, put it in, spits it out, put it in spits it out.

Eh..sounds a bit notey..like a bad porno heh!

ToddyDoody

Do you know they still make Cola Cao. Its a Spanish thing. Mad f*ckers.

The high horse brigade

Reisers wrote: »

Lucky Bags


Never anything decent in them

Lucky bags are modern tech??

TomSweeney

Reisers wrote: »

Bluetooth headphones

Smartwatches

Illegal streams


A

Agreed about smartwatches . But streams ? Soda Player and the acestream code for the win!!!

turbbo

microsoft edge

smilerf

Wireless Mouse

Brian?

whisky_galore wrote: »

Horses for courses. The ones now are fine for short hop and moderate driving, not great for long distances and down the country. Want to tow a load like a caravan, boat or horsebox, forget it. They would want to improve in range, power and price before they become the norm.

Someone definitely made this argument when cars started replacing horses.

Wibbs

Brian? wrote: »

Someone definitely made this argument when cars started replacing horses.

though at the time they would have been right in many ways.

Stark

Yeah I was just thinking it was a long time between the first automobile appearing and them becoming mainstream.

Sir Guy who smiles

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

They were used for the the Moon landing 50 years ago.

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-4-3.html70° F is 21.1°C


A fuel cell can produce about 0.8V or less under load.

You need a lot more than that to split water in the first place. If you have free power it's cheap, otherwise it's too inefficient.
http://www1.lsbu.ac.uk/water/electrolysis.html

It was just an idea about the No.1 objection to solar, "It's no good at night". I admit I haven't done the sums on it. Perhaps the other mooted solution, battery arrays salvaged from electric cars, would be better, but like all battery based ideas you are at the mercy of lithium availability.

Sir Guy who smiles

cnocbui wrote: »

Whoops - looks like someone forgot to tell Honda:

Let me nip down to the dealer and put a deposit on....

whisky_galore

Brian? wrote: »

Someone definitely made this argument when cars started replacing horses.

It's not wrong. Early cars were horrendously expensive, only playthings for the rich. Not 100% reliable either.

Horses were still used in warfare well into WW2, cheap, you don't need to draw petrol to them and if you run out of food you can always eat them.

CrankyHaus

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's not wrong. Early cars were horrendously expensive, only playthings for the rich. Not 100% reliable either.

Horses were still used in warfare well into WW2, cheap, you don't need to draw petrol to them and if you run out of food you can always eat them.

Sure even canal transport in the UK only finally went by the way after a cold winter in or around 1952 forced a switch to trucks.

Incidentally horses were extremely resource intensive for logistics and reliance on them in WW2 more reflected the economic development of the countries that did rather than horses inherent value. Basically Germany and Russia were too backward to fully motorise their forces. As early as WW1 the superiority of trucks (such as on the Voiee Sacree supplying Verdun) was made clear.

Curiously Goering claimed post war that the unfeasibility of horse gas masks deterred the Germans from using chemical weapons as they relied on horse logistics so much.

tjhook

whisky_galore wrote: »

It's not wrong. Early cars were horrendously expensive, only playthings for the rich. Not 100% reliable either.

I think it's often the case. Early versions of any technology are likely to be worse than what came before.

I had an 18" LCD screen for my PC when they were a new thing. Great that it was flat, but the refresh rate was bad, and the colours not as good as a decent CRT. And it cost a fortune.

A friend had a first-generation digital camera on a holiday,when I had a cheap disposable film camera. He literally had to carry around a big bag of batteries, the resolution was rubbish, and pictures were impossible to get developed. He had to print them himself.

Early CFL bulbs. Horrible slow, flickery, off-colour things. Some even hummed. Going back to Incandescent was an upgrade.

lobbylad

tjhook wrote: »

A friend had a first-generation digital camera on a holiday,when I had a cheap disposable film camera. He literally had to carry around a big bag of batteries, the resolution was rubbish, and pictures were impossible to get developed. He had to print them himself.

I had an early one too, the other problem was the memory capacity, mine could hold 8 photos, so if you took it on holidays you had to bring a laptop to offload the photos all the time. And laptops weren't super thin back in those days either......

small digital cameras as found in toy drones : 0.3 megapixels.

Blurry as hell. Yes, a legal reason for that , but then shouldn't really be sold by drone manufacturer.

whisky_galore

[Deleted User] wrote: »

small digital cameras as found in toy drones : 0.3 megapixels.

Blurry as hell. Yes, a legal reason for that , but then shouldn't really be sold by drone manufacturer.

The key word here is "toy".

El_Duderino 09

Deleted User wrote: »

small digital cameras as found in toy drones : 0.3 megapixels.

Blurry as hell. Yes, a legal reason for that , but then shouldn't really be sold by drone manufacturer.

Yeah I have he same problem. Pictures are so blurry I can barely even tell my neighbour's nipples from her pink shower hat.

BeerWolf

I honestly don't like Smartphones from a social perspective... everyone is bloody glued on the damn things. My niece is on it 24/7, work colleagues are on it every time there's down time, people walking are on them, etc. ... it's like a zombie epidemic.

AndrewJRenko

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Day Light Running lights...I fücking hate them as all they have done is make stupid people even stupider. Arseholes are now driving around at night with no rear lights because they think their DRLs are headlights. I came up behind one of these clowns on the way back from Dublin at 2am a few weeks ago. I flashed my lights a few times to try and warn them but no joy. I eventually passed them out and switched my own lights of and on to try and give them a clue but no joy, he/she was simply too dumb and stupid to realise.

On every winter commute, I see one or two cars driving on DRLs in the dark, with no back lights. I've had a word with a few of the drivers, and generally, they have no clue about what DRLs are or how they work.


This throws up a bigger issue about people getting new cars and not really knowing how to operate lights, DRLs or fog lights or other controls beyond the basics. There really should be some kind of mandatory training with a new car to ensure the drivers know how to drive safely.

riclad

IOT device,s most iot devices have mediocre security,
default passwords , that are known to hackers .
Once a hacker gets into an iot device it can use that to get into your network, or put malware on a pc or laptop if its now very well secured .
With all the latest updates .

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252456704/Unconfigured-IoT-is-a-security-risk-warns-researcher

Most users would not know how to change the password on iot device
or update its software .
I just use vlc player and a music player and chrome on my phone.
I do,nt want to install random android apps which may be insecure
or risky to use.
I Notice all the celebs that got hacked2 years ago were using iphones and
their photo,s ,videos were on icloud.
the iphone is not totally secure or maybe most people do not bother
to go through all the security settings on their icloud account.

In the last week its been shown that contractors are listening to audio
on speaker devices for amazon and apple .
In theory to improve the ai learning process .

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/02/apple-halts-practice-of-contractors-listening-in-to-users-on-siri


I read an article about a woman that bought a new car ,she had no idea how to turn off the engine , it doe,s not use standard car keys
she just went home ,left the engine on ,in neutral while she got help from someone .
Would it not be a good idea if cars that have lcd screens adopt some kind of standard user interface ,
instead of every new car having its own unique user interface .

once you use an android phone ,its easy, any android phone will have a very similar interface from the one you had 2 years ago.