I know this has been said before , what happened to a tv you can just turn on and watch, radio’s with on off buttons, cameras that just point and shoot? You know simple stuff like, want the volume to go up? Then just turn up the volume with the button or turn it down the same way, why does everything have 15 steps to get to the simple things. I know tech has come along way but me , I like like just turning something on and it works, push off and it goes off, push volume up or dwn and it does, i, i don’t like having to have a 4 year college degree to turn on a TV…
I know what you mean. If I had to set any of the controls on my TV without a remote, I’d be totally lost. My wife actually has a stereo (boom box) that doesn’t have an on off switch. You have to use the remote. Go figure.
I’m certainly glad for the advances in technology, but it seems like they’re using those 4 year grads to think up ways to complicate things that oughta be simple. I guess they need employment too. Isn’t much else left. Find you one of those, and keep him on retainer for when you want to turn on the set.
Amen Grubb. Amen.
We bought an air conditioner and discovered it came with a remote. How lazy do I need to be to need a remote to work the air conditioner??
When the boys finally leave home I don’t know how we’ll get these things to work.
A couple of years back I had a Dodge Magnum company car. The remote was one piece with the key. The battery when dead and when I tried to replace the battery managed to screw up the connection. For a week or so I had to open the car with the key. Guess how many doors have a lock that can be operated with a metal key - ONE. Let someone pull up tight next to the drivers side and you are had. I have noticed most cars are the same way.
But living in Mississippi without air conditioning, or central heat until I was about grown and having an out house when I was a kid, I don’t have a lot to fuss about now days. There are about a million drivers that get in your way regularly around Atlanta, but all of the roads are paved. No muddy gravel roads. Besides driving around with a few hundred thousand of your friends and neighbors keeps you reflexes sharp.
PaDave,
Heck, I’m hoping to get a remote for this laptop! LOL!!! Yep, even my fans have remotes. Does make it nice though, when your in bed, and you need to adjust it (the fan!).
Grubb - Some of these new coffee pots are insane. Mine just has your on/off switch, and I believe it still can make coffee - whooed ah thunk it???
Best regards, Dave S.
Mine is pretty simple. I push one button and the tv turns on, the sound comes on, and the cable box turns on all at once. Nice. Park my rear in the easy chair and watch some baseball… I miss baseball. Baseball is simple to understand.
Yes folks even the old W.C., the old Loo, the Throne, Porcelain goddess or whatever ya call it (we call it a toilet) has gone digital high tech. I provide with the following example:
Go into any modern public restroom in a Wal-Mart, Lowe’s, Home Depot, etc… and you will note that the fixtures no longer have handles and knobs. Yep they are all infrared automatic jobs. Looks like even answering the call of nature is becoming modernized, hands off!
I bought a toaster a year or so ago, and it has digital controls on it. I have yet to put anything in it. If it’s that smart, it can come and ask me what I want.
I have griped for years that REAL progress (computers, tv, etc) is more & better functions PLUS being more “user friendly”. As far as I’m concerned, we’re goin’ backwards!
Mike
Yeah it does get crazy, I bought one the cheap 3-way remotes for my wife and programmed it so it does every thing easy. When she tried using the one that came with the TV she kept screwing everything up LOL.
Here’s a fun one for you, I work for the govt and we moved from one building to another. They say that our building is GREEN enhanced. So when the General Service Admin guys came to make an inspection before we moved in I asked how they could consider the water spigots in the mens room GREEN enhanced when the sensors in them have 4 D-cell batteries??? And the battery’s are gonna go where?? Landfill.
Makes you wonder how we ever got along with the old stuff LOL
Speaking of going Green, pet peeve here, little florescent light bulbs, save power, but all have mercury, and end up in land fills!!!
I know they say dispose of properly on package, but how many people actually read that?? I see them in our land fill all the time!!
All I can say about this thread is COME ON SPRING!!! Get these guys out of their houses. The shack nasties are making them mumble.
Eric, if you ever check out the People of Walmart website you would know they need autoflush on the commodes; some of those people are not smart enough to operate it manually. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
Well said! Also add in some of my fellow government employees. A few years ago they remodeled all of the restrooms in our depot warehouse. Hard wired them, no batteries, with the automatic flush fixtures thank God.
Don’t even let me get started on alarm clocks…lol
You haven’t read the directions…you are supposed to dispose of them as hazardous waste…so it doesn’t go into the landfill…and we all pick up the tab as the garbage service changes how they handle the waste.
If they didn’t transferred fron NASA don’t expect them to be rocket scientist.
Someone mentioned remotes on fans. I bought a ceiling fans with a remote a few years ago to replace a ceiling light. Since the wall switch could not turn on the fan and leave the light off, I just screwed the mounting cradle for the remote to the wall by the switch by the door. kinda makes me wonder what real need is for a remote on the ceiling fan anyway.
Laptops? I had an HP laptop a few years that DID have a remote for the music controls when playing music on the computer.
I do program my coffee pot to start brewing 10 min before my alarm clock goes off in the morning. THAT is the best feature on a coffee pot, since the MR. Coffee drip machines came out 35 or so years ago.
The building where I work, they came around a few weeks ago and started removing most of the wall clocks. They said there’s a clock on every computer, most of teh office phones and for the people who where watches, have cell phones. They got tired of changing batteries in the clocks and the time twice forward and back twice a year.
Automatic bathrooms? Check this out! I was in a rest stop on the highway (dont remember where) where the faucets were automatic water turn, automatic soap dispenser AND a hand dryer all at the sink. Ok, now THAT really is efficient and probably less mess in dripping water from the sink to the dyer or paper towels. Of course the urinals had automatic flush. But heres something for dads to freak out their kids with: Family trip, we stop at a rest area for a pit stop. My 17 yr old son and I are standing at the urinals (no one else in there) and I said " you know how when you get real close to a camera you look real big?" He says “,uh…yea?”. I said “well, stand real close to the urinal so the camera behind that little black window…” (Infared flush sensor) “…will make it look longer.” The split second of the thought that was true mortified him. The look was priceless before he started laughing.
Well, as for the shacknasties, Get to go feed the cows tomorrow, maybe get a jackrabbit for new tying fur. I agree with a lot of the “new” techo stuff. I don’t like some of it either. The first phone I remember was a hand crank one on a party line. Our ring was one long, two short rings. There were four phones in the camp, two in the office, one in our house, Dad was lead foreman, one in the assistant foreman, And I forgot, one in the guest bunkhouse. Bass Bug, you are BBAAADDDD!!! I LIKE IT!!