The totally off-topic thread

[medhead]

I think it’s too late for me

what! You're like 25 aren't you. I didn't learn to touch type (well 7 or 8 fingers on most days) until I was 30+.

Plenty of time yet you young whippersnapper

 

[straitman]

An iphone-heck the fire and blanket are working perfectly well and so much cheaper.

Good blankets are getting expensive :!:

 

[anat0l]

Spoken by someone who has no idea how much can be accomplished by/with an iPhone.

Before I got one I was one of the biggest sceptics around also.

I think we are well aware what can be achieved with an iPhone. And yes, you may discount all the pointless, mindless bric-a-brac, such as toys, games, things which screw with the accelerometer, tasers, and the like.

What is so interesting is that companies will invest so much time and money (yes, it does cost money for development) to create iPhone apps for their operations, which may or may not be more effective than their own site. Yet they lack the competence to create useful, mobile friendly websites that tap into a lot more of the market. Ridiculous. It is actually ironic that the proliferation of the iPhone has accelerated the need to develop mobile friendly web sites.

All the mobile operating systems have viable applications to achieve the most important tasks. Those apps aren't necessarily free, but with iPhone they aren't necessarily free either. iTunes Store does have a 'winner' in that it provides a central point of exchange for users and app makers, whereas all the others did not have this common centre, making searching for applications more difficult.

The argument was never "is an iPhone nothing but hype", because it is a great device and achieves many things (as well as being a phone). It isn't the be all and end all phones, and to a much lesser extent than it is to say that the iPod is the be all and end all of portable audio devices. There is still a market for the other phones out there for very valid reasons, so to say that one "cannot live without an iPhone" - whether figuratively or literally - is false. Plain and simple.

 

[anat0l]

An iphone-heck the fire and blanket are working perfectly well and so much cheaper.

Believe it or not.... smoke signals? There's an app for that too....

 

[anat0l]

OK related to the iPhone.....


Question from more my dad than myself, but I wanted to ask those of you who have an iPhone (and I know that is many of you)..... how are your screens?

Are they scratched, are there lots of smudge marks, do you clean it often, do you use a sleeve / protective film, do you carry it mostly in your side pocket / back pocket / by itself or stashed with your keys, etc. etc.

Have any of you ever experienced response problems with the screen, perhaps sometimes you would have had to recalibrate it?

 

[samh004]

OK related to the iPhone.....


Question from more my dad than myself, but I wanted to ask those of you who have an iPhone (and I know that is many of you)..... how are your screens?

Are they scratched, are there lots of smudge marks, do you clean it often, do you use a sleeve / protective film, do you carry it mostly in your side pocket / back pocket / by itself or stashed with your keys, etc. etc.

Have any of you ever experienced response problems with the screen, perhaps sometimes you would have had to recalibrate it?

As you know, I use a sock. I’m probably the only person in the world that uses an iPod sock for his iPhone, but the advantage is my screen is cleaned every time I use it. I carry mine in my pocket, in the sock.

I recall when the iPhone was first released the screen was tested in a pocket with keys, and also with someone trying to rub a key up the front, the glass front is pretty resilient, but I’m sure if you try hard enough you can scratch it.

I’ve not had to recalibrate my screen, looks exactly the same as when I got it I’m pretty sure.

 

[markis10]

As you know, I use a sock. I’m probably the only person in the world that uses an iPod sock for his iPhone.

I noted quite a few posts trying to sock it to you lately Sam

 

[notzac]

Are they scratched, are there lots of smudge marks, do you clean it often, do you use a sleeve / protective film, do you carry it mostly in your side pocket / back pocket / by itself or stashed with your keys, etc. etc.

No scratches on the screen on mine (and that's surprising - I haven't exactly treated it well), but it can get smudge marks. Easy enough to clean off.

 

[samh004]

but it can get smudge marks. Easy enough to clean off.

Just rinse under running water right

 

[Bundy Bear]

Just rinse under running water right

and wipe the water off with the sock right.

I use a screen protector (stick on cover) for the screen, which I have replaced 3 times in 18 months, the smudges aren't really a problem maybe a bigger problem when reading in sunlight.

I think the screen protector is more of a gimmick as the screen is pretty good does sometimes live in a pocket with keys

Sent from my iPhone using AFF Mobile

 

[Flashback]

Well, when they quote your share of the rent, be sure to ask about the 'extra charges'.

Funnily enough, that's actually a common thing here. When looking you're normally told the price of rent, then bills on top per month and it's usually a fixed('ish) amount.

Spoken by someone who has no idea how much can be accomplished by/with an iPhone.

Before I got one I was one of the biggest sceptics around also.

Ditto! I was an iPhone hater, then bought one just before my euro megatrip last year and was the best decision I made all year. (says a lot about a lot of my other decisions that year, hey...!)

OK related to the iPhone.....


Question from more my dad than myself, but I wanted to ask those of you who have an iPhone (and I know that is many of you)..... how are your screens?

Are they scratched, are there lots of smudge marks, do you clean it often, do you use a sleeve / protective film, do you carry it mostly in your side pocket / back pocket / by itself or stashed with your keys, etc. etc.

Have any of you ever experienced response problems with the screen, perhaps sometimes you would have had to recalibrate it?

Smudge marks are unavoidable with any phone, so yes they occur. No screen protector, I don't clean it, always carried in my pants pocket by itself and no issues with the screen.

 

[medhead]

I did say RAAF pilots in a general sense but yes the RAAF does still have a few rotary pilots just no rotary aircraft.

The current Chief of Defence Force is a RAAF Helicopter pilot :!:

Umm, I probably should have put in a couple of smileys on that one.

 

[Mal]

Funnily enough, that's actually a common thing here. When looking you're normally told the price of rent, then bills on top per month and it's usually a fixed('ish) amount.

The two biggest ones I saw were council tax and gas. Elec was also up there as was water. It's amazing how much they all added up to per year. (I think in my rented place, we were paying on average 3600 pounds / year on bills - including Pay TV, Internet, Phone and the ones above).

 

[Flashback]

The two biggest ones I saw were council tax and gas. Elec was also up there as was water. It's amazing how much they all added up to per year. (I think in my rented place, we were paying on average 3600 pounds / year on bills - including Pay TV, Internet, Phone and the ones above).

Yeh, all up seems to be around 100 quid/month per PERSON.

 

[Mal]

Yeh, all up seems to be around 100 quid/month per PERSON.

Yeah, we had three in our place, so about 100 quid each. I'd expect if you're in a traditional Aussie Sharehouse (ie 5 or 6 people in the place), it would come down to about 50/month or maybe 75/month.

Also Council Taxes should be lower the further you are out of central London and the cheaper the place you're living in is valued at.

It's all lots of fun.

That said, I think in Australia you'd pay $50-$100/month for elec, $50-$100/month for gas, $x for excess water bills (if passed on), $50-$100/month for Internet, $50/month for home phone, $100/month for Foxtel etc etc... so the costs aren't exorbitant compared to living here.

 

[Flashback]

Yeah, we had three in our place, so about 100 quid each. I'd expect if you're in a traditional Aussie Sharehouse (ie 5 or 6 people in the place), it would come down to about 50/month or maybe 75/month.

Also Council Taxes should be lower the further you are out of central London and the cheaper the place you're living in is valued at.

It's all lots of fun.

That said, I think in Australia you'd pay $50-$100/month for elec, $50-$100/month for gas, $x for excess water bills (if passed on), $50-$100/month for Internet, $50/month for home phone, $100/month for Foxtel etc etc... so the costs aren't exorbitant compared to living here.

Yeh, 3 people in my place. I know that if you live in Wandsworth council they apparently have the lowest council tax, so includes places like Putney.

 

[drron]

Yeh, 3 people in my place. I know that if you live in Wandsworth council they apparently have the lowest council tax, so includes places like Putney.

Doesn't Wandsworth have a nice big share house?

 

[straitman]

Umm, I probably should have put in a couple of smileys on that one.

OK I'll add to my reply a little and add the smileys for you. :shock:

For many years the RAAF provided the basic training for Army pilots and still control the standards through CFS at East Sale. It was not uncommon to have students on Army pilots course who had failed RAAF/RAN pilots course.

The current CDF (with whom I trained) is a RAAF helicopter pilot. When No9 Sqn was disbanded in 1989 and the Army took over the Helos the current CDF was the last CO of No9 Sqn and quite a few of the RAAF Helo pilots actually transferred to the Army Aviation Corps. :!:

 

[Flashback]

Doesn't Wandsworth have a nice big share house?

Don't know / care! Too far south, now. Have made lots of friends in the NW postcode so have decided to stay around here instead

 

[markis10]

The current CDF (with whom I trained) is a RAAF helicopter pilot. When No9 Sqn was disbanded in 1989 and the Army took over the Helos the current CDF was the last CO of No9 Sqn and quite a few of the RAAF Helo pilots actually transferred to the Army Aviation Corps. :!:

Passed one of the old UH1's on the back of a truck as it was heading north last week towards TSV, its probably one of the 6 going on static display and I suspect its home will be TSV. Ironically the night before we got buzzed by a Kiwi Huey in the Sugar Shaker as they herc'd a couple in for the joint exercises.