XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2026/1/23 11:19:59, Daniel70 wrote:   
   > On 23/01/2026 8:17 pm, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 23/01/2026 7:24 am, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>> On 2026/1/22 8:55:19, Daniel70 wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   >>>> Who needs a Watch .... when I've got my 'phone'?? ;-P   
   >>>   
   >>> I can glance at my wrist (cheap blue plastic CASIO - had it for   
   >>> years)   
   >>   
   >> Almost forty years ago,   
   >   
   > Opps!! S/forty years ago/fifty years ago   
   >   
   >> my mother gave me a fancy Wristwatch for my 21st Birthday and, about   
   >> a fortnight later, I made the mistake of wearing it during Rifle   
   >> Drill (I was in the Army) and scratched the hell out of the glass   
   >> face .... so that was the end of wearing my watch, at least for part   
   >> of my TIME .... especially as I worked in an Army Communications   
   >> Station .... so there were clocks all over the place.   
   >>   
   >>> far more quickly than I could at a 'phone, if I had one (and both   
   >>> my hands are free, too).   
   >>   
   >> About fifteen years later (early 90's, I think), I was travelling   
   >> down Major Highway to see Family .... and my Car broke down .... so   
   >> it was a couple of kilometres (each way) walk to the "Roadside   
   >> Assistance" phone.   
   >>   
   >> Soon after, I brought my first Mobile Phone.   
   >>   
   >>> Plus, if I _had_ a smartphone, I'd presumably mostly be doing   
   >>> something with it (if not, why have one?),   
   >>   
   >> For EMERGENCIES!! RE-read my last para!! ;-)   
      
   Yes, I have a mobile 'phone, for exactly that - in case of car   
   breakdown. But it truly _is_ for emergencies: I have a PAYG contract, or   
   more or less as near as I could get - the words "per month" are _not_   
   involved. Actually what I've got is better suited for that use: rather   
   than several tens of pence per minute, it costs me 2 pounds _if_ I use   
   it, but I then get unlimited calls for the rest of that day, which would   
   probably be useful for a remote breakdown. [Hasn't happened since I   
   preloaded it.])   
      
   But now _you_ re-read what I said: SMARTphone. The one I have - I think   
   it's Nokia; was the only one I could find without a camera, which was a   
   requirement at the time I bought it. I charge it once a week, though the   
   little symbol implies it's only a third discharged (I do leave it on).   
   [Don't most smartphones last 2-3 days at most?] If I _had_ a smartphone,   
   then presumably most of the time I would be doing something with it,   
   else why have one?   
      
   >>   
   >>> so would have to change/minimise to see the clock (or peer at tiny   
   >>> digits along the edge of the display).   
   >>   
   >> Having been in the Army, where you could get into trouble for not   
   >> being where you are supposed to be WHEN you are supposed to be there   
      
   (I have suffered slightly career-wise from _not_ being punctual - and   
   mine _wasn't_ in the services!)   
      
   >> .... so I usually have my Car clock set three to five minutes fast   
   >> .... you know. just in case!! (even having been out of the Army over   
   >> thirty years)   
      
   Doesn't setting it fast cease to work after a short time, though,   
   because you _know_ it's set fast?   
      
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   "...told me to connect with the electorate, and I did!" John Prescott   
   on having punched the man who threw an egg at him (Top Gear, 2011-2-28)   
      
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