Tech aint what it used to be

One innovation that's however puzzling is no one for 5,000 years thought "If Egyptian Slaves could transport 2.3 metric ton blocks of granite to Giza on wheels why am I dragging this 50 lb suitcase?
 
Onyrlef said:
One innovation that's however puzzling is no one for 5,000 years thought "If Egyptian Slaves could transport 2.3 metric ton blocks of granite to Giza on wheels why am I dragging this 50 lb suitcase?
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What is the connection between those 2 things? If the marketing guys had their way we would all be carrying around a lot more stuff and believing we cant live without it.
 
I don't oppose innovation, but I want the innovation to be helpful and benefit me and most other people. No one can convince me that the McDonald's touch screens benefit anyone but the owner of the restaurant. (OK, maybe it saves me 2 cents per order, but it increases my irritation level at least a dollar's worth.) I had another fight with one today for lunch--first machine would not work, and second one was slow to respond. Also, I ordered extra pickles on my chicken sandwich and instead got no pickles at all!

What I object to is innovation just to change things. I worked for several years with IT people who were writing software, and would make constant tiny changes that seemed not very useful. And they made those changes without consulting the customer, at least from what I saw.

On the other hand, I worked for 7 years as a contact technical writer at Ford IT Headquarters in Dearborn. We were constantly getting emails from car and truck designers asking us our preferences. For example, they might ask how often we had people riding in the back seat and what percentage of the time did they use the cup holders back there? Were they adults or children, and if children, did we allow them to eat and drink and could they reach the cup holders? Or, how important was it to us to have power seats and how much more were we willing to pay for them? Did having power seats influence which car we bought, etc.?
 
tlmgcamp said:
It was about 10 years ago when an urgent care facility that I would occasionally use installed a touch screen to sign in. That meant that each patient's germs/bacteria that they had on their hands, or coughed/sneezed onto the screen was made available for the next person to pick up. A profitable business model for the facility but not very healthy for the patients.
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Repeat business. ‘Patient health’ is no longer the concern of the medical industry, if it truly was, cancer, diabetes, influenza, etc., would have cured decades ago.
 
JudyJB said:
I don't oppose innovation, but I want the innovation to be helpful and benefit me and most other people. No one can convince me that the McDonald's touch screens benefit anyone but the owner of the restaurant. (OK, maybe it saves me 2 cents per order, but it increases my irritation level at least a dollar's worth.) I had another fight with one today for lunch--first machine would not work, and second one was slow to respond. Also, I ordered extra pickles on my chicken sandwich and instead got no pickles at all!
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As far as I know you don’t have to use the touch screens. And you can have the same problem at McDonalds with a live person; first one would not work; second one was slow to respond; and your order came out wrong (all of this is typical of McDonalds employees).
 
JudyJB said:
I don't oppose innovation, but I want the innovation to be helpful and benefit me and most other people. No one can convince me that the McDonald's touch screens benefit anyone but the owner of the restaurant. (OK, maybe it saves me 2 cents per order, but it increases my irritation level at least a dollar's worth.) I had another fight with one today for lunch--first machine would not work, and second one was slow to respond. Also, I ordered extra pickles on my chicken sandwich and instead got no pickles at all!

What I object to is innovation just to change things. I worked for several years with IT people who were writing software, and would make constant tiny changes that seemed not very useful. And they made those changes without consulting the customer, at least from what I saw.

On the other hand, I worked for 7 years as a contact technical writer at Ford IT Headquarters in Dearborn. We were constantly getting emails from car and truck designers asking us our preferences. For example, they might ask how often we had people riding in the back seat and what percentage of the time did they use the cup holders back there? Were they adults or children, and if children, did we allow them to eat and drink and could they reach the cup holders? Or, how important was it to us to have power seats and how much more were we willing to pay for them? Did having power seats influence which car we bought, etc.?
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Did the kiosk ask you for a tip? The last time i was forced to use one it asked me for one
 
rvlifer said:
Did the kiosk ask you for a tip? The last time i was forced to use one it asked me for one
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Now THAT would really irritate me!!!

And the last two McDonald's I went to required you to use the kiosks. Sign posted that cash registers would accept payment but not orders. (Kiosks accept only credit cards, so you have to go to register if you want to pay cash.)
 
It's a generational thing. My granddaughter could navigate the touchscreen at McDonalds while texting one of her friends with the other hand and wouldn't give it a second thought.
As for tips, just touch "none". If you're a young adult, not in school and working at McDonalds, you're being overpaid.
 
REminds me of a Woody Allen thing I read years ago, this is the performance by him.

 
Blame the computer tech problems on outsourcing computer code to 3rd world countries with contractors, not employees, who have no real interest in what they are actually doing.

I know .... I worked in IT and retired from IT and the outsourcing was horrible. Yet the company BIG WIGS still thought outsourcing was the golden child! In the end, it cost much more because of errors in the code and system down-time that were costly, costly errors, not only the financial cost to fix the problems, but the loss of public trust in the company.

Blame it on outsourcing to 3rd world countries. I still say, someday we ALL are going to experience the world-wide computer crash because someone in one of these 3rd world countries, or some anti-everything organization back person installed sleeper code in main-stream businesses computer code, just waiting for the day it will all be triggered and then the world will go dark!

Keep the batteries charged in your camper and hope your camper is not so technical advanced it can still function without being connected to the internet. The world crash will happen someday .... sleeper code you know! Your camper may be the only thing that has working lights off your camper battery!
 
The winner of my personal ridiculous tech is a Bluetooth enabled electric toothbrush I bought last year. Yes, Bluetooth in a toothbrush! Oh, and my Bosch dishwasher is also Bluetooth enabled. Both have regular buttons, but you could use Bluetooth on your phone too. I guess I am not supposed to ask why that is a good idea…
 
rvlifer said:
Saw a 65" flat screen in walmart for under $300 today. Not exactly revolutionary but nice to see prices still coming down
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Hopefully it was not the Onn brand. I spoke with one of the people in the electronics department. Over half of the Onn tv's were returned within as month.
 
Onyrlef said:
It's a generational thing. My granddaughter could navigate the touchscreen at McDonalds while texting one of her friends with the other hand and wouldn't give it a second thought.
As for tips, just touch "none". If you're a young adult, not in school and working at McDonalds, you're being overpaid.
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If the system is automated and we are doing the work, then there isnt anyone being underpaid. It goes right to their bottom line. Asking for tips in that situation is an unfair way of guilting people into giving more money out of people.
 
UTTransplant said:
The winner of my personal ridiculous tech is a Bluetooth enabled electric toothbrush I bought last year. Yes, Bluetooth in a toothbrush! Oh, and my Bosch dishwasher is also Bluetooth enabled. Both have regular buttons, but you could use Bluetooth on your phone too. I guess I am not supposed to ask why that is a good idea…
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Those are going to have to be connected so that they can collect usage data ota for when they start taxing that stuff 😀
 
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