Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "78lp" <78lp@nospam.com> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Are we just running in place? Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:36:13 +1100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <20151101221927@news.eternal-september.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net YY9tSmJRSk8+n+oNEBGpIAoC+TNurraKoIQvTui6s3/FGOKUQ= Cancel-Lock: sha1:0FAZik3079BFvXhcO/Z2ddWGVmI= In-Reply-To: <20151101221927@news.eternal-september.org> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:153761 "Roger Blake" wrote in message news:20151101221927@news.eternal-september.org... > On 2015-11-02, 78lp <78lp@nospam.com> wrote: >> That's a lie with smartphones doing what used to >> be done on desktops and laptops, allowing it to >> be done anywhere any time you need to do that. > > Do you really expect, say, a lawyer to write briefs on a smartphone? Nope. No one said that it's the best thing to use for everything. It is however much better than a desktop or laptop when you need to be able read stuff anywhere. > (I see smartphones as useless gadgets myself. Don't have one. Never will.) More fool you. There always a few as stupid and bone headed as you. When the landline phone showed up, some fools as bone headed as you refused to have anything to do with them too.