Spam-induced thread about watches

[David]

Texts are still considered annoying by some small sliver of the population.

[MrChlorophyll]

I am a small sliver!

[toblix]

Texts are still considered annoying by some small sliver of the population.

Texts as in texts, or texts as in SMS messages?

[hermes]

texts as in timeless classics of litterature of course ...

[David]

Texts as in texts, or texts as in SMS messages?

Yes.

[miffy495]

He can't read or write. He has to have his younger sister help write all his posts here.

That's true. I'm actually dictating right now. I'm not even in the room. I have an intercom rigged up near my bed so I can post without leaving it.

In reality, it just seems needless. If I'm going to carry a phone, I am going to use it for its intended purpose. To talk to people. Plus, it's more expensive to text on the plan that I have now. Something like 15 cents a message, versus unlimited talking. I know people who become dependant on the text and end up ramping their phone bill up quite significantly at "only" 15 cents a message. It all adds up and just doesn't seem worth it.

[elmuerte]

Why would you need to get out of bed in order to post anything here?

[miffy495]

Don't have a laptop?

[gfoot]

I find it pleasantly ironic that you post in a text-based non-real-time forum about not wanting to use a text-based non-real-time messaging system while you're on the move.

I'm not crazily into text messaging, but it is useful for things which are not urgent - like email, it allows you to deal with the communication when it's convenient for you. If someone phones me at work, I usually cancel the call and call back when I'm not busy, but some people think this is rude. I, on the other hand, find it rude when people answer their phones on non-urgent personal calls while they're in the middle of asking me for help with something.

Text messages get round the whole issue, though - you're not necessarily expected to reply immediately, it's certainly much less pressing than a phone call, you get a permanent record of the conversation, and you have time to think about your reply. All good.

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gfoot - alive in seki is still alive

[brkl]

* Giving someone an address or a phone number

[miffy495]

Would it help if I added that I fucking hate writing in Key 9?

[gfoot]

Key 9? You mean the predictive mode? The best match on Google is "transforming your company's transformation capability". The more I read of their web page, the better it gets.

Anyway, I agree that there's a flaw in any system where you have to actually look at the screen to know for sure that what you typed came through all right. Trivial things like not being able to write "home" show how badly designed the system is. I would have thought it would be more natural on your side of the pond, though, as don't you already use the lettered keypads as a mnemonic - the only case I've ever seen of that happening over here is the 0800-REVERSE advert, which funnily enough is done with an American accent. I guess the ad worked though, because I remembered the mnemonic.

Unfortunately the T9 system might be hard to avoid in the near future - it seems to be making inroads everywhere.

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gfoot - bring on the T9000...

[Salka]

Would it help if I added that I fucking hate writing in Key 9?

You can turn that off.