Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

I'm using the iPad, in the vain hope that I will be convinced that the toy is worth the money.

First impressions are that it is very slick. Amazing quality screen, good graphics etc. Nice apps, Angry Birds works well :ROTFL:

The keypad takes a bit of getting used to. You can delete backwards but not forwards. Copying and pasting is a nightmare. Watching videos is fine, but some YouTube links won't play. Can't work out how to copy a URL, so linking is impossible. Quality of maps is excellent, sound is good.

Still a waste of money.

Q: for the technical peeps. The iPad knows where I am unto on MSE threads, even though I've never been on MSE on it before. I always assumed MSE put some kind of cookie on my computer, to show where in each thread I've reached. Clearly not. So how does it work?

Youngest is currently saving for an Ipad...he has £49 already and is hoping he will have enough by next summer by asking for money for Christmas and Birthday and by not spending a penny of his pocket money (which he is working extra hard for to make sure he gets it)

Unfortunately, he has not been able to convice me it is not a waste of money......

PasturesNew

I've still not got round to joining the 21st century. Getting a new phone (with Internet stuff) on was high on my list of things to do this year, but it all got eclipsed by the declining old's 24/7 needs and seemed unimportant in comparison.

My current phone is still the one I bought in 2005, second hand from ebay.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've still not got round to joining the 21st century. Getting a new phone (with Internet stuff) on was high on my list of things to do this year, but it all got eclipsed by the declining old's 24/7 needs and seemed unimportant in comparison.

My current phone is still the one I bought in 2005, second hand from ebay.

I'm ignorant on this and haven't even got a smartphone, just a basic mobile - got it for less than £20 this year at Argos on PAYG.

lostinrates wrote: »

We ALWAYS have a laptop now, when we go away (employer's rules, and the Blackberry). I thank god times have moved on, my dad used to take a printer and a fax too.

Does or can the blackberry or other smartphone connect your laptop or ipad to the internet, when you're in an area with no wireless (but with mobile reception)?

silvercar wrote: »

Boys and their toys!

Soooooo....am I a boy then?

silvercar

Does or can the blackberry or other smartphone connect your laptop or ipad to the internet, when you're in an area with no wireless (but with nmobile reception)?

There is a way, but I don't know what it is. Physically there must be a lead that can connect the two, whether you need a clever bit of software or not.....

GDB2222

There is a fairly large US study: Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality which reviewed the following 12 factors that seemed to the authors to be important in predicting retirement mortality, namely:
 age
 gender
 race and ethnicity
 education
 income
 occupation
 marital status
 religion
 health behaviours
 smoking
 alcohol
 obesity

The conclusion was that all 12 factors are significant. Religion apparently has an effect because of the social aspects.

Curiously enough, the banks' insurance arms found that there is a positive correlation between health and using cash dispensers. It's not as daft as it sounds. If you use a cash dispenser a couple of times a week, you are likely to be reasonably fit and active. Ill people are more likely to be stuck at home.

LydiaJ

GDB2222 wrote: »

Curiously enough, the banks' insurance arms found that there is a positive correlation between health and using cash dispensers. It's not as daft as it sounds. If you use a cash dispenser a couple of times a week, you are likely to be reasonably fit and active. Ill people are more likely to be stuck at home.

Plenty of scope there for irresponsible journalism telling everyone they'll live longer if they use cash machines more often.

I went to a pensions seminar last week. Apparently, teachers who retire at 60 have a life expectancy of another 27 years or so, whereas teachers who retire at 65 only have life expectancy of a further 18 months. Ergo the the scheme shouldn't be altered to make us all work to 66? I don't think so. If the scheme pays out at 60, then the ones who choose to work to 65 are a small and highly self-selected group, with a high proportion of workaholics who can't imagine what to do with themselves if they haven't got a job to go to - and it's been known for years that people like that are at high risk of dying very quickly post-retirement.

Class, repeat after me: A correlation doesn't necessarily imply a causal relationship.

silvercar

There is a secondary school near us that opened a few years ago. As is the way, it opened with year 7 (age 11) only, then the following year it had year 7 & year 8 etc. It has had some teething problems, but is generally doing well. As is also the way, the pupils that joined in the first couple of years were in the main oldest children, as those with older siblings often follow their siblings to their school. So the elder year groups are slightly less mature as groups than the average.

I was with a group of friends and one reported that there were rumours of some kids at that school smoking weed and there had been an (out of school) party recently where two 15 year olds had been caught having sex. The crowd I was with split in two, those with eldest children around that age or younger recoiled in horror, those of us with older children just felt reassured that this was a normal school with normal kids.

Then I thought it quite sad that our expectations were dumbed down.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

There is a fairly large US study: Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality which reviewed the following 12 factors that seemed to the authors to be important in predicting retirement mortality, namely:
 age
 gender
 race and ethnicity
 education
 income
 occupation
 marital status
 religion
 health behaviours
 smoking
 alcohol
 obesity

The conclusion was that all 12 factors are significant. Religion apparently has an effect because of the social aspects.

I love the way this one needs explaining, just in case anyone dares think that prayers have been answered. Why not also explain that marital status indicates company?

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

I love the way this one needs explaining, just in case anyone dares think that prayers have been answered. Why not also explain that marital status indicates company?

And also someone to nudge you to go to the doctor and "get that seen to"

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

Plenty of scope there for irresponsible journalism telling everyone they'll live longer if they use cash machines more often.

I went to a pensions seminar last week. Apparently, teachers who retire at 60 have a life expectancy of another 27 years or so, whereas teachers who retire at 65 only have life expectancy of a further 18 months. Ergo the the scheme shouldn't be altered to make us all work to 66? I don't think so. If the scheme pays out at 60, then the ones who choose to work to 65 are a small and highly self-selected group, with a high proportion of workaholics who can't imagine what to do with themselves if they haven't got a job to go to - and it's been known for years that people like that are at high risk of dying very quickly post-retirement.

Class, repeat after me: A correlation doesn't necessarily imply a causal relationship.

Someone once showed me a graph with two curves on it, one of banana consumption in 20-30year old males in the UK in the 20th century and one for mortality rate for the same group at the same timespan

The two marked troughs in banana consumption.
coresponded exactly with two spikes in the mortality rate!

Cue lots of hasty conclusions getting drawn about dangers of potassium deficiency etc. :eek:

Until someone notices the spikes and dips correspond to 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
:rotfl: