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From: Ian Dalziel on 25 Dec 2009 16:14 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:44:45 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:07:59 +0000, Ian Dalziel ><iandalziel(a)lineone.net> wrote: > >>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:14:18 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:17:51 +0000, Ian Dalziel >>><iandalziel(a)lineone.net> wrote: >>> >>>>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:13:36 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >>>> >>>>>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:18:03 +0000, Ian Dalziel >>>>><iandalziel(a)lineone.net> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:48:44 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:39:11 GMT, Harry Bloomfield >>>>>>><harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>>I can relax and get on with concentrating with driving and let the >>>>>>>>satnav get me where I'm going. >>>>>>>And what are you going to do if your satnav goes nackared one day when >>>>>>>you are miles away from home? you wouldn't have a clue due to the fact >>>>>>>that you have been so used to sitting there doing what your useless >>>>>>>satnav has been telling you to do . >>>>>> >>>>>>Why would I forget how to read a map because my Satnav broke down? >>>> >>>>>Then why spend money on a satnav if you are still going to have to >>>>>carry a map about with you ? I do not carry a map about with me anyway >>>>>I look at it before leaving home if I need to. >>>> >>>>"Have to carry a map"? How heavy are your maps? >>>> >>>>What are you going to do if a road is blocked one day when you are >>>>miles away from home? You wouldn't have a clue due to the fact that >>>>your useless map is sitting at home... >>>> >>>>Your logic is nackared, mate. >> >>>Considerably not due to my vast knowledge of the UK having done >>>nothing else but travel in the course of my employment for many years. >> >>You've committed up-to-date OS maps of the entire UK to memory? >No but I am more than able to find my way around the UK without having >to employ the use of some useless gadget that has had people driving >into rivers,along railway tracks, and god only knows what else . Good luck to you, then. -- Ian D
From: Ian Dalziel on 25 Dec 2009 16:17 On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:48:22 GMT, James Martin(a)hgvu.com wrote: >On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:14:16 +0000, johannes ><johs(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> wrote: > >> >> >>Ophelia wrote: >>> >>> "johannes" <johs(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com> wrote in message >>> news:4B34DD81.7F391AEC(a)siz82442582548524542efitter.com... >>> > >>> > >>> > Ophelia wrote: >>> >> >>> >> "Mr X" <invalid(a)invalid.com> wrote in message >>> >> news:hh2b5r$mh2$1(a)frank-exchange-of-views.oucs.ox.ac.uk... >>> >> > >>> >> > <James Martin(a)hgvu.com> wrote in message >>> >> > news:0399j5hve9mci2nn31ovno3hush83g7u1c(a)4ax.com... >>> >> >> On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:39:11 GMT, Harry Bloomfield >>> >> >> <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >>>I can relax and get on with concentrating with driving and let the >>> >> >>>satnav get me where I'm going. >>> >> >> And what are you going to do if your satnav goes nackared one day when >>> >> >> you are miles away from home? you wouldn't have a clue due to the fact >>> >> >> that you have been so used to sitting there doing what your useless >>> >> >> satnav has been telling you to do . >>> >> > Then I would follow the road signs. >>> >> > Do you have a starting crank on your car? Why would you want modern >>> >> > rubbish like electric starting - after all it could fail! >>> >> > In fact why have a car at all. A horse is much more reliable than such >>> >> > modern rubbish is the internal combustion engine! >>> >> >>> >> Yep:) >>> > >>> > Do you have nice systems such as Google Maps and Google Earth? These can >>> > be >>> > viewed in advance of a difficult journey. Memorise or print out as >>> > required. >>> > >>> >>> Yes indeed we have those. but a print out isn't a lot of use. You are >>> complaining about a small screen, but at least that is showing just a small >>> area. A print out? That would be very dangerous if one were having to >>> continually refer to it. >>> >>> > Looking at a 4" screen while driving can't be any good. In fact it should >>> > be >>> > outlawed, just like mobile phones. >>> >>> Well one doesn't actually sit and stare at the screen. I listen and >>> occasionally glance at the ETA or the countdown to a turn. For miles on >>> end, there is nothing to hear and very little to see. Perhaps you need to >>> try one out fully:) >> >>So far my system has worked well. Google maps gives the logical route and >>Google Earth provides the particular landmarks to look out for. >You are wasting your time Johannes the people here probalbly couldn't >find their way to their own WC if they hadn't got a satnav. What you really mean is, you're too dense to work a satnav, isn't it? -- Ian D
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:18 In article <0399j5hve9mci2nn31ovno3hush83g7u1c(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:39:11 GMT, Harry Bloomfield > <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > > > > >I can relax and get on with concentrating with driving and let the > >satnav get me where I'm going. > And what are you going to do if your satnav goes nackared one day when > you are miles away from home? you wouldn't have a clue due to the fact > that you have been so used to sitting there doing what your useless > satnav has been telling you to do . And what would you do if you went to a place where there was no streetmap available? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:19 In article <3ge9j5dm2tmkbdn207b0ftdikrjc3f3t2j(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > Then why spend money on a satnav if you are still going to have to > carry a map about with you ? I do not carry a map about with me anyway > I look at it before leaving home if I need to. So you know where every single street is in every single town you ever go to? And what if you have to divert because of an incident? -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 25 Dec 2009 16:20
In article <5kl9j5t3vjepvf86qfqji7qkqmrtu8s8p9(a)4ax.com>, James Martin(a)hgvu.com says... > Considerably not due to my vast knowledge of the UK having done > nothing else but travel in the course of my employment for many years. I've done likewise but I don't claim to know where everywhere is by a long shot. Sure, I don't need to use a map to get to a town but once I'm there, I tend to find it easier finding places with one. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally. |