EBay madness

[Bucoops]

I can understand software developers' reluctance to keep backwards compatibility - new devices use new hardware with new methods on how to do things, and keeping the old methods going increases the amount of code required and increases the likelihood of bugs. So new versions of apps would run slower and crash more - which would annoy users. 

[MartinWales]

43 minutes ago, Bucoops said:

I can understand software developers' reluctance to keep backwards compatibility - new devices use new hardware with new methods on how to do things, and keeping the old methods going increases the amount of code required and increases the likelihood of bugs. So new versions of apps would run slower and crash more - which would annoy users. 

And it's called 'progress'!

[MrWolf]

When I replaced my phone last I was asked if I was going to recycle it and was I worried about information being retained in it?

No. I placed the lower half of the old Samsung in the vice and tightened until I heard a satisfactory crack. Then selected a suitably oversized hammer and neatly smashed off the top half.

Sorted.

We have all found out to our cost that it is seldom a matter of "Just click" or worse, "Just tap the app"...

My other half is waiting until the invention of what she calls the FaceChair App. If someone is really annoying, you hit the app on your phone and the app hits that person in the face with a chair in a John Wayne style.

I think it would save a lot of time and patience.

Edited June 17, 2020 by MrWolf
Stupid autocorrect

[newbryford]

3 hours ago, Bucoops said:

I can understand software developers' reluctance to keep backwards compatibility - new devices use new hardware with new methods on how to do things, and keeping the old methods going increases the amount of code required and increases the likelihood of bugs. So new versions of apps would run slower and crash more - which would annoy users. 

 

But why not have the ability to run older existing software on older (i.e. compatible) hardware? With the caveat that the there is no support for the old stuff after a certain date. Or does that conflict with my observation below?

 

2 hours ago, MartinWales said:

And it's called 'progress'!

 

And wanting more money.

[MartinWales]

12 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

But why not have the ability to run older existing software on older (i.e. compatible) hardware? With the caveat that the there is no support for the old stuff after a certain date. Or does that conflict with my observation below?

 

 

And wanting more money.

ALWAYS more!

[MartinWales]

38 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

My other half is waiting until the invention of what she calls the FaceChair App. If someone is really annoying, you hit the app on your phone and the app hits that person in the face with a chair in a John Wayne style.

I think it would save a lot of time and patience.

What would be even better, and funnier, is a boxing glove comes out of the screen, or a 16 ton weight descending, in true Monty Python style....................

[Bucoops]

40 minutes ago, newbryford said:

 

But why not have the ability to run older existing software on older (i.e. compatible) hardware? With the caveat that the there is no support for the old stuff after a certain date. Or does that conflict with my observation below?

 

 

And wanting more money.

 

More money, but also app security. Vulnerabilities are found all the time, they can't keep fixing them forever. That and the servers that the apps connect to need to work with the supported apps so keeping older apps working doesn't get rid of the issue either

[boxbrownie]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

When I replaced my phone last I was asked if I was going to recycle it and was I worried about information being retained in it?

No. I placed the lower half of the old Samsung in the vice and tightened until I heard a satisfactory crack. Then selected a suitably oversized hammer and neatly smashed off the top half.

Sorted.

We have all found out to our cost that it is seldom a matter of "Just click" or worse, "Just tap the app"...

My other half is waiting until the invention of what she calls the FaceChair App. If someone is really annoying, you hit the app on your phone and the app hits that person in the face with a chair in a John Wayne style.

I think it would save a lot of time and patience.

That sounds more like a hatred of technology than a wish to keep your details safe.......then again if your browsing history is....hmmm......maybe you did the right thing 

[MrWolf]

1 hour ago, boxbrownie said:

That sounds more like a hatred of technology than a wish to keep your details safe.......then again if your browsing history is....hmmm......maybe you did the right thing 

 

Far from a hatred of technology, just acting daft. You really should try it. I was an engineer. I worked on some very interesting technology. What winds me up is two things. One is the way that technology is held back and then drip fed to the consumer to keep him buying. Two is the number of people who believe that they don't need any practical skills, just press a button and someone else will come and do it for you.

My browser history is squeaky clean thanks, apart from train porn!

Paper ladies never did it for me, real deal or no deal

[SteveyDee68]

10 hours ago, boxbrownie said:

If it is the eBay app that is the issue why can you not just browse and use eBay in the normal iPad browser, as you would in a computer/android etc?

 

Yes, of course... and I will probably do that, too, in due course.  Once I remember my password!  Last time I had to reset it, I got into a serious pickle over several devices, and missed out on an auction I was particularly keen on!

 

Steve S

[boxbrownie]

1 hour ago, MrWolf said:

 

Far from a hatred of technology, just acting daft. You really should try it. I was an engineer. I worked on some very interesting technology. What winds me up is two things. One is the way that technology is held back and then drip fed to the consumer to keep him buying. Two is the number of people who believe that they don't need any practical skills, just press a button and someone else will come and do it for you.

My browser history is squeaky clean thanks, apart from train porn!

Paper ladies never did it for me, real deal or no deal

I am daft all the time, works wonders......all my career I worked with engineers and in development, some of the tech that lay on “shelves” waiting a use or date would make consumers heads spin.....and absolutely bring back “hand tech” in schools, first thing I made at school in metalwork was a hinge from sheet and rod.......the second week was welding, I wonder if that works now in first year at secondary school.....or whatever it’s called nowadays.

 

Never deny a browser history.......makes you guilty straight away, you say someone else used the computer 

Edited June 17, 2020 by boxbrownie

[MrWolf]

Being daft is good, there's a lot of truth in that old chestnut "growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional".

One of the downfalls of British industry has been that although we have made some of the greatest technological leaps in history, we seem unwilling to build upon them. A good example being the development of the jet engine. The decision makers turned their backs on the idea of fitting one to an aircraft. Until Heinkel caught us napping and got a six years head start. Norton motorcycles were winning races and customers in 1929 with an overhead camshaft engine, but their head of development refused to countenance applying that technology to multi cylinder engines in 1950, even though two cylinder engines were the norm by then. Ten years later, along come the Japanese and the rest is history.

 

Unfortunately, changing fashions in politics and economics mean that children learn virtually nothing practical. Add to that budgeting and safety concerns and they end up making bits of packaging and mobile phone cases. Not exactly inspiring a new generation of invention.

 

We don't actually have a computer.

Name, rank and service number.

[Puggers]

I know this is probably a silly question but, is this the ebay madness thread or have I slipped into a computer website?

Edited June 18, 2020 by Puggers
Typo

[Darius43]

In the absence of any eBay silliness the thread often wonders into vague and eclectic musings and moanings.  

 

I’ll see what I can find on eBay and see if that will get things back on track. Typing “pro” into the search box usually brings up good candidates.

 

Darius

Edited June 18, 2020 by Darius43

[MrWolf]

You're both right of course. Just because I have no particular interest in computers doesn't mean that I fear them, nor worked with or on them. I can't recall such lengthy discussion about any other tools.

There are only three categories that spanners fall into:

1. Proper

2. Poser

3.Chocolate / monkey metal

 

With that, I am off to search out overpriced rubbish on eBay in the hope of creating some amusement for you all.

[Darius43]

No luck with “pro” and “look” so I tried “scratch” and found this:-

 

River/Coastal Scene Diorama

 

Clearly this represents an early lockdown scene whereupon the Derbyshire Constabulary has dyed the water lurid blue to discourage lockdown breachers and someone has fly-tipped huge chunks of Thermalite blocks on the beach.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

 

 

 

 

Edited June 18, 2020 by Darius43

[MrWolf]

And another eleven similarly imaginative items available.

 

If anyone has a phone which is less than 12 months old and therefore obsolete could share this one:

 

383590039799

 

I typed in "Excellent kit built"

 

Apparently this one "Requires tidying"

 

I'll let you decide.

[Darius43]

7 minutes ago, MrWolf said:

And another eleven similarly imaginative items available.

 

If anyone has a phone which is less than 12 months old and therefore obsolete could share this one:

 

383590039799

 

I typed in "Excellent kit built"

 

Apparently this one "Requires tidying"

 

I'll let you decide.

 

Is that a link or a phone number?

[MrWolf]

Just now, Darius43 said:

 

Is that a link or a phone number?

 

Sorry, it's the item number, my phone won't allow me to share the link / copy and paste the link. Best I could do.

[Darius43]

1 minute ago, MrWolf said:

 

Sorry, it's the item number, my phone won't allow me to share the link / copy and paste the link. Best I could do.

 

Here you go

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[rab]

1 hour ago, Darius43 said:

No luck with “pro” and “look” so I tried “scratch” and found this:-

 

River/Coastal Scene Diorama

 

Clearly this represents an early lockdown scene whereupon the Derbyshire Constabulary has dyed the water lurid blue to discourage lockdown breachers and someone has fly-tipped huge chunks of Thermalite blocks on the beach.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

 

 

 

 

Well it has been noticeable that during lockdown the sea

has been a lot clearer because of the dry weather.

perhaps that's what this was intended to show

Of course the sea is probably back to its usual colour

now weve had a few days of rain.

[MrWolf]

2 hours ago, Darius43 said:

 

Here you go

 

Cheers

 

Darius

Thanks,

Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's valuable.

[Peter-C]

Hello,

I've just been looking through eBay at some OO gauge stuff and found this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R9732-Rail-Over-River-Bridge/313094222833?epid=26012063089&hash=item48e5deb3f1%3Ag%3Azh0AAOSwvjVey9~X&LH_BIN=1
 

£2,199 for a Hornby bridge! I can only assume that the price was entered incorrectly (£2199 instead of £21.99), but it does make for quite a mad and comical listing!

 

-Peter

 

I hope this is the kind of thing people post on here - if it's not, please let me know.

[009 micro modeller]

1 minute ago, CuriousPeach6 said:

Hello,

I've just been looking through eBay at some OO gauge stuff and found this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hornby-R9732-Rail-Over-River-Bridge/313094222833?epid=26012063089&hash=item48e5deb3f1%3Ag%3Azh0AAOSwvjVey9~X&LH_BIN=1
 

£2,199 for a Hornby bridge! I can only assume that the price was entered incorrectly (£2199 instead of £21.99), but it does make for quite a mad and comical listing!

 

-Peter

 

I hope this is the kind of thing people post on here - if it's not, please let me know.

 

I would expect a real one for that price (and free postage).

[Peter-C]

Just now, 009 micro modeller said:

 

I would expect a real one for that price (and free postage).

Definitely! People are selling layouts on there for less than the price of that one bridge!

Maybe it is a real bridge, they just got the scale wrong....

 

-Peter