Reply to: New Watch

[Churchill]

Where are the numbers, for goodness sake ?

Any watch that takes more than 2 seconds to work out the time, is frankly, a waste of time. Oh the irony !

Gimme LED any day.

You are the "Gemini Man" and I claim my 5 "Bazooka Joe" comics!

[Board Game Geek]

Where are the numbers, for goodness sake ?

Any watch that takes more than 2 seconds to work out the time, is frankly, a waste of time. Oh the irony !

Gimme LED any day.

[NickFitz]

Oddly, so does mine.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to set the time so it consistently tells me the wrong time.

I feel so

I wouldn't blame yourself - most mobile telephone UI design is abysmal. I think they get the developers to do it, and the vast majority of developers know zilch about UI design (look at just about any open source application for proof).

I had an Ericsson phone whose text message editor got slower and slower as the message got longer - towards the 160-character limit, it took it about a second-and-a-half to append a new character.

I soon worked out that internally, the developer was simply appending the character to a string in a language (Java, perhaps?) or using a library which has an immutable string type - so every time you appended a character, it had to determine the length of the existing string, allocate a new block of memory one character longer, copy the existing string into it, and stick the new character on the end.

Rookie mistake - no wonder the UI sucked if they couldn't even do basic software development

(Explaining what happened if one moved the insertion point back a few characters and inserted a new character within the existing string is left as an exercise for the reader.)

[Lucy]

Or buy your lady an expensive watch, would a Casio do it?

You put the arse in class baggy.

[ThomasSoerensen]

I suspect you would have to pay more than that for a BJ

don't know - I have never paid for it so far

[Bagpuss]

Or buy your lady an expensive watch, would a Casio do it?

[Lucy]

at that price I suspect it performs BJ's

I suspect you would have to pay more than that for a BJ

[NickFitz]

My mobile telephone tells the time so I don't wear a watch.

It can be used as a telephone as well, which makes it better than most watches.

[ThomasSoerensen]

Hey RH these are quite nice, I've got a plastic (cheaper) one:

http://www.brownsfashion.com/product...lery/95495.htm

at that price I suspect it performs BJ's

[DS23]

looks like a cake!

[Lucy]

Hey RH these are quite nice, I've got a plastic (cheaper) one:

http://www.brownsfashion.com/product...lery/95495.htm

[tay]

Looks like a chavs watch.

[FiveTimes]

have a look at the Light Relief forum and all should be clear.

Happy and fluffy

[ThomasSoerensen]

Abbreviation T. P. D. = Non. Post. Counting. Thread.

Okay then. Thanks

have a look at the Light Relief forum and all should be clear.

[Incognito]

TPD is an abbreviation for "Non-Post-Counting-Thread"

Abbreviation T. P. D. = Non. Post. Counting. Thread.

Okay then. Thanks