On 7/12/2011 11:44 AM, Lou Decruss wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:23:40 -0400, >
> wrote:
>
>>
>> > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 7/11/2011 5:44 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:20:20 -0700 (PDT), Chemo the Clown
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Jul 9, 11:44 am, > wrote:
>>>>>>> My phone is an inexpensive one. I really don't have the need for a
>>>>>>> fancy one, but they have some pretty cool features.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It would be nice if I could store the prices of the foods I frequently
>>>>>>> buy and compile a list of how much each store I shop charges for them.
>>>>>>> I would think a phone with a bar code reader would make this easy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just get a little notepad and a pencil.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah. A hand held computer that is more powerful than the ones used
>>>>> in the first space missions and use pencil and paper.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good idea. Maybe I will buy a map too....and an abacus........and a
>>>>> dictionary.....and a tape recorder.........
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> There's nothing wrong with a map or a dictionary. Sorry, I gave my
>>>> abacus away. I drove 700 miles using an map and a cat What, you don't
>>>> know how to read a map?
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>
>>> I view GPS as a terrific *aid*. I don't mindlessly follow what it tells me
>>> to do and most of the time I just use it for positional awareness which is
>>> the one major weakness of a map. A map is only useful if you already know
>>> where you are.
>>>
>>
>> That's not true. I use a map to tell me how to get where I want to go. As
>> I said, I drove 700 miles with a map and managed to find out where I was
>> going just fine.
>
> Blanket statements like this make you look really stupid. When I was
> doing home inspections my record was 58 in one day. If you think that
> could de done with a map- atlas - gazetteer you're nuts. Actually
> you're nuts either way.
>
> Lou

I have a friend like that. GPS is stupid, I don't need it. I know how to
use a map. I never needed anything but a map. Then his wife bought him
one. Then, "this thing is great" and then he would recite all of the
ways it is helpful as if he just discovered something no one knew about
for the past 15 years.

I do know how to read a map but I wouldn't want to go back to maps being
the only way I could navigate.