Technological Clodhoppers

Written by Ed Williams


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1. An old blue haired lady in one who keeps asking for help.

2. A middle-aged guy moving his head both up and down and back and forth in order to readrepparttar screen.

3. A teenager who’s more interested in who’s standing around her than she is in voting.

4. A middle-aged woman who appears to be reading allrepparttar 133318 ballot initiatives forrepparttar 133319 very first time.

Allrepparttar 133320 people described in 1-4 above are “Technological Clodhoppers.”

Example 3: You’re in line at a big discount store waiting to check out. You noterepparttar 133321 credit/debit card reader that’s mounted right up next torepparttar 133322 register, and you smile, remembering that a quick swipe and a little key tapping is all you’ll need to do in order to purchase your items. Suddenly, you hearrepparttar 133323 cashier say to her customer, “Mam, your library card won’t work in this machine, it takes a check or credit card.” To this,repparttar 133324 customer replies, “What’s a check card?” The customer described above is both a “Technological Clodhopper” and a goof.

Y’all now know what “Technological Clodhoppers” are. If it weren’t for TCs, there wouldn’t be a need for blood pressure medication, laws against public cursing, beer, or fuzz busters. Most of them are probably good people, but being good doesn’t hold much water when it’s ten minutes before you have to be at work, and you’ve already waited twenty on someone who’s still trying to figure out how their credit card fits intorepparttar 133325 slot onrepparttar 133326 gas pump. Despite that, there is a bright side to all this - if some savvy motel executive ever decides to set up a chain of motels featuring rooms with rabbit eared TVs, stand alone heat radiators, and party line phones, these TC’s will make him a very wealthy man...



Ed’s latest book, “Rough As A Cob,“ can be ordered by calling River City Publishing toll-free at: 877-408-7078. He’s also a popular after dinner speaker, and his column runs in a number of Southeastern publications. You can contact him via email at: ed3@ed-williams.com, or through his web site address at: www.ed-williams.com.


Bluetooth now poised to fulfill its promise

Written by Raymond Klesc


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Bluetooth Linking: Beyond mobile phones, Bluetooth is beginning to make inroads into other aspects of wireless communication. Although Windows support is somewhat primitive by current standards,repparttar technology is standard on Apple Macintoshes and optional on other products. Apple usesrepparttar 133317 latest, faster version of Bluetooth. If Mac detects a Bluetooth enabled keyboard and mouse during startup, it will link to them automatically.

PalmOne is also a big supporter of Bluetooth. PalmOne's software overcomes most ofrepparttar 133318 Windows difficulties and allows their handheld devices to sync and swap files with a Windows laptop over Bluetooth. Making sync work with a new Mac PowerBook is even easier. As for Microsoft's primitive Bluetooth world, it is possible to get a Pocket PC to sync with Windows over Bluetooth, but is only forrepparttar 133319 technically savvy.

Bluetooth Worth Waiting For: Bluetooth still falls short. Early promoters envisioned that you would be able to walk up to a printer with your laptop of PDA, click a button, and print. We’re still waiting for that one. Bluetooth printers are rare but we can assume thatrepparttar 133320 advent of Bluetooth enabled digital camera phones will spur this technology further and make for easy printing of those treasured moments.

The technology savvy users are an impatient lot. If it doesn’t catch on right away they move on to something newer and different. If anything, Bluetooth has proven that acceptance can take a while. But isn’t it worthrepparttar 133321 wait?

We technology watchers are an impatient lot who tend to give up on anything that doesn't catch on right away. Bluetooth has proved once again that acceptance can take a long time -- and that sometimes it's worthrepparttar 133322 wait.

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