Excessively pedantic thinking, Tom. ;-) On these trips, my "internet access device" is an iPhone or iPad, using the 3G telephone network, which is often not available where I go. Wifi is usually even less available.
While technically an iPhone or iPad is a "computer", I don't carry my working files on either of them, nor do I have programs installed for working on those files. Lastly, my partner and I deliberately don't use the term "computer" for iPhones or iPads, because we've found that a lot of people in our age group don't want anything to do with computers (due to negative experiences in the past) but, given the right encouragement (by seeing how easy it is to do something that interests them), they will take readily to an iPhone or iPad. And they don't know, or need to know, that when using the telephone network, they are actually connecting to the internet for some purposes. --Jean On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:32 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Yes, good luck with the well-earned break :) > > The statement "mostly without internet access and definitely without > computer" > worries me a little. Recently i have noticed quite a few non-techies saying > things like "email blah at [email protected] using a computer with internet > access". I'm not completely sure about how to email without using a > computer. > Internet access would seem to be a fairly crucial part of that... > > > One person suggested they might be referring to smart phones and stuff but to > me > they definitely count as computers. Mind you my fridge seems to have a > computer > now and i couldn't email from it easily. > > Regards from > Tom :) > On May 30, 2011, at 8:28 , Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > In less than 48 hours I'll be heading off on a trip for two weeks, > > mostly without internet access and definitely without computer. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
