Inferior technology that did well

[presta]

Ok, I'll bite....why do you hate gas?

The burners leave a cool spot in the middle of the pan, the pan supports are not very stable, and you're not allowed to repair them yourself.

 

[Drago]

Ok, I'll bite....why do you hate gas?

It had an affair behind his Mum's back and ran off with the milk lady.

 

[Salty seadog]

I don't think either of those are inferior, they're just different bands.

Reminds me of the old school boy joke...

"What's the difference between a duck?"

"One of its legs are both the same"

No,....me neither.

 

[J1888]

Spose it depends on what you mean by inferior technology...i.e. Apple are known for taking existing tech and making it 'work' but their hardware is often 'underpowered' compared to rivals. Take the original iphone and thr iphone 3g - didn't have any particularly unique technology but were far better to use than the Nokia N95/N96 and early Android phones...but maybe that makes it superior tech. I dunno.

 

[Drago]

Making it work...but only with Apples proprietary equipment and software.

 

[cosmicbike]

Ok, I'll bite....why do you hate gas?

Takes forever to make the pans hot, hob is a PITA to clean, wastes loads of heat. I loved my old induction hob, when we moved to the current house last year it had a gas hob and it's on the list of things that have to be changed.

 

[FishFright]

MP3 is far superior in terms of ease and use. A carrier bags worth of CD's fit on something the size of my fingernail and lose very little (if any) audio quality depending on compression. You would be hard pushed to listen to two side by side with a decent set of cans and say which was which.

So much wrong there but I'll Uncle Mort would no doubt agree with you.

 

[swee'pea99]

Takes forever to make the pans hot, hob is a PITA to clean, wastes loads of heat. I loved my old induction hob, when we moved to the current house last year it had a gas hob and it's on the list of things that have to be changed.

You missed out the cold spots in the middle, the hellish instability and the fact that they break down all the time. It's armageddon basically. How I ever get a meal together is a mystery.

 

[accountantpete]

Pen on paper rather than digital crap

 

[classic33]

Digital TV when analog TV was perfectly OK

Freed up space for more mobile phones though.

 

[srw]

You missed out the cold spots in the middle, the hellish instability and the fact that they break down all the time. It's armageddon basically. How I ever get a meal together is a mystery.

You two have either got rubbish pans, rubbish hobs, or both. We've got both induction and gas. Both are easy to use, easily controllable and pretty reliable - although the induction is a bit temperamental since a pan boiled over into the workings.

 

[Tin Pot]

Non supersonic flight.

 

[presta]

You missed out the cold spots in the middle, the hellish instability and the fact that they break down all the time. It's armageddon basically. How I ever get a meal together is a mystery.

Straw man.

You two have either got rubbish pans, rubbish hobs, or both. We've got both induction and gas. Both are easy to use, easily controllable and pretty reliable - although the induction is a bit temperamental since a pan boiled over into the workings.

If it won't withstand a pan boiling over it's not reliable, boiling over is what pans do on stoves. Pans boil over on my stove and it's water off a duck's back, the water just drains into the drip tray under the ring and evaporates off. My cooker is 27 years old, and in that time it's had just two oven elements: £10 from Espares, and 20 mins to fit them. I must have used perhaps a hundred cookers, gas and electric, and there's not one of them I would swap for my own.

 

[MossCommuter]

You missed out the cold spots in the middle, the hellish instability and the fact that they break down all the time. It's armageddon basically. How I ever get a meal together is a mystery.

I am developing a slightly greater respect for the staff

 

[mustang1]

MP3 is far superior in terms of ease and use. A carrier bags worth of CD's fit on something the size of my fingernail and lose very little (if any) audio quality depending on compression. You would be hard pushed to listen to two side by side with a decent set of cans and say which was which.

Yes you are quite right. But in the earlier days, CD quality was so superior to MP3. Idk what it was, but it's only until recent years that I have moved to MP3 files and been satisfied with their quality. The iPods with headphones were fine, but going thru a hi-fi amp, I just couldn't get the correct sound coming out. It's possible I was doing something silly though.