Re: CHAT: postcodes

taliesin the storyteller wrote:

>* Padraic Brown said on 2002-09-23 23:55:04 +0200
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>>--- taliesin the storyteller wrote:
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>>>* Padraic Brown said on 2002-09-23 03:14:54 +0200
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>>>>Probably within a decade or so, we'll all have to dial
>>>>about 20 numbers to make a call.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Uhm... phone numbers?
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>>Digits in a phone number.
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>Didn't even notice that, was trying to be sarcastic without the bloody ;-)
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>I don't think we'll pass along numbers at all; just v-cards and similar,
>which'll be loaded into your computerized address-book to be used by
>your voice-over-ip system and/or downloaded to your cell phone/pda etc.
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>>>You don't store frequently used numbers under a name
>>>and search on that?
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>>>
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>As in: push the address-book button on the cell, then search or
>browse to the right name, hit the 'call'-button.
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>>I have two "frequently" used phone numbers and between
>>three and five "less used" numbers stored in my head.
>>Everything else is what the phone book is for.
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>The only phonenumbers in my head is the emergency numbers and the
>one to my parents house, all other are stored on the cell phone.
>
Apart from the ones like 13 11 66 and 131 241 (Pizza Hut and Pizza Haven
respectively) that have been driven into my head by commericials (and
it's not like I watch tv. much... but I guess then it's no surprise that
most of these were driven in when I *did*. So advertising works), I know
my home number, my old home phone number, an old friend's home phone
number (and he moved but kept it, btw), if I'm lucky, my mobile number,
and 000. And I think the international mobile emergency no. is 112? (Oh,
and a couple of service nos. with my mob, like 555 (credit and recharge)
and 321 (voice mail).) All the other numbers I'm likely to call, I have
in my mobile.

>My own number too, I never were very good at remembering that,
>especially as with the cell phone-craze you got a new number each
>time you got a new phone as the subscriptions in general didn't
>carry over.
>
Hm, really? You can keep them here... even if you change carriers
(although that's a relatively knew thing).

>The mid nineties marked the beginning of the cell phone epidemic
>in my country. They were being sold for 1 NOK (~ 15 cents?) a piece,
>and suddenly "everyone" had one. Now children (12 and older) are
>*expected* by their peers to have one, which is nuts. I was lucky
>to live my childhood/teenage years early enough to avoid that mess.
>
Is this actually being *sold* for 1 NOK or being made available for 1
NOK and then putting you on a contract and expecting you to pay 30000
NOK a month? Because you can get mobiles in Australia for $0 (not free;
you go onto a contract) and I was still surprised that one of my younger
brother's friends had a mobile...

>>>I only ever dial a *number* when I'm about to call
>>>somebody completely unknown and that happens less
>>>than once a month!
>>>
>>>
>>Oh, you mean like - I don't even know what it's called
>>- on those phones that store numbers and you push a
>>button to dial the whole thing? I don't call enough
>>people or places to bother.
>>
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>Neither do I but I prefer memorizing passwords and pin-codes
>to wasting that long-term brain-storage on phone numbers.
>
I know someone who can recite just about every phone number she's ever
need to call and then some... I have *no* idea how she does it...

>> phone is rotory dial, for what it's worth.
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>Wow, haven't seen one 'a those since the eighties! Neat!
>
>Hang on to it a while more and it'll be legible for a museum, and
>I'm not kidding! The old "grey" rotary phones that were everywhere
>during my childhood are only found in museums and retro-shops now.
>
We have an old red one... so does a friend of mine... It seems that the
red phones stay longer... (And red cars go faster... So actually, that
should be 'red phones stay faster' I guess ;) )

Tristan

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