[gps-talkusers] Re: I've had a bloody awful day with this gps.
- From: "gerry leary" <lgerry3@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 05:20:02 -0700
Hello Richard,
I probably should read the rest of my email before I respond but I would
like to respond to your original message. All of this equipment may be new
to the blind but a lot of us do expect and rightfully so that a company
should have the logistics and mechanics of wiring plugs, straps and mounting
brackets. Some plastics and other materials are new but the concepts of how
to hook things together are not new at all. We don't need to be getting
commercial equipment that is difficult or not well planed. I had a long
time desire to know what street I was on, and some about the area that I am
in. So when the first talking gps came out I went for it. Then it was new,
and yes the software was young and needed to grow, but the mechanics were
the first of their kind, and they worked well. For example the sender
epack. The sighted community still doesn't have anything like it, and
neither does the Amateur radio community. It is a wonderful and very useful
pack if you are an electronics nut. When I got mine I was lucky, because
even though I was a car mechanic for over forty years Jim at Beyond Sight
took a lot of time to show me some of the creative ways that I could use the
pack. I would have never thought of them with out h9is suggestions. I
think that all that Marry Ellen needs is a little help from some of us who
have become accomplished users of the system. Gerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Myers" <dkmyers28@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: I've had a bloody awful day with this gps.
> Hello, Mary Ellen,
> Well, I guess there is no pleasing some people. Weren't you the one who
> was
> complaining about the cable being too long? You know, of course, that the
> GPS and BK or PK are still in beta, and there are two cable lengths: Too
> long, and too short. The GPS may have been able to get a fix inside its
> case, but that is not the ideal place for it, so the signal was a little
> weak and it locked up. Getting into that Chinese cockroach house and
> being
> told the dog was not allowed is just standard operating procedure. I have
> been to China several times, and the Chinese treat each other the same
> way.
> Under the Communist regime, politeness is considered a sign of weakness or
> a
> sign that you are trying to hide something. Why should they act any
> different in the US?
>
> Poor Peggy, I feel really sorry for her. She caught some of your
> frustration and did not quite know how to handle it. She was probably
> trying to drag you all over the place. No wonder those kind people were
> concerned. Check into the nearest loony bin? I'm rolling on the floor
> laughing about that one.
>
> Anyway, if you survive to make it to CSUN, be sure to tell them about what
> happened, and suggest about the Trekker. A couple years I went looking
> for
> a Trekker. I went to every website I could find and even made some phone
> calls to whoever I thought might know something about it. Nobody knew
> anything, had never heard of it. I decided it was a hoax and said so to a
> couple lists I was on.
>
> Good luck and a better day to you.
>
> Dick Myers
>
> From: Mary Ellen Earls <meearls@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gps-talkusers] I've had a bloody awful day with this gps.
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:57:51 -0500
>
> I have had a bloody awful day with this gps.
> First of all, I got the cable and what was the idea please of making it so
> short? Was I supposed to get another cable to attach the receiver to my
> shoulder and if so why was I not told of this?
> I was amazed that the gps worked at all inside the case but it did a good
> job.
> We walked to the supermarket ended up in a Chinese restaurant and the
> people
> were so inexcusably rude to us that it was not funny. I think had they
> told
> me that I couldn't bring my dog inside I would have felt better.
> Then I had a blasted louzy lunch from them and the gps locked up in the
> middle of an intersection and Peggy decided to cross like a dog and 3
> people
> insisted I didn't know what I was doing and one positively hysterical
> woman
> wentso far as to suggest that I enrollthe in to the nearest mental
> hospital while a man and his wife asked what my Mother's phone number was.
> In the meantime Peggy was hot and cross and by the time we got away from
> these people her concentration was nill as was mine and then we get to the
> corner where we were coming home and someone asked if my dog knew what she
> was doing. By that time I just wanted to tell him to leave us alone. Well
> I
> didn't I said the dog knew what she was doing but the owner didn't and
> left
> it at that.
> Anyway why can't we have the trekker database with the braillenote gps
> information on a small something which doesn't have a Braille display and
> doesn't keep locking up?
> I know I guess I shouldn't be on here but I think you guys on the list
> need
> to know that those of us who use this equipment aren't necessarily the
> super blind people and we make mistakes too.
> Ok thanks for letting me vent and I promise, I'll not be a grouch at csun.
> Bye for now.Mary Ellen and Peggy
>
>
>
>
> (8):[(8)
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