Originally Posted by euph
Originally Posted by Beechams
A phone requiring updates to firmware or whatever does not equate to a non-working phone and certainly not to all the phones of that model. (I have never owned a mobile phone).

An IT without a mobile phone? Sorry, don't believe it. I had to have one already back in the 90's.
I said I'd never owned one not that I'd never used one.

Originally Posted by Beechams
I build my own PCs and while individual components may break I can't think of any 'bugs or glitches' off-hand.
Never had bugs? Sorry, don't believe it. I build my PC too, and find everything from firmware bugs to DOA, or even just Windows being Windows and bugging out because it feels it.[/quote]
I've never experienced a firmware bug at home or at work. A DOA component is a (singular) DOA component which in any case may have been damaged in transit.

Originally Posted by Beechams
Computer games are not 'tech' - they utilise technology.
And I take it you think we're still using the same "tech" that was used on a ZX Spectrum. rolleyes
Because entire engines haven't been built from scratch to make a game... yeah... you sound really convincing... rolleyes suspicion[/quote]

Your comment about Spectrum is moronic.
We were using the word in a specific sense but as a general definition of technology I grant that computer games are 'tech'.