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  • M Munchies_Matt

    New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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    Rage
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    I thought phones had to be switched off during flights ?

    Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      I thought phones had to be switched off during flights ?

      Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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      Maximilien
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      Not since a while. Officially you should set them in airplane mode at take off and landing; I suspect 99% of the phones are still open anyway.

      I'd rather be phishing!

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      • M Munchies_Matt

        New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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        Lost User
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        Marketing wrote:

        and it will even tell passengers when they need to drink water.

        Humans have a built-in sensor for that, known as "thirst". ..and water? Do I look like a plant or a pet?

        Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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        • M Maximilien

          Not since a while. Officially you should set them in airplane mode at take off and landing; I suspect 99% of the phones are still open anyway.

          I'd rather be phishing!

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          Rage
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          Okay, I am not flying that often. This was a rubbish rule anyway, so...

          Do not escape reality : improve reality !

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            Marketing wrote:

            and it will even tell passengers when they need to drink water.

            Humans have a built-in sensor for that, known as "thirst". ..and water? Do I look like a plant or a pet?

            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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            W Balboos GHB
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            Eddy Vluggen wrote:

            Do I look like a plant or a pet?

            Do you really asking us to vote on that (possibly Monday survey ? !) or would you like to decide for yourself?

            Ravings en masse^

            "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

            "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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            • M Munchies_Matt

              New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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              W Balboos GHB
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              Well - I don't have such a phone. Perhaps they'll do for that what they do for earphones and give them out to the passengers. Kind of a disposable cell phone. Or maybe even build it into the seat (or was that already mentioned). Someone call it artisanal seating.

              Ravings en masse^

              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                Do I look like a plant or a pet?

                Do you really asking us to vote on that (possibly Monday survey ? !) or would you like to decide for yourself?

                Ravings en masse^

                "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                Lost User
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                A rethorical question, so no answer expected. ..but it does make me curious what the monday-survey would judge :D

                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                  A rethorical question, so no answer expected. ..but it does make me curious what the monday-survey would judge :D

                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                  W Balboos GHB
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                  No sense holding back. Volunteer for the input of the lounges in judging your animal, vegetable, mineral (or a derived class). Non-rhetorical:   what have you got to lose?

                  Ravings en masse^

                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                  • M Munchies_Matt

                    New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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                    dandy72
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                    Sounds like an excuse they'll give you to install an app on your phone just so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it. Really, is there any other purpose?

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                    • M Munchies_Matt

                      New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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                      RickZeeland
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                      That's the final straw, no more flying for me, my next holiday will be by car to Jutland :mad:

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                      • D dandy72

                        Sounds like an excuse they'll give you to install an app on your phone just so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it. Really, is there any other purpose?

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                        Sander Rossel
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                        dandy72 wrote:

                        so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it

                        Me: *Installs their app* Them: "Sir, we kindly ask you to leave the plain and don't touch anything on your way out."

                        Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                        • M Munchies_Matt

                          New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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                          Like in Geek & Poke: HomeKit[^]

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                            Not since a while. Officially you should set them in airplane mode at take off and landing; I suspect 99% of the phones are still open anyway.

                            I'd rather be phishing!

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                            Rick York
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                            On private planes that is not a requirement and I know of no incidents ever caused by a cellular phone on an airplane. I fly on our corporate planes occasionally and I have seen pilots in the cockpits on their phones. We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.

                            "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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                            • M Munchies_Matt

                              New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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                              Mycroft Holmes
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                              Well I for one think it is a fantastic idea. Being too large and inflexible to lean down and twist my head far enough so that I can read the bloody fine print or hieroglyphic underneath the button is just not possible for me. I have to stand, turn around and kneel to locate the buttons, retain the configuration, sit down and set the buttons by feel and memory. As a consequence I only ever use the big round button for seat up/down. So you skinny little bugger leave the airline alone so they can give better service to us fat slobs who fly.

                              Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP

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                              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                dandy72 wrote:

                                so they can take a peek at whatever else you've got stored on it

                                Me: *Installs their app* Them: "Sir, we kindly ask you to leave the plain and don't touch anything on your way out."

                                Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                dandy72
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                                Sander Rossel wrote:

                                leave the plain

                                Surely they can ask you to leave the plane, and they don't have jurisdiction over the entire plain? That's a pretty big area, especially if you happen to be around central US...

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                                • M Munchies_Matt

                                  New airline seats chairs will allow passengers to control comfort and temperature using their phone | Daily Mail Online[^] Because it is so difficult to reach down and use a button isnt it. For f**** sake, just stop with the freaking technology abuse!!!

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                                  Roger Wright
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                                  Of course, you're not allowed to use your phone on board... :)

                                  Will Rogers never met me.

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                                  • D dandy72

                                    Sander Rossel wrote:

                                    leave the plain

                                    Surely they can ask you to leave the plane, and they don't have jurisdiction over the entire plain? That's a pretty big area, especially if you happen to be around central US...

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                                    Sander Rossel
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                                    I'm sorry, I forgot a word. I meant to type "leave the plain plane" as I think having apps in planes will become the standard ;p

                                    Best, Sander sanderrossel.com Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly

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                                      Well - I don't have such a phone. Perhaps they'll do for that what they do for earphones and give them out to the passengers. Kind of a disposable cell phone. Or maybe even build it into the seat (or was that already mentioned). Someone call it artisanal seating.

                                      Ravings en masse^

                                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                      Munchies_Matt
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                                      Ha, yes, if you dont have a smart phone you are fucked and have to spend 10 hours folded in half!

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                                      • R RickZeeland

                                        That's the final straw, no more flying for me, my next holiday will be by car to Jutland :mad:

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                                        Munchies_Matt
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                                        Isnt Jutland like Zeeland?

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                                        • R Rick York

                                          On private planes that is not a requirement and I know of no incidents ever caused by a cellular phone on an airplane. I fly on our corporate planes occasionally and I have seen pilots in the cockpits on their phones. We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.

                                          "They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"

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                                          Nelek
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                                          Rick York wrote:

                                          We get no service at altitude so I'm not sure what they were doing.

                                          Playing Candy Crush? :rolleyes: :-D

                                          M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

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