DAB Performance of different makes?
 

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:31:27 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Save the sanctimonious lecture for someone else. In a magazine or on my
website I will write in a different manner to how I write on here,
because this is Usenet.

This is a serious question so please treat it as such.

I adopt the same written tone as I do when speaking face-to-face or
writing a letter.

Why should writing for Usenet mean that you can use a different
written tone to the tone you use elsewhere?

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:31:27 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Save the sanctimonious lecture for someone else. In a magazine or on
my website I will write in a different manner to how I write on here,
because this is Usenet.

This is a serious question so please treat it as such.

I adopt the same written tone as I do when speaking face-to-face or
writing a letter.

Why should writing for Usenet mean that you can use a different
written tone to the tone you use elsewhere?


Why? Because this isn't face-to-face communication. Read a few threads
and see how many examples of strong language and rudeness there is that
you wouldn't expect people to use in face-to-face communication; there's
lots.

Also, why am I the one singled out by you? Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or cretin to
my face?


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

Please sign the petition asking the BBC to provide better audio quality
on its radio stations on DAB, Freeview, satellite and cable:
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DAB Performance of different makes?
 

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:53:13 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Also, why am I the one singled out by you?

....because you happened to mention it.


Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or cretin to
my face?

I'm afraid I can't speak for them but, if I thought it was warranted,
I would.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:53:13 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or cretin
to my face?

I'm afraid I can't speak for them but, if I thought it was warranted,
I would.


Really? So how many non-family members have you called "a cretin" or "a
moron" in a non-joking manner? And what proportion of the people that
you called "a cretin" or "a moron" punched you in the face after you'd
said what you'd said?

Basically, face-to-face communication very, very rarely gets to the
point where people do start calling someone else a moron or a cretin.
Basically, the "less removed" you are from communicating with someone in
real-time and/or face-to-face the more likely you are to be polite to
the other person. That is:

you're the most likely to be polite face-to-face if someone does
something that annoys you
you're less likely to be polite on the phone if someone does something
that annoys you
you're even less likely to be polite in text communication if someone
does something that annoys you

It's just the way it is. I tell you what, I believe the operating system
advocacy newsgroups are, how shall I say it, a bit lively, so go and
read one of them to see how common arguing is on Usenet.

The thing with me, Jerry and Plowman is that we're advocating opposite
things: Plowman and Jezz are advocating DAB, and I'm of the opposite
view.


--
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DAB Performance of different makes?
 

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
...
snip

The thing with me, Jerry and Plowman is that we're advocating
opposite
things: Plowman and Jezz are advocating DAB, and I'm of the
opposite
view.


You still don't get it, do you...

I can't speak for Dave, but I have never advocated DAB, although I
can understand why some people use it in place of an analogue radio
service and I can understand why the realities of the economics of
the commercial world means DAB is carrying so many services.

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:29:05 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:53:13 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or cretin
to my face?

I'm afraid I can't speak for them but, if I thought it was warranted,
I would.


Really? So how many non-family members have you called "a cretin" or "a
moron" in a non-joking manner?

None, because I've never met anybody who warranted it, I try to avoid
confrontation and I'm fairly easy going.

...you're the most likely to be polite face-to-face if someone does
something that annoys you
you're less likely to be polite on the phone if someone does something
that annoys you
you're even less likely to be polite in text communication if someone
does something that annoys you

It's just the way it is.

....for you.

Thank you, that was very illuminating.

--
Alan White
Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Loch Goil and Loch Long in Argyll, Scotland.
Web cam and weather:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co....her/kabcam.htm
Some walks and treks:- http://www.windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/walks/

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:29:05 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:53:13 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or
cretin to my face?

I'm afraid I can't speak for them but, if I thought it was
warranted, I would.


Really? So how many non-family members have you called "a cretin" or
"a moron" in a non-joking manner?

None, because I've never met anybody who warranted it, I try to avoid
confrontation and I'm fairly easy going.

...you're the most likely to be polite face-to-face if someone does
something that annoys you
you're less likely to be polite on the phone if someone does
something that annoys you
you're even less likely to be polite in text communication if someone
does something that annoys you

It's just the way it is.

...for you.


And for a bloody high proportion of people that post on Usenet.


Thank you, that was very illuminating.


Actually, that kind of comment is a good example of why lots of
arguments happen on Usenet as well. In the context, it's possible to
read that as being genuninely thankful, or very sarcastic. IMO a lot of
arguments would be avoided if you could hear the tone of voice that the
other person would have liked to convey. But you can't convey it, and
there will always be mis-interpretations of what's the poster really
wants to say, and there will always be arguments.

It's just the way it is.


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

Please sign the petition asking the BBC to provide better audio quality
on its radio stations on DAB, Freeview, satellite and cable:
http://tinyurl.com/a68e4

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:31:27 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Save the sanctimonious lecture for someone else. In a magazine or on
my website I will write in a different manner to how I write on here,
because this is Usenet.

This is a serious question so please treat it as such.

I adopt the same written tone as I do when speaking face-to-face or
writing a letter.

Why should writing for Usenet mean that you can use a different
written tone to the tone you use elsewhere?


Why? Because this isn't face-to-face communication. Read a few threads
and see how many examples of strong language and rudeness there is that
you wouldn't expect people to use in face-to-face communication; there's
lots.

Also, why am I the one singled out by you? Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or cretin to
my face?

I would. I mightn't have, but I would now!

--
Nobby

DAB Performance of different makes?
 

DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:29:05 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Alan White wrote:
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:53:13 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Are you suggesting that
@@@@[email protected]@@@ or Dave Plowman would call me a moron, idiot or
cretin to my face?

I'm afraid I can't speak for them but, if I thought it was
warranted, I would.


Really? So how many non-family members have you called "a cretin" or
"a moron" in a non-joking manner?

None, because I've never met anybody who warranted it, I try to avoid
confrontation and I'm fairly easy going.

...you're the most likely to be polite face-to-face if someone does
something that annoys you
you're less likely to be polite on the phone if someone does
something that annoys you
you're even less likely to be polite in text communication if someone
does something that annoys you

It's just the way it is.

...for you.


And for a bloody high proportion of people that post on Usenet.


Thank you, that was very illuminating.


Actually, that kind of comment is a good example of why lots of
arguments happen on Usenet as well. In the context, it's possible to
read that as being genuninely thankful, or very sarcastic.

Dunno, dope, it was pretty clear to me. But then that's the root of
your problem, isn't it? Comprehension. I can write directly to you,
now I *know* that you cant resist reading it anyway.


--
Nobby