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terminology and common usage
Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I
overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill |
terminology and common usage
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I suppose there is no other kind now, but elderly people used to say "coloured television". -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:48:52 +0000, Graham. wrote:
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I suppose there is no other kind now, but elderly people used to say "coloured television". Oh and I saw the holiday on Telex. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
terminology and common usage
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I have heard VHF/FM stations announce their frequency without any reference to a unit and missing out the decimel point so 103.8 MHz becomes one oh three eight which in kilocycles is 289 meters or the middle of MW. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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"Graham." wrote in message
... On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I have heard VHF/FM stations announce their frequency without any reference to a unit and missing out the decimel point so 103.8 MHz becomes one oh three eight which in kilocycles is 289 meters or the middle of MW. Conversely I once heard a station (in the UK) announce its VHF frequency as "one oh three decimal eight megaHertz" (*) as if they were conforming strictly to marine radio procedure. It sounded very OTT :-) (*) Though not necessarily that frequency - I've no idea what frequency it was. |
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"Graham." wrote in message
... On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I suppose there is no other kind now, but elderly people used to say "coloured television". Up to 24 years ago today (when we left) and lived in Hotton, our elderly next door neighbours used to have a 'coloured' television. There was so much contrast and brightness and even more colour that it was (to me at least) unwatchable but they thought it was magnificent! -- Woody harrogate three at ntlworld dot com |
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"Woody" wrote in message
... "Graham." wrote in message ... On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I suppose there is no other kind now, but elderly people used to say "coloured television". Up to 24 years ago today (when we left) and lived in Hotton, our elderly next door neighbours used to have a 'coloured' television. There was so much contrast and brightness and even more colour that it was (to me at least) unwatchable but they thought it was magnificent! Yes, from what I remember, when people first got coloured (sic) television, they wanted to demonstrate to admiring friends, relatives and neighbours that it really was "coloured" so they wound the colour (saturation), contrast and brightness knobs up as high as they would go. On CRT sets, with older drive circuits, this usually resulted in loss of focus and primary colours which throbbed and flickered. My grandma's set even developed a magenta colour cast if you turned the saturation too high (so the green circuit/gun was maxing-out before the red and blue), but she preferred vivid purple pictures to less vivid and normally-coloured pictures :-) Even now, a lot of people have their TV's colour and brightness turned up way higher than I find comfortable. If the settings cause the display to clip highlights, causing great areas of unsubtle featureless cyan, orange or throbbing red, then the settings are too high. The same applies to computer monitors. The default settings for my monitor were painfully bright and high contrast: they would probably have produced a perfectly visible picture even in full sunlight. They were definitely too bright for normal room lighting, even with daylight coming in, never mind at night with only room lighting. When I had to return my monitor a year later because a fault had developed and the company was sending me a replacement, I made sure I kept a note of the settings after I had adjusted them, so I could set up the replacement monitor the same. My wife's monitor produces colours which are generally too vivid and lack subtlety for my taste. Being a computer monitor rather than a TV, it has no colour saturation control. She likes the pictures that way, but if it was me I'd be trying to find a software control for the graphics card that turns down the saturation a bit. It's the monitor rather than the card, because her monitor on my PC is vivid and my monitor on her PC is OK. |
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:49:54 -0000, "NY" wrote:
"Graham." wrote in message .. . On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 14:54:02 +0000, Bill Wright wrote: Related to the discussion elsewhere about gigabites and fairycycles, I overheard a young woman talking to the Morrisons till operator. She wanted to know how she could add points to her card (I'm vague about these promotional things) and said, "So I can do it? I just go on?" Clearly she meant 'on line' or 'on the computer'. To her it was superfluous to say any more than 'go on'. Bill I have heard VHF/FM stations announce their frequency without any reference to a unit and missing out the decimel point so 103.8 MHz becomes one oh three eight which in kilocycles is 289 meters or the middle of MW. Conversely I once heard a station (in the UK) announce its VHF frequency as "one oh three decimal eight megaHertz" (*) as if they were conforming strictly to marine radio procedure. It sounded very OTT :-) (*) Though not necessarily that frequency - I've no idea what frequency it was. Before BBC Radio Manchester opened officially in 1970, they broadcast a test schedule for a week or so, Included was a promo that mentioned the transmitter locations and ERP power. The DJ puzzled over this and said he would give a prize to the first person to ring in and explain on air what ERP was. So I did. To be honest I can't remember if was Radio Manchester or Piccadilly Radio four years later, but my prize was a handful of 45RPM "Promotional not for resale" records. -- Graham. %Profound_observation% |
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On 30/11/2014 19:44, Graham. wrote:
Before BBC Radio Manchester opened officially in 1970, they broadcast a test schedule for a week or so, Included was a promo that mentioned the transmitter locations and ERP power. The DJ puzzled over this and said he would give a prize to the first person to ring in and explain on air what ERP was. I heard Terry Wogan, (quite recently, 5-6 years ago), reading out the frequency of Radio Leeds, as 'ninety two point four 'Emm','Aich', 'Zed'. I was amazed that someone who had worked in radio for over 40 years, didn't know how to pronounce 'MHz'. -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. |
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Graham. wrote:
I suppose there is no other kind now, but elderly people used to say "coloured television". Strangely, coloured mean good for tv sets, bad for people. Bill |
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