DTT changeover - just got to love the meedja

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but let me cut to the chase on the choice of Whitehaven as 1st
victims^Hwinners of switchover to DTT in "autumn 2007":

| The switch means that residents of the town and the surrounding area
| will no longer be able to use their old analogue sets and will have to buy
| a Freeview box or pay for cable or satellite to get digital TV.

So there you go: picture old dears tossing their tellies out with the
bins and buying set top boxes. Do they then stare into the loose end
of the scart cable perhaps?

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Colum Mylod wrote:

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but let me cut to the chase on the choice of Whitehaven as 1st
victims^Hwinners of switchover to DTT in "autumn 2007":

| The switch means that residents of the town and the surrounding area
| will no longer be able to use their old analogue sets and will have to buy
| a Freeview box or pay for cable or satellite to get digital TV.

So there you go: picture old dears tossing their tellies out with the
bins and buying set top boxes. Do they then stare into the loose end
of the scart cable perhaps?

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"Colum Mylod" wrote in message
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| The switch means that residents of the town and the surrounding area
| will no longer be able to use their old analogue sets and will have to
buy
| a Freeview box or pay for cable or satellite to get digital TV.

I'm afraid sloppy journalism abounds. Unrelated topic, but yesterday's local
news talked about a particular hospital car park making 2000 pounds. Is that
per hour, per day, per year? No mention. Therefore it's a completely
meaningless number, and one can gain no information from it.

Similarly, x billion being wiped off the stock market means nothing without
knowing the total value, and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a
day might be a big amount, might be a small amount; I don't know how many
millions of litres get through OK.

Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a
day might be a big amount, might be a small amount

You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to
give scientific information in an accessible form.

in 207362 20060721 172802 Ben wrote:
Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a
day might be a big amount, might be a small amount

You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to
give scientific information in an accessible form.

London busfuls ?

"Ben" wrote in message
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Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a day might be a big
amount, might be a small amount

You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to give
scientific information in an accessible form.

It's not a case of accessible form (I think you were being sarcastic
anyway).
Anybody knows that millions of litres of water is a large amount, in terms
of swimming pools full or whatever, I think the point was if they lose 1
million litres a day but successfully transport 1 billion litres then it's
not so bad in terms of % loss.
If they were only transporting 2 million successfully then it is obviously a
serious problem.

ChrisM wrote:
"Ben" wrote in message
...
Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a day might be a big
amount, might be a small amount
You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to give
scientific information in an accessible form.

It's not a case of accessible form (I think you were being sarcastic
anyway).
Anybody knows that millions of litres of water is a large amount, in terms
of swimming pools full or whatever, I think the point was if they lose 1
million litres a day but successfully transport 1 billion litres then it's
not so bad in terms of % loss.
If they were only transporting 2 million successfully then it is obviously a
serious problem.

Yes, I almost mentioned that I was being sarcastic to save anyone the
trouble of pointing this out.

Colum Mylod wrote:
Subscription link
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/sto...html?gusrc=rss
but let me cut to the chase on the choice of Whitehaven as 1st
victims^Hwinners of switchover to DTT in "autumn 2007":

| The switch means that residents of the town and the surrounding area
| will no longer be able to use their old analogue sets and will have to buy
| a Freeview box or pay for cable or satellite to get digital TV.

So there you go: picture old dears tossing their tellies out with the
bins and buying set top boxes. Do they then stare into the loose end
of the scart cable perhaps?


LOL - it gets worse. "Under the plan, transmitters will be fitted with
new digital antennae". So its not the transmitters that are being
replaced, just the antennas. Strewth!

In article ,
Ben wrote:
Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a
day might be a big amount, might be a small amount

You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to
give scientific information in an accessible form.

I thought that Nelson's Column or a London Bus were the media's units of
measurement.

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Bob Martin wrote:

in 207362 20060721 172802 Ben wrote:
Graculus wrote:
and Thames Water losing Y million litres of water a
day might be a big amount, might be a small amount

You need it expressed in more appropriate units, like Olympic size
swimming pools, then you'll understand. When will the media learn to
give scientific information in an accessible form.

London busfuls ?

Wasn't that the unit of volume used by Manchester's engineers to
describe the holes in the sewerage system? Except they called them
Double Decker Buses.

Getting back to water loss and stock market fluctuations; all numbers
are meaningless without knowing the total use or turnover. A million
litres could be 1 percent or 10 percent.

Thames water supplies about 2,800 million litres a day so the leakage
of about 900 million litres a day is roughly a third, which is a hell
of a lot!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4989682.stm
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