terminology

In message , Mike GW8IJT
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

People (customers aka peasants) really are totally stupid, aren't they?
Mike.


No.

There are actually some people who don't know everything.

Should I assume that you are never a customer?
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Ian

"Robin Faichney" wrote in message
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I wish I had all those minutes back. I've wasted most of them.

Ah, but those minutes you spent watching that minutes hand move: were
they wasted??

Not compared to to time I've spent playing about on this newsgroup!

Bill

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Marky P" wrote in message
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I had a Captain Kramen digital watch in the late 70's. He was a
character devised by Kenny Everett. It had a touch sensitive button
for showing date and seconds. Everyone at school thought it was well
cool.

They used to sell Captain Kremmen watches in Woolworths that were just an
ordinary boring digital watch on a colourful card. Once you took the watch
off the card no-one would know it had anything to do with Captain Kremmen.

Woolworths used to have a counter with torch bulbs, batteries, batten
holders, coils of cotton-covered wire, electric bells, and little switches,
all in perspex compartments. There were packets of cored solder and tiny
staples. It was partly for people who were wiring up dolls houses. Isn't
that astonishing? It would be about 1960.

How did we prepare the ends of the cotton-covered wire? Simple, we held a
match under it.

Bill

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Ian wrote:

Round these parts, people seem to be completely au fait with TV
terminology.

There are three types, Sky, Freeview, and Ordinary. ¬)

My wife refers to analogue terrestrial, as 'ordinary TV'.

I confused her the other day, she'd forced me to have a clear out, and I
came across an old analogue satellite box. "What's that ?" she asked. I
explained.
"You could sell it on ebay ?". I said that would be pointless, as there
are no [1] analogue satellite channels left in the UK, Sky switched the
last of theirs off in 2001. She suddenly looked very confused. I moved on
quickly to the next piece of junk.

[1] Just how many DTH analogue sat channels are there left ?

Lincoln Uni still uses French analogue stuff I believe.

Bill

"Mike GW8IJT" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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I've got used to the fact that when a customer says 'analogue' they
probably mean 'terrestrial'.

Bill

People (customers aka peasants) really are totally stupid, aren't they?
Mike.

No they aren't. That's what makes these things worthy of remark. There's no
correlation that I can discern between the income/IQ/social class of the
customer and their ability to cope with technology. I have some highly
intelligent customers who are absolutely the tops in their own profession,
yet they cannot operate Sky+ or whatever.

Of course it cuts both ways. My accountant regards me as a total dimwit
because I simply cannot get to grips with the important things he tells me.
At the same time I find his inability to control his car radio risible.

Bill

"Ian" wrote in message
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There are actually some people who don't know everything.

Should I assume that you are never a customer?

Apart from anything else, it's a very interesting experience for anyone who
works in other people's homes to have someone working in their home.

Bill

Dave Farrance wrote:

I did once take my TV into a shop for repair, and took into the back
where the backroom guy turned it on, looked at the flickering screen and
wrote "video fault" on my receipt. When I took the receipt back to claim
it, that guy had gone and a woman there tried to establish which TV it
was and confused me greatly with questions like "Was it just the video at
fault and was the rest of the telly OK?". (She assumed it had a built-in
VCR.)

Brings to mind a mate of mine who has a computer... the components
identified thus:

The telly (monitor)
big box thing (midi tower computer)
typewriter thing (keyboard)
mouse (which you "push on" rather than click!)

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Cheers,

John.

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In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
Dave Farrance wrote:

I did once take my TV into a shop for repair, and took into the back
where the backroom guy turned it on, looked at the flickering screen
and wrote "video fault" on my receipt. When I took the receipt back to
claim it, that guy had gone and a woman there tried to establish which
TV it was and confused me greatly with questions like "Was it just the
video at fault and was the rest of the telly OK?". (She assumed it had
a built-in VCR.)

Brings to mind a mate of mine who has a computer... the components
identified thus:

The telly (monitor)
big box thing (midi tower computer)
typewriter thing (keyboard)
mouse (which you "push on" rather than click!)

this morning SWMBO said " I'm having trouble with my machine again".
Having just put new hard disk in the computer last week, I assume that was
the "machine" in question, but no, it was the sewing machine.

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

In article ,
John Rumm wrote:
Brings to mind a mate of mine who has a computer... the components
identified thus:

The telly (monitor)
big box thing (midi tower computer)
typewriter thing (keyboard)
mouse (which you "push on" rather than click!)

My mother simply called everything like that the 'thingie' Followed by a
'you know what I mean'. Served her well for many a year.

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*What are the pink bits in my tyres? Cyclists & Joggers*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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In , "Graham."
wrote:

But that's reasonable IMHO.
It's when they say terrestrial and mean analogue, that's when they are
confused.

The situation is very sadly perpetuated (still) by
a) lazy, bad, and sloppy journalism, and
b) the television industry themselves. When you have ridiculous situations
like the time that the very well known digital terrestrial* channel, BBC
Three, won the "best non-terrestrial Channel of the Year" award in 2005,
then it's no wonder that the poor viewers are confused! This industry has
had 10 years to notice that "terrestrial" and "analogue" are not casually
interchangeable terms (as well as lots and lots and lots of Freeview
adverts broadcast on the BBC)!


* and DSAT and DCAB. But it's definitely a DTT channel too.

The posters advertising Channel M on the back of Manchester
buses say:
Sky 203 Virgin Media Cable 878 and Free to Air 39
of course the last one refers to the RSL transmitter, but
of course the D-Sat option it's no less free to air.
Even had a Digitalspy contributer looking for it on Freeview.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...d.php?t=684890
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Graham

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