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I notice the Adult social care 'big debate' uses words like care brokerage
partnerships, when they really mean, Hey, don't come running to us for money
for your care, talk to a charity.

Brian

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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:44:17 -0000, "Graham." wrote:



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One thing that is irking me of late is the insistant phrase at the
end of adverts about a special offer. Apply in Store.
I keep on thinking.. What is in store for whom, and whathave I got
to apply?
All the council sponsored road signs in Salford say things like
Housing IN Salford
Services IN Salford
Learning IN Salford
The IN is always in UPPER CASE, some sort of stylistic thing, but
it's lost on me


Something dreamed up by PR probably,

I first noticed it when Tony Blair became PM. He did it constantly.

I refuse to use it. I may have lost the battle with overarching, which used
to be two words as well, but instore is just downright stupid.

Brian

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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:34:33 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
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One thing that is irking me of late is the insistant phrase at the end of
adverts about a special offer.

Apply in Store.
I keep on thinking.. What is in store for whom, and whathave I got to
apply?


I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but in store is often written in
adverts as a single word with no space between in and store.

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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

I understand that its only in
Store!


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Can't find it on John Lewis site.
I searched for Humax HD-FOX T2
and nothing.
Regards
David

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On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:26:25 -0000, Adrian wrote:

http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=3669

I notice that the Humax link on that page only goes to a page
of Korean??? text! I presume this is what they meant to link
to..

http://www.humaxdigital.com/uk/produ...l_hdfoxt2.aspx



"Play media contents in external HDD or memory through USB (MP3, JPG,
XViD)".. I wonder, does 'play media contents' mean that it's possible to
'record' actual programme content onto an external HDD or flash memory
and

No.

play it back, or is it merely a way of playing back Xvid/Divx files
through the stb?. if the former, then at long last (for a major
manufacturer) it will be a big step in the right direction, in which case
I shall definitely be buying one.

There are (SD) PVRs that can do this, such as the Grundig GUDB20USB2.
They are however (in general) rumoured to be of poor build quality.

Humax have said that they will eventually release a software upgrade for
their HD box so that it can record via USB, but personally, I wouldn't buy
on the strength of such a promise.




I own one of the aforementioned Grundig boxes which works well within the
very basic limits of what its intended to do, i.e. deliver .TS files to a
USB flash memory stick or an external HDD, which has the annoying feature of
breaking a slightly overrunning (more than an hour) programme into two
parts, because of the choice of FAT 32.
I'm now waiting for a manufacturer to take the plunge and deliver something
decent to the market, which has HDMI up scaling, twin tuners, NTFS, record
in different qualities using MP4/Divx and of course SD card compatibility,
as well as USB flash memory stick.
However despite all of the technology being readily available, for some
reason no one appears to want to produce anything like it, so far the most
plausible reason I've read is that the original intention of VHS was merely
for time shifting, which meant that a viewer was supposed to record a
programme, watch it and then delete it, the current setup of having
broadcast quality material stored on a hard drive, which in most cases (for
the majority of viewers at least) is difficult and time consuming to
extract, edit and archive, suits the broadcasters and copy write holders
down to the ground, whether that's true or not I don't know, but like I
said, it does sound to be quite a plausible explanation.

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:13:15 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I notice the Adult social care 'big debate' uses words like care
brokerage partnerships, when they really mean, Hey, don't come running
to us for money for your care, talk to a charity.

That would obviously be "Care IN The Community"

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:09:28 +0000, Brian Gaff wrote:

I suspect, actually, that Radio 2 has some of the most annoying
presenters now.

Well BBC Radio 2 has become the rest home for ageing BBC Radio 1
presenters, has it not?

The Oxford dictionary uses a hyphen i.e in-store

On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:14:35 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

I refuse to use it. I may have lost the battle with overarching, which used
to be two words as well, but instore is just downright stupid.

Brian

In article ,
Joseph wrote:

The Oxford dictionary uses a hyphen i.e in-store

They only consider the attributive use. As a predicate it should be
"in store".

It's an uphill struggle aginst these unnecessary compounds.

-- Richard
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"Richard Tobin" wrote in message
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"Tis an uphill struggle aginst these unnecessary compounds".

-- Richard 3rd

There that looks better!

In message , Richard Tobin
writes
In article ,
Joseph wrote:

The Oxford dictionary uses a hyphen i.e in-store

They only consider the attributive use. As a predicate it should be
"in store".

It's an uphill struggle aginst these unnecessary compounds.

I'm a great believer in hyphens (and brackets) - but I have my doubts
about colons and semi-colons.
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Ian