DSO again?!

In article , Bill Wright
wrote:
J G Miller wrote:
On Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at 03:16:53h +0100, Bill Wright asked:


Today the magazine is part of Nature Publishing Group, the same group
which owns and publishes Nature magazine, (with which I am sure you
are familiar).

Didn't know it was now owned by the same people as Nature. I think I've
read more issues of SA than I've had items in Nature. Not quite sure what
that may say about either of them! :-)


Nature Publishing Group is a division of Macmillan Publishers
Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg von
Holtzbrinck.

Oh that's a disappointment. I thought it was a novel, probably sci-fi or
something. So it's a magazine then? Funny name for a magazine. The ones
I buy have easy-to-understand titles. Does it have any short stories in
it? Sci-fi preferably.

You may be confusing it with Analog magazine. :-) Not read that recently
but it usually had very interesting items on science and engineering, along
with a fair bit of ye olde 'injuneer' type SF. I was recently reading a
back issue and there were letters debating the algebra and computation in
an earlier article. Not something I'd expect in most 'fiction' magazines!

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , J G Miller
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On Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at 18:14:16h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

No. Sounds to me like you are thinking of another genre of magazine, eg
the defunct magazine OMNI. Do you remember that one?

Yes, alas. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , Albert Ross
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On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:29:18 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:02:54 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:55:44 +0100, charles
wrote:

Enough of LO radiation and a poorly designed receiver and Robert is
your father's brother.

Actually Robert was my radio. I also had a Hacker. How words change
their meaning . . .

I still have a Hacker blows dust off volume/on-off knob and it still
works.

Mine probably would too if I could afford the giant huge batteries.

This thread has now probably been picked up by Menwith Hill.

Direct link to Cheltenham is probably quicker. Ah! Maybe *that's* why they
avoid the Circle in Mornington Crescent... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:11 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:



Not many years ago there was a guy from North Wales named Glyn on Big
Brother. His first language was Welsh and he had learned English at
school. He speak rather slowly on the show to begin with. He appeared to
be thinking in Welsh and translating into English before speaking. He
would sometimes struggle to find a word he needed. By the time he left
the show he was speaking much more fluently. It was apparently the first
time he had spent any time among English-only speakers.

Interesting that's still happening.

A few years ago I went to see and photograph the Commonwealth Games
torch at Blaenau Ffestiniog, where it was put on to a Ffestiniog
Railway train by a child from a local school. I can't remember how old
she would have been, perhaps 6 or 7. When I spoke to her her mother
jumped in, not expecting her daughter to understand English. She knew
enough to understand my question. I was surprised by her mother's
attitude.

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:22:05 +0100, Peter Johnson
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:11 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:



Not many years ago there was a guy from North Wales named Glyn on Big
Brother. His first language was Welsh and he had learned English at
school. He speak rather slowly on the show to begin with. He appeared to
be thinking in Welsh and translating into English before speaking. He
would sometimes struggle to find a word he needed. By the time he left
the show he was speaking much more fluently. It was apparently the first
time he had spent any time among English-only speakers.

Interesting that's still happening.

A few years ago I went to see and photograph the Commonwealth Games
torch at Blaenau Ffestiniog, where it was put on to a Ffestiniog
Railway train by a child from a local school. I can't remember how old
she would have been, perhaps 6 or 7. When I spoke to her her mother
jumped in, not expecting her daughter to understand English. She knew
enough to understand my question. I was surprised by her mother's
attitude.

Glyn Wise (of Big Brother) is from Blaenau Ffestiniog.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest...glynwise.shtml



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

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:31:52 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:29:18 +0100, Peter Duncanson
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:02:54 +0100, Albert Ross
wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 10:55:44 +0100, charles
wrote:

Enough of LO radiation and a poorly designed receiver and Robert is your
father's brother.

Actually Robert was my radio. I also had a Hacker. How words change
their meaning . . .

I still have a Hacker blows dust off volume/on-off knob and it still
works.

Mine probably would too if I could afford the giant huge batteries.

I use a Hacker power unit that is at least the size of one of those
batteries. It has a voltage adjuster: 6v to 18v.

This thread has now probably been picked up by Menwith Hill.

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

In message , Bill Wright
writes
Albert Ross wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:29:43 +0100, Bill Wright
wrote:

Just imagine if the Africans had colonised Europe! How ghastly would
that have been?
And just where do you think we all came from in the first place?
Yes but that was when everyone was a savage.

Bill

Yes, probably down to only 90% now.
--
Ian

Ian wrote:

Just imagine if the Africans had colonised Europe! How ghastly would
that have been?
And just where do you think we all came from in the first place?
Yes but that was when everyone was a savage.

Bill

Yes, probably down to only 90% now.

Not round here. We only have about 3% who use a knife and fork.

Bill