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

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".



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Graham.

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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%

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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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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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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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.

On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:49:54 -0000, "NY" wrote:

"Graham." wrote in message
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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.

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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.

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