Television Mag

Oh well, interesting replys though, as someone said, their loss (the
daft vbulletin forum control freaks).

I'm an admin on a forum that has no connection to TV, hence my
confusion on this closed (old school boys) attitude.

Seems like I did right moving on, I'm not interested in the
service/data sheets for the current crap that isn't worth repairing
anyway.

I just miss Donald and Rodger Bunney reports, although I do get the
wotsat mag but they don't give Rodger the space he should have now.

Yes Bill, you get a fair bit of "say" in wotsat, I'd just like to get
a peek at what true engineers are doing now.

CR

In message on Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:28:45 +0100
Graham. wrote:


Oh yes? Remember this?
http://snipurl.com/27r4wa


Sorry - that link just brings up a blank page!
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Terry

"Terry Casey" wrote in message ...
In message on Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:28:45 +0100
Graham. wrote:


Oh yes? Remember this?
http://snipurl.com/27r4wa


Sorry - that link just brings up a blank page!
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Terry

Sorry Terry, it's not the first time recently that my snipurl stop working after posting.

Heres one from tinyurl pointing to the same GG thread.
http://tinyurl.com/5rb2zr8

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Ian Field"
saying something like:

The e-version can only be viewed directly on their server once you've paid
the subscription, you can't save it to your local HDD - in effect you don't
buy it, you only rent it.

Print Screen?

In article , Ian Field wrote:
The e-version can only be viewed directly on their server once you've paid
the subscription, you can't save it to your local HDD - in effect you don't
buy it, you only rent it.

I declined their invitation and thought little more about it, but now I am
curious to know whether it survived in that format.

However good the original was (and although I never subscribed I bought it
from time to time) it doesn't deserve to survive with that sort of attitude.
Seems to be the same sort of guiding philosophy as the one behind the BBC's
self-destruct files on iPlayer, for example. We've had the printing press for
hundreds of years now, and it had none of the restrictions they're building
into a lot of its modern replacements. What's the point of a new invention
that does less than the old one?

Rod.
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In message on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 00:44:22 +0100
Graham. wrote:

"Terry Casey" wrote in message ...
In message on Thu, 7 Apr 2011 23:28:45 +0100
Graham. wrote:


Oh yes? Remember this?
http://snipurl.com/27r4wa


Sorry - that link just brings up a blank page!
--

Terry

Sorry Terry, it's not the first time recently that my snipurl stop working after posting.

Heres one from tinyurl pointing to the same GG thread.
http://tinyurl.com/5rb2zr8

To which I added my own comment - third post after yours ...

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Terry

Sorry - that link just brings up a blank page!
--

Terry

Sorry Terry, it's not the first time recently that my snipurl stop working after posting.

Heres one from tinyurl pointing to the same GG thread.
http://tinyurl.com/5rb2zr8

To which I added my own comment - third post after yours ...

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Terry

I know, that's why I posted the link, together with the fact that I was the OP announcing
my birthday.

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Graham.

%Profound_observation%

In message on Fri, 8 Apr 2011 11:42:22 +0100
Graham. wrote:

Sorry - that link just brings up a blank page!
--

Terry

Sorry Terry, it's not the first time recently that my snipurl stop working after posting.

Heres one from tinyurl pointing to the same GG thread.
http://tinyurl.com/5rb2zr8

To which I added my own comment - third post after yours ...

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Terry

I know, that's why I posted the link, together with the fact that I was the OP announcing
my birthday.

Unfortunately, your link points to a later post in the same thread which comes
up here with the quoted text hidden, so the birthday bit didn't appear!

This link is better ... http://tinyurl.com/3mmxcy6

but your cake has obviously been eaten by now as there isn't even a crumb of it
left ...

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Terry

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 19:55:28 +0100, David Woolley
wrote:

Graham. wrote:


Presumably, it is the date given in your profile which is incorrect. As we do not accept such fictional information in user
profiles, could we ask that you correct it, Thank you.

Unfortunately too many people are seduced by the relative fashionability
of web forums, but they are basically advertising vehicles, so having
correct demographics and ensuring that you can track people by their
login, even if they keep eating their cookies, helps the advertisers.

Indeed.

One medical forum I used to use has now been controlled to the extent
there's hardly any relevent information left, and it is forbidden to
link to blogs or other sites to keep the readers onsite. All down to
marketing IMNSHO, the owners are Sitefinders who own a bunch of
similar sites purporting to be information sources but actually
marketing products.

On Saturday, April 9th, 2011 at 13:01:10h +0100, Terry Casey suggested:

but your cake has obviously been eaten by now as there isn't even a
crumb of it left ...

Far better for the cake to be eaten rather then left out in the rain,
especially if it took so long to bake it, and you do not have the
recipe any more.