On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:48:50 +0000, Glenn Richards
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

A bit more than 250 fps, clearly not a problem to read the first two
digits and IME you take a 'snapshot' of a three-digit number in a
quick glance, you don't pick up the individual digits except by
deliberate concentration.

17{blur}. Like I said, didn't want to risk taking my eyes off the road
for a second look!

Just to get back on topic... do you reckon if you replaced the HT leads
on that rather lovely sounding V6 engine with OFC or pure silver
leads... would it make the engine sound any better? ;-)

Actually, I much prefer the sound of the wide-angle V6 in the A4, the
A3's VR6 screams rather than roars. YMMV. I use six-nines silver in
mine to bring out the delicate treble quality.

(I speak in jest of course, but you can actually buy "performance" HT
leads at places like Motorworld...)

Indeed you can - but that's often got more to do with the
brightly-coloured insulation than the electrical properties.

Of course, there's a definite possibility that your brain is of
non-standard construction.....

Well I've suspected that to be the case ever since I found out that
other people don't actually see the world as falling green glyphs. :-P

Don't get me started on glyphs.........

Very impressive, one can see why major corporations beat a path to
your door! :-)

Actually I've got quite a few blue chip companies on the books here. And
before you ask, no, I'm not at liberty to discuss them. All I can say is
that there are several big players in the mortgage intermediary market.

Ahhh, the ultimate parasites! :-)

Do you have anything which isn't really just a PC?

Got some old Acorn kit kicking around, couple of StrongARM RISC PCs (and
another one with ARM710), an A7000, few A5000s... good for holding the
door open these days. Shame, cos when that stuff was new it was light
years ahead of anything the Wintel camp could offer.

Indeed. My own '80s experience of small-scale computers is largely
based on the HP 9000 industrial range, stunningly fast for their day,
but with a 'user hostile' OS. Enter 'format c:', and it did it right
away, and very quickly.......

There's no problem whatsoever with using stuff that's "really just a
PC". The likes of FreeBSD, NetBSD etc (and Linux to a lesser extent) can
give you top notch server performance on cheap x86 hardware... which
because it's *nix means you can charge the customer a small fortune for
maintaining it.

Aaah, you've discovered where the money is, huh? :-)

Or alternatively you could do the "Richer Sounds" approach... sell
cheaper and sell more. Which is the approach I've taken. By using
open-source software for servers, and cheap fast x86 hardware, I can
undercut anyone trying to offer Windows based servers and make just as
much profit from it.

But hey, even Mac runs on x86 now.

Indeed it does, which must have blown a cold draught through the
Motorola boardroom..........
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering