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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:43:14 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:


Dormer's complaint with me is based on the SBLive! sound card which is now
totally obsolete.

They're still in the shops. And there are a lot of them in use.
That's not "totally obsolete" in my book.

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 03:54:43 +0000, "Nick J."
wrote:

For starters, .wav files are not compressed..............

Wrong.

.wav is a container format, just like .avi for "Video for Windows" and
.ogg for some types of open-source multimedia files (eg. audio encoded
with Vorbis, Speex, FLAC, and video encoded with Theora).

Yup. All sorts of things can hide behind the WAV extension.

But, in normal usage, WAV referrs to one of the uncompressed
varieties.

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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:26:24 +0000, Ian Molton wrote:

.wav is a container format,

Correct, but I havent seen a compressed one, ever.

Oh, it happens. Lots. Renamed MP3 files, usually. I can't imagine
why people do it, but they do :-)

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"Keith G" wrote in message
...


I'm not an LG employee and won't necessarily buy another LG product in my
life, but I'm alway very keen to try and balance up some the more
ridiculous
prejudices that exist in this group......

Hear hear Keith. I've been using an LG DVD player for years, its given good
performance & perfectly reliable. Hell if it broke down tomorrow I'd still
think it was good value for money.

Mike

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"Laurence Payne" wrote in
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:43:14 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

Dormer's complaint with me is based on the SBLive! sound card which
is now totally obsolete.

They're still in the shops. And there are a lot of them in use.
That's not "totally obsolete" in my book.

That's a choice you get to make. However consider that I found recent tests
of the Live! that basically agree with the older tests that Dormer made a
big stink about.

A piece of friendly advice - watch out for people like Dormer who post with
the "no archive" flag turned on. They do this to avoid taking resposibility
for what they say. Between switching posting name every fortnight to month,
and the use of the "no archive" flag it's almost impossible to hold Dormer
responsible for what he's said, even in the recent past.

IOW, Dormer is 100% troll, veneer of technology notwithstanding.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:34:26 -0000
"Keith G" wrote:

nothing there takes your fancy? (I am using 2 different LG drives atm
and they both work perfectly fine.) While you're there, also go and
take a look at the monitor page:

Nope.

http://us.lge.com/products/models/monitors_index.html

I was in the local computer shop the other day and they have an LG
monitor on the go - I thought it was absolutely stunning!

Dont get me started! My university had several rooms (an entire floor
IIRC) kitted out in 15 and 17" LGs.

?Every day a different one had died. Utter garbage.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:06:29 +0000
Glenn Booth wrote:

If you think that's funny, next time you get on a plane remember that
National Air Traffic Services are still keeping air traffic on target
using PDP 11s at West Drayton.

Nothing wrong with tried-and-tested. but AIX sucked.

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:14:04 -0500
"Arny Krueger" wrote:

Between switching posting name every fortnight to month,
and the use of the "no archive" flag it's almost impossible to hold Dormer
responsible for what he's said, even in the recent past.

no archive wont save anyone if you quote them.

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http://us.lge.com/products/models/monitors_index.html

I was in the local computer shop the other day and they have an LG
monitor on the go - I thought it was absolutely stunning!

Dont get me started! My university had several rooms (an entire floor
IIRC) kitted out in 15 and 17" LGs.

?Every day a different one had died. Utter garbage.

--
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ketchup.

That's extremely bad! Have a go and guess MTBF ;-)

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"Ian Molton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:34:26 -0000
"Keith G" wrote:

nothing there takes your fancy? (I am using 2 different LG drives atm
and they both work perfectly fine.) While you're there, also go and
take a look at the monitor page:

Nope.

http://us.lge.com/products/models/monitors_index.html

I was in the local computer shop the other day and they have an LG
monitor on the go - I thought it was absolutely stunning!

Dont get me started! My university had several rooms (an entire floor
IIRC) kitted out in 15 and 17" LGs.

?Every day a different one had died. Utter garbage.


OK, we have different experiences then, but the last thing I did as a
'semi-retired (but not that old) fart' before we moved up here was spend a
year as Network Manager/Computer Technician at a Comprehensive School
running 120+ PCs and 4 different networks and all the usual ancillaries. I
saw every make of every different type of kit you can think of go tits up at
some time or another and also saw a lot of crappy looking kit running day in
and day out like good 'uns (including LG monitors).

Schools and Universities are hard places for IT gear, mebbe even harder than
an office environment (it's got more than a little to do with type of person
who's using it a lot of the time), but you are missing my point - you are
allowing past experience to prejudice your view of today's offerings from a
substantial company like it is incapable of correcting mistakes or improving
its products. There is something elsewhere about SB soundcards to this
effect atm and recently there was some traffic here about IBM Deskstar hard
drives going tits up (I had two of these go West myself). What's that then -
Creative Labs and IBM out the window now? Does LG get to be the size it is
by producing mountains of only ****e kit? - I don't think so.....

Believe me, if any of the 3 LG burners in use in my family crap out, I'll be
the first to bleat about it!

Anyway it's a shame because I've got this LG L3000H 30" (30" VIS) WXGA
Active Matrix TFT Color LCD Monitor I don't need any more and I was going to
offer it to you......

*ding dong*

Hang on a minute, there's some more kids at the door!

Guess what..........??

:-)