On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:37:10 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
Actually, it started *way* back in the '50s, when radio stations
discovered compression, and a little ten kilowatt local radio station
could sound like the national networks on passing car radios, just by
cranking up the modulation.

We didn't have local radio stations in the '50s.

I'm talking about the US, not the UK. We in the UK didn't have
national network*s* in the '50s, either.

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Oh c'mon, you're a one-man band installing boxes and cables to
standard setups, using the supplied manuals.

In your own words, BULL****.

I do build-to-order servers with RAID, database-driven dynamic web
sites, a lot of seriously ****ed up SQL code, custom software systems,
custom hardware, as well as PCs built to order.

No off-the-shelf stuff here. Although I must admit, assembling a PC from
components, plugging it into a monitor, network port and power, then
power up, PXE boot from the network, wander off, come back 40 minutes
later to a fully installed WinXP box with all the security updates,
ready to box up and deliver to the client... it almost seems too easy.

But then, it's my job to understand this stuff.

As the old saying goes, there are only 10 types of people in the world -
those who understand binary, and those who don't.

So far, you have shown little sign of any ability to tie your own
shoelaces....

I blame that on the medication. And the fact that I'm still only allowed
velcro fastenings, as I have a tendency to use shoelaces to garotte
unsuspecting people who **** me off too much...

Well, it would be such a waste to use pure silver speaker cable to
strangle someone, wouldn't it?

/sarcasm

And if you don't know the difference, does that mean I get to call *you*
an "ignorant ****wit", simply because you have gaps in your knowledge
OUTSIDE YOUR SPECIALIST FIELD?
[usual rantings snipped]

So I take it you don't know what any of those examples were?

Thought not.

This is the point at which I could do with some "Preparation H
bullets"... for dealing with irritating arseholes. :-P

but since I'm an engineer and audio is my hobby

Engineer? Really? I thought you worked as the post monkey in a bank
somewhere...

Opinions are fine,

Really? I thought it was "opinions are like arseholes - everyone's got
one, but nobody wants to look at the other guy's".

but when an ignorant clown like you makes absolute claims and then
ducks out of picking up an easy grand for proving his claims in an
independent test, my bull**** detector pegs the stop....

Right...

You recompense me for my lost earnings, *regardless* of the test
results, and I'll quite happily take part. Then chuck an extra £1k on
the table when I do prove that I'm right.

For the record, I just took an order today that's going to make me about
5-6 times as much in profit as your "easy grand". And is probably going
to take me about as long. But then, it's already been mentioned on here
that someone's already risen to your challenge, proved themselves right,
and you've failed to pay up.

I'd be very interested to see what a psychiatrist would make of you
actually.

--
Glenn Richards Tel: (01453) 845735
Squirrel Solutions http://www.squirrelsolutions.co.uk/

IT consultancy, hardware and software support, broadband installation

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Keith G wrote:
We didn't have local radio stations in the '50s.

;-)

And not one in a hundred cars had a radio - I remember stickers in
secondhand cars proudly proclaiming *Heater* back in the 50s.....

Remember my father getting an HMV Radiomobile for his new Morris Oxford in
'56. And that was valve. ;-)


Sidevalve?

;-)

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:31:02 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:


"Keith G" wrote in message
...


And not one in a hundred cars had a radio - I remember stickers in
secondhand cars proudly proclaiming *Heater* back in the 50s.....



Gosh. I remember those stickers in windscreens of second hand cars.
That takes me back:-))


Mater had an Austin A35 with push up windows.
She later traded it for an A70 with "wind up windows" duly
proclaimed by the sticker you have mentioned.

That's progress:-)

Iain



But that was really just cosmetic. Labelling didn't get serious until
we started seeing cars with a "Disc Brakes" sticker to let you know
that it could actually stop.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 23:35:33 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Keith G wrote:
We didn't have local radio stations in the '50s.

;-)

And not one in a hundred cars had a radio - I remember stickers in
secondhand cars proudly proclaiming *Heater* back in the 50s.....

Remember my father getting an HMV Radiomobile for his new Morris Oxford in
'56. And that was valve. ;-)


Sidevalve?

Back in the '50s my Dad had a Ford Popular, the old 'sit up and beg'
style, which definitely had a sidevalve engine. No radio, but it did
have a heater!
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:38:30 +0000, Glenn Richards
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Oh c'mon, you're a one-man band installing boxes and cables to
standard setups, using the supplied manuals.

In your own words, BULL****.

I do build-to-order servers with RAID, database-driven dynamic web
sites, a lot of seriously ****ed up SQL code, custom software systems,
custom hardware, as well as PCs built to order.

No off-the-shelf stuff here. Although I must admit, assembling a PC from
components, plugging it into a monitor, network port and power, then
power up, PXE boot from the network, wander off, come back 40 minutes
later to a fully installed WinXP box with all the security updates,
ready to box up and deliver to the client... it almost seems too easy.

But then, it's my job to understand this stuff.

As the old saying goes, there are only 10 types of people in the world -
those who understand binary, and those who don't.

I was brought up in the valve era, so for me there are 8 kinds of
people in the world.........

You recompense me for my lost earnings, *regardless* of the test
results, and I'll quite happily take part. Then chuck an extra £1k on
the table when I do prove that I'm right.

OK, £1000 and 20p it is!

For the record, I just took an order today that's going to make me about
5-6 times as much in profit as your "easy grand". And is probably going
to take me about as long. But then, it's already been mentioned on here
that someone's already risen to your challenge, proved themselves right,
and you've failed to pay up.

That is just another of your fairy tales, Richards. Actually, that's
*two* of your fairy tales................

--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Glenn Richards wrote:
Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

Oh c'mon, you're a one-man band installing boxes and cables to
standard setups, using the supplied manuals.


In your own words, BULL****.

I do build-to-order servers with RAID, database-driven dynamic web
sites, a lot of seriously ****ed up SQL code, custom software systems,
custom hardware, as well as PCs built to order.


What, you are proud about writing "seriously ****ed up SQL code",
whatever "SQL code" is.

--
Nick

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
But that was really just cosmetic. Labelling didn't get serious until
we started seeing cars with a "Disc Brakes" sticker to let you know
that it could actually stop.

Small red triangle on the back bumper?

--
*To steal ideas from *one* person is plagiarism; from many, research*

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:49:59 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Don Pearce wrote:
But that was really just cosmetic. Labelling didn't get serious until
we started seeing cars with a "Disc Brakes" sticker to let you know
that it could actually stop.

Small red triangle on the back bumper?

No - an actual oval sticker with the words on.

d

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Don Pearce wrote:

But that was really just cosmetic. Labelling didn't get serious until
we started seeing cars with a "Disc Brakes" sticker to let you know
that it could actually stop.
Small red triangle on the back bumper?
No - an actual oval sticker with the words on.

This I take it pre-dated the bumper stickers that read "if you can read
this YOU'RE TOO DAMNED CLOSE!"

--
Glenn Richards Tel: (01453) 845735
Squirrel Solutions http://www.squirrelsolutions.co.uk/

IT consultancy, hardware and software support, broadband installation