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There is probably an inverse square law in that somewhere...! On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 08:31 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Saturday 07 March 2009 22:49, M.Blackmore wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 14:12 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > > > Are they out of money or is it just me? > > > > Good God, is anyone still actually *watching* television nowadays? I > > haven't turned ours on for 27 months since year +1 Dr Who Xmas > > special... > > > > Drivel nowadays. > Its part of my study of the ability of humans to negate technology. > Forty years ago we had maybe 10Mhz of TV bandwidth and audiences exceeding 50% > of the population and programs talked about today. > Now we have GHz TV bandwidth, audiences of 30% of the population and programs > forgotten by the morning. > Thirty years ago I worked for BT and we made the first 9600Baud modem. > Computers and their users shared information and made the internet. > Now the average house hold has 2Meg and watches downloads that weren't good > enough to make it onto the telly. > We have PC's that are 1000 times more powerful than they were and we're still > arguing the toss over what format our paper documents should be in.. > If IT was a car it would be a dead donkey! > Tom te tom te tom > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html