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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009, M.Blackmore wrote: > There is probably an inverse square law in that somewhere...! Doesn't need to be square, just a simple reciprocal: Output quality is 1 / the number of channels Gordon > > 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 > -- 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