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Re: [LUG] OT: C5 off Sky

 

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
> 
> 


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