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Thankyou, Time. I enjoyed that.

While technically I am off duty, should my services should be required at any time, Bartender, I am at your disposal. Just say the word.

Re: More cricket, love it. My greatest team would undoubtedly be The Invincibles, and I'd take Clive Llyod's side before Chappell's. It's one thing to say that the current (undoubtedly very good) Oz team has won everything in sight but (a) they haven't - they are every bit as hopeless as Kim...

Not at all, Your Holiness. Tea and I both voted for yours as the best avatar of all. (No, no. Wait a moment! We are having one of my periodic bouts of identity confusion. Ahha, we seem to have the blue skin and be wearing uniform, therefore I must be The Grammar Police. In that case, Tea and...

A nice little chuckle from The Inquirer tonight. It seems that the site www.whorepresents.com has nothing to do with finding gifts for young ladies with an old profession. On the contrary, it specialises in telling you which agent is acting for any particular actor.

Thaks for the tip, gentlemen. I can't recall the issues now, but the 1.2 Alpha solved several minor problems for me (on both the OS/2 and the Windows versions) and is working very well. Does anyone know why they say you need to fresh install it every time instead of going over the top? That is a...

Just briefly - for I have a morning patrol tommorow and it's past my bedtime - what a load of nonsense, Skeet. You have been hob-knobbing with too many Poms out to find the most convenient excuse for their lamentable current form, and let that all that ale go to your head. Or such of it as...

Actually, I had Don Bradman's batting average in mind, but WTF?

Time is funny stuff. I have been obsessed by it, and have been completely unfussed by it at various different stages of of my life. Back when I was working in public transport, it was an essential part of my job to be aware of the exact time. The way that job worked, you were supposed to...

I just stumbled across an interesting article that was pushing the well-worn line that, at present, the standard of competition in the Sheffield Shield (dammned if I'm calling it the "Puker Cup") is higher not only than the standard of the County competition in England, but than the standard of...

Question: What is it callled when a Ruandan woman goes on a diet? Answer: 99.94

Re: Not the cricket again, ha ha ha! Hmmm .... Take out the stars you mentioned - Lillie, Thommo, Marsh and the Chappell brothers, and then let the present day English selectors loose amongst the remainer. I think we might just see Max Walker open the bowling for England, Ian Redpath partnering...

Re: Not the cricket again, ha ha ha! The greatest team in the history of the game? Now you really have stepped off the sanity bus, Skeet! Sure, the current Oz Mob are a good side, but it's not hard to think of several better ones. Consider their very weak performances on the subcontinent...

Skeet knows more about sound than any man I know. If your interest is in sound cards to create or edit music on, this is a golden opportunity.

Alas, the ability of humanity to devise clever new technologies and plunder irreplacable natural resources is exceeded only by the ability of humanity to think of colossally stupid and inefficient ways to waste them.

Maybe tere is an add-on connector on the board, like the ones you get for front audio jacks?

One can only hope that they (the French) are better at playing it than the English are!

May I offer whichever you prefer of these two, SteveC? You, of course, will know what they are, but others who have not had the peerless pleasure of ... ahem ... how shall I put this? Let us say "the joy of the silky smooth and silent thrust". If you have not had it, you know not what is...

Erroneous, you fool.

Question: Of all the absurd rip-off products that we "civilised" people have inflicted on ourselves, name one that eclipses even Coca-Cola for lack of value. Answer: The semi-colon.

Nice one, Blake. :) Tannin's spelling is legendary. However he does at least get "colour" and "memorise" correct. Like me, he knows that the small dot at the end of a sentence is a "full stop" and that a "period" is a length of time, and he eschews the use of nasty foreign imports from Asia...

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I think your Latin needs a little work, Tea.

Quite right. Nothing worse than a whiney girlfriend.

Have you considered seeing a doctor about your diet? For starters, try not to eat baked beans.

(Tries hard to find grammatical error in Clocker's post to pick on. Fails. :()

Yes. But then, on the other hand, Cougtek is a fundamemtally nice man. I ain't.

Primordial: 'Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.' (Webster's.) I think you mean "paramount', or perhaps 'primary'...

Pradeep, is it possible to have a "rather astronomical" price? I should have imagined that "astronomical" was like "pregnant" - an either/or condition, with no middle ground. Perhaps, given that the "astro" in "astronomical" refers to the stars (same root as "astronomy"), there is a word that...

I suppose, then, that this is not the most tactful moment at which to point out that Option 4, "no need to try and contain it at all", should have read "no need to try to contain it at all"? (A little fetish of mine, that one. )

Excuse me, E_dawg, not Time.

Interesting use of "as you know" there, Time. In this case, I guess the phrase ought to be "Ice, as you should know and actually already would know if you'd ever stopped to expend a synapse or two on the matter , also flows in glaciers". All of which is my way of saying "dunh - I knew that...

On the matter of Radio Birdman and the Stooges referance to the name, as I recall it was actually the other way around. The Birdmen took their name from the line in the song, and named themselves "Radio Birdman" in tribute to the Stooges.

I seemed to drop out of this thread just as it got to the interesting (i.e., off-topic) bits. Forgive me if I've mentioned this before, but I once had the long-term loan (i.e., several years) of a 1959 Fender Telecaster bass. A truly delightful instrument that made even me - more a refugee...

Mark: no critique from me. That is excellent writing: simple, to the point, well structured, neatly crafted, and quite moving. It doesn't belong in this thread!

Her second passage is much better. It would be stretching things to call ot "good English" but it is at least English of a fashion. I'll assume that, for the purposes of the exercise, splitting it into two or three sentences (which is what it actually needs) is forbidden, and restrict myself to...

A vast improvement, Cliptin. :)

Hmmmm... Let's try that again, shall we? That is still not quite gramatical, but it is a good deal closer. Some notes on my corrections: (1) "replace "looks like" with "looks as though". Could be regarded as a matter of taste, but I do not think there is too much doubt that the use of "looks...

"Is"? Or "are"? I'm going to have to think about that. Either way, we don't do spelling. Which is just as well. PS: You can always tell Tony's sock puppets: perfect grammar and abominable spelling. Why doesn't the fool do something useful, like dream up an alias that is the opposite way...

Strictly speaking, Tea, this is not my department. However I thank you for your public spirit in drawing this matter to my attention. You may rest assured that, although this falls outside of my jurisdiction, and outside the jurisdiction of my friend the OT Polezi also, we will give it our full...

You can most certainly see low frequency vibrations. Just pop the front off your speakers and pump some bass guitar through the woofer. You will see that allright. I forget what the lowest frequency an electric bass produces is, about 50Hz, I think. But you could see way lower than that. And...

Adriel. Thanks for your post about depth of field. It hadn't occurred to me that there were different magnification factors at work. That is a very important point to remember. I guess I depends, then, if we are taking a theoretical or a here-and-now-practical one. From the theoretical...

No. (Sorry, it's Stereodude's question, but I couldn't resist jumping in.) If a frequency is audible, it is audible, if it's not, then it is not. Simple as that. You can't hear 44KHz. The presence of 44HKz tones in a sound, any sound, is undetectable by human beings. (Unless you use...

Now, for the final part of my three-part post, the most fundamental point of all. Luckily, and contrary to my usual habit, I'm going to make this one short and sweet. What sort of device is the human ear? Digital. Huh? Then why are we talking about this digital/analogue thing anyway? Beats...

Why do some people say that digital sound is "pieces of the sound"? Because they imagine that, in taking a series of samples of the instantaneous variations in air pressure, and translating each of these samples into a number before converting it back via a DAC, an amplifier, and a set of...

Oh what a load of unscientific gibberish, my dear Profesor.Let's do some Physics 101, shall we? What is "sound"? Sound is a rapid sequence of variations in air pressure. How can we conceptualise sound, especially complex sounds? There are two main ways. (a) We can take the complex actual...

No. If you take poorly-executed examples of each, you get distortion. The analogue waveform has insufficent dynamic range, poor ability to represent sudden variations in SPL (i.e., poor slew rate) and above all, random noise. The digital waveform (again, if poorly executed) merely approximates...

Hmm. One would have thought that The Inquirer would have known the difference between "discrete" and "discreet".

But what about the humans, you fool?

Stuffed. Adj - kaput, broken, US, unservicable, no good, failed, NBG, shuffled off this mortal coil, rooted, hasn't got any smoke left in it, dead, disfunctional, deceased, has the pox.