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From: JosephKK on 14 Apr 2010 02:00 On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:00:27 -0700, Copacetic <Copacetic(a)iseverythingalright.org> wrote: >On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:34:07 -0700, "Joel Koltner" ><zapwireDASHgroups(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>"Joerg" <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message >>news:82jdi1FkdmU1(a)mid.individual.net... >>> I don't quite get it why teenage daughters all need their own sat channel >>> choices. Time to get family life back into families ... >> >>Usually one can find a video game that both teens and parents can both enjoy? >>:-) >> >>Wasn't the original "Princess" telephone marketed just as much to teenaged >>daughters as to their mothers? :-) > > Yeah, sure. Back in the sixties there were Ma Bell "buy our new phone" >ads on TV every day. > > What an idiot. Back then, we ALL had the SAME phones in EVERY house. > > There was ZERO "marketing" by ATT of their phones to us. WE HAD to use >whatever they supplied. It wasn't until the seventies that we were even >allowed to use other phone makers, and they had strict rules they had to >follow in their designs. > > The phone "selection" was made by the installer, back when 'the >princess phone' came out, unless the woman of the house was around to ask >for specific phones at alternate locations. > > There were not even any "phone stores" until the mid seventies. Just because the marketing was in the mail instead of on the teevee does not the marketing did not occur.
From: Joerg on 14 Apr 2010 11:29 David Lesher wrote: > Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> writes: > > > >> Ok, but with HDMI you'd be back to the single channel solution and the >> problem with the teenage daughters wanting "their" channels as well. >> Then the wife wants to see a dancing show while hubby absolutely has to >> see the ballgame. Lots of fibers. > > True, we can just add receivers and converters for each. But watch out, if this is in a location with weather extremes you either need some good stuff for that or have it in a somewhat climate-stable shed up there. Electrolytics, LCDs and such don't like hard freezes, and they don't like very high temps either. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM.
From: Copacetic on 14 Apr 2010 20:29 On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:03:19 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher <wb8foz(a)panix.com> wrote: >Copacetic <Copacetic(a)iseverythingalright.org> writes: > > > >> One should "go back to" a single dish with single UL DL hooks, and >>multiple sockets within said hooks to feed multiple streams to multiple >>daughters. They choose their media from the "in-house" archive, or hunt >>it up in the cloud, and stream it in live. Then one has Internet access >>built into the system as well. > >I'm hoping we can get a WISP with an angle to hit their site. It looks doable. These guys look pretty good... http://www.wildblue.com/
From: JeffM on 16 Apr 2010 15:29 >>Joel Koltner wrote: >>>Wasn't the original "Princess" telephone marketed >>>just as much to teenaged daughters as to their mothers? :-) >>> The way I heard it, the mother was thought of as the Queen and didn't figure into the campaign at all. Copacetic wrote: >It wasn't "marketed" at all. > You're very opinionated. Too bad you're so ignorant. http://google.com/search?q=site:ecrater.com+%22+Princess-phone-ad
From: Spehro Pefhany on 16 Apr 2010 16:30
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT), JeffM <jeffm_(a)email.com> wrote: >>>Joel Koltner wrote: >>>>Wasn't the original "Princess" telephone marketed >>>>just as much to teenaged daughters as to their mothers? :-) >>>> >The way I heard it, the mother was thought of as the Queen >and didn't figure into the campaign at all. > >Copacetic wrote: >>It wasn't "marketed" at all. >> >You're very opinionated. Too bad you're so ignorant. >http://google.com/search?q=site:ecrater.com+%22+Princess-phone-ad Ah, here we go, page 11 of this issue has one shown clearly: http://books.google.com/books?id=0k0EAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1#v=onepage&q&f=false IIRC, the phones remained the property of the telephone company, but some choices were offered as to which one you wanted. BTW, you'd first think the article on page 52 was referring to Hockney or someone like that, but no. |