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From: Geoff Berrow on 16 Mar 2010 07:58 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:46:39 +0000, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >>>Mine is pretty well the frequency of said CRTs and dog whistles etc >>>and a real whistle (not buzz, white noise, whoosh or rushing sound). >> >>Mine too, with most of it coming from my left ear which is profoundly >>deaf. > >Luckily (I think), mine is pretty central. I wonder if your tinnitus >(in your left ear) wouldn't be so bad had you not lost hearing in that >side? Probably not. I think it's largely due to the brain 'turning up the gain' to try to get something out of that ear because the deafness is more mechanical than neurological. >> >>Has anyone here /not/ got it? :-} > >There aren't many people I would wish it on (even here). Indeed. -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: Geoff Berrow on 16 Mar 2010 08:03 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:53 +0000, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: >>I used to make shows like that. They were sequenced from a clock track >>on the (usually) 4 track tape deck. Biggest show I ever did used 18 >>projectors on 6 screens. > >Wow. > >> Great fun and remarkable image quality under >>the right conditions. > >And they paid you to do this did they! ;-) Handsomely, for that one. Then came recession, (not the last one, Nigel Lawson's 'blip') and the rise of powerpoint and the data projector. Ho hum... -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker
From: T i m on 16 Mar 2010 08:07 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:38:10 +0000, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> >As I said, I'm lucky. >> >> Well, only in the 'count your blessings' way I suspect. > >Only if you are determined to see trouble; Indeed. ;-) > in that respect, as I said, >it doesn't spoil my life, and one way and another life continues to be >pretty terrific. And irrespective is partly what you make it (PMA etc). Something I wish my Dad would consider. [1] Cheers, T i m [1] Oh, on that, Mum suggested they try the iPod (I'm trying t show might be good for them both) on a recent car trip. He commented on that 'they didn't know if it would work in their car' (cassette adaptor etc) and Mum offered 'well, now might be a good time to find out'. ;-) So, by the time She'd locked up and joined him in the car he's got it all working and they 'enjoyed' the particular CD of his I'd previously ripped for him, all the way to their destination. "Slowly slowly ... " ;-)
From: T i m on 16 Mar 2010 08:12 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:03:02 +0000, Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:42:53 +0000, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >>>I used to make shows like that. They were sequenced from a clock track >>>on the (usually) 4 track tape deck. Biggest show I ever did used 18 >>>projectors on 6 screens. >> >>Wow. >> >>> Great fun and remarkable image quality under >>>the right conditions. >> >>And they paid you to do this did they! ;-) > >Handsomely, for that one. Result. > >Then came recession, (not the last one, Nigel Lawson's 'blip') and the >rise of powerpoint and the data projector. > >Ho hum... Ho hum indeed (been there, carried that box out to the pavement). Whilst much of my career has been based around IT and Computers / data comms there have been times when hooking a Mux up to some machine tool that's about to replace 4 'workers' I do (have) questioned just how good it all is in a humanity / survival pov. I'm still waiting for that moment where machines do all the work and we can just sit in the sun (well we can do that now as long as we already have a few mill in the bank).
From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Mar 2010 08:13
Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > I was told that it caused a dispute among the unions which was the exact > opposite from the usual "who does what" dispute - it was such a pig of a > thing to operate that nobody wanted the job of working it. Oh yes, that's the one. I'd vaguely forgotten about it, except for what I wrote here. I saw it being used and I remember that it gave remarkably good and sharp pictures, extremely bright, and for the time was pretty well miraculous. And because of the horror of the setup and the massive kit, was effectively unusable except as a permanent installation, as at NASA. I'd talked it through with the attendant techie at the time, and now I've Wikied it I must say his description was remarkably good (spinning disk of liquid and all)- and the fact that it stuck for 45 years seems to prove it... I never consciously saw the colour versions, although the thought of aligning a triple-projector setup sounds quite nightmarish. Let alone (AAAAAARRRRGH!) a colour disc system... -- Peter |