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The Telecom Digest for November 21, 2011
Volume 30 : Issue 295 : "text" Format
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:03:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Phone calls or text
Message-ID: <1321808596.80778.YahooMailClassic@web161515.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
David Mitchell's Soapbox: Phone calls - video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/may/26/david-mitchell-soap-box-phone-calls-video?CMP=twt_gu
(Alternative short form for the above link)
http://goo.gl/2Ffrm
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:38:10 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Phone calls or text
Message-ID: <1321832290.2121.13.camel.nose@telecom-digest.org>
On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 09:03 -0800, Joseph Singer wrote:
> David Mitchell's Soapbox: Phone calls - video
>
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/may/26/david-mitchell-soap
-box-phone-calls-video?CMP=twt_gu
>
> (Alternative short form for the above link)
>
> http://goo.gl/2Ffrm
>
Oh, finally, someone on utube that I agree with. I'm going to start
putting my own videos out there.
Bill
(Remove QRM from email address to write to me directly)
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:48:51 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Mobile Deals Set to Lure Shoppers Stuck in Line
Message-ID: <p06240809caeefbe1e7aa@[10.0.1.4]>
Mobile Deals Set to Lure Shoppers Stuck in Line
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD
November 19, 2011
As retailers battle to draw customers into their stores on Black
Friday, online merchants are plotting a cunning ambush - offering an
arsenal of mobile-only deals intended to pick off shoppers as they
wait in line.
The Gilt Groupe, for example, which operates several Web sites,
usually offers sales at noon. But on Friday, it will promote mobile
exclusives at 6 a.m. - precisely when shoppers are expected to be
crammed into checkout lines at some of its high-end competitors.
"We haven't had the ability to compete effectively with Black Friday,
and now we do," said Andy Page, president of the Gilt Groupe, who
predicted that poaching in-store shoppers would lead to Gilt's best
Black Friday ever.
The aggressive promotions by Gilt, Amazon, HSN and other online
companies are creating a frenzy among traditional retailers, who have
counted the Friday after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of
the year.
A few are fighting back. Best Buy, already acquainted with the sting
of online price-comparison apps, declines to display standard bar
codes on some products so they cannot be easily scanned by
smartphones.
But online merchants have technology - and increasingly, consumer
behavior - on their side. Almost 10 percent of e-commerce purchases
made in October came through mobile devices, according to research
from IBM Coremetrics, up from about 3 percent a year earlier. About
43 percent of Americans with cellphone service own smartphones,
according to Nielsen. Amazon, the nation's biggest e-commerce site,
says that the number of American customers who shop Amazon via only
their mobile device has nearly tripled since last year.
Not only can online merchants now offer a relatively annoyance-free
alternative to shoppers stuck in crowded stores, but they can also
even exploit the faster download speeds on free wireless networks
promoted by retailers like Nordstrom and Macy's. And most are
throwing in free shipping.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/business/mobile-deals-aimed-at-black-friday-shoppers-stuck-in-line.html
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:47:08 -0800 (PST)
From: withheld@invalid.telecom-digest.org (HAncock4)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: OT: Electronics store with classic parts
Message-ID: <41f922e2-5a88-4afc-b61b-e5666661cb47@y12g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 18, 3:36 pm, HAncock4 <withh...@invalid.telecom-digest.org>
wrote:
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Actually, there are still vacuum tubes in some telephone equipment today.
Could you elaborate on what those tubes are and what they're used
for? I thought by now even high power applications were converted to
solid state.
Thanks.
(Today I passed a former AT&T Long Lines microwave antenna site. I
read that it's no longer used for that, but merely a platform for cell
phone antennas.)
***** Moderator's Note *****
Well, let's see: Magnetrons are vacuum tubes, right?
Bill Horne
Moderator
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:46:15 -0500
From: tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: OT: Electronics store with classic parts
Message-ID: <arcznu9wp7sz.1x6bj8ttcrsh7$.dlg@40tude.net>
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:36:56 -0800 (PST), HAncock4 wrote:
> [Posted due to the interest in radio of many on this newsgroup.]
>
> from the NYT:
>
> A Williamsburg, Brooklyn electronics shop, one of the oldest in the
> country, carries hundreds of thousands of analog electronic parts, all
> manufactured before 1968.
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/11/20/nyregion/20111120_Joint_Leeds.html?ref=nyregion
>
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/nyregion/leeds-radio-is-a-haven-for-lovers-of-all-things-analog.html
>
It does my heart good to know that at least one shop like the many
I used to frequent along Canal Street still survives, even if it's in
Brooklyn now instead :-) ! Thanks, HA 4- .
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> Actually, there are still vacuum tubes in some telephone equipment today.
>
> Now, let's have some fun: name the "All American Five",
Can't clearly remember 'em any more (Alzheimer's ?), but ...
> and explain
> why they got that name.
... they were the tube complement in all the classic, el cheapo, AC/DC
superheterodyne table top sets of the early-to-mid '50s. Wait: maybe my
old RCA Receiving Tube Manual has a schematic? ... (comes back) ... YES:
12BE6, 12BA6, 12AV6, 50C5, 35W4 :-) ! Cf. p. 323 of RC-18, printed 9-57.
'Zat what you were after, Bill? Or were you looking for the post-octal
follow-up to these (their miniature 9-pin counterparts)? Cheers, -- tlvp
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