"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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Has anyone considered that they might be actually talking to a computer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
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Ian

Hello Ian.

I had wondered if that might be the case but I tended more towards
cut-and-paste by someone who find Wikipedia pages.

73, Ian.

Ian wrote:
"Ian Jackson" wrote in message
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Has anyone considered that they might be actually talking to a computer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
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Ian

Hello Ian.

I had wondered if that might be the case but I tended more towards
cut-and-paste by someone who find Wikipedia pages.

73, Ian.

He is an idiot that cuts and pastes from web pages.

Most of the pages he uses are historical in nature.

I have no clue what motivates the little idiot to be such an idiot, but
I suspect brain chemical problems.

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Ian wrote:

He is an idiot that cuts and pastes from web pages.
Most of the pages he uses are historical in nature.
I have no clue what motivates the little idiot to be such an idiot, but
I suspect brain chemical problems.

Hello again. He reminds me of someone who is elderly and thinks that all
textbooks are the same ... so reads the ones from the 1930s and 1940s. This
fits in with the "Marconi was right" persuasion for, surely, Marconi was
synonymous with radio (though those of us who know something about Marconi
know that he developed radio from existing ideas).
I have had to help a few such people with "new" technology such as digital
television, digital radio and digital cameras. They find it hard to accept
that things have changed since they were young.
I'd like to know if Marconi saw his aerial as a device in its own right
(i.e. "here is a transmitter" and "here is an aerial") or simply as the part
of the transmitter that happened to be better at "projecting" a signal than
a piece of wire dangling from the end of a transmitter.

73, Ian.

Ian wrote:


wrote in message
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Ian wrote:

He is an idiot that cuts and pastes from web pages.
Most of the pages he uses are historical in nature.
I have no clue what motivates the little idiot to be such an idiot, but
I suspect brain chemical problems.

Hello again. He reminds me of someone who is elderly and thinks that all
textbooks are the same ... so reads the ones from the 1930s and 1940s. This
fits in with the "Marconi was right" persuasion for, surely, Marconi was
synonymous with radio (though those of us who know something about Marconi
know that he developed radio from existing ideas).
I have had to help a few such people with "new" technology such as digital
television, digital radio and digital cameras. They find it hard to accept
that things have changed since they were young.
I'd like to know if Marconi saw his aerial as a device in its own right
(i.e. "here is a transmitter" and "here is an aerial") or simply as the part
of the transmitter that happened to be better at "projecting" a signal than
a piece of wire dangling from the end of a transmitter.

73, Ian.

Marconi certainly concidered an antenna to be a separate piece of equipment
and the word "antenna" comes from his use of the Italian word antenna, meaning
pole, to describe them.

It is becaue of his prominence the word spread to the general public.

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Marconi certainly concidered an antenna to be a separate piece of
equipment
and the word "antenna" comes from his use of the Italian word antenna,
meaning
pole, to describe them.

It is becaue of his prominence the word spread to the general public.


Thank you very much for helping me.

Have a good weekend.

Regards, Ian.

"Ian" wrote in message
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... thinks that all textbooks are the same ... so reads the ones from the
1930s and 1940s. This fits in with the "Marconi was right" persuasion ...

Yup. In 1950, when I was 7, I acquired the Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia,
1930 edition. I was an avid reader and I loved those books.

However, it didn't take me long to start finding errors -- or perhaps
"inconsistencies," to be kind -- with more recent thinking.

Nominally, those books were only 21 years old -- like from 1991 to today.
But I presume many of the articles dated from prior editions, some maybe
already decades old by 1930.

"Sal"
(KD6VKW)

PS: Should I throw out my RCA Vacuum Tube Manual (if I can still find it)?