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Phil Cook wrote:
> Here, this is a stock Excel chart template with data from a catalogue on
> my desk featuring some USB stick prices; should be self-explanatory.
Yeah - if you included the capacity unit. Always include the units! :-P
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And lo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:20:26 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
spake, saying:
> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Here, this is a stock Excel chart template with data from a catalogue
>> on my desk featuring some USB stick prices; should be self-explanatory.
>
> Yeah - if you included the capacity unit. Always include the units! :-P
I'm sure we can come to some arrangment :-)
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>> Yeah - if you included the capacity unit. Always include the units! :-P
>
> I'm sure we can come to some arrangment :-)
Only from PC World. *rimshot*
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And lo on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:47:44 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
spake, saying:
>>> Yeah - if you included the capacity unit. Always include the units! :-P
>> are I'm sure we can come to some arrangment :-)
>
> Only from PC World. *rimshot*
Hey I can overcharge you just as much as they can you know, that's what
friends are for.
Heh we've recently had a Maplin open not far along from PC World, I bet
they were sooo happy.
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>
> Heh we've recently had a Maplin open not far along from PC World, I bet
> they were sooo happy.
Maplin aren't the cheapest of the cheap, but
1. They're not all that expensive.
2. Their stuff actually know what the hell they're talking about.
3. You can take stuff back. And they don't argue with you.
PC World fails epically on all three counts...
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> 2. Their stuff actually know what the hell they're talking about.
I found that in Maplin there are two sorts of employee. One is the
old-and-wise fat guy with a beard who knows everything about everything, the
other is the spotty teenager who they probably got in just because the fat
guy doesn't know anything about that annoying DJ stuff over in the corner,
but who doesn't know anything about any other electronics.
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scott wrote:
> I found that in Maplin there are two sorts of employee. One is the
> old-and-wise fat guy with a beard who knows everything about everything,
> the other is the spotty teenager who they probably got in just because
> the fat guy doesn't know anything about that annoying DJ stuff over in
> the corner, but who doesn't know anything about any other electronics.
Interesting... I've generally found that they *all* know stuff about
stuff. (And all of them seem to be early 20s or so.) They all know what
a 20 Ohm resistor is, and they all know the difference between a CD and
a DVD, and they all know whether that microphone in the corner needs a
preamp or not.
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> Interesting... I've generally found that they *all* know stuff about
> stuff. (And all of them seem to be early 20s or so.) They all know what a
> 20 Ohm resistor is, and they all know the difference between a CD and a
> DVD, and they all know whether that microphone in the corner needs a
> preamp or not.
Guess there's just a shortage of knowledgable young people who want to work
in Maplins around Southampton ;-)
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scott wrote:
>> Interesting... I've generally found that they *all* know stuff about
>> stuff. (And all of them seem to be early 20s or so.) They all know
>> what a 20 Ohm resistor is, and they all know the difference between a
>> CD and a DVD, and they all know whether that microphone in the corner
>> needs a preamp or not.
>
> Guess there's just a shortage of knowledgable young people who want to
> work in Maplins around Southampton ;-)
OTOH, if you're the sort of person who knows when he wants a 20 ohm
resistor you probably won't need any help locating it in Maplin.
It's nice being able to buy that sort of stuff in a high street shop
though. Sometimes you don't want a brand new 20 quid scart lead, just
the connector at one end because you bent the pin or whatever.
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> OTOH, if you're the sort of person who knows when he wants a 20 ohm
> resistor you probably won't need any help locating it in Maplin.
Yeh, I used to love Maplins. I could just show up and buy an IC, a few
resistors and capacitors and go home and make something. Or get that right
combination of plugs and sockets to make a custom cable for whatever I might
have been up to at the time.
> It's nice being able to buy that sort of stuff in a high street shop
> though. Sometimes you don't want a brand new 20 quid scart lead, just the
> connector at one end because you bent the pin or whatever.
OTOH, I remember trying to solder on to a 15-pin VGA plug, and I kept
melting the plastic housing that held the pins in place, in the end I Just
went and bought a 20 quid cable and chopped it in half to get a "ready
soldered" plug ;-)
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