On Wed, February 9, 2005 12:26 pm, Volker Kuhlmann said: >[snip] > again. This is the main point! When I got my own radio-fed clock in 1985 > (no GPS back then), it was accurate to better than a human could > percieve. That wasn't the point though - I never needed to question > anyone else's clock, and all arguments in the family about whos clock > was right suddenly ceased. They all laughed about me getting it - then > all quietly trapsed in to set their watches... bit of a laugh that was. > I've still got the 1986 model, pity it won't work in NZ. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in > header > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > 'course it will... just get a bigger aeriel!
Reminds me of a Dutch telecomms provider I once worked for who forgot about this. They had 2 switches, and you could have calls ending before they started! The didn't give you a rebate if that happened, though (: Steve -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
