Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 3]
Discussion
227bhp said:
Slashmb said:
Why does it always rain on a bank holiday weekend?
It's the Law, just like the first working day of the week always has clear blue skies.I always go out on the weekends either side of a BH, stay in or work on the BH itself.
The factories shut over the weekend, the clouds release their rain and, no new pollution is released. By Monday, the skies are beautifully clear.
talksthetorque said:
Am I right in thinking SCART died because it didn't do HD?
among other things, yes. SCART is an analogue signal, and is only capable of sending an audiovisual signal from the device to the TV. That's about it. If you wanted a long cable it had to be thick and insulated because the signal was prone to interference and you'd end up with fuzzy picture and/or audio. It was also big, and modern TVs being as slim as they are wouldn't really accommodate a SCART connection. That's not the cause of SCART decline but it's certainly an accelerating factor. HDMI transmits digital data rather than a signal, so it's much much less prone to interference, it can support higher resolutions, they can support Ethernet, HDMI cables also allow two way communication between devices, the audio potential is better, and the plugs themselves are smaller. And the pins are less likely to get damaged.
talksthetorque said:
Am I right in thinking SCART died because it didn't do HD?
HDMI is digitalHDMI can carry much wider bandwidth therefore more information 4K etc
HDMI also allows copyright protection to be built in
HDMI standards can change as new tech becomes available.
Most people who work with it consider it to be a right royal PITA, and if you want to buy instant obsolescence then HDMI kit is the stuff your wallet will cry for.
Willy Nilly said:
I don't want to start another Brexit thread, so will arsk here:
The UK becoming a tax haven if the EU doesn't play ball is an option, but some say this will be a bad thing. Why so?
I can't speak for all of some people but here's my beef...The UK becoming a tax haven if the EU doesn't play ball is an option, but some say this will be a bad thing. Why so?
1) low business taxes designed to incentivise foreign corporate giants to base in the UK is a political hot potato, ok if you're a smaller non trading nation like lichtenstein, the Bahamas or Ireland but if you want to have productive industrial trade with the world (I.e selling as well as buying) then you have to show willing to be prepared to act on a level playing field. Trump went big on bringing money and jobs back to the US, no one likes a tax dodger or one that facilitates them.
2) The very large corporate companies who have most to gain by low business tax rates already have too much political clout and interfere far to much in our democracy (see US for where we could end up in a decade if we invite them closer to the camp fire.) of course business and commerce are vital for a good society but large corporates act only in their own interests, in a democracy we must guard against an unbalanced balance of power and decision making away from democratic bodies.
3) Small business and enterprise are what really drives economic growth and innovation, not large foreign corporates, a fair and balanced system of taxation that stimulates our economy and drives for efficiency is what we need, not a huge influx of foreign cash looking for somewhere to hide.
That's my 3 pennies
exelero said:
Why do you pronounce SouthHampton and NorthHampton when you don't spell it that way?
Life is full of secrets
Lots of place names are pronounced differently to how they are spelled, I suspect this is due to them existing from a time when there was widespread illiteracy so the names were passed on verbally from generation to generation so the accepted pronunciation diverges from the written name. Life is full of secrets
Truckosaurus said:
exelero said:
Why do you pronounce SouthHampton and NorthHampton when you don't spell it that way?
Life is full of secrets
Lots of place names are pronounced differently to how they are spelled, I suspect this is due to them existing from a time when there was widespread illiteracy so the names were passed on verbally from generation to generation so the accepted pronunciation diverges from the written name. Life is full of secrets
I always say Sou-thampton and Nor-thampton (or north-ampton I guess) but won't consciously add in the "H" sound.
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