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Client: PC doesn't work.
Script: Is the PC plugged in to the electrical wall socket? Client: The technician just set me up with wireless internet. I don't need to plug it in anymore. |
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On 06/06/2018 11:56 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[snip] Thinking of customer support, once I called a satellite TV company to ask about a HDTV DVR, and was asked "How many mushrooms to you have on your dish?". I remember hearing (this is OT) about when the Aleutian islands (that string of islands that sort of goes from Alaska to Siberia) first got radio dishes (not sure whether it was for direct or satellite), the natives found the dishes a good place to use for drying fish ... Maybe that would provide enough moisture for mushroom growth. |
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On 06/06/2018 12:01 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[snip] Was that Arthur C. Clarke's original paper (in Wireless World), 194x I think, about communications satellites? Sounds familiar. What struck me on reading it wasn't the manned status, but that they involved steam power to drive the generators! I think when that paper was written, photovoltaics as a source of energy were just a novelty, certainly not capable of generating enough power to power the valves (toobs) then current. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us/ "Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves." -- Horace Mann |
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