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[BiffStroganoffsky]

Or commissioner Gordon.

I've listened to bad vinyl and good CD/DVDs and vice-versa. It depends a lot on the master recording system and the end-user's components.

[Captain Ned]

A Big Red Telephone? I assume you just lift the receiver and the president picks up on the other end.

If that were the case I'd be in one of those offshore CIA "detention facilities".

I bought a red one off EBay simply because it was red.

[steelcity_ballin]

A Big Red Telephone? I assume you just lift the receiver and the president picks up on the other end.

If that were the case I'd be in one of those offshore CIA "detention facilities".

I bought a red one off EBay simply because it was red.

Phone hipster! I bet you tried to use 10-10-321+1+the number! It's that easy!

[Captain Ned]

Phone hipster! I bet you tried to use 10-10-321+1+the number! It's that easy!

Actually, the landline is local-only. Long distance calls here go out on the cell. I have the landline simply because when the power is out (not uncommon here in VT) I know I have a reliable means of communication. The red dial phone was just a fleeting EBay deal and yet another way to relive the past while simultaneously tweaking the digital-era daughter.

That said, the ring is pure aural beauty. It's how a telephone is supposed to sound (says the one whose cell ringtone is the Doctor Who theme music).

[JustAnEngineer]

...hard-wired phone I've had in the house (the TrimLine Touch-Tone is now a backup).

Land line?

I have Ooma.

[notfred]

A Big Red Telephone? I assume you just lift the receiver and the president picks up on the other end.

Nope, that's Hoot-n-Holler, which doesn't need a dial. What Ned has is a proper pulse tone dialling phone to plug in to an FXS POTS line. The big problem with them is the REN (to drive the solenoid hammering the bell) sucks.

[just brew it!]

Nope, that's Hoot-n-Holler, which doesn't need a dial. What Ned has is a proper pulse tone dialling phone to plug in to an FXS POTS line. The big problem with them is the REN (to drive the solenoid hammering the bell) sucks.

Yup. On a traditional phone line, the ringing signal is 90 volts AC because it had to be capable of providing enough power to drive a hefty electromechanical ringer through a long run of thin (24 gauge IIRC) wire. REN (ringer equivalence number) determines how many phones you can connect to the same line and still have them all ring; connect too many old phones to the line and the current draw of the ringers and resistive losses in the wiring will prevent any of them from ringing.

Edit: And of course, this means that the base station of your modern cordless phone needs to have a circuit in it that can detect the presence of 90 VAC on the line, and turn that into a transmitted "ring" packet in whatever digital protocol it is using to talk to the handsets. All in the name of staying backward compatible with phones that were built well before our parents were born!

[DancinJack]

http://archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov- ... ionTrilogy

[annabel]

I'm moving to New Zealand in 11 weeks.

Yikes.

[Captain Ned]

I'm moving to New Zealand in 11 weeks.

Yikes.

Be prepared to see Hobbitses on your 1 & 2 pound coins.

Been too long since you've been here Bel. We male lot missed your touch.

EDIT: $1NZ and $2NZ coins. NZ dropped the pound for the dollar in 1967.

[annabel]

Clearly I'm moving to NZ solely to find a hobbit.

I'm always around when needed

Anyway in NZ wanna buy me an ice cream?

[Vrock]

I'm moving to New Zealand in 11 weeks.

For permanent? Wow! Post pictures of the landscapes, please!

[annabel]

For permanent? Wow! Post pictures of the landscapes, please!

I'm not sure if I'll stay forever, but certainly for the next year or two. Slightly scary. I can't wait to explore the landscapes and nature. I was in the Alps a few months ago and that was amazing and I'm ready for more

[notfred]

Yup. On a traditional phone line, the ringing signal is 90 volts AC because it had to be capable of providing enough power to drive a hefty electromechanical ringer through a long run of thin (24 gauge IIRC) wire.

Leading to the dog barks before the telephone rings tales.

Bel - have fun in NZ. I've never been but it sounds awesome. I did the move from UK to Canada, initially just temporary but liked it so much I came back permanently. From the sounds of it the UK has been going down hill since I left 13 years ago.

[DancinJack]

So Google Now is coming to Chrome. Pretty cool if you ask me.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu ... ?id=164227

[Captain Ned]

Yup. On a traditional phone line, the ringing signal is 90 volts AC because it had to be capable of providing enough power to drive a hefty electromechanical ringer through a long run of thin (24 gauge IIRC) wire.

Leading to the dog barks before the telephone rings tales.

I've taken a hit ot rwo of ring current and it's not pleasant.

[DancinJack]

I've taken a hit ot rwo of ring current and it's not pleasant.

Kaluha in the coffee this morning?

[Captain Ned]

I've taken a hit ot rwo of ring current and it's not pleasant.

Kaluha in the coffee this morning?

No, just the bad luck to be working on phone wiring when someone calls the house. It won't kill you, but it definitely gets your complete and undivided attention. Looking at the ringer assembly in my "new" phone, I understand the need to push so much current out on those 24ga wires.

[just brew it!]

I'm moving to New Zealand in 11 weeks.

Yikes.

Wow, very cool. Good luck!

[idchafee]

One of the nice things about living in Chicago is ready access to Goose Island products

[just brew it!]

One of the nice things about living in Chicago is ready access to Goose Island products

Too bad the quality seems to be somewhat variable now that they've been bought out.

I'm really looking forward to the opening of Lagunitas' Chicago facility next year.

[Captain Ned]

Just finished Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle and find myself wanting to do nothing more than grab Cryptonomicon off the shelf and reread it straight through to find all the linkages I didn't remember when reading the Baroque Cycle. Not sure when I'll ever find the time to get to Reamde.

[Glorious]

Read Anathem first. Between it and REAMDE it becomes very clear just what Enoch Root actually is.

[DancinJack]

Well I've accepted an offer to be an Engineer in downtown Boston.

Boston gerbils, get at me.

[Dizik]

Well I've accepted an offer to be an Engineer in downtown Boston.

Boston gerbils, get at me.

Congrats!

[icoltsfan94]

An entire day lapse in dymt? Unheard of. Suppose its as good a time as any to join in. Maybe I'll attempt to read it all...........

[Dizik]

Yay...I have no idea what to get the wife for Christmas.

[DancinJack]

Yay...I have no idea what to get the wife for Christmas.

Didn't you move to Austin? Get some delicious local food and cook her something. At least that'll take care of part of it.

[Dizik]

Didn't you move to Austin? Get some delicious local food and cook her something. At least that'll take care of part of it.

I had to move back to Oklahoma since we couldn't sell our house.

[superjawes]

Yay...I have no idea what to get the wife for Christmas.

Books.

My parents kept asking me what I wanted for Christmas, and I couldn't think of anything. Then I finally remembered that books are pretty great gifts because they're actually something you can gift, and it's something people don't think about often enough.