Bay-lun. Originally (in my life) a transformer meant to adapt a
BALanced antenna signal to an
UNbalanced antenna cable. Bal. Un. Balun. Not Baylun.
And those stupid little things that have a BNC on one end, and two screw terminals on the other end, where there's just a wire connection between the ground of the BNC and one screw, and a wire connection between the hot of the BNC and the other screw... THOSE ARE NOT BALUNS. Those are adaptors.
HDMI on one wire. THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. HDMI IS A SPEC WITH MANY WIRES. If it's on one wire, it can't be HDMI. It can be any brand of HD you want to define, if you can get it to work, but it can't be HDMI unless it has HDMI connectors on both ends, and, what is it, 19 ? wires in the cable.
On October 28, 2018 at 22:16, davidcasemore said...
ATM "Machine"
PIN "Number"
Malcolm "the Tenth"
WI-Fi pronounced "WEE-FEE"
Probably as "Prolly"
"Two, Too, To" mistakes
"Your, You're" mistakes
There, their, they're mistakes
People saying they're going to hone in on a solution, when "honing" means doing fine polishing. One used to say that a barber would hone a straight razor on a strop (not a strap) What they mean is "homing" in on a solution. I mean, can you imagine honing pigeons?
Center around. The center is a point with zero dimensions, so it can't be around anything.
On October 28, 2018 at 22:07, Hasbeen said...
Had a customer always refer to his horrible Onkyo receiver as an Oinkeyo. Used to crack me up. He wasn't doing it to be amusing, he was just a master at butchering the english language.
I believe Oinkyo had a few models where the front was flat when it was powered off. Power it on and a transparent plastic piece that filled in all the spaces between the knobs would retract so that the buttons stuck out. These were called the suck-face models.
I'll probably be back with more....
