[sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !

[John L Marshall]

Well. If eveyone would use banana jacks there would be no problem.


Take care,
John
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Tillman" <don at till.com>
To: <batzman at all-electric.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Re: Hertz Wars !


>    > Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 03:40:35 +0930
>    > From: "Batz Goodfortune" <batzman at all-electric.com>
>    > 
>    > Actually Australia uses 50Hz. It's impossible to get the rats to
>    > turn the wheels any faster.
> 
> Yeah, and your water goes down the drain the wrong way too!  :-)
> 
> There are a lot of cases of differing standards that are set up when
> other existing standards will work just as well.  Sometimes just to be
> different.  Or for a business strategy to limit competition.  Or just
> to be annoying.  I call them "anti-standards".  We see this all over.
> 
> In traffic laws, when some countries drive on the other side of the
> road.  
> 
> The San Francisco BART trains with their non-standard track size.
> 
> Television standards (NTSC, PAL, etc.).
> 
> Heck, here in the 21st century, after almost 60 years of computer
> development, we can't even agree on a newline character.  (Unix, the
> PC and the Mac all use different newline characters.)  Or backspace
> character.  Or endian-ness.  That's ridiculous.
> 
> And of course, we aren't helping any with our 1/4-inch, 1/8-inch,
> banana plug war.  :-)
> 
>   -- Don
> 
> -- 
> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California, USA
> don at till.com
> http://www.till.com
>