Re: Recharging batteries: lack of a common visual vocabulary

perhaps the concept of «steam radio» could be elaborated upon? Is this  
the latest in radio-technology?
:-)

Ole
Funny Middleaged Man Department

…who, by the way, completely agree on the idea of a common  
batterycharger, digital clock and radio – especially car radio –  
grammar.

Den 3. feb.. 2009 kl. 11.39 skrev Rob Waller:

> Other areas of everyday life where a grammar is required:
> - digital clocks. Moving to summer time is great feat of memory,  
> manual dexterity, deduction and luck, and my oven clock is only  
> correct six months of the year.
> - car radios: every car seems to have a different set of  
> abbreviations: PTY, AST, TP, TA, etc. But only rarely On and Off.
>
> In fact any radio is more complicated than the ones we used to have.  
> Not able to receive steam radio in the basement kitchen of our new  
> home, I've just ordered an internet radio. I'll need to tune it, so  
> I think I won't make any plans for the weekend.
>
> Rob,
> Grumpy Old Man Department
>
> __________________________________
>
> Rob Waller
>
> Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
> University of Reading
>
>
>
> On 2 Feb 2009, at 18:46, Conrad Taylor wrote:
>
>> This evening, I am recharging my batteries.  No, that is not
>> a metaphor.  I have a bunch of Li-ion and NiMH rechargeable
>> batteries.  In anticipation of an expedition into Wessex,
>> I am recharging them.
>>
>> The dedicated Li-ion batteries for the Nikon D-200 SLR and the
>> Panasonic NV-GS320 DV-cam.  And the AA and AAA "Hybrio" NiMH
>> cells that I use for my digital audio recorders, flashgun and
>> LED torch (I have two chargers for such batteries).
>>
>> One of the chargers has a green LED that stays on until the
>> batteries are charged, then it goes out.  One has an orange
>> LED that flashes until the batteries are charges, then it
>> stops flashing.  One has a light that simply stays on all
>> the time to show the batteries are connected to the circuit,
>> and you have to guess whether the batteries have been charged
>> or not.  One charger has a light that starts out one colour,
>> and then changes to another colour when the battery is charged.
>>
>> "Why oh why oh why oh why..."  can't we have some kind of
>> visual vocabulary standardisation in this area? (!*@?)
>>
>> Conrad
>>
>> (Who, mounted on a charger, fears a charge of hungry Li-ions)
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