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From: G-S on 7 Dec 2009 15:22 Moike wrote: > F Murtz wrote: >> Brad wrote: >>> "Moike"<bmwmoike(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >>> news:4b1c13b0$1(a)newsgate.x-privat.org... >>> : Marty H wrote: >>> :> On Dec 6, 8:22 pm, "Nev.."<id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>> :>> Jeff R. wrote: >>> :>>> Still think $12 is steep? >>> :>> Sure is. I think the most expensive app I have spent money on >>> cost me >>> :>> $8.99, but that one actually saves me money every time I use it. >>> :>> >>> :>> Nev.. >>> :>> '08 DL1000K8 >>> :> >>> :> what is a Tachometer worth..? >>> :> >>> :> or, what is a audible Tachometer worth? >>> :> >>> :> I need one, so "if" I had a iPhone/iTouch, $12 would be a bargain >>> :> >>> :> mh >>> :> >>> : A silly question, perhaps, but why? >>> : >>> : The tachos on most modern bikes are digital and ought be at least as >>> : accurate. Would any slight error make any real difference?. >>> : >>> : Moike >>> >>> >>> IPhone has GPS right, GPS gives speed so why tach at all? >>> >> Rev counters are used for purposes other than looking pretty on the >> instrument panel. > Yes, But I'm struggling to think of a time when I might be tuning the > motor and be unable to use the tacho on the instrument panel. I doubt that the bike tacho is accurate enough for tuning carbs with (I know mine isn't). > If I needed one, I'd just use the Tach/dwell/multimeter... My multimeter doesn't have tach/dwell and it would be more expensive to buy a new one than the app. G-S
From: G-S on 7 Dec 2009 15:23 Kevin Gleeson wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:47:22 -0800 (PST), Marty H <hytram(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Dec 7, 7:37 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>> Marty H wrote: >>>> On Dec 7, 5:52 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>> Marty H wrote: >>>>>> On Dec 6, 8:22 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Jeff R. wrote: >>>>>>>> Still think $12 is steep? >>>>>>> Sure is. I think the most expensive app I have spent money on cost me >>>>>>> $8.99, but that one actually saves me money every time I use it. >>>>>>> Nev.. >>>>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>>>> what is a Tachometer worth..? >>>>>> or, what is a audible Tachometer worth? >>>>>> I need one, so "if" I had a iPhone/iTouch, $12 would be a bargain >>>>> Just about every motor vehicle I've ever owned has come with a >>>>> tachometer factory fitted. I find it hard to believe an iphone >>>>> tachometer could be used as anything other than a gimick for a vast >>>>> majority of the population. If you need one then maybe it is value for >>>>> you, but I struggle to think of any circumstance when a tachometer app >>>>> would be of actual non-novelty use. >>>>> Nev.. >>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>> you have never worked on, restored or rebuilt a bike/engine/carby >>>> then? >>> No, and neither do the vast majority of the population. The ones who >>> do, have a tachometer. >> So the worldwide production of Tachometers must stop now because all >> the people that will ever need one, replace one etc has dried up? >> >> I think the argument that the neither do the vast majority of the >> population is a little mute, if things always needed the vast >> majority, very little would ever see final production. All that is >> need is a market. >> >>> What? You don't have a tachometer? What kind >>> of bike/engine/carby restorer/rebuilder are you? >> A new one in the market for one >> >>>> ever built and played with RC aircraft? >>> No, and neither do an even more vast majority of the population. >> again..a mute argument, there is enough people into that hobby to >> justify a device like this (also refer to my ebay link in my last >> post) >> >> example >> >> http://www.rcgroups.com Members: 291,316 >> (the most popular RC I know of) >> >> www.advrider.com Inmates: 116,705 >> (the most popular MC forum I know of) >> >>> If you need one then maybe it is value for you. >> correct, another people who could use it >> >>>> you are, like some others in this thread are thinking a Tacho is only >>>> use to change gears >>> Why would you need a tacho to change gears? Back off the throttle, pull >>> in the clutch, give the gear lever a kick... nope, no tacho ;) >> you'll keep :-P >> >> >> mh > > > Moot. The word is moot. A mute is something you shove up the pointy > end of a trumpet. > > </rant> Or an obsolete word for a person who cannot speak... G-S
From: Moike on 7 Dec 2009 15:46 Marty H wrote: > On Dec 7, 10:51 pm, Kevin Gleeson <kevinglee...(a)imagine-it.com.au> > wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:47:22 -0800 (PST), Marty H <hyt...(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Dec 7, 7:37 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>> Marty H wrote: >>>>> On Dec 7, 5:52 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>>> Marty H wrote: >>>>>>> On Dec 6, 8:22 pm, "Nev.." <id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> Jeff R. wrote: >>>>>>>>> Still think $12 is steep? >>>>>>>> Sure is. I think the most expensive app I have spent money on cost me >>>>>>>> $8.99, but that one actually saves me money every time I use it. >>>>>>>> Nev.. >>>>>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>>>>> what is a Tachometer worth..? >>>>>>> or, what is a audible Tachometer worth? >>>>>>> I need one, so "if" I had a iPhone/iTouch, $12 would be a bargain >>>>>> Just about every motor vehicle I've ever owned has come with a >>>>>> tachometer factory fitted. I find it hard to believe an iphone >>>>>> tachometer could be used as anything other than a gimick for a vast >>>>>> majority of the population. If you need one then maybe it is value for >>>>>> you, but I struggle to think of any circumstance when a tachometer app >>>>>> would be of actual non-novelty use. >>>>>> Nev.. >>>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>>> you have never worked on, restored or rebuilt a bike/engine/carby >>>>> then? >>>> No, and neither do the vast majority of the population. The ones who >>>> do, have a tachometer. >>> So the worldwide production of Tachometers must stop now because all >>> the people that will ever need one, replace one etc has dried up? >>> I think the argument that the neither do the vast majority of the >>> population is a little mute, if things always needed the vast >>> majority, very little would ever see final production. All that is >>> need is a market. >>>> What? You don't have a tachometer? What kind >>>> of bike/engine/carby restorer/rebuilder are you? >>> A new one in the market for one >>>>> ever built and played with RC aircraft? >>>> No, and neither do an even more vast majority of the population. >>> again..a mute argument, there is enough people into that hobby to >>> justify a device like this (also refer to my ebay link in my last >>> post) >>> example >>> http://www.rcgroups.com Members: 291,316 >>> (the most popular RC I know of) >>> www.advrider.com Inmates: 116,705 >>> (the most popular MC forum I know of) >>>> If you need one then maybe it is value for you. >>> correct, another people who could use it >>>>> you are, like some others in this thread are thinking a Tacho is only >>>>> use to change gears >>>> Why would you need a tacho to change gears? Back off the throttle, pull >>>> in the clutch, give the gear lever a kick... nope, no tacho ;) >>> you'll keep :-P >>> mh >> Moot. The word is moot. A mute is something you shove up the pointy >> end of a trumpet. >> >> </rant> > > I thought it looked wrong.. > > ta > > mh > (moot...moot..moot...got it) I knew it was wrong, but in the context, looked right. "Mute Point": An argument that doesn't say anything.
From: Kevin Gleeson on 7 Dec 2009 16:54 On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:39:25 +1100, F Murtz <haggisz(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >Kevin Gleeson wrote: >> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 03:47:22 -0800 (PST), Marty H<hytram(a)gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Dec 7, 7:37 pm, "Nev.."<id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>> Marty H wrote: >>>>> On Dec 7, 5:52 pm, "Nev.."<id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>>> Marty H wrote: >>>>>>> On Dec 6, 8:22 pm, "Nev.."<id...(a)mindless.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> Jeff R. wrote: >>>>>>>>> Still think $12 is steep? >>>>>>>> Sure is. I think the most expensive app I have spent money on cost me >>>>>>>> $8.99, but that one actually saves me money every time I use it. >>>>>>>> Nev.. >>>>>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>>>>> what is a Tachometer worth..? >>>>>>> or, what is a audible Tachometer worth? >>>>>>> I need one, so "if" I had a iPhone/iTouch, $12 would be a bargain >>>>>> Just about every motor vehicle I've ever owned has come with a >>>>>> tachometer factory fitted. I find it hard to believe an iphone >>>>>> tachometer could be used as anything other than a gimick for a vast >>>>>> majority of the population. If you need one then maybe it is value for >>>>>> you, but I struggle to think of any circumstance when a tachometer app >>>>>> would be of actual non-novelty use. >>>> >>>>>> Nev.. >>>>>> '08 DL1000K8 >>>> >>>>> you have never worked on, restored or rebuilt a bike/engine/carby >>>>> then? >>>> >>>> No, and neither do the vast majority of the population. The ones who >>>> do, have a tachometer. >>> >>> So the worldwide production of Tachometers must stop now because all >>> the people that will ever need one, replace one etc has dried up? >>> >>> I think the argument that the neither do the vast majority of the >>> population is a little mute, if things always needed the vast >>> majority, very little would ever see final production. All that is >>> need is a market. >>> >>>> What? You don't have a tachometer? What kind >>>> of bike/engine/carby restorer/rebuilder are you? >>> >>> A new one in the market for one >>> >>>> >>>>> ever built and played with RC aircraft? >>>> >>>> No, and neither do an even more vast majority of the population. >>> >>> again..a mute argument, there is enough people into that hobby to >>> justify a device like this (also refer to my ebay link in my last >>> post) >>> >>> example >>> >>> http://www.rcgroups.com Members: 291,316 >>> (the most popular RC I know of) >>> >>> www.advrider.com Inmates: 116,705 >>> (the most popular MC forum I know of) >>> >>>> >>>> If you need one then maybe it is value for you. >>> >>> correct, another people who could use it >>> >>>> >>>>> you are, like some others in this thread are thinking a Tacho is only >>>>> use to change gears >>>> >>>> Why would you need a tacho to change gears? Back off the throttle, pull >>>> in the clutch, give the gear lever a kick... nope, no tacho ;) >>> >>> you'll keep :-P >>> >>> >>> mh >> >> >> Moot. The word is moot. A mute is something you shove up the pointy >> end of a trumpet. > > Or someone with no tongue Be hard to play the trumpet with no tongue . . .
From: Kevin Gleeson on 7 Dec 2009 16:55
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:16:42 +1100, Lee <tardis42(a)gmail.com.remove> wrote: >On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:51:32 +1100, Kevin Gleeson ><kevingleeson(a)imagine-it.com.au> wrote: > > >> >> Moot. The word is moot. A mute is something you shove up the pointy >> end of a trumpet. >> >> </rant> > ><pedant> >The blunt end of a trumpet, surely? ></pedant> It's the poimty end if your ear is right next to it. |