upgrading

'upgrading'

From the Collins English Dictionary - 'upgrade':

1) to assign or promote (a person or job) to a higher professional rank or position
2) to raise in value, importance, esteem, etc
3) to improve (a breed of livestock) by crossing with a better strain
4) U.S. and Canada - an upward slope
5) 'on the upgrade' - improving or progressing, as in importance, status, health, etc

I think it is generally witnessed and perpetuated that money enables one to 'upgrade' in a direct and reciprocal relationship, such that upgrading also enables one to earn more money, and so the cyclical headache on its axis of lifestyle and fertility fuels its own illimitable insanity.

I think the word 'upgrade' should be banned from the hifi lexicon, and then from our lives altogether, maybe ease a few folks yearnings and upsets, and maybe adjust the painful equation between money and quality of life.
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A pedantic technicality you may argue, when discussing the development or evolution of hifi (or anything else), but one which i think is important. Of course the monthly literature and advertising leviathans are only too well aware of this element of psychology.

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Is this posted on the wrong forum. Where is philosophers'R'Us?

Still at least I'm learning some big words, more than I'm learning about hifi.

 

cool - maybe that will assist you in fabricating a name or otherwise suitable pseudonym for yourself.

 

Humm, big words? can you intellicetual types explain that please, for us vocabulary challenged among the milling throng? cheers in advance

 

i think big words means nawty words

 

Thanks Penance I had a sneaky suspision, t'was along those lines. I'm now preparing to be dazzled. WM

 

sorry, i jumped in
best wait for the intellectual types


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I just looked up leviathan and they're whales are they? So how long have they been into hifi and would it just blow up if it got wet?

suitable pseudonym (aka ????)

 

well i hope they come soon, 'cos i haven't got a fokking clue what's going on

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Can someone show me out of this hole please, if you would be so kind, by way of a dazzling lynch or ladder - either will suffice. cheers in advance

 

...which are huge, monstrous things.....like 'whale omelettes', for when one is particularly peckish, to plagerise the words of another.


....sea monsters.

 

OK, a bit more serious then.

The word 'UPGRADE' has become a vital part of many aspects of our lives today.

In the 60's one "Kept up with the Jones' ". This was taken to an extreme during the very afluent 80's when a lot of people had more money than they knew what to do with.

This concept has prevailed and even though we are in a recession at present, spending is still too high. The Bank of England is afraid of putting up interest rates because too many people are borrowing money thay can afford to have. This would lead to a greater down fall for the populace and many Banks would lose out because too many people would default on these loans.

We 'UPGRADE' our lives and hifi is just a minor part of this.

So sell your goods and chattles, invest in a Tivoli and enjoy the free sounds from the ether. And pay those bills.

suitable pseudonym (aka ????)

 

There are a predominance of threads (many which are spawned in other climates) where an individual is requesting options for 'upgrading' without any necessary idea as to the purpose or goal of such an undertaking, other than the urgency of the act itself..........my point was nothing to do with spending money, or even lots of it, per se, more the drive of the act itself, and i have no desire to 'downgrade' to a Tivoli either, which is also a misnomer in my view...........

 

OK - sorry about the temporary disappearance of this thread. There's a database bug intdroduced with MySQL v4.0.12 which causes database corruption and the occasional thread to be deleted (usually as someone is replying to it). It's happened 3 times so far.

I'm attempting to get the hosting company to upgrade the DB software to v4.0.15 but so far no joy

Michael.

 

cheers Michael - though i doubt anyone here will thank you for your reconstructive efforts. It was hoped i feel that this had been evicted to a far away garden of some kind. . But alas.......

 

I didn't want anyone to think I'd suddenly gone all draconian :devil: - especially since ????s inaugural 3 posts were on this thread and he might have thought I had something against him

Michael.