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hhhmmm.... tiz possible but i'm pretty certain it was a ppc that i was looking at. The rep did say she would try to find out some more info for me, when i get back from holiday i'll give her a ring and let you know what she has to say on the matter.
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:17 am Post subject:
SpeedCam wrote:
8O To be honest theres no need for a crack for the PND, it will only be a matter of time before some creates a product activation key generator. There was one floating around for TomTom V3.
The PND range is around since a few years, and the opentom guys have shown how to get access to the kernel. Yet so far there has not been a activation key generator that would work with the PNDs. Hats off to TomTom for that . At least one thing they did right. _________________ Lutz
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:50 am Post subject:
Quote:
Q] “Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?”
[A] The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: “She hasn’t responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath”.
It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.
Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.
For those who know the older spelling or who stop to consider the matter, baited breath evokes an incongruous image, which Geoffrey Taylor humorously (and consciously) captured in verse in his poem Cruel Clever Cat:
Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death
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Joined: May 10, 2006 Posts: 484 Location: Hampshire, UK
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 2:02 am Post subject:
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'bated' is an improper abbreviation of 'abated', is all I was saying.
But this beats all Hell out of some of us Yanks, who seem to have been eating worms with "baited" breath.
That's a first getting english lessons from a yank.
Quite unusual too - and for UK English, (I wouldn't presume to give a lesson on US English, although apparrently Mark Twain used the spelling bated) 'bated' is in fact the correct spelling and usage, although becoming less common.
I wouldn't normally presume to give an English lesson (people in glasshouses...etc., and my own spelling and grammar could be better), but when an incorrect lesson is given, I think a correction is required.
That is the Palm Bundle, though interestingly despite the fact that it was announced in the US on the 16th August I have not seen anything on the Palm ot TomTom sites about it.
That's a first getting english lessons from a yank.
{hehe}
I am sorry if I have offended some in Old Blighty by correcting Shakespeare, who is the source of this foul abomination of 'bated' which must be stamped out forthwith for all right-thinking people, lest the virtuousness of our daughters be threatened.
Joined: May 10, 2006 Posts: 484 Location: Hampshire, UK
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:06 pm Post subject:
Okay okay - I've reconsidered my position -
Quantum, you're allowed off topic one posting per day from now on, but only within the Back Of Beyond forum (and my apologies to regulars of that particular forum!)
It's hard enough for us PDA types to get TT's attention, without our dedicated forum being congested by {insert favourite insult here}.
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject:
bedbug wrote:
But amusing. A little levity is very welcome from time to time :D . _________________ Nexus 7 (2013) & Nexus 4/Sygic/CamerAlert
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Joined: May 10, 2006 Posts: 484 Location: Hampshire, UK
Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject:
gamichea wrote:
But amusing... :D .
I give up!!
Did I ever tell everyone about the time I went fishing on an old rowing boat? Well, about a week into the trip I... {author falls asleep at keyboard} _________________ iPhone 4/4S (iOS 5.1.1); TomTom Western Europe (1.10)/USA & Canada (1.10); CoPilot for iPhone (8), UK mapping, Mac OS 10.8/XP Pro/Win7; Tongue firmly in cheek!
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