Comments for Future Tense - Production Notes

Comment on Our list of election-related sites by Alex Schlotzer

Alex Schlotzer — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:44:21 +0000

You’ve forgotten the Your Rights at Work website – http://www.rightsatwork.com.au

Comment on Our list of election-related sites by Jesse Marks

Jesse Marks — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 01:18:45 +0000

Animals Australia has provided information on party policies for animal welfare and is calling on those parties without a public policy to make the public aware of their stance. We’d be very happy for you to list this initiative. Thanks!

Comment on A reminder about our mission… by RNFutureTense

RNFutureTense — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:40:09 +0000

Charlie,

We actually included Valcent on a program looking at vertical farming last year. See http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2009/2492418.htm

We spoke with Glen Kertz from the company.

Cheers

Antony

Comment on A reminder about our mission… by Charlie Goodman

Charlie Goodman — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:08:38 +0000

If that’s the topic better check out the REAL vertical farming system….

Time Magazine says Valcent’s Vertical Farming Technology one of the Top 50 Best Innovations of 2009: http://bit.ly/5zDIqh

“I can’t think of any technology that addresses more urgent issues than Valcent’s vertical farming system”, says RFK Jr http://bit.ly/cPb00g

Reuters Video features Valcent’s VertiCrop vertical farming system: http://bit.ly/a9p47W

Comment on What year is this? by Vaudy Peng

Vaudy Peng — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:10:41 +0000

Twentyten may be consistent but what value consistency? it is after all just a shorthand like writing BBQ. The long way is more comunicative. In Indonesia I found it conceptually hard to get used to saying nineteen thousand and ninety five ( sembilanbelas ribu sembilanpuluh lima) as is their convention. Although had no trouble if that figure was a cost in currency. So used to a meaningless 2×2 digit code that the whole-number meaning is lost. To retain meaning a diversity of expressions should be ok. The thing signified stays fixed. As with the time: 9 pm, nine o clock in the evening or 2100 EST.

Comment on What year is this? by RNFutureTense

RNFutureTense — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 23:59:49 +0000

Here it is – the determination from SCOSE – the ABC’s ‘Standing Committee On Spoken English’.

SCOSE guidance on the issue:

“2010 twenty ten
Twenty ten is better than two thousand and ten. Subsequent dates should follow the same pattern.”

What do you think?

Comment on What year is this? by RNFutureTense

RNFutureTense — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:10:57 +0000

Checked with the ABC bods responsible for our style and pronunciation guides, they say ‘Twenty-ten’ is the ABC-endorsed pronunciation.

Comment on What year is this? by Robert Green

Robert Green — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:21:05 +0000

I think the ‘two thousand and…’ is better whilst the second part starts with a vowel (i.e. ‘twenty-o-eight’) simply due to the fact that twenty has a phonetic vowel at its end and the two conjoined are awkward to enunciate. ‘Twenty-o-eight’ simply doesn’t roll off the tongue!

In the previous millennium the first part finished in a phonetic consonant and therefore made enunciation much easier (e.g. ‘fourteen eleven’).

So maybe there will be a change from the previous decade’s common discourse. I personally think that ‘two thousand and ten’ is not that tortuous to say and the alternative is maybe simply another example of society becoming lazy with its language.

Comment on ‘Only fools and marketing types’ – Part One by Neerav

Neerav — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:47:33 +0000

How about actuaries who calculate future life spans?

Comment on Have you given up your landline? Why? by neerav bhatt

neerav bhatt — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:16:44 +0000

The rivers of golden revenue for telcos like Telstra from pstn (landline) calls have been drying up for years

Personally I havent made an outgoing landline call from home for years since I switched to voip.

Voip is like thomas friedmans description of globalisation because it makes the world flat by reducing the cost of calls so much that calling a friend in sydney costs the same as chatting to business contacts in china or usa.

Landine abandonment hasn’t been as prevalent as I thought it would be, mostly confined to younger generations and nomadic apartment renters but it is inevitable over time and may be accelerated by the NBN rollout