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A logic circuit that takes a single input and sends it to one of several outputs. In networking, it is used to describe a device that receives a transmission of several signals over a single line and can properly decode the single line signal into multiple signals.
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Demultiplexer - On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:45:24 GMT, "Anthony Giorgianni" wrote:This was pretty outrageous, so I thought I share it:I got a call during dinner time yesterday (I'm sure it was a telemarketer)and heard this in a female voice:"You have an incoming call, but none of our representatives is currentlyavailable. Please hold." :o)The gall! The audacity!! :)Oh yeah, I got nothing better to do than sit there waiting on the line for atelemarketer to come on and give me a spiel.They are clearly counting on finding suckers who won't figure this out untilit's too late.This is a variation of the one where the auto dialer calls you, you answerand the dialer, in trying to send the call to the human telemarketer,transfers it to a wrong number, and you hear this recorded message: "Pleasecheck the number and dial again." I've had that happen a couple of times.Usually when there are no telemarketing slime available the predictive dialerjust hangs up on you. However, there is one which has a prerecorded female voicethat says "I'm sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number" and then it hangs upon you. I bet countless people have gotten a call from this predictive dialermodel and never even knew it.Of course, if everyone simply would refuse to buy from telemarketers ordonate to telephone solicitors, all this would go awayMy theory is that it will go away. The older "be polite at all costs" generationis dying off rapidly; as the telemarketing industry's victims die off, so willtheir profits.--Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller
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