Opinion: Apple -- Here to Stay

MacCentral ^ | March 08, 2005 | Don Tennant

[Petronski]

I don't let anyone see my drafts until I've plowed back through it myself three or four times. If it isn't musical--if I hear a 'plonk' in the middle of the melody--I know to rewrite.

Individual styles may vary.

jp

[antiRepublicrat]

There are secondary frequencies called "beat frequencies" that are the result of

So that's why AAC sounds so much clearer, depite years of concerts and a car accident making my ears not hear as well as they used to. Thanks.

[antiRepublicrat]

Dog, dictionaries lag behind changing technology.

I have a 1940s dictionary that doesn't include any of the computer terms we're using here. I guess we can drop this whole thing since it's not in the dictionary.

[pageonetoo]

And sometimes the only data-entry device was a pencil and paper...

When in Hong Kong, I bought some carvings from an old man. He toted an abacus with him throught the shop, sliding the beads, and whispeing to himself.

It's a wonder we made it to the moon and beyond... slide rules, and hand drafting! Looking back at the early computing, it's funny. We've sure come a long way. We now argue over who makes a better appliance!

I can't imagine what we can expect in only the next ten years...

...Voyagers Surpass 10,000 Days Of Operation

The intrepid twin Voyager spacecraft, launched about two weeks apart in the summer of 1977 and now heading out of the solar system, continue making history. On Jan. 5, 2005 the Voyager team noted a milestone with a nice round number: 10,000 days since Voyager 2's launch. On Jan. 21, 2005 Voyager 1 also passed 10,000 days...

[antiRepublicrat]

HINT: Taxi is not derived from Vehicle, it is a Vehicle.

Being derived from Vehicle, it is a Vehicle. OOP 101.

Very little in the real world follows the object oriented design model.

The first object oriented language was SIMULA, and it was developed for doing simulations -- that is, modelling the real-world.

Firmware is software that is stored in Read-Only memory or EEPROM's (using all definitions). By nature firmware is always software.

Please tell me you don't really do OOP, otherwise somebody right now is very sorry they hired you. Due to its nature, firmware has some things that the general term "software" in general doesn't have. Therefore it's not a good idea to just use the Software class to define firmware. It's better to derive another class from Software that can hold the extra information and have new methods, such as "flash."

[antiRepublicrat]

For your position to be correct, you must answer "no" to all of those questions.

Okay, "No," "No," and "No."

Respectively, a PROM is fuse-based and an EPROM is capacitor-based, while a ROM is masked at the foundry. The function of the longer acronyms may encapsulate the function of the shorter ones, but they are in fact completely distinct devices.

I couldn't use an EPROM burner to burn a PROM or vice versa. I sometimes couldn't even use a PROM burner to read a ROM (all these devices read as well as write). The technologies are that different, and you use the different ones for different conditions and requirements.

[antiRepublicrat]

ROM is Read Only-Memory - how it works is trivia.

How it works defines what a ROM is, all of your incorrect web definitions aside. Go to somebody who works with this stuff (like I did) and say "ROM" and he'll say "This needs to be masked at the foundry, do you need me to design a mask? Better make sure your program is 100% correct because there's no going back" Say "PROM" and he'll say "I have to burn it, how many do you want? I'll give you the first one for testing before you tell me to burn the rest. If you want too many, might as well have ROMs made instead." He won't say "Oh, it's a writable ROM" because the concept of a writable ROM is rediculous, and the entire procedure, planning and business process around one is completely different.

[Last Visible Dog]

Both of these acronyms are misspelled when you insert an extraneous apostrophe

You are such a blowhard know-it-all.

That would be a punctuation error, not a spelling error.

If you are hoping to become a spelling error Nazi troll, you are going to have to try a lot harder.

[antiRepublicrat]

Oh goody. You are a spelling nazi troll too. Spelling nazi trolls are very popular on Freerepublic

It's not spelling, it's punctuation that changes the meaning of the sentence. We all make typos, we all make spelling mistakes, but we don't all consistently change the meaning of our sentences through apostrophe misuse.

Hint: Move your apostrophes from the acronyms and into your possessives.

[Last Visible Dog]

Did you sleep throug English as well?

Were you born a blowhard know-it-all wannabe or did you study? Elementary school children know the different between spelling and punctuation.

[Last Visible Dog]

And YOU have been spending your days arguing with logic that would flunk you from any logic class that I have attended.

I grow tired of your constant attacks and endless self-aggrandizement

I have had three position is this debate and all three have proved to be correct. Let's review my positions:

1. Apple designed the Ipod so the battery is not meant to be changed by the user. Go to the Apple website and you will see I am correct. Put in terms even you can understand: I am right and you are wrong.

2. The Ipod is over-priced. Although over-priced is a somewhat subjective position, when you compare specifications of the Ipod with all other competing MP3 players it is very clear the Ipod is priced very much higher than the competition with identical specifications. Put in terms even you can understand: I am right and you are wrong.

3. Firmware is software and not hardware. This position was presented is response to a claim that Compaq reverse engineered the hardware of the IBM PC. While this debate has taken many digressions - many nonsensical - nevertheless through technical definitions and usage debate it have been clearly established that firmware is not hardware. Therefore my position is correct. Put in terms even you can understand: I am right and you are wrong.

As for you - it looks as thought you have not taken any position whatsoever. You sit on the sidelines and snipe like a troll.

[Last Visible Dog]

Elementary school children know the different between spelling and punctuation.

Swordmaker, when you snipe from the sidelines on this one - remember it is a "usage error" and not a "spelling error"

[Last Visible Dog]

How it works defines what a ROM is...

Dandy. But the acronym ROM defines usage, not how it works.

[Last Visible Dog]

Being derived from Vehicle, it is a Vehicle. OOP 101.

OOP does not work in the real world. Taxis are not derived from Vehicle, they are a Vehicle. OOP is conceptual - Taxis are not.

[Last Visible Dog]

Did you sleep throug English as well?

Isn't it funny when a spelling Nazi troll makes a spelling error - especially when they make a spelling error in a message where they are attacking somebody else's spelling.

[Last Visible Dog]

I have a 1940s dictionary that doesn't include any of the computer terms we're using here. I guess we can drop this whole thing since it's not in the dictionary.

You are so right - those on-line technical resources lag the technology by 40 years or more therefore it is much easier to just make up your own definitions to suit your current needs. It just confuses matters when words have meaning.

/Sarcasm

[pageonetoo]

You sure sound silly... You have digressed into puerility and obscurity.

LVD, Macs are better computers. Mac users are smarter, and more creative. Mac people have more fun... What could be simpler? If you don't agree, go munch a cracker or an eprom...

Is this how you always respond?

[Last Visible Dog]

The first object oriented language was SIMULA, and it was developed for doing simulations -- that is, modelling the real-world.

SIMULA was used to model processes, not the real world.

A taxi does not inherit from the class Vehicle. A taxi is a vehicle and there is no class Vehicle in the real world. OO is a abstruction, not a real world model.

Please tell me you don't really do OOP, otherwise somebody right now is very sorry they hired you.

Don't be silly. We are not debating OO software design - you are trying to apply OO concepts where they do not work.

Please cut the crap with the personal insults.

Due to its nature, firmware has some things that the general term "software" in general doesn't have.

I grow tired of this endless changing of the subject. You claimed firmware was hardware. You were wrong. The debate was whether firmware is software or hardware. You claimed it was hardware and that position has been shown to be false.

[Petronski]

LOL

[Last Visible Dog]

You sure sound silly... You have digressed into puerility and obscurity.

Opening with a personal insult. Are you another troll?

LVD, Macs are better computers.

That is your personal opinion. Only arrogant people claim their personal opinion is fact.

Mac users are smarter, and more creative.

What next, a log diatribe about how smart you think you are?

Is this how you always respond?

Are you a troll or just a: