Computer Audio Asylum

Posted by Ryelands (A) on July 01, 2011 at 12:30:12

In Reply to: RE: Where we differ posted by Tony Lauck on July 01, 2011 at 11:40:52

If you give no truck to marketing terms then why do you constantly snipe that USB isn't "universal"?

Fair point. As a mathematician, you are no doubt familiar with Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll. Remember Alice in the Looking Glass ? One of the characters Alice met behind the mirror was, of course, Humpty-Dumpty:

'I don’t know what you mean by "glory," ' Alice said.

Humpty-Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don’t – till I tell you. I meant, "there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!" '

'But "Glory" doesn’t mean 'a nice knock-down argument,' Alice objected.

'When I use a word,' Humpty-Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'It means just what I want it to mean – neither more nor less'.

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things'.

'The question is,' said Humpty-Dumpty, 'which is to be master – that’s all.'

I find it hard to say whether fmak's incessant rants are as irritating as they are ill-informed or the other way round.

But perhaps it's just an optically-isolated illusion. In other words, there are no grounds for it.

Edits: 07/01/11