[G4] Ancient Tech?

[Robert H. Baucom]

I was inferring that persons not familiar with what you are talking  
about, or the meaning of the acronyms, go nearly comatose with apathy  
when the that field becomes the subject of conversation.
As a youth I would start to nod as my father and associates would  
talk of trouble shooting a vacuum tube radio. There was talk of  
cathodes, anodes, variable resistors, tube part numbers
and a lot of things that I didn't understand until I got into  
electronics and instrumentation. But at age 12, when older guys  
started talking "Radio", I learned how to nod at the right time let  
them do all the talking and fake it. When I'm writing something (it's  
the common practice in  publishing),  I always spell it out with the  
acronym behind it - the first time that it's used.

As Kevin Cameron the Technical Editor of Cycle World Magazine says,  
"When the group of men get to discussing engines , "My wife calls it  
'Talking Squish Band'."
RHB

On Feb 22, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Jonathan I. Nori wrote:

> No acronyms?
>
> Dear lord, acronyms have been around forever, in every industry.
>
> RPM?
> PVC?
> A/C?
> HVAC?
> TV?
> LPG?
>
> None of these are computer related, and they are just the acronyms  
> I can see from my kitchen. :)
>
> This isn't relevant to the conversation, but I thought I'd point  
> out that not liking computers because of the acronyms is like not  
> liking cars because they have wheels. ;)
>
> Jon
>
>
>>>> rbtbcm at owc.net 02/20/09 10:15 AM >>>
> My Canadian Mac Guru has a MDD that he uses for some remote (in the
> other room) function that I forget ... because it's so  loud.
> He's the one that put me on to G4 DA's and Quicksilvers.
> BTW, CS4 ? Whas that?
> Acronyms are what turn- off the computer illiterate so. MY wife can't
> stand it.
>
> As Albert said in a Pogo Cartoon. "People got to stop using these
> letters that don't spell anything. A guy comes in and hollers, 'FYI,
> I'm a VIP on the PDQ with the RSVP soonest.'
> nobody understands it. Pretty soon we go to war. "
>
> RHB
>
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Frank Sudore wrote:
>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Frank Sudore
>>
>> fsudore at mac.com
>> 954- 253- 1933
>>
>>
>>
>> Well I just sold a  MDD dual 1.45 to a close friend for 250.00
>> I paid 3K for it in 2002 and the only thing I did was just replace
>> the power supply.
>> Besides being loud I still think it was faster than the dual G5
>> 2.0 that replaced it.
>> Installed CS4 and it still rocks. Try that with a PC
>>
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