Re: 'Blockbuster picks Blu-Ray' - questions

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:31:06 GMT, trotsky wrote:

Jay G. wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:33:37 GMT, trotsky wrote:


Jay G. wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:34:43 GMT, trotsky wrote:

Could you list these "untenable positions" because I don't think there
are any?

This one:

The physical media are referred to as "software".

That's not an untenable position, it's the correct one. I later
clarified it to mean media with content.

The fact that you had to "clarify" it confirms it was incorrect, since if
it was correct as written, it wouldn't need clarification.

This one:

"Software" has *always* referred to media....long before
computer software was even a concept.

Hardly untenable, since as the discussion progressed I didn't maintain
that position.

http://www.answers.com/untenable&r=67
un·ten·a·ble (ŭn-tĕn'ə-bəl) pronunciation
adj.
1. Being such that defense or *maintenance* is impossible: an untenable
position.

Also:

IN BRIEF: Not capable of being defended. Also: Not able to be *maintained*.

That you didn't maintain the position is the *definition* of an untenable
position.

And this one:

I'm signing off now.

That's semantics and nothing else. First you need to define "untenable"
and then you need to admit how it fits you to a T.

The definitions of "untenable" are provided above. Since you didn't
maintain your position of signing off the thread for good, that position
was untenable.


So you admit that downloads are software. Good.

No, because there is no medium in a download.

A download is downloaded *through* an internet connection, which is a
medium, and *to* a harddrive; and as you said, "I do consider the hard
drive that you're downloading to as the storage *medium* to be used"

Uh, no. Transmission medium and storage medium are two different
things.

They're both still media. TV is a transmission medium, but is still
referred to as part of the same "media" that includes print.

And you've already admitted that a download on a hard drive can be
considered to be software, at least under certain conditions.

Did you know that when I store something to a CDR or DVD-R that
the computer bus is the transmission medium[?]

So if I transferred software from a CDR to a DVD-R, or vice versa, what is
software at the beginning and the end of the process does not count as
software in the intervening transmission process?

-Jay
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