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From: unsettled on 2 Feb 2007 22:11 MassiveProng wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 07 14:04:45 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > >>In article <8e65s297p2fs3tfodc3mk1rmqu2phstukv(a)4ax.com>, >> MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 01 Feb 07 12:46:52 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>> >>> >>>>It isn't the burners. It is the computer board in the stove that >>>>is bad. >>> >>> The stove has a clock, a cooking timer, and maybe some thermal probe >>>monitoring ports. That isn't a computer. >> >>It has one board. > > > > Which incorporates all the items I listed above. Being a single > board STILL does NOT make it a computer. > > Nice attempt at a sidestep, though. Your definitions are, to coin a phrase, unique. "An electronic device for the storage and processing of information." www.micro2000uk.co.uk/hardware_glossary.htm
From: unsettled on 2 Feb 2007 22:13 MassiveProng wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 07 14:05:53 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: > > >>>Here's one with an embedded computer: >>> >>>http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/AGR5725RD.html >> >>Everything has a damned computer these days. > > > > Your stove, nor the one he put a link up for has a computer in it. An electronic device for the storage and processing of information. www.micro2000uk.co.uk/hardware_glossary.htm
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 22:22 On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:28:38 +0000, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)hotmail.com> Gave us: > > >MassiveProng wrote: > >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> > MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >> >> jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> >> >> >>>You people sure seem to have to think in absolutes. >> >> >> >> Like you and your stove. >> > >> >I would have been superstitious about the stove, except another >> >bit god I know can't use his modem when his stove is plugged in. >> >> >> If he is on a modem, he is hardly anything even close to a "bit >> god". >> >> Sheesh. > >If he also can't fix it he's even less close to being a 'god' too. > >Graham > Whoosh! What was that!? I think abitofagod just whooshed by!
From: MassiveProng on 2 Feb 2007 22:38 On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:11:52 -0600, unsettled <unsettled(a)nonsense.com> Gave us: >MassiveProng wrote: > >> On Fri, 02 Feb 07 14:04:45 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >> >> >>>In article <8e65s297p2fs3tfodc3mk1rmqu2phstukv(a)4ax.com>, >>> MassiveProng <MassiveProng(a)thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote: >>> >>>>On Thu, 01 Feb 07 12:46:52 GMT, jmfbahciv(a)aol.com Gave us: >>>> >>>> >>>>>It isn't the burners. It is the computer board in the stove that >>>>>is bad. >>>> >>>> The stove has a clock, a cooking timer, and maybe some thermal probe >>>>monitoring ports. That isn't a computer. >>> >>>It has one board. >> >> >> >> Which incorporates all the items I listed above. Being a single >> board STILL does NOT make it a computer. >> >> Nice attempt at a sidestep, though. > >Your definitions are, to coin a phrase, unique. You're an idiot. I work in the industry. It would be termed a micro-controller, at best. STILL NOT a computer. >"An electronic device for the storage and processing of information." A calculator would fit the definition. It isn't a computer either. It IS a calculator. The controller in an oven is a micro-controller, nothing more. The consumer device has to have Windows CE or the like on it, and have a user interface with a gui to BE a computer. Otherwise, it is no more than fancy CONTROL hardware. You really have more people laughing at you than you realize.
From: Eeyore on 2 Feb 2007 22:38
"Rich Grise, Plainclothes Hippie" wrote: > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:39:51 +0000, Eeyore wrote: > > Tony Lance wrote: > > > >> Big Bertha Thing spider > > > > Are you regularly in the habit of posting stuff with no relevance to the thread > > ? > > _EVERYONE_ is in the habit of posting stuff with no relevance in _this_ > thread. ;-) Yeah but his stuff is especially irrelevant ! Graham |