[Rant] "Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 25-Dec-2002 12:19 GMT by P E | 220 comments View flat View list |
Over at amiga.org, the signature "takemehomegrandma" has published a somewhat satirical post - for your enjoyment, here goes:
I want to apologize that the AmigaOne has still not been released (A1 mobos+OS4). I also want to apologize to our competing companies that we have accused for crimes in public without being able to back those accusations up with either proof or legal action. I also want to apologize for not keeping our promises to you developers who bought our expensive SDK's. I also want to apologize to the users who bought our coupons, ehrm, JOINED OUR CLUB, but has not been given anything of the promised. I also want to apologize for the confusion when our offices suddenly were empty and our phones went dead (but that was a result of hackers, remember). Amiga Inc is truly a global 24 hours a day company and the future looks brighter than ever for our beloved AMIGA. We are pleased to announce a Games Pocket Pack to our friends Micro$ofts Pocket PC. This truly shows what a great commitment our 3000 content developers has to our beloved AMIGA. Wonderful things are about to happen as allways. Thank you, as allways, for your support. Keep the AMIGA spirit, and remember to follow our trademark wherever we go. We are AMIGA. You are AMIGA (if you pay us 50 bucks). We will be back with more exciting announcements during the next weeks. See you then! /Yours McBill
Well, there you go. Merry christmas!
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"Season's Greetings from Amiga HQ": Hm? : Comment 172 of 220 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Frodon on 27-Dec-2002 12:50 GMT | In reply to Comment 169 (catohagen): Hello
@cathoagen
> it does many other stuff as well, but its emulating the an alien os ontop
> of mos kernel, so its an emulator too :)
What I try to tell you and to the others is that by saying the ABox IS an emulator you imply it's the definition of the ABox.
And as I already tell, a definition of something whatever it is should describe the object compeltely just not one aspect. That's why saying the ABox IS an emulator is wrong because it's just one aspect so it CAN'T be used as a definition of this object.
You can indeed say: The ABox emulate the AmigaOS environment. That's true as soon as you use this form you just give one of its function.
But saying the ABox IS an emulator it's wrong because it's far more than that!
It's like if I said: Catohagen IS an eye. Ok you got eyes, but you are not an eye, it's just one of your element.
Do you finally understand? Is it so hard to understand this fondamental aspect, i.e what is a definition?
You know the only thing I've tried to say here in the last few posts is just to recall you what is a definition and so why "ABox is an emulator" is not a good definition :) Maybe I was wrong but I thought this fondamental aspect of a language was known by everybody.
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