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What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.
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@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.
Realistically, it means "a computer case shaped like a pizza box", which can apply to a number of products. It happened to first be used to describe the Sparcstation and a few others, but I see no reference that explicitly claims anything other than shaped like a pizza box and generally accepted to be anything resembling that, such as a 1 or 2U server of varying configurations and depths. It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.
Realistically, it means "a computer case shaped like a pizza box", which can apply to a number of products. It happened to first be used to describe the Sparcstation and a few others, but I see no reference that explicitly claims anything other than shaped like a pizza box and generally accepted to be anything resembling that, such as a 1 or 2U server of varying configurations and depths. It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
That's why modern rackmounts don't qualify, but some old ones did. No one is making square ones any longer, but Sun used to (the V100 for example.) That was a rare rackmount pizza box.
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@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.
Realistically, it means "a computer case shaped like a pizza box", which can apply to a number of products. It happened to first be used to describe the Sparcstation and a few others, but I see no reference that explicitly claims anything other than shaped like a pizza box and generally accepted to be anything resembling that, such as a 1 or 2U server of varying configurations and depths. It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
That's why modern rackmounts don't qualify, but some old ones did. No one is making square ones any longer, but Sun used to (the V100 for example.) That was a rare rackmount pizza box.
The Wikipedia definition of sorts says varying depths in conjunction with rackmount. That means not explicitly square.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
Or it is when you say it can apply to anything you want that it becomes elitist and irrelevant. There is nothing "elite" in accuracy, we hope. If there is, than elite is the only acceptable thing. IF we are really saying that it is elitist to care about accuracy and honesty, then it is a horrible statement to state that someone is not.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
What this comes down to appears to be this: We know now what the term means in the industry and has always meant and now it comes down to some people care about honesty and some think that the truth is flexible. If siding with honesty is elitist, its the greatest compliment.
Realistically, it means "a computer case shaped like a pizza box", which can apply to a number of products. It happened to first be used to describe the Sparcstation and a few others, but I see no reference that explicitly claims anything other than shaped like a pizza box and generally accepted to be anything resembling that, such as a 1 or 2U server of varying configurations and depths. It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
That's why modern rackmounts don't qualify, but some old ones did. No one is making square ones any longer, but Sun used to (the V100 for example.) That was a rare rackmount pizza box.
The Wikipedia definition of sorts says varying depths in conjunction with rackmount. That means not explicitly square.
No, it says that about 1U servers, not pizza boxes. It is talking about what followed the pizza box.
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The Wikipedia article talks about the historic context of how the square pizza box form factor become the influence for the common 1U and 2U servers of today, but was not necessarily that form factor itself. It then mentions how modern rackmounts vary from the pizza box model by having varying depths. That information was showing how they differ from the pizza box, not describing the pizza box.
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@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
Or it is when you say it can apply to anything you want that it becomes elitist and irrelevant. There is nothing "elite" in accuracy, we hope. If there is, than elite is the only acceptable thing. IF we are really saying that it is elitist to care about accuracy and honesty, then it is a horrible statement to state that someone is not.
Your view is too narrow and you cling to it as "higher" than other views. That's elitism in a nutshell. Those saying "pull the stick out of your a$$ and get off your high horse" are specifically not elitist and just want you to get over it. There is no specific definition in the source that you personally cited that says you are explicitly correct. It does say that was the first usage, but also accommodates other factors which you are unwilling to yield to, in order to maintain the elite view that first is best and only; all others are wrong.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
Swastica: It was clearly not an attempt to mislead and they gave a new definition. While they might not have been insanely explicit in the re-use of it, there was no need to do so as there was no possibility of confusion as the two uses were so ridiculously different. It's safe to assume that no one ever thought that people would see the political symbol and think that it was the religious use of it. It was clear from the use that they were making a new use, no attempt to deceive (in that one particular case.)
Says who? What authority do you have other than your own personal opinion? Unless you have the minutes from the meeting in which it was adopted, you have conjecture and nothing more.
Actually, it was specifically adopted for the ancient Aryan-German link (not religious).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_use_of_the_swastika_in_the_early_20th_century
At the time it was commonly used as a symbol of good luck in the west, similar to how it was used in AsiaI had previously looked into this after first seeing it all over maps in Japan years ago.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
Name any lie that can't be handled by claiming it is "just semantics". Clinton and what does "is" mean.
Well, your entire argument is invalid. Pizza boxes have pizza in them. End of story. If you call a computer a pizza box then you are a liar. I don't care if you have ever eaten pizza or heard of pizza. If you refer to anything other than a box of pizza as a "pizza box" then you are doing it wrong and obviously lying. The person who propagated the use of the term "pizza box" for a computer form factor is the greatest deceiver of all, as I'm sure he had foreknowledge of a box that held pizza.
It was clearly defined by the industry with no intent to mislead. So you've missed the point.
Then who is defined as "the industry"? There was an ad that metaphorically referred to the case as a pizza box. So a single ad set the industry standard, but thousands of people using a word doesn't mean anything because, whether or not they ever saw the ad, it existed and they are all liars.
lol again, not liars, they are misinformed users of the term
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
It's when you throw in that it can ONLY mean the first thing it referred to (a specific product, which it doesn't) that you become elitist and irrelevant.
Or it is when you say it can apply to anything you want that it becomes elitist and irrelevant. There is nothing "elite" in accuracy, we hope. If there is, than elite is the only acceptable thing. IF we are really saying that it is elitist to care about accuracy and honesty, then it is a horrible statement to state that someone is not.
Your view is too narrow and you cling to it as "higher" than other views. That's elitism in a nutshell. Those saying "pull the stick out of your a$$ and get off your high horse" are specifically not elitist and just want you to get over it. There is no specific definition in the source that you personally cited that says you are explicitly correct. It does say that was the first usage, but also accommodates other factors which you are unwilling to yield to, in order to maintain the elite view that first is best and only; all others are wrong.
I'm sorry if that sounded harsh. I'm not trying to belittle you or your opinion. I'm merely stating that you should have a little more flexibility. Everything is not so rigidly black and white.
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Language is a continuously changing thing. While it might be used for a lie, at what point is it no longer a lie, deception, whatever, and just part of the new norm?
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@Dashrender said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
Language is a continuously changing thing. While it might be used for a lie, at what point is it no longer a lie, deception, whatever, and just part of the new norm?
How many words in any language change over time to mean something else, due to common usage? It's a known thing historically, so what makes a loosely-used nickname exempt?
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This thread in a single frame...
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
This thread in a single frame...
Hey now, I remember that as well.... oh wait, we're all to old already.
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@art_of_shred said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
@Dashrender said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
Language is a continuously changing thing. While it might be used for a lie, at what point is it no longer a lie, deception, whatever, and just part of the new norm?
How many words in any language change over time to mean something else, due to common usage? It's a known thing historically, so what makes a loosely-used nickname exempt?
If the Sparcstation didn't literally have Pizza inside of it, then it's a damn SS (or sparcstation if you want to say the entire thing)
If you (all) want to know what a pizza box looks like look below.
http://wpackaging.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Take-1-YV121108368363_white-web.jpg
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So what ever came of this MSP conversation?
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@scottalanmiller said in old MSP wants to know what they did wrong:
So what ever came of this MSP conversation?
I never had to talk to him. Emails relayed through the business owner went back and fourth about getting the domain name transferred and that was it.
I did end up keeping a list of everything I found that was wrong because that was the worst environment I have ever seen - maintained by a "professional" or not.
