On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:36:21 +0000
Kurt Hamster wrote:

What difference should subjectivity make? If one person finds it better
then it is better... for that one person, therefore "better" is a valid
description.

*for them* yes, but if they go round saying its better just because *they* like it more then they are going to be misunderstood. in fact if they fail to qualify the reason they consider it better they will be misunderstodd most likely anyhow.

if you just say 'better' without qualification (eg. 'valves are better
SS sucks, blah blah) then you can expect to have people assume you refer
to the measurable qualities.

One shouldn't assume anything. If one doesn't know then one should ask.

I know that more than most people - I have Aspergers Syndrome (AS for short), and as such I am generally over-literal (can one say that? hehe). However I've learned (often painfully) that the general public have 'default values' for given figures of speech. (worse still, the default changes in different parts of the country...

Care to explain? (obviously, Im only speaking of the conditions where an
amp is working within its rated limits)

In real terms? One measure? Surely there are many different measures?
All of which can be objective.

One measure - linearity.

Many characteristics (max current into given load, supply ripple, blah blah...)

One thing for definite though - all well understood and measurable in every meaningful sense.

Well as someone with a ****e memory, I can empathise

:-)

TBH though, whilst I've long supported the 80 columns view (and still do
in the absence of a better standard), it really is becomming a bit
silly... its not like boxes dont have the grunt to reformat on-the-fly
nowadays

It all depends on the end of line characters the client software uses
(or in some cases what the server adds). RFC822 is a little vague when
it comes to EOL in body text

Well, more to the point it depends on wether it puts them in at all ;-)

I still recon that lines can be wrapped automatically, even quoted ones (if people would use the damn standard quote character - their end can display it as they like, but at least use the same char in the transport!). But we're stuck with 80 chars until the last VT100 dies I guess ;-)

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