From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ad36,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10ad36,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 10cc59,eb29ffe585cb20aa X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc59,public From: rdonais@southeast.net (R.E.Donais) Subject: Re: International Algorithmic language Date: 1997/08/22 Message-ID: <33fe8f0d.445630582@news.southeast.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 267949136 References: <5sfeus$a1i@nntp.seflin.org> <5spvub$qns@nntp.seflin.org> <33F1C6AB.25A3@lsl.co.uk> <5tcma6$5td@nntp.seflin.org> <7eK/z0JfF28d089yn@oslonett.no> Organization: Southeast Network Services, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.ada,comp.unix.programmer Date: 1997-08-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: mobergru@oslonett.no (Rune Moberg) wrote: >In article , dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >>I bought a Sony Walkman a few weeks ago, and fast forward is marked << >>and reverse is marked >> (at least if I have PLAY written the right >>way up -- I have now got used to holding the thing upside down :-) > >Perhaps you could sue them? Since your question has little, if anything, to do with programming, I can understand the confusion you must have with the simple things in life. :-> My Sony has auto reverse. The reverse button has an indicator that changes between left and right white filled arrow heads. While the play, stop, and direction buttons are labeled, the buttons marked << and >> have no other markings. The fast forward or fast reverse concept of these buttons is controlled by the current state of the direction button. Regardless, they _always_ move the tape onto the reel corresponding to the direction of their arrow heads. I would guess that even if your Sony does not have reverse capability, that the "fast" buttons would also move the tape to the indicated reel. The fast operation is appropriate, however the concept of forward or reverse is one that you have applied and assume to be fixed. Things will probably make sense once you remove the blinders and shift your thinking from the linear single threaded view you currently have of the world to the multiple dimensions and subtleties of the real world. Of course you could always purchase a product that is marked to agree with your thinking. :-> ...red -- Support the anti-Spam amendment Join at http://www.cauce.org/