5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
12:13 p.m.
Sure, that makes sense. But in this case, the
information wasn't just
incomplete, it was DEAD WRONG. The imparted knowledge won't have to be
amended later, it will have to be un-learned. That's a big difference!
Precisely.
As I said last night, I have no problem with, say, Newtonian mechanics
being taught. Yes, it's incomplete. It's an apporximation. But it's a
veyery useful approximation, It's oen that you later learn _is_ an
apporximation, but you don;'t ahev to unlearn it.
I have no problem with DC circuit throry (all impedance is pure
resistive) being taught either. It's also an apporximation (classically,
yo ucan never get to the steady state in any cirucit, all circutis ahve
some inducatance and capacitance), and you will have ot learn the AC
theory later. But equally, the AC theory builds on the DC part, and if
you do ahve a ismple DC circuit, the simple theory predicts results to
the accuracy you can measure them.
But it is not an 'approximation' tht the Macintosh was the first personal
computer. IMHO there is no reasonable definition of 'personal computer'
that makes that statemetn remotely true. It's just plain wrong.
-tony