{"id":475,"date":"2004-01-06T08:52:38","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T08:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=475"},"modified":"2004-01-06T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2004-01-06T08:52:38","slug":"memorize-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/memorize-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorize this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A16540-2003Dec19.html\">From a Washington Post story<\/a> last month about the guy who took on Apple when his Ipod&#8217;s battery died:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like a doctor with zero bedside manner, Ryan pretty quickly gets to the point: Since Neistat&#8217;s iPod is past the year-long warranty, the cost of parts, labor and shipping will nearly equal the cost of a new machine, and so, Ryan suggests yet again, Neistat should probably just relax and buy a new iPod, which currently costs from $299 to $499, <i>depending on the memory size.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, no, no, no.  It&#8217;s &#8220;<i>depending on how much hard drive space is available.<\/i>&#8221;  Computers have two ways to store information: in &#8220;memory&#8221; &#8212; which is a zillion tiny transistors embedded in a silicon chip &#8212; and on a disk drive.  &#8220;Memory&#8221; can be  shorthand for &#8220;Random Access Memory&#8221; or &#8220;Read Only Memory&#8221; (two kinds of memory chips) but it <i>never<\/i> refers to space available on a disk drive &#8212; and nor should we.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Washington Post story last month about the guy who took on Apple when his Ipod&#8217;s battery died: Like a doctor with zero bedside manner, Ryan pretty quickly gets to the point: Since Neistat&#8217;s iPod is past the year-long&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/memorize-this\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}