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If anyone is still looking, she works at 220 E. 42nd St in Manhattan. The office is on the west side of the building, just to the right after the security desk from the main entrance.
A car's primary function is to move people and objects over physical space, using a network of roads.
A modem's primary function is to move digital data over analog carriers, using a network of wires (and, increasingly, electromagnetic radiation in free space.)
If A then B does not imply that if B then A. There can be multiple types of things that have the same primary purpose, if you allow the definition of that primary purpose to be sufficiently vague. A bus also has the primary function of moving people and objects over physical space, using a network of roads, but it is not a car, it is a bus.
Similarly, a router or a bridge also has the primary function of moving digital data over analog carriers using a network of wires. So the fact that routers, bridges, and modems all do this doesn't mean that they are all modems. It means "Hm, I need to look deeper to identify the features that distinguish one class of such device from another". To say otherwise would mean that pretty much every device that Arista, Cisco, or Juniper sell is a modem. Am I sitting on a modem here?
The networking industry subclasses devices by the highest networking layer at which they operate, and the term "modem" applies to layer 1 devices. Higher layer devices often incorporate components from the lower layers, but generally not vice-versa. Routers contain bridges, and both of them contain physical layer devices (transceivers, optics, phys, or "modems" if you want to apply that term).
The usage of the term "cable modem" has nothing to do with the fact that it is modulating and demodulating data over a cable TV network. It is a marketing term, used to convey to consumers that this is the device they need to buy if they want to replace a dial-up internet service with a cable TV-based internet service. As with many such marketing terms, it is being used incorrectly.
If anyone is still looking, she works at 220 E. 42nd St in Manhattan. The office is on the west side of the building, just to the right after the security desk from the main entrance.
The usage of the term "cable modem" has nothing to do with the fact that it is modulating and demodulating data over a cable TV network.
Are you being serious right now? As in, you seem to be trying to convince me that, from the customer's point of view, the primary purpose of a "cable modem" is something other than carrying digital data into and out of the subscriber's home over a coaxial cable.
I'll admit that I'm a little tipsy right now, and kinda on the verge of a meat & carb coma (see picture below), but that's really what it seems like you're saying.
This is a hot dog:
This is the view from beneath the train tracks (Red line @ Irving Park):
This is rat poison:
What do all of these things have to do with one another? Astonishingly little, really, aside from the fact that Byron's Hot Dogs is right next to the tracks, and where there are tracks, there tends to be rat poison.
Are you being serious right now? As in, you seem to be trying to convince me that, from the customer's point of view, the primary purpose of a "cable modem" is something other than carrying digital data into and out of the subscriber's home over a coaxial cable.
Are you drunk or trolling? Go back and read it again.
The usage of the term "cable modem" has nothing to do with the fact that it is modulating and demodulating data over a cable TV network. It is a marketing term, used to convey to consumers that this is the device they need to buy if they want to replace a dial-up internet service with a cable TV-based internet service. As with many such marketing terms, it is being used incorrectly.
Fine, you win. If a person uses a device which modulates an analog carrier as a means of transmitting and receiving digital data, then it's a modem, regardless of whatever other supporting functions that device provides, but only so long as the user interface is RS-232.
As soon as you add any sort of Ethernet or USB functionality, it ceases to be a modem.
On the plus side, the truck is in fabulous condition and the car carrier is brand new. As in: all four tires still had the stickers on the tread. Zero miles. Man, I love Penske equipment. The new design has a step in between the fenders, which is a nice touch. I don't know why anyone would rent from U-haul.
And it turns out that a car carrier makes a fabulous inspection lift. Which leads to the minus side:
Not exactly what I need to be dealing with the day before moving day. This radiator is only two years old...
Sure, but a modulation and demodulation is a modem's primary and highest-level purpose, whereas it is not in a "cable modem". Any car with a built in cell phone or bluetooth system has a modem in it as well, but you don't it a "road modem", do you?
As for photos, here's one. Captioned "wrong tool for the job":
A Miata is actually more useful for holding groceries than an FD.
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