[Don Pearce[_3_]]

A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

Thank you - happy now.

d

[Tom McCreadie]

A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA

[Gareth Magennis]

"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA


And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and "they're".
It will only take 2 minutes. Really.




Gareth.

[Audio1]

On 6/29/2011 4:59 AM, Gareth Magennis wrote:
"Tom wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA


And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and "they're".
It will only take 2 minutes. Really.




Gareth.

'Phase' / 'Polarity'

(dives for cover)

[Mike Rivers]

On 6/29/2011 7:29 AM, Audio1 wrote:

And please stop using unnecessary apostrophe's like this?

--
"Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be
operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although
it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson

http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com - useful and
interesting audio stuff

[bob[_5_]]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:10:00 -0400, Mike Rivers
wrote:

On 6/29/2011 7:29 AM, Audio1 wrote:

And please stop using unnecessary apostrophe's like this?

and get it's and its straight. and your and you're. and who's and
whose. and discreet and discrete. and rediculous is actually
ridiculous. and and and... but i'm an english teacher (who doesn't use
capitals much...) and would gladly trade all english knowledge for the
combined music and engineering knowledge of this ng! keep up the good
work and tell me which interface to buy!

[William Sommerwerck]

'Phase' / 'Polarity'

No argument whatever. They are not the same.

[Tom McCreadie]

And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and "they're".

Yes, they also make me grimace.
Is a tic just a grimace with a short attack and release time? :-)
--
Tom McCreadie

[Bill Graham]

Gareth Magennis wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a
TICK - like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA


And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and
"they're". It will only take 2 minutes. Really.

Is that 2 minutes, to minutes, too minutes or two minutes?

You are fighting a losing battle. Mrs Hughes, my fifth grade English teacher
is long gone, (I am 75) and very few people have learned much real English
since then. Even the Supreme Court thinks the second amendment says, "Only
the
Army can keep and bear arms."







Gareth.

[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:42:59 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

Gareth Magennis wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a
TICK - like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA


And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and
"they're". It will only take 2 minutes. Really.

Is that 2 minutes, to minutes, too minutes or two minutes?

You are fighting a losing battle. Mrs Hughes, my fifth grade English teacher
is long gone, (I am 75) and very few people have learned much real English
since then. Even the Supreme Court thinks the second amendment says, "Only
the
Army can keep and bear arms."

Whereas it actually says that the people can bear arms for the
purposes of maintaining a militia. No other reason is offered. Nothing
about defending oneself or simply looking hard.

d

[Bill Graham]

Don Pearce wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:42:59 -0700, "Bill Graham"
wrote:

Gareth Magennis wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a
TICK - like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world
now please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and
"loose" when they mean "lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA


And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and
"they're". It will only take 2 minutes. Really.

Is that 2 minutes, to minutes, too minutes or two minutes?

You are fighting a losing battle. Mrs Hughes, my fifth grade English
teacher is long gone, (I am 75) and very few people have learned
much real English since then. Even the Supreme Court thinks the
second amendment says, "Only the
Army can keep and bear arms."

Whereas it actually says that the people can bear arms for the
purposes of maintaining a militia. No other reason is offered. Nothing
about defending oneself or simply looking hard.

d

But the law doesn't say "for the purpose of maintaining a militia", and even
if it did, that wouldn't be a part of the law. The law says, "the right of
the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed", which tells me
that the right to keep and bear arms has always been there, and the law
simply guarantees that it won't be changed. It all seems pretty obvious to
me, but then, I had Mrs. Hughes, and most peoplke didn't. At 75, I am
getting very tired of trying to teach English to all those who didn't have
a, Mrs. Hughes.

Also, why do people keep adding, "itself" to, "We have nothing to fear but
fear?"

[timewarp2008]

On Jun 29, 4:59*am, "Gareth Magennis"
wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message

...

A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean *"lose" .
--
Tom McCreadie

Live at The London Palindrome - ABBA

And PLEASE learn the difference between "their", "there" and "they're".
It will only take 2 minutes. *Really.

Gareth.

And please stop pronouncing the plural noun "processes" as
if it were "processeez", and stop pronouncing "et cetera" as
"eck cetera".

[William Sommerwerck]

How about prohibiting any and all uses of "impact" (verb or noun)? There are
more-appropriate words.

[geoff]

"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .

And "alot" instead of "a lot".

And "ass" instead of "arse".

geoff

[John Williamson]

geoff wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.
And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .

And "alot" instead of "a lot".

And "ass" instead of "arse".

People on the left of the Atlantic have asses, people on the right have
arses. And asses, but they normally call them donkeys. Or politicians.....

--
Tciao for Now!

John.

[geoff]

"John Williamson" wrote in message
...
geoff wrote:
"Tom McCreadie" wrote in message
...
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.
And while we're on a roll, could the whole usenet/web-forum world now
please stop saying "revert back" instead of "revert" and "loose" when
they mean "lose" .

And "alot" instead of "a lot".

And "ass" instead of "arse".

People on the left of the Atlantic have asses, people on the right have
arses. And asses, but they normally call them donkeys. Or politicians.....

Make that ".... right of the Atlantic and left of the Pacific". In those
places there is no direct donkey connotation (or confusion) to the word.

geoff

[Frank Stearns]

(Don Pearce) writes:

A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

It's also the first half of a breath mint, as in "tic-tac", or the first third
of a child's game, "tic-tac-toe".

....

Oh... OH! That kind of thing... let's not forget "your" & "you're".

Frank
Mobile Audio

--

[Frank]

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
[Please remove 'nojunkmail.' from address to reply via e-mail.]
Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
[also covers AVCHD (including AVCCAM & NXCAM) and XDCAM EX].

[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:53:41 -0400, Frank
wrote:

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!

Well, I'm going to disagree. Disk and disc are simply alternative
spellings. More specifically disk is a US and Canada-preferred
spelling of the English word disc.

If you want to distinguish between magnetic and optical discs (disks),
you need to specify.

d

[Frank]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:36:55 GMT, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
(Don Pearce) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:53:41 -0400, Frank
wrote:

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!

Well, I'm going to disagree. Disk and disc are simply alternative
spellings. More specifically disk is a US and Canada-preferred
spelling of the English word disc.

If you want to distinguish between magnetic and optical discs (disks),
you need to specify.


Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Don.

In my view, it's more than a simple case of alternative spellings.

Computer-related terms, and indeed most technical terms, cross
national (and cultural) boundaries.

The formal (and official) definition of CD is Compact Disc, not
Compact Disk.

The formal (and official) definition of BD is Blu-ray Disc, not
Blu-ray Disk. (And the correct abbreviation is BD, not BR.)

And surely you wouldn't write, discette, would you?

I can certainly accept American English and British English spelling
differences of words such as behavior and behaviour, color and colour,
center and centre, defense and defence, to name a few obvious
examples, but technical terms and expressions, for the sake of clarity
and good communication, should not be treated this way, especially in
the case of terms that have a more or less official definition (and
particular spelling) such as Blu-ray Disc.

And as far as hard disks are concerned, I guess that we have IBM to
thank (blame?) for that.

Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when I first became involved with
mainframe computer systems, I do know that since IBM was referring to
them as disks, that I certainly wasn't going to write reports and
memos with the spelling disc, and this despite the fact that I was
somewhat taken aback by the "disk" spelling that IBM had used in their
sales literature.

I vividly recall that every time I would read the word disk, my mind
would say, "no, the correct spelling is disc", but eventually I
trained myself to think and write disk. Sometimes, if you can't beat
them, you may as well join them.

Also, if I were to insert a Blu-ray Disc into my Blu-ray Disc player,
and were to write about it, I would write "disc" and not "disk".

P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the term
"filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder, they're
"shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm concerned.

Regards,

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
[Please remove 'nojunkmail.' from address to reply via e-mail.]
Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
[also covers AVCHD (including AVCCAM & NXCAM) and XDCAM EX].

[Don Pearce[_3_]]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:53:47 -0400, Frank
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:36:55 GMT, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
(Don Pearce) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:53:41 -0400, Frank
wrote:

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!

Well, I'm going to disagree. Disk and disc are simply alternative
spellings. More specifically disk is a US and Canada-preferred
spelling of the English word disc.

If you want to distinguish between magnetic and optical discs (disks),
you need to specify.


Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Don.

In my view, it's more than a simple case of alternative spellings.

Computer-related terms, and indeed most technical terms, cross
national (and cultural) boundaries.

The formal (and official) definition of CD is Compact Disc, not
Compact Disk.

The formal (and official) definition of BD is Blu-ray Disc, not
Blu-ray Disk. (And the correct abbreviation is BD, not BR.)

And surely you wouldn't write, discette, would you?

I can certainly accept American English and British English spelling
differences of words such as behavior and behaviour, color and colour,
center and centre, defense and defence, to name a few obvious
examples, but technical terms and expressions, for the sake of clarity
and good communication, should not be treated this way, especially in
the case of terms that have a more or less official definition (and
particular spelling) such as Blu-ray Disc.

And as far as hard disks are concerned, I guess that we have IBM to
thank (blame?) for that.

Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when I first became involved with
mainframe computer systems, I do know that since IBM was referring to
them as disks, that I certainly wasn't going to write reports and
memos with the spelling disc, and this despite the fact that I was
somewhat taken aback by the "disk" spelling that IBM had used in their
sales literature.

I vividly recall that every time I would read the word disk, my mind
would say, "no, the correct spelling is disc", but eventually I
trained myself to think and write disk. Sometimes, if you can't beat
them, you may as well join them.

Also, if I were to insert a Blu-ray Disc into my Blu-ray Disc player,
and were to write about it, I would write "disc" and not "disk".


I have a hard disc in my computer.

P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the term
"filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder, they're
"shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm concerned.

Regards,

These words transcend technical accuracy - they are cultural. I Hoover
my house with a Dyson.

d

[John Williamson]

Frank wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:36:55 GMT, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
(Don Pearce) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:53:41 -0400, Frank
wrote:

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!
Well, I'm going to disagree. Disk and disc are simply alternative
spellings. More specifically disk is a US and Canada-preferred
spelling of the English word disc.

If you want to distinguish between magnetic and optical discs (disks),
you need to specify.


Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Don.

In my view, it's more than a simple case of alternative spellings.

Computer-related terms, and indeed most technical terms, cross
national (and cultural) boundaries.

The formal (and official) definition of CD is Compact Disc, not
Compact Disk.

The formal (and official) definition of BD is Blu-ray Disc, not
Blu-ray Disk. (And the correct abbreviation is BD, not BR.)

And surely you wouldn't write, discette, would you?

I can certainly accept American English and British English spelling
differences of words such as behavior and behaviour, color and colour,
center and centre, defense and defence, to name a few obvious
examples, but technical terms and expressions, for the sake of clarity
and good communication, should not be treated this way, especially in
the case of terms that have a more or less official definition (and
particular spelling) such as Blu-ray Disc.

And as far as hard disks are concerned, I guess that we have IBM to
thank (blame?) for that.

Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when I first became involved with
mainframe computer systems, I do know that since IBM was referring to
them as disks, that I certainly wasn't going to write reports and
memos with the spelling disc, and this despite the fact that I was
somewhat taken aback by the "disk" spelling that IBM had used in their
sales literature.

I vividly recall that every time I would read the word disk, my mind
would say, "no, the correct spelling is disc", but eventually I
trained myself to think and write disk. Sometimes, if you can't beat
them, you may as well join them.

Also, if I were to insert a Blu-ray Disc into my Blu-ray Disc player,
and were to write about it, I would write "disc" and not "disk".

P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the term
"filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder, they're
"shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm concerned.

They put their footage on a CF or SD card, too, sometimes.
--
Tciao for Now!

John.

[Bill Graham]

Frank wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:36:55 GMT, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
(Don Pearce) wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:53:41 -0400, Frank
wrote:

And could otherwise knowledgeable people please learn the difference
between disk and disc?

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible)
diskette, is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

In summary, if it's optical, it's disc. If it's magnetic, then it's
disk.

Thank you and have a good day!

Well, I'm going to disagree. Disk and disc are simply alternative
spellings. More specifically disk is a US and Canada-preferred
spelling of the English word disc.

If you want to distinguish between magnetic and optical discs
(disks), you need to specify.


Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Don.

In my view, it's more than a simple case of alternative spellings.

Computer-related terms, and indeed most technical terms, cross
national (and cultural) boundaries.

The formal (and official) definition of CD is Compact Disc, not
Compact Disk.

The formal (and official) definition of BD is Blu-ray Disc, not
Blu-ray Disk. (And the correct abbreviation is BD, not BR.)

And surely you wouldn't write, discette, would you?

I can certainly accept American English and British English spelling
differences of words such as behavior and behaviour, color and colour,
center and centre, defense and defence, to name a few obvious
examples, but technical terms and expressions, for the sake of clarity
and good communication, should not be treated this way, especially in
the case of terms that have a more or less official definition (and
particular spelling) such as Blu-ray Disc.

And as far as hard disks are concerned, I guess that we have IBM to
thank (blame?) for that.

Back in the late 1960s/early 1970s, when I first became involved with
mainframe computer systems, I do know that since IBM was referring to
them as disks, that I certainly wasn't going to write reports and
memos with the spelling disc, and this despite the fact that I was
somewhat taken aback by the "disk" spelling that IBM had used in their
sales literature.

I vividly recall that every time I would read the word disk, my mind
would say, "no, the correct spelling is disc", but eventually I
trained myself to think and write disk. Sometimes, if you can't beat
them, you may as well join them.

Also, if I were to insert a Blu-ray Disc into my Blu-ray Disc player,
and were to write about it, I would write "disc" and not "disk".

P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the term
"filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder, they're
"shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm concerned.

Regards,

I guess you don't accept the word, "tape" as a euphamism for "record"
either. It is hard for me to change my language in some cases, because at
75, I have been hearing and using some of these terms for many years.

[Ed Anson]

On 6/29/11 2:53 PM, Frank wrote:
P.S. Another one that bothers me is people with camcorders who say
that they're "filming".

If they were using a film-based motion picture camera, then the term
"filming" would be appropriate, but when using a camcorder, they're
"shooting video", not "filming", at least as far as I'm concerned.

So I suppose you would also object to someone saying he is "dialing" a
telephone. Telephones haven't had dials in decades. I wonder what we
should say instead?

[Mike Rivers]

On 6/29/2011 12:53 PM, Frank wrote:

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

Why is that? And what's something round and flat that's not
a piece of computer hardware, like a phonograph record, or
something in your back that slips? And why?

--
"Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be
operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although
it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge
of audio." - John Watkinson

http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com - useful and
interesting audio stuff

[Frank]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:25 -0400, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
Mike Rivers wrote:

On 6/29/2011 12:53 PM, Frank wrote:

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

Why is that?

In the case of the CD, it's because Philips and Sony decided that it
would be a "c" and not a "k". In the case of the hard disk drive (also
called a "fixed disk drive" by IBM when referring to their personal
computer) and the diskette, it's because IBM decreed it.

And what's something round and flat that's not
a piece of computer hardware, like a phonograph record,

That would be a disc, named after those Greek folks and the disci that
they were so fond of throwing.

or something in your back that slips? And why?

That would be a disc, but I don't wear slips any longer.

--
Frank, Independent Consultant, New York, NY
[Please remove 'nojunkmail.' from address to reply via e-mail.]
Read Frank's thoughts on HDV at http://www.humanvalues.net/hdv/
[also covers AVCHD (including AVCCAM & NXCAM) and XDCAM EX].

[Gareth Magennis]

"Frank" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:14:25 -0400, in 'rec.audio.pro',
in article Will everyone stop saying tic,
Mike Rivers wrote:

On 6/29/2011 12:53 PM, Frank wrote:

A disk, as in a hard disk drive (HDD) or a floppy (flexible) diskette,
is magnetic.

A disc, as in a CD (Compact Disc), DVD, or BD (Blu-ray Disc), is
optical.

Why is that?

In the case of the CD, it's because Philips and Sony decided that it
would be a "c" and not a "k". In the case of the hard disk drive (also
called a "fixed disk drive" by IBM when referring to their personal
computer) and the diskette, it's because IBM decreed it.

And what's something round and flat that's not
a piece of computer hardware, like a phonograph record,

That would be a disc, named after those Greek folks and the disci that
they were so fond of throwing.



The Greeks had their own alphabet., and their own unique way of pronouncing
it.
Discus is a Latin noun.

I tried throwing a discus at school once . It was a heavy chunk of wood
with a heavy metal surround, and I couldn't see the point of it at all.



Gareth.

[ChrisCoaster]

On Jun 29, 1:29*am, (Don Pearce) wrote:
A tic is a spasm of the facial muscles. A short sharp sound is a TICK
- like what a clock does.

Thank you - happy now.

d
__________________
How about the HEIGTH of a building?

LOL

[slinkp]

Also, please stop using it's as a possessive.

"It's" with an apostrophe is a contraction of "it is." Example: "It's
going to sound like crap."

"Its" (no apostrophe) is a possessive, like "his" and "her". Example:
"What is its impedance?"

[William Sommerwerck]

"slinkp" wrote in message
...
Also, please stop using it's as a possessive.

"It's" with an apostrophe is a contraction of "it is." Example: "It's
going to sound like crap."

"Its" (no apostrophe) is a possessive, like "his" and "her". Example:
"What is its impedance?"

Here's an easy mnemonic...
he's -- it's
his -- its