Reply 40 of 47, by jwt27
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Technically, they're all RLL drives anyway.
Technically, they're all RLL drives anyway.
I really enjoy this topic. Particularly since it reminds me of back when I had been filled with misinformation regarding technical names, purposes, and such.
It's a good way to keep me humble, since I sometimes forget where I started and judge people for their own misinformation.
I probably still drive technicians crazy with my misunderstandings (although I'm working to improve my understanding).
For example: I used to think that the Kilobyte was actually called Kigabyte. Simply because a technically inclined friend had insisted that's what it's called (these were the days before google, and when I was a child). It took me a few years to break the habit.
I had to remind myself of that in more recent years when I spoke to a well-meaning Apple fan that was trying to sell me on the pros of having a Macintosh. He repeatedly called the storage and memory capacities as Gigglebytes. I might have been more convinced by his presentation, if his pronunciation hadn't distracted me by causing me to fight back a few giggles of my own.
I know those are simply misnomers, but I also run into the same issues with people referring to their computer monitor as the "computer" and the physical computer tower as the "switchbox" and various other misnames.
I just wanted to share my own perspective with a story, and remind everyone that we're all human. Please have patience with these people. They often don't know any better.
Anyone still call a modern GeForce/Raedon card "VGA card"? Well I do. Old habits die hard.
Never thought this thread would be that long, but now, for something different.....
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I still call them '3d accelerators'...
wrote:I still call them '3d accelerators'...
I still do this sometimes as well.
Here's one that DRIVES ME NUTZ:
I've been playing serveral of Valve's GoldSource games (CS/CS:CZ/CS:CZ-DS/Dod) for quite some time now... people requesting troubleshooting help using "lag" as a generic term for most ANYTHING that they're having a problem with (e.g. "MY GAME IS LAGGING!!!!!!!1111!11!11", "MY MOUSE IS LAGGING!!!!!!!1111!11!11", "MY WINDOWS IS LAGGING!!!!!!!1111!11!11", etc...).
For GAWD'S SAKE, "LAG" refers to *NETWORK* lag (MORE SPECIFICALLY, your PING... i.e. LATENCY in a multiplayer game over the Internet)... and it does NOT refer to framerate, graphics, video, sound, poor performance, crashes, lockups, freezes, freezing, CTDs, errors, mice, keyboards, or anything ELSE that I may have accidently omitted!
Oh... and don't even get my started on "MY xxxxxxx" (refer to the "My" in two of the examples above).
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Yeah there's that, and then there's "My PC hangs up..."
No it doesn't. People hang up on you, on the phone. Your PC hangs.
"hang up" the phone, that's a stone age expression too. Nobody has that kind of phone anymore where the receiver actually hangs on a hook.
I've often heard people refer to their computer tower as a "hard drive" or a "modem".
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