What's a tech term you hate?

[pythonmegapixel]

9 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Ive heard it called “the heart of the system” as well.   Body parts may just be a bad analogy.

The heart is surely the liquid cooling pump?

[Pcman26]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

The heart is surely the liquid cooling pump?

Oh yeah that makes sense. LOL

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, pythonmegapixel said:

The heart is surely the liquid cooling pump?

Goes to body parts being a bad analogy I guess.  Not all systems are liquid cooled. It 

[Guest]

Literally every bit of Third-Party Risk Management terminology.

[pythonmegapixel]

"Notebook". Nobody had an issue with the term "laptop" (apart from the fact that it's not actually great to rest them in your lap, but it's not like you should use a pen on them either!)

 

As far as I'm concerned, a notebook is this:

 

and this:

 

is called a laptop.

[Bombastinator]

4 minutes ago, Muscle_Man1993 said:

So are other body parts... The lungs, stomach and kidneys are, arguably, very essential.

 

I think the analogy is meant to portray that most/all the "thinking" happens in the CPU.

 

I think it is a good analogy for people who don't understand computers.

*wonders what the spleen of the system would be*

[sub68]

32 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Ive heard it called “the heart of the system” as well.   Body parts may just be a bad analogy.

I think the heart is the PSU

[Craftyawesome]

54 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Ive heard it called “the heart of the system” as well.   Body parts may just be a bad analogy.

"...We're installing the CPU the heart of the computer or the brain depending on how you look at it so to do this we're just going to remove the plastic covering that they put on the motherboard we're just gonna take this little plastic part out we'll just toss that out of here and now we have an exposed CPU holder or rather slot on the motherboard and we're gonna use the CPU applicator this is a special little part that not everyone may get but this motherboard that we got from Asus definitely does have its called a CPU installation tool it makes it really useful if you want to install a core i7 hexa core CPU yeah we've got one and it's an eighth generation chip..."

[Bombastinator]

43 minutes ago, Craftyawesome said:

"...We're installing the CPU the heart of the computer or the brain depending on how you look at it so to do this we're just going to remove the plastic covering that they put on the motherboard we're just gonna take this little plastic part out we'll just toss that out of here and now we have an exposed CPU holder or rather slot on the motherboard and we're gonna use the CPU applicator this is a special little part that not everyone may get but this motherboard that we got from Asus definitely does have its called a CPU installation tool it makes it really useful if you want to install a core i7 hexa core CPU yeah we've got one and it's an eighth generation chip..."

Lol.  Analogies only go so far...”we will then install the “spleen” of the computer by stuffing it up the “anus” of the computer and attach some wires which you may think of as the “blood vessels” of the computer though they do not actually connect directly to the “heart” of the computer. “. Also if one actually attempted to reattach a spleen that way someone would die.

[The_russian]

1 hour ago, pythonmegapixel said:

"Notebook". Nobody had an issue with the term "laptop" (apart from the fact that it's not actually great to rest them in your lap, but it's not like you should use a pen on them either!)

Spoiler

As far as I'm concerned, a notebook is this:

 

and this:

 

is called a laptop.

 

 

I wonder if it's a language difference? In the video where Linus goes to an electronics market in China with Strange Parts, when they ask for a laptop the person doesn't understand them, but they understood notebook immediately. Video is linked below starting at the mentioned part.  

 

 

[Rex Hite]

Human anatomy as analogy for computer parts? Well there's an entire industry devoted to giving computers big swinging dicks! That industry is having a bit of trouble right now though. Oh well.

 

 

 

 

[Rex Hite]

"e-waste"- Kind of a meaningless expression. What isn't waste? Or at least, waste-in-waiting?

Is some pci card sitting unused, and likely never to be used, in a box on my shelf e-waste?  Does it become e-waste after it makes a trip to a dump? When did it become e-waste? What even is e-waste?

Don't want to contribute to e-waste? Keep your unused, obsolete or damaged e-stuff in a box in your closet. Problem solved!

 

What a dumb expression.

 

 

[Bombastinator]

1 minute ago, Rex Hite said:

"e-waste"- Kind of a meaningless expression. What isn't waste? Or at least, waste-in-waiting?

Is some pci card sitting unused, and likely never to be used, in a box on my shelf e-waste?  Does it become e-waste after it makes a trip to a dump? When did it become e-waste? What even is e-waste?

Don't want to contribute to e-waste? Keep your unused, obsolete or damaged e-stuff in a box in your closet. Problem solved!

 

What a dumb expression.

 

 

I think e-waste refers to a particular type of trash that has special difficulties with disposal partially because it’s often toxic.  The impression I get is anything with a battery or a pc board is like that.   I suspect those tiny little lithium polymer bag batteries are going to become a really serious problem.  Little incindiary bombs scattered everywhere. 

[Rex Hite]

10 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

I think e-waste refers to a particular type of trash that has special difficulties with disposal partially because it’s often toxic.  The impression I get is anything with a battery or a pc board is like that.   I suspect those tiny little lithium polymer bag batteries are going to become a really serious problem.  Little incindiary bombs scattered everywhere. 

The real toxicity released in the manufacture and distribution of the new item utterly dwarfs the potential toxicity of it as a waste item. It really makes the concept of e-waste seem almost comical in comparison. But that end-stage of the item's life gets its own word implying a greater menace to the environment than its origins.

[The Techie Scientist]

4K

Hate it..every time youtubers mention it..probably because I dont have any displays on that resolution

[Forbidden Wafer]

1 minute ago, Eviljuche said:

'Solid State Drive' as opposed to 'Hard Drive'. Isn't being hard implies that the state is solid?

Static/resting state would sound awful and/or more confusing. 

[Forbidden Wafer]

1 minute ago, Eviljuche said:

Why bother with states then? Why not just call it 'Zero Spin Drive'? Or 'Full Silicon Drive'?

Well, the entire memory and read/write paraphernalia is contained within a single or multiple solid chips instead of requiring a spinning disk + moving arm.

[Bombastinator]

22 minutes ago, Eviljuche said:

'Solid State Drive' as opposed to 'Hard Drive'. Isn't being hard implies that the state is solid?

Not in this case.  “Solid state” in electronics means no moving parts.  Hard drives are called hard to differentiate from floppy, which is to say magnetic tape material. “Hard” drives are generally solid metal plates. Floppy discs actually derived rigidity from centrifugal force and the read head actually deformed the material slightly forming a sort of dimple.  The problem is specialized technical language often can mean different things depending on which one is being referred to. 

Edited June 16, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Bombastinator]

Just now, Eviljuche said:

Well, the problem is that the majority of people who buys computers or PC parts are not techy enough to know that (or anything about how electronics are made at all), so there is some degree of confusion for them.

Yes.  It’s a problem with a lot of fields. The latest problem being caused by specialized language in epidemiology. “Airborne” apparently has a more specific meaning than assumed.

[Forbidden Wafer]

4 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

“Airborne” apparently has a more specific meaning than assumed.

Isn't it something like "suspended in the air"?

[Bombastinator]

14 minutes ago, Forbidden Wafer said:

Isn't it something like "suspended in the air"?

The epidemiological term apparently includes that but is more specific.  Apparently sporeation is involved or something.  So not everything suspended in air is airborne by that definition.  It’s been a recurring problem in many areas.  One can create a term that means only one thing, or one can repurpose a more general word to make things more understandable for laymen.  Problems occur as the word ages though. 

[Avocado Diaboli]

47 minutes ago, Eviljuche said:

'Solid State Drive' as opposed to 'Hard Drive'. Isn't being hard implies that the state is solid?

If you fall into the ocean at terminal velocity, the water is hard, but not solid. Same difference.

[nightmarevoid]

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[Mihle]

4 hours ago, Eviljuche said:

'Solid State Drive' as opposed to 'Hard Drive'. Isn't being hard implies that the state is solid?

It's because no moving parts.

Other electrical fields also use the words solid state for things, it's nothing new.

For example Solid State relays. It just means that the relay is one solid part that don't have moving parts.

[Bombastinator]

8 minutes ago, Eviljuche said:

I said why this is a problem above in the discussion. SSDs are more mainstream for that

SSDs are less mainstream than pocket transistor radios were, and they had a real habit of actually having the words “solid state” printed in one corner.  Pocket transistor radios haven’t been really a thing for many many years though.  This is the problem with “regularized” technical language.  It’s subject to age.