What's a tech term you hate?

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, InstantNewt said:

Yeah back then it was a game of telephone so I could definitely see that being said.

 

Back on your topic though, you're absolutely right that quantum computing has the potential to crack encryption as we know it. And I'm sure the government is extremely interested in quantum computing. I don't think they have quite that capability at the moment, but it's definitely on the horizon if it's not available today.

 

And even more on topic, I really hate the misuse of the term "AI". Most of the time they mean machine learning not true AI.

I don’t know enough about the specifics of what modern AI is useful for to have an opinion myself.  I get the impression that it is really pretty limited in use and that the cleverness comes from the way it is applied.  Generally as merely a time savings. I differentiate AI from intelligence.  It’s just the word that is used to refer to the technology.  When someone sounds it out though as “artificial intelligence” my hackles tend to go up as well. 

[Gork]

Re: Quantum computers. or chips. right now the type of problems they can  even tackle are pretty arcane. Their are a tone of mondane linear problems they just suck a fat dick at. A quantum computer, oddly, sucks a fat ass dick at rmemembering passwords much less how to guess  or outright crack them. Has to do with physics and pragmatics. Basically  a Qbit--is sort of like...well it's like the very early days of machine learning through graphics cards. the CPU is just a lot better at things that need to be put in order. Like oh someone pressed the letter a, or remembered Edge exists. that kind of thing etc. So a quantum computer might be reeeeelly good at make a 3D model of a blackhole (like satans ass) or making the underlying physics to a computer game. But suck huge giant wong at compiling that game. At least if you don't want it to have about 9trillion bugs... huh wonder if that's the problem games now 

So, for now, untill I guess the world gets the patch 2033 or something.

 

[Gork]

Because...Science!!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-close-are-we-really-to-building-a-quantum-computer/

 

Since that article a quantum ton of advances got made, now if we can find them!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

[Guest]

Goverment spreading totally false information....

[The_russian]

12 minutes ago, WickedThunder86 said:

Goverment spreading totally false information....

*snip*

“WiFi Pineapple is a bit of kit that can be used to capture sensitive data over the internet”

 

Either I’ve been misunderstanding for years what WiFi Pineapples do, or that is most certainly not what they do. 

Edit: And lol at Discord being “often used to share hacking tips”.  When someone thinks of Discord, the first thing they think is definitely hacking tips…

 

What age do they consider a “child” to be? I would consider it to be between newborn and teen, are there really that many 8 year olds hacking people in the UK that they needed to post that?

Edited November 9, 2021 by The_russian

[StephTheFox02]

I know this has probably been mentioned in the thread before, but i hate it when companies slap the term "AI" or "AI enhanced" onto a product when it's a feature most likely done with a simpler algorithm

[Tan3l6]

I hate how the Chrome spell check underlines "aluminium" as a spelling mistake and not a spelling mistake to write "aluminum".

Hate is a strong word for it though, just an annoyance rather..

Strange that my speller is for "English", not for "English (United States)". I thought it was "aluminium" in Europe.

[dalekphalm]

5 hours ago, Tan3l6 said:

I hate how the Chrome spell check underlines "aluminium" as a spelling mistake and not a spelling mistake to write "aluminum".

Hate is a strong word for it though, just an annoyance rather..

Strange that my speller is for "English", not for "English (United States)". I thought it was "aluminium" in Europe.

That one comes down to which dictionary you're using to spell check.

 

You can, of course, right click on the "misspelled" word and add it to the dictionary.

[Bombastinator]

12 hours ago, Gork said:

Because...Science!!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-close-are-we-really-to-building-a-quantum-computer/

 

Since that article a quantum ton of advances got made, now if we can find them!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!

2018 intel science anyway. 

[IPD]

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

That one comes down to which dictionary you're using to spell check.

 

You can, of course, right click on the "misspelled" word and add it to the dictionary.

Stop colouring the issue with your funky spellings.  Potatoe.

[dalekphalm]

58 minutes ago, IPD said:

Stop colouring the issue with your funky spellings.  Potatoe.

Who's funky spellings are we talking about here? Canadian English closely resembles British English.

 

FYI I had to Google the "Potatoe" thing - seems like a really old American politics reference for some spelling bee in the 90's?

[Elijah Kamski]

hacka

[jetnoodles]

17 minutes ago, Elijah Kamski said:

hacka

And they just randomly tap on the keyboard and entire websites get hacked. In school I had to block https://geektyper.com/ as all the year 7s would go on it and I would get really annoyed.

[Helpful Tech Witch]

On 11/7/2021 at 2:52 AM, Ryanwake said:

Calling game controllers remotes just because their wireless

The only game controler ive heard called that is the wii one

either as wii remote or wiimote

[da na]

Referring to a trackpad as a "mousepad". 

[Bigun]

Job security

[jetnoodles]

Laptop screens are monitors and projectors are tvs

[Jurrunio]

30 minutes ago, latisullivan said:

Why is this one bad? And why is 2160p "4K" instead of "2160p" like all the other p's are p's. I like, even if it's wrong, saying 2K because like 4K is short, you remember it and simplifies everything. Again, even if it's not accurate. 

It's not accurate because 1920x1080 is the 2K. If you're going to shorten 1440p, call it 2.5K or 3K because that's what 2560 rounds off to

[Jurrunio]

21 minutes ago, latisullivan said:

I did say "even if it's not accurate".

"Accurate" and "Wrong" are different. The act of rounding off already makes it less accurate but that's not wrong, otherwise god help me do math about pi, c or taking root of many numbers. 

 

21 minutes ago, latisullivan said:

like .5 difference is just an annoyance.

That's like writing the street number of your address to your neighbour's just because his number is easier (say 200 instead of 177). The problem is not accuracy,but there's different popular resolution that suits the name better. You can call it whatever you want, but you cannot blame others for hating it or misunderstanding you

[Cool Dude 101]

2k display, just call it 1440p.

[EphraimK]

puter.

[Cool Dude 101]

8 minutes ago, EDK Tech said:

puter.

First time I've heard that and hate it already.

[Jurrunio]

28 minutes ago, latisullivan said:

I don't understand the address example as it feels completely different than the other situation. A related example would be "My actual address is 177 Bis, but there's no main 177 so I just say 177 as it would be the same". If you say 177 instead of 200, which is a different address, is like saying 720 instead of 1080. Between 2K and 2.5K is an "actually" that is just bothersome. 

Then you need to start seeing "2K" and "2.5K/3K" being different just like street numbers. There are corners you can cut without problem and those you cannot.

 

28 minutes ago, latisullivan said:

But that just makes me wonder then, why not 2160 instead of 4K? Or whatever the 8K one is? If we have to stick to resolutions (or pixels), we should say everything with a resolution/pixels. But if we can "K" some, we can 2K 1440p. Wouldn't that be what made sense? Sense from the current real use situation, not sense from the accurate/correct technical point. That was what I was trying to ask about haha. Like why one, but not the other(s).

There's also HD, FHD and QHD, dont forget these 3.

 

You can call the resolutions with horizontal pixel count, vertical pixel count or marketing names. They just have to make sense to someone without a habit of addressing them in different ways. QHD does have 4 times the pixel count as HD (720p), hence quad HD. 1080p isnt dual HD probably for this reason. Same concept on 4K, you can call it NHD for having 9 times the pixel as HD even though no one uses this name.

 

Sense from the current habit of people does not stop it from being wrong. In physics, electrical current goes the opposite direction of electrons because we knew about electron flow later and the standard was set prior. It's used, people hate it, but it stuck around.

[ebprince the computer nerd]

Ok, I’m going to sound pretty dumb here, but I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CALL A WEBSITE OR ANYTHING THE “Internet!?!?!” Just say the name of the app or something else you’re talking about, or just say Safari, Edge, Chrome, etc if it’s a browser. It really gets me angry when I see someone say, “Get off the Internet!” No, I am not on the “iNtErNeT,” I am on a game or a website! Stop saying INTERNET!

[dalekphalm]

16 hours ago, latisullivan said:

Why is this one bad? And why is 2160p "4K" instead of "2160p" like all the other p's are p's. I like, even if it's wrong, saying 2K because like 4K is short, you remember it and simplifies everything. Again, even if it's not accurate. 

1440p as "2K" is bad and should never be done, because if you're using the "Horizontal pixels but rounded" naming convention, 2K either refers to 1920x1080 or 2048x1080. Neither of which is 2560x1440.

 

Not only is it not accurate, but it's misleading because there is a different, more widely used resolution that actually can be properly referred to as "2K" (see above).

 

Also the p stands for progressive scan (as opposed to interlacing, which would be "2160i" or "1080i").

 

Yes it's kind of weird that they flip between the two naming conventions - I'd rather we just standardize on one or the other - either 1080p or 2K. Either 2160p or 4K.

 

No matter what, though, 1440p should never be referred to as 2K. I blame smartphone manufacturers for this mostly.