What's a tech term you hate?

[pythonmegapixel]

"Price-to-performance ratio"

 

Just quoting myself from another thread here:

 

The whole idea of a "price-to-performance ratio" is an oversimplification to the point of ludicrousness. (Obviously it's accurate to a point - nobody needs to spend hundreds and hundreds on a motherboard for their consumer desktop CPU, but then that's obvious and doesn't need a mythical "ratio" to explain it)

[AMD A10-9600P]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

"Price-to-performance ratio"

 

Just quoting myself from another thread here:

 

The whole idea of a "price-to-performance ratio" is an oversimplification to the point of ludicrousness. (Obviously it's accurate to a point - nobody needs to spend hundreds and hundreds on a motherboard for their consumer desktop CPU, but then that's obvious and doesn't need a mythical "ratio" to explain it)

Strongly agree! Whatever someone defines as price to performance will vary hugely from person to person and use case to use case.

[da na]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

"Price-to-performance ratio"

 

Just quoting myself from another thread here:

 

The whole idea of a "price-to-performance ratio" is an oversimplification to the point of ludicrousness. (Obviously it's accurate to a point - nobody needs to spend hundreds and hundreds on a motherboard for their consumer desktop CPU, but then that's obvious and doesn't need a mythical "ratio" to explain it)

I use "price to performance" when convincing people not to buy new Apple products, but the addition of "ratio" at the end is just pointless.

[UltraNerd]

On 5/7/2021 at 9:38 PM, CerealExperimentsLain said:

People referring to non-physicals purchases, of games or other media, as 'Digital' as if  an optical disc with a game or movie on it was not also digital.

I do that all the time.

Why? Because you can't resell an e-shop code.

[UltraNerd]

On 5/7/2021 at 9:55 PM, FakeKGB said:

Gamer

 

I hate it. It's basically saying "oh you like to play video games? HOW ABOUT DEFINING YOUR WHOLE LIFE BY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES! HUH?!?!?"

Do you define your whole life by video games?

[Tonyx]

1 hour ago, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

I use "price to performance" when convincing people not to buy new Apple products, but the addition of "ratio" at the end is just pointless.

But It make sense.

I mean, 100 performance for 1000$ is more convenient than 150 performance for 3000$

Like FPS per dollar on GPU's

[da na]

Just now, Tonyx said:

But It make sense.

I mean, 100 performance for 1000$ is more convenient than 150 performance for 3000$

Like FPS per dollar on GPU's

Yeah, the price-performance graph makes sense, but everyone has a different view of it.

[tkitch]

 

is my PC bottlenecked?  Do I have a bottleneck?  Will this be bottlenecked?

 

Yes, yes and yes.  THERE IS ALWAYS A BOTTLENECK.  

[Radium_Angel]

HP.

Just kill them off already and be done with it

[DrunkTruck]

i know it's not really a term but i hate it when people confuse memory (ram) with storage "memory".

[Helpful Tech Witch]

Just now, DrunkTruck said:

i know it's not really a term but i hate it when people confuse memory (ram) with storage "memory".

this. 

its frusturating when i see things in text books like saying: if a computer has 2 terabytes of memory......

i had that in a story priblem once. Its stupid, and shouldnt bother me, ut it does.

[Rocketdog2112]

The term AUX (pronounced by many as OX) as in "Have you seen my aux chord?"

[Helpful Tech Witch]

3 minutes ago, Rocketdog2112 said:

The term AUX (pronounced by many as OX) as in "Have you seen my aux chord?"

its more of an abreiviation.

as in, AUXiliary, which is the real name of it.

[DrunkTruck]

9 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

this. 

its frusturating when i see things in text books like saying: if a computer has 2 terabytes of memory......

i had that in a story priblem once. Its stupid, and shouldnt bother me, ut it does.

lmao, only if pc's had that much ram.

 

[Helpful Tech Witch]

6 minutes ago, DrunkTruck said:

lmao, only if pc's had that much ram.

 

especially when these textbooks were written like 8 years ago....

[SteveiJobs]

Not sure if this is a local dialect thing (midwest US) but people will use the phrase "I got it offline" to mean they downloaded something from the internet.

 

Another one is when non-tech people cannot understand the difference between downloading and installing software and they just say they "downloaded" it.

[Bombastinator]

47 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

this. 

its frusturating when i see things in text books like saying: if a computer has 2 terabytes of memory......

i had that in a story priblem once. Its stupid, and shouldnt bother me, ut it does.

There are computers that have that much ram.  They’re by no means home devices though.

[WhitetailAni]

1 hour ago, UltraNerd said:

Do you define your whole life by video games?

No.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, FakeKGB said:

No.

Some people do.... though.... lol

[Helpful Tech Witch]

33 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

There are computers that have that much ram.  They’re by no means home devices though.

Okay can’t think of any  system 8 years ago that would’ve been possible even in a server. 

[Bombastinator]

22 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

Okay can’t think of any song system 8 years ago that would’ve been possible even in a server. 

I was thinking higher end of supercomputing stuff, not sure what “song system 8” means.  I didn’t seem an 8 years ago thing, but it possibly might not have happened 8 years ago at all.  There are people around here who have smaller older server stuff in their houses anyway, so I’m not sure server would even qualify for what I was talking about.  Afaik server stuff maxes out at 1tb of memory even today. 

Edited May 10, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Helpful Tech Witch]

5 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

I was thinking higher end of supercomputing stuff, not sure what “song system 8” means.  I didn’t seem an 8 years ago thing, but it possibly might not have happened 8 years ago at all.  There are people around here who have smaller older server stuff in their houses anyway, so I’m not sure server would even qualify for what I was talking about.  Afaik server stuff maxes out at 1tb of memory even today. 

nope. single sypc supports 4tb, i believe that doubles with dual eypc ( i may be wrong here)

 

that was me using swipe type on my phone. it was meant to be sort of system, not song system.

[Bombastinator]

10 minutes ago, HelpfulTechWizard said:

nope. single sypc supports 4tb, i believe that doubles with dual eypc ( i may be wrong here)

 

that was me using swipe type on my phone. it was meant to be sort of system, not song system.

I figured it was some sort of autocorrect weirdness. Usually I can decode them from context but that one eluded me. I didn’t know epic would do 4 tb.  That’s a whole lot of money in Dimms.

[Touch My Hamm]

As someone who in the historical past fixed personal computers I HATE the work "Fast". Its 100% relative and when they used to say "The salesperson said it was fast"....Im sorry but if your spending $200 on a laptop I can bet you money its not "Fast". 

People declaring every tablet to be an Ipad or an Iphone.... I liked the term Cellular Mobility Device more than every mobile phone now being called Iphone. I guess thats just apple's great marketing to thank for this. Its not even old people but every younger person calls every phone a Iphone or Ipad. 

 

On 5/7/2021 at 7:53 PM, wat3rmelon_man2 said:

Innie and outie connector is a less awkward way to say it, I've found

 

It makes it sound dirty to me. I guess its more my age as anytime someone is talking about a connector I ask if its male or female. I even stupidly asked when someone gave me new video cables like hdmi or DP. Old VGA cables used to have adapters for connecting to weird machines that would have male connectors. 

 

[Kamina]

Retina display

 

It's more of a marketing term but people that say it think it's some technology that Apple created.