What's a tech term you hate?

[Bombastinator]

3 minutes ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Yes, it was indeed needed for those beings whom of which are of slower mindset than others. 

The problem is the question wasn’t rhetorical it was pseudo rhetorical.  It’s too often lately used as an argumentative technique.  Rusch  Limbaugh did it a lot.  He would often reply with a very angry “I was being sarcastic” which often didn’t actually answer the question. It’s been too often a way of attempting to force a point that actually isn’t one. 

[XGoodGuyFitz]

5 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

The problem is the question wasn’t rhetorical it was pseudo rhetorical.  It’s too often lately used as an argumentative technique.  Rusch  Limbaugh did it a lot.  He would often reply with a very angry “I was being sarcastic” which often didn’t actually answer the question. It’s been too often a way of attempting to force a point that actually isn’t one. 

Rush*

[ScoDal]

When I'm doing phone tech support and I ask which browser they're using and they say,

"Google"

[sub68]

Hacker

[Bombastinator]

7 hours ago, XGoodGuyFitz said:

Rush*

Again, depends.  It changed in the 90’s when he got that short lived TV show

[732]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

Hacker

as a person actually learning pentesting this hurts my soul

 

friend: *uses f12 to edit text on a webpage to say "noobmaster69"*

friend 2: wow!1! you are such a hacker!11!

 

and the term "virus" as well

"hey my computer is running slow, is it infected with a virus?"

"hey there are a lot of ads on this page, is it infected with a virus?"

 

real stories

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, 732 said:

as a person actually learning pentesting this hurts my soul

Well I mean in a computer way.

Because I fix IT problems.

[732]

1 minute ago, sub68 said:

Well I mean in a computer way.

Because I fix IT problems.

ah i see

[sub68]

Just now, 732 said:

ah i see

Yep I get board being called hacker for the simplest things

[dean_5234]

Not super on topic, but I hate when I say I am a pc nerd and people automatically think I am rich because I have more than 1 PC at my disposal. Seriously, do you think I would be streaming with Ryzen 5 1400 if I was rich???

[FinOxy]

12 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Might be doing it not because they think they have the information but because they think they’re not going to get the information even if you finish the description.  Gaming computer, math computer, or casual computer.  You seem to be saying”I’m not going to tell you”. I’ll describe the hardware bits and let you decide” which they may not be equipped to do.  i7 bespeaks a minimum though which takes “casual” out of the equation even if it’s an old i7. It still hits a minimum which is above casual.  You’ve got at least 4 cores and at least 3.5 ghz.

Okay, that is true.
Althought most people I know, would just say
What the does even it being intel core i7 mean.
Sure, even ivy lake i7 and i5 are totally good platforms even nowadays. As long as you add a SSD as a boot drive. They can do most things that you really need. You can game on them, but if you get a high-end GPU, there is going to be bottlenecks. 
But for some reason, I could not get PCIe boot to work. 
You have a point there, just a list of specs truly doesn´t say what you actually need a PC for. For me, it is gaming and studies. Maybe a random project in Resolve. 

 

[FinOxy]

4 hours ago, davemc said:

Not super on topic, but I hate when I say I am a pc nerd and people automatically think I am rich because I have more than 1 PC at my disposal. Seriously, do you think I would be streaming with Ryzen 5 1400 if I was rich???

Sure, I can understand your anger. 
Personally, I don´t usually get that type of flak. 
Even thought I have technicly two PCs, which are in my daily use. Funny thing is that they are on the same displays
-laptop with a dock

-desktop

[Rex Hite]

When people say "ex" instead of "times" when the "X" denotes a multiple in a specification.

 

For example, It's a four times PCIe slot, not "four ex".

 

 

 

 

[Sam Harradine]

"Broken" the amount of times i've been told something is broken and needs to be fixed when it reality the power cable has come loose or the thing isnt even turned on.....

[Danny Donkey]

"Gamer-"/"Gaming-". I hate every internet store that have one category for as example keyboards, and another for gaming keyboards. I mean really? All I want is a half decent cherry brown keyboard with customisable keys to press keys on, regardless of whether I am writing a document or playing a game.

 

And this is even worse in Norwegian, where the Norwegian stores have adopted this very English term without even bothering to figure a Norwegian equivalent term to use instead.

[The_russian]

3 hours ago, Rex Hite said:

When people say "ex" instead of "times" when the "X" denotes a multiple in a specification.

 

For example, It's a four times PCIe slot, not "four ex".

What makes you think it is pronounced “times”? I’ve heard it pronounced PCIe “by” 16, including by Intel one of the co-creators of PCIe. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard it pronounced “times”.

[Rex Hite]

I think it started with CD roms when they started increasing the speeds by multiples of the original or base specification. The expression was most often "times faster" but denoted with an "X"

Things became, for example "2 times faster" or whatever the multiple was.

 

"_times faster" was the usual expression. This applied to CPU, RAM, bus speeds etc.

[Bombastinator]

1 hour ago, The_russian said:

What makes you think it is pronounced “times”? I’ve heard it pronounced PCIe “by” 16, including by Intel one of the co-creators of PCIe. I don’t know if I’ve ever heard it pronounced “times”.

Times implies multiplication as in 2x4=8 as it happens with Pcie either time or by would work.  eX almost never does unless it’s part of a name like Xbox series X.  “By” implies dimension. A 2”x4” would be a two by four which is a standard for construction lumber in the United States. Calling a 2 by 4 a two times four would be inaccurate.

[Middcore]

People using "lag" as a meaningless catch-all for any less-than-desired performance when lag is a network issue. "Help my GPU lags." Congrats, you've told us nothing about your problem. 

[pythonmegapixel]

1 minute ago, Middcore said:

People using "lag" as a meaningless catch-all for any less-than-desired performance when lag is a network issue. "Help my GPU lags." Congrats, you've told us nothing about your problem. 

Maybe what they mean is that there is latency between the audio and the video - which can happen when the system is struggling to keep up with the workload?

[RGProductions]

all of them. I only refer to things through obscure hand motions 

[Middcore]

14 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Maybe what they mean is that there is latency between the audio and the video - which can happen when the system is struggling to keep up with the workload?

 

No, 99% of the time when people say this what they actually mean is their frame rate isn't as high as they think it should be. 

[Rex Hite]

"SKU"- just say "model", or "product", or anything other than "SKU" Unless you're managing an inventory system it's dumb jargon.

 

"Form Factor"- Just say "shape", or "size" or "proportions" 

 

"Design language"- just say... nothing.  It's asinine.

 

George Carlin was right!

[The_russian]

4 hours ago, Bombastinator said:

Times implies multiplication as in 2x4=8 as it happens with Pcie either time or by would work.  eX almost never does unless it’s part of a name like Xbox series X.  “By” implies dimension. A 2”x4” would be a two by four which is a standard for construction lumber in the United States. Calling a 2 by 4 a two times four would be inaccurate.

I get where you get “times” from “x”, what I meant was why did they think it was “times” in the context of PCIe, I probably should have specified.
 

Interesting that you brought up “by” usually referring to dimension, since the “x16” refers to the width of the PCIe interface in lanes, so in this case the width of the interface is 16 lanes, hence why I think the more proper way to say it would be “by 16”.
 

In the end it doesn’t really matter, I was just curious what their reasoning was for “times” being the “correct” way to say it, since I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say it like that.

[Bombastinator]

16 minutes ago, The_russian said:

I get where you get “times” from “x”, what I meant was why did they think it was “times” in the context of PCIe, I probably should have specified.
 

Interesting that you brought up “by” usually referring to dimension, since the “x16” refers to the width of the PCIe interface in lanes, so in this case the width of the interface is 16 lanes, hence why I think the more proper way to say it would be “by 16”.
 

In the end it doesn’t really matter, I was just curious what their reasoning was for “times” being the “correct” way to say it, since I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say it like that.

That’s the thing about Pcie. Because of the way it works it’s both by and times because the channels are additive of bandwidth.  It’s a bit unusual that way though.  16 “ex” pci3 doesn’t work though. The word is sometimes used to indicate an unknown quantity as well.  Gets confusing though because ex can also mean former, like ex wife. So “ say I’ve got ex male hamsters in a box..” might mean neutered hamsters so one would need to say “I’ve got ex number of male hamsters..”

 

English sucks.