IT class

[Wolf_Rayet]

So I was in my business class today and we were learning about IT. It's really stupid basic stuff. Like RAM is a thing that exists.

 

But one definition we were given was 'VDU' or visual display unit. Now I haven't been in the tech bubble for long but I've never heard a monitor be referred to like this. So I'd like to ask, does anyone actually refer to monitors as VDUs or visual display units? 

[scottyseng]

2 minutes ago, Wolf_Rayet said:

-snip-

No, never heard of it called that way (Maybe I'm not old enough?). Also, I wouldn't expect much from that business IT class. It should pick up a bit towards the end with viruses and firewalls though. haha.

[Starelementpoke]

3 minutes ago, Wolf_Rayet said:

So I was in my business class today and we were learning about IT. It's really stupid basic stuff. Like RAM is a thing that exists.

 

But one definition we were given was 'VDU' or visual display unit. Now I haven't been in the tech bubble for long but I've never heard a monitor be referred to like this. So I'd like to ask, does anyone actually refer to monitors as VDUs or visual display units? 

Not that I´m aware of, but the description isn´t inaccurate.

[KettyKoala]

3 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Not that I´m aware of, but the description isn´t inaccurate.

It's just the more proper term, you will see it used more in industry, labs etc. where there are smalls screens used to control pieces of equipment/instruments

[Wolf_Rayet]

5 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

No, never heard of it called that way (Maybe I'm not old enough?). Also, I wouldn't expect much from that business IT class. It should pick up a bit towards the end with viruses and firewalls though. haha.

I wish. I'm 14 so it's just a normal school class. It's honestly ridiculous how the government doesn't seem to employ anyone under the age of 50 in the department of education. 

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Wolf_Rayet said:

I wish. I'm 14 so it's just a normal school class. It's honestly ridiculous how the government doesn't seem to employ anyone under the age of 50 in the department of education. 

It´s because of how everything´s gone to shit recently. They assume anyone else will be idiots.

[scottyseng]

1 minute ago, Wolf_Rayet said:

I wish. I'm 14 so it's just a normal school class. It's honestly ridiculous how the government doesn't seem to employ anyone under the age of 50 in the department of education. 

Yeah, if I were you, and you're serious about wanting to learn IT stuff, you should browse YouTube, bug people on forums, and google everything. A textbook will help loads in learning too. I never trusted the public school system to teach me much. I pretty much learned all of my IT skills / software skills on my own with books.

 

And yeah, schools are getting pretty bad...I swear, they keep dumbing down the assessment test to move on to the next grade here in Texas...

[Wolf_Rayet]

Just now, Starelementpoke said:

It´s because of how everything´s gone to shit recently. They assume anyone else will be idiots.

But the stuff they teach isn't even helpful. Like if you're teaching millennials. It would be literally impossible for us not know these things. They also teach us what an email is. And they put a hyphen in the word email. 

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Wolf_Rayet said:

But the stuff they teach isn't even helpful. Like if you're teaching millennials. It would be literally impossible for us not know these things. They also teach us what an email is. And they put a hyphen in the word email. 

Technically, that is the correct spelling of e-mail.

[conspiravision]

Never heard a monitor being called a VDU, but after some quick googling that is what British people used to call monitors back in the day... However in modern times they might be referring to VDU's as dumb terminals for VDI(virtual desktop infrastructure) work stations, where a server does the leg work and processing and all the monitor does is display what the remote server is doing.

[Wolf_Rayet]

2 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

Technically, that is the correct spelling of e-mail.

I know but my point is: who ever spells it like that. 

[Starelementpoke]

Just now, Wolf_Rayet said:

I know but my point is: who ever spells it like that. 

People who still have respect for proper spelling and people who aren´t lazy Americans. (For the record, I´m American)

[KettyKoala]

1 minute ago, Wolf_Rayet said:

I know but my point is: who ever spells it like that. 

Me lol

[Loleo]

8 minutes ago, Starelementpoke said:

People who still have respect for proper spelling and people who aren´t lazy Americans. (For the record, I´m American)

Sure but every language change. If a new invention is made and let's say a new form of displays is being made it's going to need a new word. The new word is probably chosen by the inventor and adapted into that language (and that's what happens for the most of the time). However for the other countries with a different language than English the word gets chosen by a certain organization, here in Sweden it's called ''Svenska akademin''. The word can be similar or completely random but if the word doesn't get chosen quickly enough and the speakers of that language will simply adopt the original word and maybe change the pronunciation of it a little. So even if for an example Svenska akademin has chosen the word it doesn't really matter unless the people use it. It's a concept which the organization only leads the language but the speakers who are actually using it decides how it's going to evolve. The same rules apply if everyone started using a new word for a already named object the new word would eventually replace the old one but only if it gets used more. Therefore if e-mail would never be used and everyone just started calling it email instead it would eventually change to it. And that's exactly what's happening now. So really neither of you are incorrect just a matter of time before it changes.

 

[mikat]

VDU or as normal IT people that dont wanna look cool say: screen/monitor

[LukeTim]

46 minutes ago, Wolf_Rayet said:

So I was in my business class today and we were learning about IT. It's really stupid basic stuff. Like RAM is a thing that exists.

 

But one definition we were given was 'VDU' or visual display unit. Now I haven't been in the tech bubble for long but I've never heard a monitor be referred to like this. So I'd like to ask, does anyone actually refer to monitors as VDUs or visual display units? 

 

More of a formal description. Only time I have heard it used is when I got new glasses. My old company would pay some part of the cost of my glasses, but only provided they were "for VDU use".

[mikat]

41 minutes ago, scottyseng said:

Yeah, if I were you, and you're serious about wanting to learn IT stuff, you should browse YouTube, bug people on forums, and google everything. A textbook will help loads in learning too. I never trusted the public school system to teach me much. I pretty much learned all of my IT skills / software skills on my own with books.

 

And yeah, schools are getting pretty bad...I swear, they keep dumbing down the assessment test to move on to the next grade here in Texas...

i had to learn what AGP was (in 2015!!!)

 

they said: which slot does the video card go in, so my computer mind goes: hey, that looks like pci, lets answer that! (he said that i should have learned for the test and blah blah blah)

and my teacher is so lazy he will not do jack shit for 5 years and then make a shitty word document.

 

we had to make a video about how to swap hardware in a pc, this pc looked like this

 

we also had to make a game in gamemaker, which was literally looking at a word document and copying exactly what was in there.

 

TL;DR: all my computer knowledge comes from the internet too, and i hate my it teacher.

 

/rant

 

Edited March 11, 2016 by mikat

[scottyseng]

1 minute ago, mikat said:

-snip-

I remember when I tried to buy my first GPU...I knew the PC we had at the time had a AGP slot, but I didn't know that there were several versions of the AGP slot until after I tried to put the GPU in and no matter what I did, it wouldn't fit. I had to google and learn my mistake that I had the wrong style of AGP slot on our P4 machine at the time.

 

Ah, I remember seeing the IT class at my high school...they worked on machines like that as well. Heck, machines like that probably still run the school... I bet my school still has the same Core 2 Duo and P4 machines...

[mikat]

Just now, scottyseng said:

I remember when I tried to buy my first GPU...I knew the PC we had at the time had a AGP slot, but I didn't know that there were several versions of the AGP slot until after I tried to put the GPU in and no matter what I did, it wouldn't fit. I had to google and learn my mistake that I had the wrong style of AGP slot on our P4 machine at the time.

 

Ah, I remember seeing the IT class at my high school...they worked on machines like that as well. Heck, machines like that probably still run the school... I bet my school still has the same Core 2 Duo and P4 machines...

my school is rocking core 2 duos and athlon II x2's

[RuffRuffmcgruff]

Don't call them VDUs but at work we use VDU Assessment forms basically to make sure your workstation is a-ok. 

[IAcKI]

I know alot of the instrument at work when reading the manuals or the procedures of how to operate them the screen on the instrument is refereed to as the VDU. 

[Tribalinius]

Off-Topic: I swear that, as a collective, we probably used every 3 letters acronym possible in the IT industry. No wonder people look at us like we are some kind of aliens when we can say whole sentences using only 3 letter acronyms haha :p.

 

On-Topic: Not everyone know what RAM is or what a CPU is either. In the same way that I don't know jackshit about car internals and if I ever get some sort of crash course, I'd love to know the basic stuff. That sucks for you though because you'd probably better off in a more advanced class.

[mikat]

15 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

@mikat Go to my first college, "You wanna know how to program?  5 different languages of calculators, and the most outdated methods because!  That! Is!  The Limit!  Of!  My Abilities!"   So, I'd make endless loops and other crap that would crash his IDEs then make him have to go over everyone's work, again!  Or, I'd leave out code because I was tired of his bs.

in a few weeks we will begin with making a website, will keep you guys updated

inb4 he puts his script inside <script> tags and doesn't use a seperate file

[Wolf_Rayet]

38 minutes ago, Tribalinius said:

Off-Topic: I swear that, as a collective, we probably used every 3 letters acronym possible in the IT industry. No wonder people look at us like we are some kind of aliens when we can say whole sentences using only 3 letter acronyms haha :p.

 

On-Topic: Not everyone know what RAM is or what a CPU is either. In the same way that I don't know jackshit about car internals and if I ever get some sort of crash course, I'd love to know the basic stuff. That sucks for you though because you'd probably better off in a more advanced class.

I know a lot of people don't know what they mean. But it's kinda irrelevant. I mean it would make sense if both the acronym and the full title were used but no one ever says random access memory. No one ever says central processing unit. If those words did not exist it would make no difference because no one ever says them. The teach you the most useless shit. 

[mikat]

25 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Be thankful you don't have my teacher.

next time on story wars: IT teachers