Statements that trigger tech fans.

[dalekphalm]

7 hours ago, Nuluvius said:

Given that I work in an industry where being very specific with words is really important I'm also extremely self conscious and highly critical about this sort of thing.

 

Digressing slightly, I also find crutch words in general quite irritating; um, er, basically, literally, actually and so on - they dilute the strength of a statement and display weakness or indecisiveness...

Haha I would suggest that you're overthinking that one. Many people, including incredibly intelligent people who are experts in their field, talk like that.

 

It does not show weakness or indecisiveness. It shows a lack of public speaking skills, etc. Just take one look at Elon Musk. I don't think anyone can claim he's weak or indecisive. Yet he "uhm's" and "ah's" literally every time he does a presentation, basically. Actually, he's, um, kind of like, one of the smartest people on the planet, literally. (okay that's enough torture for you xD)

[Nuluvius]

3 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

(okay that's enough torture for you xD)

Indeed, thanks for that 

[William Payne]

1 hour ago, kk027 said:

My freind wants to play at 720/1080p And insists on getting a 1080ti. I'm helping him with his build and he didn't even tell me his budget yet.

I can understand that, every build video out there seems to have a 1080ti chucked in there somewhere. Its very easy to get it set in your head that you need one even if you don't. 

[mr moose]

One that has cropped up recently is this occasional reference to being old and not understanding tech (most common with reference to politicians).   It's almost Ironic that we have people that think because the other is too old/young they can't possibly understand.

 

 

[leadeater]

On 12/5/2017 at 4:15 AM, hey_yo_ said:

"solid state hard drive". 

Physical software 

[leadeater]

On 12/5/2017 at 10:29 AM, Dylanc1500 said:

"I prefer Delta fans"

 

I really don't understand why but for some reason I had couple kids, when I was at Microcenter, get very angry at my preference of delta fans. I guess I'm old.

People who don't like Delta fans don't like fans. Nothing beats a 6,000 RPM finger remover.

[PETRGangKing]

When people call their computer, the case and its contents, the CPU.

[Shakaza]

On 12/20/2017 at 7:56 PM, dalekphalm said:

There's actually a syndrome detailing it, called (ironically) RAS Syndrome:

Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

 

Scientists just want to have fun, the same way we do! (And some of them are massive trolls!)

 

For example, take the Sonic Hedgehog gene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog

[captain_to_fire]

32 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Physical software 

The person who said “solid state hard drive” was a salesman in an Apple Store trying to convince someone to buy a Retina Display MacBook Pro. Apple has gone all SSD since 2012. Hard drives seems to have an identity crisis when naïve salesmen try to sell them. ?

[A_Mediocre_Kangaroo_Farmer]

On 12/21/2017 at 2:07 AM, Drak3 said:

IRL, never. If I have on the forum, it's bound to be late night posting when I was gaming. But to me, anything longer than OLED or LCD, when differentiating display tech, is just excessive talking. I hate excessive talking.

TL;DR: Not IRL, perhaps while distracted on the forum. OLED or LCD suffices to differentiate the tech. I hate excessive talking.

[mr moose]

18 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

The person who said “solid state hard drive” was a salesman in an Apple Store trying to convince someone to buy a Retina Display MacBook Pro. Apple has gone all SSD since 2012. Hard drives seems to have an identity crisis when naïve salesmen try to sell them. ?

I let people off on that now,  especially given the whole etymology of the words used to name drives have been lost. SSD's technically aren't drives either but the naming of such devices is simply a handmedown relic of older tech.  sometimes the names are reused to reduce confusion as to their actual function within the pc (rather than calling the SSD memory or ram which it technically is more than a drive) and sometimes people are just lazy. 

[dalekphalm]

2 minutes ago, mr moose said:

I let people off on that now,  especially given the whole etymology of the words used to name drives have been lost. SSD's technically aren't drives either but the naming of such devices is simply a handmedown relic of older tech.  sometimes the names are reused to reduce confusion as to their actual function within the pc (rather than calling the SSD memory or ram which it technically is more than a drive) and sometimes people are just lazy. 

Indeed. Getting upset that someone calls an SSHD a Solid State Hard Drive, as compared to Hybrid drive is frankly dumb. 

 

I wonder how many people even know what HDD stands for? Spoiler alert: not “Hard Drive”

Spoiler

The answer is “hard disk drive”

Solid state Hard Drive makes more sense than “solid state drive”, as you point out. 

 

Lots of tech names don’t make sense. 

[Godlygamer23]

8 minutes ago, mr moose said:

I let people off on that now,  especially given the whole etymology of the words used to name drives have been lost. SSD's technically aren't drives either but the naming of such devices is simply a handmedown relic of older tech.  sometimes the names are reused to reduce confusion as to their actual function within the pc (rather than calling the SSD memory or ram which it technically is more than a drive) and sometimes people are just lazy. 

How are SSDs "technically" not drives?

[captain_to_fire]

1 hour ago, mr moose said:

I let people off on that now,  especially given the whole etymology of the words used to name drives have been lost. SSD's technically aren't drives either but the naming of such devices is simply a handmedown relic of older tech.  sometimes the names are reused to reduce confusion as to their actual function within the pc (rather than calling the SSD memory or ram which it technically is more than a drive) and sometimes people are just lazy. 

What’s so confusing between “solid state drives” meaning storage devices without spinning magnetic platter and is significantly faster and “hard drives” with magnetic spinning platter that is slower? 

[dalekphalm]

27 minutes ago, hey_yo_ said:

What’s so confusing between “solid state drives” meaning storage devices without spinning magnetic platter and is significantly faster and “hard drives” with magnetic spinning platter that is slower? 

I think the idea is that "drive" is implied to be a mechanical based term.

[Stefan1024]

Saying "Samsung" when they actually mean "Android" .

 

Don't like Samsung phones and think all products from Samsung are bad (SSDs, monitors...)

 

Gauging the performance of a laptop based on the OS installed. "My old laptop is still quite good, it has windows 10 and everything."

 

In general, when product A and B don't work nicly together, allways blaim product B, because they like the product A.

 

Don't read a single word of the manual and blame the product for beeing complicated.

[Syntaxvgm]

6 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

How are SSDs "technically" not drives?

\

 

I'll have you know my computer runs an SSS - solid state slate. 

[mr moose]

7 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

How are SSDs "technically" not drives?

 

6 hours ago, hey_yo_ said:

What’s so confusing between “solid state drives” meaning storage devices without spinning magnetic platter and is significantly faster and “hard drives” with magnetic spinning platter that is slower? 

The name Drive comes from the motor that physically drives the disk.  SSD's do not have one of those. The name drive has just been used because when you say "drive" people know what you are talking about.  

 

 

So technically (and only technically speaking) SSD's as we call them are not drives, they are solid state data storage, they have no drive mechanism.  Anything that has a physical motor that drives a data storage disk (including hard platters in HDD's) is a disk drive. E.G floppy disk drive, hard disk drive and optical disk drive.

 

 

So as I said before, there is no real point in getting hung up over semantics of such devices, as even the common terms and names we have are wrong and only used for convenience.

 

 

 

[asand1]

"Is that RAM dual channel?"

 

 

[BobaJett]

On 12/13/2017 at 11:16 AM, MEC-777 said:

This is not aimed at you, specifically, but the "throw it away" or "just replace it with a whole new one" attitude actually triggers me - that is; where there exists a valid solution to fix or upgrade the device. 

 

Yeah, it's an old, cheap laptop, but if it also has a slow-ass 5400rpm HDD in it, that is the primary cause of slow performance in most laptops. Simply swapping that out for an SSD would probably make that machine far nicer to use for a couple more years.  

For those who don't know; if you're running Windows 10 on an SSD, go and disable the auto-defrag setting ASAP!!!

No problem, that is a good idea. I will look into that and see if that is possible! I work at a pretty bare bones start up and basically am tasked with any computer, tech upgrades etc throughout the office. (Which is horrible cause honestly I don't know a lot) I am much more knowledgeable in programming and creating applications then hardware stuff (because thats my job lol).

[Guest]

I was in a music store and the guy explaining mono keyboards tried using a gaming pc analogy, and made a false comparison. (I forgot what he said exactly but it bothered me....) 

[NelizMastr]

On 25-12-2017 at 10:42 AM, mr moose said:

 

The name Drive comes from the motor that physically drives the disk.  SSD's do not have one of those. The name drive has just been used because when you say "drive" people know what you are talking about.  

 

 

So technically (and only technically speaking) SSD's as we call them are not drives, they are solid state data storage, they have no drive mechanism.  Anything that has a physical motor that drives a data storage disk (including hard platters in HDD's) is a disk drive. E.G floppy disk drive, hard disk drive and optical disk drive.

 

 

So as I said before, there is no real point in getting hung up over semantics of such devices, as even the common terms and names we have are wrong and only used for convenience.

 

 

 

So SSD is Solid State Datastoragecarrierthingamajig basically 

[Guest]

when people treat instant messenger clients like you're communicating via formal letterhead. big pet peeve of mine when the first thing someone says to me (on fucking discord of all places) is "is english your first language?"

[InertiaSelling]

"Macintosh computers didn't run Windows back then."

[dalekphalm]

11 hours ago, Irisaurus Rex said:

big pet peeve of mine when the first thing someone says to me (on fucking discord of all places) is "is english your first language?"

Why does that bother you? If it's a text chat, asking what language you are most comfortable with (or if you speak english at all) is a good thing to know so that you can communicate effectively.

 

If you mean over Voice Chat, then it's kind of irrelevant, unless they're simply curious.

4 hours ago, InertiaSelling said:

"Macintosh computers didn't run Windows back then."

Depending on how far back they mean with "back then", they'd be right.

 

Windows running on a Mac wasn't a thing really until VMWare introduced their first virtualization package for Mac OS way back in the early 90's.

 

And of course, natively running Windows was impossible until Apple dropped the PowerPC chips and switched to the Intel x86 package.