Calling storage "memory"

Calm down, stallman, we all say ganoo plus linux here.

>he has an Cred Forums

>calling a switched network ethernet

>>not knowing the difference between the internet and world wide web.
what?

calling your waifu your girlfriend

waifus are technology

"user plz can you pass me a USB?"

A USB WHAT MOTHERFUCKER. KEYBOARD? DRIVER? WHAT ABOUT A USB FUCKING BUTTPLUG? THAT'S THE ONE YOU AFTER YOU COCKSOCKET?

>cocksocket

mfw LGA1551

lol'd

Topkek

I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're referring to as a USB, is in fact, a portable flash mass storage device with integrated Universal Serial Bus interface, or as I've recently taken to calling it, flash drive plus USB interface. USB is not an storage device unto itself, but rather another a name for an industry standard that defines cables, connectors and communication protocols used in a bus for connection, communication and power-supply between computers and external peripherals.

Many computer users use a variant of the flash drive very day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the variant of flash drive which is widely used today is often called a USB, and many of its users are not aware that it is the flash drive, developed by Trek Technology and IBM.

There really is a USB, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. USB is the receptacle: the connector in the system that accepts and embraces the plug of the male connector. The receptacle is an essential part of an USB system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete USB system. The female USB receptacle is normally used in combination with the male USB plug, such as on the flash drive: the whole system is basically the flash drive with the USB interface, or flash drive/USB interface. All the so-called USB distributions are really distributions of flash drive/USB interface!

>referring to a computer as a "cpu"

RAM doesn't compute
nor does you disk drive
or your mobo

The GPU is a computer too

This is from a non-English native country:

>LED diode
>calling smartphones "iPhones" (e.g. my Samsung iPhone; yes, I'm serious.)
>CD = Disk; so, to say DVD, we say DVD-CD. I mean DVD-Disk is bad by itself.
>PC Computer (as opposed to a Laptop)
>using Photoshop as a verb
>"Did you buy Wi-Fi?" - after I sent someone a photo of a new router.
>unironically using "Mother's Middle Name" or "Mother's Birthplace" as a secret answer
>calling VCR "Casette"
>calling VHS "Video"
>dalling DVD-player "DVD Video"

>using Photoshop as a verb
what's the matter

Usb drive or as the one I used to own was called, flash drive.
Though there is no difference in this term between an external hdd with a usb connector and a nand storage chip, they can both perform the same functions so it doesn't really matter.

I also formatted mine to ntfs after trying to move long home movies that were over the max filesize limit for whatever it was originally formatted to (fat32 maybe).

In my country computer is called "dator" and data is "data".
>mfw someone calls a computer a "data"

>thinking win98se is just win98 with an update installed
I'm not even a retro fag but that just pisses me off

>berating someone who knows that wireless routers create wi-fi networks
Way to be one of those elitist tech assholes.
Also when referring to computers, I spell it disc, not disk. Not sure why.

Let me PowerPoint you a presentation.

Let me Word you an essay.

Let me Excel you a table. (This one's actually all right)

Let me Google that (Fuck!)

Let me R those analysis

Let me AutoCAD you a swimming pool.

Let me Outlook/Yahoo/Gmail the document to you.

It sounded odd to me; I would have easily forgiven "Wi-Fi modem"

But they're vital part of a system that computes. Without one of those components, the CPU is useless (it cannot compute).

I support this

So without fuel, a car isn't a vehicle ? stop embarrassing u're shelf

Your comparison doesn't work because the word "computer" refers to the system as a whole and not just a specific component.

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I must memorise this.

Not the point. Calling a thumb drive a USB is like referring to a dialup modem as a COM, or going to the butcher and asking for some abattoir. Shit fucking triggers me hard. I don't even give fucks about burgerclaps calling solder "sodder" anymore, this USB faggotry eclipses that like a supernova

>because the word "computer" refers to the system as a whole
a CPU is still a computer

Kek

>calling storage "memory"
Storage = memory. You're an idiot.
>not knowing the difference between the internet and world wide web.
When is this relevant?
>my computer needs more RAM memory
I'll give you this one
>internet IP
Nobody says this
>ISP provider
Nobody says this
>ATM machine
Nobody says this

Perhaps, but your car analogy was wrong in either way. If you remove everything except the steering wheel, it would work (but then you'd only prove me right). If you want to remove the fuel, it'd be like cutting electricity from the computer. Not removing everything except the CPU.

>it'd be like cutting electricity from the computer. Not removing everything except the CPU.
yes because the only purpose of DD+RAM is to fuel/cache data to compute

>GNU is not Linux

my mother was a cold receptacle and my father was just a machine...

Just how a car isn't a vehicle if the driver isn't feeding it input where to go, am I right? ;)

>calling Cat5 unshielded twisted pair with registered jack number fouty-five an ehternet cable/patch cable

>pin number

No we don't
It's systemd/linux

yes it is

>DVD Disc
>Digital Video Disc Disc

>LED diode
>calling smartphones "iPhones"
russiafag spotted

>what?

kek. The web is an Internet service, and not the Internet itself. Before the web was launched usenet, gopher, BBS systems, and services like AOL were how people connected to and used the Internet. The web was first introduced at the time when the Internet was becoming mainstream, and it greatly simplified using it to the point that other services that served the same or similar purposes have become obscure, or completely dead altogether. That's why you, and most people think that the internet and web are synonymous, because it's all you've really ever known. Even distinctly separate stuff that is commonly used today, like Bit Torrent, works, and is used alongside the web, and it's not readily apparent that they are not part of the web itself.

Speaking of AOL, it was how a lot of us first accessed the Internet. Once the web came along, AOL did provide web access, but even before it provided access to usenet, telenet, gopher, and the like. AOL users were infamous for not comprehending that these things were not part of AOL itself. WebTV users were just as bad, and possibly even more retarded.

>"rig"
>"IPC"
>"outperformed"
Vroom vroom.

OC

Disk != Disc
HDDs and SSDs are disks, meaning a storage device.
DVDs and CDs are discs.

People who compare a phone brand to an operating system.
>le iphone or le android xdxddd

I still don't get the amount of autism what you need to rustle your jimmies because of photoshop as a verb. As opposed to
>let me manipulate the image for you
or even better
>let me imagemanipulate that for you

I lol'd to the second.

>Cred Forums using tinder

What's wrong with IPC?
>XD

This one always triggers me >do you have an android charger?

nazi_frog.jpg

Why are you posting that symbol of hate OP use wojack instead

>these data show...

>ASP server pages

I call it Linux+systemd actually

>calling VCR "Casette"
Is that not how you're supposed to call them? I mean it's a fucking cassette, god damn it.

People do say ATM machine, but who the fuck cares.

The internet and the world wide web are not the same thing.

The internet came first, and allowed for things like remote client-server connections, email, etc. You could connect to a network that wasn't in the same physical location as your own machine.

Tbs world wide web, however, came a good bit later (in the lifespan of the internet that is, since it's only now entering it's fourth decade) with being able to open a web browser and type in an address and request a web page. It was a means to facilitate using the internet and its technologies much easier. Now, you could email someone without needing to install and configure an email client. You could initiate a file transfer over FTP from a simple click of a link without the need of a FTP client.

The web made the internet easier to use but it is not, in itself, the internet.

it's not really on the same level but when i was younger literally everyone i knew, family and friends, called it "CC Cleaner" for years

Same here. Personally just hearing it would always piss me off. It seems like only technoluddites and winbabbies who like to think they're hot shit use CCleaner unironically.

Fuck that cancer to hell and back.

Okay, guys, OP here.

This is going to sound pretty lame and gay, and I fully expect to be called out on it, but I wanted to thank you.

I've been on Cred Forums for nearly as long as it's been a technology board. I've seen it when it was great, I've seen it when it was shit, I've seen it become great again, then shit again... But in all this time, I've never started a thread. I finally do, and it turns out to be a pretty damn good thread. So thanks for letting me have this. You guys are great!

automatic ATM machine
AM in the morning
ssh shell
cd disk
DE environment
ip protocol

>cc
Correct them every time. After some time they'll learn.

good for you, faggot

>RAM doesn't compute
>nor does you disk drive
but they do, in some sense at least. actually, HDDs and SSDs usually have ARM CPUs

I just realized for the first time in my life that there are two spellings for that word. Holy fuck. I'm a native speaker with impeccable English, how did I not notice this before?

I call them "internet cables" most the time to avoid confusion

Here in germany it's called LAN cable

Belgium it is called ethernet cable.
Or just networking cable, to be safe.

I've known about both, but I use them like this:

CD = Compact Disc
HDD = Hard Disk Drive

Though they can be used interchangeably, I use Disc to refer to optical storage media and medical context, and Disk for physical storage media.

Both store data, so why would there be a distinction in spelling?

Let me EDIT that image for you, you autist.

You are correct.

You know the 'V' in 'DVD' doesn't stand for video right? You can't imply other people are stupid if you don't even understand the acronym.

>the video cassette recorder itself is a cassette
if you called a VHS "cassette", you'd be fine. but I'm guessing you're just a 15 y/o whose never seen a cassette player in his life.

>LCD Display

>calling Cred Forums slash gee slash
>calling /hr/ slash haich arr slash
>calling Cred Forums slash eye ennn tee slash
>but then calling Cred Forums slash pole slash

What's wrong with Ccleaner?

>saying slash
I think of Cred Forums as a word like Cred Forums.

not a damn thing

>calling a crossover cable a patch cable

>Saying the names of Cred Forums boards outloud.

stallman is most wise

>wise
not to be a grammar nazi or anything but you horribly mangled the spelling of foolish

>mp3

"I'm listening to music on my mp3!"

>calling web ropes ethernet

>My mom still calls a desktop computer a "CPU"
Gives me a good laugh.

>call the whole computer CPU

Half of the support staff at my last job did this. It was maddening. That and spelling 'Mac' as MAC. IT'S NOT AN ACRONYM. REEEEEEE

>not knowing the difference between the internet and world wide web.
but there isn't one

>not having friends that use chins

>>calling storage "memory"

>doesn't know the difference between volatile and non-volatile memory

When people try to explain to me how the network I manage works.

>The monitor is the computer

>with registered jack number fouty-five

>confusing a 8 position 8 conductor jack for an rj45 jack

did you just learn those words in computer science?

so cute hehe.

>GNU/Linux
Which should be in fact
Systemd/Linux and a little GNU

>I need to renew my Microsoft
Or
>My Microsoft stopped working

I hear this shit working IT all the time and it makes me want to die.

>Android
>not calling it android/gapps

>WAN network
>LAN network
>ISP provider
>IP protocol

>vcr
>not VTR

Yes, it originally stood for "Video"

No, I'm an economics major :^)

>Systemd
>systemd
>systemd

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>not using OpenRC

8p8c, aka Ethernet cable, is not rj45

Sorry, but OpenRC is a piece of shit

VPS server

Calling a USB drive a USB makes me angry

Modern CPUs are computers in and of themselves.

Explain how?
>implying OpenRC isn't the patrician's choice of init system

youtube.com/watch?v=O6iiLWwGMus

How the fuck has this not been brought up yet?

Do you have a Samsung charger?

>download more memory/RAM

Haven't heard this one in a while, but I used to hear people say it all the time.

But as a meme right?

it's a dater. it dates data.
here it's called a knowledge machine

Too many different reasons for me to be bothered listing them all, but the straw that broke my back was the fact that it can't even detect when a service has crashed and restart it

cpu = core inside your computer
this is surprisingly true

>What's wrong with IPC?
It is a frequently abused term. People treat "IPC" as if modern CPUs weren't multi-scalar and WILDLY varying clock cycle cost depending on the workload.
Most frequently when someone says "IPC", they really mean peformance per core in my favorite non-free proprietary video games or Windows application compiled with icc or MSVC++.

I believe that someone somewhere is this dumb.

lold

>>calling smartphones "iPhones" (e.g. my Samsung iPhone; yes, I'm serious.)
fucking old people do this all the time.
I think they do it on purpose to prove their old and dgaf.

tfw I'm starting to do this to my kids.

>hey kids
>ya
>this campfire is lit as fuck amirite

ya, this is a meme, like drilling ahole in your iphone 7 to plug in your headphones

Why do you nerds sperg out at this retarded shit

They don't know what specifically they are saying but still get the message across so what

>PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

are you saying this because you believe the "hp" in php stands for hypertext processor, or am I missing something?

How many phone brands use ios?

Reminds me of agronomy majors getting mad when people would say dirt instead of soil. The memory/storage thing is annoying though. I just say RAM all the time to avoid confusion.

>look at me im dumb

No, it always stood for 'versatile'.

isn't “memory” and “storage” the wrong way around

“memory” is permanent and long-term, i.e. hard drives.

“storage” is where I put things that I'm in the process of working on but don't need immediately, i.e. memory

>difference between the internet and world wide web

so the web is content? the internet is the tubes?
legit srs here.

hard drive storage sure has a lots of memorys nowadays, doesn't it?

>Ram doesn't compute
>he doesn't have automata coprocessors on his RAM
>disk drive
sure does
>mobo
sure does

>gigs

ram doesn't compute, not normal ram anyway. But even ECC ram doesn't really compute, it's probably hardwired parity checks etc.

The internet is the actual interconnected networks and protocols that run it.
The WWW is content on it that can be accessed through URLs and hypertext links.

so a teamspeak server wouldn't be part of the WWW?

But storage is memory you autist

Yesterday my sister literally asked me >do you know how to use microsoft?
And she was talking about Word

Referring to an Android phone as "a droid".

Dongle has been elevated to top tier in recent years, faм

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this was an actual test question in my programming class
>anything attached to the CPU
> answer was "peripherals"

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I haven't seen anyone else do that, but I did when I was little because some NPCs in fighting games were marked as "CPU"

>my personal pc needs more random access RAM memory as memory storage for the OS system

Det är en förkortning av datamaskin

>npc
>non-player character

>cpu
>computer player unit

They were probably originally called CPU because illiterates though CPU = computer. Although they are technically being controlled by CPU alone.

This. It is a kind of memory. From a(n) (hardware) engineering perspective it's actually more correct than storage.

>say download when they mean upload
used to annoy the fuck out of me

wifi - wai fai - wai fee - wai fu

Who the hell says that? Everyone I know, even complete tech illiterates, knows the difference between upload and download.
Isn't "why phy" how it's pronounced? Which I assume you mean with "wai fai".

what's the difference in term of spelling?
not a native englisch speaker

>proactive

>used to

in my country, ATM is Anjungan Tunai Mandiri, which means Independent Cash Room, so ATM Machine is legit

yes
it's pronounced why phy (wai fai)
but for some reasons i'm more comfortable with why fee, dunno why

italian?

Go to South America and everyone says wee fee.
Not sure if it's the same in Spain and Portugal...

> upload and download
In some languages it's the same verb.

>Who the hell says that? Everyone I know, even complete tech illiterates, knows the difference between upload and download.
it's similar to the difference between giving and taking, but given that the action is disembodied it's not that surprising that people make this mistake. i'm honestly kind of shocked that this surprises you.

>weefee
>literally how to pronounced wifi in my native language
not grammatically wrong in my language

My personal rule of thumb to remember how to spell which (i'm not english native) is: If it's rewritable it's Disk, if it's WORM it's Disc.
English gentlemen, please correct me if i'm wrong.

Don't really know what language doesn't just use the English words for those.

"My computer froze"

Not it didn't, you ran out of RAM four years ago

>ATM machine
What's wrong with this? How the fuck else would you call it? Dumb frogposter.

ATM

Russian. It's "Зaгpyзить" for both. There's "Bыгpyзить", but it sounds like you're talking about some cargo, so it's almost never used.
ATM already stands for Automatic Teller Machine.

>What's wrong with this?
the "M" is for "Machine", so it's redundant

Calling it ATM doesn't really make sense though. ATM machine is alot better. I mean you don't call a coffee machine just "coffee" right?

>ATM Machine
>Automatic Teller Machine Machine
Your problem is right there.

Because you don't call the coffee machine CM, which you would then proceed to call CM machine.
And it's not better, you're wasting time saying "machine" when everyone knows what an ATM is, and most people do say just ATM.

It's called a flash drive you tripfag

>Calling it ATM doesn't really make sense though.
maybe not to you, but there's no accounting for stupid people.
>ATM machine is alot better.
by what measure?
>I mean you don't call a coffee machine just "coffee" right?
no, but there's nothing in the word "coffee" that means "machine".

i understand why "ATM machine" is more *familiar* to you, but that doesn't make it accurate. if you want to come back in a few decades and see if the language usage has cemented to use "the ATM Machine", then fine, but right now it's just "the ATM".

there are incidental quibbles like this all over english, too - people use "ensure" and "insure" interchangeably, which is obnoxious to me, but it seems to be settled that they're interchangeable. so it's not like i'm setting too high a bar; it happens. usage is the arbiter of language.

An ATM

hmmmm

sounds wrong :^)

>you don't call a coffee machine just "coffee"
No, neither do I call ATM just "money".

saying anything differently sounds wrong at first. give it more than 3 minutes.

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Can anyone tell me, what "REEEEEEE" is? Is that a rage reflection or something?

Actually forget what I asked, google is back up now. Thanks guys!

It's the sound a frog makes when it is squeezed by empathically challenged Normies.

>tender silicon
>tender
>silicon
>have fun scratching up the inside of your fucking colon
That image just reminded me that I get annoyed when people mix up "silicon" and "silicone".

How new are you?

>rig
>install (noun)

nice try National Defamation League. You've already put another nail in pepe's coffin fuck off

twas only memeing m'sir ;^)