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Old 06-23-2012, 09:04 PM   #61
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Yes, we usually say, "It's not the hardware or the software that's faulty, it's the software sitting in front that's got a problem."
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Old 06-24-2012, 07:10 AM   #62
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Yes, we usually say, "It's not the hardware or the software that's faulty, it's the software sitting in front that's got a problem."
You mean "meatware?"
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Old 06-24-2012, 07:32 AM   #63
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Old 06-24-2012, 09:16 AM   #64
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It's like you know what I'm going to say right after I say it!
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Old 06-24-2012, 11:21 AM   #65
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I prefer sh&!load as it translates well across all domains. Every poops (yes that's a book) and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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Old 06-24-2012, 11:39 AM   #66
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Pretty amazing, eh? Did you say that already? Great minds and all that!.

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Old 06-24-2012, 12:14 PM   #67
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You mean "meatware?"
In many scifi books, and mainly the military types, it is called "wetware".
I think that is a good description...
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Old 06-24-2012, 12:14 PM   #68
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You mean "meatware?"
For some reason most people will take the "software" as amusing but find "meatware" overly insulting or offensive...
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Old 06-24-2012, 12:37 PM   #69
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For some reason most people will take the "software" as amusing but find "meatware" overly insulting or offensive...
Why? And besides... isn't software already taken?

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In many scifi books, and mainly the military types, it is called "wetware".
I think that is a good description...
I've come across it several times. But I've always thought it could be confused/conflated with any tools necessary to do wet-"work."

Nah... when it comes to terminology pertaining to machine, code, and (l)user ... I prefer hard-, soft-, and meatware.
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Old 06-24-2012, 03:18 PM   #70
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Why? And besides... isn't software already taken?
Ask someone who's offended and you might get a reason... I neither know nor care... just reporting the news... and nothing but the news...
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Old 06-25-2012, 03:17 AM   #71
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Gazillion seems to work for both digital and non-digital.

Or maybe for digital we should just move straight to Copyright Math.
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Old 06-25-2012, 09:13 AM   #72
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Well sure but the red book standard for CDs call for a sampling rate of 44100 Hz.
You don't seem to get my point. The CD doesn't do the sampling. There is just that standard that is saying that the music on a CD has been recorded with a sampling rate of 44100 Hz. The rate was chosen because it is the minimum necessary to recover the 20 kHz analog signal.

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How do you know that? If, as some scientists believe, the universe is based on information then it is digital at base (google "Digital Physics" for an overview)
The people supporting this theory consider our universe to be the output of a simulated reality. I was talking about actual reality being analog.
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Old 06-25-2012, 09:38 AM   #73
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People seem to love looking for cute idioms to mean "stupid," such as "four fries short of a happy meal." Maybe people will start using phrases like "under clocked," or "hard drive locked up," to denote stupidity in the future.
We'll use some analogies, but it is hard to predict what analogies might be meaningful in the future. Those you suggest depend on people having significant knowledge about the inside of a computer. That might be true, or it might not. Personally, I think people that over time, people will have less knowledge of the inside of the computer, as it becomes less accessible. Much of our technology we just use. Consider TVs, when TVs were full of tubes, many people could open them up and repair them. A modern HDTV is much harder to fix, you can't just do down to Radio Shack.
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We'll use some analogies, but it is hard to predict what analogies might be meaningful in the future.
Exactly: It depends too much upon the vagaries of culture. All idioms are like that. Predicting them is too much work; just let culture and posterity figure it out, and use it if you like.
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People seem to love looking for cute idioms to mean "stupid," such as "four fries short of a happy meal." Maybe people will start using phrases like "under clocked," or "hard drive locked up," to denote stupidity in the future.
Personally I prefer "A few bits short of a byte".

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Where I work, we refer to these as PEBKAC, PICNIC, or EBUAC. We like variety.
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