On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:33 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
Abuse of
terminology due to cluelessness is endemic in our
society. Witness all the people who have "broadband" connections to
their houses (they're almost always baseband, but have lots of
bandwidth), and the guy down the street from me who swears that he
"has a satellite" in his back yard.
The ones that reallly irritate me are people taking about 'A USB'
meaning
a memory stick with a USB interface and 'Changing the CMOS' meaning
the
configuration RAM of a PC/AT or later.
*twitch* *twitch*
People are
clueless. That, in itself, is forgivable. What's NOT
forgivable is people being happy about the fact that they're
clueless, and lacking any particular desire to change.
Now when I make comments like that, I get flamed alive....
Not by me!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL