14 Jan
2011
14 Jan
'11
2:57 p.m.
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Richard wrote:
Kind of like the DB-25/DB-9 discussion that comes up
here occasionally.
Yes, technically DB-9 is not the right term and it should be DE-9.
But if you say DE-9, noone except for pedants knows WTF you are
talking about.
When somebody talks about a "DB-15 VIDEO connector", are they talking
about a DE-15 or a DA-15 (both of which are (or at least have been) used
for video. When I needed an adapter from DA15 TO DE15, what should I call
it? What's the best eBay search query for it? For that matter, unless we
explicitly state the gender of the two ends of it, what does that "TO" mean?
It may be (understatement) futile to try to educate the world to the
correct terminology, but if we don't, then it continually gets harder to
successfully differentiate ANYTHING.
Should we accept people referring to a Macintosh diskette as a "3 and a
quarter inch hard disk"?
OB_Godwin: Baby Bush called Al-Quaeda "fascist". Are they?
Bill Maher lost his TV show for saying that "cowards" was not the most
accurate name to call the 9/11 assholes.
Why are the REPUBLICAN states the "RED STATES"? Nobody remembers when the
Republicans chanted "Better dead than red!"?
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com