15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
5:33 p.m.
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.
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....
-tony