Least worthy tech-world cliches / buzzwords?
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Re:an oldie but a goodie.... (Score:5, Informative)
Blogosphere?
Tablet (Score:4, Informative)
Re:One of these things is not like the others (Score:5, Informative)
As it's used in marketing, it means nothing more than "thing". Every product is a solution. If it doesn't solve something, why would you buy it? A packet of washing powder is a solution to your dirty clothes. A Mars bar is a solution to your chocolate craving. A game is a solution to your boredom.
Re:Wi-Fi (Score:5, Informative)
This is a good point, I've never gotten this either. According to the Wi-Fi page on Wikipedia [wikipedia.org],
"Wi-Fi" is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance and the brand name for products using the IEEE 802.11 family of standards.".
The article goes on to explain that,,
"The term Wi-Fi, first used commercially in August 1999,[31] was coined by a brand-consulting firm called Interbrand Corporation that the Alliance had hired to determine a name that was "a little catchier than 'IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence'"
So there you go, it makes no sense technically because marketing people were involved.
Re:Web 2.0 (Score:5, Informative)
Web 2.0 is the transition from the web as static media source (where there are publishers, creators, and consumers) and moving towards a more decentralized and abstract source of information. With Web 2.0, the line between creator and consumer is blurred, since consumers create content just as much as they consume other data.
It really has more to do with the content delivery system. The first incarnation of the internet had content delivered much like newspapers, where only specified editors and journalists would write content and stories, and people would access these stories via some publisher like Yahoo or AOL. The idea of Web 2.0 is that anybody can have their own blog, twitter feed, or other sources like flickr or youtube to create content for others.
With the web today, you don't have to go to any specific provider to get access to certain content (I don't need to subscribe to AOL to download their news), or work for a certain publisher to ensure I can get my article posted (I don't need to work for AOL to publish content for their site).
There is an actual meaning for Web 2.0, but most people just think it means "Facebook-esque," which is false. They assume it's how you style the website, when in reality it is how the content is delivered.
Not entirely (Score:3, Informative)
"Retina Display". Seriously its a meaningless word that gets thrown around stupidly much.
No, it's not. It has more than some basis in fact, at least as used by Apple. [utah.edu].
But the way the term is used by people on the street certainly distorts its meaning.
Re:x64 (Score:4, Informative)
It's actually called amd64 or ie32e
No, it's actually called x86-64. That was the name that AMD gave it when they created it, in recognition that a large subset of it was identical to x86. I don't like calling it amd64, because Intel deserves at least as much of the blame for it as AMD - Intel created the turd, AMD just polished it a bit. AMD64 only refers to AMD's implementation.
EM64T is the name for Intel's version, which is even more meaningless than IA32e (surely everything after the 386 is IA32 'extended').
Re:Least worthy of what? (Score:4, Informative)
You sir, are from marketing.