Mispronouncing computer terms is funny :)

[aplefka]

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

So then the monitor could be called the computer, if the "central processing unit" includes not only the RAM, hard drives, and optical drives, but also the actual CPU itself.

Edit: Fixed redundancy fixed

 

[deftron]

One of my teacherls always called a website address an Earl instead of U.R.L.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: aplefka

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

So then the monitor could be called the computer then, if the "central processing unit" includes not only the RAM, hard drives, and optical drives, but also the actual CPU itself.

nah, thats output. three parts to a computer system - cpu, storage, input/output



maybe I'm showing my age here.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
peepee server? What is THAT one?

PPTP server

 

[Wadded Beef]

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

yeah nobody calls em cpus these days. oh wait, yes we do. about 98% of the time actually.

 

[Bassyhead]

bwahahha

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just got off the phone with the king of mispronounciation!

He had a problem with his poop3 server not accepting his logan information when using a mo-DEM to connect through the peepee server.

I'm easily amused though

Mispronouncing computer terms is funny, but using words that don't exist is even funnier!

mispronunciation

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just got off the phone with the king of mispronounciation!

He had a problem with his poop3 server not accepting his logan information when using a mo-DEM to connect through the peepee server.

I'm easily amused though

Mispronouncing computer terms is funny, but using words that don't exist is even funnier!

mispronunciation

GAAAHH!!!!!

 

[ghostman]

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

Ahhh! He's one of them.

You keep saying "by definition"... but what definition are you going by? To me the unit that does the central processing is the, well, processor. Yes, I know where you are coming from. You consider the entire box as a "unit"... I used it call it that too because the help desk people kept calling it that. But I know better now.

My previous boss called HTML, hitmill.

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

There's no talking to you, is there?
This post makes you wrong three times in a row.
Gonna shoot for four?

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

There's no talking to you, is there?
This post makes you wrong three times in a row.
Gonna shoot for four?

Give up while you aren't too far behind

That tower/PC below your desk is not called a CPU.

Only unknowledgeable n00bs call it that

 

[denmalley]

Originally posted by: Wadded Beef

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

think he means people that refer to the entire CASE as the cpu...

edit: and oh yea what's a peepee server? made me giggle!

PPPoE?

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

Jigga Bite.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: shilala

Originally posted by: spidey07
meh, semantics.

by definition CPU can be used to term the big hunk of metal as it really is the central processing unit. Its rare these days that somebody calls a processor a "cpu", because its not really correct.

There's no talking to you, is there?
This post makes you wrong three times in a row.
Gonna shoot for four?

Well lets just say I come from a different area of computing where the CPU is the central processing unit - the big box that processes instructions and houses processors (think mainframe, hi-end computing, super computing, etc where you have 64 or more processors/central processors in a CPU).

only pc guys call a processor/microprocessor a "CPU"

 

[denmalley]

I love when people say scuzzie rather than, wait, no, thats what they all say...

 

[Goosemaster]

p2p = watersports?

 

[Kasper4christ]

anyone else think somehtings wrong with the statement
"64 processors in a CPU"???

thought multi core stuff was still on the horizon

 

[NoReserve]

A friend of mine actually says the abberviation for Serial ATA (SATA) as if its a word. I guess it would be read like "Sat-Ah." Does anyone else do this because I think it sounds pretty funny myself. I have always just said it as "Serial ATA."

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: denmalley

Originally posted by: Wadded Beef

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
gigabyte, I hate it when people say jigabyte, that's not even a measurement.

The worst are people who pronounce html as hotmail or use CPU as an abbreviation for computer

umm, the CPU is the computer.

think he means people that refer to the entire CASE as the cpu...

edit: and oh yea what's a peepee server? made me giggle!

PPPoE?

We have a PPTP server that you can connect into for access to internal network drives.
*sigh*....the "peepee" server. What the hell...?????

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: NoReserve
A friend of mine actually says the abberviation for Serial ATA (SATA) as if its a word. I guess it would be read like "Sat-Ah." Does anyone else do this because I think it sounds pretty funny myself. I have always just said it as "Serial ATA."

A friend of mine does that, and I also think it sounds strange. The one that really bothers me though is saying URL as a word.

 

[SaberDicer]

I say Sat-ah, but thats the only computer acronym I say as a word.

 

[bluewall21]

Originally posted by: SaberDicer
I say Sat-ah, but thats the only computer acronym I say as a word.

I say that and RAM as a word.

 

[Tiamat]

SCUZI for SCSI
S-A-T-A for serial ATA
RAM for ramdom access memory
CPU for central processing unit, i.e. processor
BOX for entire computer minus monitor, speakers, external cabling.

 

[WiseOldDude]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
peepee server? What is THAT one?

PPP <---- it's a protocol dude Point to Point Protocol that moDUM users use to connect their CPU to their ispy thingy to get on AOL

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Just got off the phone with the king of mispronunciation!

He had a problem with his poop3 server not accepting his logan information when using a mo-DEM to connect through the peepee server.

I'm easily amused though

*Edited for minor spelling error*

:laugh: