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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #150 on: Fri, 19 February 2016, 21:37:57 »
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Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #151 on: Fri, 19 February 2016, 22:30:12 »
For the old guys:

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #152 on: Sat, 20 February 2016, 01:06:47 »
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Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

ps: whats up? :thumb:

Hey man :>

Do you call the large format printer a plotter, or is it actually still a proper pen plotter? No-one I know uses a pen plotter anymore, not for years, perhaps some still call it a plotter for nostalgia, I will file that on my winchester.
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #153 on: Sat, 20 February 2016, 07:03:48 »
Plotters is outdated?
I know a guy who uses large-format plotters every day at his day job at a construction firm.
A few years ago, Adam Savage (who is a major movie fan) drew a really really detailed map of Middle Earth and released the file for free. My friend used the plotter to render it instead of a large-format printer because it had better quality for line-art.
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #154 on: Sat, 20 February 2016, 07:45:23 »
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #155 on: Sat, 20 February 2016, 08:24:12 »
Winchesters
Plotters
Prestel
Luggable
RS232 / Serial mouse
BRS - Big Red Switch
Assembler
CS:IP

Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

ps: whats up? :thumb:

Hey man :>

Do you call the large format printer a plotter, or is it actually still a proper pen plotter? No-one I know uses a pen plotter anymore, not for years, perhaps some still call it a plotter for nostalgia, I will file that on my winchester.
Oh it's all about the nostalgia. ;)

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #156 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:26:20 »
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.

  
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #157 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:32:59 »
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful




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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #158 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:49:24 »
The prefix "e".

Chip.

And the final one that annoys me is "livestream" instead of just "stream". I know they are semantically slightly different but the word "live" feels so obsolete whenever I see it used.

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #159 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:55:36 »
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful


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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #160 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:56:23 »
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.



Who and where still uses ISDN? The DMV?? :)

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #161 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 13:02:40 »
The prefix "e".

Chip.

And the final one that annoys me is "livestream" instead of just "stream". I know they are semantically slightly different but the word "live" feels so obsolete whenever I see it used.

Agree on "e-", disagree on "live". How would you prefer people distinguish a stream that is a live feed from a stream of recorded media?

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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #162 on: Wed, 02 March 2016, 13:08:08 »
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.



Who and where still uses ISDN? The DMV?? :)

Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
  
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #163 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 03:32:59 »
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful


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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #164 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:40:11 »
Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
Across the world! So US-centric you are ...
Anyway, I have seen recent job ads where banks are looking for programmers who know COBOL.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.
While Intel Iris is very new, the word "Iris" as a brand-name for graphics hardware is not. And that was my point ... ;)
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Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
« Reply #165 on: Thu, 03 March 2016, 12:57:43 »
Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
Across the world! So US-centric you are ...
Anyway, I have seen recent job ads where banks are looking for programmers who know COBOL.

I have no experience on ISDN usage outside of North America, hence the disclaimer :)
  
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