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BogDew
Jun 14, 2006

E:\FILES>quickfli clown.fli

Collateral Damage posted:

I saw an ad for "organic table salt". :eng99:
Himalayan Sea Salt anyone! It's gluten free! :suicide:

I can only hope the spate of alternate health nuts getting called out puts an end to that nonsense. One recently fessed up to her whole magical cancer recovery scam and got her health app pulled from the Apple Watch's launch. But that's a discussion for this thread.

Though I guess people selling crystals and rocks claiming protection from EMF fields spilling from your devices could count. I guess back in the early days old phosphor monitors could theoretically push out enough radiation to be a small concern, hence radiation shields that were sold.
But most CRTs soon came with enough shielding in their glass to prevent anything short of you being a twit and causing an implosion and drinking the sweet nectar that is cadmium.

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KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


Besesoth posted:

"Never treated with pesticides!" :haw:

"Free range!"

Plinkey
Aug 4, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

WebDog posted:

Himalayan Sea Salt anyone! It's gluten free! :suicide:

I bought some chicken breasts a few weeks ago, they had a big gluten free sticker on them...I would loving hope that they are.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

as a person who never leaves my house i've done pretty well for myself.

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

'Electronic' is an even worse word than 'digital' in this context. No matter what format you own music in, you need an electronic device to play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aseMAEctM1s&t=22s

I agree that “electronic” isn’t perfect; I just think it’s better than “digital”, especially when talking about distribution.

Trinitrotoluene is made of atoms, but that doesn’t stop “atomic bomb” from being a useful term.

KozmoNaut
Apr 23, 2008

Happiness is a warm
Turbo Plasma Rifle


A lot of places, "nuclear bomb" is the most commonly used term, which I think is more descriptive.

This Is the Zodiac
Feb 4, 2003

Plinkey posted:

I bought some chicken breasts a few weeks ago, they had a big gluten free sticker on them...I would loving hope that they are.
I saw "gluten free" sunscreen at Target recently.

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid
Organic, gluten free and paleo.

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

WebDog posted:

It stood for internet, which made sense as the iMac was geared towards online connectivity, but later slid to mean "individual" when it expanded to their other lineups.

Sort of. It didn't change definitions, really, Jobs just showed like five "i" words when he introduced the iMac and internet and individual were both on there.

But you're right though, no one except Apple can really get away with it anymore without it sounding cheap and obsolete.

Kirk Vikernes
Apr 26, 2004

Count Goatnackh

Non Serviam posted:

Organic, gluten free and paleo.

Don't forget "clean". That seems to be the new catchphrase for some recipes posted on Pinterest. My wife is always pinning stuff and I had to look it up and see what they were talking about.

Btw, you could almost make a whole thread on obsolete equipment at schools. Problem is that much of it is sold new with outdated software, cables, etc. Lots of equipment is still sold using software that works with Windows 95 or 98, etc. and they never update it.

Our school still uses novell Netware and Groupwise like it's 1999.

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atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

Fair enough. I guess these days you normally don't really need to specify exactly what format you own music in. I guess it's a bit like how you usually don't say what format you own software in.


'Electronic' is an even worse word than 'digital' in this context. No matter what format you own music in, you need an electronic device to play it.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
How about the Greenwich time ball?



Need an easy way for sailing ships to synchronize their shiny new chronometers with Greenwich time? The ball dropped at 1pm each day, giving ships in the harbor a visual cue so they could set their chronometer to 1pm the moment it reached the bottom of the mast.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)

Dick Trauma posted:

How about the Greenwich time ball?



Need an easy way for sailing ships to synchronize their shiny new chronometers with Greenwich time? The ball dropped at 1pm each day, giving ships in the harbor a visual cue so they could set their chronometer to 1pm the moment it reached the bottom of the mast.

That's pretty cool. Is that where they got the idea for the New Years Eve ball?

DigitalRaven
Oct 9, 2012




Dick Trauma posted:

How about the Greenwich time ball?



Need an easy way for sailing ships to synchronize their shiny new chronometers with Greenwich time? The ball dropped at 1pm each day, giving ships in the harbor a visual cue so they could set their chronometer to 1pm the moment it reached the bottom of the mast.

Edinburgh has a similar thing, with a time ball on top of the Nelson Monument for ships in the Port of Leith and the Firth of Forth. But what to do when the fog obscures it?



The One O'Clock Gun is exactly what the name implies: a gun at Edinburgh Castle that fires at one o'clock (13:00) each day. The boom is audible right out into the Firth of Forth. It also leads to hilarity as tourists walking down the street suddenly hear the BOOM of the gun, or as more well-informed (pron. 'brain-damaged') tourists ask us "What time does the one o'clock gun go off?"

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

DigitalRaven posted:

Edinburgh has a similar thing, with a time ball on top of the Nelson Monument for ships in the Port of Leith and the Firth of Forth. But what to do when the fog obscures it?



The One O'Clock Gun is exactly what the name implies: a gun at Edinburgh Castle that fires at one o'clock (13:00) each day. The boom is audible right out into the Firth of Forth. It also leads to hilarity as tourists walking down the street suddenly hear the BOOM of the gun, or as more well-informed (pron. 'brain-damaged') tourists ask us "What time does the one o'clock gun go off?"

Guns have a really long shelf life: they don't really go off.

:downsrim:

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

-=SEND HELP=-


Pillbug

ravenkult posted:

Too bad it's industry standard to call it ''digital download.''

ATM machine
LCD display
MAC card
RAM memory
PIN number
PDF format

Absolutely essential

People do this sort of stuff all the time.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

ToxicSlurpee posted:

ATM machine
LCD display
MAC card
RAM memory
PIN number
PDF format

Absolutely essential

People do this sort of stuff all the time.

Oh man, then there came Adobe AIR.

CroatianAlzheimers
Jun 15, 2009

I can't remember why I'm mad at you...



Ohioan spotted.

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

carry on then posted:

Oh man, then there came Adobe AIR.

What about GNU which stands for. GNU is not UNIX

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli
Oh god, *nix is horrible for lovely recursive acronyms. WINE Is Not an Emulator.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug
Yeah I almost forgot LAME.

LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder

Which is even more special in that it...uh...is.

BattleMaster
Aug 14, 2000

KozmoNaut posted:

A lot of places, "nuclear bomb" is the most commonly used term, which I think is more descriptive.

"Atomic" as a word to describe nuclear processes is highly anachronistic and wasn't correct even when it was commonly used (in the 40s and 50s.)

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

I've never heard anyone say "atomic bomb", just "atom bomb".

m2pt5
May 18, 2005

THAT GOD DAMN MOSQUITO JUST KEEPS COMING BACK

KozmoNaut posted:

A lot of places, "nuclear bomb" is the most commonly used term, which I think is more descriptive.

Except when people call it a 'nucular bomb'. :suicide:

Tunicate
May 15, 2012

m2pt5 posted:

Except when people call it a 'nucular bomb'. :suicide:

Carter started that, actually. The idea was to have two pronunciations - one for energy generation, and one for weapons.

sleepy gary
Jan 11, 2006

Tunicate posted:

Carter started that, actually. The idea was to have two pronunciations - one for energy generation, and one for weapons.

Are you loving kidding me?

Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



m2pt5 posted:

Except when people call it a 'nucular bomb'. :suicide:

I giggled when I heard Obama say "nucular" on TV. It must be a presidential tradition.

SubG
Aug 19, 2004

It's a hard world for little things.

Tunicate posted:

Carter started that, actually. The idea was to have two pronunciations - one for energy generation, and one for weapons.
No, it was a common alternate pronunciation contemporary with the word entering common usage. The OED dates it as far back as 1943. People were complaining about it back when Eisenhower was saying it that way, decades before the Carter Administration.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Friendly reminder: everything you've ever read and/or heard about any given etymology or other interesting linguistic bit of trivia is, without exception, a complete fabrication.

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


Platystemon posted:

“Electronic”

It works for books and mail, even though those could quite reasonably be “digital books” and “digital mail”.

Behold this innovation from Australia Post!

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Humphreys posted:

Behold this innovation from Australia Post!



Wait? A digital mail system? Like electronic mail? drat, that is innovative as gently caress!

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

If it's anything like the "Digital Mailbox" Posten Norge has here in Norway, it isn't exactly normal email. It's properly encrypted end-to-end email so that the government and other bodies are comfortable sending things they weren't allowed to send via normal email.

I get my wages, and doctor's results in it. It can also receive receipts from most payment terminals and have them sent straight to your inbox.

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

Jerry Cotton posted:

Friendly reminder: everything you've ever read and/or heard about any given etymology or other interesting linguistic bit of trivia is, without exception, a complete fabrication.

Why is that? All of our words have to come from somewhere.

Collateral Damage
Jun 13, 2009

SubNat posted:

If it's anything like the "Digital Mailbox" Posten Norge has here in Norway, it isn't exactly normal email. It's properly encrypted end-to-end email so that the government and other bodies are comfortable sending things they weren't allowed to send via normal email.
We have a similar thing in Sweden, with the :cripes: name "My Government Post". The only thing I've ever gotten via it is my tax return summary.

I wish for a proper digital post system though, where the few physical mails I still get would get intercepted by the post office which opens and scans it and sends it to me via email instead. It would be a lot more secure than a physical mailbox, and I wouldn't have to deal with paper.

ToxicSlurpee
Nov 5, 2003

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Pillbug

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

Why is that? All of our words have to come from somewhere.

Yeah but that "somewhere" is generally a pretty boring evolution over decades, centuries, and/or millenia. People like interesting origin stories but most origin stories are pretty boring.

hirvox
Sep 8, 2009
Our Netposti in Finland offers an additional feature where it scans the electronic mail for barcodes used in bills and if it detects one, it decodes it lets you copy the barcode's value and paste it to your bank's website to pay it.

Or you could have the bill delivered straight to the bank where they automatically submit the payment and all you have to do is to authorize it. Or if that's too much work, you can have the bank auto-approve it. If you want to check out the details, the bill itself is available as a PDF. Netposti was obsolete the day it was launched.

1000 Brown M and Ms
Oct 22, 2008

F:\DL>quickfli 4-clowns.fli

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Yeah but that "somewhere" is generally a pretty boring evolution over decades, centuries, and/or millenia. People like interesting origin stories but most origin stories are pretty boring.

I'm aware of that, but the post I quoted was pretty clear that *any* etymology is wrong.

Truck Stop Daddy
Apr 17, 2013

A janitor cleans the bathroom

Muldoon
A bunch of these came up at work. Fairly obsolete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_follower

During the production of the film in question the sound was recorded using a Nagra 4S recorder on 1/4" reels. These audio reels would then edited onto 16mm film with magnetic coating, that is supposed to be synced up to a final 16mm film print with the image and a mute audio track (you can sync them by locking sprocket holes!). This way you dont have to bother making an optical audio track on the film reel. The nagra 4s is a gorgeous piece of equipment by the way:

Truck Stop Daddy has a new favorite as of 12:53 on Jun 29, 2015

Redrum and Coke
Feb 25, 2006

wAstIng 10 bUcks ON an aVaTar iS StUpid

Collateral Damage posted:

We have a similar thing in Sweden, with the :cripes: name "My Government Post". The only thing I've ever gotten via it is my tax return summary.

I wish for a proper digital post system though, where the few physical mails I still get would get intercepted by the post office which opens and scans it and sends it to me via email instead. It would be a lot more secure than a physical mailbox, and I wouldn't have to deal with paper.

You feel that it would be more secure to have a minimum wage employee at the post office open your confidential e-mail and scan it for you?

Redrum and Coke has a new favorite as of 14:22 on Jun 29, 2015

GOTTA STAY FAI
Mar 24, 2005

~no glitter in the gutter~
~no twilight galaxy~
College Slice

1000 Brown M and Ms posted:

I'm aware of that, but the post I quoted was pretty clear that *any* etymology is wrong.

How do people not get that these forums have been--since day 1--populated by shittons of cynical, sarcastic people who are very fond of hyperbole?

He didn't mean that literally all etymologies are fabricated. The obvious message was that most times, when someone says "Hey do you know why it's called that?" and then recites a too-good-to-be-true story about how a word or phrase came about, that poo poo's all made up.

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Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



GOTTA STAY FAI posted:

How do people not get that these forums have been--since day 1--populated by shittons of cynical, sarcastic people who are very fond of hyperbole?

He didn't mean that literally all etymologies are fabricated. The obvious message was that most times, when someone says "Hey do you know why it's called that?" and then recites a too-good-to-be-true story about how a word or phrase came about, that poo poo's all made up.

Spergs gotta sperg.

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