Keyboard: What else would you call it? Manual Input Device?
Email: Remember, this is derived from electronic mail, which is precisely what it is (although I suppose they have more in common with interoffice memos [to, from, subject, etc], so perhaps they should have been called electronic memos.)
Floppy disks: were floppy at one point, so hard disk is a viable term to differentiate the two.
World Wide Web: described as such because the pages were intended to be, through hyperlinks, interconnected, creating a 'web' of documents.
And of course, blog is short for web log, which used to be nothing more than interesting links found on the web. It has since grown beyond that description (perhaps at the same time the word was shortened to blog; which, personally, I hate.
Most names seem to have been chosen because they were the simplest term available, like memory. Memory is how the computer remembers things, more or less. And as your post clearly indicates, it does not take a special, new, 'non-lame' word for a concept to catch on.
They receive a paycheck for the same reason that anyone else in this country receives one: they are employed. The difference is people in the military generally do not join simply to get paid. They join because they feel proud to serve their country or they feel an obligation. Yes, I was in the military and yes I went to Iraq. But it was never about the money. I was, and still am, and will always be, proud of my service to this country. Calling the members of our armed forces 'mercenaries' is disrespectful at best and an outright insult at worst.
I wasn't really referring to Moore's Law with that comment. I was simply wondering if these tiny magnets flitting back and forth are as fast as a transistor switching back and forth. Now, since the properties of these magnets allow them to be packed much tighter than a transistors, you can fit more on today's processors, resulting in speedier processors. But if one were to take one magnet island and one transistor and place them side by side, which would spit out the 1's and 0's faster?
I submitted it too but I'm not bitter. ...
Well, not that bitter. But there's no real reason to get upset about it. Unless you've got a job that pays bonuses based on Slashdot story submissions.
I didn't see anything in the article about the magnets being faster than transistors. Yes, being able to cram more onto a chip will make a faster processor but are the magnetic "islands" faster in and of themselves?
The only concern I would have is with battery life. Cell phones and iPods both suffer from multiple personality battery life. "4 hours talk time, 9 days stand by." (Obviously referencing the cell phone. I lost my iPod to a frat house last year and don't remember exactly what the battery life was like. It was similar though.) If I spend most of the day talking on and listening to my cellPod, would I need A/C adapters in all the places I visit during the day along with a car charger and possible a solar panel hat to wear while I'm jogging, calling a friend and listening to music?
I've only signed up for a select few websites (such as Slashdot here) with my GMail account. Most of the spam I get are messages about non-profit something-or-others because I've got a lonely, dusty domain. I get more spam in my Outlook inbox at work than I ever do in my GMail box.
The only email that was sent to GMail's Spam box was one sent via StumbleUpon from Firefox (I email myself links that I find at work so I can get to them from home.) Other than that, no real email makes it to spam and no spam makes it to my inbox.
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Just a couple of cents for you:
Keyboard: What else would you call it? Manual Input Device?
Email: Remember, this is derived from electronic mail, which is precisely what it is (although I suppose they have more in common with interoffice memos [to, from, subject, etc], so perhaps they should have been called electronic memos.)
Floppy disks: were floppy at one point, so hard disk is a viable term to differentiate the two.
World Wide Web: described as such because the pages were intended to be, through hyperlinks, interconnected, creating a 'web' of documents.
And of course, blog is short for web log, which used to be nothing more than interesting links found on the web. It has since grown beyond that description (perhaps at the same time the word was shortened to blog; which, personally, I hate.
Most names seem to have been chosen because they were the simplest term available, like memory. Memory is how the computer remembers things, more or less. And as your post clearly indicates, it does not take a special, new, 'non-lame' word for a concept to catch on.
They receive a paycheck for the same reason that anyone else in this country receives one: they are employed. The difference is people in the military generally do not join simply to get paid. They join because they feel proud to serve their country or they feel an obligation. Yes, I was in the military and yes I went to Iraq. But it was never about the money. I was, and still am, and will always be, proud of my service to this country. Calling the members of our armed forces 'mercenaries' is disrespectful at best and an outright insult at worst.
I wasn't really referring to Moore's Law with that comment. I was simply wondering if these tiny magnets flitting back and forth are as fast as a transistor switching back and forth. Now, since the properties of these magnets allow them to be packed much tighter than a transistors, you can fit more on today's processors, resulting in speedier processors. But if one were to take one magnet island and one transistor and place them side by side, which would spit out the 1's and 0's faster?
I submitted it too but I'm not bitter.
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Well, not that bitter. But there's no real reason to get upset about it. Unless you've got a job that pays bonuses based on Slashdot story submissions.
I didn't see anything in the article about the magnets being faster than transistors. Yes, being able to cram more onto a chip will make a faster processor but are the magnetic "islands" faster in and of themselves?
...that these 'hobbyists' would be able to come up with some of the more innovative and interesting stuff for Windows.
The only concern I would have is with battery life. Cell phones and iPods both suffer from multiple personality battery life. "4 hours talk time, 9 days stand by." (Obviously referencing the cell phone. I lost my iPod to a frat house last year and don't remember exactly what the battery life was like. It was similar though.) If I spend most of the day talking on and listening to my cellPod, would I need A/C adapters in all the places I visit during the day along with a car charger and possible a solar panel hat to wear while I'm jogging, calling a friend and listening to music?
I've only signed up for a select few websites (such as Slashdot here) with my GMail account. Most of the spam I get are messages about non-profit something-or-others because I've got a lonely, dusty domain. I get more spam in my Outlook inbox at work than I ever do in my GMail box.
The only email that was sent to GMail's Spam box was one sent via StumbleUpon from Firefox (I email myself links that I find at work so I can get to them from home.) Other than that, no real email makes it to spam and no spam makes it to my inbox.