For once and for all they aren't jiggabytes!

[14049752]

Router (Rooter) pronounced as Rowter!!
I never hear people saying which is the best Rowte to take. Its Router (Rooter) ffs.

This depends entirely on your dialect. Where I'm from, it primarily a "rowt". As in "I'm planning my route for my trip."
In the other parts of the world, it's "root".
If someone were to call it a "root-er", I would honestly not have any idea what they're talking about. That sounds more like a drain cleaning machine, to me.

 

[usacvlr]

Lol. Never heard anyone try to say router was rooter before. that's funny

People thinking Windows is the whole computer when it is just the OS!

Gigabyte pronounced as gigawatt.

Router (Rooter) pronounced as Rowter!!
I never hear people saying which is the best Rowte to take. Its Router (Rooter) ffs.

Already been said but people double clicking everything. Even when you setup Windows for one click, they still double click!!

Thinking that the IE icon is the internet and thats who they pay, not their ISP! Although Microsoft would like to think that they own the internet.
There are other better browsers you can use, like Firefox!

 

[RyanMeray]

Technically his flux capacitor didn't put out any Jiggawatts. It did consume 1 POINT 21 JIGGAWATTS!!!!111!!! however.

Awesome. That made my day. The huge font sold it, too.

 

[nonchalant]

I was told in my early days of IT support to refer to the tower as the 'hard drive' and users would instantly know what Im talking about. Ever since then when I've had a customer seem unsure what Im talking about when I say "I will only need to collect the tower', I call it a 'hard drive' and sure enough they go "oh ok yes I know what you mean.."

And no, for the hundredth time, Word and Excel do NOT come with Windows!

 

[NYJimbo]

While "route" is pronounced both as "rowte" and as "root" the correct pronounciation for a "router" is "row-ter".

I don't understand : "Gigabyte pronounced as gigawatt."

Gigawatt is pronounced as "gig-a-watt", not "jigg-a-watt".

 

[Bryce W]

2 days ago I had a client talking about that nasty exploit Internet Explorer had (as it was all over Aussie news) and said hes running Mozzarella Firefox. Had a little smirk as I was trying to keep a straight face while he was talking to me. I didnt correct him though, I figured he was close enough.

Router (Rooter) pronounced as Rowter!!
I never hear people saying which is the best Rowte to take. Its Router (Rooter) ffs.

The British way is Rooter, the American way is Rowter. The way you say Route (as in bus route) is usually the correct way to say it in your own country.

Strangely enough, most aussies say "Bus Root" and "Internet Rowter" so we're somewhere in between.. Well at least the Aussies I know do.. any other aussies want to get in on this?

 

[Skyhooker]

The British and Americans: "two peoples separated by a common language"

-George Bernard Shaw

 

[Y.F.N.C.G.]

How did this thread turn into a dialect lesson?

 

[TimeCode]

The British and Americans: "two peoples separated by a common language"

-George Bernard Shaw

So when are we going to start calling it American anyway? We've broken off in so many other ways, why must we still keep the name for such a different language. It is like still calling Italian and Spanish different dialects of Latin. I have no idea what most brits are saying when they speak. If I watch a Brit movie, I need the freaking subtitles on. Ireland is even worse.

Thank you for letting me rant. Please understand that I have no beef with Brits or the Irish, just us American fools who refuse to change the name of the new language.

 

[seedubya]

Sorry but "American" is no more different to Oxford English than is, say, Hiberno- or Highland English. What you choose to call it is your business but they're just dialects. The difference between Latin and it's decendant tongues is far, far greater.

 

[usacvlr]

Brits still use s's when they should use z's

And what's with those re's instead of er like theatre instead of theater

 

[seedubya]

well the re's are because those words are originally French in origin. About 30% of the words in English come from French/Latin, via the Norman invasion of 1066. Otherwise, Modern English would sound much more like a Germanic language such as Dutch or Frisian.

 

[Blues]

American's decided not to use french words instead we use freedom words

 

[seedubya]

Yeah, I remember all that "Freedom Fries" crap. Funny though, despite all the misguided french bashing, they turned out to be right. There WERE no WMDs.

Will y'all start eating french fries again now that the NeoCons are history?

 

[usacvlr]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html

 

[seedubya]

@ usacvlr - I'd certainly have a lot of time for Rand's ideas. I'm still quite leery of libertarianism in general as I haven't seen any good arguments about how to retain safety in society without giving away liberty. Everytime you try to do that with governments you give them power.

 

[MHCG]

@ usacvlr - I'd certainly have a lot of time for Rand's ideas. I'm still quite leery of libertarianism in general as I haven't seen any good arguments about how to retain safety in society without giving away liberty. Everytime you try to do that with governments you give them power.

I've never read Ayn Rand, but in libertarian societies, safety is accomplished in the only real way. The power to protect oneself is retained by the individual. I'm not really a libertarian because they believe in utopias, but I firmly believe in the limits placed on government through the US Constitution. I could go on for days, but the constitution has been stripped of any of its real power by Abraham Lincoln.

 

[seedubya]

I'm all for self-protection but it becomes more and more difficult to do so in an anarcho-libertarian society since there are no real sanctions for those who threaten or harm others. Most reasonable people are reluctant to harm anyone even in fully justifiable self defence so those without such compunctions will have the upper hand even with much smaller numbers. That is why libertarian societies do not spontaneously develop. If the reasonable people drop their compunctions then they become the people they are trying to defend against.

The simple truth is that people should have the right to live ENTIRELY as they see fit and that individual rights should only be limited where they cross the rights of others. The state should only exist to protect those rights and to provide of defence of the society's territory. Anything that is wrong for an individual (e.g. aggression other than defence) should be equally wrong for the state. Law should be about people first, property second and state last, it should also be about restitution more than punishment and the only crime is one that hurts a person in some physical or psychological way. Look to ancient Irish Brehon Law for pointers here.

 

[Tiddle]

Someone on a site that i get on that clearly uses the internet everyday..just asked me if theres a way to undownload something.

lol i thought it was hilarious.

DELETE maybe....?

 

[Blues]

@ usacvlr - I'd certainly have a lot of time for Rand's ideas. I'm still quite leery of libertarianism in general as I haven't seen any good arguments about how to retain safety in society without giving away liberty. Everytime you try to do that with governments you give them power.

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~ Benjamin Franklin