are you tired of people using the word bacteria to refer to a single germ
mixing up discrete and discrete and saying omg my facebook
got hacked when what they really mean is
i left my computer or phone unlocked and my idiot friend thought it would be
funny to send those messages to your sister well one you must be a lot of fun at
parties and two me too which is why on today's episode
we're gonna be tackling a number of commonly misused tech terms to clear up
any confusion and help you win your next
internet fight so let's start then by talking about the
venerable hard disk there are a lot of people who use the
term hard drive to refer to any sort of
non-removable storage in a computer but
it actually only refers to mechanical
spinning drives if we break it down the
word hard refers to the rigidity of the
discs or the magnetic platters inside the internals of floppy disks by
contrast were flexible so
don't refer to ssds or solid-state
drives as hard disks or hard drives if
you want to talk generally about mechanical drives and ssds as a group
you say drive sticking with internal pc components for
a minute let's talk about your GPU
or is it your graphics card it's common to hear people use GPU to
refer to this but the GPU actually only refers to the
graphics processing unit this chip
here our example is a gp104 which NVIDIA
brands as a gtx 1070 or 1080 depending
on how many of its processing cores are enabled from the factory
so then it's fine to call an rx 480 a
GPU but if you're talking about a specific model such as this Gigabyte
wind force 8 gig you're better off calling the whole assembly a video card
or graphics card and in the case of highly integrated devices like
smartphones the graphics accelerator is usually part of the soc or system on a
chip so stick with GPU in that case
rather than calling your adreno 420 a graphics card let's move on to removable
media namely optical disks i'm bringing
them up to highlight the difference between disk with a c
and disk with a k
they both sound the same and for this reason both words are used
interchangeably quite often to refer to cds dvds and blu-rays and these things
but disc with a c actually specifically
refers to optical media while disc with
a k is used for magnetic media such as
floppy disks and hard disks
the more you know and coming back then to blu-rays you
might understandably be a bit confused over how the letters hd seem to appear
on everything from cheap 1366 by 768 tvs
to outrageously expensive 8k displays
well while the term hd isn't technically
incorrect as long as the resolution is
at least 720p or 1280x720
tv manufacturers often use the term hd
without any qualifiers to mean 720p
exactly making lower end screens sound
more appealing if you want to know unequivocally
what each hd variant really means well
hd is 720 as we've covered full hd is 1080p
qhd or quad hd means 1440p
and uhd or ultra hd means 2160p and up
i guess words like full and ultra sound a lot sexier to
potential buyers than a jumble of numbers but it's confusing nonetheless
and to make things even more baffling terms like 2k and 4k
actually refer to cinematic resolutions
used in the movie industry meaning that true
4k is actually a little wider than most
4k monitors or tvs on the consumer
market and if you've ever seen a 1440p monitor
advertised as 2k well take a moment to shake your head
and disgust as the actual 2k resolution
used in cinema is nowhere close to 1440p
real 2k is actually just a slightly wider 1080p
so then are there any misused tech terms
that drive you guys crazy put them down in the comments below and while you're
at it let us know if you'd like to see a second episode of misused tech terms
do you find yourself racing against the clock as a freelancer having so little
time at the end of the day after you've done your work to sit down and fight
with your accounting software it's like sparring with expenses and invoices it's
terrible anyway the modern world with the
internet there are so many opportunities to be self-employed but not everybody wants to
deal with that crap and that is where freshbooks cloud accounting software
comes in it's the simplest and easiest way to be more productive
more organized and perhaps most importantly definitely most importantly
get paid faster you can create and send
professional looking invoices in seconds you can set up online payments you can
track your hours and track your expenses and you can even get paid on your terms
you can take deposits for example if you uh paint houses for a living pretty
freaking cool and you can see when your client has seen your invoice and put an
end to the nonsense and guessing games so freshbooks is offering a 30-day
unrestricted free trial just go to freshbooks.com techwiki and enter tech
quickie in the how did you hear about us section
so thanks for watching guys if you liked like if you disliked then
dislike and if you want to check out future videos on fastest possible that
are more to your interests leave a comment because we do check those out
and sometimes we even take your suggestions
i mean mostly they're terrible but sometimes good ones do show up
also if you enjoyed the video make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any of
our future content