Misused Technology Terms
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2018-05-06
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are you tired of people using the word bacteria to refer to a single germ
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mixing up discrete and discrete and saying omg my facebook
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got hacked when what they really mean is
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i left my computer or phone unlocked and my idiot friend thought it would be
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funny to send those messages to your sister well one you must be a lot of fun at
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parties and two me too which is why on today's episode
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we're gonna be tackling a number of commonly misused tech terms to clear up
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any confusion and help you win your next
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internet fight so let's start then by talking about the
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venerable hard disk there are a lot of people who use the
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term hard drive to refer to any sort of
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non-removable storage in a computer but
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it actually only refers to mechanical
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spinning drives if we break it down the
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word hard refers to the rigidity of the
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discs or the magnetic platters inside the internals of floppy disks by
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contrast were flexible so
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don't refer to ssds or solid-state
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drives as hard disks or hard drives if
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you want to talk generally about mechanical drives and ssds as a group
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you say drive sticking with internal pc components for
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a minute let's talk about your GPU
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or is it your graphics card it's common to hear people use GPU to
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refer to this but the GPU actually only refers to the
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graphics processing unit this chip
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here our example is a gp104 which NVIDIA
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brands as a gtx 1070 or 1080 depending
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on how many of its processing cores are enabled from the factory
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so then it's fine to call an rx 480 a
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GPU but if you're talking about a specific model such as this Gigabyte
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wind force 8 gig you're better off calling the whole assembly a video card
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or graphics card and in the case of highly integrated devices like
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smartphones the graphics accelerator is usually part of the soc or system on a
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chip so stick with GPU in that case
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rather than calling your adreno 420 a graphics card let's move on to removable
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media namely optical disks i'm bringing
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them up to highlight the difference between disk with a c
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and disk with a k
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they both sound the same and for this reason both words are used
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interchangeably quite often to refer to cds dvds and blu-rays and these things
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but disc with a c actually specifically
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refers to optical media while disc with
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a k is used for magnetic media such as
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floppy disks and hard disks
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the more you know and coming back then to blu-rays you
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might understandably be a bit confused over how the letters hd seem to appear
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on everything from cheap 1366 by 768 tvs
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to outrageously expensive 8k displays
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well while the term hd isn't technically
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incorrect as long as the resolution is
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at least 720p or 1280x720
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tv manufacturers often use the term hd
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without any qualifiers to mean 720p
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exactly making lower end screens sound
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more appealing if you want to know unequivocally
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what each hd variant really means well
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hd is 720 as we've covered full hd is 1080p
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qhd or quad hd means 1440p
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and uhd or ultra hd means 2160p and up
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i guess words like full and ultra sound a lot sexier to
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potential buyers than a jumble of numbers but it's confusing nonetheless
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and to make things even more baffling terms like 2k and 4k
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actually refer to cinematic resolutions
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used in the movie industry meaning that true
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4k is actually a little wider than most
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4k monitors or tvs on the consumer
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market and if you've ever seen a 1440p monitor
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advertised as 2k well take a moment to shake your head
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and disgust as the actual 2k resolution
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used in cinema is nowhere close to 1440p
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real 2k is actually just a slightly wider 1080p
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so then are there any misused tech terms
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that drive you guys crazy put them down in the comments below and while you're
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at it let us know if you'd like to see a second episode of misused tech terms
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do you find yourself racing against the clock as a freelancer having so little
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time at the end of the day after you've done your work to sit down and fight
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with your accounting software it's like sparring with expenses and invoices it's
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terrible anyway the modern world with the
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internet there are so many opportunities to be self-employed but not everybody wants to
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deal with that crap and that is where freshbooks cloud accounting software
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comes in it's the simplest and easiest way to be more productive
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track your hours and track your expenses and you can even get paid on your terms
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you can take deposits for example if you uh paint houses for a living pretty
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freaking cool and you can see when your client has seen your invoice and put an
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