You know you're an SF reader

[ksmith]

...when you read a post in another newsgroup entitled "jump drive help" and you wonder if they need assistance figuring out the physics for their spacecraft.

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[anisosynchronic.livejournal.com]

So what do you call them?

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Regarding tech naming silliness... one friend of mine indicated that she almost lost it regarding ROFLMAO reactions when she heard someone use the term "gigaflops." That shows a certain divide--to anyone back in the days when dealing with that as a technical term, of 10**9 Floating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS), it didn't occur to someone thinking of it as Floating point Operations Per Seconds would be thinking in terms of English and regard the term with appall.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

I call them "portable drive thingy about the size of my thumb." No, I don't like it one bit. Sometimes I call it a "thumb drive" but about 50% of my friends are programmers/tech support/similar occupations, and some of them object to that.

Geeks of the world, I hereby order you to standardize your frigging nomenclature to something that makes sense.

Like "gigaflops." That makes sense. I find "gigaflops" charming.