The Worst Tech Buzzwords of 2012

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The gang at Gizmodo have posted a list of the Worst Tech Buzzwords of 2012. The two most annoying on the list? I'd have to say "hacktivist" and "phablet."

Technology is about making and using cool new things that enrich our lives. But technology is also about using idiotic, tired words that mean next to nothing, designed to confuse us into wasting money. Here are the year's stupidest offenders.
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Since when are pixel density and IPO buzzwords?

I do agree with some points, but I don't consider any of those the "stupidest".
 
Vicinity said:
Cloud is still my number 1.
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Cloud is by far the worst but it is a great way to find marketing bullshit. If someone says they are using "the cloud" you can tell they know approximately nothing and are just trying to blow smoke up your ass.
 
Fucking CHAMFER is their "favorite buzzword" ?

Bitches need to take an engineering class or two.
 
From the article:
Pixel Density
The first dumb number competition was the MHz wars in computers. Then came megapixels in cameras. And now, we're at pixel density with phones, the latest in diminishing return. When a new mega-phone launches, its high pixel density—the number of pixels crammed into its screen—is tauted about most other specs. What's not mentioned is that unless you have electron microscopes for eyeballs, you physically cannot tell the difference between one screen with really high pixel density and another with really, really high pixel density. Once you can't see the pixels anymore, that's enough—going beyond that is pointless. And yet, here we go.
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Well guess what, you stupid fucking article, yes, we can tell the difference.
Only a techno-hipster-wannabe couldn't tell the difference.

Fucking dolts.
 
Superdemon said:
Cloud is by far the worst but it is a great way to find marketing bullshit. If someone says they are using "the cloud" you can tell they know approximately nothing and are just trying to blow smoke up your ass.
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Smart people are usually saying cloud anyway. Straight face indicates they're selling it you or they're don't know shit. Sometimes both :D
 
^ The only reason to say 'cloud' is for those who don't know shit about online-storage or how it works.
They just think it's "magical".
 
Superdemon said:
Cloud is by far the worst but it is a great way to find marketing bullshit. If someone says they are using "the cloud" you can tell they know approximately nothing and are just trying to blow smoke up your ass.
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Agreed, "Cloud" and "Cloud Computing" I hear those and I'm nearly brought to violence on account of what really boils down to a what's old is new again phenomenon. I don't fault the marketing machines pushing this garbage since they're recognizing an opportunity but the people that don't see the bigger picture can be trying on ones patience. Or the clueless exec that will hear a buzzword from another clueless exec and go to their own IT Department "what's our cloud initiative? So and so said they have a cloud initiative at such and such company and I didn't know how to answer".

There's been a neverending vacillation between centralized to decentralized back to centralized computing for as long as computers and mainframes have been around and tech hasn't really changed a whole lot throughout, its change for the sake of change and this particular New Coke incarnation has caught on and its comedy.

Ah we'll
.. Let them eat cloud
 
When a new mega-phone launches, its high pixel density—the number of pixels crammed into its screen—is tauted about most other specs.
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Do these sites even pretend to have editors any more? Does anyone even bother to spell check anymore? "Tauted" is not a word. It's 'touted,' for heavens sake. The spelling problem is a whole bunch more annoying than the over use of "pixel density."
 
Red Falcon said:
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Well guess what, you stupid fucking article, yes, we can tell the difference.
Only a techno-hipster-wannabe couldn't tell the difference.

Fucking dolts.
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Just like those that say "You can't tell anything above 60Hz anyway." Uh... I can tell 60Hz, 75Hz, 85Hz, and 100Hz apart just by looking at the screen. People like this dumbass in the article need to stop telling me what my eyes are and are not capable of. Just because he has a substandard flicker-fusion rate does not mean everyone else does. Then again, maybe I should cut him some slack. It's kind of hard to see anything clearly with your head up your ass.
 
What the fuck?

Micron?
Pixel Density?
IPO?
Chamfer?

How are these fucking buzzwords? Retard article is retard.
 
I hate "cloud". Just sounds retarded.

More importantly is Gizmodo's hate as well as the commenter's opinion of big phones. Like anything larger than a iPhone is the fucking anti-Christ and that anyone with a phone over 4 inches is retarded. People screaming about getting a phone and tablet as if that's convenient or practical. My Note replaced my tablet and has become the best phone I've ever used hands down. I understand people are entitled to their own opinion but that still doesn't mean it can't be a fucking retarded opinion.
 
Yeah, I hate cloud too. Fuck "the cloud" I do all my off-site storage in the "hurricane".

*crap, I shouldn't give them ideas*
 
Fecking CLOUD...completely useless to most industries and organizations, and I feel sorry for those that have already switched to it, and are completely reliant on this POS.
 
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