Now this is STUPID
Friday, November 28, 2003 by Phoon | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
LA officials call for end to master/slave labels
http://www.ntfs.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=9062
I don't know about you, but this ACTION, I find offensive
http://www.ntfs.org/comments.php?catid=1&id=9062
I don't know about you, but this ACTION, I find offensive
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IPlural
Reply #2 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:08 AM
Reply #2 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:08 AM
Well actually Computers do work with multpule Masters and Slave, just can not have more than one on each channel... 
Oh hell, I find LA offensive...
Christ, morons got to get mixed into everything, the PC Police are coming to get ISO and triple E sheesh, what next they going to have to drop Floppy and Hard from drive descriptions?
| The computing world's venerable master/slave naming convention has come under fire by Los Angeles county officials who charge that this type of product description is offensive. |
Oh hell, I find LA offensive...
Christ, morons got to get mixed into everything, the PC Police are coming to get ISO and triple E sheesh, what next they going to have to drop Floppy and Hard from drive descriptions?
Jafo
Reply #3 Friday, November 28, 2003 7:05 AM
Reply #3 Friday, November 28, 2003 7:05 AM
Well....all those people who suffer from brewer's droop would take offence at 'floppy'...
digital_trucker
Reply #4 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:31 AM
Reply #4 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:31 AM
JUST ONCE...I'd like to see something like this get to court...and have both the judge and the jury simply start laughing uncontrollably until they vomit...and then disbar the prosecuting attorney and lock the plaintiff up for psychiatric observation.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #5 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:37 AM
Reply #5 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:37 AM
Of course you wouldn't be able to call your drives 'primary' and 'secondary' either. The term 'secondary' could suggest the drive was somehow inferior to the 'primary' and impede it's psychological development as a fully functional part of a pc. It would be direct discrimination to disadvantage a drive in this way...
MrStolpe
Reply #8 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:54 AM
Reply #8 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:54 AM
I guess we would have to ban all of the tech books too!
digital_trucker
Reply #9 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:59 AM
Reply #9 Friday, November 28, 2003 10:59 AM
They should eliminate 'RAM' also...that's a *naughty* term! Come to think of it so is port, socket, and any number of other things.
*hey* No wonder there is such a plague of porn on these things!
*hey* No wonder there is such a plague of porn on these things!
Jafo
Reply #10 Friday, November 28, 2003 4:59 PM
Reply #10 Friday, November 28, 2003 4:59 PM
What about male and female connectors....for all sorts of things?...
goodmorphing
Reply #11 Friday, November 28, 2003 5:38 PM goodmorphing was being delicate and not mentioning that......
Reply #11 Friday, November 28, 2003 5:38 PM
goodmorphing was being delicate and not mentioning that......
IPlural
Reply #13 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:25 PM
PC Police making sure that PC Jargon is PC !!
How conservative
How Liberal
How absolutly moronic
Geesh, So totally LA!
Reply #13 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:25 PM
PC Police making sure that PC Jargon is PC !!
How conservative
How Liberal
How absolutly moronic
Geesh, So totally LA!
joetheblow
Reply #14 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:31 PM
Reply #14 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:31 PM
aha
I was wondering when that would make its way to the message board.
When I first started this computer thing I thought, slave... hmmmmmmmmmmm...
But I really didn't give it that much attention. It really is not that important.
I was wondering when that would make its way to the message board.
When I first started this computer thing I thought, slave... hmmmmmmmmmmm...
But I really didn't give it that much attention. It really is not that important.
joetheblow
Reply #15 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:37 PM
Oh Jafo, I think if they knew about that it would be on the list too.
Plug it in? Amazing.
Fuzzy, I find the idea of calling the second drive secondary untrue to computer geek language.
Clearly the second hard drive is not second in charge. It is not in 'charge' of anything. It is quite literally the slave to the main drive.
So it is funny that they want it to be called something else. Calling it secondary is a misnomer.
What would you call the third drive? The Third drive?
Come ON PEOPLE!!!
Reply #15 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:37 PM
| #10 by Admin Jafo - 11/28/2003 4:59:47 PM What about male and female connectors....for all sorts of things?... |
Oh Jafo, I think if they knew about that it would be on the list too.
Plug it in? Amazing.
Fuzzy, I find the idea of calling the second drive secondary untrue to computer geek language.
Clearly the second hard drive is not second in charge. It is not in 'charge' of anything. It is quite literally the slave to the main drive.
So it is funny that they want it to be called something else. Calling it secondary is a misnomer.
What would you call the third drive? The Third drive?
Come ON PEOPLE!!!
IPlural
Reply #16 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:37 PM
Reply #16 Friday, November 28, 2003 6:37 PM
hell, the courts are slaves to idiots who press such issues
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #17 Friday, November 28, 2003 8:46 PM
Reply #17 Friday, November 28, 2003 8:46 PM
I just call mine 'Local Disk'. Then everybody's happy...
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #19 Friday, November 28, 2003 8:52 PM
Reply #19 Friday, November 28, 2003 8:52 PM
So what would you call it? 
A non-determinate entity with no affiliation or designation but with equivalent purpose to any other non-determinate entity...
A non-determinate entity with no affiliation or designation but with equivalent purpose to any other non-determinate entity...
IPlural
Reply #20 Friday, November 28, 2003 9:48 PM
Reply #20 Friday, November 28, 2003 9:48 PM
I call mine Wally and my DVD Burner is the Bev, Windows XP I call Eddie Haskel and MS Updates I call Bevis and Buthead and of course the BIOS help I call Sgt Shultz and WindowBlinds I name Klinger
I have the bases cover, and when something promises performance and doesn't produce I call it Bush-Wacked
sorry, just kidding
and my DVD Burner is the Bev, Windows XP I call Eddie Haskel and MS Updates I call Bevis and Buthead and of course the BIOS help I call Sgt Shultz and WindowBlinds I name Klinger I have the bases cover, and when something promises performance and doesn't produce I call it Bush-Wacked
sorry, just kidding
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Reply #1 Friday, November 28, 2003 5:15 AM
You can only have Masters and slaves when it comes to computers. Computers don't work with 2 masters. I for one don't want to be asked witch Hard Drive to use each boot-up. I'd rather pick witch one to use when installing the hard drives. Geez