Now this is STUPID

Geez can humans be any more dumb... DON'T ANSER THAT!

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

Well actually Computers do work with multpule Masters and Slave, just can not have more than one on each channel...

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?

Well....all those people who suffer from brewer's droop would take offence at 'floppy'...

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.

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...

@Jafo+Fuzzy

DT, yeah it would be fuuny that

I guess we would have to ban all of the tech books too!

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!

What about male and female connectors....for all sorts of things?...

/me was being delicate and not mentioning that......

PC Police making sure that PC Jargon is PC !!

How conservative

How Liberal

How absolutly moronic

Geesh, So totally LA!

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.

#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!!!

hell, the courts are slaves to idiots who press such issues

I just call mine 'Local Disk'. Then everybody's happy...

OK.

I am offende by naming it local disk.

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...

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

Lol funny!

call the secondary hard drive 'the second but in no way inferior to first hard drive'?

Sometimes PC is too much. ( not personal computers )

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.

I wholehearily agree with that. I would have liked that courtroom to be videotaped so I can join in the laughing!

courts are wacky and the whole PC thing is a load of crap...

Basic respect is or should be enough, all those wacko lawsuits and such over PC issues leave me befuddled.

It really is true; the world is being run a large group of idiots.

What is it that T Shirt says, "Where Are We Going and Why Are We In This Handbasket?"

It's not like these video recording devices are opressing the minorities in LA....

19 by Scribe Fuzzy Logic - 11/28/2003 8:52:34 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...

humph...

I am offended by... what ever you said there.



WE will not call the computer part such a long name.

Totally offensive to people who do not like run-on sentences as names for computer parts.