Evening Reading: Buzz Words in Game Titles

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  Sometimes it doesn't fit either way until like the 5th try on both sides or you say fuckit and try a diff... : dognose
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    you said a bad word! : IcomeINpeace
    • *gasp* he did!!! : CrustaR
    • http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=fuck&cs_user=dognose&cs_parentauthor=&s_type=all : InfoBiter
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    dognose! shame on you : wtf242
    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjY94d5a-Fo : dognose
  • Ahahaha, so true. : thetangent
  • yeah this is really frustrating. : moe6
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  I think the worst part is they designed it specially so that the first attempt to plug in a cable or flas... : Dave-A
  • ^^^ This, and the fact that even when it is the right way, it doesn't plug in, so there are multiple inst... : destinyofdeath
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  is there any data connection other than coax that goes both ways? haayyyyyyyyy : grandmasterlee
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    RCA, x.xmm Stereo, and im sure there are others. PS/2 was fucking horrible as well. : mrvandelay
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      I've never transferred data over an audio connection, that's quite a trick : grandmasterlee
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        Audio is data? : SwiftyPants
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          dude if you start a "digital audio" is technically data I will murder kittens in your name : grandmasterlee
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            Analog audio is also data. : p : SwiftyPants
            • there's a kittens soul wandering the earth wondering who SwiftyPants is and why I said "he says hi". Kee... : grandmasterlee
      • Never used an old tape loader to save/restore programs? VIC20/C64 etc etc : dafugg
    • sorry didnt read the "data" part of the post : mrvandelay
  • optical! It's a tube filled with light and information! : steelsamurai
• oh god this is so true. fucking usb. : JohnnyRey
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  The side with the USB symbol always goes up (usually). : BlackCat9
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    It is on Macs, but it's hit and miss on PCs. : Yanks
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      what does this mean? he's talking about the USB symbol on the cable : electroly
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        and the female connector only mounts one way. i'm pretty sure i've never seen an upside-down usb port : electroly
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          I totally have. And then there are those retarded front ports that Dell used for a few years which are b... : qsylvr
          • Oh how I hated those front ports with a passion. : Haxim
          • fuck yeah my parents have one like this AND IT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE : StolenNosferatu
          • Whoever thought of this should be shot. : Agrona
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        and sometimes on PC's the port is inverted. : hussdelrio
        • ^^ I have seen this on older Dell laptops... pretty frustrating! : Yanks
  • for no apparent reason, I've never assumed it was logical like that. I don't know why, but like everyone... : grandmasterlee
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    What happens when the usb port is oriented vertically? : sonicstorm
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      The symbol faces the user : Dave-A
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        No, I mean like on my iMac, the ports are on the back of the unit and face away from me. And on the back : sonicstorm
        • facing forward, to the right : ErneX
    • If it's in a tower or something, it probably goes towards the top of the case or up from the orientation ... : BlackCat9
  • The symbol is supposed to "face the user", so it should be either up or toward wherever you're likely to ... : Dave-A
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    It always goes up except when it doesn't! : c0bra
    • That's pretty much the first rule of technology. : BlackCat9
  • I've just realized this in the past couple of months : nevlos
  • I had to buy the case that's different :( : OmegaRed59
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    Someone asked me once which way USB plugs should go in. My response was "there's only one way for it to ... : Portax
    • This is why people hate IT. There are no easy answers. : BlackCat9
• I wonder if it is to ensure that the power connectors connect first, so the device can power up before da... : Dave-A
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  Cost. All the pins would be backwards or would need pins to read on both sides. : Fayk
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    bingo! Interesting that this isn't the first response to all threads crying foul about a technology that... : dedgecko
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      Well it's more than just cost, too, obviously. I mean, seriously, what connectors (otehr than audio/di... : Fayk
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        electrical power bricks have had polar inverters for a very long time, why not usb connections? : shirif
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          What I mean is that it's not that hard to have read/write head on both sides that would detect the correc... : shirif
          • Then again, I don't really mind the current design : shirif
        • Because it all gets rectified down to a DC voltage supply. : dravalen
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  You don't know how wrong you are. Keyed connectors are idiot proof, or at least more idiot proof. People ... : Dr_Cube
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    He obviously meant that the connector should have been designed to work correctly no matter which way it ... : Dave-A
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      The design isn't simply aesthetic. : ieGod
      • That said, a keying that is visibly obvious on both the female and male end would've been nice. : Arcanum
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  I've always found that if it comes to a 50/50 choice I'll always pick the wrong one first. : RogerDandy
  • 50/50 choice? So you don't try inserting it sideways too? Weird. : ImageOmega
  • seriously : feek
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    I always pick the correct way last : shika.art
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      Even when you pick it first. : cerealSAM2
      • yes!!! : feek
  • I hope you're on your second wife already. : edgewise
  • This is the precise definition of Murphy's Law. : Caboose
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  At least make it so the outline is asymetrical so you can tell which way it's supposed to go, like firewi... : MamiyaOtaru
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    Trapezoidal would have been wonderful. : cerealSAM2
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      HDMI : biskits
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        HDMI isn't bad because it's extremely simple to see which way it goes in based on the shape : wtf242
        • exactly. it's a trapezoid. : biskits
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    Firewire's plug design actually has issues. Notice how when they went to Firewire-800 they moved to a dif... : Fayk
    • Don't cross the pins! : Dr_Cube
  • This x 1000 : Mad Brahmin Disease
• Yeah, it is absolutely ridiculous that the most common connector in computing history is so terribly desi... : ventro
• I'm not sure that you'd want to swap ground with 5v, lest you just don't like your electronics. : anhero
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  what the fuck was the point of firewire? in fact, why do all apple devices rely on it?

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  related: what the fuck was the point of firewire? in fact, why do all apple devices rely on it? : EvilDolemite
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    It was invented before USB by Apple. And it helped differentiate Apple products from others. Firewire 4... : neokolonial
    • Apple refused to license firewwire cheaply enough, so Intel invented USB. Erm, that's my memory anyway. : jcupitt
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    Apple's started to phase Firewire out of most of their basic consumer products. It might still be preferr... : BlackCat9
    • Firewise (400 or 800) is/was faster than USB/USB 2.0. : rick
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    Its fast and it kicks USB's ass. Shame that Apple is letting it go, hopefully USB 3.0 can pick up where F... : Serpico74
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      I don't understand why things don't just run off of ethernet. We already have gigabit which is faster tha... : rick
      • USB is much cheaper to implement than GigE and only requires half as many pins. : magila
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        ethernet is not reliable, you can have collisions and without a protocol riding on top you don't know if ... : steelsamurai
        • Sort of like a TCP connection? : rick
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      I finally own a USB 3 device :) : abrasion
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        how does it feels? : ErneX
        • I don't have any USB3 PC's :( : abrasion
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    Firewire > USB x100000 when dealing with video. : Super Sparker
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      Neither one is better at handling anything type of data in particular. It is only the case that one is fa... : rick
      • I work with video everyday and I despise when I get a portable HDD with USB. : Super Sparker
      • that's not true at all. FireWire is objectively better because it's not a poll-based architecture like U... : electroly
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        So you're deducting overhead in USB 2.0 but not in firewire? How very apple of you. USB 2.0 = 480Mbit/... : dafugg
        • Ack! Sorry, remembered the wrong number. : rick
      • If you're copying video off a tape camera, you need a RELIABLE connection, because the camera won't resen... : jcupitt
      • the theoretical numbers don't mean shit : moshman
• B's and minis are fine. Damn USB A can go to hell. : intothefray
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  It would be trivial to make the connector work in either direction without it even really costing that mu... : rick
  • ...connect to the pins of the other connector. : rick
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  IAWWTF242 :/ Also SATA cables suck compared to IDE (for plugging them in, you can't do it by feel anym... : abrasion
  • Maybe...but they are vastly superior in all other ways : r_Ed
• They probably should have just gone with a trapezoid instead of a rectangle. For clarity. However, I d... : CRasterImage
• I always always always plug it in incorrectly on the first try--ALLLLWAYS! : warcrow