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more about #timeshifting more comments → exploded: One thing that I have encountered as very confusing to tech newbies is the word "flash". There are at least 3 different meanings. Flash memoryFlash a ... more » elementary: I get a lot of offers for cookies, and I always accept. I mean, who wouldn't? Anyway, I have yet to receive any. I must need to update my address or s... more » Hello Mister Walrus: What I concluded after reading this list are: 1) People are confused about everything tech-related, 2) Therefore, this list is just comprised of the m... more » tande04: Confusingly enough the PC Suite isn't just a nokia thing, they just linked to the nokia wiki for it. Theres LG ones, Sony, etc. more » frigg: Of course, these are only the 10 most confusing terms in tech out of a total sample of 11 terms, that also included "television set." I guess most peo... more » DeadWriter: Anti-malware programs have my father believing that cookies were as bad as viruses. more » drewheyman: i'm not telling my grandma what a dongle is. she'd wash my mouth out with soap. more » 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons: Hey I still love watching Heroes! They had Seth Green on last week...red-heads *swoon* more » Jesse in Japan: There are plenty of good TV shows on in Japan. more » scarbrtj: All our TV shows lose a day when they travel to Asia, but they gain a day on the way back over so no biggie. more » wesrubix: Um, they're not allowing time-shifting at whim because each server is probably re-broadcasted throughout the base one channel at a time. So that's one... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Eh, so this is a complaint about the military doing something its own way, which is pretty much what they've always been doing. May not be the "best"... more » -
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The 10 Most Confusing Terms in Tech Are Mostly Unneeded Anyway
A UK for-profit firm called The Gadget Helpline surveyed 5,000 people to ferret out the industry's most confusing tech jargon. Luckily, they found most of the top 10 confusing terms are antiquated or proprietary: -
#timeshifting
Army Using TiVo Tech for the Most Un-TiVo of Purposes
US troops in Japan are getting a massive server array to improve their TV. But instead of delivering what-you-want/when-you-want programming like TiVo, the servers will simply bump all shows 9 hours ahead. See any problems? More »
