There is an ad I see around here, on the back of buses.

"The cloud is the answer. It's also the question."

Makes me want to harm myself.

is "OWS" a tech word? If so, then that takes the top spot.

/take a shower, ya damn hippies

yes YES OMG YES! myspacekeyisstucknow:(

Is it just me, or did none of these words on that list seem particularly technical? When I think of technical words, I don't think of a bad portmanteau of sex and texting, I think of words like, oh, portmanteau.

SCSI that

"Intexticated" - You're an idiot don't drive a car ever again....

But if it wasn't for sexting the whole world wouldn't know that Tiger Woods owns that porn slut's ass.

It's as bad as Tex-Mexting - you know, texting about southwestern things.

FTA:
"Intexticated" means unable to concentrate while driving due to texting. Tech words "Defriend," "Twittersphere" and "Tweetup" rounded out the top five, respectively.

These are not tech words. No actual geeks use the words. These are words used by people who are specifically not very techy, but rather, think they have just enough geek cred to be "cool".

My vote goes to "cloud" as well, though only when it's misused. Thanks to modern marketing, that's almost all the time now.

That's the thing with tech words. They usually have a specific and exclusive technical meaning, and are actually useful. This just sounds like a list of the internet's equivalent of decidedly lame teenager slang.

Article, Author, Subby, and whoever greened it, can DIAF.

There's also "chexting", you know, rice-chexting, wheat-chexting, corn-chexting. But that's only for serial users.

Find out my reaction to this news after the jump.

I think the nude photos of Scarlett Johansson and other ladies more than make up for the annoyance of the word.

ox45tallboy: lasercannon: I think the nude photos of Scarlett Johansson and other ladies more than make up for the annoyance of the word.

Dude, we had nude pics of celebrities loooooooonnnng before anyone had even conceived "the cloud". It is NOT something that is necessary to make something (*cough*yak*blech*) "go viral".

/my lawn. get off it



pretty sure he meant sexting...

I think referring to stupid, manufactured marketing buzzwords as "tech words" is pretty annoying, does that count?

calbert: my vote goes to 'app'

"There's an app for that".

it's a f*cking PROGRAM!

If you use that term, you're a douche.

Or it's f*cking APPLICATION SOFTWARE. Oh wait...

calbert: my vote goes to 'app'


"There's an app for that".


it's a f*cking PROGRAM!

If you use that term, you're a douche.

well, it is also an application...

ox45tallboy: ilikeracecars: pretty sure he meant sexting...

Fair enough, but that word came about long after it was actually occurring, therefore the existence of the action is not dependent on the existence of its popular moniker.

What you are saying is true, but irrelevant, even contrary. The benefit of the action, outweighs the annoyance of the action's label. It implies a hypothetical, get rid of the term(or even the action) along with nudes of SJ? Hell no.

But thanks for dropping in and stating what was obvious. Since you're so keen on it, I'll continue a bit more, you know, just to make sure you're clear, because it really does sound as if you're missing a great deal.

Sure, we had celeb pics, but not many taken by their own hand with the intent to be distributed(albeit a very limited distribution). It is a candid willingness you simply don't see in other styles of acquisition The cell phone camera and it's ease of use, multiplied what was out there exponentially. There are now websites dedicated to such pictures.

Sexting did directly provide the Scarlett Johansson pictures that some cherish. Without that activity, which in the past had no specific name, we would not have them. Now, sexting, as a term, was given to a growing trend. It's the natural course of action to name things. We know things didn't always have the names they do now. Thank you Captain Obvious. But I've got some special news for you. All that bucking for promotion paid off. You're hereby promoted to Major Irrelevance.

Now, waddle off and be annoyingly irrelevant elsewhere.

I have been really sick of hearing about "the cloud" for a while, now.
I work a lot of tech conventions, and everything is cloud this....cloud that.......

The Cloud!!! The Cloud!!!

whatevs.

ox45tallboy: fusillade762: Find out my reaction to this news after the jump.

That one definitely pisses me off. What jump? WTF is a "jump"? Am I supposed to leap upwards in joy before continuing the article? Is this supposed to give me exercise or something?

Quit being snarky. People who don't use Firefox and Adblock get to see all sorts of stuff stuck in the middle of their articles. Or so I'm told.

calbert: my vote goes to 'app'


"There's an app for that".


it's a f*cking PROGRAM!

If you use that term, you're a douche.

Now, that is a tech term. Worthy of a nomination.

It has replaced program and application. Some do find it entirely annoying. I do at times, it used to be a good term. Who remembers looking up appz on warez sites?

Apple and phones in general did have to brand it though. It is decidedly hipsterish buzzword now, but still retains it's meaning, and it is shorter than all of it's alternatives.

We can put it on the list, but it won't get many votes, imo.

omeganuepsilon: calbert: my vote goes to 'app'


"There's an app for that".


it's a f*cking PROGRAM!

If you use that term, you're a douche.

Now, that is a tech term. Worthy of a nomination.

It has replaced program and application. Some do find it entirely annoying. I do at times, it used to be a good term. Who remembers looking up appz on warez sites?

Apple and phones in general did have to brand it though. It is decidedly hipsterish buzzword now, but still retains it's meaning, and it is shorter than all of it's alternatives.

We can put it on the list, but it won't get many votes, imo.

My impression was that "app" was originally short for "applet", as in the little embedded java widgets that apple was pushing as the future of the internet back in the day. Well, I mean, originally in computer terms, i'm sure people have been using 'app' for 'application' in the paperwork sense since forever.

I hate the word 'sexting' simply because it doesn't involve text messages. Messages with pictures != text. Sure, MMS can have text, but those aren't, strictly speaking, text messages.

I liked 'intexticated' until I realized it didn't mean drunk-texting people.

Jim_Callahan: My impression was that "app" was originally short for "applet", as in the little embedded java widgets that apple was pushing as the future of the internet back in the day. Well, I mean, originally in computer terms, i'm sure people have been using 'app' for 'application' in the paperwork sense since forever.

First time I saw app, was in on warez sites. Cracked software. Appz and Gamez, and eventually Moviez. But years and years ago.

Ooohh Google!

History of Apps (new window) Interesting skim. Kinda wordy for me, says so little with so many words.

The ending*may contain spoilers*:

Thirty years ago, 'app' was used because programmers decided to use it, because it made the most sense within the constraints they were forced to deal with. Today, 'app' is used because the marketing department has decided to use it - or not, because the legal department has decided it can't be used.

'App', then, illustrates the demise of the programmer - the programmers are no longer calling the shots. Marketing and legal do.

Kardashian

My boss/co-worker referenced the 'Cloud' earlier this week with a new employee. I replied back sans the new employee and mocked him for using the term. "You meant iCloud, right?" I'm getting wonderfully and cynically old.

:smh:

OMG hacktivist FTW

For some reason the only recent tech word that bugs me is "Cloud". It releases a sort of primordial anger from deep within my being.


♪♫Cause I don't wanna come back down from this cloud
It's taken me all this time to find out what I need
I don't wanna come back down from this cloud
It's taken me all this all this time♫♪

I figure this song is going to make it to the adverts if it hasn't already -_-

Does this mean that, by proactively dealing with the issues and thinking outside the box, we've used all the metrics to reach a new paradigm?

/Hate that "techie talk" crap
//Makes me feel all stabby

omeganuepsilon:
My vote goes to "cloud" as well, though only when it's misused. Thanks to modern marketing, that's almost all the time now.

So much this. Cloud. A customer facing system usually comprised of racks of machines backed by a SAN, accessed via an API of some description (which may or may not be universal). Useful for dynamically allocating more resources and handy for companies that are too small to afford rack upon rack of machines and attendant systems/people yet have a pressing desire to process lots of data. See also: Render Farm & Compile Farm, Data Centre, Privacy & Security Concerns, Vendor lock-in.

It is NOT a farking photo editor. Nor is it a panacea for every problem.

basilbrush: OMG hacktivist FTW

Came here to say this. I cringe every time I see it, but I'm seeing it more and more, so I guess I'd better get used to it. :-(

is not amused.

Hector Remarkable: There's also "chexting", you know, rice-chexting, wheat-chexting, corn-chexting. But that's only for serial users.

You have just been 'favorite'd.

Uh oh... is that an annoying tech word?

I thought "graphic" was just fine as an adjective before it became graphical

I must be living with my head in a .... well... one of those big, fluffy white things up high in the sky... because I swear the first time I noticed the word "cloud" was just a few days ago when someone mentioned her husband had done something or other so her "cloud" was hooked up to something else. Or something like that. I figured it meant that some piece of software on her phone could now get access to some other piece of software somewhere else.

But I didn't care enough to ask for clarification. And I am still happy not knowing.