CrashAndBurn:

The current trend from restaurants POS machines were it prompts you to leave a tip.

floydbloke:

Not a fan of being bombarded with advertising in general, but I appreciate it enables organisations to provide us with content.

The St John Ambulance one currently playing on TV particularly grates me though.  Surely I'm not the only one who can't understand a word that the little boy is saying?

People who refer to a switch/router/AP as a "modem"

I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

Hint: if you have fibre, you don't need a modem.  If you have 4G, you don't need a modem

shk292: I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

At a guess, decades. Consider that virtually nobody needs to monitor low-level system I/O on a computer these days, yet computer displays are still regularly referred to as "monitors".

Behodar:

shk292: I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

At a guess, decades. Consider that virtually nobody needs to monitor low-level system I/O on a computer these days, yet computer displays are still regularly referred to as "monitors".

eracode:

Behodar:

shk292: I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

At a guess, decades. Consider that virtually nobody needs to monitor low-level system I/O on a computer these days, yet computer displays are still regularly referred to as "monitors".

... and a broadcast radio receiver is referred to as a ‘wireless’. And a small, portable wireless is referred to as a ‘transistor’.

The freaking vegans in my family are now pushing kombucha at me.

There is no way that vile random bacterial/fungal floating scum juice will ever pass my lips. Not a drop. 

If garbage like that had therapeutic benefit, how come they're all pale, spotty, obese, and completely unhappily obsessive about their freaking health?  They all look like they need a chop to chew on - an idea I'd never force on them.

/rant over. 

The small thing which annoys me is that you can't tell family they're morons, by return of email sent with link to youtube home kombucha instructions, on social media, or directly to their faces.

shk292:

 

People who refer to a switch/router/AP as a "modem"

 

I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

 

Hint: if you have fibre, you don't need a modem.  If you have 4G, you don't need a modem

 

Isnt the ONT the "modem"

eracode:

Behodar:

 

shk292: I wonder how long it will be between xDSL finally being phased out people finally stopping calling anything that connects to the internet as a "modem"?

 

 

 

At a guess, decades. Consider that virtually nobody needs to monitor low-level system I/O on a computer these days, yet computer displays are still regularly referred to as "monitors".

 

... and a broadcast radio receiver is referred to as a ‘wireless’. And a small, portable wireless is referred to as a ‘transistor’.

My Nana used a wireless..... Ahead of her time, bless her.

Modem, basically-

Modem, short for 'Modulator/Demodulator'.

It converts an analog signal from a (copper) telephone line to a digital signal for the computer, and digital back to analog again, for the return journey. 

If there's no analog involved, there's no modulation/demodulation, so you don't use a modem.

Behodar:

 

Consider that virtually nobody needs to monitor low-level system I/O on a computer these days, yet computer displays are still regularly referred to as "monitors".

 

Call 'em a VDU and see how many youngsters know what that acronym stands for. 

Oh and by the way, my acoustic coupler seems to have a compatibly problem with my fibre. 

https://support.myrepublic.com.sg/hc/en-us/articles/115003469974-Basic-ONT-Modem-Information-and-Troubleshooting

This is best because the modem is connected after the ONT:

https://www.chorus.co.nz/blog/get-the-best-out-of-your-fibre-broadband

*g* Teach them!

Stu:

 

Modem, basically-

 

Modem, short for 'Modulator/Demodulator'.

 

It converts an analog signal from a (copper) telephone line to a digital signal for the computer, and digital back to analog again, for the return journey. 

 

If there's no analog involved, there's no modulation/demodulation, so you don't use a modem.

 

So you think a trans-impedance amplifier is a pure digital component? Light itself is analog and any digital signal will look quite analog after it's way with reflections, dents and bends of the fibre, etc. and ... guess what ... it's modulated and multiplexed. So you have to demodulate it. I guess that is what Mo/Dem tries to tell you ... isn't it?

Tinkerisk:

 

So you think a trans-impedance amplifier is a pure digital component? Light itself is analog and any digital signal will look quite analog after it's way with reflections, dents and bends of the fibre, etc. and ... guess what ... it's modulated and multiplexed. So you have to demodulate it. I guess that is what Mo/Dem tries to tell you ... isn't it?

 

So, if anything, the ONT could be called a modem.  But definitely not the router that connects to it. 

Not quite as bad as people who refer to a PC as a "CPU", as in "my password is written on a sticky note stuck to the CPU under my desk"