[Other] Did you guys know... ?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Bowielee

Bowielee

Null said:
There's a word for when a specific name becomes so synonymous with general objects of the type that it is applied to all objects of that type: eponymous. Band-Aid, Q-tip, Vaseline, Scotch tape, Kleenex, Aspirin, Laundromat, Thermos, Yo-yo, and Zipper are all eponymous brand names or trademarks.
Click to expand...
Actually, eponymous just means anything being named after it's own subject matter. For example, when a band's album is named after the band, or a book is named after the main character, the title is eponymous. So Q-tip brand Q-tips are eponymous, Walmart brand cotton swabs are not.
 
Null

Null

Bowielee said:
Actually, eponymous just means anything being named after it's own subject matter. For example, when a band's album is named after the band, or a book is named after the main character, the title is eponymous. So Q-tip brand Q-tips are eponymous, Walmart brand cotton swabs are not.
Click to expand...
Okay, technically it's a genericized trademark, which has eponym as a synonym, and eponymous is a more fluid term that has a close-enough meaning.
 
M

makare

Well, now I know a whole lot of things I didn't even want to know. Thanks Did you guys know thread
 
M

makare

at first that o on his face made me think someone had put a binky in his mouth...

(Binky ®)
 
jwhouk

jwhouk

Did you know Arnold Schwarzenegger is ineligible to run for President or Vice-President of the United States, since he was born in Austria?
 
Null

Null

Found out today that a former colleague is currently serving 8 years for molesting a nine-year-old girl, and unrelated to that, may be involved in a homicide.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

Null said:
Found out today that a former colleague is currently serving 8 years for molesting a nine-year-old girl, and unrelated to that, may be involved in a homicide.
Click to expand...
I was gonna say enough with the pointing pictures and let's get back to the stuff I didn't previously know, but... uh...

More pointing pictures!
 
strawman

strawman

In your computer there's a sheet of fiberglass laminated together in layers with copper that carries the electrical signals between all the chips and parts that make up the brains of your computer.

The signals are going so fast that they travel like waves on the wiring. A given wire, for instance, between the memory chips and the CPU is never in a single state, hi or low, or on or off, there's a steam of potential voltages moving along the wire like a series of waves moving down a river.

Because of this, when there are many wires between two devices, many of the wires all have to be the same length. If you look carefully, you'll see the wires wriggling and sometimes doubling back while others go straight. This is so the wires are all the same length when necessary for the signals that were sent at the same time to reach the receiving device at the same time.

In the time light leaves your monitor and reaches your eyes your CPU has processed between four and thirty instructions. The memory chips will have read or written about 128 bytes of data.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top