BOFH: Explain? All we need is this kay-sh with DDR3 Cortexiphan ... The PFY has crossed the line. Even though he knows better, he's attempted to explain something technical to management. I don't know why he did it – he's aware of the risks, and yet he still did. "KAY-SHING – not CASHing" he says, speaking slowly so the Boss can understand. "But surely it's the same thing?" "It IS the same …
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Try these: Bonus points if boss has heard of any of them.
Compuserve.
Cix.
Janet.
Arpanet.
Bulletin boards.
LEO.
Other buzzwords are available. Work these in carefully with some techno gobbledygook and you're good to go. Internet bullshit generators are available. Google is your friend. Is there a second Google? Enquiring minds need to know.
Mine's the one with the sticky fluffy toffee stuck in the pockets - thanks
I remember when Warwick University's Janet hookup was using Super-PAD instead of TCP. (net.ja) and was pretty much a separate internet. Happy mudding days connecting to the Biscuit barrel (a room where all the Sparc 5s were named after biscuits and ran Solaris) over a 300 baud modem...
Nope, it was Solaris, which had been released a year or two before the the SPARCstation 5 came out. (And then some marketing genius decided that they didn't like the name SunOS, so they retroactively called SunOS 4.1 "Solaris 1" and Solaris "Solaris 2". Fortunately nobody paid attention to that idea).
After all the build up before, the fourth was mostly fast-forwardable filler with a team almost certain to be axed and no motivation in the writers, despite a lot of loose ends that could have been played and a surprise extra season coming in, and ended up watching the first episode and the final 10 minutes of the 5th, with the impression I had not missed anything in between.
The best thing (the only good thing) about Fringe season 5 is that the final episode effectively undid it all --- just erased it all from existence, so we can pretend it never happened.
Kind of like how The Matrix never got any sequels. NONE.
FWIW
I got older child to show me the correct phonetic spelling of "cache". The appropriate English pronunciation for the word still remains what it was. She's at uni. Learning about speech and stuff.
kæʃ which is English
keɪʃ which is American
I told her about the kæʃeɪ (cachet) version and she said, "Oh My God that's terrible".
I don;t understand why anyone would've downvoted that. When I were a lass, I incorrectly tended to say AD-ver-TISE-ment and PREE-FERR-able because I'd learnt the words from books. Then I started paying attention to the (black-and white, coin-operated) box in the living room on which some terribly well-spoken people would apepar of an evening and learnt that the correct pronounciations were
ad-VER-tizment and PREF-erable. No sooner had I mastered those (it took some years) than, would you believe it, newer chaps on the goggle-box with regional accents were allowed, and some of them used the pronounciations that I'd just abandonded!
Ah well. That's the way languages change. I don't like it myself, but were it not otherwise we'd all be speaking Chaucerian English. Or something. Noticing the change in the language in your lifetime (and grumbling about it) means you have officially become an old codger. :-}
""Dual Dunham" as in Olivia and Folivia."
"Dual Bishop" or as in Walter and Walternate.
"Let's build a gate to cross into another universe." This would work, but the word 'protocol' disqualifies Walter, he couldn't communicate with the gate like Olivia or the other CortexKids.
So I'm still thinking it should'a ben flippy.
"KAY-SHING – not CASHing" he says, speaking slowly so the Boss can understand.
"But surely it's the same thing?"
"It IS the same thing, but if we use the KAY pronunciation it'll stop anyone thinking there might be money involved."
I challenge you to say Kay-shing with 'shing' raised out loud. I hope that was intentional...
"KAY-SHING – not CASHing, in Australia a router is pronounced rowt-er not roo-ter as the English call it.... in Australian vernacular "to root" to have some enjoyable time with your lady lying down in bed.... to be a root-er in Australia is someone who does lots of this.... so we pronounce it rowt-er ... I enjoy international differences like this, always give me a giggle.. Onto Olivia Dunham, I will always have burned into my memory the scene when Olivia gets out of the immersion tank in bra and undies..... Anna Torv, great export from Australia and in particular the Gold Coast ...
Once upon a time I was explaining to a very BIG boss all about naughty people doing naughty things using the internet. He was personally affronted and felt that 'we' ought to be doing something about it.
I started to explain things like jurisdictional difficulties, he got more and more red-faced until he asked the question.
"Well, who owns the internet?"
"It's tier-3 Cortexiphan we're looking at so obviously it's topology redundant with multiple backchannels and has the full dual Dunham processor architecture behind it. With a 2 Teraflop Bishop Gating protocol, obviously."
Oh how i wish i could come up with this level of tier 3 bullshine during some meetings. Loved it.
Careful what you wish for... I had a boss who, if presented with "It's tier-3 Cortexiphan we're looking at so obviously it's topology redundant with multiple backchannels and has the full dual Dunham processor architecture behind it. With a 2 Teraflop Bishop Gating protocol, obviously." would have asked why do we need dual Dunham, single Dunham will do.
That might be the local vernacular where you are, but it is not US-wide. Everyone I know in the biz calls it "cashing".
We have a strong hunting culture here though, and we cache (cash) supplies for extended fall hunting trips during the late summer scouting trips. That might explain why we know the correct pronunciation. ;)
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