[MD] Quality computing

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:


> dmb says:
> Okay, "boot" is a pretty good example. Since I live in this world too, I 
> realized that it was probably a reference to hearty footwear and/or the act 
> of putting them on and that this implies that it might be something we must 
> do before we start working. But what's wrong with the word "start"? What's 
> the point of obscuring a concept as simple as "on"? That's what I don't get. 
> Why do we need a word like "download" if all it means is "get"? Load makes 
> sense all by itself. In what sense is there a downward direction involved. 
> Are these files coming down off a satellite? Or is this a reference to my 
> status on the foodchain?
> 
> Am I saying I could do better? That I could imagine better terms to use? 
> Hell yes. But that's no big claim because this is such awful, awful stuff. 
> Sure, once in a while there is some cleverness but mostly the lingo only 
> misleads and confuses in a million tiny ways. 

Ain't it the truth.

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