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Recently an article on the BBC website has pointed out that there are too many technological acronyms and in the end, they scare off consumers.

I find this utmostly humorous as well as true. I think we should all RTFM for our OS and sync our RSS feeds and IPTV/PVR captures on our WAP-secured PDAs (see how confusing and annoying that was, now?)

DUDE the movies are after highway 17 everyone knows that....(wtf did he just say)

I basically put that last part in to intentionally confuse you to show that there really are too many acronyms

who in the wat now ?!?!

codemaster @ Oct 6 2006, 07:08 AM wrote: Recently an article on the BBC website has pointed out that there are too many technological acronyms and in the end, they scare off consumers.

I find this utmostly humorous as well as true. I think we should all RTFM for our OS and sync our RSS feeds and IPTV/PVR captures on our WAP-secured PDAs (see how confusing and annoying that was, now?)

here's how I translate those acronyms

RTFM - Roll The Floor Mat
OS - Operating System
RSS - Resource Service Systems
IPTV/PVR - Internet Personal TeleVision / Personal Video Recording
WAP - Wide-Area Provider
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant

codemaster @ Oct 6 2006, 02:08 AM wrote:I find this utmostly humorous as well as true.

I agree. It's not only limited to the tech world either. I find it a bit annoying when people use acronyms in every day life. Or shorten words that shouldn't be shortened.

This might prove to be a helpful site for people who need help figuring out what certain acronyms stand for. They have a searchable database which takes out the guesswork.

I'm all for the use of acronyms to speed things along, however that article is correct in saying that it's getting a bit out of hand.

254416795 @ Oct 12 2006, 02:40 PM wrote:

codemaster @ Oct 6 2006, 07:08 AM wrote: Recently an article on the BBC website has pointed out that there are too many technological acronyms and in the end, they scare off consumers.

I find this utmostly humorous as well as true. I think we should all RTFM for our OS and sync our RSS feeds and IPTV/PVR captures on our WAP-secured PDAs  (see how confusing and annoying that was, now?)

here's how I translate those acronyms

RTFM - Roll The Floor Mat
OS - Operating System
RSS - Resource Service Systems
IPTV/PVR - Internet Personal TeleVision / Personal Video Recording
WAP - Wide-Area Provider
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant

um... no...

RTFM - Roll The Floor Mat (no idea)
OS - Operating System (correct)
RSS - Resource Service Systems (Really Simple Syndicate (not sure on that last S))
IPTV/PVR - Internet Personal TeleVision / Personal Video Recording (probably)
WAP - Wide-Area Provider (the other in the WEP/WAP pair (WEP= Wireless Encryption Protection (password?))
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant (right)