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They’re marketing terms. Marketing terms are usually poorly defined at a technical level because they’re designed to extract the best sounding description from
by laumars 5y ago
They’re marketing terms. Marketing terms are usually poorly defined at a technical level because they’re designed to extract the best sounding description from a “holy shit that’s cool” perspective.
Eg 4D baby scans, HD being a collection of specifications, etc.
I used to roll my eyes at these and cloud/serverless too but then I gave up caring the accuracy of the terms because those that understand the technologies understood what the terms meant and those that didn’t (like CEOs), didn’t care. And I find any term to be equally hard to learn. Sure “serverless” might be misleading, but at least you’re not memorising an acronym (which I personally find harder to do).
It’s also worth commenting that language is constantly evolving through usage. For example terms like “perverted” and “groom” have much more sexual connotations now than their original definitions. The same is true for technical jargon too (eg “theory” has different connotations in science than it does in common vernacular).
- beaconstudios 5y ago4d baby scans are actually a pretty good name because aside from being a marketing pitch by obviously contrasting against the 2d nature of traditional ultrasound, they actually are 4d if you include the time dimension - they can record clips of the baby. Under this scheme, traditional ultrasound would have to be called 3d, but nobody does this so it's a bit of a bait while still being technically accurate.
- laumars 5y agoIf you want to get technical then it should be called 2+1D (two dimensions plus time. Or 3+1D if you want to be charitable about the perceived depth). Obviously that would be a rubbish name though.