"Screen real estate"
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL
Same here. I have also seen people saying LINQ as LINQUEUE. :doh: But unlike SEQUEL I doubt I will ever get used to this sickness.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
Like nails on a chalkboard...
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's Razor
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL
Same here. I have also seen people saying LINQ as LINQUEUE. :doh: But unlike SEQUEL I doubt I will ever get used to this sickness.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Why not display area?, why real estate at all. We're not talking acres or hectares!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally! JaxCoder.com
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL
Same here. I have also seen people saying LINQ as LINQUEUE. :doh: But unlike SEQUEL I doubt I will ever get used to this sickness.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
met any of the "see hash" or "see hex" mob yet? heck even had a "see hex symbol" (together with some demented finger waggling) once. thus far luckily never met a "see hashtag" or "see pound" looser yet, but gonna bet they do exist.
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL
Same here. I have also seen people saying LINQ as LINQUEUE. :doh: But unlike SEQUEL I doubt I will ever get used to this sickness.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Why not display area?, why real estate at all. We're not talking acres or hectares!
I do all my own stunts, but never intentionally! JaxCoder.com
Looking at the latest phones, I'm not so sure.
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I think you should just go with the flow, it's hard to change commonly used jargon. I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL, but I stopped bothering ... :-\
If they were consequent in the pronunciation of abbreviations, they'd call the continent the "UI".
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL, but I stopped bothering ...
Yes, that drove me bonkers for a year or two, too, but I've got used to it over time.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
i call it sequel just to make people mad at me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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i call it sequel just to make people mad at me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
I'm actually a bit inconsistent on it, I'll generally say: SQL T-SQL SEQUEL SERVER
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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- Sequels usually suck. 2) SQL reminds me more of 'squeal' than of 'sequel'. 3) Mickeysoft often makes me feel like squealing. So let's more adequately call it a squeal server and give it our squeal of approval.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats. His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm actually a bit inconsistent on it, I'll generally say: SQL T-SQL SEQUEL SERVER
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
I used to work next door to the microsoft SQL team devs and how they pronounced it varied. I figure if they don't care enough to get after each other about it, neither should I. Still, I wonder how the former sybase folks feel about it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Those use SEQUEL probably old or learned from old... As today I do not meet anyone using that form anymore...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
i'm old now? sheesh
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I see the UX guys use this term frequently. Why not just call it "visual estate" or "virtual estate" For example: We need to consider the available visual-estate for the widget. instead of saying, We need to consider the available screen real estate for the widget.
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I think you should just go with the flow, it's hard to change commonly used jargon. I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL, but I stopped bothering ... :-\
I'm a bastard, I call it squirrel and yep it annoys the crap out of some :laugh:
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity - RAH I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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RickZeeland wrote:
I always had problems with people saying SEQUEL instead of SQL
Same here. I have also seen people saying LINQ as LINQUEUE. :doh: But unlike SEQUEL I doubt I will ever get used to this sickness.
You have just been Sharapova'd.
Is it not a nice little play on words: SQL ("SEQUEL") = Seek Well?
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i call it sequel just to make people mad at me.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
It works!
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I see the UX guys use this term frequently. Why not just call it "visual estate" or "virtual estate" For example: We need to consider the available visual-estate for the widget. instead of saying, We need to consider the available screen real estate for the widget.
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Caslen wrote:
Why not call it 'the screen'?
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I see the UX guys use this term frequently. Why not just call it "visual estate" or "virtual estate" For example: We need to consider the available visual-estate for the widget. instead of saying, We need to consider the available screen real estate for the widget.
**<pedantic>**As UI builders, we have to communicate with users. The first step in that communication is using vocabulary they understand. Most people understand the term real estate to mean a space with designated boundaries. It's therefore not much of a stretch to use screen real estate to refer to areas on the screen. Software developers who don't develop UI have a long, vicious tradition of using terminology that confuses users in a pathetic attempt to boost their own flaccid egos.**</pedantic>**Software Zen:
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