Master/Slave

[tszaboo]

So I just got TI's EAP questions (texas instuments asks you about your opinion on a topic). They basically asked me if I'm fine with the technical term, master/slave. This is ridiculous. Some people actually want to change these terms, because, it is "not politically correct". Now, I'm not a redneck (oh no, I should have said country music and NASCAR enthusiast). But someone please explain it to me: Are there anyone, who is actually upset about these terms?
What is next? Female connector term will be banned? Or we have to use different term for penetration dept? When did everyone got so bored with their life, that they are actually bothering with this?

[StuUK]

My pet hate!!! Bullshit PC, the worlds gone mad..... 

http://www.politicallyincorrect.me.uk/banned.htm

[joeqsmith]

I used the word nipple the other day and people cringed.  I also use master slave and get strange looks now and then. 

There are companies who publish a list of words that are not to be used.      This is what we have become. 

[rdl]

There are many people who would agree.

[daqq]

Sadly, more total bullshit.

[dannyf]

I predicted this long before the great state of California officially banned the ide slave vs. Master.

Other terms likely to go away: black Friday, white house, masters degree, master chef, i2c master slave, husband and wife, family, male or female connectors, ...., and eventually individual names.

In the utopic future, we are just some emotion less numbered objects.

[Galenbo]

When did everyone got so bored with their life, that they are actually bothering with this?

Entire University "study" departments are subsidized with my money to research the new hate term or society dividing aspect.
Their goal is to undermine each existing field so they can get control over it.
A part of the personnel is mainly employed to deny the existance or activities of those departments.

[tszaboo]

When did everyone got so bored with their life, that they are actually bothering with this?

Entire University "study" departments are subsidized with my money to research the new hate term or society dividing aspect.
Their goal is to undermine each existing field so they can get control over it.
A part of the personnel is mainly employed to deny the existance or activities of those departments.

Yes, it is funded by the money the lizard people are taking from us.

[rstofer]

I'm sure everyone here remembers the un-PC ditty for the resistor color codes.  I learned it about 60 years ago and I don't suppose I'll be upgrading any time soon.  I just don't say it out loud...

I was messing around with SPI the other day and I had that very thought:  When will they have to come up with another pair of names for the master/slave relationship?  Boss/worker?  We already have reverse gender plugs and receptacles.  Male/female pipe threads?

[daqq]

I was messing around with SPI the other day and I had that very thought:  When will they have to come up with another pair of names for the master/slave relationship?  Boss/worker?  We already have reverse gender plugs and receptacles.  Male/female pipe threads?

Equal - Equal sound correct enough.

[Dielectric]

So, what are the alternatives to master and slave?  Producer/Consumer and Source/Sink don't work right for bi-directional comms.  Maybe coordinator and subordinate?  Too much typing. 

[joeqsmith]

I'm sure everyone here remembers the un-PC ditty for the resistor color codes.  I learned it about 60 years ago and I don't suppose I'll be upgrading any time soon.  I just don't say it out loud...

I was messing around with SPI the other day and I had that very thought:  When will they have to come up with another pair of names for the master/slave relationship?  Boss/worker?  We already have reverse gender plugs and receptacles.  Male/female pipe threads?

Don't count on it.  The color codes are a thing of the past. 

Client/Server seems to be more common now.   

[tszaboo]

Don't count on it.  The color codes are a thing of the past. 

Client/Server seems to be more common now.

Client/server dictates information flow, master/slave control flow. If you have a ADC connected to a microcontroller, the ADC is the server, which is always* ready to transmit information, when the microcontroller requests it. Totally confusing and unnecessary, and reverse to master/slave.

[System Error Message]

with drives this can still be the case. one sata port to another is parallel, they have their own channel. Still in a configuration that term is used (such as in clusters, computer architecture, drives) the master/slave analogy makes the most sense just like with male/female connectors, you know they plug into each other. You cant plug the same gender into the other correctly lol so its an accurate analogy in a way and makes it easier to understand when it comes to looking for what you need.

You could use the term primary/secondary instead and with connectors perhaps connector A and B since people are much smarter now but in the past if you said primary drive or secondary to someone in the past they wont understand it so these analogies are used as in the past people werent as smart with technology as they are now. I still would say that people arent as smart with technology now as they think its all magic (theres so much wrong you can explain to almost anyone around and con them.

[SL4P]

In the utopic future, we are just some emotion less numbered objects.

...but easy to manage by governments using their objective, template driven policies.

[joeqsmith]

It could be pimps and hoes for all I care as long as the writer is clear about which is the master. 

[timb]

You cant plug the same gender into the other correctly lol

Unless the connectors just sort of scissored or something...

Scissor me timbers! [NSFW]

[dmills]

Plenty of hermaphrodite connectors out there....

regards, Dan.

[Mr.B]

I'm sure everyone here remembers the un-PC ditty for the resistor color codes...

Whats wrong with "Big Beautiful Roses Occupy Your Garden But Violets Grow Wild"... 

[tautech]

My pet hate is Chairwoman, it's BS. 

Madam Chairman is the correct way to address a female chairman.

Yeah I know languages evolve but it's like 

[MK14]

What next ?

Banning White PCB Silkscreen colours, because it racially discriminates against minorities.
Ditto Black and Brown silkscreens.

It will have to be Purple Silkscreens from now on.

[Halcyon]

[AlfBaz]

male/female fittings? God forbid should you ever need a bleeder valve

[tautech]

male/female fittings? God forbid should you ever need a bleeder valve

M-F nipple or F-M nipple ? Reducing or straight nipple?
Then there's ballcocks......how do you deal with those? 

[joeqsmith]

Mechanical devices have much more colorful names.  The valve that supplies fuel to the engine on a bike for example is a petcock.  Of course at the end of every spoke is a nipple.