although I honestly pity "true" conservatives who support Bush only because of the possibility of setting the next generations's Court agenda and were royally fucked by this.

I can't say as I do. I find the nomination a bit baffling however because I can't see what the political gain is for Bush.

hey Techie types, I was just told to come up with an alternate term for Master/Slave

Dom/sub? Master/Apprentice?

Yeah, I've heard about the controvesy - I can't come up with anything either.

Somepeople don't like the term 'motherboard' either.

primary/secondary?

Lisah - Boss/Lackey, Majordomo/Samurai, Big Enchilada/Small Fries

primary/secondary?

Aren't the two controllers on a typical Intel system called primary and seconday? (And each controller then can have a master and a slave drive.)

eta: Yes, above is correct.

Big Chief/Brave?

I need to roll my eyes at the controversy, myself.

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There. I feel a little better now. Can't you just call them primary/secondary? I know I've seen that before.

Can't you just call them primary/secondary?

That would possibly be confusing, with a primary and secondary controller each having a primary and secondary drive.

tommy, WhatIs says:

In computer networking, master/slave is a model for a communication protocol in which one device or process (known as the master) controls one or more other devices or processes (known as slaves). Once the master/slave relationship is established, the direction of control is always from the master to the slave(s). The County of Los Angeles, saying the term master/slave may be offensive to some of its residents, has asked equipment manufacturers not to use the term. Some manufacturers prefer the term primary/secondary.

So it may be acceptable usage.

Frank/Tim? Nah...just being a H:LOTS geek.

So it may be acceptable usage.

Well, it would require slighty more effort for me to keep them straight.

But yeah, the more I think about it... that could work.