Isn't bootstrapping the writing of the bios, which then boots the OS?
"reboots"
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Isn't bootstrapping the writing of the bios, which then boots the OS?
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As technical terms or technical jargon become integrated into colloquial language they frequently suffer semantically. Another current howler is the use of epicentre to mean dead centre. The epicentre is the epicentre precisely because it is not the centre. The recent Marrakesh earthquake had BBC news presenters talking geological nonsense as they tried to comment on the maps and cross-sectional diagrams by using colloquial misconceptions to sow confusion about where the centre of the earthquake was actually located.
The use of enormity to mean magnitude is another common one as is the use of disinterested to mean uninterested. In the end, it is much more interesting to become a disinterested observer of the evolution of language rather than someone who is outraged at the enormity of linguistic shifts, no matter what their magnitude.
The use of enormity to mean magnitude is another common one as is the use of disinterested to mean uninterested. In the end, it is much more interesting to become a disinterested observer of the evolution of language rather than someone who is outraged at the enormity of linguistic shifts, no matter what their magnitude.
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Does it bother anyone else that the definition of Reboot seems to have changed?
The term reboot used to be a complete reset of a film or series (shutting off a computer and restarting or "rebooting" it). However, now the term seems to include simple sequels and prequels as well. A recent example is Mary Poppins. It has been called a reboot repeatedly, but it is clearly intended to be a sequel. It even has "returns" in the name! Does that bother other people aff much as it does me?
I'm not sure I've ever watched a sequel or a 'prequel'. I haven't (until now) come across this use of 'reboot'. But language evolves in ways no one person can control.
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Does it bother anyone else that the definition of Reboot seems to have changed?
The term reboot used to be a complete reset of a film or series (shutting off a computer and restarting or "rebooting" it). However, now the term seems to include simple sequels and prequels as well. A recent example is Mary Poppins. It has been called a reboot repeatedly, but it is clearly intended to be a sequel. It even has "returns" in the name! Does that bother other people aff much as it does me?
Mary Poppins Reboot Edition One Plus 2.0, the prequel: Lord of the mythical umbrella.
I think the marketing department have come across the decimal point which they had no idea about and now use it in Ernest (2.0, 3.0 etc).
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Does it bother anyone else that the definition of Reboot seems to have changed?
The term reboot used to be a complete reset of a film or series (shutting off a computer and restarting or "rebooting" it). However, now the term seems to include simple sequels and prequels as well. A recent example is Mary Poppins. It has been called a reboot repeatedly, but it is clearly intended to be a sequel. It even has "returns" in the name! Does that bother other people aff much as it does me?
Not really, reboot doesn't really mean that much to me. Remake does, like how Pyscho was remade from the original shot for shot. Adaption too I understand, The Fly has had two adaptions both based on the same short story. Interpretations also, some stories have had multiple interpretations that tell different stories of the same characters, like Robin Hood - I doubt Russell Crowes version is a reboot of Kevin Costners lol
Reboot seems to be something the comic industry likes, I love (most) comic book films but they (the makers) float all sort of terms like reboot, reset, soft reboot, hard reset and so on. They really don't need them like there are multiple versions of Batman, none I'd really call a reboot just all different adaptions of the Batman character and his stories but the core values mostly stay the same.
Terminator franchise is a bugger for doing the same, T1-2 and T-Dark Fate are now supposedly the true trilogy, and the other three don't mean anything now?🙃
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Reboot and power cycle are not always the same thing, and you might say warm reboot for, say, pressing the reset button, or cold reboot when you actually need to cycle the power down and up again.
How this applies to films is something that eludes me...
Rehash? Fork?
How this applies to films is something that eludes me...
Rehash? Fork?
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Is Ernest a good film franchise? I’m asking in earnest.
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Theres a new version of Battlestar Gallactica on the way, and its been confirmed that it will take place within the 2004 versions continuinty (2004 is often called a reimagining just to confuse things). Its also not a continuation as that version has a very good ending they would be fools to mess with, and it's not a remake of it either.
But the new 2023 version is being called a reboot despite if being set within the 2004 version it cannot be, its more BSG set within the framework the 2004 version established (this is a good thing, I love 2004 BSG!).
But the new 2023 version is being called a reboot despite if being set within the 2004 version it cannot be, its more BSG set within the framework the 2004 version established (this is a good thing, I love 2004 BSG!).