Why do they call it MUXING? Is it just to make it Techie???

[yoda313]

Hello,
I was wondering, why is demultiplexing, muxing, and other tech terms used instead of cutting, joining, etc???

My personal guess is it's part of the programming world's way to sound loftier and more intelligent than other people. It's just a fancy way to say cut, join, etc.. That doesn't sound as cool as Muxing though, hmm?

Just a pet pieve. It really intimidates newbies, it seems. Though I've started using the term it's kind of silly.

Kevin.

P.S. No real insult intended to programmers. Just a little complaint

[Capmaster]

Multiplexing doesn't mean the same thing as "joining". In the electronics world, multiplexing is a way of making a few wires behave like many more wires. Send changing data with a corresponding changing address and you can program hardware at the other end that only listens for its own address. One set of wires can then send different instructions to different hardware. That's multiplexing.

In video, multiplexing means intertwining audio and video. Demultiplexing, or demuxing for short, means separating the audio and video. Joining only means adding one thing onto the end of another.

[yoda313]

Hello,
Thanks Capmaster. Well maybe its more involved than I thought. It just seemed like overkill to me. But things are made overcomplicated a lot of times (like marketing gimmicks and stuff). Thanks again.
Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,
Thanks Capmaster. Well maybe its more involved than I thought. It just seemed like overkill to me. But things are made overcomplicated a lot of times (like marketing gimmicks and stuff). Thanks again.
Kevin

NP. Like you it's a pet peeve of mine when someone tries to make something technical sounding and goes over the top. I used to cringe in some of the TNG episodes, and other movies with a lot of tech stuff.

In this case it's a real term though. I haven't seen too much BS in this hobby

[yoda313]

Hello,

Capmaster-I used to cringe in some of the TNG episodes, and other movies with a lot of tech stuff.

Oh come on, I love THAT type of technobabble. It's when it comes to stuff regular people have to tackle that it can be cumbersome. I'm just glad some terms actually MEAN something. Thanks again.
Kevin

[Capmaster]

Hello,

Capmaster-I used to cringe in some of the TNG episodes, and other movies with a lot of tech stuff.

Oh come on, I love THAT type of technobabble. It's when it comes to stuff regular people have to tackle that it can be cumbersome. I'm just glad some terms actually MEAN something. Thanks again.
Kevin

Entertaining, yeah. That's why I'm a ST addict. It bothers me when I see the discontinuity, for example, when they have no way to protect Geordy from something as simple as overloading his synapses (TNG episode "Interface"), yet they treat it as an everyday thing when they discover a way to time-travel at will (movie First Contact), yet there is no mention or repeat of that stunt in Nemesis? WTF?

[Doramius]

We're just not at that time period. We think nothing of space travel and yet, we still have traffic problems here on earth. Old movies give the impression that traffic problems would have been solved before we tried traveling to another planet, and that peace and harmony would be among the world. In contrast, we got people making personal space craft to get the heck off the planet with traffic congestion.

[Capmaster]

We're just not at that time period. We think nothing of space travel and yet, we still have traffic problems here on earth. Old movies give the impression that traffic problems would have been solved before we tried traveling to another planet, and that peace and harmony would be among the world. In contrast, we got people making personal space craft to get the heck off the planet with traffic congestion.

When I was a kid I was sure that by now we'd be getting around on conveyor belts and getting our daily nutrition from a pill. I believed George Orwell

[indolikaa]

Hello,

Capmaster-I used to cringe in some of the TNG episodes, and other movies with a lot of tech stuff.

Oh come on, I love THAT type of technobabble. It's when it comes to stuff regular people have to tackle that it can be cumbersome. I'm just glad some terms actually MEAN something. Thanks again.
Kevin

Entertaining, yeah. That's why I'm a ST addict. It bothers me when I see the discontinuity, for example, when they have no way to protect Geordy from something as simple as overloading his synapses (TNG episode "Interface"), yet they treat it as an everyday thing when they discover a way to time-travel at will (movie First Contact), yet there is no mention or repeat of that stunt in Nemesis? WTF?

Damn, and I thought I was the only one that contemplated the Star Trek universe to that level...

Wow.

[johns0]

I rather they use tech talk then say thingmabob or doohickie,that would make me really cringe.