macmanmike6100

We all know that software is what runs on a computer and that hardware is the physical computer.

But what word is there to mean both hardware <b>and</b> software?

For example, instead of saying "I bought hardware and software," one would say "I bought -blank-".

A challenge for the TFP: <b>fill in the blank with your word for hardware *and* software!</b>

oblar

I bought technology very broad.. works for almost anything

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juanvaldes

stuff.

JStrider

well i would say i bought ware....

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The_Dude

firmware?? that's hardware and software but i dont konw if it applies here.

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luckynumber

UT PWNS

just had to get that out of the way...

anyways hardware + software = Polyware (eh? many wares? im not too good that this)

Sleepyjack

you could use mohs scale of hardness to find an imbetween material, however "computing stuff" would suffice. as the dude pointed out, firm would be a valid adjactive which is a mix of hard and soft.

Although there could be a kinda of penis anology, in that you can get a "semi". You know that semi state in which not "all" the blood rushes there .That is neither flacid (soft) or erect (hard). So it could be semi-ware

juanvaldes

Firmware is already taken.

CSflim

My vote goes with "stuff". It is even more all-encompasing than "technology".

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goddfather40

Firmware isn't really applicable. It is the code that is programmed into a microprocessor. Since someone who writes code for microprocessors deals more with hardware...i.e. resistors and stuff, they are different from regular software programmers.

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docbungle

Tupperware. Hard, yet oddly flexible.

poof

<i>Computer</i>.

Many people tell me they bought a computer. "Great", I tell them. "What did you get?"
They don't frikkin know.

Software, hardware, poof, means nothing.

They have a computer, microwave, cellphone, etc.

Like many people have a car. They don't know what is under the hood. It just has cool "<i>stuff</i>.

It is still just a <i>computer</i> that you never really compute anything with.

charliex

its not very interesting but that word would be system

juanvaldes

but boy will they tell you how fast it is, and how big it's numbers are!

Mr Scorcex

I suggest Jello-ware. Stuck between hard and soft, as plasmas are stuck between liquid and solid.

grumpyolddude

How 'bout just a "package?"

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S**T

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macmanmike6100

luckynumber has given us "polyware" and I think that this sounds the coolest...so, polyware??

I plan on using this word in my vernacular, so I need some support here! :-)

snoop

How's "totalware" ?

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Nefir

The hard disk. At least thats what a particularly computer-illiterate individual I know tends to refer to it as.

"Can you come and help me install the internet again?"
"Why, whats wrong with what I set up for you before?"
"Oh its broken. I took the wire out of the hard disk, since it looks useless, and it stopped working."
"You did WHAT?! How did you get the case opened anyway?"
"The what? I didn't open nothing! I just disconnected that wire from the hard disk in the back, you know, with the internet inside it?"

......

So in theory, this person could suddenly exclaim "Ah hyuck! I just got me a new hard disk! And it even comes with 50000 hours free! Isn't AOL just thuper?"
Of course I would reply with a swift boot to the groin. At least in theory.

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a_divine_martyr

That's the best thing I've heard all day.

Maybe call it Haftware.

Ha from hard
Ft from soft.

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amge

I bought stuff that is already out dated by the time I walked out the store.

cliffxpro

I always visit my local computer shops to get me some geekware. However, since I don't actually *buy* software (cough, cough) I don't know if that would count, but it sounds good anyway.

nine

Guffware

trialzin

goodies

macmanmike6100

oh my god; Nefir, that's fscking hilarious!!!! thanks for all the help guys; I feel better, at least, knowing that I wasn't crazy in not being able to think of a globally-accepted word to mean hardware and software

seethreepo

gear

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Gusfraba!

yaycr

I bought addiction

yaycr

Oh by the way, it (computer shit) cost me about $650 recently, i'll think ill switch over to heroin..

Sion

the british have a term they use, "kit", which generally refers to any hardware and the associated software needed to use it.

as in: "What have you got there luv?" "Oh just some kit for the home network."


if we are insisting on going with a ___ware theme, how about:

underware?

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manamana....why? who knows.

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t3m3st

well, when I buy a game, and someone asks "Hey, what you got there", I'll be like "I got game"

and Nefir, I feel your pain... I'm computer guy, so I hafta take care of al my friends tech support needs. What kind of computer do you have," 'IBM, it's the best right? We didn't want to get a clone'

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aarchaon

I thought firmware was drivers and stuff like that. Correct me if I'm wrong.

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losthellhound

My vote is for Polyware.. just sounds cool

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VF19

I call it machinery
like:

dude check out this new machinery I got

bltzkriegmcanon

rig or box

As in, check out my rig.

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soopafreek

"new-fangledware"

the uther day i went out and got sum "new-fangledware".... sheeoooot!

/laugh.

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Polyware....
then in true rhyming slang it'll go to dolly ware, dolly parton, parton ware...actually, it makes sense...soft, and big....

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