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New computer Term : didiotic
Posted by Russ Lyttle on February 18th, 2004


PJ over on Groklaw <http://www.groklaw.net> has coined a new term :
"didiotic". Lets make some formal definitions. For example :

didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes self
serving prognostications.
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Russ Lyttle
lyttlec(@)earthlink.net

Posted by Gregory Toomey on February 18th, 2004


Russ Lyttle wrote:

didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes
self serving prognostications, viz. Darl McBride


SCO is nothing more than a pump'n'dump scam. Hopefully the IBM countersuit
will finish them off, if they haven't run out of cash.

gtoomey


Posted by Billy O'Connor on February 18th, 2004


Russ Lyttle <lyttlec@earthlink.net> writes:

Apparently a synonym for:

bullschildt: /bul'shilt/, n.

[comp.lang.c on USENET] A confident, but incorrect, statement
about a programming language. This immortalizes a very bad book
about C, Herbert Schildt's C - The Complete Reference. One
reviewer commented "The naive errors in this book would be
embarrassing even in a programming assignment turned in by a
computer science college sophomore."



Posted by Linønut on February 18th, 2004


Fearing a spontaneous XP reboot, Russ Lyttle mumbled this incantation:

darling : vt. to loudly make a false claim over and over, as in "He's darling
that his prices are lower than anyone elses."

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No, I won't fix your Windows computer!

Posted by Russ Lyttle on February 18th, 2004


Linønut wrote:

mcbride"
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Russ Lyttle
lyttlec(@)earthlink.net


Posted by Albert van der Horst on February 26th, 2004


In article <873c992m9f.fsf@dps11.gnuyork.org>,
Billy O'Connor <billyoc@gnuyork.org> wrote:
Another one is the Annotated c-reference. This contains the
complete ANSI c-standard, plus annotation from Herbert.
It is much cheaper that an official c-standard document
"reflecting the negative value of Herberts annotation's".
Of has been argued that it should have been delivered with
a felt pen, to black out the annotations.
Still a good value though.


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Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS
One man-hour to invent,
One man-week to implement,
One lawyer-year to patent.


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