feature shock n.
[from Alvin Toffler's book title
"Future Shock"] A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when
confronted with a package that has too many features and poor
introductory material.
[from Alvin Toffler's book title
"Future Shock"] A user's (or programmer's!) confusion when
confronted with a package that has too many features and poor
introductory material.
Related:
- feature shock n.
[from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"]... - Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity
is overwhelmed,
the capacity is in future shock. -- Alvin... - ALVIN TOFFLER will do it in the
future... - Unemployment has gone from quantitative to qualitative.
Alvin... - Warning: Shock hazard.
No user-serviceable components inside... - critical mass n.
In physics, the minimum amount of
fissionable material required to sustain a chain reaction.
Of a software product, describes a condition of... - critical mass: n. In physics, the minimum amount of fissionable
material required to sustain a chain reaction.
Of a software product, describes a condition of... - crock: [from the American scatologism `crock of shit'] n.
1. An awkward feature or programming technique that... - crock n.
[from the American scatologism `crock of
shit'] 1.
An awkward feature or programming technique that ought...
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- guru meditation n.
Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix
(sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event').
When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the... - earthquake n.
[IBM] The ultimate real-world shock test for
computer hardware.
Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay... - boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n.
Syn. ASCII art. This
term implies a more restricted domain,
that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has... - fall over vi.
[IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or
lose.
`Fall over hard' equates to crash and burn... - control-Q vi.
"Resume." From the ASCII DC1 or XON
character (the pronunciation /X-on/ is therefore also used),
used to undo a previous control-S...
