knobs pl.n.
Configurable options, even in software and
even those you can't adjust in real time. Anything you can
twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an alpha knob?"
Software may be described as having "knobs and switches" or
occasionally "knobs and lights".
Configurable options, even in software and
even those you can't adjust in real time. Anything you can
twiddle is a knob. "Has this PNG viewer got an alpha knob?"
Software may be described as having "knobs and switches" or
occasionally "knobs and lights".
Related:
- nerd knob n.
[Cisco] a command in a complex piece of
software which is more likely to be used by an extremely
experienced user to tweak a setting of one sort or another -
a setting which the average user may not even know... - Man: You each have a knob in front of you. When you like what you
see,
turn the knob to the right. When you don't like what... - The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a
metaphysical system.
If you must. -- Edward... - Homer: You better have a good reason for doing that,
boy. Jimbo: It makes me feel like a big man. Homer... - You don't want a television with knobs marked "volume" and "brightness" and
"contrast." You want a television with knobs marked "sex" and "violence" and
"political bias."
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Nicholas Negroponte, Director of MIT Media... - Real time
an attribute applied to software that's even more
expensive than can be justified by cost modelling
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Glossary of Software Engineering... - Frobnicate, v.:
To manipulate or adjust, to tweak.
Derived from FROBNITZ. Usually abbreviated... - software rot n.
Term used to describe the tendency of
software that has not been used in a while to lose;
such failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to...
From the same category:
- LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n.
1. Line
printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew... - TANSTAAFL /tan'stah-fl/
[acronym, from Robert Heinlein's
classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".] "There Ain't No
Such Thing As A Free Lunch",
often invoked when someone is balking at... - break-even point n.
In the process of implementing a new
computer language,
the point at which the language is sufficiently ... - K&R [Kernighan and Ritchie] n.
Brian Kernighan and Dennis
Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language",
esp. the classic and influential first edition (Prentice... - ISP /I-S-P/
Common abbreviation for Internet Service
Provider,
a kind of company that barely existed before 1993....
