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• erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• aster burn: n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See {terminal illness}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• aster burn n. Eyestrain brought on by too many hours of looking at low-res, poorly tuned, or glare-ridden monitors, esp.
  graphics monitors. See terminal illness....
• demo mode n. 1. [Sun] The state of being heads down in order to finish code in time for a demo, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• demo mode: [Sun] n. 1. The state of being {heads down} in order to finish code in time for a {demo}, usually due yesterday.
  2. A mode in which video games sit by themselves running through a portion of the game, also known as `attract mode'....
• Life is a terminal illness. -- Don Wallace
• burn-in period: n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with {marginal} components before they get out the doo
  he theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the {bathtub curve} (see {infant mortality})....
• oglodyte mode n. [Rice University] Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see raster burn)....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....