brain-dead adj.
[common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction
or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send
a break -- how brain-dead!"
[common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction
or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send
a break -- how brain-dead!"
Related:
- brain-dead: adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply
terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple
stupidity.
"This comm program doesn't know how to send a break... - brain-damaged adj.
1. [common; generalization of
`Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD),
a theoretical disease invented to explain certain... - evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system,
program, person, or institution is sufficiently... - brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage'
(HBD),
a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter... - IBM: Idle
Brain... - demented adj.
Yet another term of disgust used to
describe a malfunctioning program.
The connotation in this case is that the program... - The only brain-dead 286 chips are made by
Intel..... - Sent off of a Brain Damaged
Computer... - Computer Malfunction:
Nut Loose In Operator's Brain...
From the same category:
- GOSMACS /goz'maks/ n.
[contraction of `Gosling
EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation,
predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS. ... - vaxocentrism /vak`soh-sen'trizm/ n.
[analogy with `ethnocentrism'] A notional disease... - minifloppies n.,obs.
5.25-inch vanilla floppy
disks,
as opposed to 3.5-inch or microfloppies and the ... - micro- pref.
1. Very small; this is the root of its use as
a quantifier prefix.
2. A quantifier prefix, calling for multiplication... - golden adj.
[prob. from folklore's `golden egg'] When
used to describe a magnetic medium (e.g.
`golden disk', `golden tape'), describes one containing...
