Evil Empire n.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous
characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM,
now Microsoft. Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate
at any given time. Hackers like to see themselves as romantic
rebels against the Evil Empire, and frequently adopt this role
to the point of ascribing rather more power and malice to the
Empire than it actually has. See also Borg and search for
Evil Empire
pages on the Web.
[from Ronald Reagan's famous
characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM,
now Microsoft. Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate
at any given time. Hackers like to see themselves as romantic
rebels against the Evil Empire, and frequently adopt this role
to the point of ascribing rather more power and malice to the
Empire than it actually has. See also Borg and search for
Evil Empire
pages on the Web.
Related:
- Microsoft
The new Evil Empire (the old one was
IBM).
The basic complaints are, as formerly with IBM, that... - One evil empire down-
one to go... - MCI playing dirtier than the evil empire cause
they're... - Borg n.
In "Star Trek: The Next Generation" the
Borg is a species of cyborg that ruthlessly seeks to incorporate
all sentient life into itself;
their slogan is "Resistence is futile. You will... - TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n.
1. [Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that
makes the Internet work,
and the only one most hackers can speak the name... - It is a period of system war. User programs, striking from a hidden
directory,
have won their first victory against the evil Administrative... - Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times,
and which have much veneration but no rest. -- Francis... - Anonymous Noncoward writes, "For my Economics 101 class,
I have to pretend to be Bill Gates and write an editorial... - Borg Empire:
Equal opportunity Assimilator...
From the same category:
- kluge /klooj/
[from the German `klug', clever; poss.
related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)]... - buried treasure n.
A surprising piece of code found in some
program.
While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty... - core cancer n.
[rare] A process that exhibits a slow
but inexorable resource leak -
like a cancer, it kills by crowding out productive... - crapplet n.
[portmanteau, crap + applet] A worthless
applet,
esp. a Java widget attached to a web page that doesn't... - brittle adj.
Said of software that is functional but
easily broken by changes in operating environment or configuration,
or by any minor tweak to the software itself. Also...
