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lots of MIPS but no I/O adj. Used to describe a person who is technically brilliant but can't seem to communicate with human beings effectively.
Technically it describes a machine that has ...
low-bandwidth adj. [from communication theory] Used to indicate a talk that, although not content-free, was not terribly informative.
That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expe...
LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. 1. Line printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology prov. "There is always one more bug.
Lumber Cartel n. A mythical conspiracy accused by spam-spewers of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions industry back onto paper.
Hackers, predictably...
lunatic fringe n. [IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software.
Compare heatseeker....
lurker n. One of the `silent majority' in a electronic forum
one who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's postings regularly....
luser /loo'zr/ n. [common] A user; esp. one who is also a loser.
(luser and loser ar pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT....
M pref. (on units) suff. (on numbers) [SI] See quantifiers.
M$ Common net abbreviation for Microsoft, everybody's least favorite monopoly.

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