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• My life is still in BETA test.
• beta test, v: To voluntarily entrust one's data, one's livelihood and one's sanity to hardware or software intended to destroy all three.
  In earlier days, virgins were often selected to beta test volcanos....
• beta /bay't*/, /be't*/ or (Commonwealth) /bee't*/ n.
  1. Mostly working, but still under test; usu. used with `in'...
• The human race is still in beta test...
• prototype, n. First stage in the life cycle of a computer product, followed by pre-alpha, alpha, beta, release version, corrected release version, upgrade, corrected upgrade, etc.
  Unlike its successors, the prototype is not expected to work....
• Alpha test version: too buggy to release Beta test versio
  ill too buggy to release Release 1.0: alternate pronounciation of beta test versio...
• If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.
• Beta bashing - a way of life for demented people.
• power cycle vt. (also, `cycle power' or just `cycle') To power off a machine and then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state.
  Syn. 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce (sense 4), and Some AI Koans" (in Appendix A) about Tom Knight and the novice....