:Macintrash: /mak'in-trash`/ n. The Apple Macintosh, as described
by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the
*real computer* by the interface. The term {maggotbox} has
been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North
Carolina. Compare {Macintoy}. See also {beige toaster},
{WIMP environment}, {point-and-drool interface},
{drool-proof paper}, {user-friendly}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
by a hacker who doesn't appreciate being kept away from the
*real computer* by the interface. The term {maggotbox} has
been reported in regular use in the Research Triangle area of North
Carolina. Compare {Macintoy}. See also {beige toaster},
{WIMP environment}, {point-and-drool interface},
{drool-proof paper}, {user-friendly}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- Macintrash /mak'in-trash`/ n.
The Apple Macintosh,
as described by a hacker who doesn't appreciate... - point-and-drool interface: n. Parody of the techspeak term
`point-and-shoot interface',
describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface... - point-and-drool interface n.
Parody of the techspeak term
`point-and-shoot interface',
describing a windows, icons, and mouse-based interface... - beige toaster: n. A Macintosh. See {toaster}; compare
{Macintrash},
{maggotbox}. -- The AI Hackers... - for the rest of us: [from the Mac slogan "The computer for the
rest of us"] adj.
1. Used to describe a {spiffy} product whose affordability... - beige toaster n.
A Macintosh. See toaster; compare
Macintrash,
maggotbox... - WIMP environment: n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu,
Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical... - menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software
with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer... - drool-proof paper: n. Documentation that has been obsessively {dumbed
down},
to the point where only a {cretin} could bear to read...
From the same category:
- A crusader's wife slipped from the garrison
And had an affair with a Saracen.
She was not oversexed, Or jealous or vexed... - Will you come quietly,
or shall I use ear plugs... - Never shake hands with the operator of a chain saw
when he is working... - Go for it!
If it breaks it was worthless and would've broken anyway... - Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800)
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Table Talk, Line...
