:slopsucker: /slop'suhk-r/ n. A lowest-priority task that
waits around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine
resources. Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the
task allowed to `suck up the slop'. Also called a `hungry puppy'
or `bottom feeder'. One common variety of slopsucker hunts for
large prime numbers. Compare {background}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
waits around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine
resources. Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the
task allowed to `suck up the slop'. Also called a `hungry puppy'
or `bottom feeder'. One common variety of slopsucker hunts for
large prime numbers. Compare {background}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- slopsucker /slop'suhk-r/ n.
A lowest-priority task that
waits around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine
resources.
Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the... - hungry puppy: n. Syn. {slopsucker}.
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The AI Hackers... - background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do
it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided
attention,
and `to background' something means to relegate it... - background n.,adj.,vt.
[common] To do a task `in
background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not
claiming your undivided attention,
and `to background' something means to relegate... - hungry puppy n.
Syn.
slopsucker... - bottom feeder: n. Syn. for {slopsucker}, derived from the
fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist
on the primordial ooze.
The AI Hackers... - slop: n. 1. A one-sided {fudge factor}, that is, an allowance for
error but in only one of two directions.
For example, if you need a piece of wire 10 feet... - Internet n.
The mother of all networks. First
incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET,
a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. ... - fudge factor: n. A value or parameter that is varied in an ad hoc way
to produce the desired result.
The terms `tolerance' and {slop} are also used,...
From the same category:
- You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second in
command attack while you sit and watch for weakness.
Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3141... - Q, you can't kill ME!"
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Famous Last... - MOP AND GLOW:
Floor wax used by Three Mile Island cleanup team... - Telephone books are like dictionaries -- if you know the answer
before you look it up,
you can eventually reaffirm what you thought you knew... - Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident;
the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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