:content-free: [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] adj.
Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to {flamage}, it more
usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form
over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the
subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to
speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators.
"Content-free? Uh... that's anything printed on glossy
paper." (See also {four-color glossies}.) "He gave a talk on
the implications of electronic networks for postmodernism and the
fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was content-free."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to {flamage}, it more
usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form
over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the
subject ostensibly at hand. Perhaps most used with reference to
speeches by company presidents and other professional manipulators.
"Content-free? Uh... that's anything printed on glossy
paper." (See also {four-color glossies}.) "He gave a talk on
the implications of electronic networks for postmodernism and the
fin-de-siecle aesthetic. It was content-free."
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- content-free adj.
[by analogy with techspeak
`context-free'] Used of a message that adds nothing to the
recipient's knowledge.
Though this adjective is sometimes applied to flamage, it more usually connotes derision for communication styles that exalt form over substance or are centered on concerns irrelevant to the subject ostensibly at hand.... - four-color glossies: 1. Literature created by {marketroid}s
that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as
superficial as possible without being totally {content-free}.
"Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals.... - low-bandwidth: [from communication theory] adj. Used to indicate a
talk that, although not {content-free}, was not terribly
informative.
That was a low-bandwidth talk, but what can you expect for an audience of {suit}s!... - four-color glossies n.
1. Literature created by
marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which
is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally
content-free.
Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals.... - zero-content adj. Syn. content-free.
- MFTL /M-F-T-L/
[abbreviation: `My Favorite Toy Language']
1.
adj. Describes a talk on a programming language design that is heavy on the syntax (with lots of BNF), sometimes even talks about semantics (e.... - 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 expect for an audience of suits!... - math-out: [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] n.
A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible.... - ee-killer: [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes
paper.
This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense...
