: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."
Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the
material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a
problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't
contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't
produce the expected or desired output.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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."
Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the
material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a
problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't
contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't
produce the expected or desired output.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- 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.... - content-free: [by analogy with techspeak `context-free'] adj.
Used of a message that adds nothing to the recipient's knowledge.... - 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.... - ainbow series: n. Any of several series of technical manuals
distinguished by cover color.
The original rainbow series was the NCSC security manuals (see {Orange Book}, {crayola books})... - bit, n:
A unit of measure applied to color. Twenty-four-bit color
refers to expensive $
3 color as opposed to the cheaper 25 cent, or two-bit, color that use to be available a few years ago.... - dumpster diving: /dump'-ster di:'-ving/ n. 1. The practice of
sifting refuse from an office or technical installation to extract
confidential data
especially security-compromising information (`dumpster' is an Americanism for what is elsewhere called a `skip').... - He's a trash-culture king on a four-color throne
- Red Book n.
1. Informal name for one of the four
standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language
Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)... - moke test: n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to
electronic equipment following repair or reconfiguratio
in which power is applied and the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or other dramatic signs of fundamental failure....
