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I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but what is FOSS? I looked it up in the acronym finder. Is it "free and open-source software" perhaps? Lemme make sure my 'Post Anonymously" box is checked before I post this so you won't know who's the idiot.

what the heck does either stand for?

FTA
FTFA

what the heck does either stand for?

FTA
FTFA

HawkingOS?

Hawking: To peddle goods aggressively, especially by calling out.

HawkinSOS?

SOS: a distress call

SOS: Sack Of Stuff (polite form)

SOS: Same Old Story

SOS: Same Old Stuff (polite form)

Take your pick...

Well, yes, but I think the more common acronym would be the Media Access Control on NIC cards. Or some of these

http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&S tring=exact&Acronym=FFW
Yeah, spending that much money on an iPod clone only to find it made my fully-figured woman slower would be a pain in the butt... I paid good money for that doll, too.

What's a FFW ?

And have these 6 minutes something to do with the 17-minute file copying troll ?

acronym finder:
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Predesignated Interexchange Carrier (telephony)
Primary Interexchange Carrier (telephone long distance carrier)
Pacific Islanders in Communications
Pacific Islands Church (New Zealand)
Pacific Islands Club
Pakistan Insurance Corporation
Palminfocenter (website)
Pangarungan Islam College
Parallel Interference Cancellation
Parent Indicator Code
Particle-In-Cell (micropulsion systems on-a-chip)
Particulate Inorganic Carbon
Partners in Crime
Patient Identification Code
Patrol In Council (Scouts Canada)
Peripheral Interface Controller
Peripheral Intravenous Catheter (medical)
Person In ChargePIC
Personal Identification Code
Personal Information Carrier
Personal Information Communicator
Personal Injury Coverage (insurance)
Personal Interactive Communicator (Motorola)
Personnel Investigations Center
Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention
Photo Imaging Council (UK)
Photographic Interpretation Center
Photonic Integrated Circuit
Physical Interface Card (Juniper Networks, Inc.)
Picatinny Innovation Center
Piccolo
Pilot In Command (aviation)
Pitch-In Canada (anti-litter group)
Plastic Ignitor Cord
Plastic Insulated Cable
Plume Impingement Contamination
Pocket Ion Chamber (device that measures radiation dose accumulated at a nuclear power plant)
Point(s) in CallsPIC
Poison Information Centre
Polyethylene Insulated Cable
Polyisocyanurate (rigid foam contruction material)
Polymer-Impregnated Concrete
Port Interface Card
Portable Intensive Care (system; medical equipment)
Position Independent Code
Post-beamformer Interference Canceller
Potential Impact Circle (natural gas pipeline)
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Powdered Iron Core (inductor; electronics)
Preliminary Interface Certification
Presidential Inaugural Committee
Pressure Indicator Controller
Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier
Primary Interchange Carrier
Primary Interlata Carrier
Prior Informed Consent
Prior Informed Consent (Rotterdam Convention on Trade in Hazardous Chemicals)
Priority Interrupt ControllerPIC
Private in Charge
Private Industry Council
Processor Input Channel
Processor Interface Control
Product Identification Code
Product Integrity Center (Cutler-Hammer, Inc.)
Product Introduction Center
Production & Inventory Control
Products of Incomplete Combustion
Program Information Center (Navy)
Program Integration Challenge
Programmable Integrated Circuit
Programmable Interrupt Controller
Programmers Investment Corporation
Progressive Image Coding
Progressive Insurance Company
Prolonged Illness Condition (health care)
Public Interest Center
Purpose Identification Code

Excelent, now could you please translate all those acronyms into more plain English just so electronics illiterates such as me could actually read your comment?

From AcronymFinder:
IC = Integrated Circuit
CMOS = Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
PMOS = Positive-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
NMOS = Negative-Channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET= Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor

Am I getting it all right?
Thanks in advance!

Sorry to burst your bubble, but acronyms can have more than one meaning, and CGI means a couple of other things, too.

steve

According to acronymfinder.com, TPS has numerous expansions. The most likely candidates are "Task Preparation Sheet", and "Technical Performance Specification". The first one sounds sufficiently buzzwordish and as for the second, well, the character in question is a Programmer. I'm betting on the first one though.

I see they registered lp.org, but that doesn't make it commonly used. Funny no one feels the need to say RP or DP.

Off-topic, I know, but this can be such a handy tool at times ...

One word, NSAP.

Navy Science Assistance Program?

It means Organic Electroluminescent apparently. News to me, too.

Holy crap, HIBT?

Okay... HIBT... According to http://www.acronymfinder.com/, that's either "Have I Been Trolled" or "Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament". Little help?

...then the one true acronym would be apropros again, with swap-over-USB.

Would your Bord have a BORD?

You are confusing ACC and Fairplay.

And you're confusing Advanced Audio Codec and ACC. ;-)

Anyone can put make an ACC file and have it play on the iPod. What anyone cannot do is develop or sell a DRM format other than Fairplay and have the iPod understand and play it.

Although beyond spelling your information is very insightful for all those "never-checked-any-facts" zealots on /.. Someone mod the parent up, please.

The real reason Real had to hack Fairplay instead of going with plain AAC is thus actually pretty ironic: The labels would never let them put the music to any portable players without any DRM, so Real was forced to hack Apple's DRM to be able to keep their own music files DRMed... (On iPods, that is.)

A lady answered in an accent which I guess was Malaysian, but would only admit to being "somewhere in Asia". This is calling an allegedly Australian company (QANGO, really) from Australia.

Use acronymfinder.

Well that explains a lot. I had always been using the second definition. But now it makes a lot more sense.

FTFA?

Care to expand that acronym, please?

A Firefox Dictionary Search found some interesting and appropriate definitions of SCAMP:

• \Scamp\ (sk[a^]mp), n. [OF. escamper to run away, to make one's escape. Originally, one who runs away, a fugitive, a vagabond. See Scamper.] A rascal; a swindler; a rogue. --De Quincey.
  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, (c) 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
• \Scamp\, v. t. [Cf. Scamp,n., or Scant, a., and Skimp.] To perform in a hasty, neglectful, or imperfect manner; to do superficially. [Colloq.]

  A workman is said to scamp his work when he does it in a superficial, dishonest manner. --Wedgwood.

  Much of the scamping and dawdling complained of is that of men in establishments of good repute. --T. Hughes.

  Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
• v : perform hastily and carelessly
  Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

Well, remember those IE extenstion freewares, such as CruftyBrowser, AwanaBrowser, and MyEyee2

HAM: Handheld AMateur radio

I know of at least 43 things.

SUV hopefully means car for those who don't know/hate TLAs.

Well, I looked them up, and as far as I can find SBC is Scottish Borders Council and CWA is Canadian Welding Association. Apparently the Canadian welders are having problems crossing Scottish borders, so they're going to strike? Sounds like major technology news!
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Well, I looked them up, and as far as I can find SBC is Scottish Borders Council and CWA is Canadian Welding Association. Apparently the Canadian welders are having problems crossing Scottish borders, so they're going to strike? Sounds like major technology news!
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I didn't know what GOP was, here:

G.O.P.

ROI = return on investment

Intel used to stamp the iCOMP index on their processors so that people could compare the Intel benchmark of performance of the 80486 with the Pentium. Intel touted the slower Pentium 60 as being faster than the 80486-66 which was true. However, the stamp was nice and small - and was not a major advertising point. Intel dropped it, I believe, during the latter portion of the regular Pentium era.

AMD's rating gives me a good idea of X processor is slower than Y processor and the difference in cost is N. If the companies switch to something, hopefully they will KISS to maximize what it is intended to do - show the basic improvement of one processor over another.

Tib: Tebibit (2^40 bits)
TiB: Tebibyte (2^40 bytes)


Source: Acronym Finder

Nick.

Although there ARE other things that "AXA" stands for as seen here

MM also means "million."

Or he might have been talking about Gnu Privacy Guard (Free program similar to PGP)...

Well, maybe not! I bet he was talking about General Purpose God!

Chief Investment Officer

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Hmmm... IO, what could that acronym possibly stand for?

I think it removes any superiority-complex that windows has, resulting in the loss of any self-worth as it realises how crap it really is.

In this case, it's not Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., and it's not Sega's Super Monkey Ball either. SMB can mean either small-to-medium businesses or server message block.

Because you somehow found out a correlation with this...
And/Or maybe with this...

I guess you are one of the following:
a) non-native English speaker
b) new here
c) both

Well, I belong to category "a" myself, but as a rather regular slashdotter I've got a lesson that Acronym Finder is your friend.

No, I believe he's talking about the Ultra-light Field Howitzer. Or uh.. yeah.. probably the first one.

Well, from the Anconym finder, ANDY may stand for:

"ANDY [=] US Popular Abbreviation for Andrews AFB"

So, nothing too exciting. Feel free to read conspiracy into it though! You might consider a party who lost the bid for Andrew's new RS Information Systems? Just search Google News for Andrews Air Force Base

Nope. Sorry. You are still wrong. The plural of ascus is asci.

So why do we use the word 'ascii'? Its an acronym, dumass.

Old Age Pensioner

Dude you're a retard. You have no idea what MAC even means do you? Dumass.

IANAL = I Am Not A Lawyer
BFD = Big Fucking Deal

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