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Try Acronym Finder or the Internet Acronyms Dictionary.

Where is your point? T1 looks pretty the same to me.

WCDMA - Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

according to www.acronymfinder.com and others

RFID

Acronymfinder.com is a good place to look for this kind of thing.

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  IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  Radar Absorbent Structure
  Radar Altimeter Set
  Radar Augmentation System
  Radial Arm Saw
  Rail Accessory System
  Random Access Storage
  Rates And Services (Pacific Gas & Electric Company)
  Readiness Assessment System (GCCS)
  Rear Area Security
  Rebellion Against School
  Record Association System
  Recursive Acronym Syndrome
  Reference Assembly Sequence
  Regimental Aid Station
  Regimental Aviation Squadron
  Registration Authority Support
  Registration, Admission, and Status (ITU-T Recommendation H.323)
  Reliability, Availability & Serviceability
  

"Virii", which is correct according to the rules of the english language

I'd sure love to hear what those rules are. If you're planning to cite the Latin rule of turning "us" into "i" keep in mind that (1) not all Latin words that end in "us" pluralize using this rule, and (2) you're turning "us" into "ii".

Extra credit: pluralize the following words:

plus, cus, minus, status, ROUS .

"Power Consumption is low enough for cel phone type applications"

Only with CmdrTaco :)

On the other hand, acronymfinder lists CEL as possibly being "civilian employment level." In context, this would mean that business phones (as opposed to super-duper black-ops slashdot-effect proof military phones) would get this nifty tech.

So, while the possibility of this not being a spelling mistake exists, it is just not likely. Of course, I might just be led to believe that by the super-duper black-ops people who want to keep the existence of their phones, and the correspondingly nifty tech, out of public knowledge. In fact, I myself might be paid off by the military chaps. So take this whole post with a grain of salt ;)

It doesn't? Are you sure you're talking about the right kind of PLC?

• Public Limited Corporation
• Palestinian Legislative Council
• Power Line Communication
• Polymer Liquid Crystal
• Programmable Lighting Controller
• Planar Lightwave Circuit
• Preliminary Load Cycle
• Power Line Conditioner

In 1989, a random of the journalistic persuasion asked hacker Paul Boutin "What do you think will be the biggest problem in computing in the 90s?" Paul's straight-faced response: " There are only 17,000 three-letter acronyms."

Every TLA has multiple meanings. GDP has at least 12 meanings. Adding 1 more won't make much difference.

Check the Acronym Finder, it's got huge database.PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange

Check the Acronym Finder, it's got huge database.PBX stands for Private Branch Exchange

So you'd rather have a 'grown-up' but non-OO and kinda ugly language than one with a flexible and powerful object model, RTTI, inheritable message-handling framework, copy-on-write strings, etc., etc.?

All the current hype over .NET is old hat: Delphi has had most of what .NET has to offer for years (not surprising given who wrote them both ).

Object Pascal makes me much more productive than C++ ever did, and I'm not talking about GUI gubbins here, but the 'invisible' back-end stuff.

You may want to try using this.

IIRC = If I Remember Correctly.

BTW: FFR, TT AF. GIAT.

HTH + HAND.

TTYL.

>Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.

Oh dear god!. Push the freaking button! We've got an acronym poster here! Get out the code brigade -- looks like this one's going to be a five alarmer!

They have no appreciation for the modularity of unix, and they look longingly at Windows servers.

Many admins and others also lack an appreciation for and understanding of WYSIWYG versus WYSIAYG. A GUI is often a nice place to start but, what does the GUI do and how does it work? I would rather have the option to do things the way I want or the way I understand them and not be limited by the imagination and ideas of an application developer.

They have no appreciation for the modularity of unix, and they look longingly at Windows servers.

Many admins and others also lack an appreciation for and understanding of WYSIWYG versus WYSIAYG. A GUI is often a nice place to start but, what does the GUI do and how does it work? I would rather have the option to do things the way I want or the way I understand them and not be limited by the imagination and ideas of an application developer.

Isn't it obvious? It's where you connect to your TV your Armored Trooper VOTOMS!

ATV @

Moderation Totals: Offtopic=1, Redundant=1, Funny=3, Overrated=1, Total=6.

I can cope with the overrated, but offtopic? Given the level of "reporting" from /. today, I don't think we can consider anything offtopic...

However, "redundant" has taken on a new meaning, as the first post (yes, it was, BFD) gets moderated as redundant.

Note: This is not an invitation to partake in a flame war; just my thoughts on the moderation. Ho, hum, off to post a comment to give me that extra +1 to max out at 50 again...:) Wonder if this will be it or if I'll get whacked with a -2 for troll/flamebait...;)

... the phrase TANSTAAFL. Puzzled? Try the Acronym Finder or The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Mr. Heinlein.

It wouldn't shock me if Mandrake as well as a few other distros don't make it through the current economic crunch. There are companies out there with rock-solid business plans that can't make money right now... is it any surprise that a company with limited IP can't make ends meet?

Sorry to be so anti-warm-and-fuzzy,

--Mid

Best of Show

Jason Orendorff (USA) - An Adventure-like game

Most likely to amaze

Anonymous (Great Britain) - x86/ELF dynamic binary translator

Best abuse of the rules (Most complete program)

Fabrice Bellard (France) - A C subset programming system for x86 that can compile and execute itself

Best X11 Game

John Williams (USA) - Missile Command

Best Short Program

Raymond Cheong (USA) - Arbitrary precision square root

Best position-independent code

Brian Westley (USA) - A punch card printer/sorter

Best Abuse of CPP

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A Turing machine

Best Abuse of User

Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse

Best One-Liner

Jens Schweikhardt (Germany) - A shell glob matcher

Best curses Game

Kevin Pulo (Australia) - A Pong-like game across network

Most eye-crossing

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A SIRDS-shaped SIRDS generator

Most obfuscated sound

Pierre-Philippe Coupard (USA) - A talking clock

Best primal ASCII graphics

Nicolas Ollinger (France) - Prints primes with a sieve graph

Best AI

Doug Beardsley (USA) - A suicide chess program

Worst driver

Chris King (USA) - A driver game

Best of Show

Jason Orendorff (USA) - An Adventure-like game

Most likely to amaze

Anonymous (Great Britain) - x86/ELF dynamic binary translator

Best abuse of the rules (Most complete program)

Fabrice Bellard (France) - A C subset programming system for x86 that can compile and execute itself

Best X11 Game

John Williams (USA) - Missile Command

Best Short Program

Raymond Cheong (USA) - Arbitrary precision square root

Best position-independent code

Brian Westley (USA) - A punch card printer/sorter

Best Abuse of CPP

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A Turing machine

Best Abuse of User

Edward Rosten (England) - Greasy mouse

Best One-Liner

Jens Schweikhardt (Germany) - A shell glob matcher

Best curses Game

Kevin Pulo (Australia) - A Pong-like game across network

Most eye-crossing

Immanuel Herrmann (Germany) - A SIRDS-shaped SIRDS generator

Most obfuscated sound

Pierre-Philippe Coupard (USA) - A talking clock

Best primal ASCII graphics

Nicolas Ollinger (France) - Prints primes with a sieve graph

Best AI

Doug Beardsley (USA) - A suicide chess program

Worst driver

Chris King (USA) - A driver game

From http://www.acronymfinder.com/

PCMCIA

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

If you have that much trouble with acronyms, I suggest using acronymfinder.com.

acronymfinder.com's answer to your question. Though it doesn't contain the most often said version of the acronym, I'm sure you can figure it out from the given examples. Enjoy.

From the website I found:

SOE
Safe Operating Envelope
Sales Order Entry
Schedule Of Events
Secretary of Energy (sometimes seen as 'S of E')
Sega of Europe
Sequence Of Events
Special Operations Executive (British organisation responsible for training and coordinating the operations of partisan groups in occupied countries, WWII)
Standard Operating Environment
Standard Option Equipment
Standards of Excellence
State-Owned Enterprise
Status Of Equipment
Sum Of Errors

I cant ever figure these things out either, so I use acronymfinder.com ....

and they seem to suggest it means "request for proposal" ?

this or this

SLA : Service Level Agreement

SLA : Software License Agreement

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this question, but the M in MIDI stands for "Musical". Musical Instrument Digital Interface.

I presume you're not talking about Sprint's Integrated Network System Interface Terminal Equipment, eh? I'd recommend "insight".

Alex Bischoff

Here is the list from the Acronym Finder:

AOL Instant Messenger , Abductory Inductive Mechanism , Abrams Integrated Management , Abridged Index Medicus , Accunet Information Manager (AT&T) , Accuracy In Media , Acquisition Information Management , Action Item Master , Active Inert Missile , Ada Interactive Monitor , Adaptive Internetwork Management (Ungerman Bass) , Administrators In Medicine , Advanced Idea Mechanics , Advanced Industrial Management , Advanced Informatics in Medicine , Advanced Information Management , Advanced Integrated Multiplex , Advanced Integration Module (Cisco) , Advanced Inventory Management (Telco Research) , Advanced Isolation Methods , Advanced ISR Management , "Adventures In Ministry, Inc. ", Aeronautical Information Manual , "Aether Intelligent Messaging (Aether Systems, Inc.) ", Africa Inland Mission , African Index Medicus , AFSATCOM IEMATS Microprocessor , Aid to Injured Motorcyclists (legal organization) , Air Inflation Module , Air Intercept Missile , Airborne Intercept Missile , Airlift Import Manager , Airman Information Manual , Alarm Indication Message (Lucent) , Alarm Interface Module (Telabs) , Alternate Input Method (OS/2) , Alternative Investment Market , Ambulatory Information Management Association , American Indian Movement , American Institute of Management , Amplitude Inter-Modulation distortion , Analog Input Module , Antenna Interface Module , "Apple, IBM and Motorola ", Application and Interface Module (Com21 cable modem) , Application Interpreted Model , Armored-Infantry-Mechanized , Army Information Management , Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (journal) , Artificial Intelligence Markets , ASAS Interface Module , Asian Institute of Management (Manila) , Associate In Management , Associate In Ministry , Association for Information Management , Association for Integrative Medicine , Association for Interactive Media , Association française pour les applications de l'Informatique à la Médecine , ATC Initiatives & Measures , ATM Internet Mode , ATM Inverse Multiplexer (ATMF) , Auroral Ionospheric Mapper , Australian Institute of Management , Authoring Instructional Material , Authorizing Instructional Media , Automated Information Management , Automated In-line Mailer , Automated Inserting Machine , Automatic Identification Manufacturers , Automatic Insert Machine , and Automatic Interrupting Motor-operated

(Best guess, having just looked it up on the Acronym Finder.)

All acronyms are taken ;) MAC has 73 meanings according to acronymfinder.com.

All acronyms are taken ;) MAC has 73 meanings according to acronymfinder.com.

Short answer: yes, if you can live with (or sneak around) the restrictions.

Long answer: I use Comcast@Home, and in general I'm satisfied. It downloads faster than my office network, tech support is reasonably intelligent, willing to admit when fuckups are their fault, and telephone hold times are short. Setup was easy.

Now the down sides: upload is only a little faster than POTS. Service goes down about once a month for several hours. The included web space is dog slow. They want to charge extra if you have multiple computers -- using a router with NAT is grounds for cutoff. You aren't allowed to run a server of any kind or access VPNs -- you're supposed to buy the identical but higher priced Comcast@Work for that.

This is perhaps one of the most useful sites in today's world of technobabble: www.acronymfinder.com. It lists 19 different meanings for "SMT", none of which are Simultaneous MultiThreading! :-)

Try AcronymFinder:IP.
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Perhaps a link to the Acronym Finder will prove useful to someone...
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Check this out... Compression/decompression may be the primary definition but Coder-Decoder is also valid.

Develop away... won't do you any good. with MS's entry into the console market, esentialy a PROGRAMABLE console, they can offer firmware and software upgrades to enable just about any function on these things.

Blah blah blah. You Microdroid. The X-Box isn't going to be any more upgradable (in terms of hard disk) as any of the other solutions, like TiVo or ReplayTV. Sure, you can do it, but it's a big pain in the backside. It also doesn't have an MPEG-2 encoder, so that's not going to go very far. Perhaps more importantly, however, is the fact that the X-Box does not have a genlock function.

Now, what is a genlock? That link says what it is, but not what it does. What it DOES is that it lets you overlay one video source over another. So when you have a CallerID string (which you can get from a dedicated callerid device, or a modem with CallerID, which would be my first choice) then you can slap it up on the screen without blanking the video signal. Generally you use a shadowed type so that it will show up on top of any video source.

You can use a single modem to handle CallerID, Voice recording, and Fax. You need a MPEG-2 solution which does both encoding and decoding; Anything that does encoding should decode as well. I'd like to see something use the DivX codec (or some other MPEG-4 high speed implementation) even more, but hardware for that of course does not yet exist. Perhaps one day it will. X10 is handled by the simple addition of a serial port transmitted; Occasionally you can get the transmitter, transceiver, and a dimmer unit for six bucks, when X10.com feels like it needs to rope in some more suckers.

DVD, well, that's obvious, though difficult to do under linux today. Not, however, impossible. CD audio is even more trivial. mp3, likewise. The TiVo-like functions would be somewhat annoying to develop (a big part of the difficulty would be building your IR database so you could control all the cable boxen and whatnot, but if you did a learning remote function, you could learn the buttons you needed) but also not impossible. Perhaps you could make a deal with TVguide.com (formerly the prevue channel, but TV guide bought them) to get listings information.

Actually, I have considerably more to say on the listings information front: You could always have listings for some things be free, and they should be available in some standard format off the web someplace. It should of course be handled in ASCII, and can be a flat file or a CGI, or SHTML or similar (ASP, PHP, ColdFuction, whatever.) So if there's a show with a large geek fanbase, one or more fans can handle providing the listings to other fans in their area, or who get the same networks.

X-Box is not the answer. This could be done in an open-source fashion. I am the walrus. Koo koo ka choo.

Er, sorry, my chai just hit me.

According to AcronymFinder, MoJo is short for a mag called Mother Jones.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

ugh. or are you just being sarcastic?

ELEED Elastic Low-Energy Electron Diffraction

From dictionary.com and acronym finder.

(I REALLY should get back to work.)

Rami James
Guy with too much work
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You won't find "YHBT HAND", but look up "YHBT" and all will be revealed...

did you notice on the techweb article, they had links to the definitions of MIPS and TB? what's their deal? i mean, if they're a technical web site, they need not explain such novice terms, do they? if you are an IT professional and don't know your basic acronyms, i suggest you spend a day with the Acronym Finder. Sorry to bring this up, it just irked me. i could see them putting this on like yahoo news or something, but techweb?

Acronym Finder suggests the following:
BOF Back Order File BOF Basic Oxygen Furnace
BOF Beginning Of File
BOF Billing and Ordering Forum (ATIS)
BOF Birds Of a Feather
BOF Board Of Fisheries
BOF Bottom Of Form
BOF British Orienteering Federation
BOF Business Object Framework

So what's the *real* answer? Egh, search me. I kind of like "Board of Fisheries", though.

In My Humble Opinion. Find that and other wierd acronym's at the AcronymFinder. Very handy.

Yea, the GBC. And off topic, what's IFRC? The Acronym Finder didn't have it.