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What the fuck does OTT stand for?
Over The Top?
Object Type Translator?
Off the Truck?

Serously, what the fuck? https://www.acronymfinder.com/...

In short, TFA kinda started to turn them off to the new Star Wars.

We never read those, so how could that have any impact?

Also PEA (Please Explain Abreviations)
HTH, HAND.

In short, TFA kinda started to turn them off to the new Star Wars.

We never read those, so how could that have any impact?

Also PEA (Please Explain Abreviations)
HTH, HAND.

The USA already enforces its laws on the RoW,

http://www.acronymfinder.com/R...

Thank you for correcting the record.

You're welcome.

Did you read the leaks where the rest of the Clinton staff scorns CTR?

I don't particularly care about the campaign's click-through rate (CTR).

http://www.acronymfinder.com/C...

Not sure what you mean by CAR, but I would download a Car in a heartbeat if the technology was there to print it.

Almost all the three letter acronyms, except the ones using very unusual combinations, have been taken. Multiple times.

A relevant example

MOOC is not a commonly used term. The ones you mentioned are. Do you understand the difference?

Do you understand the difference between publishing a summary on CNN and publishing on a site where MOOC should be as commonly known as a term like SSD? If you are even remotely part of the IT industry, it is very unlikely that MOOC is a term you are unfamiliar with.

In terms of common usage, I would put MOOC in the same category as a term like UAT. Unfortunately google disagrees with me, since it appears MOOC is twice as commonly used as UAT (another term no one here should be hearing for the first time).

http://www.acronymfinder.com/M...
http://www.acronymfinder.com/U...

Fuck off with your prescriptions as to what acronyms every person "even remotely part of the IT industry" should know.
I only know MOOC because it's a shitty buzzword. I didn't know what UAT was because there are dozens of possible meanings, and the likely meaning you're referring to is related to "UX" bullshit where you talk about the user's feelings as they use a program blind.

MOOC is not a commonly used term. The ones you mentioned are. Do you understand the difference?

Do you understand the difference between publishing a summary on CNN and publishing on a site where MOOC should be as commonly known as a term like SSD? If you are even remotely part of the IT industry, it is very unlikely that MOOC is a term you are unfamiliar with.

In terms of common usage, I would put MOOC in the same category as a term like UAT. Unfortunately google disagrees with me, since it appears MOOC is twice as commonly used as UAT (another term no one here should be hearing for the first time).

http://www.acronymfinder.com/M...
http://www.acronymfinder.com/U...

Fuck off with your prescriptions as to what acronyms every person "even remotely part of the IT industry" should know.
I only know MOOC because it's a shitty buzzword. I didn't know what UAT was because there are dozens of possible meanings, and the likely meaning you're referring to is related to "UX" bullshit where you talk about the user's feelings as they use a program blind.

WTF is SWJ?

I use LOL as a nickname (shortcut) in Opera for http://www.acronymfinder.com/ had to use it this time myself.

Who was the sad f*ck who decided to make up a confusing three letter acronym for Ebola?

I suppose but none of the ept content appeals to me

http://www.acronymfinder.com/E...

http://www.acronymfinder.com/S...

Couldn't they mention what they are talking about in the first sentence or two of the summary?

Like Federal Communications Commission is the only existing one. What deal does it make if another is added?

http://www.acronymfinder.com/FCC.html

The issue isn't that it's an unfamiliar abbreviation, the issue is that the TLA namespace is so horribly cluttered now that CLA could mean any one of between 74 and 85 different things.

More like ESN.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/DPC.html

That doesn't exactly invalidate my point. Here's the citation for my acronym expansion, but yes, upon a second search I am seeing Small Office / Home Office more commonly.

Oh, I thought we were talking about Original Licensed Thermal Power.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/Original-Licensed-Thermal-Power-(nuclear)-(OLTP).html

Google lies!

BANYAN??? Isn't that the almost extinct government and defence email system, Banyan Vines??

I suspect that's exactly what it is referring to. I noticed at least one other word in that list, (NAVINT), that isn't really a program. NAVINT is just a nice short acronym for Naval Intelligence. It kind of makes me wonder if there isn't some other stuff in there that has nothing to do with classified programs.

Whoever got hold of this communication clearly wasn't really well-versed enough in that kind of work to tell what exactly is a technical term and what is is an actual NSA program.

We should be grateful to the PS4 for finally breaking the cycle of games being the same old engine, just with higher rez textures, higher rez output, and more frame rates. The PS4 will enable open world games that are vastly more realistic and pleasing, and one day not too far away the PC will start to catch up.

They broke the cycle with the PS3 and the Cell architecture. The PS4 is going backwards "the PlayStation 4 will feature an AMD processor based
around the x86-64 instruction set"

"Other notable hardware features ... dedicated custom chips for processing audio, video and background tasks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4

Sound familiar? It's what the Amiga did, even had names for the chips
Denise (video) Paula (audio) Copper and Agnus ran the show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_custom_chips

I'd buy a PS4 before an XBone, but all I use my PS3 for is Netflix.

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I LOL http://www.acronymfinder.com/HUMA.html

Seriously, nobody can know all the acronyms from every field.

I've found http://www.acronymfinder.com/ to be helpful. Results are are categorized by field.

Acronym finder provides many possible meanings for DIP, I particularly like "Die In Place" for this context though.

I guess he meant "Diplomatic Immunity Protection", but that's not so funny.

What's a CD?

There are a few different meanings.

Since we're stupid, maybe spell out the acronym? Since Macintosh users are stupid and all.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/MAC.html

The problem with our current campaign funding is not where the money comes from but rather the lack of ethics of the people receiving it.

But how are those separate issues? The same corrupt FIRE companies that own the Republicans have also bought off the Democrats - as evidence when Wall Street gave more money to Obama than the entire GOP primary field combined.

Sure looks like the source of the money has something to do with the problem...

and yet acronymfinder still finds them...

I'm pretty sure there have always been duplicate acronyms.
This is just another. It still stand for "Real Time Clock", also these:
http://www.acronymfinder.com/RTC.html

If I say CSS, those who work in video and broadcasting will think Content Scramble System, those who work with websites will think Cascading Style Sheets, others will probably have yet another meaning for it.

You mean like Cross Site Scripting or, um...Corn Syrup Solids? YMMV :P

Which one of the five words represented by that acronym are you referring to?

Troll?? With LUL? Some moderators need to learn this new "internets speak" or find a link to acronymfinder.com.

People call it an ECU because PCM is taken. Can you cite a reliable source that OBD-II mandates "PCM"?

The spec costs money, but you're welcome to go buy it. I might be able to find you a copy of my transcript though, demonstrating that I received an "A" in automotive electronics at Yuba College, a six-unit course that prepares the student for ASE examination. I didn't get the cert though, because at the time I couldn't afford to take the exam. And in any case, I don't really want to do that stuff for a living, I was there for personal enrichment.

Which is exactly how the video game publishers like it because DLC is taken too.

Acronym overloading is, unfortunately, a fact of life. Now pass me that stack of European currency units.

[Democrats and Republicans] support large government at the expense of your rights.

As far as Republicans go, this only applies to RINOs

Too bad it blows.

However, if you have ever worked for a huge company like Intel, you are swimming in a veritable alphabet soup of unrecognizable acronyms every day. They make an acronym for everything over there. So something like this database would be a godsend in an environment like that.

It's called acronymfinder.com, and it's been there for a long time.

However, if you have ever worked for a huge company like Intel, you are swimming in a veritable alphabet soup of unrecognizable acronyms every day. They make an acronym for everything over there. So something like this database would be a godsend in an environment like that.

It's called acronymfinder.com, and it's been there for a long time.

Unlike parent I am not being funny but I thought NLP was "Neuro-Linguistic Programming" not Natural Language Processing. This link gives a bunch of other options. Would studying a trip to some place in South Africa help? I doubt it.

Having been married for 21.5 years, but not to a geek, my #1 recommendation is to follow the "Platinum Rule":
        "Do unto [your spouse] as you would have them do to you -- if you were them."

Without adding that last clause, the Golden Rule can become a little thin. It's arguable that the extra clause is implied in the rest of the Golden Rule but it's better to put it bluntly, out there. If you don't realize that your spouse does not have exactly the same set of thoughts, dreams, desires, wishes etc., your attempts to apply the Golden Rule will be clumsy and probably do more harm than good.

All the best to you! This is the second toughest job you'll ever love (parenting is the toughest one -- sorry military; your job is tough, too, but your deployment comes to an end, parenting doesn't).

cheers...ank

They also don't seem to define what SAP stands for on their own site, so why should slashdot?

Acronym Finder has 7 pages of results for SAP.

I tagged this story !secondaudioprogram.

(Wikipedia says it stands for Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung ("Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing").)

While your freight numbers may be correct, the study referenced referred to passenger movement, not freight.

Passengers are freight..

As someone who flys a lot I agree in sentiment; but this study focuses on passenger rail, not freight as normally defined.

While your freight numbers may be correct, the study referenced referred to passenger movement, not freight.

Passengers are freight..

Please do, and let me know if you find any specific wavier.

Found it. A little research though, says that the plant that released it is liable irregardless of fault. Ah well, shouldn't be that much worse than trying to get compensation from somebody else's insurance company after they hit you.

I don't think it's a fair comparison because Nuclear plant never had a 'production' model in America. They are generally individually designed so design improvements cannot be applied to subsequent Nuclear installations like a production line.

Very good point. Looking at the 24 proposed new construction, 7 plants are looking to install the AP 1000, 14 reactors total(2 per site), 5 EPR, 5(6) ESBWR, 1(2) US-APWR, 1(2) ABWR, 1 PWR.

Combined with the fact that China and other nations are looking to build a bunch, the AP 1000 will be considered 'production', and be able to enjoy the subsequent engineering cost savings.

so comparing a Nuclear plant to another Nuclear plant is the only valid comparison that can be made.

True, we can make comparisons, I'm simply saying that calling increasing numbers of incidents at OLD plants a problem is unfair to NEW plants.

Whilst the AP-1000 does go some way to reducing the complexity of the reactor it does introduce new base design issues. If new failure mode modelling is to be of any use for Nuclear plant then we should have seen the identification of new ASP's in existing reactors.

ASP? I'm unfamiliar with this abbreviation other than for active server pages...

For the simulations I'm thinking of, it's like for new airplanes - it works better when you're designing a NEW system, it helps you simplify systems and identify potential trouble spots to redesign from the get go.

As a result, one of the advertisements for the AP1000 is 50% fewer valves - a valve that doesn't exist can't malfunction, for example.

What we see instead is evidenced by the Davis-Besse Plant, that identification of failure-mode's can only be of any use if management is prepared to take a step back and act on the potential for failure. Clearly, maintaining the plant's income stream trumps safety and failure mode analysis is ignored if it means downtime for the plant.

Just read up on it. Yeah, there were some problems. Still, those problems were mostly 'what ifs', and 'could have beens'. The people involved were stupid though - it would have been shut down less if they'd done stuff like they were supposed to, before extensive damage was done, and they'd have likely been shut down permanently(IE making no money), if they'd waited much longer. They were also criminal - 3 people are up on felony criminal charges if the wiki is right.

If design improvements were implemented I might agree that it is necessary however (as mentioned in another thread), to save money on construction costs the AP-1000 cuts (waaay) back on concrete and steel. The result is a ratio of containment volume to thermal power below that of today's PWRs, thereby increasing the risk of containment over-pressurization and failure in event of a severe accident.

On the other hand, the reactor is also designed with passive safety and cooling systems that should reduce/eliminate the need for the higher stress structures.

I wouldn't underestimate the savings of proper design, after all, concrete and steel in the wrong spot don't increase safety.

The AP-1000 incorporates none of the design changes, that would make nuclear power reactors less vulnerable to sabotage, recommended 25 years ago by an NRC chartered an industry panel. The AP-1000 incorporates none of the EPR design enhancements which appears to be the safest and most secure design among new reactor designs for PWR.

Do you have sources on this? doe.gov list

You do realize that acronyms usually have 20 different meanings. In IT you would think it means Data Link Control if you are a technician. As a gamer, DLC means something entirely different. Different field, different name. The acronym was created for the gamer market segment, not IT professionals. The shear majority of gamers will not be confused with the meaning of DLC since very few of them have any idea what the Data Link Control service is. If you look here http://www.acronymfinder.com/Information-Technology/DLC.html you will see there are at least 15 different meanings for the acronym in the IT field alone.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

TANSTAAFL vs TANSTASFL - and for good measure TANSTAFL.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

TANSTAAFL vs TANSTASFL - and for good measure TANSTAFL.

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

TANSTAAFL vs TANSTASFL - and for good measure TANSTAFL.

... this. At least that's how I've been interpreting it for years.

The TLA and ETLA are proud American traditions. There isn't an American field of study that isn't chock-a-block with them today. Not to mention that every US company tends to invent their own...

TLA: Three Letter Acronym
ETLA: Extended TLA

And just so you don't think I'm making this tidbit of American culture up: TLA origin ... personally I hate TLA but it's a solid American meme now. Many engineering and marketing types work in TLA without ever realizing it. It's practically instinctive.

Early on I had to make use of resources like http://www.acronymfinder.com/ to make sense of virtually any engineering conversation.

I thought it was "Be Back Quick".

More people need to know about acronym finder. Especially the people coining new acronyms.

Could they not have picked a better acronym?

Tell me about it.

Hi. I'm also mister pedantic.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleaved .