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You dumb fuck. Arse is UK English, not everyone speaks American English.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ars e

bloody

No need to go to Google at all to see how /. articles rank.

It really *does* seem as if we're becoming more Facist every day (look it up, it's not a troll)

I did, and you're right! It fits with all three definitions!

Well it's common in some circles anyway:
See what Urban Dictionary has to say.

just wanted to make sure everyone has seen what rick santorum's lovely actions in congress have earned his last name describing: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=san torum&r=f

Santorum is "analubepoo"

1. A completely ignorant, childish person with no manners.
2. A person who feels justified in their callow behaviour.
3. A pubescent kid who thinks it's totally cool to act like a moron on the internet, only because no one can actually reach through the screen and punch their lights out.
That n00b is behaving like a bloody git. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=git &f=1

You, sir, are correct: 4:20, 420, 4/20

You, sir, are correct: 4:20, 420, 4/20

You, sir, are correct: 4:20, 420, 4/20

Spyware, N.: Spyware may be Slowing t3h yu0r PC down!!!1 Downl0ad t3h 0u|2 5py-5w33p3r t0d4Y!

damn. and I thought google was good for killing kittens..?

And do you pronounce Mandriva as "Man-drive-ah" or as "Man-dree-vah"?

If you say the first too quickly it sounds a lot like mangina

Yo man, whats on your box? Mangina?

I looked up the word 'shenanegans' but couldn't find it .. did you mean shenanigans ?

(I had never before heard the word)

Shenanigans

The name of a game played 24/7/365 by people who know of its existence. The game is played by first saying "Shenanigans", then, the person who said it is allowed to hit or otherwise hurt anyone within earshot of them at the time that they said it. The main target tends to be the groin on males and the chest on females. People who are within earshot when "Shenanigans" is said must say the word "Mulligan" as soon as they hear it to prevent being a target. If someone is hit either before or while you are saying the word "Shenanigans" or after they have said "Mulligan", you are considered to have cheated and they get a free hit on you. Note that saying "Shenanigans" lasts indefinately until each person within earshot has said "Mulligan"
Bob: "SHENANIGANS!" *smacks Tom in the groin*

or

Bob: "SHENANIGANS!"
Tom: "MULLIGAN!"
*Bob hits Tom in the groin*
Tom: oooh, that's a free hit! *smacks Bob in the groin without penalty.*

"Officer Barbrady, I call shenanigans!"

Urban Dictionary, perhaps? Or everyone's favorite, Wikipedia?

The resources are there, if only people would bother to look. Maybe if we stopped abbreviating it as "RTFM" people wouldn't get confused. ;)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hap py+slap

this is much worse. It never happend to me (I live on the continent) and I hope that it will never ever become popular here, but you can never trust those bored and ringtone-buying half-grownups.

The Chewbacca Defense

The users of the OSTG sites are 97% male. Slashdot demographics are probably very similar..

also known in entertainment circles as a "sausage party"

i thought you was joking till i read it at urbandictionary

1. gimp
(1) a derrogatory term for someone that is disabled or has a medicial problem that results in physical impairment.

(2) An insult implying that someone is incompetent, stupid, etc. Can also be used to imply that the person is uncool or can't/won't do what everyone else is doing.

(3) A sex slave or submissive, usually male, as popularlized by the movie Pulp Fiction.
Look at that gimp in the wheelchair

Dude, quit being a gimp and take a hit!

Bring out the gimp!

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Product branding never was FOSS'es strong point, you would think some nerds talk to marketing people or at least ask them for advice

Microsoft knows nothing...

The urban dictionary has this single definition for "w00t"- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00 t
1. w00t
An expression of joy and excitement.
I just got an A on my test. w00t!
Source: Metallion, Jul 20, 2002

And this alternate definition for the spelling "woot" - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo t&r=f
1. woot
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".

"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"

"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)

"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'
Source: Weatherlight, Apr 4, 2004
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I must say I like the second one better... But even with the oldest entry being from 2002; This jibes WAY more with the actual real life usage of the term. I recall using "w00t" as an expression of online gaming joy as far back as 1998.
I've NEVER heard it defined as "we own the other team". And I've been playing CounterStrike for over SIX years. Especially since the term "own" only began seeing widespread use within the last 3-ish years.
W00t has been around much longer than that.

Microsoft knows nothing...

The urban dictionary has this single definition for "w00t"- http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00 t
1. w00t
An expression of joy and excitement.
I just got an A on my test. w00t!
Source: Metallion, Jul 20, 2002

And this alternate definition for the spelling "woot" - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woo t&r=f
1. woot
Woot originated as a hacker term for root (or administrative) access to a computer. However, with the term as coincides with the gamer term, "w00t".

"w00t" was originally an trunicated expression common among players of Dungeons and Dragons tabletop role-playing game for "Wow, loot!" Thus the term passed into the net-culture where it thrived in video game communities and lost its original meaning and is used simply as a term of excitement.
"I defeated the dark sorcerer! Woot!"

"woot! i r teh flagmastar!" (Think Tribes)

"Woot, I pwnzed this dude's boxen!'
Source: Weatherlight, Apr 4, 2004
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I must say I like the second one better... But even with the oldest entry being from 2002; This jibes WAY more with the actual real life usage of the term. I recall using "w00t" as an expression of online gaming joy as far back as 1998.
I've NEVER heard it defined as "we own the other team". And I've been playing CounterStrike for over SIX years. Especially since the term "own" only began seeing widespread use within the last 3-ish years.
W00t has been around much longer than that.

In any case, it got me interested in De Bortoli Wines. So I checked out their webserver OS: Netcraft reports:

http://www.debortoli.com.au was running Apache on Linux when last queried at 22-Mar-2005 02:34:05 GMT

We're all hungry here. Who's tossing the salad?

if I'm going to need a party hat.

You must be someone who shouldn't be here at this time of a day.

totally irrelevant by supplying everything anyone needs over the web from their mega-server-farm." Just like they made news papers, magazines, cable news channels, the library, the phone book, road maps, and almsot any source of indexed data totally irrelevant to anyone with computer literacy and lots of spare time.

See "Googler" (second definition).

I'm old and all, but I'm pretty sure I remember it as

U U D D L R L R B A Start

Whoa... Turns out I was right

My video game skills did pay for something! Gimme mod points, gimme mod points, gimme mod points!

As for your definition, conventional wisdom (and Urbandictionary) says Jumping the shark is:

• when your favorite show starts to flag and go downhill, as when Fonzie jumped the shark on waterskis. We all knew that Happy Days was on its way down then. (doesn't fit, since he was unknown *until* after creating Mosaic)
• A semi-popular phrase for "selling out" or turning into shit. (he was so unknown that he literally had nothing yet to sell out in Apr '93. Even leaving for netscape wasn't that moment, since it wasn't until Netscape's success that Microsoft and the world paid attention.)
• The precise moment when you recognize that something is really over although it's momentum carries it on for a few steps. (and things really have gone on a *few* steps since then, haven't they?)

Mozilla is oedipal is *my* projection? No, Mosaic-killer is one of the two common attributions for Mozilla. I'd bet that having that ambiguity was itself a factor in the name. And that marketing wonks discarded the name in favor of Netscape because mozilla just doesn't parse well for most folks. 'Netscape' had stronger branding potential. This, incidentally, is a theme that repeats in the lagging name recognition of Mozilla vs. fledgling browser Firefox.

As for seeing it all unfold since '90, feel free to elaborate, since that predates Mosaic by a few years. At Sun? At NCSA? You brag, but you're remarkably thin on any details. Insider view? I mean, Sun had how many thousand employees in '90? And Netscape exploded at a rate of thousands per year. I am nowhere near Silicon Valley and I have a dozen friends that are insiders. Most of them have anecdotes and tiny glimpses and rumors.

As for Andreesen's role being a poster-boy, no kidding. He even tended to say as much back in Netscape's first couple years. Clark? Now THERE's someone whose role in this exemplifies shark jumpin'. The only thing he hasn't done (or done wrong) is sell bottled sugar water. I mean, the industry is glutted with still-living CEO/CIO/CTO almost-greats. That *happens* when a trillion-dollar economy comes to life in a single lifetime.

I'm convinced that most chief executives are cheerleaders. Some are skilled or even brilliant. It takes luck and skill to succeed wildly or repeatedly (and then they write books about you). In an opportune moment, luck can get rid of any need for skill. But all the skill in the world won't help you if you're unlucky the one time it could have mattered.

Unfortunately, investors are quick to fall victim to chasing fame instead of skill. It's easier to recognize, I guess.

I think you're talking about a frenemy, or possibly a frenemy.

You've got the wrong term. "Hoosier" is an American term -- it's what you call someone who plays on any of Indiana University's sports teams. See here.

You're thinking of "hoser". A hoser is anyone you don't like. See here for other definitions. It originates from the "Great White North" program on SCTV, hosted by Bob and Doug Mckenzie. See here for a synopsis of the show.

That would be correct. I had assumed you were American. That was foolish on my part. It is a rather common pun used in the U.S. when referring to Intel's "value" line of processors. Either your command of the English language is to be commended, or you use excellent translation software. Having lived in several foreign countries, I can appreciate your misunderstanding of an American slang term. Try http://www.urbandictionary.com/. It provides a bevy of American slang. Cheers!

BTW, I've always wanted to visit Norway (and Finland). My wife's best friend from high school is Finnish and I studied with a wonderful girl from Norway in college.

Sounds like people are getting dooced.

17 different definitions, but you'll get the idea

HERE

and HERE

Dear Anonymous Coward,

Good points all, and well stated. But also consider:

Of course the girls were bankrolled and had real engineers helping. Give them the tools and let them take on the role of professionals. Have some professionals to model the things they need to know and do. It seems to work well.

I'm not a programmer - I'm an educator. I hang out here to see what's new and cool and use the assembled wisdom to learn new things and see how innovation can make a difference.

Slashdot is useful for getting ideas out and finding the range of opinions and insights. You've certainly pushed that envelope here. Buzzwords, profanity, to each his own. By the way, what "something useful" have you had the "sack" to do?

Solar challenges aren't about getting everyone to drive solar cars. The design constraints force the engineers to develop other innovations - more efficient motors, better chargers & inverters, etc. These get used in other things like hybrid cars, electric cars, fuel cell cars. Those are valued.

Honda does indeed spend money on solar challenges: http://www.speedace.info/honda.htm

Language evolves. English doubly so. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ube rgeek

Thanks for the enlightenment.

it's dumbass, dumbass.

Or even 'Paediatrician'...

Not a monkey... a wookie!

Wow.

B.
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Yeah, well, language evolves because people are lazy and don't feel like articulating the "n't".... get over it.

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Linux users are not ricers. Not even Gentoo users.

Ricer's cars are not fast, or 'work in progress'. They are crap cars fitted with stickers and spoilers to make them /look/ fast.

urbandictionary.com is your friend.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ric er&r=f

That in no way describes linux as an OS, or its users.

And aren't Jaguars famous for being finicky unreliable peices of expensive shit?

--SD