On Thu, September 30, 2010 11:32 pm, [email protected] wrote: > > > Thanks Chris for your kind answer. > > You see I'm not a current geek. I'm a declared newbie who thinks of > SSD as Social Security Disability.
Ah. Yeah, acronym re-use is a problem. The big joke when I was working in certain Engineering circles was "oh, you belong to the UAA." Someone would ask "UAA?" Answer: "Use All Acronyms." Unfortunately, acronyms eventually "become the thing" rather than standing for a thing. For instance, I used to work in a place that had a "RADAR department" -- as in everyone in that department worked on RADARs. So one day someone I know went to every person in the department and asked (who knew what it meant): "So what does RADAR stand for?" Out of everyone in the department, only the last engineer that was asked knew the answer. [It stands for "RAdio Detection And Ranging".] The vocabulary in tech circles is almost always confusing, IMHO. And unfortunately each niche seems to have it's own vocabulary that goes with it. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 6 - Creating Browser Extensions for Firefox and Chrome Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment
