Text written by Scott D. Yelich at 10:52 PM 4/2/99 -0700:
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>> >From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
>> feature shock /n./
>> [from Alvin Toffler's book title "Future Shock"] A user's (or
>> programmer's!) confusion when confronted with a package that has too
>> many features and poor introductory material.
>
>How... utterly.... appropriate.
It was bound to happen sooner or later. I don't actually pick them before
sending them; I just have a thing that randomly picks one every 60 seconds
(the time is configurable) and rewrites my .sig accordingly. I don't
usually look to see which one it will be before sending -- except when
sending to management, when I try to make sure it isn't something like
"drool-proof paper" or similarly anti-management phrases. :)
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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>From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
say /vt./
1. To type to a terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, you have
to say ls -l." Tends to imply a newline-terminated command (a
`sentence'). 2. A computer may also be said to `say' things to you,
even if it doesn't have a speech synthesizer, by displaying them on
a terminal in response to your commands. Hackers find it odd that
this usage confuses mundanes.
