Dan Winship said the following on 10/13/2005 10:02 AM:
Steve Kelem wrote:Right. I'll bet there are other meanings for CSS, but not for "Cascading Style Sheets". (Well, maybe Martha Stewart has something called that, but one could rule it out based on context.) The Acronym Finder (AF) found 145 meanings for CSS. (Cascading Style Sheets happens to be the most common.) You're still supporting my position. (AF found only one common meaning for JPEG, 7 for JPG, 66 for PCI. VFD turns up 21, 10 of which are references to Lemony Snicket!) Again, if you're working in the area, you probably know what it means. But you need to remember that you have newcomers who may not know the term. They're not necessarily stupid--they may be experts in other areas and now need to access info in this new (to them) domain. Steve P.S. I have a Ph.D. in Computer Science, have been working as an computer scientist for over 25 years. I try to keep abreast of what's going on in many domains. When I saw the following title of the talk in a newsletter  How to Drive Up Reporting Adoption and ROI in an SAP BW Environment - Vendor Webcast I realized I didn't have a clue what "Reporting Adoption" referred to. I doubt it has anything with babies or parents. ROI, I'm pretty sure means Return on Investment. I don't have a clue what SAP or BW are. (AF turns up 104 meanings. The 100th one (Systems and Procedures) in the list may be appropriate, but I'm still not sure.) Their web site didn't explain any of these terms, so I expect that you had to already know what the acronyms mean and they're not trying to encourage more people to find out what they mean. I guess that implies a paranoid notion of "job security". |
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