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| | #4521 | | quark:
The sound made by a well bred duck.
| | | #4522 | | Quigley's Law:
Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will
atttempt to use it.
| | | #4523 | | QWERT (kwirt) n. [MW < OW qwertyuiop, a thirteenth] 1. a unit of weight
equal to 13 poiuyt avoirdupois (or 1.69 kiloliks), commonly used in
structural engineering 2. [Colloq.] one thirteenth the load that a fully
grown sligo can carry. 3. [Anat.] a painful irritation of the dermis
in the region of the anus 4. [Slang] person who excites in others the
symptoms of a qwert.
-- Webster's Middle World Dictionary, 4th ed.
| | | #4524 | | Ralph's Observation:
It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realise that you
are in a hurry.
| | | #4525 | | Random, n.:
As in number, predictable. As in memory access, unpredictable.
| | | #4526 | | Ray's Rule of Precision:
Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
| | | #4527 | | Re: Graphics:
A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately
described with pictures.
| | | #4528 | | Real Time, adj.:
Here and now, as opposed to fake time, which only occurs there and then.
| | | #4529 | | Real World, The, n.:
1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may
be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc. 2. To
programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related
to programming. 3. A universe in which the standard dress is shirt and
tie and in which a person's working hours are defined as 9 to 5. 4.
The location of the status quo. 5. Anywhere outside a university.
"Poor fellow, he's left MIT and gone into the real world." Used
pejoratively by those not in residence there. In conversation, talking
of someone who has entered the real world is not unlike talking about a
deceased person.
| | | #4530 | | Reappraisal, n.:
An abrupt change of mind after being found out.
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