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• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....
• bandwidth: n. 1. Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a computer, person, or transmission medium can handle.
  Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• bandwidth n. 1. [common] Used by hackers (in a generalization of its technical meaning) as the volume of information per unit time that a compute
  person, or transmission medium can handle. "Those are amazing graphics, but I missed some of the detail -- not enough bandwidth, I guess....
• S/N ratio: // n. (also `s/n ratio', `s:n ratio'). Syn.
  {signal-to-noise ratio}. Often abbreviated `SNR'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• S/N ratio // n. (also `s/n ratio', `s:n ratio').
  Syn. signal-to-noise ratio. Often abbreviated `SNR'....
• His signal-to-noise ratio is epsilon.
• TANSTAAFL: /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly {heavyweight} technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of free software, or at the {signal-to-noise ratio} of unmoderated USENET newsgroups....
• TANSTAAFL /tan'stah-fl/ [acronym, from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
  ] "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", often invoked when someone is balking at the prospect of using an unpleasantly heavyweight technique, or at the poor quality of some piece of software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated Usenet newsgroups....
• flamage /flay'm*j/ n. [very common] Flaming verbiage, esp.
  high-noise, low-signal postings to Usenet or other electronic fora....