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Brain-dead Adj. [common] Brain-damaged In The Extreme.
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brain-dead adj.
[common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction
or simple stupidity. "This comm program doesn't know how to send
a break -- how brain-dead!"
Related:
brain-dead: adj. Brain-damaged in the extreme. It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity.
This comm program doesn't know how to send a break how brain-dead!...
brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] adj.
Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
evil: adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with.
Unlike the adjectives in the {cretinous}/{losing}/{brain-damaged} series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's....
brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj.
Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
IBM: Idle Brain Malfunctio
demented adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a malfunctioning program.
The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad....
The only brain-dead 286 chips are made by Intel...
Sent off of a Brain Damaged Computer.
Computer Malfunction: Nut Loose In Operator's Brain.