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Error 33 [XEROX PARC] N. 1. Predicating One Research Effort Upon The Success Of Another.
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error 33 [XEROX PARC] n.
1. Predicating one research effort
upon the success of another. 2. Allowing your own research effort
to be placed on the critical path of some other project (be it a
research effort or not).
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error 33: [XEROX PARC] n. 1. Predicating one research effort upon the success of another.
2. Allowing your own research effort to be placed on the critical path of some other project (be it a research effort or not)....
PDP-10 n. [Programmed Data Processor model 10] The machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
PDP-10: [Programmed Data Processor model 10] n. The machine that made timesharing real.
It looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the mid-1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, including the MIT AI Lab, Stanford, and CMU....
A research team : a group of individuals who cannot stand one another, working on a project of national or global importance.
If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot-dog stands on the moon.
-- Murphy's laws on sex...
eal user n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying real money for his computer usage.
2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
cray /kray/ n. 1. (properly, capitalized) One of the line of supercomputers designed by Cray Research.
2. Any supercomputer at all. 3. The canonical number-crunching machine....