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Science seeks generally only the most useful systems of classification: these
it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented,
as true.
-- S. I. Hayakawa
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OBJECT Another of those words which is very good an being fairly anonymous in its description of anything, and not actually meaning very much.
Generally most useful when you want to describe something, but are unaware what the fuck it is....
If any program is useful, it will be changed until it is completely useless.
hrash vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....
hrash: vi. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful.
Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash....
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
-- Godfrey H. Hardy...
A mouse may be useful, but only as cat food.
1. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
2. The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front....
TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Baco