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Broken: Adj. 1. Not Working Properly (of Programs).
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:broken: adj. 1. Not working properly (of programs). 2. Behaving
strangely; especially (when used of people) exhibiting extreme
depression.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
broken adj. 1. Not working properly (of programs).
2. Behaving strangely; especially (when used of people) exhibiting extreme depression....
dead: adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware.
2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support....
gronked: adj. 1. Broken. "The teletype scanner was gronked, so we took the system down.
2. Of people, the condition of feeling very tired or (less commonly) sick....
fried: adj. 1. Non-working due to hardware failure
burnt out. Especially used of hardware brought down by a `power glitch' (see {glitch}), {drop-outs}, a short, or some other electrical event....
hardwired: adj. 1. In software, syn. for {hardcoded}.
2. By extension, anything that is not modifiable, especially in the sense of customizable to one's particular needs or tastes....
working as designed: [IBM] adj. 1. In conformance to a wrong or inappropriate specificatio
useful, but misdesigned. 2. Frequently used as a sardonic comment on a program's utility....
onlinear: adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic and unpredictable fashio
unstable. When used to describe the behavior of a machine or program, it suggests that said machine or program is being forced to run far outside of design specifications....
boat anchor: n. 1. Like {doorstop} but more severe
implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....