Four-color Glossies: 1. Literature Created By {marketroid}s That Allegedly Contains Technical Specs But Which Is In Fact As Superficial As Possible Without Being Totally {content-free}.

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:four-color glossies: 1. Literature created by {marketroid}s
that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as
superficial as possible without being totally {content-free}.
"Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals."
Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the
material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Four-color-glossy manuals are *never* useful for finding a
problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual pages that don't
contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't
produce the expected or desired output.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary

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