The Alternate Glossary

[Peter KroghParticipant @peterkrogh76576]

Posted by Bob Rodgerson on 11/11/2016 13:11:13:

I've never heard of PUNTS before, are you sure you have spelled it correctly?

Oh yes, I did! We won't talk about the other….

Pete

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Cornish Jack on 11/11/2016 12:26:52:

At least those acronyms quoted use existing words … then we come to NICAM – Near Instantaneous COMPANDED (???) Audio Mode. Apparently a combination of COMpressed and exPANDED. It's origin from

Compander chips have been around since I was a teenager, long before NICAM

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 11/11/2016 08:53:25:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/11/2016 08:25:01:

… but this website (at least as far as posting photos is concerned) proves that FIAs exist too.

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[expletive deleted]

Incomprehensible

Answers

 

Frequently Ignored Answers… used for FAQs that no-one ever reads.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 11/11/2016 14:02:47

[Anthony KendallParticipant @anthonykendall53479]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/11/2016 14:01:44:

Compander chips have been around since I was a teenager, long before NICAM

Neil

I make NICAM 1979. That makes you at least 47 Neil and if it's long before NICAM…..

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Anthony Kendall on 11/11/2016 14:58:46:

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 11/11/2016 14:01:44:

Compander chips have been around since I was a teenager, long before NICAM

Neil

I make NICAM 1979. That makes you at least 47 Neil and if it's long before NICAM…..

47? I wish!

N.

[clivelParticipant @clivel]

Posted by Stuart Bridger on 10/11/2016 17:57:20:

Having spent too many years in the IT industrty, I know that we are the worst for this.

For the ultimate in geekdom it is hard to beat the early Unix proponents with the likes of AWK a programming language designed by Aho, Weinberger and Kernighan, or YACC Yet Another Compiler Compiler.
Eventually reaching a zenith with recursive acronyms such as GNU – which stands for GNU is Not Unix.

As an aside the GNU project is responsible for the development of GCC – the GNU Compiler Collection which despite its unwieldy name is probably the most widely used programming tool worldwide.

Clive

Edited By clivel on 11/11/2016 21:49:18

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

TLA is my favourite for three letter acronym

Mike

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Malbolge is a programming language designed to be as difficult to learn and write as possible. Its creator has never written a working program in it.

Rather easier to write is Whitespace. Whitespace programs are written using only space, tab and newline characters. This makes them rather hard to read.

And you lot think chinglish is hard!

Dave

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

When the advanced technology fails my response is BOTTOMS! – Back On To The Old Manual System.

George

[Peter KroghParticipant @peterkrogh76576]

POTS…..

Plain Old Telephone System

Yeah, it's real, at least over here!

Pete

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Full nickname for the A-4 (among other names) Heinemann's* Scooter, * the designer of the aircraft, they were up to 2002 our primary combat aircraft, but now we have none.

Ian S C

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Full nickname for the A-4 (among other names) Heinemann's* Scooter, * the designer of the aircraft, they were up to 2002 our primary combat aircraft, but now we have none.

Ian S C

[Halton TankParticipant @haltontank]

For those who still at work, you have :-

TGIF = Thank God It's Friday

and of course Friday is POETS day, ie P*ss Off Early Tomorrow is Saturday.

Regards

Luigi

[DodParticipant @dod]

Anybody know what SCART means on TV/video and stuff

And anybody got a clue at what speed a music CD spins at in an audio system, 33and a thrird, 45 or 78 rpms and how did these speeds become the standard speeds for records?

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Dod on 12/11/2016 22:12:30:

And anybody got a clue at what speed a music CD spins at in an audio system

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The rotational speed varies … to keep the 'linear' speed of the track constant … and it tracks from the middle, outwards.

Can't remember the numbers just now, but they will easy to find.

MichaelG.

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Here you go: [ from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_per_minute ]

• Audio CD players read their discs at a precise, constant rate (4.3218 Mbit/s of raw physical data for 1.4112 Mbit/s (176.4 kB/s) of usable audio data) and thus must vary the disc's rotational speed from 8 Hz (480 rpm) when reading at the innermost edge, to 3.5 Hz (210 rpm) at the outer edge.^[1]

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/11/2016 22:38:37

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/11/2016 22:40:09

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Dod on 12/11/2016 22:12:30:

33and a thrird, 45 or 78 rpms and how did these speeds become the standard speeds for records?

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… I had to look this one up

Best answer I can find : **LINK**

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-06-15/features/8602120863_1_discs-speeds-long-playing-record

MichaelG.

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P.S. … I loathe SCART connectors, so I politely decline to answer the first question.

[but it's French, and easily found on Wikipedia]

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/11/2016 22:49:55

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Dilligaf – do i look like i give a f***

Figjam – f*** i'm good just ask me

There has been an uproar here in Australia over an advertising slogan – see you in the Northern Territory ( CU in the NT) absolutely priceless !.

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

Motor trade acronym, LOTUS = loads of trouble usually serious.

Martin P

[GeorgineerParticipant @georgineer]

Posted by martin perman on 13/11/2016 08:55:56:

Motor trade acronym, LOTUS = loads of trouble usually serious.

Martin P

And of course FIAT – Fix It Again, Toni

George

[OldMetallerParticipant @oldmetaller]

When I did my train driver training in 1991, we were being shown round the engine room of a big freight loco. The instructor packed a small group of us into the clean air compartment and told us what the various pieces of equipment were that we had seen, 'This is the the PGCOS: the Passenger/Goods Changeover Switch, this is the LMAG: Low Main Air Governor', and so on.

Then he pointed impressively to a grey cabinet with a prominent High Voltage warning sign on it: 'This is the DFT cabinet', he said, glaring at us. We all looked at it, suitably impressed, until someone found the courage to ask, 'What does DFT stand for?'

'Don't F*ckin' Touch!'

I've never forgotten that, and to this day I've never looked in that cabinet!

Regards,

John.

[Brian OldfordParticipant @brianoldford70365]

Posted by Georgineer on 13/11/2016 11:37:18:

Posted by martin perman on 13/11/2016 08:55:56:

Motor trade acronym, LOTUS = loads of trouble usually serious.

Martin P

And of course FIAT – Fix It Again, Toni

George

Alternately FORD = Fix or repair, Daily

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

I had to laugh when a chap called one of the modules of a robot control system the FM box ( f****n magic)

Mike

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

The Kiwi guys will remember the Toyota adds on TV, Toyota became another way of saying B%^^er, even non swearers used it instead of saying bother when you hit your thumb with the hammer.

Ian S C

[mark costello 1Participant @markcostello1]

Ford-Forked on race day.

Ford-found on road dead.

[Flying FiferParticipant @flyingfifer]

Posted by Bob Rodgerson on 11/11/2016 13:11:13:

I've never heard of PUNTS before, are you sure you have spelled it correctly?

Oh yes, I did! We won't talk about the other….

The other unmentionable one was

Countries of Utterly No Tactical Significance.

And yes it was/is a military one

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