Braveheart's thirst for blood's definitions
1. In machines, the amount of time, when operating a bank of machines, between any one of them failing. Not lifetime, as hard drive manufacturers want you to think. It is the average amount of time between failures of indivdual parts when talking about a system.
2. In biology, the average lifespan of each individual organism which has a particular set of genes or "environment of luck". An "environment of luck" can be something like all people who fly on a plane, living around individuals who want you dead in the worst way,all people who smoke, or some other demographic.
2. In biology, the average lifespan of each individual organism which has a particular set of genes or "environment of luck". An "environment of luck" can be something like all people who fly on a plane, living around individuals who want you dead in the worst way,all people who smoke, or some other demographic.
1. When punching laced cards on a bank of keypunch punched-card makers, the average MTBF is about three cards.
1. In an average house, it is normal to burn out 3 incandescent light bulbs in a month. Therfore the MTBF is 10 days.
2. Teacher:"King tut only lived to be 19."
Mocking Student:"Wow, his MTBF is in the toilet!"
2. "The MTBF of John Benet Ramsey is quite short."
1. In an average house, it is normal to burn out 3 incandescent light bulbs in a month. Therfore the MTBF is 10 days.
2. Teacher:"King tut only lived to be 19."
Mocking Student:"Wow, his MTBF is in the toilet!"
2. "The MTBF of John Benet Ramsey is quite short."
by Braveheart's thirst for blood August 20, 2006
Get the MTBFmug. Moses, the man who recieved the Ten Commandments back in Biblical Times. So called because once he learned he was supposed to deliver the Israelites from Egypt, he took it upon himself to ritually coat his lower arms and lower legs with a mixture of soil and water by making bricks with the slaves. If I was Moses and I got the chance to squish mud between my toes without anyone getting on my case I'd actually be happy. I wouldn't be happy if my friend got killed by the master butcher, though.
Prince Moses the mud prophet will deliver the Israelites from Egypt after crashing the waves of the Red Sea over Pharaoh's Chariots.
by Braveheart's thirst for blood March 24, 2007
Get the mud prophetmug. Crusader slang for a Christmas Tree/Solstice Tree. So named because of its traditional Pagan origin and it's uncanny ability to start tragic house fires during the Holidays.
Ibelin left a cigarrette near the Wiccan incendiary device in Xena's house. In 45 seconds the living room was engulfed.
Ron and Aleister took turns hanging pentacles on the Wiccan Incendiary device on Xmas eve.
Ron and Aleister took turns hanging pentacles on the Wiccan Incendiary device on Xmas eve.
by Braveheart's thirst for blood March 6, 2007
Get the Wiccan incendiary devicemug. 1. The process of removing the human scalp from the skull, usually performed by a ticked off native.
3. Buying tickets with the intention of selling them at a later date closer to the event.
3. Buying tickets with the intention of selling them at a later date closer to the event.
1. "Magua got tomahawked for scalping Uncas and throwing him off a cliff."
2. "I feel like going scalping, I have plenty of tickets for good seats at the public execution."
2. "I feel like going scalping, I have plenty of tickets for good seats at the public execution."
by Braveheart's thirst for blood August 20, 2006
Get the scalpingmug. A transdermal patch in a Burger King commercial that enables the wearer to resist the craving for a Whopper.
Narrator:It's been many hours of staring for these people in the staring contest. Now we bring in the Whopper to see who wins.
::places Whopper in between the two people staring at each other::
::Person 1 looks away and eats the whopper::
::Person 2 rolls up his sleeve to show the Whopper Patch::
Person 1:"Whopper patch!!?? That's not fair!!"
::places Whopper in between the two people staring at each other::
::Person 1 looks away and eats the whopper::
::Person 2 rolls up his sleeve to show the Whopper Patch::
Person 1:"Whopper patch!!?? That's not fair!!"
by Braveheart's thirst for blood March 24, 2007
Get the whopper patchmug. Describing a sequence of numbers generated by a deterministic computer that is seemingly random, but eventually repeats. Good pseudo-random number generators have very long periods before the sequence repeats.
The date Easter falls on is pseudo-random in that it cannot be predicted off the top of someone's head, and it takes 5.7 million years for the sequence to repeat.
To generate a pseudo-random number in C, you'd use the Rand(); function.
To generate a pseudo-random number in C, you'd use the Rand(); function.
by Braveheart's thirst for blood April 1, 2007
Get the pseudo-randommug. Time-Warner's way to make sure Linux never gets on to too many PCs. You see, if AOL is installed on more computers, users would be forced to use the dial-up modem (tyranny by costliness) which runs only on Windows.
Back in the old days, an aol disk was a floppy disk, which meant they could be reformatted and reused. But now they are a CD-ROM, which wastes plastic for crappy software, software which prohibits you from starting any executable code (even beneficial code) on your computer for the first 5 minutes after you sign on.
by Braveheart's thirst for blood January 22, 2007
Get the aol diskmug.