downstrike's definitions

Home Computer

1. What people called Personal Computers before they knew to call them PCs.

2. A PC that is kept at home.

Home Computers were made by Atari, Commodore, Timex/Sinclair, and Texas Instruments.

by Downstrike May 31, 2004

Preparing to Hibernate

What sWindles says when it starts up after hibernating.

sWindles meant to tell you that it's preparing to hibernate before it hibernates because it thinks that you're such a complete idiot that you don't know that you just told it to hibernate. However, since sWindles is the idiot that it thought you were, it tells you when it wakes up instead.

by Downstrike December 14, 2004

diplospeak

The dialect of slang, or euphemismistic speech used by diplomats and politicians when they want to say something terrible about someone, but don't want to pay the consequences of saying such a terrible thing.

From NY Times, 10/22/05: 'Mr. Bolton, who termed Mr. Mekdad's denials "ridiculous," accused Syria of failing to cooperate with the investigators, which, he said, was "diplospeak for obstruction of justice."'

by Downstrike October 23, 2005

% Daily recommended allowance

An experimental 1980 dietary guide based upon the Pritikin Diet fad diet published in 1979.

% Daily recommended allowance is even worse than the Food Guide Pyramid because it promotes eating 5 out 7 servings of food in the form of carbohydrates without even suggesting that the carbohydrates should come from more than one source.

by Downstrike June 26, 2004

Alt attribute

In HTML, an attribute of the img tag that allows persnickety browsers to display text in place of the image, or to indicate the content of the image to the visually impaired and search engine spiders.

In the event that an image displayed on a web page displays text or other information, the Alt attribute should be set with descriptive text so that persnickety browsers, visually impaired people, and search engines can read the description. A lot of SEO spammers get themselves banned from search engines by keyword stuffing their Alt attributes.

Some accessibility nuts like to ruin a webmasters day by insisting that every blasted, non-informative image must have an "Alt tag". Some of us cave in to their nonsense by using NiDE, but the truth is, there is no such thing as an Alt tag. Alt is an attribute of the img tag.

by Downstrike April 9, 2006

reverence

Respectful, possibly worshipful awe.

Reverence is usually part of worship.

by Downstrike May 24, 2004

two-legged cattle

See people and stampeding herds.

When people mindlessly do something without knowing any reason for doing it, they become like two-legged cattle.

by Downstrike September 12, 2004