nick weiner's definitions

baudband

When a person even with a broadband internet connection is fed up with slow data transfers, most likely due to a crappy ISP or his little brother downloading porn.

I'm fed up with lagging out of servers due to ping. I want broadband, not baudband!

by Nick Weiner February 28, 2009

Digital feces

Slang term for when a video game has such poor graphics or collision detection it is as pleasant for the eye as looking at actual human feces.

Games like Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Hour of Victory are such a disgrace to look at and involve so much going through walls and obstructions that it is pretty much digital feces.

by Nick Weiner March 1, 2009

Fix or Repair Daily

A derogatory phrase regarding the ailing American car company Ford, in which the word compacted into an acronym spells, yes, Ford.

Ford stands for Fix or Repair Daily.

by Nick Weiner March 6, 2009

Intergalactic Travel

The travel between galaxies - which is considered complete and utter science fiction given the incredible distances. Even light will take 2.5 million years to reach our nearest galaxy.

Intergalactic travel, even to our nearest galaxy, would mean a minimum distance of 23,700 million million million meters away making it cleanly impossible.

by nick weiner January 28, 2009

Interstellar Travel

Travel between star systems - which may someday be do-able but given that even our closest star is 4.6 light years away it is something that will require technology and resources that we can only dream of by today's standards.

It is also a very big subject in science fiction; the rapid transit between star systems by faster-than-light travel; Star Trek, Star Wars, and Mass Effect are examples.

While Voyager 1 is technically making interstellar travel, at the rate it is going, it will take more than 72,000 years from now to do so.

by Nick Weiner January 31, 2009

Interplanetary Travel

Travelling between the eight planets in our solar system. We've reached every one by unmanned probes but all we've been able to take a human to is our moon.

NASA is planning to send humans on an Interplanetary Travel mission to Mars by 2020, but it looks like we have too many problems on Earth to deal with first.

by Nick Weiner January 31, 2009

Plattsburgh

A town in extreme upstate New York that is pretty much the only place for activity in that whole area. Very cold in the winter.

I went up north towards Quebec; all of interest along the way was in the city of Plattsburgh.

by Nick Weiner February 3, 2009