WhatIs

/mau̇s ə-ˈhed/

vi. Point-and-click analog of type ahead. To manipulate a computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in this usage, but not necessarily) and its selection or command buttons before a computer program is ready to accept such input, in anticipation of the program accepting the input. Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiar with the behavior of the user interface.

/mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/

[from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET, Member Of The Same Sex]

n. Esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner. The gay-issues newsgroup on USENET is called soc.motss.

See MOTOS and MOTAS, which derive from it. Also see SO.

/M-O-T-O-S/

[acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET: Member Of The Opposite Sex]

n. A potential or (less often) actual sex partner. See MOTAS, MOTSS, SO. Less common than MOTSS or MOTAS, which have largely displaced it.

/M-O-T-A-S/

[USENET: Member Of The Appropriate Sex, after MOTOS and MOTSS]

n. A potential or (less often) actual sex partner.

See also SO.

/mə-rī-ə/

n. Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. Extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking.

/mȯrz lȯ/

prov. The observation that the logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely followed the curve (bits per square inch) = 2(n - 1962); that is, the amount of information storable in one square inch of silicon has roughly doubled yearly every year since the technology was invented.

See also Parkinson's Law of Data.

/müf/

[MAC users]

/män-ˈsträ-sə-tē/

1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp. one that is buggy or only marginally functional.

2. The quality of being monstrous (see Overgeneralization in the discussion of jargonification).

See also baroque.

/məŋ-kē, skrach/

n. See scratch monkey.

/məŋ-kē əp/

vt. To hack together hardware for a particular task, especially a one-shot job. Connotes an extremely crufty and consciously temporary solution.

Compare hack up, kluge up, cruft together.