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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
brain-damaged
1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a
theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous;
demented. There is an implication that the person
responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should
have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really
bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to
work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only
six monocase characters per file name? Now *that's*
brain-damaged!"
2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free
demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in
some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it
is intended to sell. Synonym crippleware.
[{Jargon File]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]
brain-damaged adj. 1. [common; generalization of `Honeywell Brain
Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter
{Multics" rel="nofollow">cretinisms in Honeywell {Multics] adj. Obviously wrong; cretinous;
demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must
have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling
something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable,
and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some
accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now _that's_
brain-damaged!" 2. [esp. in the Mac world] May refer to free
demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way
so as not to compete with the product it is intended to sell. Syn.
crippleware.
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
brain-damaged
a.
Suffering from an injury to the brain.
a.
(lb en computing slang pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
brain-damaged
a.
Suffering from an injury to the brain.
a.
(lb en computing slang pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
brain-damaged
a.
Suffering from an injury to the brain.
a.
(lb en computing slang pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
brain-damaged
a.
Suffering from an injury to the brain.
a.
(lb en computing slang pejorative) Poorly designed; obviously wrong.
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
brain-damaged /bɹˈeɪndˈamɪdʒd/
mozkově postižený
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. (电)脑损坏;(电)脑受损
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