New computer Term : didiotic

[Russ Lyttle]

PJ over on Groklaw <http://www.groklaw.net> has coined a new term :
"didiotic". Lets make some formal definitions. For example :

didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes self
serving prognostications.

[Gregory Toomey]

didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes
self serving prognostications, viz. Darl McBride


SCO is nothing more than a pump'n'dump scam. Hopefully the IBM countersuit
will finish them off, if they haven't run out of cash.

gtoomey

[Billy O'Connor]

Post by Russ Lyttle
didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes self
serving prognostications.

Apparently a synonym for:

bullschildt: /bul'shilt/, n.

[comp.lang.c on USENET] A confident, but incorrect, statement
about a programming language. This immortalizes a very bad book
about C, Herbert Schildt's C - The Complete Reference. One
reviewer commented "The naive errors in this book would be
embarrassing even in a programming assignment turned in by a
computer science college sophomore."

[Albert van der Horst]

Post by Billy O'Connor

Post by Russ Lyttle
didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes self
serving prognostications.

bullschildt: /bul'shilt/, n.
[comp.lang.c on USENET] A confident, but incorrect, statement
about a programming language. This immortalizes a very bad book
about C, Herbert Schildt's C - The Complete Reference. One
reviewer commented "The naive errors in this book would be
embarrassing even in a programming assignment turned in by a
computer science college sophomore."

Another one is the Annotated c-reference. This contains the
complete ANSI c-standard, plus annotation from Herbert.
It is much cheaper that an official c-standard document
"reflecting the negative value of Herberts annotation's".
Of has been argued that it should have been delivered with
a felt pen, to black out the annotations.
Still a good value though.
--

[Linønut]

Post by Russ Lyttle
didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes self
serving prognostications.

darling : vt. to loudly make a false claim over and over, as in "He's darling
that his prices are lower than anyone elses."

[Russ Lyttle]

Post by Linønut

Post by Russ Lyttle
didiot : a person who, having no knowledge of the subject matter, makes
self serving prognostications.

darling : vt. to loudly make a false claim over and over, as in "He's
darling that his prices are lower than anyone elses."
--
No, I won't fix your Windows computer!

Sounds too much like an existing word. How about "mcbriding", or "do a
mcbride"