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The Buzzword Bingo forum is a place to post examples of ludicrous,
convoluted and meaningless buzzwords and marketing drivel dreamed up by those seeking to sound
more important and meaningful than they actually are.
We are developers, which means our job is to simplify complicated and ill-expressed requirements
in order to produce something elegant and useful. If you want to impress us then please just tell it
to us straight. The less pre-processing we have to do the more we will be interested.
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The question what exactly defines "native look and feel" never gets awnsered
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The default look of the operating system and or window manager/desktop environment.
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And thats often all I get to go on.
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But that's exactly what it is!
/ravi
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"Native Look" is Indian lookin' fella in Canada, Australia and USA
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It means that it won't get funny looks or racist comments if it goes out in your neighbourhood.
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If you've done some project that involved "Meaningful use". Your project manager,"Bless their heart", is such a "great" person.
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I've always been a fan of adding a touch of radioactive isotope so I can be sure the snake oil makes it into the patient. Unfortunately, I don't get to make decisions like that. I simply implement them.
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4, actually, used in sequence: "Managed Metadata Taxonomy Infrastructure".
I still haven't figured out what that means. 
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it means you can safely disregard it
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Here[^] and Here[^] and Here[^] and Here[^].
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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To further my previous reply:
Managed = .NET
Metadata = Data about data
Taxonomy = Division into ordered groups or categories
Infrastructure = Framework
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
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"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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It still doesn't really make sense, though. 
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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I think most buzzwords when chained together are not supposed to really make sense 
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Zac Greve wrote: Managed = .NET
In this case thats wrong.
Managed = You can define them centrally for the farm
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Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem
How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night.
War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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Someone who starts a subsidiary; owner of a company within a company.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
if you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"Engaging" is a buzzword for the Marketing people around me. "It needs to be engaging"... okay, so, explain what you mean by "engaging".
..their definition changes every time I ask them to define "engaging".. and believe me, they like to throw that word around a lot.
If you don't succeed, redefine success!
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'Engaging' used to mean to me that the fire control officer had selected a green dot on a radar and that we were going to point radars at the plane that caused the dot and prepared to launch a missile at it.
At least artificial intelligence already is superior to natural stupidity
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It means anything but informative: annoying, irritating, embarrassing, deceitful, rude, stupid... but it's a little more than that.
Basically it means to stand out from the other annoying, irritating, embarrassing, deceitful, rude, stupid... adverts.
"You get that on the big jobs."
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So you mean kind of like "We need to make this so Apple like, the whole world will be interested"?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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It's more about capturing someones attention rather than their interest. The "free set of steak knifes" approach. Once viewers are aware, they move on to the next con job.
When I left that industry, time shifting was a big deal in TV. Make sure your target demographic(s) see the ad x number of times and then as they fast-forward through pre-recorded programming, the ad still "engages" them subliminally.
They got software that does that but it's based on ratings. Ratings are provided by the networks and naturally bias.
"You get that on the big jobs."
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