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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 #49756 12/12/01 08:11 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: yeahbut© #49757 12/12/01 08:27 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... J Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus old hand J Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... Having once been an avid player of online computer games, [ ] I've encountered the word but only had a vague understanding of the definition and didn't know the pronounciation. I now spend about half my time here. The other half is sites about news, science and dare I say it . . . Survivor. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: yeahbut© #49758 12/12/01 09:00 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Equal time between this board and a music board. What does vaporware have to do with computers, by the way? WW Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter #49759 12/12/01 09:20 PM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 M Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel M Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 3,409 Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: yeahbut© #49760 12/13/01 08:06 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Vapourware is one of Bill Gates' best standbys when it comes to clobbering the opposition without spending a cent. When a software firm announces that it is going to develop a product, say a new spreadsheet, Mrs Gates' little boy Billy announces that MS is also going to produce a similar product, and that it will be released sooner, and that it will be more closely aligned to M$ Windoze. Then it never gets developed, but has effectively killed the product announced by the original firm stone dead. This is known in the trade as "pre-emptive vapour strike". The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: yeahbut© #49761 12/13/01 09:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania Rapunzel enthusiast Rapunzel enthusiast Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 328 Eastern Pennsylvania [ ] I have used the word [ ] I've encountered the word and know what it means [x] I never heard of it before this thread This is known in the trade as "pre-emptive vapour strike". Enough to give MS' competition a serious case of the vapours! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: yeahbut© #49762 12/15/01 01:20 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta B Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel B Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta [ ] I have used the word [ ] I've encountered the word and know what it means [x] I never heard of it before this thread As for the other poll: How much time, proportional to AWAD, do you spend surfing other web sites? [ ] i spend most of my web time at sites other than AWAD [x] i spend about half of my web time at other sites [ ] i spend almost all of my web time at AWAD. i think google, zdnet and straightdope are most likely Pfizer products. I don't think this could be true of anyone who did actually spend most of their web time at AWAD. Google and straightdope get pretty good exposure here. Must admit I've never heard of zdnet. [x] i spend my entire life at AWAD. i have my meals delivered to my desk and have had a combination swivel chair/toilet installed at my workstation. I vary between the two I've marked depending on how fast/slow the connection to AWAD is being and how busy the site's being. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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