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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>brain-damaged</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="brain-fart.html" title="brain fart"/><link rel="next" href="brain-dead.html" title="brain-dead"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">brain-damaged</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brain-fart.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brain-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="brain-damaged"/><dt xmlns="" id="brain-damaged"><b>brain-damaged</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [common; generalization of “<span class="quote">Honeywell Brain Damage</span>”
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(HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms
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in Honeywell <a href="../M/Multics.html"><i class="glossterm">Multics</i></a>] <span class="grammar">adj.</span> Obviously wrong;
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<a href="../C/cretinous.html"><i class="glossterm">cretinous</i></a>; <a href="../D/demented.html"><i class="glossterm">demented</i></a>. There
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is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain
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damage, because he should have known better. Calling something
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brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its
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failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident.
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“<span class="quote">Only six monocase characters per file name? Now
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<span class="emphasis"><em>that's</em></span> brain-damaged!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [esp. in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software
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that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with
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the product it is intended to sell. Syn.
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<a href="../C/crippleware.html"><i class="glossterm">crippleware</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="brain-fart.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="brain-dead.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">brain fart </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> brain-dead</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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