| slovo | definícia |
film at 11
(foldoc) | film at 11
(MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in
conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic
implication that these events are earth-shattering. "ITS
crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11."
2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional
information will be available at some future time, *without*
the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the
referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died
this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory.
Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred
but that the people working on it have no additional
information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way
suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more
quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing
the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to
which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will
just be patient.
[Jargon File]
(1998-03-24)
|
film at 11
(jargon) | film at 11
[MIT: in parody of TV newscasters]
1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic
implication that these events are earth-shattering. “ITS crashes; film at
11.” “Bug found in scheduler; film at 11.”
2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information
will be available at some future time, without the implication of anything
particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, “The mail
file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root
directory. Film at 11.” would indicate that a major failure had occurred
but that the people working on it have no additional information about it
as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is
liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend
time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to
which will appear on the normal “11:00 news”, if people will just be
patient.
The variant “MPEGs at 11” has recently been cited (MPEG is a digital-video
format.)
|
| |
Nenašli ste slovo čo ste hľadali ? Doplňte ho do slovníka.
na vytvorenie tejto webstránky bol pužitý dictd server s dátami z sk-spell.sk.cx a z iných voľne dostupných dictd databáz. Ak máte klienta na dictd protokol (napríklad kdict), použite zdroj slovnik.iz.sk a port 2628.
online slovník, sk-spell - slovníkové dáta, IZ Bratislava, Malé Karpaty - turistika, Michal Páleník, správy, údaje o okresoch V4