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weight of the charge). Others claim, however, that Winchester was simply the laboratory in which the technology was developed. |
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windoid n. In the Macintosh world, a style of window with much less adornment (smaller or missing title bar, zoom box, etc, etc) than a standard window. |
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window shopping n. [US Geological Survey] Among users of WIMP environments like X or the Macintosh, extended experimentation with new window colors, fonts, and icon shapes. This activity can take up hours of what might otherwise have been productive working time. "I spent the afternoon window shopping until I found the coolest shade of green for my active window bordersnow they perfectly match my medium slate blue background." Serious window shoppers will spend their days with bitmap editors, creating new and different icons and background patterns for all to see. Also: window dressing, the act of applying new fonts, colors, etc. See fritterware, compare macdink. |
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Windoze /win'dohz/ n. See Microsloth Windows. |
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winged comments n. Comments set on the same line as code, as opposed to boxed comments. In C, for example: |
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d = sqrt (x*x + y*y); /* distance from origin */ |
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Generally these refer only to the action(s) taken on that line. |
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winkey n. (alt. winkey face) See emoticon. |
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winnage /win' j/ n. The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning. |
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winner 1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or person. 2. real winner: Often sarcastic, but also used as high praise (see also the note under user). "He's a real winnernever reports a bug till he can duplicate it and send in an example." |
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winnitude /win'i-t[y]ood/ n. The quality of winning (as opposed to winnage, which is the result of winning). "Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP interpreter runs twice as fast as it used to." "That's really great! Boy, what winnitude!" "Yup. I'll probably get a half-hour's winnage on the next run of my program." Perhaps curiously, the obvious antonym 'lossitude' is rare. |
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