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brain-damaged

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1.brain-damaged - [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now *that's* brain-damaged!"
2.brain-damaged - [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell. Synonym crippleware.
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Byline: James Johnston A mum has spoken of her love for her severely brain-damaged son who survived a traumatic birth against the odds.
Battler Ryan defies odds by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, asked supporters to return home to spend Easter Sunday with their families as the couple's severely brain-damaged daughter went a ninth day without food or water.
Schiavo supporters `go home' by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
BRAIN-damaged Terri Schiavo was effectively sentenced to death last night after a judge dismissed an appeal by her parents to save her.
Judge to let coma Terri die by The Mirror (London, England)
 
 
 
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