meaning of gorets

1. gorets /gorets/ The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning. Found especially on the Usenet newsgroup alt. gorets, which seems to be a running contest to redefine the word by implication in the funniest and most peculiar way, with the understanding that no definition is ever final. [A correspondent from the Former Soviet Union informs me that "gorets" is Russian for "mountain dweller" - ESR] Compare frink. [Jargon File] gorilla arm The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans arent designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized - the operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one afterward. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly in *real* use?". go root [Unix] To temporarily enter root mode in order to perform a privileged operation. This use is deprecated in Australia, where the verb "root" refers to animal sex. See su. [Jargon File] gorp /gorp/ CMU, perhaps from the canonical hikers food, Good Old Raisins and Peanuts Another metasyntactic variable, like foo and bar. GOSIP Government OSI Profile Gosling, James James Gosling GOSMACS /gozmaks/ Gosling Emacs. The first Emacs implementation in C, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNU Emacs. Originally freeware; a commercial version is now modestly popular as UniPress Emacs. The author James Gosling went on to invent NeWS. [Jargon File] Gosperism /gosp*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R. William Bill Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them. Many of the entries in HAKMEM are Gosperisms. See also life. GOSPL Graphics-Oriented Signal Processing Language. A graphical DSP language for simulation. ["Graphic Oriented Signal Processing Language - GOSPL", C. D. Covington et al, Proc ICASSP-87, 1987]. gotcha programming> A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. For example, a classic gotcha in C is the fact that if a=b code; is syntactically valid and sometimes even correct. It puts the value of "b" into "a" and then executes "code" if "a" is non-zero. What the programmer probably meant was if a==b code; which executes "code" if "a" and "b" are equal. [Jargon File]

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