Kirk >>>>> I'm a USS-newbie ... >>>> It's Unix System Services, not USS >>> <a rather ridiculous comment> >> Is anybody else sick of the USS argument? > Count me as sick of it.
You are, of course, fully entitled to pick and choose whatever you wish to make yourself ill - as long as you try not unduly to inconvenience anyone else! > Many acronyms have multiple usages. True, one could safely say just about every one. I was once asked in an interview why is it absurd to say there are no two trees in the world with the same number of leaves. One could just as easily ask why is it absurd to say there are no initialisms (a more precise description of the sort of acronym intended here) in the - let's limit it to the English-speaking - world with an unique significance. > The context is usually enough to distinguish. Indeed one relies on the context in order to determine the significance. If the context is IBM, then http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/terminology/u.html#x2042481 applies. > FWIW, ... Not a great deal IMNSHO. The reference above trumps any old compendium - featuring, for example, "United States Ship" so beloved by one of our regular contributors - you may happen to find on the "web". I then took the trouble to check the self-styled "acronymfinder" and it imagines it provides an IBM reference when it just references an equally inaccurate source, the self-styled "TheFreeDictionary" "By Farlex" whoever or whatever he, she or it is. Maybe I should direct them to that reference above it order to show them the error of their ways. So it's "worth" less than nothing, since it compounds the misattribution. Chris Mason On Sun, 1 May 2011 19:03:46 -0500, Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> wrote: >On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Ted MacNEIL <eamacn...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >>>It's not USSR (;-) ) but USS. >> >> Is anybody else sick of the USS argument? >> > >Count me as sick of it. > >Many acronyms have multiple usages. The context is usually enough to >distinguish. > >Kirk Wolf >Dovetailed Technologies >http://dovetail.com > >FWIW, here is a "ranked" list (not mine!) of the usages of USS: > >http://www.acronymfinder.com/USS.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
