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To: TimF who wrote (140830)	12/6/2001 3:07:02 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1586088

Office Buzz Words and Phrases for the 21st Century BLAMESTORMING Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible. SEAGULL MANAGER A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves. CHAINSAW CONSULTANT An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands. CUBE FARM An office filled with cubicles. MOUSE POTATO The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato. PRAIRIE DOGGING When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. SITCOMs (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage) What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. STARTER MARRIAGE A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets. STRESS PUPPY A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny. SWIPED OUT An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use. TOURISTS People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists." TREEWARE Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material. XEROX SUBSIDY Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. CHIPS & SALSA Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa." PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again. (Try not to dent the case.) SALMON DAY The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get scr*wed and die in the end. CLM (Career Limiting Move) Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM. ADMINISPHERE The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. DILBERTED To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been Dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week." 404 Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404, man."

To: TimF who wrote (140830)	12/6/2001 4:30:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586088

Tim, good news for you and other holders of AMD and INTC. I bought some INTC for my nephews this afternoon for XMAS [they will not be happy since I am sure they would prefer a new game for their gameboys]. I bought it at $33.89 and was pssed that I had not bought a couple weeks ago much cheaper. Well after this midquarter update, INTC and AMD will be ramping so 33+ should look cheap. EDIT.AMD is at $17.25 in afterhours and INTC is at $35!!* ___________________________________ Intel boosts Q4 revenue range (INTC) By Chris Kraeuter Intel (INTC) boosted its revenue target as demand for its microprocessors have been stronger than expected. The world's largest chipmaker now expects fourth-quarter revenue between $6.7 billion and $6.9 billion, compared with a previous range of $6.2 billion to $6.8 billion. Also, gross margins are expected to be above the midpoint of its previous target-range, which was 47 percent, plus or minus a couple of percentage points. Intel has not provided an earnings target. Analysts, on average, had expected Intel to earn 10 cents a share on revenue of $6.59 billion.