I"m well chastised, thanks all, but FWIW, I'll go with Self Organizing HOlotronics, which is way cooler. And now it's mentioned, Small Office Home Office rings a bell (I'm not a network guy obviously). The acronym should be added to the wiki disambiguation (/grumble) Peter
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Bob Drzyzgula <b...@drzyzgula.org> wrote: > FYI, FWIW: SOHO="Small Office/Home Office". > > > Bob > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Peter St. John > <peter.st.j...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling >> on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition: >> (from https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho ) >> "relating to a market for relatively inexpensive consumer electronics >> used by individuals and small companies." >> >> That's great, but there are two funny things about the page. It follows >> the definition with the actual google results for "soho", none of which >> mention anything even related to the given definition. The other funny >> thing is that the definition does not mention the acronym, or strictly >> speaking, the etymology of the "word". >> So I'm still mystified, and I don't know how an automatic dictionary >> system using google got that definition when none of it's search results >> get that definition. Any "pick best answer from the results" AI that I >> might write would retrieve "South of Houston" &c. >> So this is a put-on, right? >> >> So my actual bandwagon is that people should take the time to say what >> they mean; I don't mind looking up unfamiliar words, and I had (otherwise I >> wouldn't have known about the holotronic architecture idea). And if SOHO >> means COTS but nobody remembers the acronym, then I suggest sticking with >> COTS. >> Peter >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III >> <el...@cse.psu.edu>wrote: >> >>> On 11/15/2013 12:28 PM, Peter St. John wrote: >>> > I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/ >>> > By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is >>> > germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO? >>> >>> Just because I find this service so snarky/funny: >>> >>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+soho >>> >>> No ill will intended :D. In your defense I also had to look it up. >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> ellis >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >>> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >>> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing >> To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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