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lite

A scaled-down version of a software product, offering only a limited set of features, often free, otherwise much cheaper than the full product.

This is often used as a way of getting buyers who are interested to pay for the full product when they wish to use the features that the lite version does not support.

Sometimes there is a lite version of a product that even has a free version with more features, but not everybody requires these features.

BuzzSoft Lite (made-up example)
Winamp Lite (real example)

by bylli May 20, 2009

67πŸ‘ 25πŸ‘Ž


Security Question

An extra question used for setting up an account somewhere in case you forget your password.

However rather than adding extra security like they think they do, they make your account easier to hack because whilst you may have a great unguessable password, these questions are often easy for someone to guess or even know the answer to.

A sensible person would not give an accurate answer to one of these questions and would in fact have an answer that is as hard to guess as a password.

As an extra security question, Brooklyn Beckham, what is your mother's maiden name?:

Wouldn't be Adams by any chance?

by bylli May 20, 2009

4πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž


single malt

A whisky which is distilled at a single distillery, and which is made completely from a single type of malted grain (usually barley).

This is generally considered the best type of whisky. The most popular varieties are from Scotland although there are a few from Japan.

Some are bottled at cask strength, but most of them are watered down before bottling. The age of the whisky is the whole number of years that have passed between distillation and bottling (during which it was kept in the cask).

On Burns night we'll wash down our haggis with a nice drop of single malt.

by bylli May 24, 2009

16πŸ‘ 2πŸ‘Ž


dislexyc

Those who get their i's and y's confused.

I am dislexyc and my favourite actress is Marylin Monroe and my favourite singer is Marylin Manson. By the way is Cyndi Lauper for real?

by bylli May 19, 2009

4πŸ‘ 6πŸ‘Ž


two stops from dagenham

mad (colloquial, particularly in Essex)

because the station 2 stops from Dagenham is Barking.

Yeap, you've gone two stops from Dagenham!

by bylli May 24, 2009


Stayman

The most popular bridge convention (i.e. the game of bridge) to find a major suit fit after an opening bid or an overcall in No Trumps, particularly 1NT.

The most popular variation is a 2C response to 1NT asking for a 4-card major. It is important for the responder to have an answer to any response he may receive.

There are variations like Puppet Stayman which enables players to open 2NT with a 5 card major and still find a 5-3 major suit fit.

Using Stayman often promises enough strength to invite to game. But even if that is your understanding with your partner, you can play "Garbage Stayman"

by bylli May 24, 2009


Blackwood

Popular convention in the game of Bridge to determine if the side has enough controls to play in a slam.

Generally a bid of 4NT asks partner to respond with an artificial bid dependent on the number of aces he holds.

The most popular variation is Key-Card which counts the king of the implied trump suit as a key-card. Other variations allow for more than one key suit in which they king counts as a key card.

1S - 2H - 4NT

4NT is Blackwood. According to which variation you are playing you are asking for aces only or possibly the presence of the king or spades or king of hearts as well as a keycard.

by bylli May 20, 2009

77πŸ‘ 29πŸ‘Ž