- Opera tells EU that Microsoft is hurting the web. Nice try.
- AMD bringing out the 8 core chip in 2009. I’m disappointed.
- AMD admits it overpaid for ATI.
- Is Cisco going to do an OS? Looks like it.
- 20-percent of all PC’s are infected with rootkits.
- Sony says it will rock with the Playstation — next year.
- Carl Icahn trying to bust up Motorola.
- And I have the origins of the word woot. Maybe.
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That hurt my brain
I thought the meaning was “Want One Of Those” like the website http://www.woot.com
* an acronym from “we own the other team”;
there are more here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/w00t
Woot is just another way of saying “yay” when something good or cool happens!
“I just won the Lotto! Woot!”
Nothing mysterious about it.
There was a song, kinda’ funkish, maybe from the 80’s “woot there it is!” I think they play it ball games?
RockOn check if you do a wiki-search you’ll find:
“Whoomp! (There It Is)” is a number one hit single by the Miami bass group Tag Team.
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ahhh! thanks Roundy! obviously my old rock deafened ears had mis-heard the lyrics. 😉
Re:Rootkits
Has the game been lost to scammers? With infection at 20% or more and no good way to detect-&-remove, the podcast makes it sound like game over. Have scmmers found their “Holy Grail” or is this just the start of a new game of cat-and-mouse with security software developers?
Cisco operating system? Assuming that an operating system is that chunk of code sitting between your local hardware and your applications, how does Cisco’s vapor-ware qualify? Their EOS (Entertainment Operating System) is described in the New York Times thusly: “EOS will be a hosted software-as-a-service”.
Microsoft is famous for re-defining existing industry terms (things like cluster, bug, etc). Is Cisco joining this annoying club?
– spinlock1977.wordpress.com
Erm. so clearly IOS doesn’t count?
Woot actually originated from classic Dungeons & Dragons in the late 70s and indeed is a contraction of “Wow, Loot!”. Note that these were pre-PC days (PC-XT I mean), and therefore the word originally had nothing to do with computer games. D&D was played on paper back then (of course with the requisite dice…)