Can we just STOP with the new acronyms? PLEASE?

Can we just STOP with the new acronyms? PLEASE?

by SouthernFriedInfidel | Published on July 23rd, 2008, 2:00 pm | Life

I'm looking over a test document for a web app where I'm working. It's just a regular Java system, the sort you encounter at a bank or airline. I start looking through the first test case, and I encounter the acronym "HUI." I wonder... is this a typo where the "G" in "GUI" (graphical user interface) was mistyped with the letter right next to it? The context where I see this thing seems to support that guess.

So I flip to the first page of the document... and there it is:

HUI - Human User Interface

WTF? Or perhaps I should update this to QTF??

Everyone in the programming world has used GUI for years. What the heck is wrong with it? It DESCRIBES what you are concerned with -- an interface that the USER uses... and it's GRAPHICAL. HUMAN USER is redundant. It means nothing... it could be graphical, or physical. Who can tell? And how many non-Humans would use it?

Bloody idiots who want to be different without good reason. Why do I have to put up with thoughtless twits like this!?

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

AND NOW I GET TWO ADS!?

Come ON!!

[Liv]

Don't worry... They're ending at the end of this month...

[BecauseHeLives]

I don't get any ads..... Wazzup with that?

[Liv]

If you're not seeing referrals then your Internet provider must be blocking them...

It was just a test which came at an oddly time when Google is pulling the program....

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

I don't get any ads..... Wazzup with that?

You mean ads in your posts? You've been avoiding key words that the site associates with selected ads, I bet.

No one is advertising God at the moment.

[BecauseHeLives]

I don't get any ads..... Wazzup with that?

You mean ads in your posts? You've been avoiding key words that the site associates with selected ads, I bet.

No one is advertising God at the moment.

Now THAT was funny!

[Liv]

Want to buy some ad space for God? I'm sellin....

[BecauseHeLives]

Want to buy some ad space for God? I'm sellin....

I don't need it to appear in all the forums. Just the "secret" ones.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

Want to buy some ad space for God? I'm sellin....

I don't need it to appear in all the forums. Just the "secret" ones.

Touche, sir.

[A Person]

I don't see any ads. Not one. I use a hosts file from http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm which blocks all that stuff and redirects it to localhost

[Sanjuro]

There is also a rather effective Firefox add-on available.

[The Rain King]

Want to buy some ad space for God? I'm sellin....

I don't need it to appear in all the forums. Just the "secret" ones.

Which, if they exist, you ain't getting in.

[BecauseHeLives]

Want to buy some ad space for God? I'm sellin....

I don't need it to appear in all the forums. Just the "secret" ones.

Which, if they exist, you ain't getting in.

Maybe I'm already THERE and I just don't post.

[The Rain King]

Maybe I'm already THERE and I just don't post.

Maybe you're fulla crap, too. Wouldn't do you any good anyway, because were you to show up, you'll soon be leaving. Your kind doesn't scare me a bit.

if you're a "Christian", you are one miserable, deceitful excuse for one. Just like the rest of your buds on this board.

[Liv]

Since we're off on a tangent... I would have added a if/then statement like the "main" ads for "vested users" but litterally 24 hours after I started tinker with the code to see what happens on the stats, Google announced they're pulling the program...

I did however change the ad if/then for members to only 100 posts awhile back (down from 500)... which means most everyone who regularly posts doesn't have to deal with them.

I hate to even do them, but they do pay the bills....