Thursday, August 31, 2006

Bad Choice for Initialization

I understand from an article in the NYTimes, about the future of downloading movies, that "Movielink will include a burn-to-DVD option with a copy protection program called the Content Scramble System (CSS)."

No! Don't call it CSS! We already use CSS to mean Cascading Style Sheets!

This will be another instance of an OTLA.

Don't know from TLAs? Read the entry in the Jargon File, especially Paul Boutin's accurate prognostication.

1 comment:

bjkeefe said...

For those of you still using IE, who can't see the balloon help-like definition for OTLA when you hover your mouse pointer over the text: O means "overloaded."

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