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brain-damaged

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1.brain-damaged - [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous; demented. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better. Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also implies it is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poor design rather than some accident. "Only six monocase characters per file name? Now *that's* brain-damaged!"
2.brain-damaged - [especially in the Mac world] May refer to free demonstration software that has been deliberately crippled in some way so as not to compete with the commercial product it is intended to sell. Synonym crippleware.
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Tobias then found himself being drawn into the lives of his neighbors including a grieving widower, a pregnant and homeless teenager, a hone-handed juggler, a Vietnam vet who was brain-damaged because of a botched suicide attempt, a woman on the edge of Alzheimer's.
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