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Peter Humphrey <prh@××××××××××.uk> posted |
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200612041016.58159.prh@××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Mon, 04 Dec |
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2006 10:16:58 +0000: |
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> On Tuesday 28 November 2006 01:49, Richard Fish wrote: |
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>> I'm starting to suspect everybody is a "ricer". |
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> Er, what's one of those? I assume it's an Americanism. |
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The term is borrowed from the automotive scene, where "ricer" refers to |
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those that are into the performance scene -- particularly mods like racing |
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decals, dual exhaust pipe ends, and the like, that are designed to /look/ |
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impressive (to that set, anyway), but don't actually raise performance. |
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Wictionary and Wikipedia both have entries in this context: |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Ricer |
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Unfortunately, use in this context apparently hasn't made it into most |
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dictionaries (at least those listed at onelook.com), as most only list the |
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term in the sense of wiktionary definition 1 (a cooking utensil). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricer |
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It's quite popular among users of binary distributions to mock Gentoo as a |
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ricer distribution. One must admit such folks will be attracted to |
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Gentoo, but of course as users, we know there are other reasons to use it |
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as well -- including on the technical side the amount of possible |
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customization, thus appealing to the power user who likes being in |
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control, regardless of how interested in performance they may or may not |
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be, and on the social side, a relatively large/active/helpful user |
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community and rather more (quantity) and more useful documentation than is |
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available for many/most distributions. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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