On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote:
I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term
'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is
really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin
I simply cannot find using Google?
- Mark
Ricer is used to refer to someone who wants to have the system tweaked
to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary
distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator
like i386 or x86_64.
hope this helps clarify the term,
James Wall
You're missing some history. First Mark is correct that the origin is
from the derogatory term in the car world, ricer. While the term
continues to be a derogatory term the racial part of it is generally
ignored in the computer world because there isn't a made in the US vs
Japan rivalry. Ricer continues to mean "spending inordinate amount of
time and money for performance modifications that generally do very
little for performance and a lot to reduce reliability while poorly
understanding the system as a whole." At least that's my interpretation
of the definition.
kashani
