Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/19/2015 06:05 PM, Charles Dickman wrote: The farmers I know aren't any different than thier grandfathers. Modern technology just makes them much more productive. "Farmer" can mean different things, for instance, growing stuff up by Booneville. (right, Fred?) --Chuck

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Charles Dickman
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:04 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >>> Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING? > > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Charles Dickman wrote: >> >> FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers. >> (Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.) > > > Is modern "agribusiness" really

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Fred Cisin
Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING? On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, Charles Dickman wrote: FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers. (Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.) Is modern "agribusiness" really "farming"?

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Charles Dickman
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Does it correlate with the decline of actual FARMING? FARMING hasn't declined, only the number of farmers. (Not a farmer, but surrounded by them.)

RE: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Tom Gardner
huck Guzis [mailto:ccl...@sydex.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2015 1:09 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: "Farm" slang terms On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections > of other

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-19 Thread Chris Elmquist
On Sunday (10/18/2015 at 03:26PM -0700), Fred Cisin wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Dave Wade wrote: > >I can see that Antenna Farms is an older term, dating back to at least 1950, > >but of course as antenna's are usually in fields.. > > It gradually evolved from agricultural to ANYTHING, > and the

RE: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Fred Cisin
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Dave Wade wrote: I can see that Antenna Farms is an older term, dating back to at least 1950, but of course as antenna's are usually in fields.. It gradually evolved from agricultural to ANYTHING, and then from fields to ANY space. Does it correlate with the decline of ac

RE: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck > Guzis > Sent: 18 October 2015 21:09 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > > Subject: Re: "Farm" slang terms > > On 10/18/2015 12:46 P

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Oct 18, 2015 3:08 PM, "Chuck Guzis" wrote: > > On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: > >> Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections >> of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm" >> (Altamont pass). > > > I recall a room full of a hundred or

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 10/18/2015 12:46 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Later, it began to be used for moderately open land, with collections of other stuff, such as a group of windmills became a "wind farm" (Altamont pass). I recall a room full of a hundred or more disk drives being referred to as a disk farm--but I don'

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015, Eric Christopherson wrote: > Hi, all. I'm looking for information on slang terms with the word "farm" > in them, relating to computaters; especially the origins of such terms. > I've known "cube farm" (a bunch of cubicles where office workers work) > and "render farm" (a clust

RE: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Fred Cisin
So, does anyone know what the first such "farm" slang term was, and when and where it originated? And how about other terms with "farm" in them? (I came across a new one the other day, but of course I've forgotten it now.) Going back a ways, it originated with growing crops. Then, it began bein

Re: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Mouse
> [...] just recently I found a reference to "link farm" as meaning "an > incremental backup consisting mostly of links (most likely hard > links) to the relevant files in the preceding iteration of the > backup"; but this page [...] says "a website with little or no > content, consisting of mostly

RE: "Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread tony duell
> > So, does anyone know what the first such "farm" slang term was, and when > and where it originated? And how about other terms with "farm" in them? > (I came across a new one the other day, but of course I've forgotten it > now.) Not likely to be used much now (well, not outside members of thi

"Farm" slang terms

2015-10-18 Thread Eric Christopherson
Hi, all. I'm looking for information on slang terms with the word "farm" in them, relating to computaters; especially the origins of such terms. I've known "cube farm" (a bunch of cubicles where office workers work) and "render farm" (a cluster of computers used for graphics rendering in parallel)