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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">SOHO = Small Office, Home Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">(as opposed to a district in London, famous in epidemiology, the sex trade, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jim Lux<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter St. John<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 15, 2013 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ellis H. Wilson III<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Beowulf List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Beowulf] 10GbE Adapter Market<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Well that's amusing. The link has a clever animation of someone googling on my behalf, and comes up with what I assume is the correct definition:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">(from <a href="https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho">https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=define%3A+soho</a> )<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"relating to a market for relatively inexpensive consumer electronics used by individuals and small companies."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">That's great, but there are two funny things about the page. It follows the definition with the actual google results for "soho", none of which mention anything even related to the given definition.
The other funny thing is that the definition does not mention the acronym, or strictly speaking, the etymology of the "word".</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So I'm still mystified, and I don't know how an automatic dictionary system using google got that definition when none of it's search results get that definition. Any "pick best answer from
the results" AI that I might write would retrieve "South of Houston" &c.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So this is a put-on, right?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">So my actual bandwagon is that people should take the time to say what they mean; I don't mind looking up unfamiliar words, and I had (otherwise I wouldn't have known about the holotronic architecture
idea). And if SOHO means COTS but nobody remembers the acronym, then I suggest sticking with COTS.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Peter</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ellis H. Wilson III <<a href="mailto:ellis@cse.psu.edu" target="_blank">ellis@cse.psu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">On 11/15/2013 12:28 PM, Peter St. John wrote:<br>
> I missed the 4-letter acronym; my grasp stops at TLA's :/<br>
> By SOHO you don't mean "self organizing holons" although that idea is<br>
> germane to distributed processing. So what's a SOHO?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just because I find this service so snarky/funny:<br>
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<a href="http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+soho" target="_blank">http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define%3A+soho</a><br>
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No ill will intended :D. In your defense I also had to look it up.<br>
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Best,<br>
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ellis<o:p></o:p></p>
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