BRAIN-DAMAGED
\bɹˈe͡ɪndˈamɪd͡ʒd], \bɹˈeɪndˈamɪdʒd], \b_ɹ_ˈeɪ_n_d_ˈa_m_ɪ_dʒ_d]\
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1. [generalisation of "Honeywell Brain Damage" (HBD), atheoretical disease invented to explain certain uttercretinisms in Honeywell Multics] Obviously wrong; cretinous;demented.There is an implication that the person responsible must havesuffered brain damage, because he should have known better.Calling something brain-damaged is really bad; it also impliesit is unusable, and that its failure to work is due to poordesign rather than some accident. "Only six monocasecharacters per file name? Now *that's* brain-damaged!"2. [especially in the Mac world] May refer to freedemonstration software that has been deliberately crippled insome way so as not to compete with the commercial product itis intended to sell. Synonym crippleware.
By Denis Howe
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.