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ICT cast down into the eternal fires of hell

It's official: the term ICT has joined mobe and lappy in the eternal fires of lexicographical hell after 1,396 of you (57 per cent of the vote) demanded its immediate consignment to the dustbin of history. A mere 295 (12 per cent) said nay, while the remaining 31 per cent (772) also called for proscription, while taking the …

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Martin Benson

FMS?

Flight Management System? False Memory Syndrome? Flash Media Server?

I dunno, none of those seem to fit....

Steve

And lo...

...there was much rejoicing :-)

Turbojerry

Static or reinterpret down cast?

Sorry, couldny resist that.

Ru

<acronym>. Or possibly <abbr>

If I hover my mouse pointer over the acronym (handily underlined with dots), I am enlightened.

Mark_T

Yeeeeeesssss!!

Victory of common sense over QUANGO-babble.

The village bicycle that is Paris Hilton is to be used at one's discretion.... no change there then.

imacoder.net

RE: FMS?

well, if you look at it, it has a slight dotted line under it. hover over it the full wording comes up either in the status bar in opera or as a tool tip in firefox. if you are still using IE then you dont deserve to know what it means.

for those of you who dont know, but give 2 hoots, how this is done - its the semantic tag <abbr> and its title attribute.

Nice to see that you guys are using nice web standards :D

Matt W

FMS

Would be Feck Me Sideways ?

Ian Ferguson

Use in the real world

Although I hate the term 'ICT', it is a widely used acronym, used in business, unlike mobe and lappy which are just... stupid. To further the point, you wouldn't use LOL in a business paper or serious news article, but you would use TWAIN, as although it's stupid, it has a technical meaning.

Dillon Pyron

Yes, TLAs

BFD

For those wishing for a slightly larger vocabulary

KMAGYOYO

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

FMS?!

@Ru & imacoder.net:

"well, if you look at it, it has a slight dotted line under it. hover over it the full wording comes up either in the status bar in opera or as a tool tip in firefox. if you are still using IE then you dont deserve to know what it means."

Unless you're reading it as an RSS feed in Thunderbird, in which case there is no dotted line ;o) I still have no clue what it means!

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

For Great Justice

"I still have no clue what it means!"

Pop open the page source. It's rude. Hint: spoon.

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

Hoorah!

our IT dept had the e-mail signature

ICT - Innovate... Change... Transform

We became so sick of this that some of us changed it to the more realistic

ICT - Interfere... Confuse... Terminate

Glad to see IT back again.

Anonymous Coward
Anonymous Coward

FMS ?

So it's not "(AAAAARRRRRGGGHHH) F&*$ing Microsoft" then?

Tim Hale

Point of order

TLA, WTF, FMS and OMG are initialisms, not acronyms. FFS.

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