[PATCH] Add long comments to shared-mime-info XML file

[Martell, Larry]

On Thu 10/13/2005 11:02 AM Dan Winship wrote:
> Googling for "CSS" gives "about 236,000,000" hits. Googling for
> "Cascading Style Sheets" gives "about 10,100,000" hits. The acronym is
> 20 times more commonly-used than the name. (Doing a search on Amazon
> titles, the advantage drops to a mere factor of 4.)
>
> CSS is even a bit of an edge case here; "JPEG" gets 140 times more hits
> than "Joint Photographic Experts Group". "PCI" gets 1400 times more hits
> than "Peripheral Component Interconnect". (Raise your hand if you even
> knew what PCI stood for. Oh, hi there, you in the back. Now go back to
> writing device drivers.)

What acronym can beat "TWAIN" - "Technology Without An Interesting Name"

-larry



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