[macman84]

I say that we need a term for when applications give us that perpetual rolling color wheel. It's not a freeze, because you can switch & force quit, and saying "i had to force quit * " is rather wordy. For these reasons, I am coining the phrase of "Jammed", that's right "jammed'. Unlike a freeze, it only stops your work momentarily, and doesn't require a restart. So the next time you try to load a long, shockwave page in OmniWeb, and you have to force quit, say "I can't believe OmniWeb jammed"; and think of me

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jammed: n, a state of computing at which a single application fails to continue to be active, requiring the application to be terminated

[Kate]

Make it so!

[starfleetX]

Aye, Mrs. Mulgrew.

[Kate]

Dismissed.

[starfleetX]

Geordi: "The plasma injectors are jammed! We're gonna have to eject the core!"
Data: "Have you tried pressing command-option-escape??"

Okay, okay, enough Trek humor for this thread...

[Gee4orce]

I prefer 'knackered' myself...

[Gametes]

"Constipated"

[IamBob]

"spinning color wheel of death"

[Angus_D]

It's Spinning Pinwheel of Death, and therefore SPoD. I now need to figure out what R and K could satnd for and then we'd have SPoRK!

[Kosmo]

Jammed. I rather like it..Think I'll go with 'jammed'...sounds right.

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[plaidpjs]

So, does this mean we're going to have two camps as to this subject now? One group saying they got "jammed" while trying to run three IE windows concurrently, and the other group saying they suffered through the "spinning pinwheel of death" while trying to open up two Classic apps at the same time?

Ciao!

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[gorgonzola]

And of course all of Gametes' are constipated ...

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[davidski]

Whatever we call it, we need a "spin doctor" to fix it.

we call it the "spinning pizza of death"


not speaking for my employer

[dark3lf]

How bout the application "steved" on me.

[mr_sonicblue]

I've always just thought of it as "annoying".

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[Earth Mk. II]

Originally posted by Angus_D:
It's Spinning Pinwheel of Death, and therefore SPoD. I now need to figure out what R and K could satnd for and then we'd have SPoRK!

Hum... how about "Spinning Pinwheel of Repressed Karma"?

But, on a personal note, SPoD would be so much more fun to say... think of it with a really long "o" sound, "SPooooooooooooooooooooooooD!"

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[Xeo]

jammed: n, a state of computing at which a single application fails to continue to be active, requiring the application to be terminated

I think it's a verb, not a noun. "My app is jammed."

I know for sure it's not a noun. You wouldn't say, "You are a jammed!"


Compliments of OmniDictionary and dict.org.

Code:
Jam \Jam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jammed; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Jamming.] [Either fr. jamb, as if squeezed between jambs,
   or more likely from the same source as champ See Champ.]
   1. To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to
      squeeze; to wedge in.

            The . . . jammed in between two rocks. --De Foe.

   2. To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a
      door. [Colloq.]

   3. (Naut.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half
      her upper sails are laid aback. --W. C. Russell.


jammed
     adj : filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes";
           "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater" [syn:
            jam-packed, packed]

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[Arty50]

"What flavor is it?"

[theoden]

Great term, but what about when iTunes jams?

Man, iTunes is jamming like you wouldn't believe.
yeah yeah, corny... just needed to enlighten you all

[Dr Evil]

Well, i am partial to:
"Spinning Candy Cane of Pain" =)

[Detrius]

Actually, in the sentence:

My app is jammed.

That would be an adjective. It's not a noun; it's not a verb.

That app jammed on me.

That would be a verb.


Simple elementary school lessons.

[Xyphoid Process]

Originally posted by starfleetX:
Geordi: "The plasma injectors are jammed! We're gonna have to eject the core!"
Data: "Have you tried pressing command-option-escape??"

Okay, okay, enough Trek humor for this thread...

Wouldn't you use Cmd-Shift-1 to eject the core?

[MacmanX]

I think jammed is to common a word. It also suggest you could unjam the app. Perhads some similar word such as choked, congested, stuck, or clogged (a little help please, my thesaurus and dictonary are at home) would be more approiate.

I like SPoD. It's easy to say; however, I could never imagine myself saying this when confronted with that evil thing. Also, how would this translate into other languages? Spainish: HPdM or GPdM? Now that's tough!

No matter what is adopted by the community at large, there will always be a common thread. It will always be prefaced by, "That dreaded..." As in, "I got that dreaded XXXXXX agian while using OmniWeb!"

Cheers!

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[starfleetX]

Originally posted by Xyphoid Process:
Wouldn't you use Cmd-Shift-1 to eject the core?

Here's my suggestion:
How about saying "jacked up"? Like, when you've typed out this long response to a thread and you shout, "Chit! My program got all jacked up!"

[Scott_H]

It's called "stalling".

[muchfresh]

I got it:

spinning rainbow flavored pinwheal of lingering death

[yadda_yadda_yadda]

To keep in the spirit of the Mac and Clarus the Dogcow, we should call it "moof".

Examples:
I can't believe OmniWeb just moofed!
OmniWeb moofs all the time!

OK, maybe not.

[osiris]

how about 'Constipated'?

[Cipher13]

Stalled dammit, its stalled!

EDIT: Just noticed Scott_h said stalled. Right on!
Its whats its always been called. Just cause the disc is a new colour doesn't make whats happening any different.

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[starfleetX]

Originally posted by Scott_H:
It's called "stalling".

Awww, c'mon Scott. You just ruined our fun. j/k

[DoctorW]

How about "Balled up"?

It has a double meaning, referring not only to the cursor, but being mucked as well.

[edddeduck]

Moofed

Thats my vote you have to remember you roots..

Damn it omni has moofed again

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[yadda_yadda_yadda]

Hey hey, someone likes it! lol

Originally posted by edddeduck:
Moofed
Thats my vote you have to remember you roots..
Damn it omni has moofed again

[Mactoid]

Originally posted by Scott_H:
It's called "stalling".

I think stalled kinda implies that it's a temporary state. I'd say that "hanging" or "wedged" would be more apropos. Look those up in the jargon file with OmniDictionary. Don't think we really need a new term, since unix app's have been around and screwing up since long before OS X, but it's all in fun so, whatever.

[M�lum]

I like the colours of the turning disk, for me it's "tripping"

[starfleetX]

Originally posted by Mactoid:
I think stalled kinda implies that it's a temporary state. I'd say that "hanging" or "wedged" would be more apropos. Look those up in the jargon file with OmniDictionary. Don't think we really need a new term, since unix app's have been around and screwing up since long before OS X, but it's all in fun so, whatever.

Keep in mind, though, that upon seeing the spinning disk, it may very well be a temporary state. Often the disk shows up when one application is churning really hard but certainly isn't crashed or frozen. I've noticed the spinning wheel just when a program is waiting for something. After all, the Finder does it when it's waiting for a response from a server. However, there are those other times you see it because a program has taken a trip over to Apple's beautiful campus: 1 Infinite Loop. Anyway, "stalled" definitely isn't a new term for unresponsive programs; it's been around for quite a while, IIRC.

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[yuriwho]

I like to say

"IE just beached"

as in 'beached whale' and beachball

and it tends to happen to bloated, whale like, apps such as IE

and when the app comes back....it just surfaced

Cheers,

Y

[Mactoid]

Originally posted by starfleetX:
Keep in mind, though, that upon seeing the spinning disk, it may very well be a temporary state. Often the disk shows up when one application is churning really hard but certainly isn't crashed or frozen.

yes, that is of course true, the OS automagically displays the rainbow cursor if an event is remains unhandled in the event queue for 3 seconds or more, so you don't want to be too hasty about saying that the program is not going to return, but after 2 minutes, if my web browser still isn't responding, it's as good as hung. time to kill it and start over.

P.S.- M�lum, I really do like the term "tripping"! Gets my vote =)

[edddeduck]

How about "IE was tripping so much I was sure I saw Clarus the Dogcow!!!"



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[JUnderwood]

I orefer to be different.

give me glowbled (glow-bull-ed).

Crap, my app glowbled on me.

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[Ghoser777]

ApplicationX sent up us the SPoD (Spinning Pinwheel of Death)... I like it.

F-bacher

There's a similar thread over at MacAddict. My favorite so far is 'spun' or 'spinning' - it evokes an image of a car spinning its wheels.

SPoD, though, is pretty cool.

[NeilCharter]

I hate that f#&king cow - can someone please shoot it?

I prefer not to call it anything cos hopefully in 6 months time it will never happen again.

I know - DREAMLAND. Scary thing - I actually had a dream that my SCSI connected Jaz drive actually worked in X. Of course I tried it this morning and it didn't!

Neil

[starfleetX]

Originally posted by NeilCharter:
I hate that f#&king cow - can someone please shoot it?

How dare you insult and dishonor Clarus!! She's a dogcow, not a cow!

So... moof!!

[Gavin]

It has to be past tense like crashed or hung.

I like Spun - as in went flailing out of control. It also implies the wheel.

Spun is easy to remember for novices too.

As a secondary, cool term for insiders I like 'beached' as in "Dude, OmniWeb beached itself again!"

Of course the term I've ben using all along is "went tits up!"

[Pismo Of Ages]

god... its amazing we can talk so much about things like his, like te other day, my three friends on HL had a 45 minute discussion about filetypes,hehe =b

Pismo