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Subject:RE: About a word - how busy are you? From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Lin Sims <ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Fri, 31 May 2013 16:05:36 -0400
"Load" is pretty generic --- but then, so is "busyness".
I'm going to float "resource load" and see if it continues to float.
Thanks
From: Lin Sims [mailto:ljsims -dot- ml -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: May-31-13 2:03 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin
Cc: Combs, Richard; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: About a word - how busy are you?
How about "load"? Or "resource load"?
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:43 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com<mailto:Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>> wrote:
How busy is this sucker?
:-)
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From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com<mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]
Sent: May-31-13 12:11 PM
To: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com<mailto:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Subject: RE: About a word - how busy are you?
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
> A developer has called a customer-requested feature a "busyness" counter.
[snip]
Kevin, you haven't told us what this "busyness" counter is actually counting. :-)
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