Something For Friday

[Wade Courtney]

I thought baked meant something *entirely* different.

On 6/16/06, Ron Hearn <RHearn at cucbc.com> wrote:
>
> Does being "baked in" allow for half-baked ideas?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Campbell [mailto:barry.campbell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 10:50 AM
> To: Ron Hearn
> Cc: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> Subject: Re: Something For Friday
>
> Ron,
>
> That's some good (and funny) stuff, but I think the etymology of "dial
> in" as business jargon has nothing to do with telephony.
>
> One can speak of "dialing in" the sights of a rifle, and it's also a
> relevant term in artillery range-finding.  "Dialing in" a system means
> "calibrating" it, roughly, so "dialing in" a product's features might
> refer to zeroing in (pardon the expression) on the feature set.
>
> The business jargon for "including" something these days tends to be
> "bake(d) in(to)," as in "these features will be baked into the next
> release of the product."
>
> - bc
>
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