From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RV5Xn-0005mY-0j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:03:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9AD521C246; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4662321C22D for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (173-8-169-73-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.169.73]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 466AE9FAFBC9 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED3CC3C.2080902@badapple.net> Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:00:28 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Devs and rice flags (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l ) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c9874abd-0b06-40a1-ac74-6daaa1d9a4f9 X-Archives-Hash: 91e7abb0a3f36305b3b87b9fce534e65 On 11/28/2011 9:28 AM, James Wall wrote: >> I wonder if someone in this thread will help me understand the term >> 'ricer'. The only origin I know of this term, from the car world, is >> really pretty racist, so I wonder if there isn't a more genteel origin >> I simply cannot find using Google? >> >> - Mark > > Ricer is used to refer to someone who wants to have the system tweaked > to the hardware it runs on that it is not like the generic binary > distros like ubuntu that is compiled for the lowest common denominator > like i386 or x86_64. > hope this helps clarify the term, > James Wall > You're missing some history. First Mark is correct that the origin is from the derogatory term in the car world, ricer. While the term continues to be a derogatory term the racial part of it is generally ignored in the computer world because there isn't a made in the US vs Japan rivalry. Ricer continues to mean "spending inordinate amount of time and money for performance modifications that generally do very little for performance and a lot to reduce reliability while poorly understanding the system as a whole." At least that's my interpretation of the definition. kashani