Definitions
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- noun slang, humorous
Human beings or theirbrains , when regarded as a form ofcomputer hardware orsoftware .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over time the meatware proved to be much too expensive for Yahoo! and the several other sites that attempted to copy their approach.
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They then augmented the human “meatware” with software algorithms.
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As he puts it, regardless of what lab trickery you might see on "grotesque fascist forensic-porn wallow CSI", in the real world "audio is rather more messy and the associative comprehension of human meatware still blows away digital signal processing".
Boing Boing 2006
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So boot up your meatware and help figure out what the hell Cartman is saying.
Boing Boing 2006
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Plus a book has infinite save points, vastly better special effects at least when run on the appropriate meatware, namely a creative human brain, is conveniently portable, and much cheaper.
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Others have various vision or vision processing impairments that would make meatware-visual-coprocessor-test CAPTCHAs reject them.
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Others have various vision or vision processing impairments that would make meatware-visual-coprocessor-test CAPTCHAs reject them.
Slashdot 2009
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The 100mb limit still counts, but the fact that they’ve expanded the longer-form program to people like “YouTube Partner” Trippy means the copyright infringement detection mechanisms, regardless if automated or meatware, have matured.
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