floater
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于 2003-04-04 01:49
I think the meaning is you do something without extra. 1. You get a new computer box, you open it, put everything together, monitor, wires, etc. If there is not network cable, then you need to buy an extra one from a store, this is not out of the box. My colleague called me some time ago and said, hey, I installed the software from out of the box. So I knew he didn't install anything else, just the cd in the software package. So it's basically self contained, I don't need to install anything else to make it work. So in this case, the box is simply the container, you get everything from the container. 2. Another usage is Let's think out of the box. This means let's think about it from a different way, in this case the box is the old way.
I am not sure how it's connected with grid. Kind of wierd. But anyway, grid means "net in chinese" with more weight on the knots in the "net". If you connect many pcs together to do something, e.g., searching aliens, then you have a computer grid.
In some cases, people just use something common to describe some situation. For example, "I'll let you off the hook", or "Get a brain", etc. So the approach is to use imagination.
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." - Martin Fowler, Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code
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