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four-color glossies
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n. 1. Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical
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specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally
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content-free. Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech ref manuals.
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Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is
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printed on ordinary paper in black and white. Four-color-glossy manuals are
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never useful for solving a problem. 2. [rare] Applied by extension to manual
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pages that don't contain enough information to diagnose why the program
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doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
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