Pigopoly vs Null - What's the difference?
pigopoly | null |
(informal, derogatory) A cartel of greedy, overcharging businesses, specifically the entertainment industry.
* 2002 February 1, "Ayn R Keey" (username), "
* 2003 November 19, "Tacit" (username), "
* 2005 February 21, "news" (username), "
* 2006 November 7, "Data Banks" (username), "
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between pigopoly and null
is that pigopoly is (informal|derogatory) a cartel of greedy, overcharging businesses, specifically the entertainment industry while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pigopoly
English
Noun
(pigopolies)Re: Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe does not hold office", in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and other newsgroups, Usenet:
- It is no more than a tie between the players in the Two-Party Pigopoly * of our government. ΒΆ
Re: Screen capture from DVD", in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop, Usenet:
- That's actually quite encouraging; it shows that no matter how much they try, pigopolies like the MPAA can't stop technology with legislation.
Re: Mac OS X and the Cell Processor: A Marriage Made in Heaven?", in comp.sys.mac.advocacy, Usenet:
- I think it is one thing to not have DRM built in in the first place, and keep your board from being being massacred by the pigopoly , but quite another to have built-in DRM and not implemet it.
Re: a quick semi-OT question", in alt.games.the-sims, Usenet:
- a lot of smaller ISPs were getting their feed from a certain pigopoly company that had decided to save money and unplug a heap of their storage units & sell them off.
Derived terms
* pigopolistnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.