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Date "MOBY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
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Computing | Moby /moh'bee/ [MIT: seems to have been in use among model railroad fans years ago. Derived from Melville's "Moby Dick" (some say from `Moby Pickle'). Now common.] 1. adj. Large, immense, complex, impressive. "A Saturn V rocket is a truly moby frob." "Some MIT undergrads pulled off a moby hack at the Harvard-Yale game." (See Appendix A for discussion.) 2. n. obs. The maximum address space of a machine (see below). For a 680[234]0 or VAX or most modern 32-bit architectures, it is 4,294,967,296 8-bit bytes (4 gigabytes). 3. A title of address (never of third-person reference), usually used to show admiration, respect, and/or friendliness to a competent hacker. "Greetings, moby Dave. How's that address-book thing for the Mac going?" 4. adj. In backgammon, doubles on the dice, as in `moby sixes', `moby ones', etc. Compare this with bignum (sense 3): double sixes are both bignums and moby sixes, but moby ones are not bignums (the use of `moby' to describe double ones is sarcastic). Standard emphatic forms: `Moby foo', `moby win', `moby loss'. `Foby moo': a spoonerism due to Richard Greenblatt. 5. The largest available unit of something which is available in discrete increments. Thus, ordering a "moby Coke" at the local fast-food joint is not just a request for a large Coke, it's an explicit request for the largest size they sell. This term entered hackerdom with the Fabritek 256K memory added to the MIT AI PDP-6 machine, which was considered unimaginably huge when it was installed in the 1960s (at a time when a more typical memory size for a timesharing system was 72 kilobytes). Thus, a moby is classically 256K 36-bit words, the size of a PDP-6 or PDP-10 moby. Back when address registers were narrow the term was more generally useful, because when a computer had virtual memory mapping, it might actually have more physical memory attached to it than any one program could access directly. One could then say "This computer has 6 mobies" meaning that the ratio of physical memory to address space is 6, without having to say specifically how much memory there actually is. That in turn implied that the computer could timeshare six `full-sized' programs without having to swap programs between memory and disk. Nowadays the low cost of processor logic means that address spaces are usually larger than the most physical memory you can cram onto a machine, so most systems have much _less_ than one theoretical `native' moby of core. Also, more modern memory-management techniques (esp. paging) make the `moby count' less significant. However, there is one series of widely-used chips for which the term could stand to be revived -- the Intel 8088 and 80286 with their incredibly brain-damaged segmented-memory designs. On these, a `moby' would be the 1-megabyte address span of a segment/offset pair (by coincidence, a PDP-10 moby was exactly 1 megabyte of 9-bit bytes). Source: Jargon File. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Moby is an American electronic musician. Moby's real name is Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York City) - he takes his performing name from his relative Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick.Arguably most famous among his peers for the track "Go", a progressive track using the string line from the Twin Peaks theme song, Moby is also well known for the single "Next is the E". Moby has released albums under the names "Voodoo Child" and "Barracuda".
Moby plays keyboard, guitar, and bass guitar, and expresses mild irritation at the assumption that everything on his newer albums is a sample. He used to be in a punk band, but abandoned punk in 1989 for electronica, performing under various names including "Barricuda." His first album for Elektra Records was Everything Is Wrong; he followed that up with a hard rock/electronica album called Animal Rights. Animal Rights was commercially unsuccessful and Moby and Elektra parted company. Moby's Play was released through V2.
After a decade's worth of music, Moby's latest efforts have gained him international notice. Mainstream reviewers have raved about his talents on the 1999 album Play, though some early fans were let down. The album has 18 tracks on it and was the first album in history to have all of its tracks commercially licensed: "Porcelain," for instance, appeared on a commercial for Bailey's Irish Cream and Nordstrom; "Find My Baby" was on a commercial for American Express. The album's tracks eventually were accepted in various radio formats, but because of Play's extensive licensing, the album could have been financially successful even without radio play.
Moby has a television show on MTV, Señor Moby's House of Music, which focuses mostly on more obscure electronic music.
In 2001 Moby earned the ire of Eminem after calling his music misogynist and homophobic; Eminem later satirized Moby in "Without Me", calling him a "fag" and questioning his relevance. The two were in a confrontation at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards, though Moby expresses respect for Eminem's musical talents.
As of August 2002 Moby, a vegan non-denominational Christian and self-proclaimed simpleton (for his often sincere and idealistic political assessments), lived in New York City's Little Italy, where he's lived for a decade in a small apartment in a five-story building across the street from David Bowie. He owns a small restaurant and coffee shop called TeaNY, where he occasionally waits tables.
Discography
- 18 (2002)
- Play (1999)
- Play: Limited Edition 2 CD Box Set
- Mobysongs
- I Like to Score
- Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989-1993
- Animal Rights
- Everything is Wrong (DJ mixed)
- Everything is Wrong
- Early Underground
- Ambient
- Voodoo Child -- The End of Everything
- The Story So Far
External links
References
- The May 2002 issue of Wired has a largely skeptical but nonetheless informative cover story on Moby.
"Moby" is also slang, in hacker parlance, for "big" or "impressive."
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Moby."
Crosswords: MOBY |
| Specialty definitions using "MOBY": cycle drought ♦ vaxocentrism. (references) |
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Screenplays | Moby Dick (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin) I look like Moby Grape (Angus; writing credit: Jill Gordon) | |
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Song Titles | We Are All Made Of Stars (performing artist: Moby) Body Rock (performing artist: Moby) Southside (performing artist: Moby) | |
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| "Hot chocolate on moby lines fe" by Simon S. Commentary: "The best hot chocolate ever." |
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| "MOBY" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MOBY" is used about 87 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 87 | 35,390 |
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Expression using "MOBY": high moby. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
moby | 1,546 | moby music | 10 |
moby dick | 518 | disc moby | 10 |
moby lyrics | 91 | moby scooter | 10 |
moby grape | 45 | dick moby quote | 10 |
moby line | 42 | game moby | 10 |
moby play | 28 | flower lyrics moby | 9 |
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18 moby | 19 | character dick moby | 9 |
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lyrics moby porcelain | 17 | author dick moby | 7 |
in moby this world | 15 | blues lyrics moby natural | 7 |
moby porcelain | 13 | blade moby z | 7 |
dick moby restaurant | 13 | bladez moby scooter | 7 |
moby dick movie | 12 | dick gregory moby peck | 7 |
blaster moby | 12 | extreme moby ways | 7 |
moby discography | 11 | dick moby toy | 7 |
herman melville moby dick | 11 | download moby | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "MOBY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | moby clock (moby clock). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 白鯨 (Moby Dick, white whale). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はくげい (Moby Dick, white whale). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obymay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-m-o-y" | |
-1 letter: boy, mob, yob, yom. | |
-2 letters: bo, by, mo, my, om, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-m-o-y" | |
+1 letter: boomy, womby. | |
+2 letters: bayamo, bloomy, bombyx, bosomy, broomy, corymb, embody, emboly, embryo, imbody, symbol, tomboy. | |
+3 letters: amboyna, bayamos, benomyl, bionomy, bogyism, bogyman, bogymen, buxomly, corymbs, embryon, embryos, goombay, homeboy, movably, symbion, symbiot, symbols, tomboys, zombify. | |
+4 letters: amboynas, benomyls, biometry, bloomery, blossomy, bogeyman, bogeymen, bogyisms, bombycid, bombyxes, boogyman, boogymen, bottomry, boyarism, coembody, corymbed, cymbalom, embryoid, embryons, goombays, gorblimy, homebody, homeboys, hymnbook, lobbyism, lobotomy, maccaboy, maccoboy, mobility, molybdic, moneybag, morbidly, moveably, myoblast, reembody, somberly, sombrely, somebody, symbions, symbiont, symbiote, symbiots, symboled, symbolic. | |
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