OEM
This term refers to an alternative band from Athens, Georgia. Wait, I was thinking of something else. Actually, OEM stands for "Original Equipment Manufacturer." It's a (somewhat misleading) word used to describe a company that uses products from other companies in its own product, and then sells the finished product under its own name. Is this good or bad? Well, once again, opinions differ. IBM is an example of an OEM, FYI. A company can increase revenue by selling to an OEM company. On the other side of the coin, the OEM company tends to distance itself from the company that provided the product. Of course, in the end it's all about making money. It's just a matter of how a company chooses to go about it.
On The Fly
Life is nothing more than a series of tasks. Your body is always working (even when you're not). Do you have to tell your heart to pump blood? Of course not -- it happens on the fly. You don't need to stop doing whatever it is you're doing so that something else can happen. You even THINK on the fly. This is also a term used in the digital world to define any task that your computer performs immediately -- sometimes without user intervention. Programs that work "on the fly" know that you don't have time to sit around all day waiting; duties need to get done. Like misspellings in Microsoft Word; they're highlighted on the fly. No need to reboot your system -- it happens instantaneously. And if you use AutoCorrect in Spain, unrecognized words are highlighted on the Spanish fly. Or at the race track, something might happen on the horse fly.
Opera
"Sing quite deeply with my horned helmet; dance upon my keyboard; download my heart." Oh, pardon me... I'm working on my new Lockergnome Opera: "Iowans, Vikings, and MP3s." Right now, I'm playing all three hundred characters by myself... in my basement here. I tend to get bored when Gretchen is at work. So! Let's talk about some real Opera. Namely, the Web browser which bears that name. Most folks surf with Internet Explorer or Netscape, but there has been a smaller alternative for quite some time. Opera offers pretty much all of the same features that the bigger browsers do; many folks have been using it. It's actually a viable alternative to your typical browsing. Opera is now free, thanks to in-browser advertising. Which, I have to point out, happens on Web pages, anyway. NOTE: the Web is just a collection of pages. You can access it using any capable Web browser. It truly doesn't matter, as long as it can interpret HTML documents. You may also notice that pages show up differently in the different browsers. Go with whatever makes you happy, bud.
