Spirit Bear's definitions

cracktro

An intro that introduces a crack.

Razor 911 had some nice cracktros for their C64 prods.

by Spirit Bear January 28, 2004

Reed-Solomon code

An error detection code or an error correcting code or a combination of both which is particularly suited to the correction of burst error or errors that are strongly correlated.

A popular Reed-Solomon code is RS(255,223) with 8-bit symbols. Each codeword contains 255 code word bytes, of which 223 bytes are data and 32 bytes are parity. For this code:
n = 255, k = 223, s = 8
2t = 32, t = 16
The decoder can correct any 16 symbol errors in the code word: i.e. errors in up to 16 bytes anywhere in the codeword can be automatically corrected.

by Spirit Bear March 20, 2004

puff puff pass

1. A game in which everyone in a circle passes a spliff, bong or other smokeage. Everyone puts five on it. Each time you take a hit you say "puff puff pass." If you fail to say it, cough or pass out, you're out of the rotation. The last person holding the smokeage keeps all the money.

2. A reminder that someone is holding and should pass.

Dude, you're camping on the bong. Puff puff pass.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

stream

To listen to media as it is being downloaded.

I was listening to a shoutcast stream of some phat beats.

by Spirit Bear February 2, 2004

Namefag

To report someone as not using their real name on a platform such as Facebook or Nextdoor in an attempt to have their account disabled, usually in response to having lost an argument with them or otherwise losing face to them. Particularly effective against individuals who have unusual real names.

I got namefagged again on Facebook for the 5th time for not being named Billy Jo Bob Jones or some shit.

by Spirit Bear January 15, 2022

props

Variables that are set on a MUCK charcter that identify all of its properties. Short for Properties.

I had to set a verification prop on myself to get into the Foo bar.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

bumping clocks

The act of providing incremental updates to a piece of hardware such as a smartphone, CPU or wearable device in the form of marginal spec bumps instead of releasing a revolutionary device.

Usually requires you to buy an entirely new device to get, for example, slightly more internal storage space or a marginally better CPU speed.

Usually done by hardware manufactures such as Apple, Motorola and Qualcomm.

The goal is to make as much money off of existing technology as possible before spending money to innovate.

I really hope that Merrifield and the next iteration of it are good and I hope Logan is great too because no one is competing with Qualcomm so they are literally sitting on their asses trying get another year out of bumping clocks on Krait.

by Spirit Bear April 5, 2014