scroller

A bit of code that makes words travel accross the screen, usually found in a demo or intro.

I put particle scroller in my invitro for Assembly '02.

by Spirit Bear January 28, 2004

give it up

A request for praise which can be issued either by the recieving party or a third party.

Give it up for my man DJ Mike!

by Spirit Bear February 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 05, 2014

stream

A company in Beaverton, Oregon that was acquired by Solectron, famous for making up reasons for canning people. A great deal of people got their foot in the door of the tech industry by starting as a call center slob at Stream International.

"Dude I got canned from Stream today." "I guess you should try Pinkerton then."

by Spirit Bear January 28, 2004

reorg

A company reorganization, usually involving the firing of a number of employees and promotion of others to the point of uselessness. Often used as a futile measure when a company is about to tank.

Bobco went through a reorg last year, they promoted all of their middle management to management and fired all of the previous managers in a futile attempt to regain stockholder trust.

by Spirit Bear July 26, 2007

average handle time

One of a call center's metrics that defines about how long it takes you to handle one call. Usually abreviated called AHT and run together so it sounds as a single three-syllable word.

Rob's AHT was pretty high because he had to do The Big Nasty a bunch of times this week.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004

canned

Call center jargon. Short for "shit canned." It can be used to mean getting fired, but it is usually implied that you were canned for a stupid reason, usually called a bullshit reason. Call centers are notorious for making up lame excuses for firing employees in order to improve their financial forcast.

Rob got canned from Deathbridge again today.

by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004