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.
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
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.
by Spirit Bear January 28, 2004
The process of hiring a call center to perform customer service and/or technical support, or other support tasks, obstensibly because it is cheaper than having an in-house support team. Companies also outsource to preserve their reputation, as they can use the hand of god to fire any call center employee who isn't performing in line with their vision without anyone knowing; can hire and fire employees en mass with no regrets.
My job at Foo Inc was outsourced, so I went to work for the company they outsourced to at greatly reduced pay.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
The place where call center agents work. Usually the largest part of the call center, composed of sprawling rows and columns of cubicles that stretch so far that you can see the curve or the horizon before the back wall.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
A place where companies outsource customer service or technical support, ostensibly because it's cheaper than having in-house support. They are notorious for hiring anyone who can lift a headset and operate a keyboard and firing people for completely lame reasons whenever it is no longer proffitable to keep them or they are elligable for a pay increase. A large portion of the furry community works in call centers.
"I've worked in four or five call centers over the last few years. Maybe some day I'll get a real job," Rob said, then hit his Ready button to take another call.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004
I'm out of miniss so I needs to reboost.
I just reboosted and now I done went and done gone been done went and plum been up out them miniss.
I just reboosted and now I done went and done gone been done went and plum been up out them miniss.
by Spirit Bear July 31, 2007
A process that used to be used back in the day by call center agents supporting cable modems. It was a long, multi-step average handle time killer that included ripping out Windows' TCP/IP components, removing and re-installing network drivers, deleting the related entries from the registry, deleting some Windows system files that were frequently corrupted, restoring the system files, rebooting a few times, getting up and doing the chicken dance on your desk, calling the Mentor Line a few dozen times and guzzling lots of coffee. Always done as a last resort, usually at the recommendation of a mentor.
John tried ripping the stack and the nic, but that didn't work so he just did The Big Nasty and that got her back online.
by Spirit Bear October 28, 2004