LMJargon

1. adj. The critical choice of which pieces to include in a product in order to get it out the door early enough to make a market impact but not too early as to jeopardize the quality of the product, and overall to maximize the area under the time/sales curve. A typical time-to-market decision may be to hold off on a particular non-essential feature until the next release of the software.

1. n. ASCII file listing program of love for LX controllers, written by DaveM.

1. vulgar v. Said of an object of questionable value, the implication being that it is “good for shit.” See broken, wrong. This toilet operating system needs a major brain transplant.

1. n. pl. The black smear that is put on a new sofa when touched after handling test documents all day.

1. n. pl. Same as toner carcass.

1. n. Small spatters of unfused pixel dust which sometimes remain on output from laser marking engines and which are usually too small to notice until you've smeared your otherwise perfect document.
2. The black cloud of toner that fills the paper path and erupts from some 1200-dpi printers when they've fracked during a print job.
3. The drifts of toner left over after cleaning out a stack of toner bones.

1. n. A spent toner cartridge. See toner graveyard.

1. n. A cube where toner cartridges go to die; a special cube dedicated to the collection of toner carcasses. The carcasses are recycled every few weeks.

1. n. A ribbon of plastic which separates the toner from the drum during shipping and which must be pulled out of the side of the toner cartridge when it is first installed.

1. interj. Said when scolding a software engine for introducing a bug or for coding something foolishly. Phrase derived from bad dog!