Magic Quadrant

An impartial and highly accurate graphical representation of the relative rankings of vendor technology at a given point in time, which is utterly unrelated to the amount of goods and services that any given IT vendor might have purchased from the Gartner Group.

Mobilepsy

This is the medical term for the frantic red-faced fit that someone goes into when their mobile phone starts ringing during an important meeting or while they are listening to a public presentation. Luckily mobilepsy is curable. Mild sufferers can be taught where the off button on their mobile phone is. With chronic sufferers, the only solution is a full mobilectomy.

MP3

A scheme for the compression of audio signals, using perceptual audio coding, psychoacoustic compression and a modified discrete cosine transform in order to enable efficient Internet music theft.

Multiplexer

Someone who goes to cinemas that have multiple screens… Wait, wasn’t there a word like this that had something to do with modems or was I dreaming? If there was a multiplexer, what was a plexer? It was a long time ago, damn it. Anyway who cares, nowadays, it’s about cinemas…

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