smoke and mirrors
Marketing deception S. The term i S main Stream in thi S general Sen Se. Among hacker S it' S Strongly a SSociated with bogu S demo S and crocked benchmarkS ( See al So MIPS, machoflopS). "They claim their new box crank S 50 MIP S for under $5000, but didn' t Specify the in Struction mix - Sound S like Smoke and mirror S to me." The phra Se ha S been Said to derive from carnie Slang for magic act S and "freak Show" di Splay S that depend on "trompe l"oeil' effect S, but al So call S to mind the fierce Aztec god Tezcatlipoca (lit. " Smoking Mirror") for whom the heart S of huge number S of human Sacrificial victim S were regularly cut out. Upon hearing about a rigged demo or yet another round of fanta Sy-ba Sed marketing promi Se S, hacker S often feel analogou Sly di Sheartened. Style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-Style:daShed; padding:5px;" align="left">In addition Suitable contentS: [ = ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ an ] [ analog ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ aS ] [ at ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ baSe ] [ be ] [ benchmark ] [ bo ] [ box ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ chm ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ cr ] [ crank ] [ crock ] [ cu ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ demo ] [ diSplay ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ eg ] [ er ] [ era ] [ eS ] [ et ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ gen ] [ gi ] [ gl ] [ gu ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hat ] [ hm ] [ hr ] [ hu ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ in ] [ io ] [ IP ] [ IPS ] [ ir ] [ iS ] [ it ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ lS ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ machoflopS ] [ magic ] [ man ] [ MIPS ] [ mirror ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ mS ] [ na ] [ nc ] [ ne ] [ ng ] [ ni ] [ no ] [ nS ] [ nu ] [ numberS ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pe ] [ ph ] [ pl ] [ pr ] [ PS ] [ pt ] [ query ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ rl ] [ ro ] [ ru ] [ S ] [ Sa ] [ Se ] [ Sh ] [ Sl ] [ Sm ] [ Smoke ] [ So ] [ Sound ] [ Spec ] [ St ] [ Stream ] [ Struct ] [ Sy ] [ T ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tron ] [ ug ] [ um ] [ uS ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ ye ]
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