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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