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• moke and mirrors: n. Marketing deceptions. The term is mainstream in this general sense.
  Among hackers it's strongly associated with bogus demos and crocked {benchmark}s (see also {MIPS}, {machoflops})....
• benchmark: [techspeak] n. An inaccurate measure of computer performance.
  In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lie...
• ealth manager n. [Corporate DP] A manager that appears out of nowhere
  promises undeliverable software to unknown end users, and vanishes before the programming staff realizes what has happened....
• Brief History Of Linux (#18) There are lies, damned lies, and Microsoft brochures Even from the very first day, the Microsoft Marketing Department was at full throttle.
  Vaporware has always been their weapon of choice. Back when MS-DOS 1....
• bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
  2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• MIPS: /mips/ [abbreviation] n. 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...
• benchmark n. [techspeak] An inaccurate measure of computer performance.
  In the computer industry, there are three kinds of lie...
• MIPS /mips/ n. [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed
  formally, `Million Instructions Per Second' (that's 10^6 per second, not 2^(20)!...