• doctortofu@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    Let me try to translate it from corpo-speak to plain English: “We thought of a higher number and we like that one better. And besides, suckers will still pay, so why the hell not? Oh, also, multicore!”

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      11 months ago

      The marketing team read the patch notes, and had several questions as to what this newfangled “multi-core” was. They decided it sounded so high tech that if they used it as a justification for a price increase, there would be no way the public would see through them.