The Register: Fonts, face-tagging and false frequencies

AMD get plenty of opprobrium for its new naming convention:-

"I make no judgement about whether the comparison is fair or accurate, but I do take exception, (as will many many more people), at being told lies by marketing bunnies. AMD were more than happy to crow about clock speed when they reached 1GHz first, but now they tell us, ( 9 months later), that processor speed does not matter!" writes Mark Newman.

And on a related metric: MIPS - Meaningless Indicator of Performance used by Salesmen.