STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 20:03:17 2002

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Dan Kolb wrote:
> > > Answer to "what is the angle of directionality?" of a directional
> > > microphone (Sony MC-100): "That means that it only picks up what you aim
> > > it at."
> Staples do sell a lot of stuff. It's going to be difficult for all their
> sales people to know the tech specs of all their products. And there's not
> going to be *that* many people asking about the angle of directionality of a
> directional mike. Probably one person (max.) in their whole career there :-)

I don't EXPECT them to know the tech specs. But I DO expect them to know
that "That means that it only picks up what you aim it at" is NOT an
answer, right or wrong, to the question "what is the angle of
directionality?", and to know that "it's really good" is not an adequate
answer to a question of the specs.

I don't EXPECT them to know the tech specs. But I DO expect them to make
at least a token effort to try to look it up when somebody DOES ask, or
even refuse to look it up.


> > I've long since learnt that asking just about any salesdroid for
> > information is slightly less useful than asking the cat.

"SLIGHTLY less useful"??
That is an insult to cats.


> True, but it can be fun to play annoy-the-sales-droid at PC World. (Note: I
> haven't done this myself, this is merely second-hand information).

When a microphone is labelled as being "directional", the angle of
directionality, or the shape of it's response curve is hardly a "annoy the
sales droid". It is approximately the same order of necessity as asking
what is the capacity of a hard disk. Would YOU buy a hard disk without
knowing the size?

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Grumpy Ol' Fred        cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 20:03:17 GMT

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