STAPLES STORES WILL TAKE OLD COMPUTERS

From: Doc <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Thu Feb 14 20:38:36 2002

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> 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?

Pet Peeve Mode ON

  It's astounding how many people do exactly that.
  "My so-called 80 gig harddrive is only 74 gigs!!! What a rip-off!!!"
  I hear that crap all the time. The explanation that 1,000,000,000 is
a Maxtor gig and 1024x1024x1024 is a real gig doesn't impart a clue.
  "OK, so where's the other 6 gigs?"

Pet Peeve Mode OFF

        Doc
Received on Thu Feb 14 2002 - 20:38:36 GMT