[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Larry Sanderson]

On Monday 10 December 2007 01:25:33 pm David Brodbeck wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > I don't understand what confusion you all are talking about.  If
> > every hard drive manufacturer in the world is using the exact same
> > terminology
> > to specify the disk drive sizes, there's no opportunity for
> > confusion when comparing drives.
> >
> > Since when is the vendor responsible for misinterpretations of fact
> > caused by the consumer's ignorance?
>
> So, to use an analogy, if automakers quietly got together and decided
> that "HP" would no longer mean "horsepower," but rather "hokum
> points," and then sold cars with elevated "HP" figures, that would be
> the consumer's fault?  Would it make a difference if they influenced
> some industry trade group to declare "hokum points" a legitimate
> unit?
>
> For me there's a principle at work here.  I resent it when companies
> take widely-understood words and redefine them for their own benefit.

You are talking about a company inventing a misunderstood unit in an 
attempt to misleed the public.  That's different than using an existing 
misunderstood unit accurately, in an attempt to be consistent with 
current industry stadards.