[mythtv-users] Fwd: Further Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Fri Mar 12 19:11:27 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:58 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:52:16AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Michael T. Dean
>> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> > All hard drives from all vendors have always been sold by base 10 sizes--at
>> > least since I bought my 80MB hard drive back in the early 90's.  That's
>> > called standardization.
>> >
>> > I never--from any label on a Seagate hard drive--got the impression they
>> > were using some measurement that differed from any other manufacturer's.
>> >
>> > Mike
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> Interesting though how this differs from what happened with memory
>> purchasing as 4GB is actually 4.294GB. People don't complain about
>> getting 7% more for their money, do they... ;-)
>>
>> People want to own computers and count with their fingers like it's
>> change at the grocery store I think...
>
>    How many significant figures would you rather deal with?
>
>    1 or 13?
>
> [deletia]

Actually, I'm thinking of suing DRAM companies because my DRAM power
consumption in these times of global warming is 7% higher than it
should have been.

Anyone want to join me and reap the rewards?

- Mark


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