On Dec 11, 2007 7:25 AM, David Brodbeck <<a href="mailto:gull@gull.us">gull@gull.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
So, to use an analogy, if automakers quietly got together and decided<br>that "HP" would no longer mean "horsepower," but rather "hokum<br>points," and then sold cars with elevated "HP" figures, that would be
<br>the consumer's fault? Would it make a difference if they influenced<br>some industry trade group to declare "hokum points" a legitimate unit?<br></blockquote><div><br>I hope you realise that there are several different definitions of horsepower in use by the auto industry.
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For me there's a principle at work here. I resent it when companies<br>take widely-understood words and redefine them for their own benefit.
<br></blockquote></div><br>Fine. But it wasn't Seagate that took kilo- and mega- and redefined them.<br><br>Steve<br>