[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[David Brodbeck]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 12:08 PM, jedi wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:52:08PM -0600, griz_quattro wrote:
>> Seagate has had a good run of drives for the past few years and
>> I can not complain. Penalizing a manufacturer for the buyer's
>> ignorance is nuts. It's as irresponsible as it is incredible.
>
>   No. Kilobyte has been a well established term of art for DECADES.
>
>   It is intended to be computationally convenient.
>
>   Once upon a time, SI units were intended to be computationally
> convenient rather than merely arbitrary. Seagate chose to be
> slimy about this and got caught.
>
>   It's like getting caught in a speed trap.

Yup.  I figure if we let companies get away with little lies and  
misrepresentations in their advertising, pretty soon they'll be  
getting away with whoppers.  I'm glad there's some threat of  
repercussion to keep them in line.