[mythtv-users] seagate giving refunds out

[Steve Hodge]

On Dec 11, 2007 7:25 AM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:

> 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?
>

I hope you realise that there are several different definitions of
horsepower in use by the auto industry.


> 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.
>

Fine. But it wasn't Seagate that took kilo- and mega- and redefined them.

Steve
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