An idea for a new law
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Background: I am a moderator of a forum dedicated to the students of the city I live in, and I have seen lots of idiotic questions in the Technology&Videogames forum - but this one really made me chuckle. Marvel Girl asks: "Do you know any shop that will format my computer for a cheap price?" Among a flood of replies of people that sound like "I'll do that for €25/€10/€0.99/a kiss" and so on, stands this gem: JohnF wrote: "C'm on people, don't u know u can't talk about that here? It's illegal to format at home!" Now granted, we have lots of stupid laws here in Italy, but making illegal to format a hard drive... that would have some consequences :-D I just can't stop laughing when thinking that maybe this poor teen has been fooled until now by a shopowner that knows how to separate an idiot from his money. I'll leave to your imagination the flood of witty and less witty replies. I had my share of laughs for today :)
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Background: I am a moderator of a forum dedicated to the students of the city I live in, and I have seen lots of idiotic questions in the Technology&Videogames forum - but this one really made me chuckle. Marvel Girl asks: "Do you know any shop that will format my computer for a cheap price?" Among a flood of replies of people that sound like "I'll do that for €25/€10/€0.99/a kiss" and so on, stands this gem: JohnF wrote: "C'm on people, don't u know u can't talk about that here? It's illegal to format at home!" Now granted, we have lots of stupid laws here in Italy, but making illegal to format a hard drive... that would have some consequences :-D I just can't stop laughing when thinking that maybe this poor teen has been fooled until now by a shopowner that knows how to separate an idiot from his money. I'll leave to your imagination the flood of witty and less witty replies. I had my share of laughs for today :)
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
Anybody here remember the DEC Rainbow? When first came out you had to buy preformatted floppies from DEC. They claimed that they wanted to make sure their customers were using good quality floppies, and not blame the hardware if they used cheap ones that failed. :laugh: Needless to say, it was almost no time at all before a floppy formatting utility was circulating through the DECUS community. ;P
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Anybody here remember the DEC Rainbow? When first came out you had to buy preformatted floppies from DEC. They claimed that they wanted to make sure their customers were using good quality floppies, and not blame the hardware if they used cheap ones that failed. :laugh: Needless to say, it was almost no time at all before a floppy formatting utility was circulating through the DECUS community. ;P
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IIRC, those were hard-sectored floppies too, weren't they?
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Anybody here remember the DEC Rainbow? When first came out you had to buy preformatted floppies from DEC. They claimed that they wanted to make sure their customers were using good quality floppies, and not blame the hardware if they used cheap ones that failed. :laugh: Needless to say, it was almost no time at all before a floppy formatting utility was circulating through the DECUS community. ;P
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NetDave wrote:
Anybody here remember the DEC Rainbow? the DECUS community...
I used to write (DCL .COM hacks) for The DEC Professional in the early 80s. Man, those were some fun days! Little did I know realize that a few years later I'd be working at Digital. :cool: Memories...[^] :-D /ravi
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