RE: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware

[Miller, Jeffrey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Crystall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 12:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: 'copy protected Cd`s' destroy firmware
> 
> 
> On 16 May 2002 at 20:54, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
> 
> > Probably not, but then what would you expect from people who buy a 
> > computer with a one-button mouse because two buttons on a 
> mouse is too
> > confusing for them...   :-)
> 
> Or worse, the company which bought em becaiuse the boss "liked how 
> how they looked", and then called us for "repair" when windows 
> wouldn't install on em. I took look look and walked out.
> 
> I got back to the shop just in time to see MY boss ripping up the 
> place's service contract. "Abusive client behavoir"
> 
> Yes, there ARE people that stupid out there. And working part-time as 
> a computer tech, you get to meet an unreasonalbly high proportion of 
> em...

I don't think that's stupid - I think its people who don't understand
the differences in hardware, OS, and peripherals. Would we call a
bedouin "stupid" if he didn't understand the difference between an xbox
and a playstation?

-j-