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Re: Digital recording





>'morning all,
>It's also worth bearing in mind that some brands of PC CD burners have a
>short run-life. HP burners, apparently, have a counter inside them which
>registers how many CDs you have made, regardless of what they are. Once 
>the
>counter reaches 1000 the burner feels perfectly within its rights to start
>irreparably malfunctioning.
>Pete.

seems sort of unlikely to me, especially with a company like HP. Could be
some reliability problem in one of their drives that causes them to fail,
and it just seems intentional.....

No, we computer industry folks don't need tricks like that to make you buy
new gear. That stuff is for light bulb manufacturers. We just do things
like introduce unnecessary new standards and technologies that are
incompatible with the old ones, or add some pointless set of new features
each year, or introduce new software versions that for the most part are
just bigger and slower than the old ones so that you feel you need a faster
machine to use it. And then we hype it mercilessly so that you all think
you must have this new thing and replace your perfectly good old stuff with
it. And then we do it to you again next year. 450MHz, 6G HD, 256MB SDRAM
might make you a stud today, but we'll make sure you think it's scrap metal
in a few months. You all keep falling for it, so we have no plans to change
this strategy. My stock portfolio thanks you. :-)

kim

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