| > What crowd is Ubuntu trying to pander to? Are there really people out there "technical" enough to bother caring about a hard drive's size, but not technical enough to figure out that 1000 != 1024? They don't care about the hard drive size per se, they just care that all the numbers the computer reports are as impressive as the ones the salesman told them. > So then is it really that much more difficult to spend 5 seconds explaining that it's 1024, not 1000? It is when you're being yelled at in the product returns line. It sounds like an excuse and an ass-pull, and it's not something that would calm down a belligerent customer. Remember that there are two types of people who have Ubuntu—those that got it themselves, and those who had it dropped upon them by a more technical user. For the second group, "superficial" change is the only kind of change they care about, vis. http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/ Also, as a side-note, the cost of being widely-used by governments and public institutions, and being open-source, is that you have to obey the law, so the option to "include useful codecs and plugins in the default install" just isn't available. (You can't purchase a license for a codec when you literally don't know how many users you have.) |
So this person is yelling about something they know nothing about? I'm sorry, but that sounds like a sever case of "stupid" to me.
>http://www.makemylogobiggercream.com/
Funny video!