Ditto to some of the previous posters who experienced failed units--mine managed to last about six hours before it went to that great PSU Paradise in the sky.
I heartily second Wei2Cool's summary-- MSN has done the same with me. I got my special one-year $100 suscription at AccessMicro, $60 after the $40 rebate. My account is regularly billed bogus charges--the last I looked, the total in false charges was around $200. I don't even bother to call...
Best Buy had, in today's flyer, a unique combination of a $40 'price drop' and a $40 'instant rebate' on their previously $179.99 Acer 10X 8X 32X CD-RW. That left the price at $99.99. Not bad for an 8X RW, though Acer seems to be just average quality, and it may not include the IDE cable.
APPENDIX A
According to the SCSI theory of value, some values are quantifiable. Surprise! Yes, there are some values which we can quantify and thus reduce to a plus or minus in deciding what we should do about them. Let?s go back to the two extreme examples of Bill Gates, examples of which...
One final post to demonstrate again how incapable Modus really is of admitting that he is wrong, and how his style of argumentation is precisely as I described it initially: condescending, antagonistic, and evasive of the central arguments of his opponents. Let?s list his mistakes in his reply...
Skaze, some points in reply:
First, neutrality and objectivity (or ?being correct?) are not necessarily the same thing. Neutrality is simple the middle of two positions?and if one of those positions is right, then neutrality is automatically half-wrong. Of course, from this it doesn?t...
Having dedicated the last five hours to reading through this thread, now at 462 posts, I?ve come to the following conclusions. Undoubtedly the participants would like to know what they are (!):
1. First, matters irrelevant to the IDE vs. SCSI discussion itself: The SCSI camp definitely takes...
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