21 Aug
2008
21 Aug
'08
11:59 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
David Griffith wrote:
OK, I really don't get the shrinkwrapping thing - it seems like having some
ancient Egyptian artifact shut away in a wooden crate so that nobody can ever
see it...
(plus, if these people never open the shrinkwrapping, how do they authenticate
that the contents - and the shrinkwrapping itself - are original? Seems way
too open to scamming to me)
I figure that if I scam someone, I have a lot to lose in the classic
computer community.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
It may
seem amazing to this list, but there is a group of people for
whom collecting software is a hobby. While it's mostly limited to game
titles, some non-game packages are valued more if they're of historical
value (ie. Windows 1.0 or Microsoft Word 1 bundled with the microsoft
mouse, etc., still shrinked).
It's not amazing to me. I've sold a fair number of still-shrinked CP/M
packages.