On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
When a microphone is labelled as being
"directional", the angle of
directionality, or the shape of it's response curve is hardly a "annoy the
sales droid". It is approximately the same order of necessity as asking
what is the capacity of a hard disk. Would YOU buy a hard disk without
knowing the size?
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It's astounding how many people do exactly that.
"My so-called 80 gig harddrive is only 74 gigs!!! What a rip-off!!!"
I hear that crap all the time. The explanation that 1,000,000,000 is
a Maxtor gig and 1024x1024x1024 is a real gig doesn't impart a clue.
"OK, so where's the other 6 gigs?"
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