Hilmar;

One specification that makes me laugh is how many computer speaker/amplifiers are rated. One states: 600 watt amplifier and then gives the power requirements as 120 VAC @ 500 ma.

Perhaps I should get an attorney and sue those companies that make such statements! In truth I have no interest in the idiots that are running around making such claims. There are other things that confront me – like survival in Silicon Valley. Sometimes I almost feel like I am going to succeed and then - - reality hits me! :)

Tom

>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=3&u=/nm/20030918/tc_nm/tech_computers_suit_dc
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>I found this link, from the UT main page, quite interesting. I have been aware of the discrepancy between the two definitions of MB and GB for years, and also of the fact that obviously, they do this on purpose to get larger numbers. But I never thought somebody would take the trouble to sue them.
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>Who will be next? Perhaps manufacturers of screens, who measure the diagonal to indicate the size. (I mean, can you belive this? I wouldn't, if I weren't seeing it for years.); or companies that sell UPS - they indicate capacity in VA, where V is measured in RMS, and A as peak (or was it the other way round? - it makes no difference, really), so that for a 1000 VA power supply, you only get 700 W (1000 / sqrt(2)), not the 1000 you might expect. At least, that is what I read in an article about UPS, some years ago - it must have been in PC-Magazine.