>I got a piece from a newspaper from back home - don't know whether it's from a Bosnian or Croatian paper - which goes to explain how many wrong conceptions may users have. Or maybe ours are wrong?
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>Here's a quick translation:
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>"The computers aren't among my strengths, which is understandable to a point, because I am already approaching my fifties. When on my computer monitor a message dawned that there is not sufficient space on the disk, an idea, which seemed brilliant in my opinion, lighted on me. In all of my documents I have replaced the characters with the smallest ones, thus to save space. Nothing happened, and I had no other thing to do but call my boss and explain my problem. He burst into laughter, and all of it is still unclear to me!"
This one is SO FUNNY! It's at least as funny as the old joke of the CD-Rom player that was used as a coffecup holder. You made my day! Thanks :)
One serious note: I know for sure that non-americans have a lot of misconceptions about computers indeed. They use either English versions or badly/half translated versions.
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