5th June 2006, 10:27 AM
OH! Right... But splitting the market like this... Apparently whoever decided "I need to create my own format even if there's no real advantage aside from the monies" doesn't care about consumer casualties as a result of the early adopters adopting the "wrong one".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)