11th August 2003, 6:38 PM
Indeed, and as for MP3 players you can get a decent one for $70, which is about what most of the people I know who have one have payed for them. When they shop and see the really expensive ones, they don't see any point in getting it just because of a few extra features here and there, or brand name.
"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)