OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT: microdirect.co.ukreliable?

[Gary Pownall]

What is Postscript by the way?

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From: "Tethys" <tet at createservices.com>
To: "Darren Beale" <bealers at gmail.com>; "Greater London Linux Users Group"
<gllug at gllug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT:
microdirect.co.ukreliable?


>
> Darren Beale writes:
>
> >It must be really difficult to recruit people that
> >a) know the product
> >b) can deal with the muppety public
>
> That's just a symptom of an underlying problem with society today, namely
> that technology is advancing at a rate faster than the average man on the
> street can understand it. It's hard enough to find someone skilled enough
> to be able to comprehend a single computer product in enough depth to do
> a good job of selling it to the public. Let alone someone that knows about
> the whole range of PC World stock, and is willing to work for the money
> that a sales assistant earns. That's the reason why *all* computer shops
> are staffed by morons. Some are worse than others. But none can do a good
> job of advising the public -- the best they can do is recite the marketing
> line they've been fed, which is exactly what they do. Thus leading to
> exchanges like the following:
>
> Me:            I'm looking for a PostScript printer. Do you have any?
> Salescritter:  We've got this windows printer on special offer. It does
>                $UNFEASIBLY_HUGE dpi, $LOTS of pages per minute, and works
>                fine with recent versions of Windows.
> Me:            No. It's not a real printer, you're quoting interpolated
>                resolution rather than true resolution, and you've ignored
>                my primary requirement that it support PostScript.
> Salescritter:  Oh. What's PostScript? Is that a word processor?
>
> Tet
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