Sniper
8th October 2006, 13:11
Customer: "What does the 48x mean on this CD/DVD drive?"
Salesman: "Well, you know how you read the page of a book one time, and if you really want to understand it deeply, you may read it twice? Well, the drive reads the disk over and over however many times the the number is before the X. In this case it's 48."
Customer: "Sir? Why would a computer have to read something 48 times to understand it? I certainly don't think I'd want a PC that dumb."
Salesman: "Well, you know how you read the page of a book one time, and if you really want to understand it deeply, you may read it twice? Well, the drive reads the disk over and over however many times the the number is before the X. In this case it's 48."
Customer: "Sir? Why would a computer have to read something 48 times to understand it? I certainly don't think I'd want a PC that dumb."