Re: Graphics card for PC (was: Monitor Choice Poll)

[Arthur Entlich <artistic@ampsc.com>]

I hope you are well paid as an apologist for bad mannered high tech 
companies.

Most "blame the victim" hacks are the real sleazes of the world.

Having taken a few victimizing companies to court, I can tell you that 
the courts don't see things quite the way you seem to think they do 
(I've won every case).  Making excuses for companies that victimize 
clients may be a time honored profession, but it doesn't place you on 
the just side of the equation.

There is in law, and should be in the real world, a certain assumption 
of the functionality of a product when it is brought to market. 
Although some research is helpful, and being an informed consumer is 
always best, the consumer shouldn't have to be "armed" to avoid being 
cheated.  You shouldn't have to be a programmer or computer scientist to 
be able to buy a computer peripheral.

Your assumption that everyone has a local friendly retailer down the 
block, and access to others that have tested the units (and you, 
yourself, Mr. Louie, have acknowledged that magazine reviews prove 
unreliable reviews), so not everyone has a support group to run their 
purchasing choices by.

I find your criticism of the purchaser unreasonably harsh and lopsided.

You're welcome to the insults, as well. ;-)

Art

Chip Louie wrote:

> Hi Gary,
> 
> Most victims cannot believe that they are at fault though this is usually
> the case.  Did the box say that it supported Open GL and that there were
> Open GL drivers in the box?  Did you even bother to ask the mail-order store
> you bought it from about the drivers?  If you had any doubt you should have
> made the effort and gone into town and paid a little more money and bought
> it from a dealer that would back up what he sells.  Instead you took it upon
> yourself to evaluate the products on the market and bought one (at the
> lowest, discounted price I'm sure), because you thought this product was
> going to do the job.  This my friend is called the assumption of risk.
> 
> Your lack of product knowledge has hurt you and while it seems unfair it
> often times happens when you take on the risk by buying from a mail-order
> house without confirming that there are actually working drivers for your
> application.  You may have saved a little money but the price you paid was
> high and all because you didn't want to pack the board up and ship it back.
> 
> It takes more effort than it seems to make good choices in hardware and
> software.  Next time ask someone who has one and is running your
> applications on it before you jump up and buy one.  Good luck in the future
> with your buying decisions.  You are quite welcome for the insults.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chip Louie
> 
> 
> 
> 



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