[geeks] [JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer]

[Scott Howard]

OK, but consider this for a moment...

Hard disks have an MTBF of about 1 million hours  (give or take a bit).

So if you go out and buy an iPod and connect it to your computer, the odds
of the hard disk dying within the first hour are about 1 in a million.

Apply has so far sold 42 million iPods.

So (on average) there are 42 people worldwide who have had their hard disk
die within 1 hour of plugging in their iPod.

Which means she's got 41 names to go!  :)

  Scott.


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:12:46AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> WTF? Anyone have any idea of what she is talking about? I've been involved
> with computers since the late 1960's and I can not figure out how.
> 
> To be less polite, I did get a good laugh from the idea.
> 
> I'd figure that this should end up on the hoax websites, but this
> person might actually believe it.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from dlgrapeda <JuliaSacks930 at hotmail.com> -----
> 
> > Subject: [janglo] INFO4U: My Ipod Broke My Computer
> > 
> > If you know anyone or if you are dealing with ipod issues (ex: 
> > breaking your computer / hard drive), please contact me, Julia at:
> > ipodbrokemycomputertoo at hotmail.com
> > I am writing a letter to Apple Mac and filing a report with the 
> > Federal Trade Comm. / Consuper Protection in Washington, D.C. 
> > I am collecting names, numbers, and emails of anyone who like myself 
> > delt with thier ipod breaking thier hard drive- in which I had to have 
> > a new one installed.
> > Please pass this info on to anyone who you can! 
> > -Thanks,
> > 
> > Julia
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
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