Re: PC World

[Richard <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

Stephen

Thanks for writing :-)

> Good for you. Is your time really worth that little? Maybe I should
> hire you ;-) (That's just a joke, the shipping charges would kill the
> deal, let alone the fact that I can't use my U budget to pay in small
> currencies like the pound.)
>
> I'm curious, though. It's surely true all of the new entry of born
> on the minute types has created economies of scale that have driven
> prices down dramatically (not to belittle Moore's Law, but the
> quantity surely helps over and above that). That's a good thing. But
> have good shops really gotten fewer in Britain, or is it just harder
> for the uninitiated to find them amidst all the cow-flop?
>
erm.. I'd say yes :-) It's a combination of factors which are hard
to define. For one thing a younger generation have come along who
can't read and who think that the American culture is really the same
as ours. If they knew the difference they probably wouldn't get out
of bed in the morning ?

We are severely brainwashed here in the UK in to believing that high
prices are necessary in order to promote employment and wealth. To
my own way of thinking this is extremely stupid and is rather like
the dinosaurs looking for more and more food after the impact of a
large meteorite ?

The fact that large crowds of grazing accountants and finance people
and private investigators who are nothing to do with PCs or
information technology demand and get large backhanders to cover up
the truth doesn't ever reach the public at all ?
. The
> idea has apparently caught on in Osaka, too.
>
Well, we tend to do this as an informal thing. Problem is that if
any retail shop or other institution around Sheffield gets the idea
that Sheflug people are around they double their prices right away.

> And maybe even some of the Dixon's part-brain^H^H^H^H^Htimers could be
> dragged along, to improve the breed. Hey, dweeb, grab this wire, I'm
> sure you won't forget the experience. ... Now that's a real PSU! :-)

The only thing you can get from Dixons is a completely incompetent
pile of crap in the way of verbal diarrhoea :-)

Thank you :-)

Richard
Sheffield UK

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