> > I honestly don't know quite what to make of this web site that I found earlier today (following a link from Ars Technica). It promotes "RAM", using the term like "Nike" or another brand name.
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> > It's by a group called the Council on Computing Power. Do these guys *really* think that this is the most effective way to educate consumers about the performance benefits of adding memory to their computers? Have some especially STUPID marketing-types just really, really latched onto the term "RAM"? Were massive amounts of carcinogenic substances involved in the production of this web site? I leave it to the readers to decide.
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> ... ... ... Oh, my. Oh... my. It's a rare occasion when I begin a post with either a triple ellipsis *or* a double oh-my; that page is so dumb it earns both. I don't know about carcinogens, but massive amounts of hallucinogens were definitely involved. That or it's one of the results of that "monkeys-writing-Hamlet" theory scientists were toying with awhile back. "If you had an infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters, and gave them an infinite amount of time, they could *not* create a web page dumber than this."
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> On a side note - Windows 2000 is going to require 128mb of RAM? That's not just rediculous, that's obscene. Alternative OS time, anybody?
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> > Iss "what the HECK do a fat guy in a swimming pool and a bunch of martini glasses have to do with RAM?" achar
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> Dar "The same thing a bunch of people standing around and singing off-key has to do with Gap clothing" ien

I've been wanting to ask this for a long time. Why do words and phrases that should have been underlined, show up on the forum with * before and after? As you may have guessed, I can't spell or pronounce *. I have the same problem with &.
However #,@.and % are a piece of cake.
Howard