[thelist] Hardware Purchase Advice

[Diane Soini]

That has got to be an exaggeration. No manufacturer could exist with a 
10% return rate. It must be closer to 1%. I'm serious. 1% is still a 
huge amount.

<tip type="ActionScript getElementsByTagName Extends XML">
Found this handy ActionScript code to help make it easier to traverse 
the DOM in Flash.
http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts_library/XML_Object/more2.shtml
Look for XML.prototype.getElementsByTagName, although I'm sure some of 
the other code is handy, too. I was going to write my own, but here it 
was already done for me.
</tip>

Diane

On Wednesday, June 30, 2004, at 09:54 AM, 
thelist-request at lists.evolt.org wrote:
>
> I spoke to the owner of a local PC store and he told me that of 90% of
> the
> machines he sells, he never hears from them again. The other 10% come
> back
> with some sort of problem, very often power supply problems. He does 
> not
> sell Dell machines, either.
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