On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, der Mouse wrote:
>This points up something that's always been a great mystery to me.
>
>Your average executive would never think of second-guessing expert
>advice from an expert banker, or electrician, or plumber...but has no
>hesitation ignoring a computer expert's advice on computers because
>some ad campaign makes some other machine, OS, piece of hardware,
>whatever, sound attractive.
>
>The mystery, of course, is "why on earth is this?".

  Ugh, tell me about it.  I fight this kind of bullshit EVERY DAY at work. 
It's maddening!

                -Dave McGuire