{"id":308,"date":"2003-09-18T19:08:38","date_gmt":"2003-09-18T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=308"},"modified":"2003-09-18T19:08:38","modified_gmt":"2003-09-18T22:08:38","slug":"hardware-makers-sued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":"Hardware makers sued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>M<\/span>ore Reuters: the agency reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=BSBOGTNRFS2I2CRBAELCFEY?type=technologyNews&#038;storyID=3470394\">a group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit<\/a> against hardware and computermakers, claiming that their advertising is deceptive, overstating the true size of harddrives.\n<\/p>\n<p>The suit names  Apple, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, Sony and Toshiba and the center of the controversy is that these companies showcase the size of harddrives in decimal notation while the computers read and write in binary system.\n<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t get it? Well, again: the group claims that harddrives described as 20 Gb, actually have a size of 18.6 Gb. Yes. As if we didn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Reuters: the agency reports that a group of computer owners has filed a lawsuit against hardware and computermakers, claiming that their advertising is deceptive, overstating the true size of harddrives. The suit names Apple, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sharp, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=308\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}