| Tip 37 | Suit Speak |
My young nephews all use computers regularly. They are, relatively speaking, quite computer savvy. They use computers to communicate with friends all over the world. They are completely comfortable with instant messaging, e-mail, web browsing, and of course personal publishing and the other stuff you might use if you were a high-school student working on assignments.
But, if I were to brag to them that my new computer had a 10,000 RPM Serial ATA hard drive, they might at best do a teenage-level job of feigning enthusiasm. They would probably be equally unimpressed if I told them it had several gigabytes of RAM and a GPU that was faster than the CPUs in the systems I used just five years ago.
However, if I told them they ...
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