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Rio Carbon MP3 Has A 5G CF To Be Cannibalized
GlucoPilot writes "This guy bought a Rio Carbon Mp3 player because he figured he could rip the 5GB CF Card out of it. He did, and put it in his prosumer 6MP digital camera. Now he can take 1,500 six-megapixel pics in one sitting. Oy." The card is apparently a 5GB Microdrive, note, not 5GB of Flash memory.
So what would stop me from buying one of these things, removeing the CF drive, and then playing the part of ignorant customer and taking it back to the store you got it from saying "hey, it doesn't work, give me a new one." Or "I don't want it now, give me my money back."
Disposable Income of a "geek" taking on a "project" and complaining about missing his "lunch" so he could post about it on his "personal website" and obtain "geek cred" when he gets linked on "slashdot":
Price of a Rio Carbon Mp3 player: ($225) x2 $450
Price of a Nikon d70 6 mega-pixel camera: $999.95 (without lenses)
Price of his Digital SLR Zoom Lens: $974.95
Total for just this one disgusting wankoff: $2424.90
Compared to the Average Annual Wage in Indonesia: $3,971
Congratulations. You just blew 62% of the annual wage of the poor saps that have to make this electronic gizmo shit, sitting all day in closed rooms full of mercury vapor and pain, all on a pile of crap you'll likely toss in the trash inside of a year or two.
Happy 9/11 day, motherfuckers.