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Laptop Explodes at Japanese Conference
An anonymous reader writes "A laptop reported to be a Dell burst into flame and was caught on camera during a recent Japanese conference. Guess this laptop could be a poster child to prove that laptops really can cause sterility if they are on your lap."
I for one welcome our new exploding laptop masters!
--Not to be worried, Pitr fix.
All the high-end laptops in the world will never replace your destroyed manhood!!
Did you even read the title of this story? Laptop EXPLODES!! After an experience like that, the last thing on my mind would be buying thousands of laptops with all the money I'd save on kids!
Oh Noes!!!1!one
You obviously haven't seen MythBusters...
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty." -Thom
Dude thats a line from Fight Club
If X is greater than the cost of a recall, we recall the laptops and no-one gets hurt.
If X is less than the cost of a recall, then we don't recall.
(If you were really working for Dell, and believed in that computation, you wouldn't make that post, even anonymously.)
As I heard it, Ford once made that computation with Pinto gas tanks (the ones that would dump a few inches of gas into the passenger compartment if a Pinto with a full tank was rear-ended.)
Several accidents resulted in "Severe Passenger Damage".
This came out in the tiral. So did the cost of the recall. The court awarded the plantifs the cost of the recall as puntative damages.
It was making the point that the computation you described doesn't excuse deliberately, and without warning, failing to fix a design defect that creates a significant danger to the life and health of the customers. And it was making it in a way that even a psychopath can understand. It was saying "Whatever you saved by chosing to not fix such a major defect, frying a customer WILL cost you more."
This is ONE of the things those massive judgements are about, and what "tort reform" is intended to eliminate. (Another is that they might sound high - but they must be large enough to provide a lump sum whose interest is enough to pay the living and medical expenses of a maimed person for the rest of his/her life, or replace his/her contribution to the support of family, especially dependents, if he/she died.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
That is not a statement from a real Dell employee, its a dialog from Fight Club. Someone else has also said this. Posts like these need to be modded up or people who dont read every post will think this is real.