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Apple iBook G4 Design Flaw Proven
empaler writes "Apple has long denied service on iBook G4s whose screens went black after just over one year of use, denying that there was any error. But now, the Danish National Consumer Agency has released a report proving that the error is due to a design flaw. So far, the only news site picking this up is The Register (unless you understand Danish). The Danish Consumer Complaints Board says that Apple needs to get a grip and acknowledge this error in the rest of the world. The NCA also has some photos from the report (explanations in Danish, but easily comprehensible from context)."
If you would just RTFA, you would clearly see it's an iBook.
Yeah, it's a built in Apple mandated reminded that your technology is out of date and you should upgrade...genius! This must be part of Apple's No User Left Behind policy to keep users with the freshest technology!
In all seriousness though, big deal. A few laptops broke and suddenly Apple's to blame? Technology gets old. Technology Breaks. Technology is rarely tested past a year as it's obsolete within a few months. So what if it broke, that's pretty much par for the course. What's more surprising is that Apple managed to go until now without any manufacturing complaints...
There are two kinds of fool One says 'This is old therefore good' Another says 'This is new therefore better'- Dean Ing
Every country with limited immigration can offer its citizens blank checks. The reason why the US and other countries are so right wing is because the rest of the world is interested in showing up for free food, housing, and unemployment benefits. A large enough minority of those new people also introduce violent crime and blow out babies they have no intention to take care of physically or otherwise, leaving a drain on society. That tends to make people a bit more jaded.
While I'm not a supporter of building a Berlin Wall on the border of Mexico and hassling foreigners who fly over to visit, or the erection of the new Police State of America, I do have some capacity to understand why the right wing is goosestepping and hitting peopel with their Bibles.
It's not just the US either. France loved its African colonies; the early African emigrants were all talented and beautiful. When the desperate refugees started showing up however, France decided it hated dark skinned people and needed emigration control. The UK, Germany, and pretty much any other country with a functional economy similarly has a love (cheap labor) / hate (benefits for foreigners) relationship with émigrés.
Who is beating down walls to sneaking into Norway?
My genes come from various people of northern Europe (including Norway) who packed up and ran to America to get out of religiously intolerant, politically unstable, and economically challenged countries. If the US continues its decline into a new 1910 Europe, I might pack up my bags and come live off your welfare state.