How about until they start doing important things up front like actually looking at what they think they might have and seeing if it is actually anything, they will continue to waste all their time and our money and destroy their credibility while actual criminals run free.
It's really well past time they start behaving like responsible adults.
When I was in the 4th grade, I learned that "Russia" (meaning the USSR) was evil because they tracked where you went and who you talked to even if you weren't a criminal and because the police just did what they wanted when they wanted and the U.S. was great because none of that happened here.
In other words, the USSR was evil because it did what these assclowns want to do here. How can I possibly see them as anything but a domestic enemy that must be rooted out? They want to turn us into the USSR.
You're just repeating yourself. SHOW me (or at least relate a good actual example) where customers, presented with the choice and all the rest was the same, chose irreparable over reparable.
Also, it will be useful to contrast between people who actually don't care and those who just don't know how to tell the difference. Certainly I've never seen it bullet pointed on the box so people will be able to make an informed decision. I know more than a few people have been surprised to learn that their expensive phone is practically irreparable to the point that even the battery can't be swapped out.
As for cost, if the makers of cheap blister pack calculators can afford to use screws, they are affordable in a $600 phone.
Market negotiations only work the way you imagine when both parties are able to afford to leave the bargaining table. Let's face it, if the employer loses you, they are down perhaps 1% or less but there's a line forming in HR to fill the position (due to lack of jobs). OTOH, you are 100% out of income and with unemployment above zero, nobody's lining up to hire you.
I'd sure like to see evidence for that, because as someone who actually does care about that, I find practically zero information available on the subject and practically no options for repairable anything on offer. In most cases where I must try to repair something anyway, I find that changes that would have made it MUCH easier honestly wouldn't have even added 1% to the actual cost of manufacturing.
So, let's test your negotiation power. If you and your boss go all-out in negotiating anything to do with your compensation, who is in a worse position if the end result is that you walk?
You will need to pull the fuse or disconnect the communication module. Otherwise, it is still vulnerable to hacking and/or (probably) a FISA rubber stamp.
So would that be the soul crushing jobs where you still need food stamps to live in spite of your 39.99 hour week? Of is that the jobs that you can only do for a year before it actually causes medical problems that you can't afford to get treated?
When the unemployment figures go negative, there will be enough jobs available to eliminate the need for employee/contractor protection.
Because then employers would use their superior bargaining position to force people to accept the downsides of both contractor and employee relationships while keeping the upsides for themselves.
In fact, most of the legally defined differences were defined as a result of exactly that behavior.
It should work OK other than not seeing POST. If it has serial console support (only a select few desktop class machines do, admittedly) that could be OK. To watch movies, it would need to be one of the higher end devices with USB3.
Of course, hard to impossible to replace video on a PC is more forgivable than the battery in a phone since batteries basically start going down hill from first use while PC video rarely fails.
Likewise, the screen on a phone is a high risk item and should be fairly easy to replace.
Of course, it's easy to find a PC without that problem if it is at all a concern. It's becoming a real problem to find a phone that can be fixed practically.
There's no reason they couldn't just make it tamper evident but repairable. Post the schematics and a note that attempted repairs or modifications will void the warranty.
Offering $15 off of a new one to replace a device that failed due to a well known design/manufacturing flaw is just insulting. As for the rest, that was in-part your less than skillful repair and in part their design that assumes no repairs will be done. Had it been designed to be repaired, perhaps you would have been more successful.
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How about until they start doing important things up front like actually looking at what they think they might have and seeing if it is actually anything, they will continue to waste all their time and our money and destroy their credibility while actual criminals run free.
It's really well past time they start behaving like responsible adults.
Where that true, they wouldn't be hiding their activities and they wouldn't be concerned at all with opposition to their plans.
When I was in the 4th grade, I learned that "Russia" (meaning the USSR) was evil because they tracked where you went and who you talked to even if you weren't a criminal and because the police just did what they wanted when they wanted and the U.S. was great because none of that happened here.
In other words, the USSR was evil because it did what these assclowns want to do here. How can I possibly see them as anything but a domestic enemy that must be rooted out? They want to turn us into the USSR.
You're just repeating yourself. SHOW me (or at least relate a good actual example) where customers, presented with the choice and all the rest was the same, chose irreparable over reparable.
Also, it will be useful to contrast between people who actually don't care and those who just don't know how to tell the difference. Certainly I've never seen it bullet pointed on the box so people will be able to make an informed decision. I know more than a few people have been surprised to learn that their expensive phone is practically irreparable to the point that even the battery can't be swapped out.
As for cost, if the makers of cheap blister pack calculators can afford to use screws, they are affordable in a $600 phone.
Market negotiations only work the way you imagine when both parties are able to afford to leave the bargaining table. Let's face it, if the employer loses you, they are down perhaps 1% or less but there's a line forming in HR to fill the position (due to lack of jobs). OTOH, you are 100% out of income and with unemployment above zero, nobody's lining up to hire you.
Essentially, it's another form of rent seeking.
No, name one! You can't because the Surface Pro was never offered in repairable form.
I'd sure like to see evidence for that, because as someone who actually does care about that, I find practically zero information available on the subject and practically no options for repairable anything on offer. In most cases where I must try to repair something anyway, I find that changes that would have made it MUCH easier honestly wouldn't have even added 1% to the actual cost of manufacturing.
So, let's test your negotiation power. If you and your boss go all-out in negotiating anything to do with your compensation, who is in a worse position if the end result is that you walk?
You will need to pull the fuse or disconnect the communication module. Otherwise, it is still vulnerable to hacking and/or (probably) a FISA rubber stamp.
Not if they were not contracted to pick up street hails. That would leave them on the hook for doing that, but it wouldn't be any of Uber's business.
If employees weren't constrained by the absolute need for a job, the un-distorted free market for labor would force wages up.
So, you do NOT actually support the contractor/employee being free to set their own definition.
Or do you suggest we undo the enclosure so people can truly choose.
If the "contractors" were actually contractors, then it would be them and not Uber serving street hails.
So you support the basic income? Because that's what it will take for the employee/contractor to actually be free to define the terms of employment.
So would that be the soul crushing jobs where you still need food stamps to live in spite of your 39.99 hour week? Of is that the jobs that you can only do for a year before it actually causes medical problems that you can't afford to get treated?
When the unemployment figures go negative, there will be enough jobs available to eliminate the need for employee/contractor protection.
Because then employers would use their superior bargaining position to force people to accept the downsides of both contractor and employee relationships while keeping the upsides for themselves.
In fact, most of the legally defined differences were defined as a result of exactly that behavior.
And some chose food, clothing, and shelter.
I didn't say wireless. I mean plug LAN cable in to dongle and dongle in to USB port.
I used one of those for several years on another PC, never had a problem.
It should work OK other than not seeing POST. If it has serial console support (only a select few desktop class machines do, admittedly) that could be OK. To watch movies, it would need to be one of the higher end devices with USB3.
Of course, hard to impossible to replace video on a PC is more forgivable than the battery in a phone since batteries basically start going down hill from first use while PC video rarely fails.
Likewise, the screen on a phone is a high risk item and should be fairly easy to replace.
Of course, it's easy to find a PC without that problem if it is at all a concern. It's becoming a real problem to find a phone that can be fixed practically.
He asked when I had seen a PC with a discrete ethernet card. I answered accurately. There was plenty of room in the case.
USB video card
Also available as USB 3.0 for better performance.
What consumer, faced with a choice between a surface pro with screws and another with epoxy said give me the epoxy?
It's not a matter of consumer interest so much as having the choice available.
There's no reason they couldn't just make it tamper evident but repairable. Post the schematics and a note that attempted repairs or modifications will void the warranty.
Offering $15 off of a new one to replace a device that failed due to a well known design/manufacturing flaw is just insulting. As for the rest, that was in-part your less than skillful repair and in part their design that assumes no repairs will be done. Had it been designed to be repaired, perhaps you would have been more successful.