I ran my first two businesses without a "license". It depends on the state you live in and the structure of your business. I started as a sole-proprietor with no employees, who was not required to collect sales tax (all out of state sales) and wasn't in a "licensed" professional field. Both were quite small, but I learned a ton and made a full-time income. My current business is licensed by multiple state agencies now as I do have employees, collect sales tax and have to comply with certain other regulations due to the materials we handle.
The whole "business license" phrase gets thrown around with too much ambiguity.
An expensive mistake, or an orchestrated attack on them? With the timing of the release, this could devolve into some pretty crazy conspiracy theories.
Good thing I like conspiracy theories! Was it disgruntled employee wardriving with altered documents or righteous whistleblower with damning proof in the coffee shop?
There are even better analogies here. Imagine if Honda started killing the listing for every used Accord on eBay (or even every part from an Accord). Or the Cult of Mac. What if Apple started ending auctions for used iPods? The interwebs would go nuts and even mainstream media would have a field day. But because this is the CoS, we'll crack some jokes and move on.
I've been running a laptop repair service around the Univ. of Kansas for the last three years and sell laptop parts online. As far as Thinkpad's attractiveness goes, it only increases as you start to tear them down. I see a lot of wasted space or silly design decisions in the internals of a lot of laptops, whereas the insides of Thinkpads tend to be designed for efficiency and stableness. So many persistent flaws in notebooks have simple solutions. Take Toshiba's broken DC jacks. They soldered the jack onto the motherboard and provide little support for it. Thinkpads seperate the jack off the motherboard and provide support. Toshiba's jacks break a lot, Thinkpad's don't. Or at least they didn't. I tend to only see models that are out of warranty. Still, even when an IBM does break, it's a simple screwdriver repair rather than having to solder directly to your motherboard.
I'm least familiar with a lot of Mac models, but I would love to get a look at the innards of an Air just to see how it compares.
That's hilarious to see this sentiment posted on/.
Actually, I think all news agencies should encourage their users to not only digest the news, but also act on it. Don't have the clueless nutters write into the station, have them write to their representatives and ISPs (in this case). Those people need more mail anyway.
A lot of the problems generated by this have to do with how eBay is presenting it. From the official announcement:
The eBay Feedback system was designed to provide a simple, honest, accurate record of member experiences.
Hard to argue that this is a change designed to present an accurate record of all members' experiences. If eBay would just be honest and say, "We want to empower buyers to give honest feedback on sellers," some of the controversy goes away (not all of it by any means). eBay has done about as poor of a job describing and selling this change to its members as it possibly could. The failure to accurately describe and sell all the recent changes bothers me more than the change itself. eBay needs to lead its members and using smoke and mirror tactics to describe the changes only undermines what authority it has.
Every Zippo I've owned had the hinge snap after 2-3 years of service. I've sent several of them in for repairs. The little solder job they do holds up for about another year before it snaps again.
As for the gameboy, gotta agree with other posters that while the case may have been hardy as hell, the LCD inevitably developed lines or other problems.
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I ran my first two businesses without a "license". It depends on the state you live in and the structure of your business. I started as a sole-proprietor with no employees, who was not required to collect sales tax (all out of state sales) and wasn't in a "licensed" professional field. Both were quite small, but I learned a ton and made a full-time income. My current business is licensed by multiple state agencies now as I do have employees, collect sales tax and have to comply with certain other regulations due to the materials we handle.
The whole "business license" phrase gets thrown around with too much ambiguity.
An expensive mistake, or an orchestrated attack on them? With the timing of the release, this could devolve into some pretty crazy conspiracy theories.
Good thing I like conspiracy theories! Was it disgruntled employee wardriving with altered documents or righteous whistleblower with damning proof in the coffee shop?
There are even better analogies here. Imagine if Honda started killing the listing for every used Accord on eBay (or even every part from an Accord). Or the Cult of Mac. What if Apple started ending auctions for used iPods? The interwebs would go nuts and even mainstream media would have a field day. But because this is the CoS, we'll crack some jokes and move on.
I've been running a laptop repair service around the Univ. of Kansas for the last three years and sell laptop parts online. As far as Thinkpad's attractiveness goes, it only increases as you start to tear them down. I see a lot of wasted space or silly design decisions in the internals of a lot of laptops, whereas the insides of Thinkpads tend to be designed for efficiency and stableness. So many persistent flaws in notebooks have simple solutions. Take Toshiba's broken DC jacks. They soldered the jack onto the motherboard and provide little support for it. Thinkpads seperate the jack off the motherboard and provide support. Toshiba's jacks break a lot, Thinkpad's don't. Or at least they didn't. I tend to only see models that are out of warranty. Still, even when an IBM does break, it's a simple screwdriver repair rather than having to solder directly to your motherboard.
I'm least familiar with a lot of Mac models, but I would love to get a look at the innards of an Air just to see how it compares.
That's hilarious to see this sentiment posted on /.
Actually, I think all news agencies should encourage their users to not only digest the news, but also act on it. Don't have the clueless nutters write into the station, have them write to their representatives and ISPs (in this case). Those people need more mail anyway.
Hard to argue that this is a change designed to present an accurate record of all members' experiences. If eBay would just be honest and say, "We want to empower buyers to give honest feedback on sellers," some of the controversy goes away (not all of it by any means). eBay has done about as poor of a job describing and selling this change to its members as it possibly could. The failure to accurately describe and sell all the recent changes bothers me more than the change itself. eBay needs to lead its members and using smoke and mirror tactics to describe the changes only undermines what authority it has.
Cat herding commercial: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WxwTC13f1PE
Best commercial ever without a doubt, and as it is by a company that provides tech services, seems like it should be included here.
Every Zippo I've owned had the hinge snap after 2-3 years of service. I've sent several of them in for repairs. The little solder job they do holds up for about another year before it snaps again. As for the gameboy, gotta agree with other posters that while the case may have been hardy as hell, the LCD inevitably developed lines or other problems.