I mean, umbrellas are one of those things where EVERYONE in a certain area needs one or NOBODY needs one. It's not like bikes where I want to go now and you want to go later.
Or, in other words, it's a bit like those time-sharing deals where, oddly, everyone wanted the house during the Summer months and nobody took care of it in Winter.
Well, stop locking up people for non-crimes (and crimes that are almost non-crimes that should be handled with fines or community work) and you're set. But as long as your justice system is based on revenge instead of deterrent and paying back society...
Authorized? It's my phone, if anyone gets to authorize anything here, it's me.
It's about time Apple and the likes of it learn the meaning of "selling" and "ownership". Either you sell me something or you retain ownership. Trying to do both is a con job.
The car analogy doesn't even work, because the car could run someone else over with a faulty brake job while the cellphone could, at worst, damage the one who replaced the sensor if he fucked it up.
With the car it would at least make sense that someone competent has to wave the dead chicken over it, with the cell phone there is exactly NO excuse.
Fine, then why can't I, as the user, accept that I know that the sensor has been tampered with (because I did it) and I do trust that? Case closed. Fuck you Apple, nobody gives a shit whether you trust it. I don't trust you either.
First of all, cost means nothing. Nothing at all. Take any phone you want. Now try to tell me with a straight face that the cost to make it has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with the price the customer has to pay. Try it and I'll yell BULLSHIT at you before you're done. Because it is.
Cost has literally nothing to do with the final price of a product. Cost determines whether a product is made, for it will not be produced if the cost outgrows the potential selling price, but that's it. Do you really want to tell me the iPhone would get a cent cheaper if it could be made for 10 bucks less?
The price the customer has to pay is a careful calculation of the profit "sweet spot". Where is the maximum of profit_per_item*items_sold? That's the question. You really want to convince anyone that the extra buck it costs to make it repairable would change that by even that buck? I call bullshit.
And thickness: Newsflash, nobody gives a shit how thick your phone is. If anything, it might actually survive being slipped into a pocket again if it's thicker than the average slice of tinfoil again.
Why do you hate the hard working people at the pizza delivery service? What has the poor guy done to you, that tries to make a living by carrying those greasy cardboard boxes to you that you wish to deprive him of his meager income? Don't you have no heart that you want to take away his chance to clog it with arteriosclerosis?
The problem is that a fence is supposed to keep a criminal in. I don't know, but back where I live we use walls and steel bars, inside the walls and as replacement of windows, to do the trick.
Turn prisons back to prisons instead of making them profit centers for the private prison complex and you'll not only see cheaper but also better run prisons.
Seriously, I've seen what prisons cost in the US and... let's put it that way, for that per-capita price I'd expect to see those prison bars be made of solid gold.
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To everyone not using Windows it's a joke that keeps getting better every time it is told.
I mean, umbrellas are one of those things where EVERYONE in a certain area needs one or NOBODY needs one. It's not like bikes where I want to go now and you want to go later.
Or, in other words, it's a bit like those time-sharing deals where, oddly, everyone wanted the house during the Summer months and nobody took care of it in Winter.
Well, stop locking up people for non-crimes (and crimes that are almost non-crimes that should be handled with fines or community work) and you're set. But as long as your justice system is based on revenge instead of deterrent and paying back society...
No, the correct way would have been "I detected a new sensor. It's going to work as soon as you enter your admin password".
You are so selfish and egoistical, how do you think the economy should survive if it cannot profit from your untimely heart attack?
Won't anyone PLEASE think of the economy?
Back in Russia, they just use Siberia. No fence. No wall. You want to stay. Trust me.
Authorized? It's my phone, if anyone gets to authorize anything here, it's me.
It's about time Apple and the likes of it learn the meaning of "selling" and "ownership". Either you sell me something or you retain ownership. Trying to do both is a con job.
The car analogy doesn't even work, because the car could run someone else over with a faulty brake job while the cellphone could, at worst, damage the one who replaced the sensor if he fucked it up.
With the car it would at least make sense that someone competent has to wave the dead chicken over it, with the cell phone there is exactly NO excuse.
Fine, then why can't I, as the user, accept that I know that the sensor has been tampered with (because I did it) and I do trust that? Case closed. Fuck you Apple, nobody gives a shit whether you trust it. I don't trust you either.
Aunt Tilly doesn't. But there's Mobile-Ahmed around the corner in his funny little shop who'll do it for her for just 5 or 10 bucks.
And we created another job here in the country, ain't it wonderful?
I know that it would cause some hives in the mobile phone sector. We'd certainly see some low budget players vanish.
How would it become less secure?
First of all, cost means nothing. Nothing at all. Take any phone you want. Now try to tell me with a straight face that the cost to make it has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with the price the customer has to pay. Try it and I'll yell BULLSHIT at you before you're done. Because it is.
Cost has literally nothing to do with the final price of a product. Cost determines whether a product is made, for it will not be produced if the cost outgrows the potential selling price, but that's it. Do you really want to tell me the iPhone would get a cent cheaper if it could be made for 10 bucks less?
The price the customer has to pay is a careful calculation of the profit "sweet spot". Where is the maximum of profit_per_item*items_sold? That's the question. You really want to convince anyone that the extra buck it costs to make it repairable would change that by even that buck? I call bullshit.
And thickness: Newsflash, nobody gives a shit how thick your phone is. If anything, it might actually survive being slipped into a pocket again if it's thicker than the average slice of tinfoil again.
Odd. We have all that too in our prisons and the cost isn't going through the roof.
Why do you hate the hard working people at the pizza delivery service? What has the poor guy done to you, that tries to make a living by carrying those greasy cardboard boxes to you that you wish to deprive him of his meager income? Don't you have no heart that you want to take away his chance to clog it with arteriosclerosis?
...at least until drones come back armed. Guess drone warfare ain't so cool anymore when it's on your own soil.
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But Buddha makes incremental backups.
So they're a whole millimeter thicker and weigh 50 grams more?
Yeah, when the call for your pizza is more expensive than the pizza itself...
The problem is that a fence is supposed to keep a criminal in. I don't know, but back where I live we use walls and steel bars, inside the walls and as replacement of windows, to do the trick.
And behold it works.
Turn prisons back to prisons instead of making them profit centers for the private prison complex and you'll not only see cheaper but also better run prisons.
Seriously, I've seen what prisons cost in the US and ... let's put it that way, for that per-capita price I'd expect to see those prison bars be made of solid gold.
What would happen if someone said "I wasn't expecting the Spanish inquisition..."?
I prefer to live dangerous.
Soooo edgy!
Too bad this post didn't have one, then it would at least have been funny, if offtopic...
You can only cook a grenade so much before it goes off unintended.