Sure they will accept returns, that way it doesn't become a legal issue.
A good reason why they (and maybe other manufactorers) did this is to boost this years financial numbers.
The units are sold in December this year and will not be returned until January next year. (its not going to be earlier since they were given as gifts and no store is going to accept returns until the new year)
This year they moved 1000 more units -> bean counter happy, people get bonuses. So what if they get 700 units returned, they have until December next year to make up for it.
>they use exactly the same justification to defend their immoral and unethical behavior, and that justification holds absolutely no water.
Ummm... what holy and innocent corporation do you work for?
What holy and innocent corporation is there?
What holy and innocent individual is there?
The point being is that you are blowing this way out of proportion. What SCO might be dumb/bothersome, but is it evil in the "red devil with the pointy horns and tail" evil?
How is this insightful?!?! This is the sort of thing that enforces the "Linux geek/no social skills" stereotype.
>Well, anyone with half of a brain cell and the logic abilities of a four year old can figure out that the SCO lawsuit is a bunch of hog-wash
This is sort of like what my math teacher called "Proof by Intimadation". e.g. - "Its obvious or are you just stupid? This is not insightful.
>might be forced to pay out IF SCO finds out about the deployment
Um. Is this an actual legal argument you would tell the CTO to actually use? Isn't this like pirates saying that its just a temporary copy that I'm using to evaluate the product? Isn't it like, "Just use that GPL code. IF we ever get found out, then we change the code or comply with the license. Right now, don't worry about it." Again, not insightful. More like cowardly.
>If you notice, the more SCO talks, the more bad press they get.
This is obvious and people have been saying this forever. Not insightful.
You know that Apple-fanatics will think it will be the greatest thing even if its 10 lbs and has pointy barbs sticking out of it, but I just want to see what would direction they would go.
>India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $55 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951
from:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-170.html
and just recently the US paid them for peace in the billions.
And there are parts of China which are more democratic than others. And the "party officials" do like what they see in terms of economic prosperity in those areas.
Broadband is pretty new. I've had outages with my ISP but it didn't really bother me because I just watched tv until they got it fixed. What about when the next virus/trogien hits and starts saturating the network? What about
When the phone is down, then things become a little more serious. I can't even think of the past 20 years the phone was down even during the recent big blackout.
>I think/.ers are actually underestimating the threat from India.
Actually there are lots of factors I don't even think has been addressed here.
Next "miliary situation" involving India or any part of that world will bring about questions about the stability of that part of the world. There are nukes in that part of the world and they have a motive to use it.
Unions, they would love to gain more power. And the IT staff would love to gain the sort of power as the longshore men on the west coast just recently showed.
Slow backlash. Bad PR is just plain bad. On CNN Lou Dobbes show has a regular "outting" of companies that outsource.
Undercutting of India. China is one. Another is Eastern European countries are another. Indians are expensive compaired to these guys with the same amount of education/quality of work. Even Canada might be better in terms of culture/timezones/distance/language for the United States. And there still are the savings even without the difference in Canadian/US currency exchange.
>We (the US) is the largest consumer of products from around the world, but if skilled labor follows blue collar labor, the amount of people left to spend money on anything goes down.
Two primary effects come to mind.
1. Deflationary pressures. Can't afford that $2000 refrigderator? Thats ok because in 3 years from now its going to be $800. (yes I know some people will not be able to afford the $800, but its way too early in the morning to think about secondary effects)
2. Buying things hasn't stopped people before. Debit will just go up. Interest rates are low now and credit is easy to get, why not just borrow some more? (Again, if I wasn't lazy this Sunday morning I would look up how much the average American owes, which I think is some insane amount)
>if you want to get ahead, you get an education, and your hard work and academic achievement will be the keys to your success (Unlike India or China where there are relegious and other cultural pushes for education).
Um... both are same goal. There are culteral pushes for education in Asia, not because "A" is more good luck than a "C+" but because they want to succeed. Hard work and education are used for the exact same reasons in North America and in Asia.
>Blaming Apple's engineers or design staff is at most a reach,
They could have speced out that the batteries have to be able to charge more than 500 times.
>I'd gladly pay Apple $49 to make sure I don't fuck up my iPod installing a $50 battery.
The way they designed it is the problem. For my iPaq, the batteries are pretty easy to replace with no extra tools needed. How hard is it to design a replaceable battery? Hasn't this been done many times before?
>Taking company policy from peons in the service department
This is actually the best thing to do because this is what the consumers are going to hear. Not something some VP of Marketting is going to say because its sounds good.
> A charge lasts me a good six or seven hours, and I doubt if I listen to more than an hour of music a day. So figure one charge a week, or fifty charges a year.
Do people iPod owners wait until the batteries get totally discharged before powering?
Usually they charge at the 50% mark so they aren't left without a dead iPod. So the 10 years gets halfed to 5 years.
And I can see how fast it gets to the 50% charge mark is highly dependent on the volume of music, which is a personal preference.
>At that time, I'd be more than happy to plunk down, say, $200 for a low-end iPod capable of storing 100,000 songs and twelve feature-length movies;)
Ugh. What ever happened to making things that last? When I buy something, even technology stuff, I want it to last.
>That hot cheerleader from high-school is now 32, has pushed out two kids and packed on 50 lbs -- oh and probably has spend the last 15 years living in a trailer park because the former captain of the football team was too stupid to make anything of himself. >Time to find another fantasy.
Dude, that IS my fantasy. All I need is to deliver pizza to her and cue the pr0n music!
I respect that position but there is a fine line in not putting something in.
For example, if I want to keep to a 2 page resume I have to leave something out. Either details of a job or an entire job. I am not lying, I am leaving details out.
Also I was told by many that certain job experiences should be left out be cause they are irrelvent. After you have 10 years of expereince does any really care what you did during your 1st to 3rd year of work? Does it make your resume crowded/too dense?
Slashdot Mirror
Will airport scanners do any harm to CF/SD/Memory Stick cards?
>people seem to ignore TIME as a factor of cost.
It really depends if your time can be replaced by money/effort.
I can't work overtime at my job, so maybe taking the 2 hours setting things up is the more resource efficent way of doing things.
Sure they will accept returns, that way it doesn't become a legal issue.
A good reason why they (and maybe other manufactorers) did this is to boost this years financial numbers.
The units are sold in December this year and will not be returned until January next year. (its not going to be earlier since they were given as gifts and no store is going to accept returns until the new year)
This year they moved 1000 more units -> bean counter happy, people get bonuses. So what if they get 700 units returned, they have until December next year to make up for it.
>BTW over 90% of americans believe in god. If that's not a failure of science to act as a candle in the dark I don't know what is.
Lumping science and faith seems like the stupidest thing I have heard in a long time.
>grow some balls. believe in something and take a stand.
So says the Anonymous Coward.
>they use exactly the same justification to defend their immoral and unethical behavior, and that justification holds absolutely no water.
Ummm... what holy and innocent corporation do you work for?
What holy and innocent corporation is there?
What holy and innocent individual is there?
The point being is that you are blowing this way out of proportion. What SCO might be dumb/bothersome, but is it evil in the "red devil with the pointy horns and tail" evil?
SCO is not eating babies.
How is this insightful?!?! This is the sort of thing that enforces the "Linux geek/no social skills" stereotype.
>Well, anyone with half of a brain cell and the logic abilities of a four year old can figure out that the SCO lawsuit is a bunch of hog-wash
This is sort of like what my math teacher called "Proof by Intimadation". e.g. - "Its obvious or are you just stupid? This is not insightful.
>might be forced to pay out IF SCO finds out about the deployment
Um. Is this an actual legal argument you would tell the CTO to actually use?
Isn't this like pirates saying that its just a temporary copy that I'm using to evaluate the product?
Isn't it like, "Just use that GPL code. IF we ever get found out, then we change the code or comply with the license. Right now, don't worry about it."
Again, not insightful. More like cowardly.
>If you notice, the more SCO talks, the more bad press they get.
This is obvious and people have been saying this forever. Not insightful.
1. What is Savannah?
2. What was the security problems?
3. Why should I or Developers care about this?
4. Why was it down for several weeks?
Not something that can be answered with moving a mouse around and 1/2 a second.
That is huge, have very little memory and is missing alot from what is expected in PDAs.
I want to see what they can do today.
Please?
You know that Apple-fanatics will think it will be the greatest thing even if its 10 lbs and has pointy barbs sticking out of it, but I just want to see what would direction they would go.
>India has received more foreign aid than any other developing nation since the end of World War II--estimated at almost $55 billion since the beginning of its First Five-Year Plan in 1951
:
from
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-170.html
and just recently the US paid them for peace in the billions.
The most unique sound from a game has to be the crow bar from HalfLife.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.. clang, clang
there are about seven distinct story outlines.
See here.
Now get back to work!
Movies are big in China too.
And there are parts of China which are more democratic than others. And the "party officials" do like what they see in terms of economic prosperity in those areas.
>They have a space program, nuclear wepons and huge investment from global companies such as IBM and Dell.
How is this different from China?
The biggest thing that America has that cannot be duplicated is that they are bordered by huge oceans and very friendly countries.
India has lots of issues just under the surface such as Pakastan.
Thats exactly what I was thinking.
Broadband is pretty new. I've had outages with my ISP but it didn't really bother me because I just watched tv until they got it fixed. What about when the next virus/trogien hits and starts saturating the network? What about
When the phone is down, then things become a little more serious. I can't even think of the past 20 years the phone was down even during the recent big blackout.
>A lot of people like to collect good encoded videos on their PC
I would say more than just alot.
>I think /.ers are actually underestimating the threat from India.
Actually there are lots of factors I don't even think has been addressed here.
Next "miliary situation" involving India or any part of that world will bring about questions about the stability of that part of the world. There are nukes in that part of the world and they have a motive to use it.
Unions, they would love to gain more power. And the IT staff would love to gain the sort of power as the longshore men on the west coast just recently showed.
Slow backlash. Bad PR is just plain bad. On CNN Lou Dobbes show has a regular "outting" of companies that outsource.
Undercutting of India. China is one. Another is Eastern European countries are another. Indians are expensive compaired to these guys with the same amount of education/quality of work. Even Canada might be better in terms of culture/timezones/distance/language for the United States. And there still are the savings even without the difference in Canadian/US currency exchange.
Its a wild wild world out there.
>We (the US) is the largest consumer of products from around the world, but if skilled labor follows blue collar labor, the amount of people left to spend money on anything goes down.
Two primary effects come to mind.
1. Deflationary pressures. Can't afford that $2000 refrigderator? Thats ok because in 3 years from now its going to be $800. (yes I know some people will not be able to afford the $800, but its way too early in the morning to think about secondary effects)
2. Buying things hasn't stopped people before. Debit will just go up. Interest rates are low now and credit is easy to get, why not just borrow some more? (Again, if I wasn't lazy this Sunday morning I would look up how much the average American owes, which I think is some insane amount)
>if you want to get ahead, you get an education, and your hard work and academic achievement will be the keys to your success (Unlike India or China where there are relegious and other cultural pushes for education).
Um... both are same goal. There are culteral pushes for education in Asia, not because "A" is more good luck than a "C+" but because they want to succeed. Hard work and education are used for the exact same reasons in North America and in Asia.
You would write up a letter because of one article on an MP3 player?
How about writing something up about the economy, the War on Terror, or the blight of the snowy Alasken owl?
This is not true.
This review near the bottom shows how easy to remove the batteries. And the entire size is pretty small.
What about space? Well slip in a SD memory card of your choice.
This is not a cheap solution but you don't have to choose 2 of your 3 choices.
>Blaming Apple's engineers or design staff is at most a reach,
They could have speced out that the batteries have to be able to charge more than 500 times.
>I'd gladly pay Apple $49 to make sure I don't fuck up my iPod installing a $50 battery.
The way they designed it is the problem. For my iPaq, the batteries are pretty easy to replace with no extra tools needed. How hard is it to design a replaceable battery? Hasn't this been done many times before?
>Taking company policy from peons in the service department
This is actually the best thing to do because this is what the consumers are going to hear. Not something some VP of Marketting is going to say because its sounds good.
> A charge lasts me a good six or seven hours, and I doubt if I listen to more than an hour of music a day. So figure one charge a week, or fifty charges a year.
;)
Do people iPod owners wait until the batteries get totally discharged before powering?
Usually they charge at the 50% mark so they aren't left without a dead iPod. So the 10 years gets halfed to 5 years.
And I can see how fast it gets to the 50% charge mark is highly dependent on the volume of music, which is a personal preference.
>At that time, I'd be more than happy to plunk down, say, $200 for a low-end iPod capable of storing 100,000 songs and twelve feature-length movies
Ugh. What ever happened to making things that last? When I buy something, even technology stuff, I want it to last.
>That hot cheerleader from high-school is now 32, has pushed out two kids and packed on 50 lbs -- oh and probably has spend the last 15 years living in a trailer park because the former captain of the football team was too stupid to make anything of himself.
>Time to find another fantasy.
Dude, that IS my fantasy. All I need is to deliver pizza to her and cue the pr0n music!
I respect that position but there is a fine line in not putting something in.
For example, if I want to keep to a 2 page resume I have to leave something out. Either details of a job or an entire job. I am not lying, I am leaving details out.
Also I was told by many that certain job experiences should be left out be cause they are irrelvent. After you have 10 years of expereince does any really care what you did during your 1st to 3rd year of work? Does it make your resume crowded/too dense?
Don't lie, but be selective.