Knowing the MythBusters, they'd have to evacuate everything within a 30-mile radius of that house, since they'd likely just load it up with even more explosives so they could top their cement truck detonation.
They're probably afraid that if they try to remove anything in such close proximity to everything else in that house, that just errantly knocking something over will (literally) set off the whole lot.
They better not make the same mistake Audi did when they proclaimed the otherwise utterly obvious conclusion that Americans are bad drivers. It took Audi how long to recover from that? Something like 10-20 years?
The other problem with the term "financial failure" is that when you factor greed into the equation, everything short of infinity is technically a "financial failure." Whenever some corporation or their legal representatives use the related term "lost profits" it's that mindset in action. There's what they think they should get, and what they actually get, and if the latter is lesser than the former, then despite its success it is a "financial failure."
Don't use the printer for a week and the ink nozzles clog up, at best requiring wasting ink to clean the damned things out, and at worst requiring purchasing a completely new cartridge. Then of course there's the simple fact that ink on paper causes the paper to wrinkle which, obviously, ruins whatever perceived image quality there is, and all bets are off if you let any other liquids hit the paper.
No, ink is expensive because the printers are cheap. The cost of manufacturing inkjet printers is offset by how much ink you have to purchase for the damned things, which is, incidentally, why color laser printers cost several hundred dollars, toner cartridges for a full four-color set run as much as a new high-end (multifunction) inkjet printer, but you easily end up saving money in the long run if you consider just how much equivalent ink you'd have to purchase if you cheaped out on the printer. Plus, toner doesn't dry out and since it's more a plastic than an ink, getting it wet doesn't ruin the print. And the printers themselves are generally just built better.
Hell, for casual use, a color laser printer might run you $400 for the printer and it'd be a good year or two before you use up the toner cartridges it comes with. Compare that to buying new cartridges whenever you run out of ink or the damned things get clogged up and dry out from disuse.
I've only managed a single playthrough, and I honestly don't know how considering how often the fucking game crashes. My patience for big games wanes each time I have to replay through something I've already been through simply because the developers couldn't be bothered to fix their mistakes.
Moreover, if you plan on letting someone go and that person has access rights to sensitive information, you take away those access rights immediately. No exceptions. If it means they can't do their job, who cares? You've already decided you're firing the person, why try to squeeze two more weeks of "work" out of someone who is at this point nothing more than a liability?
Even if the system is required to give two weeks notice prior to dismissal, his access rights should be revoked the moment they've decided they're going to dismiss him. Let him collect a paycheck for two weeks without actually doing any work: since he's going to get fired anyway, why leave him in the position to do some real damage now that he's been given motivation?
Except when it doesn't happen. That's the problem with inconsistency. It's great when you actually get that kind of service, but if great service isn't official policy, then you cannot reasonably expect to get great service all the time. Whereas you can reasonably expect to get screwed by them sometime, even if it's statistically unlikely.
OEM?
Basic rule of thumb is to not order OEM hard drives from NewEgg, and it has more to do with them being damaged in shipping than anything on NewEgg's part.
No, even then they wouldn't need to package a fan itself. If the boxes just go up for display and don't need to carry any actual inherent value, then just empty boxes would suffice. They could cover over the viewing ports for the CPU and fan with pictures of the CPU and fan and it would work perfectly for a "display model" box. If they needed a demo CPU to pass around but not actually function, then they should have oodles of defective parts to serve that function.
Sounds less like a customer to me because that's an incredible amount of work to go through to attempt to rip off NewEgg, and as the box would already be open, there'd be nothing stopping NewEgg from opening the returns to verify that everything is there as it should be. Unless they're just not bothering to do that, in which case shame on them, but after looking at the posted pics of just how elaborate this is, this seems far more organized and elaborate than a simple customer. They're not just stuffing fake items in an opened genuine retail box, they're faking everything INCLUDING the box and passing it off as the real deal, and it's a good enough of a fake that it goes undetected until it reaches the customer.
More accurately, if you bought Intel, you'd have a first post, albeit at a premium.
If you bought AMD, you might have had a first post, but they're all at a significant discount so wtf do you care?
Of course they're treating this case differently, that's irrelevant to my underlying point. I wasn't responding to the fact that the people who got screwed by getting fake CPUs are going to be treated as a special case, I was responding to the claim of NewEgg being effectively "trouble-free" when it comes to returns and replacements. They're certainly better than some places, but worse than others, and not at the top of my list of preferred online retailers simply due to the fact that they don't pay return shipping on defective merchandise.
Among other gripes, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.
Especially compared to Amazon, which doesn't give a shit whether you ordered the wrong item or what you got was defective, you get return authorization and a shipping label, send it back to them and they foot that small cost to keep a loyal customer. Refunds, of course, are subject to a restocking fee, which should surprise absolutely nobody (and is beyond the scope of my complaint against NewEgg).
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The problem with "crackers" is its association with software piracy as well as its use as an ethnic slur.
Knowing the MythBusters, they'd have to evacuate everything within a 30-mile radius of that house, since they'd likely just load it up with even more explosives so they could top their cement truck detonation.
They're probably afraid that if they try to remove anything in such close proximity to everything else in that house, that just errantly knocking something over will (literally) set off the whole lot.
Self-correction: you apparently have to zoom in close enough to see the individual leaves on the trees before it renders them as 3d models.
Aha okay, did a "check for updates" in GE and got nothing, and the (badly formatted) article didn't link to a new version. *shrugs*
*tries it out*
Oh FFS they're sprites.
Where are the fucking 3D trees?
They better not make the same mistake Audi did when they proclaimed the otherwise utterly obvious conclusion that Americans are bad drivers. It took Audi how long to recover from that? Something like 10-20 years?
The other problem with the term "financial failure" is that when you factor greed into the equation, everything short of infinity is technically a "financial failure." Whenever some corporation or their legal representatives use the related term "lost profits" it's that mindset in action. There's what they think they should get, and what they actually get, and if the latter is lesser than the former, then despite its success it is a "financial failure."
Don't use the printer for a week and the ink nozzles clog up, at best requiring wasting ink to clean the damned things out, and at worst requiring purchasing a completely new cartridge. Then of course there's the simple fact that ink on paper causes the paper to wrinkle which, obviously, ruins whatever perceived image quality there is, and all bets are off if you let any other liquids hit the paper.
No, ink is expensive because the printers are cheap. The cost of manufacturing inkjet printers is offset by how much ink you have to purchase for the damned things, which is, incidentally, why color laser printers cost several hundred dollars, toner cartridges for a full four-color set run as much as a new high-end (multifunction) inkjet printer, but you easily end up saving money in the long run if you consider just how much equivalent ink you'd have to purchase if you cheaped out on the printer. Plus, toner doesn't dry out and since it's more a plastic than an ink, getting it wet doesn't ruin the print. And the printers themselves are generally just built better.
Hell, for casual use, a color laser printer might run you $400 for the printer and it'd be a good year or two before you use up the toner cartridges it comes with. Compare that to buying new cartridges whenever you run out of ink or the damned things get clogged up and dry out from disuse.
I've only managed a single playthrough, and I honestly don't know how considering how often the fucking game crashes. My patience for big games wanes each time I have to replay through something I've already been through simply because the developers couldn't be bothered to fix their mistakes.
Moreover, if you plan on letting someone go and that person has access rights to sensitive information, you take away those access rights immediately. No exceptions. If it means they can't do their job, who cares? You've already decided you're firing the person, why try to squeeze two more weeks of "work" out of someone who is at this point nothing more than a liability?
I'd think the answer is obvious here: "damage."
Even if the system is required to give two weeks notice prior to dismissal, his access rights should be revoked the moment they've decided they're going to dismiss him. Let him collect a paycheck for two weeks without actually doing any work: since he's going to get fired anyway, why leave him in the position to do some real damage now that he's been given motivation?
Except when it doesn't happen. That's the problem with inconsistency. It's great when you actually get that kind of service, but if great service isn't official policy, then you cannot reasonably expect to get great service all the time. Whereas you can reasonably expect to get screwed by them sometime, even if it's statistically unlikely.
OEM? Basic rule of thumb is to not order OEM hard drives from NewEgg, and it has more to do with them being damaged in shipping than anything on NewEgg's part.
No, even then they wouldn't need to package a fan itself. If the boxes just go up for display and don't need to carry any actual inherent value, then just empty boxes would suffice. They could cover over the viewing ports for the CPU and fan with pictures of the CPU and fan and it would work perfectly for a "display model" box. If they needed a demo CPU to pass around but not actually function, then they should have oodles of defective parts to serve that function.
Sounds less like a customer to me because that's an incredible amount of work to go through to attempt to rip off NewEgg, and as the box would already be open, there'd be nothing stopping NewEgg from opening the returns to verify that everything is there as it should be. Unless they're just not bothering to do that, in which case shame on them, but after looking at the posted pics of just how elaborate this is, this seems far more organized and elaborate than a simple customer. They're not just stuffing fake items in an opened genuine retail box, they're faking everything INCLUDING the box and passing it off as the real deal, and it's a good enough of a fake that it goes undetected until it reaches the customer.
More accurately, if you bought Intel, you'd have a first post, albeit at a premium. If you bought AMD, you might have had a first post, but they're all at a significant discount so wtf do you care?
So they're inconsistent. Their official policies FAQ says one thing, their actions say another. That doesn't inspire much confidence.
Of course they're treating this case differently, that's irrelevant to my underlying point. I wasn't responding to the fact that the people who got screwed by getting fake CPUs are going to be treated as a special case, I was responding to the claim of NewEgg being effectively "trouble-free" when it comes to returns and replacements. They're certainly better than some places, but worse than others, and not at the top of my list of preferred online retailers simply due to the fact that they don't pay return shipping on defective merchandise.
Among other gripes, but that's beyond the scope of this discussion.
Especially compared to Amazon, which doesn't give a shit whether you ordered the wrong item or what you got was defective, you get return authorization and a shipping label, send it back to them and they foot that small cost to keep a loyal customer. Refunds, of course, are subject to a restocking fee, which should surprise absolutely nobody (and is beyond the scope of my complaint against NewEgg).
Except of course for the fact that you have to pay to ship the item back to them.
No more so than usual - you still have to foot the bill to ship the item back to them.
Just what we all needed: something dumber than user comments to read on YouTube.