Regardless of actual reliability, if Hyndai is willing to fix my car for 10 years then I can have the confidence that in those 10 years I won't have to wory about the cost of major repairs and possibly be forced to get a new car. It makes perfect sense to me.
GM just doesn't want to warranty vehicles for longer than they currently do. If someone else does not raise the bar on quality, you can be sure that GM (or any manufacturer for that matter) won't make large strides.
The user interface should be easy enough to use that it doesn't require the user to consult the manual to get basic functionality out of the product at the very least. There is a tendancy to blame engineers for products not being user friendly because they are notorious for doing increadibly stupid things (the kind of thing that they could improve upon if only they had actually used the product they designed for about 10 minutes). If a product is designed well, the real problem that comes into play is the fact that the same people who are too stupid to work with the product a little bit and feel their way through and figure out how to use it are the people who expect to work right for them without putting forth any effort. The design can always be improved upon, but there will always be people who will have trouble with it.
So if the monitor went completely wacky and you couldn't see anything at all, your grandma would be likely to go to a text console, log in as root, and then shutdown? Even though most users now understand that they must shut down computers instead of just turning them off, they will still hit the power switch if they have no way of actually shutting down properly.
It works, just not very well. It filters out dozens of emails a day for me, though unfortunetly it still tends to let at least several through. It's certainly better than nothing.
It's so easy to do that it probably only takes one person buying the product to make it worthwhile in most cases. Telemarketing is scary in this regard too, espeically since it is much more costly than spamming.
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They don't believe any of that.... But they hope we will.
Regardless of actual reliability, if Hyndai is willing to fix my car for 10 years then I can have the confidence that in those 10 years I won't have to wory about the cost of major repairs and possibly be forced to get a new car. It makes perfect sense to me.
GM just doesn't want to warranty vehicles for longer than they currently do. If someone else does not raise the bar on quality, you can be sure that GM (or any manufacturer for that matter) won't make large strides.
The user interface should be easy enough to use that it doesn't require the user to consult the manual to get basic functionality out of the product at the very least. There is a tendancy to blame engineers for products not being user friendly because they are notorious for doing increadibly stupid things (the kind of thing that they could improve upon if only they had actually used the product they designed for about 10 minutes). If a product is designed well, the real problem that comes into play is the fact that the same people who are too stupid to work with the product a little bit and feel their way through and figure out how to use it are the people who expect to work right for them without putting forth any effort. The design can always be improved upon, but there will always be people who will have trouble with it.
$510 New Zealand.
So if the monitor went completely wacky and you couldn't see anything at all, your grandma would be likely to go to a text console, log in as root, and then shutdown? Even though most users now understand that they must shut down computers instead of just turning them off, they will still hit the power switch if they have no way of actually shutting down properly.
It works, just not very well. It filters out dozens of emails a day for me, though unfortunetly it still tends to let at least several through. It's certainly better than nothing.
It's so easy to do that it probably only takes one person buying the product to make it worthwhile in most cases. Telemarketing is scary in this regard too, espeically since it is much more costly than spamming.