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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #30 on: 27 August 2006, 00:38 »
Yup, here's the Apple battery exchange program ... again $ony batteries:

https://support.apple.com/ibook_powerbook/batteryexchange/index.html

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #31 on: 27 August 2006, 05:09 »
According to an article in the Houston Chronicle, Sony's stock is drooping like an old man's pecker.  So they are actually taking plenty of economic heat for their blunders.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #32 on: 27 August 2006, 12:18 »
hehe...

It's called responsibility, and they're having a good helping of it. Dished up by the very consumers they were taking for granted.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #33 on: 27 August 2006, 19:10 »
I hope they go bankrupt and disappear ... much like M$ should. With enough blunders they just might.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #34 on: 27 August 2006, 21:01 »
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I hope they go bankrupt and disappear ... much like M$ should. With enough blunders they just might.

Who? Sony or Dell?
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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #35 on: 27 August 2006, 21:16 »
Did Sony's stock dip when they had that rootkit cd thing a few months back?  Probably not - I don't think anybody really understood what was happening.  But 4 million battery recalls is as clear as day.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #36 on: 28 August 2006, 05:41 »
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Who? Sony or Dell?

$ony mostly ... Dell not as much.

I mean Dell makes cheap (but often shitty) computers ... but they are far less shitty than Compaq so they're ok with me, not I would ever buy a Dell.

I think $ony has recently aquired some bad management ... they are likely to continue making blunders until the management gets replaced or they go bankrupt.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #37 on: 28 August 2006, 15:46 »
Plus Dell beats the crap outta the competition when it comes to being green:

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up
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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #38 on: 30 September 2006, 19:39 »
The Dell battery recall was recently expanded to many more batteries ... all by $ony. I just got an e-mail about it.

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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #39 on: 30 September 2006, 19:53 »
'Tis interesting what this HAL guy is thinking of doing with all these batteries exploding..

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-September/006211.html

And he actually wrote a patch for it: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-September/006218.html

Dunno if it'll get in - there's a lot of bitching about it. But, damn, that ain't a bad idea.
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Re: Dell is on fire
« Reply #40 on: 2 October 2006, 01:59 »
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how could they shoot in a plane?


Bullets have no effect on the structural integrity of a plane. MythBusters did an experiment a while back, and unless you're shooting the window with an RPG-7, then you won't have 'explosive decompression.'