Posts by Halfmad 767 posts • joined 16 Jan 2013
I could walk into any shop and buy bread, hell I could pick up 3 different loaves in the same shelf and get different best before dates.
Same applies to computers, it's not WHEN you buy it but WHAT you bought and in many cases longevity is more linked to the motherboard than the components which are incrementally updated which insert into it etc.
One of my friends use to do electrical maintenance for John Lewis, few years ago they got punted to a private company, "same contract".
Within 6 months most of his team had left due to shift changes, ever every 2 people who quit 1 would be hired. Before the turn of the year his patch was 5x larger than it was previously and he ended up off sick with stress.
This is a guy who prided himself on never being off work ill in 20+ years..
If TomTom is installed by default in some fashion by Mazda I'd assume they had some liability, then again I'm sure the TOS and TomTom email he got when he signed up probably mentioned about having to cancel etc.
Not sure I'd assume selling my merc would stop apple itunes charging me afterwards - I'd go cancel itunes etc. (I don't have either btw.. just saying).
Staff have proven their worth, saved the company from going under and the response is to dump them and outsource.
This will come back to bite Maersk, we all know that but some execs will get bonuses for this - shareholders should be up in arms if they had any sense. Any repeat of the issues and that company is gone.
Better than ours, about 10 years ago we were told we had to go into a branch and meet with a mortgage specialist. When we did they opened up the same page on the back site we had, they then called the public mortgage centre number and handed me the phone..
To this day I have no idea why we were asked to go in, it was a waste of 3 hours out of work.
Point they are probably making is that this is for discussing the topic, not the appearance of those in it.
While I may or may not agree with you around her spectacles, it's not the right forum for that debate. Let's stick to the content of the article itself rather than go down the tabloid route?
I only have SSDs and M.2 drives in my PCs but have a NAS with plenty of rust in rotation on it as my pet hate with the newer drives is you generally don't get any warning before they are dead.. at least with mechanical ones you'd typically start having performance issues or bad block warnings.
To be vaguely fair, Apple if nothing else have innovated how they package and market products to the masses. When I repaired apple products in the 90s it was pretty niche, outside of a few Macs in schools and at designers there were precious few using them.
iMacs, iPods and clamshell ibooks changed that rapidly. I can't think of any equally rapid rise in market share other than perhaps Samsung and Huawei in terms of hardware.
I've never, at home or work failed to wipe and reinstall/image Dells. HPs, Lenovo etc. Hell we even did this with iMacs back in the 90s.
It's just good to know you are starting from a specific point with all software that's deployed known. I don't trust vendors not to sneak stuff on.
Look, I use to repair Macs in the 90s and early 00s. I like Macs but that's a pile of garbage you've written. Either you lack awareness with regard to equipment specification and performance or you, like many others had your heart set on a Mac from the start and were just trying to justify it to yourself.
It's incredibly rare for Mac to be better value in terms of hardware than any other PC vendor, the only one who occasionally is worse is Alienware.
Linux has it's own problem, underlying issues here are a culture of not funding and/or caring about information and cyber security.
If they did at most they'd be back up and running already and saying "we lost X amount of data, sorry ICO".
Instead they are still down, still clutching at straws and in PR damage limitation mode.
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