[via gizmodo.com]
It doesn’t matter if the machine you are using is a massive crane or a tiny smartphone: You will always curse in the same way when it crashes. The deafening noise, however, won’t be the same.
Category: What Were They Thinking
nVidias Fermi GTX480 deemed “broken and unfixable” pre-launch
Posted by – 23/02/2010
[via semiaccurate.com, originally written by Charlie Demerjian]
WITH ANOTHER LAUNCH of the Nvidia GT300 Fermi GF100 GTX480 upon us, it is time for an update on the status of that wayward part. Production parts have been coming back from TSMC for several weeks now, and the outlook for them is grim.
Huddersfield shopkeeper killed by teenage robbers
Posted by – 21/02/2010
[via bbc.co.uk]
The robbers escaped after a struggle with passers-by in the shop doorway
A shopkeeper has been killed in a robbery by a gang of teenagers at his store in Huddersfield.
Gurmail Singh, 63, suffered a head injury during the attack at Cowcliffe Convenience Store in Cowcliffe Hill Road, Cowcliffe, on Saturday night.
He died at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in the early hours of the morning.
Detectives say the robbers, who were aged in their late teens, fled after a struggle with passers-by who had tried to stop them leaving the shop.
Oh Snap: NY AG Sues EX-Bank Of America CEO For Fraud
Posted by – 05/02/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Andrew Cuomo has announced a lawsuit against Bank of America’s former CEO Kenneth D. Lewis, its former CFO Joseph L. Price, and the company itself, for “duping shareholders and the federal government in order to complete a merger with Merrill Lynch.” Uh oh!
According to the lawsuit, the AG alleges that Bank of America intentionally didn’t disclose massive losses at Merrill Lynch so that its shareholders would approve the merger. Once it was approved, the lawsuit alleges that the management tricked the government into “saving the deal with billions in taxpayer funds by falsely claiming that they would back out of the deal without bailout funds.”
HTC Says They’re Shipping My New Nexus One: I Don’t Believe Them Anymore
Posted by – 05/02/2010
[via consumerist.com]
The launch and early customer support of the Google’s Nexus One phone, manufactured by HTC, has been a bit problematic. But let’s try some optimism! Maybe now that the early hype has died down and HTC has had some time to get used to the situation, warranty replacements will take place in a timely fashion! Or…well, as reader Michael writes, evidently not.
Update: Thanks to this post, Michael’s new phone is on its way.
Another Reason To Avoid Giant Megapixel Point-And-Shoot Cameras
Posted by – 23/01/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Photo by usblsb
By now you hopefully know that more megapixels don’t necessarily make a better camera. For one thing, you can almost double the megapixels of a camera while only gaining about a 40% increase in resolution. For another thing, it takes a lot more than just sheer number of pixels to produce a decent image. Nevertheless, point-and-shoot cameras with ginormous megapixel stats (now topping 12 MP) continue to hit the market. But Ross at Petavoxel says there’s another reason to avoid huge MP point-and-shoot cameras: something called the Airy disk.
Safeway Sold Me Milk That Expired More Than A Year Ago
Posted by – 19/01/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Photo: Tia
Tia says she bought some milk from Safeway, pictured here, that expired more than a year ago. She writes:
I’m writing to you about a post put up a while ago about a Safeway stocking expired dairy products. I wanted to give you a bit of follow up on this from a different side of the country. I found this article of yours after looking Safeway up specifically on your site.
I’ve always had problems with our local Safeway, regularly I’ll go to purchase the Safeway brand Organic milk and find that it’s either already expired or the “Sell by date” is for the day I am in the store looking for milk.
Alleged Shoplifter Dies After Encounter With Walmart Security
Posted by – 19/01/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Photo: WMBF
A South Carolina woman died shortly after a run-in with Walmart loss prevention. Was the asthma sufferer’s death a coincidence, caused by the stress of being caught by security, or something even more sinister than that? Test results and a review of surveillance footage should clarify the situation somewhat in a few months.
Deputy Coroner Tony Hendrick said Williams died of natural causes. An autopsy was performed Sunday, and test results could take 10-12 weeks.Williams’ mother Patricia Jackson said she has a lot of questions about what happened. She said Williams has eight children, and she doesn’t know what to tell them.
Walmart Holds Another Customer Hostage
Posted by – 12/01/2010
[via consumerist.com]
Kerri (not her real name) says she was detained last week at a Walmart in Utah, after she declined to show the receipt checker her receipt on the way out. She says a police officer blocked her from leaving, told her to show the receipt checker more respect, and then had her go back inside and let Walmart examine her bags while he wrote down the info from her drivers license.
January 9th, 2010
Hello, my name is Kerri ___. I live in Genola, Utah. I am 44 years old.
Nintendo still most eco-unfriendly console maker
Posted by – 08/01/2010
Nintendo is still the most eco-unfriendly of all the console manufacturers, says a Greenpeace report.
Greenpeace has once again checked in on some of the biggest technology companies in the world, including all console manufacturers, and has labelled Nintendo the most eco-unfriendly company of them all for the third year running.
Manufacturing electronics on large scales is an obviously eco-unfriendly activity, but Greenpeace campaigns to make the process as efficient as possible. The new report ranked 18 companies according to factors such as e-waste, energy efficiency, recycling protocols and commitment to reduce greenhouse gases.