Where is HP in the Sony Laptop Recall
Am I the only one whose HP laptop is powered by Sony's battery? Surely not, we can see them everywhere in 24. HP might be the only one not to have recalled there laptop. Every time I hear about a recall, I remember one scene from the movie "Fight Club", one of my all-time best movies. In this scene they explain how and when they authorize a recall after some mathematic processing algorithm, which calculate the money they lose if they recall versus if they don't. Often, they prefer to pay the victim. Scary!
So I assume HP considers paying for burned PCs is cheaper than change all of their sold laptop battery. Maybe my HP laptop is better than the others. Who knows? For a couple of month to come I attached an extinction device to my "not so portable anymore" laptop.It might be paranoia but I will never leave my laptop alone. Before, I was afraid of being Highjack or robbed. I was wrong. I should have feared spontaneous combustion.
Oh, don't forget to drink wine, one or two glasses a day; it seems it can help your health.
1 comment:
I wish I had a "potentially exploding" battery in my laptop. Instead, I have the "doesn't work anymore" type. I need my huge power supply wherever I got. Now THAT sucks.
Ok, so some companies want to make money. They are ready to sell stuff that doesn't actually "work". Is that so bad? Normally, I'd say it sucks, and that I don't care so much. If you want to trow money around without checking if what you are buying actually work, it suck for you, not for me, and not for them.
But that's not how I feel about this issue today. It hit close to home recently (last night). It's not that I bought something that doesn't work, it's more like someone wants to sell a prototype software I programmed, claiming it can do stuff that it really can't. Not right now, anyway. Maybe in time I can get it to do many amazing and revolutionnary things, but right now, I'm just terrified that a dude will call me up on the phone and be like "I paid 1 million dollars for this shit and it doesn't work!". That would be a problem for me.
In this world, there is a great big business machine that needs to go forward. This machine is unstoppable. It eats everything in its path. People make it work because the machine rewards them, and that's all that counts.
Yeah, I guess that's the thing to remember. I guess the general feeling is "The only thing that counts is the bottom line, because I sure won't pay for someone else's mistake, even if I knew about it."
I know you people think I'm such a macho (no really). That I'm a fearless man with no remorse. And you are right, I'm like Duke Nukem (and I look like him too), but I'm not very confortable with the whole "screw the customer" thing, even id I do make millions (billions?) of it.
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