Thanks for the pointless stock photo of a MP holding a radar gun.
WTF does this story have to do with MP's? Why are you wasting my bandwidth and screen space?
Just because you can attach an image to an article, doesn't mean you should. The slashdot beta is even worse than I first thought: it's encouraging editors to do even more stupid shit.
I also couldn't find the reply button, so replying to first post...
The brandbar is pointless. It's a waste of space. It performs no function, other than reminding me I'm viewing slashdot. I don't need to be reminded of this.
It's also slow as hell on mobile browsers. No, I will not use mobile slashdot. That shit is even worse than this horrible fucking beta.
Slashdot isn't broken. Don't fix it.
X11 was designed for remote display over LAN, not WAN. Which is how most of us use it. The Internet barely existed at the time.
Actually, I think most of us use it for local display. It's so bad at remote these days, it's not even very useful over LAN.
It's almost as prestigious as Hardvard!
FTFM (fixed that for myself)
I think in this type of situation, it's a reasonable expectation that the recipient should return the PS Vita too. They paid £19.99 and got sent a completely different item; it isn't as if the PS Vita was priced at £19.99 in error and the company mistakenly fulfilled the order.
It's only reasonable if the company is compensating them for the expense and time of sending it back. Personally, I would only consider it if the company was at least offering to send me the correct merchandise after refunding my £19.99 in exchange for the return. I'd probably hold out for a check for £19.99 in addition to a full refund and shipment of my intended purchase item. I'd call it a "restocking fee". If I had mistakenly ordered a PS Vita and then sent it back, the company would charge me a "restocking fee" too.
If they refused to compensate me, I'd just sell the Vita, buy the correct game from someone else, and pocket the difference. I would see this as fair, because it would require additional effort to obtain the item I had paid for but not received, and I would expect to be compensated for that.
When I lose something, I offer a reward to get it back. I don't threaten the person who found it.
Sadly, I see similar situations happen all the time. Companies make a mistake with their pricing online and don't fulfil the order and the people who thought they were getting a 40" TV for £50 start talking about their "right" to buy it for that price.
That's because it's dangerously close to a bait-and-switch, which is illegal. It's only not illegal if it is genuinely a mistake. If you're advertising a 40" TV for $50 without any conditions, then customers do, in fact, have the right to buy it for that price. If it is an honest mistake, and the company does not ship the item, but simply refunds the customer's money, the customer has still been harmed. The company has wasted the customer's time.
Let's turn it around a bit: if the customers had asked to return the game they bought and accidentally sent a PS Vita to the company, would the customers be arguing that their mistake represented an "unsolicited gift"?
The company would probably send it back, not because it's their duty under the law, but because it makes good business sense. If they didn't send it back they would lose that customer forever, and they would badmouth the company to others. It could easily end up costing them more than the value of the item.
On the other hand, other than the legal threats, the customers have no incentive to send the devices back. If Zawi refuses to ever do business with them again, they'll just buy stuff from someone else.
I ask because since the Sharp Zaurus days I have wanted a phone which runs 'proper' Linux, a Linux kernel with glibc, X-windows, GTK, QT, etc... I wanted something that I could easily 'port' desktop apps over just by recompiling.
Sounds like you have wanted the N900. X11, Qt, GTK, SDL, Java, and even Mono are all available in the extras repo and easily installable through apt-get.
Sailfish uses Wayland and QT. I'm not sure if GTK is available in the Mer repos. You could probably get XWayland rocking on it.
My very limited understanding of Sailfish is that it is just a Linux kernel with webkit dropped on top of it to run HTML5 apps not unlike Google Chrome. Was I mistaken?
Yes. You were very mistaken. This is a good description of WebOS, not Sailfish.
Sailfish uses Wayland and QT. I believe Python is preinstalled. I'm not sure if GTK is available in the Mer repos. You could probably get XWayland rocking on it. Sailfish is the closest thing to 'proper' Linux available for phones right now, even closer than Ubuntu Phone.
Saliva causes cancer, but only if swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time. -- George Carlin
