More addicts would yield more crimes committed by people with no other means to feed their addiction.
If drugs were as cheap as coffee, people wouldn't need to resort to crime to get their fix. How many people do you know that are addicted to cigarettes or coffee? How many of those people rob and steal to get their fix?
The article said it would likely be able to switch between e-ink and back-lit.
No. The article said
This will be the first Kindle with a full-color screen. And yes, it is back-lit. There is no e-ink to be found anywhere on this device.
and then went on to say
Amazon has been working on a multi-touch screen/e-ink hybrid tablet device. But that’s nowhere near completion, I’m told. So for now, this new Kindle will have to do.
So, this version has no e-ink, but if we wait long enough, maybe we will see a multi-touch e-ink device, like the Sony reader.
In my experience, I love buying from BestBuy. I have seen situations where the computers are opened with the mentioned seals, at least in the cases I have gone through, it tends to happen with very cheap, horrible quality machines that are returned way too often. Don't work there to know for sure, but if I was manager I'd tell my employees to go through all of them and make sure they are in working order before they leave the store.
Nope, they open them so that they can have their "Geek Squad" optimize the machine, they then add the fee for that service onto the invoice. They do this so that they do not have to upsell the service to their customers, it's already included.
I used to work at Circuit City and they would do exactly that. I had customers that wanted a specific model laptop and the only one available was "pre-optimized". They charged an extra $75.00 for the tech to open the box, go through the initial setup prompts and uninstall maybe one or two things. The customers came in looking for a laptop advertised at a specific price and it was my job to tell them that they would have to pay an additional $75.00 on top of that price because all we had left was the "optimized" version.
Memory fault - where am I?