Very often Apple does not repair them, they just give you a new device instead. Or they'll give you a time frame of a month and the consumer gives up and buys a replacement instead. I honestly doubt Apple really does repairs on most of this stuff.

And yet, one can still change the batteries in those miniaturized radios.

These are essentially meant to be disposable. Toxic materials put into landfills. Some "green" companies will ship them to China instead so that they're put into Chinese landfills. But do not kid yourself, these companies fully expect you to throw this away in a year and buy a new one. If some consumers complain about how difficult it is to change a battery you see vastly more consumers in rapturous adoration of the tiny design.

I wonder how this stuff sells in Europe where they have laws about tracking and recycling all the parts?

You also need a complete new set of certification courses.

At the price they sell it for, you would definitely want it repairable.
This trend of having expensive eqipment that is intended to be disposed in a landfill like a razor blade is ridiculous.

I consider doing work to be a short time waster, interrupting me from my cat videos.

Why fund the media? Find a job or source of income that isn't about pretending to be a journalist. This stuff is turning the net into a low-tech venture where it's about content instead of actually doing something new and interesting and advancing the state of the art.

No, I am not stealing. The web sites are provided free and I'm just viewing some of the content they provide. Maybe I'm not viewing it the way they would like me to view it, but that is not the same as stealing and it is not immoral or unethical. This is little different from my throwing away my junk mail unopened.

Do not blame the viewers of the web sites for this. Blame the the advertisers who came up with abusive ads and the companies that continue to buy the abusive ads. If the companies would behave like responsible poeple then we wouldn't be forced to engage in self defense.

Adblock also greatly improves the performance of browsing the web, especially if you're on a slow network or dialup.

Well I notice jerky mouse movement and delays even when vmware is doing nothing and is only in the background.

And don't forget that there are also laws in many countries that forbid you from bypassing software controls that are intended to prevent you from exercising your legal rights. Catch-22: you're legally allowed to use the re-use the product on your new computer, but are not legally allowed to make the changes to the software to enable this.

You mean massively degraded performance. On my Mac with encrypted disk, VMware is slow slow slow. It takes up huge amounts of disk space too (ie, 40GB image, you won't be making too many of those). And most of the VM engines I've seen are not free. You also need another Windows license, no?

Follow the link and you'll see the comment wasn't actually deleted.

Maybe depends on where you're from. In California it doesn't fly, but you're still expected to not have just a tee shirt and jeans. However on east coast it is still expected most places. Doesn't need to be a great suit though.

The whole point really is that it needs to look like you care about getting the job. If they're looking at many candidates they're probably going to pass on the person who acts as if the interview is a waste of time, and they're definitely going to pass on the person who thinks he is so awesome that conventions can be thrown out.

I don't wear a suit, I don't wear a tie. I haven't worn a suit to the last few interviews. I am not a pro-suit person. I am a slacker. I will wear a suit to a wedding or funeral of course. However I have great difficulty understanding the mind set that wearing a suit would be throwing away dignity. Is this some sort of British style worry that you will be a class traitor if you put on a suit? What's the big deal? No one will laugh at you, no one will think less of you (no one that matters anyway), no one will mistake you for a tool.

I'm not following the links. What is dice.com?