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Article #303Re: World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder
From: Bill Davy
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 23:12
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"notbob" <notbob@nothome.com> wrote in message news:slrnjli5s8.37o.notbob@nbleet.hcc.net... > On 2012-03-08, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Seems all very amateur to me. >> There is an old Dutch saying: >> "Do not sell the skin of the bear before you shot it." > > Is that the same Dutch that surrendered to the Nazis even quicker than > the French (ONE DAY!)? Have you ever heard of a Dutch Mauser variant? > Do the Dutch even know how to shoot? I didn't think so. > >> It is not that I did never came acros a similar problem, >> just that I did not shout from the roofs before everything worked. >> On top of that I find this pretty stupid, >> is not most RJ45 with magnetics, and perhaps with LEDs these days? >> the ones I use are. >> What if the new connectors are more expensive? > > Not a new practice. I think the term is "vaporware". Yell from > rooftops, get venture capital, pad pockets, blame vendors, yada > yada..... Everyone does it, including Apple and others. Wait six > mos, buy the debugged version fer cheap if still alive, or look to the > next pretender. > > nb > > -- > Fight internet CENSORSHIP - Fight SOPA-PIPA > Contact your congressman and/or representative, now! > http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/ > vi --the heart of evil! Are you referrring to the 39-45 war or the 41-45 war? Like the 14-18 war vs the 16-18 war.
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From: "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com>
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Subject: Re: World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:12:12 -0000
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