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Re: World's Raspberry Pi supply jammed in factory blunder

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From: keithr
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:18
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On 9/03/2012 10:12 AM, Bill Davy wrote:
> "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
>>
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>
> Are you referrring to the 39-45 war or the 41-45 war?
>
> Like the 14-18 war vs the 16-18 war.

The 16-18 and 41-45 wars only apply to yanks, they were late for 
everything in those days, but seem to have learned their lesson, and 
these day they start wars instead of waiting around trying to decide 
whether to join in or not.
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