Correct. Strictly speaking Australian consumers don't really need a warranty, which is a voluntary undertaking by a business to guarantee certain rights, unless that warranty exceeds those guarantees provided for in Australian consumer law. In this case the family is automatically entitled to repair, replacement, refund or cancellation for a reasonable time, where "reasonable" depends on the product or service as determined by the ACCC or the courts.
>where "reasonable" depends on the product or service as determined by the ACCC or the courts.
Is there a table of warranty lengths by product published by the ACCC? If not it seems like a regulatory nightmare because neither consumers nor manufacturer knows what their rights/obligations are. At least with standard warranties you know what you're getting into.
The price you paid relative to comparable products factors into it - more expensive goods are expected to last longer.
If you and the manufacturer disagree, you can always take it to tribunal to get a decision (and manufacturers never want it to get there so are motivated to resolve your concern before it comes to that).
Likewise, although I own a Seamaster. To most people it's just a piece of jewelry and might as well be from Fossil. Those who know, know. Other than the occasional fascinating conversation about what's in their collection, I don't know why it should matter they know (a partial truth given I once lived in Hong Kong where to a certain class it did matter, but generally speaking it does not). This collaboration won't change that.
I've run Pop!_OS on a Lenovo X395 for over 2 years, and on a custom build PC for the last year. I've have had the opposite experience -- it just works. Granted the Pop!_Shop isn't very good.
Also anecdotal, but down the road here in Melbourne we did have some major lockdowns. I'm the only person from my team in the office. It would be an exaggeration to claim this floor is at 15% of capacity. On the 2 days I week I come in I get my pick of seats on the train, whereas it was sardine standing room only previously. My go to cafe is gone. As are my second, third and forth gotos.
I expect most offices will reduce their floor plans. Most white collar workers will WFH a yet to be determined proportion of their time.
I was a Strava premium subscriber until the summit packs came along. It made little sense to maintain 2 of the 3 available subscriptions to get the 50% of features you wanted from each of the training and analysis packs, when you could just go down the road and pay a single fee to training peaks for what turned out to be a better training and a vastly superior analysis experience.
Then Strava ditched the chronological feed (it came back a month or so ago) which made sense only to those for those trying to use it for something other than seeing which of your mates ran this morning. Then came posts, and suddenly your feed was full of quasi-motivational clip art from the bloke you met one time at a park run.
And of course Strava's route planner has fallen behind those offered by Ride with GPS and Komoot, although they seem to have given it a bit of attention lately.
I don't want Strava to die, but they forgot who their customers were and went on a 2 year bender chasing casual users. It was already a big task to convince folks you burned to move their money back, but it's going to be herculean having taken the torch to them again.
To add a little colour here, Mr Defteros was previously awarded damages and costs when he sued the authors of the article (and book chapter). Google was notified of the defamatory material in February 2016, but did not remove it until December 2016 after it had been accessed ~150 times.
In this case the court found -- paraphrasing a lengthy judgement here -- that having being notified of the defamatory material, and failing to remove it, Google is a publisher of defamatory imputations. As such damages were awarded.
Thanks for this, seems then things aren't quite as bizarre as the article makes them appear.
Any more background info? Mostly in terms of the takedown request. A successful suit giving the right to get anything directly based on the source material scrubbed elsewhere seems fair enough.
But how is an entity like Google supposed to supervise the validity of such claims? Seems ripe for abuse and no-questions-asked compliance lest they be sued.
Clear ground rules as in the EU seem like the only answer here.
This was the sixth case, including appeals, relating to this specific matter.
> But how is an entity like Google supposed to supervise the validity of such claims?
Without wanting to appear too glib, Google also indexes all the judgements! Otherwise, you raise an interesting question which will perhaps be answered in a subsequent appeal.
I've watched with interest as INFORMS has tried to rebrand OR as data science, but this is the first time I've seen anyone refer to it as such in the wild.
I hope you're able and encouraged to develop your interest in this area. It's actually all over the place (I'm currently working in rail), usually cloaked by a less sexy job title :)
The X395 is available with 16GB RAM. Don't recall screen resolution. Looked into buying one but my XPS13 developer edition's warrantee doesn't expire until next October.
My next laptop will be a Zen 2, regardless of whether or not Dell steps up to the plate. I hope they do. I prefer the fit and finish of my current XPS13 to my previous X230. Also the XPS 13 developer edition ships with Linux, which I approve of.
The T495s should be the solution for this but annoyingly they don't offer the 1440p screen like they do on the T490s (that can even go to 32GB of RAM).
But the an AMD X1 would be awesome indeed. The better chassis and 4K screen would make it the ideal machine for me. I'd love it if they did that in the Gen 8 but I'm not holding my breath...
I configured mine with 16G RAM, but yeah, the screen options max out at 1920x1080 and 300nits. That said, for a laptop with this form factor it's got an amazing keyboard.
