Does cheap mean disposable?
Reading DVD player for £9 at ASDA in thisislondon.co.uk, this quote
"A DVD player is to go on sale for just £9, demonstrating that gadgets have now become as disposable as an old shirt and cheaper than a night at the cinema." caught my attention.
Is it part of the human condition that anything that does not cost us much effort to acquire is of no value?
Just because the DVD player costs less than the media it is playing, does not mean that if it develops a fault, it should be thrown away.
In these days of "Global Warming", wars being fought for natural resources and the ever increasing human population, shouldn't we, as consumers, be more focused on the real cost of products as opposed to the price tag?
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Are you guilty of the five deadly sins of technical writing?
Inspired by Amy Hoy's article - How Tech Writing Sucks: The Five Sins, I decided to put pen to paper, figurately of course. I loved this article. It's clear, amusing and sooooo relevant. I didn't think it was possible to use "suckitude" in a sentence but she nailed it.
Being one of the tech-writing sinners, I tried to identify why. Here's what I came up with.
You’re not radio-tagging me!
I first learned about the OpTag project from an article in the Guardian in 2005. Run by various European parties the OpTag project is funded by the European Union and “aims to increase the safety and security of air travel whilst maximising the utilisation of existing facilities”, according to the OpTag web site.
Sounds good so far, right? Well, until you learn how OpTag proposes to do this - by radio-tagging passengers! Yes, you got it right - radio-tagging!
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