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- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34LOL! The "Mission Impossible" iPod.
- jmonw, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17Shuffles are perfect for some people. Why pay hundreds of dollars for an iPod when all you want is 100 of your favorite songs on there to run or work out to?
Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they're worthless. - JayRod, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Does it smell like warm, fresh Apple Pie?
- ij00mini, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14He opened the shuffle with a fricken knife, how is it "shoddy build quality" when some idiots jabs capacitors with a knife and it then catches fire?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18You need to learn the correct way to not be an *****.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The Internet
Serious ***** Business - Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -9/+16yeah but if you're going to have a website, at least spell-check it. That's all I'm saying.
- eggo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Those rebound relationships never work out. They always end up as a codependency; just going through the motions, pretending to like the music... it's sad really.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to audio files... This iPod Shuffle will self destruct in ten seconds after being opened and tampered with."
- PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I thought it was only somewhat amusing...until I read that this fool was a Project Manager. He reminds me of a lot of Project Managers at my office.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Idiots + Knives + Electronics = Instant Hilarity
- d00fy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There's millions produced, there are defects.
- gabbs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8if the batt was fully charged and then discharged suddenly I think it could happen in a small space... hackaday has a better way of opening it up: http://hackaday.com/entry/1234000700034044
- bayonetblaha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6...so disinterested that you went to make a comment about your disinterest so everyone else will know about it.
- templest, on 10/12/2007, -9/+13Maybe it's a typo? Y'know... the thing that happesn when you press the wrong key by accident,
or when you cmolpetley misspell a word altogehter?
How do you know he didn't mean to say, "caught fire"? - Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7"yeah but if you're going to have a website, at least spell-check it. That's all I'm saying."
Wait, isn't court a word too? Just because there's no red line, doesn't mean it's correct. - henryaj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@mcbesq: Please charge up a camera flash and stick a metal screwdriver in it. Tell us what happens, if you still have hands.
- mannymix03, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6how does someones mistake equal shoddy build quality???
Seriously grow up, and if your going to bash apple, at least make it intelligent - reedreeder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4i had a sixty gig video ipod, until it got stolen.
so i bought the 512 mb shuffle on the rebound, and i love it. i'll never buy a real iPod again. - templest, on 10/12/2007, -11/+14It's not like he's writing up legal documents. It's a personal *internet* blog,
for his own little posts about random things that happen in his life.
I've seen published books with more typos than that article. Cut the guy some slack. - etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Let's all be glad this guy is a Project manager and not a Writer. :P
- Matrixsjd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It just bugs me that's all. I wish people would learn how to spell, and use correct words. Not one's that mean something completely different...Doesn't matter if it's a "legal document" or the Internet. One should always try to sound at least slightly educated.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Looks to me as though he must have punctured the battery. This isn't Apple's fault, go blame the dumbass that decided the best way to repair his broken iPod was to randomly jab at it with a knife. If that doesn't do it for you, go complain to battery designers for a battery that holds too much energy in too small a space (they were only trying to give us good battery life). This doesn't mean iPod shuffles are dangerous. Try sticking a screwdriver over your car battery's terminals... I'll bet your car will end up looking a lot like this little iPod.
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope your job doesn't count on you paying attention to details.
- Salvo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Play a Bootleg MP3 on your Shuffle, shove a knife into it and it blows up!
Damn RIAA. - DubbleA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It looks like the battery wasn't connected properly. The battery is what exploded. There was a backup of battery juice that eventually ate away at the connections. I don't think that him hitting the Shuffle helped this juice to stop at all.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Did anyone look at the disassembly instructions on the linked page? Those extra pins in the USB connector... Interesting...
- Pulse_Instance, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5The shuffle isn't the only iPod with play list shuffling functionality, my 60GB iPod video does shuffling just fine, in fact I can have it shuffle all ~10000 songs on it or I can have it shuffle a play list that I choose or make on the go.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Ditto - incorrect use of grammar makes me wince when I read stuff like that, internet or not - alas, it is all too common to find.
Anyways, glad I didn't buy a shuffle.. mind you, I wasn't planning on breaking open the case and jamming around inside like this guy did either, so maybe they're safe ;] - RichMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sad day for that shuffle.
I love the iPod shuffle, it's the perfect mp3 player for listening to podcasts. I never leave home without my shuffle around my neck. - MattZed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3A guy at work bought an iPod from the RIAA. Ten years later, Bam! Herpes.
- matt0817, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7ive killed many a green army men, and that looks like a lighter fire.
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@henryaj
Evidently, you're not familiar with the concepts of irony and sarcasm. For your information, humor over the ages has progressed past the "why did the chicken cross the road" phase. In fact, some people, in order to illustrate a humorous point, will say untrue things that are ridiculous. The humor comes from the apparent sincerity. The point of my comment was to illustrate the absurdity of assuming that poor quality control of a product contributed to the destruction of the product, as opposed to clear user abuse.
Until you grasp the twin concepts of irony and sarcasm, I suggest you avoid the internet. The commentary on it is obviously beyond your ken.
I apologize for my use of these words. I fear that you may not have understood them. You may want someone to help you. - digghotdog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's simply cause by the DRM system inside iPod drive Firefox mad, so iPod got burned.
- matt0817, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3arson investagators can
- TellarHK, on 10/12/2007, -12/+13templest: "It's not like he's writing up legal documents. It's a personal *internet* blog,"
What the hell are you thinking? That the internet suddenly allows a lack of quality and easy excuses for being a crappy writer that doesn't bother to know the difference between "court" and "caught"? This is the greatest medium of long-distance human communication and data distribution ever friggin' devised by mankind, and you endorse treating it like some moron teenager's cellphone SMS messages? No, it's the goddamn internet, you're supposed to be MORE careful than that. Treat the medium with some damn respect and remember that your words will live on in the Google cache among others, for countless years. - sapo916, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since when does one person qualify as everyone?
- bob12321, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1that ass stabbed the battery!! why didnt he think?
- johndi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3@ TellarHK, you think that's bad just try and read some of Shakespeare's work. No, not the cleaned up and updated stuff you see today, but accurate copies of the manuscripts. He'd spell the same word 3 different ways in a paragraph. Not to mention he made up and or changed the meaning of at least 450 words. Somehow, I don't hear many people suggesting Shakespeare treated his medium with disrespect, and his works are a bit more formal than the Internet. They will likely outlast that webpage as well, even in archives.
- artman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeesh, "Chris T" is a "project manager" who tried to open his Nano (with a metal knife!) and it exploded in his face into flames. Then this co-worker (I believe) writes about it on his weblog misspelling every other word...
/thank god i don't work for them - michelbites, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2you know on the website mentioned it says not to open the damn thing up.
- Gregd, on 10/12/2007, -8/+8Do you need further proof that the RIAA owns you? This is the new DRM...
- Spacemanspif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1It must have been the lithium-Ion battery, they are extremely dangerous when punctured. Lithium is an alkai metal (much like sodium) and very reactive to water (including water vapor in the air). It Oxidizes very quicly (burns).
If you were lucky in chemistry class you probably saw your teacher drop some sodium in water, a similar effect occurs with lithium.
He would have been fine if he hadn't done one of the following: 1) Punctured the battery, 2) Damaged the safety device built into the battery, or 3) Shorted the battery.
see the Wikipedia Warning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery#Warning - fabbyfabs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hehe, this is one of the funnies stories ever!
- Arthemys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1How much "juice" is actually in the Shuffle? Apparently not a lot is required to do that much damage.
- Rayonic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Actually, most of the time a Shuffle breaks when you try to update the firmware on it. Sad but true, apparently this is a common problem and there is no way to reset the firmware yourself. And even if it's under warrenty, you pay a $30 shipping and handling fee.
Pretty sloppy of Apple not to have a backup firmware on some ROM chip, for when *their own* update software screws up. - p3p5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Just about 3 min ago! sept 20 2007 11:pm Eastern time ---
My Ipod 3gen. Caght fire when plugin the Firewire cable from my mac. First a white smoke then sparks and then a burned junk funky usless Ipod , Technology SUCKs!!!!!! - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No sense of humor eh?
I feel sorry for you. - deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3"Using a metal knife"
I stopped reading at this point. -
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