I had a large Compuserve bill back in 1993 when living in Colombia but it is nothing compared to this guy in Calgary getting an $85,000 bill. My high Compuserve bill was due to me not seeing a bill for about 6 months and the charges accumulating. Still it was under $1000 for me, nothing compared to this!
Cellphone user shocked by charges of $85K
I agree with the first commentor, “don’t buy anything from Western Digital for the next 20 years!”
Western Digital network drives crippled — no serving any multimedia files – Boing Boing
Bose makes expensive audio equipment including noise cancelling headphones for high end travellers and pilots.
Amar Bose passed away July 12, 2013. This article has been popular on this site, so I am adding a bit of interesting information here in 2015 before the original article below that I posted.
Dr. David Perlmutter, in his book “Brain Maker: The Power of Gut Microbes to Heal and Protect Your Brain for Life” published in April 2015 (which I highly recommend) notes that,
Just over a decade ago I developed a close friendship with Dr. Amar Bose. If that name isn’t familiar, you will no doubt recognize it when I explain that the sound system in your car was probably designed by his company. Dr. Bose built a career on exploring and transcending boundaries, not just in audio equipment but also in many areas of science and technology. I remember the day he proudly escorted me through his research laboratory, revealing projects that were building on incredibly futuristic product development ideas. We went from one laboratory to the next, and it was clear how proud he was of the work of his research scientists. But what was most memorable for me when I visited him that day was the 1911 quote by Belgian Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck that was stencilled on the glass wall of Bose’s private office. It really summed up the motivational force that led to Bose’s great success: At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men assigned to guard the past.
Mr. Bose doesn’t have a computer in his office:
Original concepts don’t come out of computers,” he said. “They come from the insight you have into the problem. Computers are necessary for analysis, to justify your findings.
