HP Cloud Assure... Microsoft Azure...

Joe Woodbury

HP Printers are marvelous. I won't use anything else. In all other respects, HP has turned into one of the most unimaginative companies around. They seem to be a bureaucrat's dream. Even their web site is dreadfully boring. (I just remembered that I'm typing this using an absolutely shitty HP system.)

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

Chris Austin

Yep...They were an awesome company before with a great product and research pipeline. I think the slide into being just another manufacturer was when the board hired Lou Platt and started spinning off their measurement and test equipment. Really shortsighted just like the Bell Labs silliness.

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Gary Wheeler

Joe Woodbury wrote:

HP Printers are marvelous

What are you smoking/inhaling/injecting/swallowing, and why didn't you bring enough to share? I had a DeskJet 722, which was nice from a hardware standpoint, but the software sucked. I now have a Photosmart 5240. The software still sucks (half of it behaves like spyware). The hardware's a piece of junk. It rattles like a taxi in heat. It takes upward of 60 seconds to print the first page, and then spends 15-20 seconds shutting down after the last page. It uses ink like a crack addict on welfare check day. I will never, ever buy another HP printer.

Software Zen: delete this;

Joe Woodbury

I had an HP4P that ran for twelve years. Still does, actually, but I retired it anyway. My current Laserjet 2050 has been fantastic. A few years back, I had an Epson inkjet. I could never get it to print accurate colors and the heads were always clogging. My brother had an HP inkjet at his work that printed colors dead on and you could clean the heads by just pulling the ink cartridge.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

Judah Gabriel Himango

Windows AJH-ure HP a-SURE. Yeah, it's confusing. Probably deliberately.

Religiously blogging on the intarwebs since the early 21st century: Kineti L'Tziyon Judah Himango

Russell Jones

my abiding memories of HP printers within an IS department was that they only kept a model on the market for about 2 weeks so that we were always having to create new laptop images with new drivers included. They also always install stacks of software that pops up on boot if the printer is not connected. Why they were unable to install just a driver that gets called when i want to print I was never quite sure. I haven't used an HP printer in 10 years now, they may have improved that side of things since.

AlexCode

Probably ... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

AlexCode

Yep... I think MS won't even bother about this... Let them drawn on their own mud :)

realJSOP

Unless you have a speech impediment, it won't sound the same.

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Nish Nishant

John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

Unless you have a speech impediment, it won't sound the same.

Or someone around you may have a speech impediment and then when he says it, it'd sound the same to you. Alternatively you could have a hearing impediment and then it could sound the same to you too. :rolleyes:

Regards, Nish

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Dan Neely

As of three years ago, the only change was that their "driver" craps took a half gig of disk space. X|

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