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HP & Staples Collude On $8,000/Gallon Ink?
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "HP and Staples are facing an anti-trust lawsuit over replacement printer cartridges. According to the lawsuit, HP paid Staples $100 million to refuse to stock competing ink cartridges. HP could make that back in short order when you consider that printer ink can cost $8,000 per gallon and certain printers deceive users to waste as much as 64% of their ink."
HP, Youa re bad, very very bad! Let Staples sell other company's ink for your printers... but on another note, I knew I missed my calling when I decided to become a programmer... Damn $8000 a gallon for ink... I wish I had about ohhh 10 gallons of ink. Its not so much to ask... blah...
-- Josh
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!" - Pete Conrad
Little did you know that you were actually getting the equipment free with the purchase of the cable!
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So when is the Open Source community going to invent a printer that runs off of store-bought food coloring mixed with water?
I guess guys like Best Buy figure there's a handful of lazy people like myself who eventually get tired of digging around in boxes for hours hunting down an old cable you swore you had at one point in time, getting distracted even further as you scrounge up and discover old 5-1/4 floppies and a Hayes baud modem with rubber ear muffles in mystery box number 23. I don't know why I cling on to this crap, but Best Buy knows me better than myself I guess.
By the way, as I left store last night, some guy in tattered clothing with a grizzled beard was lurking in the parking lot and approached me, "Pssst. Hey, buddy. could you spare a DB9 to DB25 connector for a friend?"
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder.
I told my wife about it. Great. Now she wants a little golden canister of scorpion venom all covered in diamonds to wear around her neck...
I don't know how they came up with the number. But if $8,000 is correct and I outsource a bit, it might be cheaper to use the blood of my enemies for ink.
Star Pirates
No, don't through that stuff out! As a true pack rat you never know when you'll need that stuff. What if your broadband connection failed and you needed to check your email, that ancient modem would be priceless (they have a dialup number, right?). You could find yourself getting an emergency call from the government asking for a circa 1991 VESA video card for a vital computer. Lives could be on the line! Keep those floppies along with those twist ties, rubber bands, expired coupons, that 340MB hard drive and half dried out paint cans and be proud to be a pack rat!
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
It's really easy, but you have to convert everything to furlongs first. Don't they teach kids anything these days?!
You're thinking small. Why miniaturize the laser, when we could instead enlarge the sharks? -John Searle
:-D I just got back from my local Best Buy after reading this and you wouldn't believe the action I got with my spare Firewire 800 cables.
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
All the more enticing! Imagine having to buy your spouse a new capsule of this stuff every year. After all, you don't want her snooty friends making fun of her for wearing scorpion venom circa 2004.