Tried that. Then First Tech FCU bought them and turned them to dog shit.
Getting "bigger" never seems to help the customer. I don't know why banks and credit unions (and airlines, et al) seem to think bigger is better. I guess it is for their management but certainly not for the consumer.
The decline of HP printer quality began as a directive from former CEO Carly Fiorina. She told HP engineers (paraphrased) "we don't have to make printers so string that someone can stand on them". After that, the mechanics of the inkjet printers became cheapened and poor quality under her directive.
As mentioned, the DJ 500 was a solid printer. The 5550 series and later failed much quicker. I went through two of them in a few years. They typically made grinding sounds due to cheap plastic gearing.
I switched to Canon printers. However, Canon inkjet printers can go through half an inkjet "tank" cartridge just cleaning the head. I've seen the level decline this much in their graphic ink tank levels before/after cleaning cycles. I very seldom print anything in color but have gone through multiple cartridges with cleaning.
For that reason, I buy knockoff cartridges to cut costs.
I've noticed Pandora overreacts to thumbs up preferences. If I could write them a check for one year's fee, I would but I'm not going to give them my credit card info. Heck, I'd be happy to use PayPal. I just don't wish to get stuck with automatic renewal.
I saw the same behavior with my company's upper management. They'd do anything to make the quarterly report look "good" so they could pocket their bonuses at the expense of the company's health.
"You get the behavior you measure".
It's not a unique practice. It's commonplace.
Holding plebes responsible at Wells Fargo is like putting lipstick on a pig. These directives come from top down.
My Bro in law will buy this piece of crap simply because it says "Apple" on it. He's part of the Apple cult. He's also the guy that can't type a reply to a message or originate a message containing more than 4 words.
We would have been better off if we had NO CEO for our company the last 17 years. We've had a succession of worthless "loot and scoot" CEOs that do nothing but destroy the long term viability of the company whilst stuffing their pockets with the company's money.
Now she's selling off portions of the company to make the books look good.
Quite a shame. If she were fired though, she'd leave with tens of millions for driving the stock price down.
If I get TSA Precheck this week that assumes I am not a big "security risk". Then why next week am I a " security risk" when they don't give me precheck on my next flight?
Remove unnecessary meetings and teleconferences. Especially "quality" (sic) meetings that go on forever and are an end in themselves. I've been saddled with these stupid meetings. If anything needs to be changed to improve quality, it's immediately shot down because someone will actually need to admit that we're doing something wrong that needs to be corrected.
I had one imbecile comment "I think it's unrealistic that we have 100% good solder joints on a processor, is it OK if we have 10% open connections"?
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Most of today's "youth" can't cook, make or repair anything.
Most of the time is spent poking a phone and microwaving prepackaged artificial "food".
Soylent is right down their alley.
Tried that. Then First Tech FCU bought them and turned them to dog shit.
Getting "bigger" never seems to help the customer. I don't know why banks and credit unions (and airlines, et al) seem to think bigger is better. I guess it is for their management but certainly not for the consumer.
Next, hell be mining Brown 25 from the planet Uranus.
Try watching George Carlin's video on why he doesn't vote.
We have no choices. They're both idiots and the American population seems to believe that they can't vote for anyone but a Democrap or a Repugnican.
She obviously needs another raise for doing such a great job.
The decline of HP printer quality began as a directive from former CEO Carly Fiorina. She told HP engineers (paraphrased) "we don't have to make printers so string that someone can stand on them". After that, the mechanics of the inkjet printers became cheapened and poor quality under her directive.
As mentioned, the DJ 500 was a solid printer. The 5550 series and later failed much quicker. I went through two of them in a few years. They typically made grinding sounds due to cheap plastic gearing.
I switched to Canon printers. However, Canon inkjet printers can go through half an inkjet "tank" cartridge just cleaning the head. I've seen the level decline this much in their graphic ink tank levels before/after cleaning cycles. I very seldom print anything in color but have gone through multiple cartridges with cleaning.
For that reason, I buy knockoff cartridges to cut costs.
I've noticed Pandora overreacts to thumbs up preferences. If I could write them a check for one year's fee, I would but I'm not going to give them my credit card info. Heck, I'd be happy to use PayPal. I just don't wish to get stuck with automatic renewal.
I like George Carlin's "Save the Planet" commentary.
The planet has survived the ice age, volcanoes, meteorites and other "crises".
The planet will survive and has survived.
Mankind will not.
Hey, everybody's doing it.
Does he still have his AOL account?
These stupid people (add to them, the Director of TSA and the Director of the CIA) all have/had AOL ISPs.
My Grandma had one (RIP).
Related to "constant growth", shareholder lawsuits result in companies that don't pursue this "goal".
I saw the same behavior with my company's upper management. They'd do anything to make the quarterly report look "good" so they could pocket their bonuses at the expense of the company's health.
"You get the behavior you measure".
It's not a unique practice. It's commonplace.
Holding plebes responsible at Wells Fargo is like putting lipstick on a pig. These directives come from top down.
An entertaining book on Richard Feynman's pranks and interests.
Don't forget the battery replacement after about 100 K miles at a cost of $3,000. That's what my niece's Prius required.
Caught that too. Incompetent buffoons.
They likely have CRT monitors to boot.
In cases like this, severance pay is likely tied to staying behind and training one's replacement.
Agreed. How many more phones with increasing model numbers is Apple going to make before they invent something?
This sort of reminds me of HP milking the inkjet cow for decades and farming out product development or acquiring vs. inventing.
Come up with something new, Timmy.
My Bro in law will buy this piece of crap simply because it says "Apple" on it. He's part of the Apple cult. He's also the guy that can't type a reply to a message or originate a message containing more than 4 words.
We would have been better off if we had NO CEO for our company the last 17 years. We've had a succession of worthless "loot and scoot" CEOs that do nothing but destroy the long term viability of the company whilst stuffing their pockets with the company's money.
Now she's selling off portions of the company to make the books look good.
Quite a shame. If she were fired though, she'd leave with tens of millions for driving the stock price down.
If I get TSA Precheck this week that assumes I am not a big "security risk". Then why next week am I a " security risk" when they don't give me precheck on my next flight?
It makes no sense.
The organization of idiots needs to be shut down as it adds no value to travelers.
It does provide "make work jobs" to the inept though.
Replace them with someone in private industry if we have to have them.
The majority of people believe in an invisible friend in the sky.
Remove unnecessary meetings and teleconferences. Especially "quality" (sic) meetings that go on forever and are an end in themselves. I've been saddled with these stupid meetings. If anything needs to be changed to improve quality, it's immediately shot down because someone will actually need to admit that we're doing something wrong that needs to be corrected.
I had one imbecile comment "I think it's unrealistic that we have 100% good solder joints on a processor, is it OK if we have 10% open connections"?
I'm not kidding.
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Ya got it all wrong. First MJ, then pizza. Finish it off with a hooker.
Sheesh. Get your sequencing correct.