What an ignorant post. HPs market share is NOT going down. There still are many consumer worldwide who appreciate REAL value in their products. As Ive stated before, those who complain about quality, are the first to start shopping on Dell website, then bitch when HP products are more expensive. Its about apples for apples, NOT apples for oranges. A Yugo and a BMW both have engines, steering wheels and four tires, but a Yugo sure and hell isnt a BMW. Like a Dell sure and hell isnt an HP. Our sales of HP branded Compaqs hasnt slowed in the slightest, with many older Compaq customers appreciating the superior design and technology embedded in the newer products. Weve had our units go into an IT department on numerous occasions for head to head comparisons with Dells from hell. Every one to a man said the Dells were more cheaply constructed had more off the wall parts,(buy it at the cheapest lot price with no cross compatibilty testing), and designed from the get go to FAIL in under 24 months. Ive heard it time and time again, then have seen it in real life, time and time again......
As an authorized HP service Tech who is certified on about every printer HP makes, ALL manufacturers are trying to halt counterfieting. Canon, Epson and Dell are responsible for driving the industry into the gutter. Remember those Deskjet 500s made about 14 years ago? Many are still in service today. But cheap ass consumers didnt want long term quality, or pay for it, they wanted cheap shit from China, that they can throw away when the time comes. So HP followed the others into the gutter. My labor to repair isnt going down, but who will pay me to fix when they can buy another cheap printer for $49 and then throw it in a landfill for your childrens children to play with in 20 years or so. Im obviously biased, but HP spends more on R&D then others in the market, and Id buy any one of their products before Id even consider a Dell piece of crap laser printer or other brand. Those who complain about the lack of "quality" are just cheap ass whores who buy from China then wonder where their jobs went.....
What the RIAA hasnt shown to me is "just HOW is recording/copying music off the radio or LP that was done 30 years ago, ANY different then recording music off the net to my computer"????
They embraced the tape deck and VHS/Beta after intial complaints, when they found out how much money they could make, now when the technology is biting them in the ass they cry "foul". Cant have it both ways RIAA. You have spent the last THIRTY YEARS conditioning America thats it was OK to make recordings of their COPYRIGHTED records onto tape and you never whined......
I say this. You create a song. FINE. Charge people to come into your house and listen. FINE. Make an album and sell it from your house or distribution center. FINE. But as soon as said song is broadcast on PUBLIC AIRWAVES, I say it then belongs to the public.....and the public can do whatever it wants with it.....Time to take back our airwaves.....WE own it, NOT corporations...
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What an ignorant post. HPs market share is NOT going down. There still are many consumer worldwide who appreciate REAL value in their products. As Ive stated before, those who complain about quality, are the first to start shopping on Dell website, then bitch when HP products are more expensive. Its about apples for apples, NOT apples for oranges. A Yugo and a BMW both have engines, steering wheels and four tires, but a Yugo sure and hell isnt a BMW. Like a Dell sure and hell isnt an HP. Our sales of HP branded Compaqs hasnt slowed in the slightest, with many older Compaq customers appreciating the superior design and technology embedded in the newer products. Weve had our units go into an IT department on numerous occasions for head to head comparisons with Dells from hell. Every one to a man said the Dells were more cheaply constructed had more off the wall parts,(buy it at the cheapest lot price with no cross compatibilty testing), and designed from the get go to FAIL in under 24 months. Ive heard it time and time again, then have seen it in real life, time and time again......
As an authorized HP service Tech who is certified on about every printer HP makes, ALL manufacturers are trying to halt counterfieting. Canon, Epson and Dell are responsible for driving the industry into the gutter. Remember those Deskjet 500s made about 14 years ago? Many are still in service today. But cheap ass consumers didnt want long term quality, or pay for it, they wanted cheap shit from China, that they can throw away when the time comes. So HP followed the others into the gutter. My labor to repair isnt going down, but who will pay me to fix when they can buy another cheap printer for $49 and then throw it in a landfill for your childrens children to play with in 20 years or so. Im obviously biased, but HP spends more on R&D then others in the market, and Id buy any one of their products before Id even consider a Dell piece of crap laser printer or other brand. Those who complain about the lack of "quality" are just cheap ass whores who buy from China then wonder where their jobs went.....
But did they tax recording off the radio? No they didnt......Im recording off the internet, whats the diff?
SO WHERE was the RIAA 30 years ago when I was "STEALING" music from the radio, HMMMMMMM?
Where were they when I was "STEALING" movies and copying them to VHS? HMMMMMM?
Now technology is biting them in the ass and they are just now crying foul? I dont buy it......They should embrace this tech, not sue their customers
What the RIAA hasnt shown to me is "just HOW is recording/copying music off the radio or LP that was done 30 years ago, ANY different then recording music off the net to my computer"????
They embraced the tape deck and VHS/Beta after intial complaints, when they found out how much money they could make, now when the technology is biting them in the ass they cry "foul". Cant have it both ways RIAA. You have spent the last THIRTY YEARS conditioning America thats it was OK to make recordings of their COPYRIGHTED records onto tape and you never whined......
Anybody willing to take a shot??
He has always been a open software kinda guy.....
I say this. You create a song. FINE. Charge people to come into your house and listen. FINE. Make an album and sell it from your house or distribution center. FINE. But as soon as said song is broadcast on PUBLIC AIRWAVES, I say it then belongs to the public.....and the public can do whatever it wants with it.....Time to take back our airwaves.....WE own it, NOT corporations...
"Fascism is just another name for corporatism".
Benito Mussolini.
Since it was LEGAL to steal an election.....
Is taking back that which was stolen from me really stealing???
Price fixing is stealing. Selling sub-standard products is stelaing...
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