The 8150 laser printer was a really good printer, built to withstand a nuclear blast in its vicinity. Ours got too long in the tooth. We replaced it with a P4515. It works okay, but it is built to withstand a low velocity wind storm, anything greater than 15 mph wind will probably cause it to lose plastic parts. I expect the next printer we get from HP (if we get one from them) will probably drop its parts on the floor every 10 pages.
"Awful" doesn't quite cover it. "Inept" is what I think of. I was recently informed my router from Verizon was no longer supported. I could belly up to the bar for a new, used router for $69.99. Seeing as I had no choice or get nicked a bit more every month for the router they were no longer supporting, I decided to bite the bullet and, screw it, I'm busy, so get the new frikken router.
Go to web site...it no recognize my password I set nigh two months ago. Attempt to get a new password. Its password Strength-O-Meter liked the 11 character password, but add one more letter and no, it didn't like that. Then the thing tells me it failed...except it was lying, I was finally able to log in. Attempt to get new, used router. It needs to create a pin for the transaction to "protect my privacy" and would send me the pin in email. Get pin, type in....oh, it fails claiming its Pin Recognition Piece-O-Delicate Machinery was on the fritz and did I mind answering some security questions instead. Answer security questions, order router...except it now says transaction failed and I get "I cannot do that, Dave" response. Give up. Try to find phone number on site to call...no phone number...anywhere...from a frikken phone company. Get phone number customer support from my Verizon bill, call Verizon Central Command. Obstinately refuse to play Auto Phone Pinball...finally get a real live Phone Weasel. "How can I assist you?" Oh, let me count the ways....
I don't think there are "fandroids" in the sense of the droids arguing that android is a wonderful OS. It seems they mostly define their use of it in opposition to its competitors.
Samsung does make their own OS, Tizen.I never used it but it doesn't appear to be taking the world by storm. My guess is they produce droid phone because there's more or less nothing else they can use and still get people to use it.
People buy Apple because of the way the software works without making you cough up a hairball just to move around the interface. Few ever buy MS for the software. Android is somewhere in the middle, if you could count on your phone getting updates.
The fact that Apples hardware is a bit behind is merely a product of them making their software work well with it. If they were changing it all the time to be fashion accessories for the techno-crowd, it would work....about as well as MS software.
By the way, I was just at a logic conference, just about everyone had Macs. You couldn't accuse that crowd of being fashion conscious.
You have that backwards, when rumoursite.com publishes a slightly negative article on an upcoming Apple product, the Apple haters go into transports of delight declaring this validates their beliefs they told us years before when no one would believe them.
I see, so you know enough about Apple's books to tell them what is sufficient profit for them? Could you please share those numbers with us? Don't forget to include set asides for lawsuits, new R&D, exchange rates and their expected variation, etc. Also, please explain what went into the estimated cost since I presume you didn't get that figure from Apple. So you'll be wanting to include any assumptions that have been made, changes to raw materials, expenses to acquiring multiple sources so any one doesn't take Apple's product down, etc.
And while you are at it, could you also include advertising expenses, store expenses, taxes (foreign and domestic), tariffs between countries, shipping costs, overhead at U.S. and foreign facilities owned by Apple, You should also include personnel costs, I hear people are expensive.
We'd like the complete picture. Shouldn't take you but an afternoon to collect that. Get right back to us so we do not lose the thread.
Those are the things the repel boys, not girls. Do recall that girls bleed every month, a bit of baby poo and vomit isn't going to ding the notion that a baby is a neat idea.
You talk as though there was one government instead of a lot of somewhat disjointed agencies and departments. And those are separate from Congress and the Judiciary. To think of it as one government is like thinking of the solar system as having a single atmosphere.
No, no, FU is the "type" of money a billionaire has. Incidentally, most of money billionaires have is not money in the sense you are thinking of it. It is tied up in investments and such. Think Bam-Bam Trump when asked about his net worth...enormous...he cannot tell you how enormous it is, it is that big...unless he was forced into translating it into actual cash, then it would be quite small, unlike for real billionaires.
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It is more likely "Ignore those extra quakes in Oklahoma, it is the moon, you see?!?"
The 8150 laser printer was a really good printer, built to withstand a nuclear blast in its vicinity. Ours got too long in the tooth. We replaced it with a P4515. It works okay, but it is built to withstand a low velocity wind storm, anything greater than 15 mph wind will probably cause it to lose plastic parts. I expect the next printer we get from HP (if we get one from them) will probably drop its parts on the floor every 10 pages.
"Awful" doesn't quite cover it. "Inept" is what I think of. I was recently informed my router from Verizon was no longer supported. I could belly up to the bar for a new, used router for $69.99. Seeing as I had no choice or get nicked a bit more every month for the router they were no longer supporting, I decided to bite the bullet and, screw it, I'm busy, so get the new frikken router.
Go to web site...it no recognize my password I set nigh two months ago. Attempt to get a new password. Its password Strength-O-Meter liked the 11 character password, but add one more letter and no, it didn't like that. Then the thing tells me it failed...except it was lying, I was finally able to log in. Attempt to get new, used router. It needs to create a pin for the transaction to "protect my privacy" and would send me the pin in email. Get pin, type in....oh, it fails claiming its Pin Recognition Piece-O-Delicate Machinery was on the fritz and did I mind answering some security questions instead. Answer security questions, order router...except it now says transaction failed and I get "I cannot do that, Dave" response. Give up. Try to find phone number on site to call...no phone number...anywhere...from a frikken phone company. Get phone number customer support from my Verizon bill, call Verizon Central Command. Obstinately refuse to play Auto Phone Pinball...finally get a real live Phone Weasel. "How can I assist you?" Oh, let me count the ways....
Harumph! Trump, please stop posting here.
I don't think there are "fandroids" in the sense of the droids arguing that android is a wonderful OS. It seems they mostly define their use of it in opposition to its competitors.
Samsung does make their own OS, Tizen.I never used it but it doesn't appear to be taking the world by storm. My guess is they produce droid phone because there's more or less nothing else they can use and still get people to use it.
Doubt it, Apple realizes their eco-system matters.
And using an A10, probably in conjunction with some Intel heater, might cut battery usage for their laptops.
Yeah, yer right, no one would ever think to compile Java direct to machine code.
No one is going to read a run-on rant that covers several inches of screen without so much as paragraph breaks.
No, you had it right, we were told here on Slashdot (repeatedly) it was about the music streaming and contracts.
People buy Apple because of the way the software works without making you cough up a hairball just to move around the interface. Few ever buy MS for the software. Android is somewhere in the middle, if you could count on your phone getting updates.
The fact that Apples hardware is a bit behind is merely a product of them making their software work well with it. If they were changing it all the time to be fashion accessories for the techno-crowd, it would work....about as well as MS software.
By the way, I was just at a logic conference, just about everyone had Macs. You couldn't accuse that crowd of being fashion conscious.
You have that backwards, when rumoursite.com publishes a slightly negative article on an upcoming Apple product, the Apple haters go into transports of delight declaring this validates their beliefs they told us years before when no one would believe them.
Yeah, nice to think we have not progressed since then, eh?
She was filled with the Love of Jesus Christ.
The nerve of them. They should operate like Dell, or HP, or any other company just scraping by.
I see, so you know enough about Apple's books to tell them what is sufficient profit for them? Could you please share those numbers with us? Don't forget to include set asides for lawsuits, new R&D, exchange rates and their expected variation, etc. Also, please explain what went into the estimated cost since I presume you didn't get that figure from Apple. So you'll be wanting to include any assumptions that have been made, changes to raw materials, expenses to acquiring multiple sources so any one doesn't take Apple's product down, etc.
And while you are at it, could you also include advertising expenses, store expenses, taxes (foreign and domestic), tariffs between countries, shipping costs, overhead at U.S. and foreign facilities owned by Apple, You should also include personnel costs, I hear people are expensive.
We'd like the complete picture. Shouldn't take you but an afternoon to collect that. Get right back to us so we do not lose the thread.
"What makes people think professionals known for introversion want to have absolutely NO privacy?"
Business School.
Those are the things the repel boys, not girls. Do recall that girls bleed every month, a bit of baby poo and vomit isn't going to ding the notion that a baby is a neat idea.
You do know that everyone in the U.S. and Britain has a government "minder" assigned to them to watch their every move, yes?
Some med devices have OTA updates of their firmware. Companies see it as a much less obtrusive way of updating than tearing it out and replacing it.
Wow!! Well if one guy can do it, they all can do it. Maybe you should tell them all this, I'm sure they'd listen to you.
Well, $10 billion in a $17 trillion economy is 0.058823529412 % of the U.S. Economy...and I low-balled in the size of the economy.
You talk as though there was one government instead of a lot of somewhat disjointed agencies and departments. And those are separate from Congress and the Judiciary. To think of it as one government is like thinking of the solar system as having a single atmosphere.
Nope, they want to infect the market space of Samsung and Apple.
No, no, FU is the "type" of money a billionaire has. Incidentally, most of money billionaires have is not money in the sense you are thinking of it. It is tied up in investments and such. Think Bam-Bam Trump when asked about his net worth...enormous...he cannot tell you how enormous it is, it is that big...unless he was forced into translating it into actual cash, then it would be quite small, unlike for real billionaires.
Hehehe...he'd be self-basting.