I have the HL-L2300D or whatever the equivalent was from 8 years ago. I've run ~1500 pages of boarding passes, tickets, tax forms and whatnot through it. haul it out of the closet, plug it in to any computer, and it will have drivers, it will print what you want and not bother you.

I suspect it will last forever. Oh, and it was $45 when I bought it. keep an eye out for sales.

WTF is with the alt-right hatchet job? I know Slashdot has a libertarian slant but this is not news for nerds or stuff that matters, this is just bullshit.
 

I live in california.
either diesel Golf or e-golf.

Got the e-golf and never looking back. instant torque, full tank every day, and after tax rebates/ fuel/bridge/maintenance savings, the car is costing us $30-50/mo.
Less than my cell phone for a car.
Also have a nice big truck for weekends/road trips. but it's painful to drive an ICE after driving an electric. the power delivery is just so much better in the e-golf it's laughable.

I had two competing offers during my last job hunt.
one was about 20% less than the other, but had an hour less commute a day, and an opportunity to work in gaming vs. finance.

I spoke with a lot of friends/family on this issue and they all said the same thing:
"How much do you need?"
if they're both offering that, then go with the most fun.

are you kidding?!?

Mac computers are the closest thing to Linux you're going to get off the shelf.

If you're really smart, you want as little friction between you and doing what you want as possible. get a Imac with a 27" screen, shipped to your door and working out of the box.

That said, I hate the OSX UI, but if you're really looking for a powerful command line out of the box, OSx is the way to go.

Agreed completely.
My iphone data usage is ~300 MB/mo. I use netflix app daily.
My wifes is closer to 3 GB/mo. she just browses the web.

the reason? I have wifi on at home and at work.
she doesn't know what wifi is. the phone either works or it doesn't for her. I tried explaining that LOLCATS will load faster if she goes on the wifi, but if it involves doing ANYTHING, pressing a single button, she won't do it.

it would increase jobs, republican jobs. they'll lay off the redundant "little people" and hire more executives to manage the larger company.

I mean, I want my service to work, because it's not overloaded all the time, and this fixes that problem without
a. Hard caps
b. overages.

seems to me, saying you'll get 3g speeds for the first 2gb/mo, and edge speeds after that is the best way to solve the problem. SO long as it's publicized. if you don't like it, too bad, I'm tired of shitty service because some folks use their hacked Iphones to download torrents all day.

that said, if the service still sucks, or the cap it too low, leave.

I've got the same problem with my gmail account. most I just delete silently. I seem to get a lot of grandparents email kids, to them I reply kindly that they have the wrong person, and to call their grandkids and request the address again.

some groups don't get it. I was in a group email for a dorm, and setup a filter to reply all when sent email from their college with " I don't go to your school, never have, I've asked repeatedly to be removed from this mailing list, you're all idiots" AFIAK, they got several dozen of these reply spams before they figured out how to remove me from their mailing list. sucks for them, easy enough for me. ;-)

and this makes sense. When they were getting acquired they were dumping tons of cash into looking like the hot shit for cisco, but I think they all knew the concept would get eaten alive by convergence. The mood I felt was, lets sell this to Cisco before they catch on that this market is doomed.

Total Bullshit. they estimate 5 years to pay back, based on 20,000 KM year. Total for 5 years is 63,000 miles. The warranty on hybrid components here in California is 150,000 Miles. Assuming you drive the car until they stop repairing it for free, you'll get a payback that is 2.3 times great than their reporting.

Matrix Vs. Prius is 16,800 and 12,800 to maintain over 63,000 miles, to hit 150,00 miles, multiply by 2.3, you get 38,640 for the matrix, 29,440 for the Prius, which is still at this point under warranty

You've saved $9,200 in fuel over the warranty period
MSRP for Matrix is 16,700 base
MSRP for Prius is 21,400 base
total savings is Matrix Base cost+Extra fuel cost-Prius base cost= $4500 Not a lot, but Nothing to scoff at either, plus, the Prius has better resale value, more standard options than the Matrix, is bigger, safer, and better rated.

Prius fun factor is 0 though. :-(

conversely though, all game programmers Love to game. I work at a game studio and there is only 1 person at the company who isn't an avid gamer.

This is going to generate a lot of bad press for Activision. More than just gamers deciding not to buy their games, Game developers aren't going to want to do business with a company that pulls the rug out from under people. It's a small world out there.