You forgot 'The Gay'.

Personal printers are horribly unreliable and very expensive to maintain.

That's my experience with INK 'jet' printers, but I bought a $150 ( Brother HL-2070N Laser printer when I started graduate school three years ago and my experience has been the complete opposite of that. It also came with a $50 rebate that I actually received so the total cost was $100.
It's 2400x600 dpi, 22 pages/minute printing (of text only, graphics are about 5-10 pages/minute depending on content), and includes 10/100 ethernet Rendez-vous (auto discovery) networking, is noise-less when not printing (In fact, it cuts off automatically after 5 minutes) and I love it.

I have put at least 3 thousand pages through it and haven't had to change toner since I depleted and replaced the 'intro' cartridge more than two years ago. Just about every time I use it I remark that it is probably the best $100 I have ever spent.

A-double-plus would buy again in a heart beat.
Except for paper, it has been incredibly cheap to own and use and absolutely, rock solid reliable with absolutely no maintenance what-so-ever.
and before you ask about power, it might use a lot when it prints but when it is off it draws less than 7 watts. I have a kill-a-watt. I checked.

http://www.brother-usa.com/printer/modeldetail.aspx?PRODUCTID=HL2070N&tab=spec

At my school (NCSU), and I would suppose most schools do it now, you are not even allowed to REGISTER for your first semester of graduate class until you sign a 'patent agreement' giving up your ownership of anything you develop while at NC State. Then, upon reviewing your graduation requirements checklist, you are not allowed to register for graduation until they have confirmed that you have filed your 'patent agreement.'

:Dave

I have always thought that this would be an ideal software company schedule. Our small office would work four days a week every week, eight hours per but at 10-15% below market pay rate BUT with shared profit.

The way I figured it, folks would be inclined to work more focuses on their 'in' days, so the productivity would be there and profit sharing would entice folks to build good products.

I'd certainly be interested in working in a place like that.

:Dave

Except that sentence should end with "... but my *lawyers* will take millions and I'll take my $10."