johnfowles
03-30-2006, 12:43 PM
From yesterday's emailed
Motoring bulletin from the UK Daily Telegraph
an interesting article of perceived wisdom entitled
"When it comes to obsolescence the motor industry has nothing on the computer busines" says James May at:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2006/03/25/mrmay25.xml&DCMP=EMC-mot_29032006
first paragraph I found echoes most of my experience with printers
(I now have a superb HP "all-in-one" Printer/Scanner/copier but have previously threatened to throw just aboat every Epson printer I had the misfortune to run into a very long way after sufferring their inevitable problems/sheer bloody mindlessness!!)
http://www.weredragon.com/weasels/PrinterProblem2.jpg
caption:-
Sam was right; we had a Problem with the printer.
From an entertaining page on the "The Weasel Patrol"
that Jenney might enjoy at:-
http://www.weredragon.com/ferret.html
which opens thus:-
"At least, the Connecticut branch of the Patrol."
Mr May said:-
"I have just spent the morning swearing at my computer printer. I'm no technophobe, but this is one of those consumer devices assembled with superglue and inside which there are apparently "no user-serviceable parts", so the only tool left in the engineer manqué's box is his 99-piece precision profanity set."
John Fowles
[ March 30, 2006, 11:53: Message edited by: johnfowles ]
Motoring bulletin from the UK Daily Telegraph
an interesting article of perceived wisdom entitled
"When it comes to obsolescence the motor industry has nothing on the computer busines" says James May at:-
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2006/03/25/mrmay25.xml&DCMP=EMC-mot_29032006
first paragraph I found echoes most of my experience with printers
(I now have a superb HP "all-in-one" Printer/Scanner/copier but have previously threatened to throw just aboat every Epson printer I had the misfortune to run into a very long way after sufferring their inevitable problems/sheer bloody mindlessness!!)
http://www.weredragon.com/weasels/PrinterProblem2.jpg
caption:-
Sam was right; we had a Problem with the printer.
From an entertaining page on the "The Weasel Patrol"
that Jenney might enjoy at:-
http://www.weredragon.com/ferret.html
which opens thus:-
"At least, the Connecticut branch of the Patrol."
Mr May said:-
"I have just spent the morning swearing at my computer printer. I'm no technophobe, but this is one of those consumer devices assembled with superglue and inside which there are apparently "no user-serviceable parts", so the only tool left in the engineer manqué's box is his 99-piece precision profanity set."
John Fowles
[ March 30, 2006, 11:53: Message edited by: johnfowles ]