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Carly Fiorina has been crowing about having been "friends" with Steve Jobs. Except, whoops, not only were they not friends, Steve Jobs intentionally screwed HP to keep them out of the MP3 player market. quote:In return, HP got the right to sell iPods. But not in a way that could possibly succeed. Fiorna boasted to me that she would be able to sell the devices in thousands of retail outlets; up to that point Apple mostly sold them online and in its own stores. But by the time in mid-2004 that HP actually began selling its branded iPods, Apple was expanding to multiple retail outlets on its own. And soon after HP began selling iPods, Apple came out with new, improved iPods — leaving HP to sell an obsolete device. Fiorina apparently did not secure the right to sell the most current iPods in a timely fashion, and was able to deliver newer models only months after the Apple versions were widely available. quote:Fiorina got canned in February 2005. And HP ended the iPod deal that July. But the aftereffects of Fiorina’s incompetence in this instance lingered. The deal she struck with Jobs banned HP from selling a competitor to the iPod until August 2006. And until January of that year it still sold computers with iTunes preinstalled. 
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we'll see who's laughing next november, buster
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Oct 1, 2015 18:14
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overlord trump?
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Oct 1, 2015 18:17
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stebe became this mythical computerman figure so of course she gotta go with the flow and say he was her bff duh
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Oct 1, 2015 18:18
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Doc Block posted:Carly Fiorina has been crowing about having been "friends" with Steve Jobs. as an idiot teenager, the HP iPod made zero fuckimg sense to me in any way. now that i'm older i guess it was just... desperation???
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Oct 1, 2015 18:22
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I wish I was notable enough to be screwed over by Steve tbh
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Oct 1, 2015 18:40
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Ludwig van Halen posted:I wish I was notable enough to be screwed over by Steve tbh do not worry yourself friend. do you own any apple products?
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Oct 1, 2015 18:44
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somehow the only dead person in this story still manages to get the last laugh
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Oct 1, 2015 18:47
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As a Millennial I posted:as an idiot teenager, the HP iPod made zero fuckimg sense to me in any way. now that i'm older i guess it was just... desperation??? its so you could have a checkbox to get one next to checkout for your lovely hpaq
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Oct 1, 2015 19:01
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As a Millennial I posted:as an idiot teenager, the HP iPod made zero fuckimg sense to me in any way. now that i'm older i guess it was just... desperation??? its the best product hp has sold in the last 20 years
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Oct 1, 2015 19:14
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i could probably say forever and be accurate but i dont want to argue with the mouthbreating morons who think hp makes better engineering calculators than texas instruments
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Oct 1, 2015 19:18
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Symbolic Butt posted:stebe became this mythical computerman figure so of course she gotta go with the flow and say he was her bff if there was any justice in the world steve jobs would be remembered as a titanic rear end in a top hat who stole from everyone around him, blundered into immense wealth and then killed himself by trying to cure his cancer with raw fruit because he thought he was smarter than his million dollar doctors
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Oct 1, 2015 21:09
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quote:And until January of that year it still sold computers with iTunes preinstalled. lrof
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Oct 1, 2015 21:15
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poty posted:i could probably say forever and be accurate but i dont want to argue with the mouthbreating morons who think hp makes better engineering calculators than texas instruments did you know they still charge like $100 for ti calculators? I saw one in a store last week and was like whoa that's literal gameboy hardware for $100 in 2015
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Oct 1, 2015 21:19
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its in the education market, those stupid goddamn clickers cost the same amount
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Oct 1, 2015 21:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSocSgw0x3E
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Oct 1, 2015 21:39
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qirex posted:did you know they still charge like $100 for ti calculators? I saw one in a store last week and was like whoa that's literal gameboy hardware for $100 in 2015 also about as durable as a gameboy too
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Oct 1, 2015 22:00
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this is what hp do now http://www.itpro.co.uk/desktop-pcs/25366/hps-new-all-in-one-pc-is-a-giant-phone-charger quote:Never mind the USB-C port - you still need to waste a USB3 port for the wireless keyboard's dongle! thats some samsung level poo poo
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Oct 1, 2015 22:08
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poty posted:i could probably say forever and be accurate but i dont want to argue with the mouthbreating morons who think hp makes better engineering calculators than texas instruments what kind of loving philistine would even consider a TI calculator an engineering calculator? I think I'm only on like the 4th or 5th set of batteries for my HP-48SX, it just goes and goes, still works perfectly 23 years after I bought it HP’s test equipment was nothing to sneeze at either, it was lucky to be spun off to Agilent and then Keysight rather than strangled by Fiorina's incompetence
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Oct 2, 2015 02:02
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I don't understand why companies still buy HP and Lenovo hardware
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Oct 2, 2015 06:26
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~Coxy posted:I don't understand why companies still buy HP and Lenovo hardware "hello, i need to order 45,000 of the same laptop and need them by next wednesday, and also 12 years of 1-hour 24/7/365 on-site support"
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Oct 2, 2015 06:35
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qirex posted:did you know they still charge like $100 for ti calculators? I saw one in a store last week and was like whoa that's literal gameboy hardware for $100 in 2015 well its not like they would benefit from anything nicer. i guess the natural thing would be to replace them with an app but phones will never ever be allowed in exams for obv reasons
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poty posted:well its not like they would benefit from anything nicer. i guess the natural thing would be to replace them with an app but phones will never ever be allowed in exams for obv reasons tactile button..................................................
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poty posted:well its not like they would benefit from anything nicer. i guess the natural thing would be to replace them with an app but phones will never ever be allowed in exams for obv reasons imo just gut a ti whatever and put in capacitive buttons and put a smart phone inside it and use that you'd never get caught
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Oct 2, 2015 06:59
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Beast of Bourbon posted:"hello, i need to order 45,000 of the same laptop and need them by next wednesday, and also 12 years of 1-hour 24/7/365 on-site support" dell
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Oct 2, 2015 07:02
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other advantage of TI calcs is that 4 AAA batteries lasts forever go to smartphones and every day's gonna be a loving snakepit of extension cords all over the place thanks to "teacher i forgot to charge my smartphone last night and i'm out of power :("
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Oct 2, 2015 07:03
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~Coxy posted:dell "hello sir you want 45000 labtops have you tried restarting your browser yet did this solve your problem please take our survey sir thank you sir"
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Oct 2, 2015 07:04
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lmao no. you get an account rep who will come out and gladhand you, and probably a master lease agreement so that whenever you need to order you just shoot an email to them and say "put it on the lease!  "
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Oct 2, 2015 07:06
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protip: dell financial services will be more than happy to add non-dell and non-computer products to your dell lease and yes, you do need a baller sound system at your workstation
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Oct 2, 2015 07:11
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eschaton posted:what kind of loving philistine would even consider a TI calculator an engineering calculator? your calculator is as old as i am
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Oct 2, 2015 08:15
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i got a new hp laptop this year (from job). it started developing heating problems and dead pixels 5 months in i got the screen replaced under warranty and the replacement screen already had dead pixels
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Oct 2, 2015 11:32
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also, this thing overheats the cpu till it starts throttling its frequency during anything somewhat heavily using the cpu.
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Oct 2, 2015 11:35
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Smythe posted:tactile button.................................................. the cum balloon tablet could solve this issue
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Ice_2_c_u posted:the cum balloon tablet could solve this issue the what now?
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i'm sure after the deal was inked stebe called woz and told him he just asparagus pissed all over the ghoul that claims it is hp.
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:the what now? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3743495&perpage=40#post450637223
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the reason TI calculators are $100 is because they are certified engineering tools. when you build a bridge it won't collapse and kill people because your calculator had a bug and gave you a wrong number somewhere. both the hardware and the software have been verified to be trustworthy for use in cases where you can be criminally liable as an engineer if you gently caress up.
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eschaton posted:what kind of loving philistine would even consider a TI calculator an engineering calculator? The Management posted:the reason TI calculators are $100 is because they are certified engineering tools. hmm.
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The Management posted:the reason TI calculators are $100 is because they are certified engineering tools. when you build a bridge it won't collapse and kill people because your calculator had a bug and gave you a wrong number somewhere. both the hardware and the software have been verified to be trustworthy for use in cases where you can be criminally liable as an engineer if you gently caress up.  makes total sense, thanks, lol
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Constant Hamprince posted:if there was any justice in the world steve jobs would be remembered as a titanic rear end in a top hat who stole from everyone around him, blundered into immense wealth and then killed himself by trying to cure his cancer with raw fruit because he thought he was smarter than his million dollar doctors be the change you want to see in the world The Management posted:the reason TI calculators are $100 is because they are certified engineering tools. when you build a bridge it won't collapse and kill people because your calculator had a bug and gave you a wrong number somewhere. both the hardware and the software have been verified to be trustworthy for use in cases where you can be criminally liable as an engineer if you gently caress up. if this were a click it would be a pro click
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