HP just agreed to buy Samsung's printing business.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/12/hp-is-buying-samsungs-prin...

Eh, those were terrible anyway. I have an ML2525w which should be wireless, but in reality almost never joins the wifi network on boot reliably like all of the ESP8266s I have. I have to re-run setup on it all the time, and half the time it doesn't get detected by the tool. I gave up long ago and just hard-wired it. If I follow the exact turn-on procedure it likes and wait for it to be fully settled before attempting to print, it generally will start printing within a minute or so.

Honestly, I'm so done with printers. If I really need something, I can run to the 24hr kinkos or the office center in my complex. Owning a printer in 2016 seems kind of silly.

I've had no connectivity issues with my Samsung color laser printer. I need it here in SE Asia, since bureaucracy still reigns and paper vs. electronics is not quite there yet. It reminds me of Brooklyn in the 70s for that matter - the DMV comes to mind!

Love my ESP8266; did you year about the ESP32 yet? I am trying to port Wasp Lisp/Wasp VM to it for networking (not pentesting) not for IOT, but creating a mesh network of sorts here in the village I have been staying in East Java - no Kinkos or Starbucks here!

Can confirm, this happened to our HP 6830 printer on September 13. Extremely annoyed because we only bought this printer in June, and was working fine with a replacement ink. I was actually researching legal precedents to this, and learned that Lexmark has been fighting something like this in court for over a decade[1].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160214/16294133605/after...

Yeah, patent law, recourse of the scoundrels.

This is awesome. Been procrastinating to add this functionality!

It seems to me that Heroku has chosen to be dishonest:

Heroku's blog response: "but until this week, we failed to see a common thread among these reports."

vs.

Adam's response to Tim Watson, a year ago:

"You're correct, the routing mesh does not behave in quite the way described by the docs. We're working on evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models, and the docs are no longer accurate. The current behavior is not ideal, but we're on our way to a new model which we'll document fully once it's done."

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/heroku/8eO...

It is quite possible to know that the mesh is not exactly as documented without having realized that the difference has a severe performance impact.

I think they also addressed the performance issue in addition to saying it is not documented: "...evolving away from the global backlog concept in order to provide better support for different concurrency models"

The fact that a year later, performance for their starting use case had not been addressed says that they failed to address the performance issue.

It is still not clear to me that they actually really understood the performance issue, or how big it was going to be.

The Asus Zenbook is great, and fits within your budget (a number of options starting from $700-$1200). One of the first ultrabooks to support Ubuntu well. We use these at work.

It's pretty great, but the clickpad is a love it of hate it affair

I don't know about the later generations, but 100% agree with you regarding the first-gen. The click pad and keyboard are atrocious. I finally disabled all the additional [dis]functionality of the click pad to make it a track pad, it's somewhat tolerable. I'm waiting for the day the keyboard breaks so I can remote into this machine and never physically interact with it again. I should have purchased an Air.

I also found this section interesting...and I didn't know about it before:

"Per amendments in the new “fiscal cliff” law, if you started or invested in a QSB between September 28, 2010 and January 1, 2013 and ultimately sell stock under the federal QSB provisions, you’ll pay no federal capital gains tax, and in some states, no state taxes."

I once built an app on their API for a hackday, and I had to film the demo because I could never get the devices to connect via a bump. It would happen like once every 5 tries.

Just installed it again to see the mobile to pc bump, and although the web app picked the device, my phone never got a confirmation. Considering I still have to download the pictures from their servers, Google+ instant upload does a pretty nice job in this department. Until NFC.

As an aside, I am amazed how much conversation CNN's story has fueled and continues to fuel...and it has been so many years! Whether it was a good representation or not, it was one of the first to really discuss the topic, and there is a lot of value in that.

Yep. That and I'm sure that it sparked more people of color to move upon tech.

You make an important point. We obviously have a lot of testing and refining to do. Thank you for taking the time to investigate our claim :)

We actually looked at using MailChimp for this, but we didn't want to go outside of the TOS. So, we ended up merging the mail locally using Thunderbird and sending it from our personal accounts. I am sure there is more to be said about the line between the two, however.