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    Image of Edward's Sisters' Hands Edward's Sisters' Hands
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Could've skipped a few frames by using Derek Zoolander.
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    Wilson Rothman promoted this comment Edward's Sisters' Hands was starred Edward's Sisters' Hands was unstarred
    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    I love the musical stylings of Michael Bolton.
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    Image of Gators15 Gators15
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Princess Leia? If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know? Oh! Oh!
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    Wilson Rothman promoted this comment Gators15 was starred Gators15 was unstarred
    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Nope, baseball bat is the right choice there.
    [xspblog.com]
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    Bokusatsu_Tenshi was starred Bokusatsu_Tenshi was unstarred
    Image of CraigJ CraigJ
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    PC Load Letter, what the fuck does that mean?
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    jepzilla promoted this comment CraigJ was starred CraigJ was unstarred
    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/26/09

    @CraigJ: The printer wants you to load letter sized paper. Quite bizarre really; I completely understand why it's considered highly confusing.

    To be less snarky. It's an error code from old HP LaserJet printers that some people have a hard time understanding.
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    Edited by jepzilla at 11/26/09 2:50 AM jepzilla was starred jepzilla was unstarred
    Image of AmericanMouth AmericanMouth
    11/26/09

    @jepzilla: You should re-watch Office Space?
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    jepzilla promoted this comment AmericanMouth was starred AmericanMouth was unstarred
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    11/26/09

    @AmericanMouth: Was that a line from that movie? I didn't find it particularly funny and never really made it through it.
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    Image of craigeryjohn craigeryjohn
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    I love how my HP 6100 AIO with full color screen makes me PRINT a page to see it's mac address.

    ME: Hi printer, what's your network status right now?
    PRINTER: Please give me $3 to reveal that answer.
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    GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag promoted this comment craigeryjohn was starred craigeryjohn was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    11/26/09

    @craigeryjohn: Doesn't have a web interface? And you don't know the MAC address of every device on your network? And you also don't look on the system status screen on your DD-WRT router? What kind of geek are you?
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    Edited by GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday at 11/26/09 8:14 AM GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday was starred GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday was unstarred
    Image of Crim Law Geek Crim Law Geek
    11/26/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag:
    You're assuming it's already connected to the Network. Craig's network may have MAC blocking, which would require knowing the device's MAC address to connect to the network before you could use its web interface or see it show up on the router.
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    GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag promoted this comment Crim Law Geek was starred Crim Law Geek was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    11/26/09

    @Crim Law Geek: If he's connecting the printer, than he would see the MAC addy on the printers label.
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    Image of Crim Law Geek Crim Law Geek
    11/28/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid:
    Well, he's saying that the machine won't show it's MAC address on the screen, so presumably he's in front of the machine. Perhaps the MAC label (assuming there is one) is on the bottom, or some place equally inconvenient to get to.
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    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Of course, if R2D2 were a Canon droid, it'd refuse to print a black and white diagram because the cyan cartridge was empty. And if it were an Epson droid, the image would be spotty because the nozzles would be clogged with dried ink from not printing anything in the past seven days.
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    Purple Dave promoted this comment zeroprime approved this comment mikejonas001 was starred mikejonas001 was unstarred
    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/26/09

    @mikejonas001:
    Ugh. Ain't that the truth. I got a free Epson with my first digital camera (which the government bought for me back when they started passing out $300 tax rebate checks). I printed with it _once_, and then spent the better part of a weekend trying to get the yellow to work when I tried to use it a couple months later. Never used it again.
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    Image of zeroprime zeroprime
    11/26/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    As a comic, that last scene is just missing that je ne sais quoi. It's probably the lack of Geto Boys playing in the background.

    Who would have thought the Geto Boys would contribute to the je ne sais quoi of anything?
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    Image of KyleHuff KyleHuff
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Anyone that doesn't get the Office Space references should be permabanned.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment KyleHuff was starred KyleHuff was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    @KyleHuff: Makes me want to...toss this...ppppieece of shiit out the window!!
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    Image of Swimatm Swimatm
    11/26/09

    @KyleHuff: I guess I should be banned.
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    Platypus Man promoted this comment Swimatm was starred Swimatm was unstarred
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    11/26/09

    @swimatm: Watch this before they ban you, as they rightly should.
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    11/26/09

    @swimatm: OK, so I accidentally posted the same video twice. So sue me.
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    Edited by Platypus Man at 11/26/09 1:15 AM Platypus Man was starred Platypus Man was unstarred
    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    11/26/09

    @swimatm: This is the video I meant to post, which you should watch before the other (two) for some context.

    And then you should buy and watch Office Space.
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    Image of Swimatm Swimatm
    11/26/09

    @Platypus Man: Thanks for the vids, man. They're pretty funny. I'll have to go get the movie.
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    Swimatm was starred Swimatm was unstarred
    Image of VoidingWarranties VoidingWarranties
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    HP didn't always make crappy printers. They used to make "high-quality electronic test and measurement equipment." (wikipedia). They started to make consumer products when a new CEO took over.
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    dingus promoted this comment VoidingWarranties was starred VoidingWarranties was unstarred
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    11/25/09

    @VoidingWarranties: Screw Carly. In fairness though, PC LOAD LETTER first showed up in the LaserJet 4 which predated She Who Buried The Calculator Division.
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    11/26/09

    @VoidingWarranties: They started with the consumer products back with Lew Platt. Spinning off Agilent and not having Test and Measurement, Medical Imaging and the calculators was necessary to deliver these new shitty consumer devices.

    Last HP product I bought was 3 years ago. Had to invoke warranty and spent HOURS convincing the person on the end of the line that just because they EOLed a product before I bought it does not mean the warranty any shorter. And 05/03/2006 is May 3rd, not March 5th.

    I'm not sure the customer service was ever better.... the only reason I don't know was I never needed to call before.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    11/26/09

    @Lizard_King: Spinning off Agilent was the best thing they ever did.... for the rest of the world. The thought of what Carly would have done to that line of business sends shivers down my spine.

    Agilent today is one of those quiet companies that most people never hear of, and without which the world would probably fall apart.
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    Edited by jepzilla at 11/26/09 2:52 AM jepzilla was starred jepzilla was unstarred
    Image of dazman76 dazman76
    11/26/09

    @Lizard_King: And 05/03/2006 is May 3rd, not March 5th.

    Maybe for you and 5 other countries, but not for the other 95% of countries on the planet :) Maybe the HP employee was visiting the US and forgot this little detail?

    I don't have much experience with "modern" HP printers, but we have a LaserJet 8100 that is still our main B&W laser in the office - apart from a couple of maintenance kits, it is still going strong 10 years after it was manufactured. Fast, high quality, and highly utilised every day. I guess they don't make them like they used to...
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    Lizard_King promoted this comment dazman76 was starred dazman76 was unstarred
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    11/26/09

    @dazman76: HP denied a warranty claim for my TV with extended coverage. Receipt dated 05/03/2006. Reps insisted this was March, claim was filed in early April - and extended past the 3rd of May, the point was then moot. Just an example of how far they've fallen.

    @jepzilla: Oh, no doubt, but HP is a shell of a company that it used to be, the pure soul of the origins of the company can only be found in Agilent.

    My Laserjet 4P is still going strong, 18 years and 40K pages later. When it fails, going to eBay.... no other option.
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    Image of bibble3000 bibble3000
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    damn it feels good to be a Jedi
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    dragon:ONE promoted this comment bibble3000 was starred bibble3000 was unstarred
    Image of volim volim
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    I don't get it. It's not like R2D2 is gonna vomit printouts or something. Didn't all of the StarWars characters understand R2D2's beeping signals, just like the cat lady down the street who claims she understand what her "babies" are saying or the kids in South Park who understand Kinny?
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    Jrsy Devil's Advocate® promoted this comment Edited by volim at 11/25/09 11:22 PM volim was starred volim was unstarred
    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/25/09

    @volim: No, only 3PO (and presumably other droids too) understood him natively. Luke had a translation unit installed in his X-Wing by the time of The Empire Strikes Back so he could understand all those bleeps & whistles..
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11/26/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®:
    I think that was always present as a stock device in anything that used an astromech to do the whole hyperdrive calculation thing. First of all, it just seems like the smart thing to do, since you're also relying on that little trash can to fix stuff near the astromech socket when it breaks, _and_ tell you what's screwed up. Luke got some of that in the Death Star trench run, up until the point when R2 got dinged on the head with a starfighter cannon. Second, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some sort of screen in his cockpit that spat out text whenever R2 chirped at him.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    11/26/09

    @Purple Dave: " I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some sort of screen in his cockpit that spat out text whenever R2 chirped at him."

    Yes, it was in ESB but not in the first movie.
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    Image of x@ck3D x@ck3D
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Silly gizmodo poster, lightsabers are for jedis!
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment x@ck3D was starred x@ck3D was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/25/09

    @x@ck3D: Way to shatter my dream of being a lightsaber wielding princess!
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    Rosa Golijan was starred Rosa Golijan was unstarred
    Image of wutlulzky wutlulzky
    11/25/09

    @Rosa Golijan:
    A lightsaber would significantly ruin the office-space'esque feeling that destroying printing equipment (HP manufactured R2-d2) brings,... almost iconic to that of such movie.

    You can still be a princess tho ... :)
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment wutlulzky was starred wutlulzky was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/25/09

    @wutlulzky: Half the fun is gone without a weapon...
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    Rosa Golijan was starred Rosa Golijan was unstarred
    Image of phool phool
    11/25/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Gizmodo's got you covered. DIY guillotine to the rescue.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment phool was starred phool was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    11/25/09

    @phool: Man! I'd forgotten about that thing. One of these days it'll be a weekend project.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday
    11/26/09

    @x@ck3D: What about Han on Hoth?
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    11/27/09

    @Rosa Golijan: Of course the Jedi council will make exceptions! Lightsaber wielding princess is a great Jedi marketing tool.

    OH wait they've been 'bliterated by the Sith! =P
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    11/27/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid: I am sure that blatant misuse of Jedi property will be thoroughly investigated by the Jedi Council ;)
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    Image of Zoolook Zoolook
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    Wouldn't he have said "warming up" for 45 seconds before asking to Load Letter?
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    The Lab promoted this comment Zoolook was starred Zoolook was unstarred
    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    11/25/09

    In reply to What Would've Happened if Hewlett Packard Built R2-D2
    They even knew how horrible it is to get HP customer service on the subspace communicator.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Here's a tip, go into an OfficeMax and ask them to look up and call the HP Support number they have on file. It's American support they get who can and will answer just about any question.
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    Kaiser-Machead promoted this comment MrPliskin0 was starred MrPliskin0 was unstarred
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    11/26/09

    @MrPliskin0: You obviously have not called HP customer support from any of the outer rim systems. Think they're going to even bother getting a shipping box to you on Tatooine? Good luck.
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    Kaiser-Machead was starred Kaiser-Machead was unstarred
    Image of MrPliskin0 MrPliskin0
    11/26/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Alright, so they have to have a PO order to ship that far; you ever try to get a PO order for something you are not meant to be ordering? it's a pain in the ass lemme tell you that. To top it off when your Planatary District Manager is an a$$-pussy well my friend things get even worse.
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