DO NOT ASK MY OPINION OF SOMTHING THEN BLOW OFF MY OPINION LIKE IT DOESN'T MATTER.

That is all.

Oh, and I'm irritated about it.

I can't read any comments on slashdot anymore. I don't know why I even bother clicking on the comments link. I just read the David Packard story about the poster he put up at the Stanford Theatre stating his opinion of the eventual result of the HP Compaq merger, and I fully agree with his view of the resulting company. The majority of the posts at good ol' slashdot are anti-corporate shite, not thought through and just sound like some jackass sitting in front of his linux-based computer trying to be "cool" with his hasn't seen the sun in months white-ass skin. For the record, I think Packard has a very valid point, and that the current management has totally lost track of what HP is about. Looking at HP's (or is it HPQ?!?) Roadmap, they're cancelling products that HP was behind at the beginning of the week, and rolling them over to the Compaq version of the device. This leaves people like me who use HP products daily as a function of their job and/or income to wonder what the fuck HP and their management are thinking, and if we should start seroiusly looking elsewhere for required products, due to the total lack of ability of HP's CEO's ability to run a company. If I were a stock holder, I'd be breaking down her door and demanding that full disclosure of the reasoning behind the product cancellations is made FULLY public IMMEDIATELY. Until I see what the reasoning is and where HP(Q!?!) is going in the immediate future, I will not purchase from HP any products that other manufacturers have available, be it an ink cartridge, printer, server or switch.