About to be arrested for assault - game delays

[Larry Reese]

Okay, so the computer is on the fritz again. Tore it apart and it appears that the HD is failing. This will be the 4th HD HP has provided for this POS. I've told them to either buy higher quality or fix the rest of the hardware on this system because it's suiciding these drives. Having worked for HP I'm embarrassed and enraged. I have considered smashing the thing to bits by dropping it off the 140 foot high I-10/Beltway 8 interchange and then driving to Palo Alto and punching HP's CEO in the nose.

When I was there, and at Compaq pre-merger, we would never have allowed something like this to happen without major efforts to remedy the customers problem. God, how I lament the offshoring of all these American tech and manufacturing jobs. Our quality scores were much higher from US suppliers, but the analyses that it was marginally cheaper to accept poor quality devices and just replace them when they went bad won the day. I guess I'm out of date because my allegiance is not to the dollar.

Oh, I'm not really going to go punch Mark Hurd in the nose, regardless of how gratifying that might be (and my office was right down the way from his). I might, however, buy a new machine and then mail this junk heep to his home address.

When i get back up and running Ill forward turns to you guys.

LR