Ms. Whitman is trying to transform Hewlett-Packard, the company she runs, for a world where its historical dominance in personal computers and printers matters less.
If you already have a home network based on a Wi-Fi router, or access point, incorporating a printer is a matter of only a few steps.
I was able to set up my printer in a matter of minutes and you can use the second USB port to connect an external hard drive or any other USB device you'd like to access from multiple computers on your network.
Both new models incude H.P.'s ePrint technology, which provides a unique IP address that enables you to e-mail documents to the printer for output, no matter where you are.
Adobe and Corel ship their darkroom programs with color cards that can help you manually calibrate your monitor, but matching it to your printer is usually a matter of time-consuming and expensive trial and error.
One day, we will all have a 3D printer in our homes a "matter compiler", in Neal Stephenson's brilliant sci-fi novel Diamond Age and we'll be able to print most of what we want.
Technologists like New Matter 3D-Printer designer Bill Gross says that soon enough we could have 3D-printers in every home but what would we do with them?
For 3D printers, it doesn't matter if one item or one thousand items are produced; the price of production per item remains constant.
The Salman Court would be creating substantial confusion were it to affirm the petitioner's conviction under Dirks without acknowledging that the investment banker stood, with respect to most of the tips at issue, as an outsider to the shareholders of the corporation that issued the securities, akin to the attorney-defendant in O'Hagan (and, for that matter, the printer-defendant in Chiarella).
For a 3D printer, though, economies of scale matter much less.
