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PCWorld did an article on how to do it... But there's also free software out there if you look. I use media hopper for spanish... There's OHUK you wanna learn british

Ahh.... But there is an analogy in the RIAA vs. Napster lawsuit. After they destroyed Napster in court, they tried going after Napster's financiers, the Hummer Winblad VC firm, for billions of more dollars in damages. The last news I could find was from July 2004, and that said the trial is proceeding.

I know it's a longshot, but there's some deep pockets at Canopus Group and Microsoft. A man can dream, right?

If your company were to shorten your life-cycle on your hardware to exactly two years, then donate the hardware to schools, you get to write off the entire purchase price of the hardware as a tax deduction even if you have already written it off (in full, or only partially) once.

Read about it here.

If your company is profitable and paying ~25% taxes (number pulled out of my butt, I have no idea what the top tax rates are for corporations) you get to deduct the full purchase price the first year (for 25%) up to like a $100k cap, and again the next year when you donate it (for another 25% savings in taxes.)

Although Mr. Hilf mentions robust command line capabilities on the horizon, Microsoft has announced they are dropping Monad from Vista for a time.

- adam

Sure, because code taken straight out of linux and dumped into win32 land works just peachy. (Once you spend thousands of hours hacking away at it.)

Maybe the developers grandparent mentions were uninformed about what Linux is, remember most people think that Red Hat is Linux. I do not believe I am reaching here, but perhaps the Microsoft developers he was referring to meant open source code, not Linux.

Microsoft uses open source packages commonly found on Linux distributions. For example zlib is one, when a zlib vulnerability is discovered you will always find Microsoft's name as one of the vendors contacted.

http://ecoustics-cnet.com.com/Microsofts+borrowed+ code+may+pose+risk/2100-1001_3-860328.html

The zlib is licensed in a BSD-esque license. It's fine for Microsoft to use it legally. My question was strictly with regards to the GPL licensed software.

Microsoft using open source is not an isolated incident as shown below with a quick Google.

http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html
Internet Explorer [Microsoft] (Mac PPC, Mac OS X) - version 5.0 and later; read-only; full alpha support (screenshots), though broken for tiled page- and table-background images smaller than 64x64 (switches to binary transparency for performance reasons [should be fixed in one of next two versions]; can work around bug by manually tiling image to be larger than 64 pixels in at least one dimension); full gamma support; full sRGB and ICC profile support; progressive display of interlaced images (replicating method); broken default handling on OS X for standalone PNGs (versions 5.1 and 5.2 save to disk rather than view due to QuickTime bogosity; see Matthew Rothenberg's Mac OS X Hint for simple fix); uses libpng and zlib; freeware. (Note that AOL 5.0 is apparently built on MSIE 4.5 or earlier, so it has no PNG support at all. No word on later versions.)

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119666,0 0.asp
Microsoft also criticized Core Security Technologies of Boston for publishing a proof of concept for a hole in an MSN Messenger component called "libpng," which is used to display PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? id=159304
iDEFENSE has confirmed the existance of the vulnerability in version 5.1.2600.2180 of the Microsoft Telnet Client, the telnet client included in the Kerberos V5 Release 1.3.6 package and the client included in the SUNWtnetc package of Solaris 5.9.

seem to recall some years back about how Deibolt, one of the companies that makes them, said having these machines print receipts wasn't practical. Funny because Deibolt also makes atms.

Actually, whats funny is that you are an ignorant sack of crap. Diebold makes voting machines that print receipts. This isn't new, either. They made a very public announcement about it 9 months ago.

Retards like you are so busy being outraged that you have no idea whats going on in the world around you.

According to this review of Xandros 3.0 it can read but not write to NTFS. That is exactly the same level of compatibilty I have with Fedora Core 4 and others. Read only is a far cry from "support". I just don't see where they are doing anything that different from other distros. The only thing I see is pay extra to get Codeweavers included. I can buy Codeweavers and download Fedora for $10 less.

Then there's the problem that this technology mentioned in TFA is meant to solve -- the LCDs don't instantaneously switch from one shade to another. They slowly (relative to the response rate) switch from one shade to another. Blur can become visible if the pixel isn't held at a particular shade for enough time before changing again. I suspect this technology is more about getting use out of the slower 20-30ms displays than helping the high speed displays that are more common for computer users. Sadly many LCD TVs on the market today seem to use this slower display panel technology.

I submitted this as a story back on June 4. Since it was rejected (too verbose?), I posted it to my /. journal. My main question to other folks relates to how this would compare to using a regular ramdisk. The main deficiency with a ramdisk is that you'd have to reload the contents every time you reboot. Here's my article, with all its links:

Giga-byte Technology recently came out with a DRAM-based PC card that operates as a SATA hard drive. The product, iRAM, uses power from the motherboard to keep memory active when the system is shut down. During power outages, the product uses a on-board battery to retain memory for up to 90 minutes. The iRAM card is being talked about in the news (InfoWorld, itWorldCanada, engadget, PCWorld, multiplay forum) as a means of booting Windows faster. That is, you install Windows onto the iRAM drive to take advantage of the RAM's faster read-access time. Just hope that you don't lose power for more than 90 minutes.

Is boot time really that important, since many computers are on all the time? A ramdisk might have better uses, perhaps for caching frequently-accessed files such as databases and webservers. Or, if you insist on having faster bootup, instead of putting Windows on the iRAM disk, why not just store the hibernation file there?

I implemented a RAM-based database for an internet tool in 1998 to alleviate the read/write load on my local hard drive. It turned out to be a simple solution for the problem. At the time, it was just a matter of using a DOS-based ramdisk driver (ramdisk.sys). On application startup, it copied the database files to the ramdisk. During operation, everything was read/written to the ramdisk, and periodic backups were made to the physical disk. There are some inherent risks, such as loss of data during a crash since data isn't immediately written to a physical hard drive, so it may not be a great solution for a mission-critical production database. The iRAM product would make this type of database even more stable, in that the risk of loss of data is much less.

That was a while ago, so I thought I'd look into setting up a ramdisk in XP for some amusement. Follows are the results of that search. It seems that the options are relatively sparse beyond the DOS-based driver. A few freeware and commercial packages are available, though. One key factor beyond price is the size limit of ramdisk.

Microsoft's ramdisk offerings since Win2k are limited. Included with the XP OS is a ramdisk sample driver that "provides an example of a minimal driver. Neither the driver nor the sample programs are intended for use in a production environment. Rather, they are intended for educational purposes and as a skeletal version of a driver." Installation isn't simple enough for most users to benefit.

Alternatives include a shareware ramdisk, AR ramdisk (archive link: http://web.archive.org/web/20041011170408/http:/ww w.arsoft-online.de/products/product.php?id=1) (freeware, 2GB limit, discontinued, available for download here), a freeware (64MB limit) and shareware (2GB limit) version here,

Normally the problem is that its hard to track down the law breakers, but when you own a company who advertises a service that is illegal vigilantism.

Normally the problem is that its hard to track down the law breakers, but when you own a company who advertises a service that is illegal vigilantism.

Sheesh! Slashdot has gotten really lame.

"Other anti-spam workers" is none other than John Levine, Ph.D, co-author of the BEST SELLING INTERNET BOOK OF ALL TIME (I kid you not) "The Internet for Dummies" (Now in its ninth edition). Some of you cretins need to read it.

In Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jeremy Jaynes Dr. Levine served as an expert witness for the prosecution. His testimony helped send Jaynes to prison for nine years.

At the second annual Conference on Email and Spam Levine presented a technical paper on his experiences with greylisting.

Dr. Levine is the chair of the IRTF Anti-Spam Research Group. He's a founding member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email. He runs the Network Abuse Clearinghouse.

"Other Anti-Spam Worker" indeed.

Take a good look at Blue Security's product. I think you'll see that it's little more than an HTTP DDoS tool. BlueSecurity claims that it's okay to DDoS spammers, and that they make very sure that only spammers are DDoS'd (although their careful not to call what they do a DDoS).

I'm given to understand that they moved their hosting to Israel when Verio terminated their service for violations of Verio's acceptable use policy. Verio doesn't allow folks to host denial of service tools on their network (nor will any normal ISP do so).

Someone should ask BlueSecurity about their legal threats against Everyone's Internet for attempting to do the same.

These are not nice people. The only difference between them and the normal crop of script-kiddie miscreants, is that they have found venture capital.

Do you have any links to actually back up statements such as "They actually had the news release on their website a few years ago"?

I've been looking, and I'll I've found via google so far is news articles talking about a report by Amnesty International that cited Websense as a vendor who sold filtering software to the Chinese government. Many of the articles have quotes from Websense saying specifically that China is NOT a Websense customer, and that they were investigating the (reported false) accusations.

I have not been able to find any information on the Websense site in their news releases about them landing China as a customer. If you have any further evidence to back up your claims I would love to see it, though.

See, among others:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,107520,0 0.asp
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2002/1202china.ht ml

From PC World:

"Today marks the 36th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface for the first time.

Coincidentally, early tomorrow morning will mark the full moon."

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000779 .html/

From PC World:

"Today marks the 36th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface for the first time.

Coincidentally, early tomorrow morning will mark the full moon."

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000779 .html/

...No

The influx of tens of thousands of requests exactly at the same time floods the spammers' Web site, causing it to become inoperable.

Launching a distributed denial of service attack is illegal in the U.S. and in most European countries.

Blue Security's Reshef bristles at the notion that his firm is involved with any type of DDoS attack. "We aren't trying to shut down any Web sites. We are just trying to slow these sites down so much the spammers can't earn money"

The fact is that these companies are rolling out fiber to the home on their own phased schedules, the timelines of which do not sit well with a lot of bandwidth-starved consumers, particularly those in markets that are far down the roadmaps. So it's not surprising that the municipalities are trying to accelerate this rollout with a DIY philosophy. The municipal governments are doing what they really should be doing, which is serving their residents. You don't see the cities implementing municipal-run ISPs to compete with existing, viable solutions from the cable and telephone companies. The municipal-run ISPs are being constructed precisely because they're filling a gap the big communications corporations are voluntarily leaving.

The sad thing is that the cable companies and telephone companies are trying to protect these markets by suing the cities rather than rolling out the services that they want. Their philosophy is "you'll get it when we get around to you, and if your government tries to provide services in the meantime (or invite in alternative service providers), we'll try to prevent it". This is wrong and arrogant. It treats consumers like a resource these companies have some sort of divine right to exploit, rather than a market which can and should be able to vote with its ballots and pocketbooks.

In a free market, if you ignore a market segment, you should not have a legal way to prevent others from coming in and serving it. While I can understand the desire of the big communication companies to protect their markets, they should protect them by serving them, not by suing those who would fill the gaps they're leaving.

We are in a world where broadband is synoonymous with prosperity, or close to it. The availability of broadband is an economic growth factor and an economic indicator. No single corporation should have the power to determine the timeline when such a powerful tool comes to a community. - G

Yeah, but Gator's not spyware. Take it up with chick from Doubleclick, who now serves as HomeSec's Chief Privacy Officer.

Since we're now talking about a security position, can any of you Microsofties tell us if the guy who came up with Internet Explorer's zone-based security architecture is the same guy as the one who came up with the idea of integrating the web browser into the desktop? Because if they're the same person, I think we know who the cybersecurity czar's gonna be.

On the software side, they encompass the same codecs. It'd be nice if the BBC or some consortium of similar institutions could get the proprietary codec off the Blu-Ray spec and put an open standard on there instead. Dirac or Theora could do for video what the web (HTML+HTTP) did for the net.

Last I heard, the audio codec was not selected. That would be a prime use for Vorbis.

They was actually these.

I'm not defending anyone here, but I am setting the record straight because the parent is full of bull. "Remeber [sic] Cringely famously posted in 1998 that the iMac launch was going to fail." Nowhere did Cringely say in his article that the iMac launch was doomed. Here, read the whole article that the parent conveniently neglected to link. Heck, even in the quote the parent used, there's nothing about lack of demand, or the souring of consumer opinion, only concerns about initial supply. "We didn't see stories about them because it was all bull." The parent has a short memory. Anyone paying attention to Apple knew about their supply problems. Here's an article I found in 30 seconds by using Google titled "Supply problems persist for Apple" from C|Net, dated November 4, 1999. You want a complaint from 1998? Here's another that mentions, you guessed it, supply problems. "The biggest problem with the weekend festivities, as you can imagine, was that there were not enough iMacs to go around." More supply problems.

IBM has a lock on the next-generation game consoles. "Computer Business Review" reports that Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony (MNS) are collaborating with IBM to build the next-generation processors for game consoles. "PC World" reports that MNS will incorporate IBM processors in their next-generation game consoles.

The hidden sub-text is that the future IBM processors will be excellent for pornographic games, providing life-like flesh tones and smooth-motion "thrusting", "quivering", and "wiggling". Pornography has traditionally be a significant driver of video-processing technology.

The Pentium V "tejas" was canceled.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116053,0 0.asp

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html

And will you be completely screwed if you have a Pentium D and a motherboard with a 945 (or 955) chipset?

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx? NewsId=13912
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121027,0 0.asp

Oh yeah?

It seems like there's no manager in charge of overall UI. It's hard to tell in the shrunken screenshot, but does it still say "Shut Do..." on the bottom of the start menu here? http://pcworld.com/news/graphics/121435-2308p020-2 b.jpg You'd think something like that would be easy enough to find and fix.

Actually, it's even cooler.

Mac OX X and Windows (since 2000) both support transparent windows using alpha blending. Nothing special about that.

But look at the first screenshot in the article, and you can see that not only is the window transparent, but the window behind it is also blurred when seen through it.

Not only is this an impressive trick, but it improves usability far beyond simple transparent windows, which really just add clutter.

With this you will get a better sense of depth and a cue of what's behind the front window, but without the distraction of the details.

As could be seen from the preview somethings aren't going to change. For instance having to be an Administrator to actually do anything. http://pcworld.com/news/graphics/121435-2308p020-2 b.jpg

Yeah, I still see the "Shut Do.." bug/feature in play...

Looks like it will cause some nastyy readability problems.

Maybe. But looking at the image - http://pcworld.com/news/graphics/121435-2308p020-2 b.jpg - it's not just straight transparency. It looks like it blurs out the background a bit, making it more akin to a 'frosted glass' look. If they do it well enough, it could make the desktop a little less 'cluttered' with multiple windows open.

Of course, the real improvement is that it will support per-pixel transparency, not just per-window like it is currently - with some hacks that allow some pixels 100% transparency - like the mouse cursor shadows and such that use grids of transparent/not transparent pixels. And it's 3d accelerated - so transparency won't be a huge performance drain.

And now all that remains is for me to think up a useful application for tranparency.

Well how convenient!

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,1216 76,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

K, I cannot pretend to be an expert on MOBOs but I just did a quick search and found this article saying Athlon64 boards beat P4 boards on price and features.

Now I don't want to get into a huge debate on this but how does the functionality/quality of the $54 Athlon board compare with the functionality/quality of the P4 board you are talking about? Could this be because of the P4 marketshare there are 3rd party MOBO providers just tossing out crap boards while the AMD target audience means having such a crap board for AMD wouldn't sell many units since most people who buy AMD would recognize it as crap while lots of Intel customers don't even know what a MOBO is?

But to back up those hazy remembrances, I just googled it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&safe=o ff&q=blue+gene+node+power&spell=1
http://pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,113418,00.as p
http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/power/splash/0321 05bluegene.html

Seen something like this before?

A good point - Seagate is working on this on the hardware side:
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,1215 22,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

Although it isn't nearly as cool as toxic mist spewing out all over the place as conjured by a phone call, it makes a lot more sense and would not bear an annual fee.
Besides, a HD could be copied 100s of times over before you had a chance to make that phone call. In fact, there are relatively simple workarounds for all lines of defense on these destructive drives - they rely heavily on obscurity.

Wouldn't you rather have an Avalanche? I hear it's supposed to make it easier to get Windows updates :).

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_download.asp ?fid=1422&fileidx=1

yeah, basically the same thing as IE Quick Search, except you first have to go to a webpage to do it. Unless you make a quicksearch which submits to yubnub...

"he should at least have the commonsense of clearing the cache!"

Clearing out the cache may not be enough. Internet Explorer keeps information about your browsing history, and outlook keeps mail even after you delete it

Even with other browsers, the only sure way to know the data is gone is to overwrite it

C4 will work as well.

Well, I was involved with this on a number of levels and can say there was no announcement. What happened was a slip up and spin control. The original article contained quotes that were taken from the end of an interview with Tony Siress on a completely different topic. He was mostly talking about OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X. Note the quote that was interpreted as being the "announcement" of a cooperation:

"I don't want to sell StarOffice for OS X," Siress said. "I want Apple to bundle it. I'll give them the code. I'd love it if I could get the team at Apple to do joint development and they distribute it at no cost--that it's their product. Nobody makes a product more beautiful on Apple than Apple."

Does that sound like a product and bundling announcement? Hell no. It was Tony going off on what he'd "like" to happen, that he'd "like" to have a partnership with Apple and a bundling deal. It never existed. The StarOffice team that he was talking about was the one that existed under Patrick Luby back in 2000 prior to when Sun open sourced the failed remnants of the Mac port.

It also turns out that by this time Patrick had already been working on NeoOffice/J and, being a former Sun employee and manager of the Mac port, he was beginning to show early versions of his application to people within Sun. This is one of the projects that was mentioned by Sun managers as the Java port, even though it wasn't even a Sun project. Tony himself referenced NeoOffice/J's ancestor in his interview.

Tony later explained the mixup to the OOo community, which was later picked up by the press. He was talking out his ass and made my life hell for a whole week.

CNet was embarassed, of course, since they essentially now looked like fools by "breaking" completly false information. So they ran a counter-argument story that had longer quotes from the interview. The Quartz version that he's referring to was the Quartz porting work I had been doing in OpenOffice.org. The Java version he's referring to was the early work by Patrick. It even had some quotes from a Sun PR person confirming that Tony said what he had said. Sun PR sacrificed Tony to maintain a working relationship with CNet (apparently there had been a Sun PR person involved with the original interview but they hadn't stopped Tony from making off-topic comments).

The key point you'll see in that "refutation" article that makes it known he's full of it is the quote on laptops at the bottom. He mentions Apple wanting to sell Sun PowerBooks. His "contact" at Apple was a sales rep who was trying to sell laptops, not an engineer!

After that fun blunder, Tony never really was allowed to speak to the press again, particularly on StarOffice related issues.

Conspiracy theorists love making a big deal out of this up until this day (witness the parent), but in the end it was all a bunch of bull caused by an eager manager and an overexuberant reporter "breaking" a supposed story without doing any fact checking to confirm the horseshit coming out of the manager's mouth.

The good thing was that it pissed me and Dan off so much we created the NeoOffice project (NeoOffice/C) to prove it could be done. Eventually Patrick was convinced to open source the code Tony referred to and thus NeoOffice/J was born. Bad thing is it wrecked any chance of Sun or Apple actually providing OpenOffice.org engineering support since the PR n

Sorry - bad HTML - that was supposed to say when they tried to retire Windows 98 and were forced to extend it.

Can I assume they are talking about Win 2k Professional? Comparing XP Pro and Win 2k server is not a fair comparison...

Also, if MS stops supporting Win 2k - either edition - they are going to see the backlash they did when they tried to and were forced to extend support for that.

See this from yesterday: Sprint, Intel Team on Mobile WiMax

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,120771,0 0.asp

Add Apple and Nokia to a partnership, then you have a Sprint WiMax/PCS network for Nokia phones running iTunes and the Apple browser, Apple gets the WiMax ISP they need for movie downloads as well as a carrier for their iTunes phone, and Sprint also becomes a single provider for voice, media content, and the web ANYWHERE.

Cringely was partially right: Apple is going for broke, but they are not going to get bought out by Intel. Apple is probably partnering instead with Nokia, Intel and Sprint in WiMax to bring all of the pieces they need together for a unified "lifestyle" digital hub.

Brian G.

Hey folks, I work as a rep for the company, so I'll make that clear outright. Some things to consider with Epson stuff, (Just an FYI, I don't make enough money to make this post a personal gain).

First off the carts are "chipped" for two reasons. First: The chips monitor ink levels for your convienence, and to let the system know when to stop printing and maintain a reserve.
Second: This reserve is designed to PROTECT your PRINTHEAD by maintaining a constant pressure of ink. The thing that kills Epson Printers is when carts lose the pressure in them, and the ink dries up in the printhead. Bang, Dead machine. Micro-piezo hardware is powerful, but delicate.

This is important because the ink system gives you an immediately dry, non-smudge print for photos (no one else, using a thermal, or "hot ink" system can do that.) Secondly, this higher resolution is better then what HP or Canon (until very recently, anyway) can beat. 5760x1440, versus 4800x1200. Optimized? maybe. but consider this - many pros swear by Epson Photo printers - I have a close friend as a photographer - the output from her 2200 pays her rent every month. (http://www.xandrabydesign.com./

ICC profiles are available for every Epson paper stock to take the challenge out of color matching for free, and drivers are updated periodically
to keep you happy. Our paper costs are pretty low, too. 17.99 - pack of 100 4x6 premium gloss, HP - 19.99 for 60.

A recent third party test by PC world showed the Stylus R320 to be one of the most affordable for 4x6 photo prints at about 49C a print. HP was about 83C, ink and paper included.
see:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,11957 3,00.asp
Not Epson propaganda, folks - third party review.
(Note, the R800 uses a full pigment, 200 year print life ink system, same as the multi-thousand
dollar units, that's why it's a little more per
4x6.) 19c a 4x6 elsewhere? sure.. but will it last?

Ink life is another factor too: see
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111767,0 0.asp
Might be cheaper at first, but what are you really
getting?

With other vendors, generic ink isn't such a big deal, as thermal base is what the industry mainly
makes. The higher Epson Resolution uses a finer ink that no other printer uses or requires, as a result, the generic ink, frankly, doens't meet Epson Standards. No one else makes a cold-transfer borderless with no rip edge involved printer
at a low cost. And let's not get started about CD printing too. Or the first all in one that can scan and reprint negatives no computer required.

Again, I'm not out to make Epson look good, but I sell it on the weekends, and own an R300 I have been THRILLED WITH. (no, I don't get free ink or paper, either.)

Hey folks, I work as a rep for the company, so I'll make that clear outright. Some things to consider with Epson stuff, (Just an FYI, I don't make enough money to make this post a personal gain).

First off the carts are "chipped" for two reasons. First: The chips monitor ink levels for your convienence, and to let the system know when to stop printing and maintain a reserve.
Second: This reserve is designed to PROTECT your PRINTHEAD by maintaining a constant pressure of ink. The thing that kills Epson Printers is when carts lose the pressure in them, and the ink dries up in the printhead. Bang, Dead machine. Micro-piezo hardware is powerful, but delicate.

This is important because the ink system gives you an immediately dry, non-smudge print for photos (no one else, using a thermal, or "hot ink" system can do that.) Secondly, this higher resolution is better then what HP or Canon (until very recently, anyway) can beat. 5760x1440, versus 4800x1200. Optimized? maybe. but consider this - many pros swear by Epson Photo printers - I have a close friend as a photographer - the output from her 2200 pays her rent every month. (http://www.xandrabydesign.com./

ICC profiles are available for every Epson paper stock to take the challenge out of color matching for free, and drivers are updated periodically
to keep you happy. Our paper costs are pretty low, too. 17.99 - pack of 100 4x6 premium gloss, HP - 19.99 for 60.

A recent third party test by PC world showed the Stylus R320 to be one of the most affordable for 4x6 photo prints at about 49C a print. HP was about 83C, ink and paper included.
see:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,11957 3,00.asp
Not Epson propaganda, folks - third party review.
(Note, the R800 uses a full pigment, 200 year print life ink system, same as the multi-thousand
dollar units, that's why it's a little more per
4x6.) 19c a 4x6 elsewhere? sure.. but will it last?

Ink life is another factor too: see
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,111767,0 0.asp
Might be cheaper at first, but what are you really
getting?

With other vendors, generic ink isn't such a big deal, as thermal base is what the industry mainly
makes. The higher Epson Resolution uses a finer ink that no other printer uses or requires, as a result, the generic ink, frankly, doens't meet Epson Standards. No one else makes a cold-transfer borderless with no rip edge involved printer
at a low cost. And let's not get started about CD printing too. Or the first all in one that can scan and reprint negatives no computer required.

Again, I'm not out to make Epson look good, but I sell it on the weekends, and own an R300 I have been THRILLED WITH. (no, I don't get free ink or paper, either.)

First of all, the stripped down version is only in Europe, which is a saturated market anyway.

Second, most pc makers won't use the new version.

Third, XP is a very mature product, and MS is clearly looking beyond it.

Fourth, how could this code release impede their ability to increase market share? Could not it also help it? Please provide an argument.

cheers, potor

If you disagree with the parent, be a man and argue the point with him. Don't mod him as 'flamebait' merely because what he says makes you feel uncomfortable.

You are right- don't mark his post as flamebait because you ar uncomfortable- instead mod him as flamebait because he is WRONG. Diebold does market electronic voting systems that have a paper trail. That kinda deflates your conspiracy theories, doesnt it?

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