But the cheapest and simplest aspect of printing can also have a big impact on the final quality: the paper
The biggest expense is the most avoidable. The ink. Don't buy an overpriced spray-and-pray blotter printer. Get a real laser printer. I bought mine at a University Surplus auction for $10. Toner for it was expensive, I paid $90 for a cartridge. But that's enough toner to print on several cases of paper.
The ink sellers will love it if you keep on using their expensive ink in your spray-printer, though.
Exactly. I bought my Mac-compatible laser printer new for $135 last year (newegg offer). There are some below the $100 mark. I have an old PC-only laser printer from years ago that still works and hasn't gone through the OEM toner package after 1000+ pages. Most toner packages are generic now, you can get a knockoff for $30 and the real thing for 2x.
You don't need to get lucky to get a cheap, decent, long-lasting printer... they just don't do color (unless you pay much more).
So instead of installing into/Applications, which does require an admin username and password, it now likely installs somewhere in the user's home folder, which doesn't require admin authorization. This means the problem would be isolated to that particular user's account.
This always confused me about the Mac, why have the/Applications directory if you allow executable.app packages to be run from other locations? I've accidentally run apps from the download directory or dmg files by using Spotlight to search for the name and choosing the wrong app. Could they fix this by mandating all Applications run from/Applications or ~/Applications (which could be secured by requiring user non-admin password to install)?
Federal Aiur Marshals existed long before the TSA (Wesley Snipes as an air marshall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/ ). The TSA is a rollup entity created after 9/11.
Except that if the site, one needs to go to is not indexed, then it's as good as dead, because it can't be reached without typing the URL into the address bar, and many business sites are exactly like that.
Not sure about you, but wherever I've worked, people tend to click on internal system (ie, intranet) with abandon. If you're talking about sharing a link with URL session-based parameters, well, those are not really portable anyway are they?
Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
Next question, please.
You blithely ignore economics. The average price of a TV is somewhere north of $700. An AppleTV or Roku can be had for $100. When $newShinyStreamingService becomes available and only works with a given player, I will be quite hesitant to pony up for a whole new TV. Adding a 2nd or even 3rd streaming device is much more doable.
I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.
I wouldn't put it past the entrenched powers to use whatever means necessary to get this done (ie, either digital brown-shirts, or burning down the commons through excessive and unconstitutional legislation that's been "purchased"). I'm guessing it'll be a combination of both, but in the short term, expect more of the "internet death sentence" type of reaction.
I do posit this is going to get much worse. Every day, it feels like the seemingly paranoid rants by RMS seem more like the prophetic prognostications of a Cassandra who's seen the future hoping to help us avoid it.
Also from TFA, it says the passwords were "encrypted". What wasn't in TFA is the phrase "plain text" - that part YOU added. Way to get worked up over something that you formulated.
If it's reversibly encrypted, that's bad, and all encrpyted data can be exposed by knowing/finding the key. If it's one-way encrypted (ie, hash maybe with salt), then it's a whole lot more secure, but still susceptible to brute-forcing (google: rainbow table).
I'm guessing Google picked up on how several of my family members (and many, many other computer users I'm afraid) actually enter URLs: 1. Click browser home button, arrive at google.com 2. Type URL in search box, then click first link (for advanced users: click "I'm feeling lucky") No matter how I try to explain how backwards this is, they keep doing it. Take away the search bar and I can't even argue the sane alternative.
More hits for google.com - more data, ads and more money for them. Only makes sense, really.
You know what this seemingly clumsy approach prevents? The dreaded 404. Typing your URL into Google gives you the following: 1) A malformed URL 90% of the time is corrected by Google 2) Google provides cached results if the original site has been slashdotted/LOIC'd 3) Google can sometimes guess the original context of the content, and provide alternate content to match (this helps in veracity/context testing the content before you jump.. what happens if all the Google-provided results shout warnings or show pr0n while you link at work... useful to know).
It's a very user-friendly and helpful bonus at a cost of one additional click. It certainly feels like Google understood this use case, improved it's benefits/outcomes and promoted it's use (hell if you type a non-crawled URL Google thinks it goes to nowhere, so it actively pushes site-owners to get their content
People are often not as stupid as they seem. Don't underestimate the users; often you can learn and profit from where they do things "wrong".
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
A big part of the problem is Safari's default settings. Safari will automatically download and run the MacDefender installer. This, in itself, is harmless (you can quit the installer), but that default behavior in Safari makes it that much easier for malware authors.
Apple needs to acknowledge that Safari's default setting to automatically download "safe content" needs to be disabled.
Bingo. I remember when they included "safe content" auto-run in Safari, and thinking to myself... this is just begging for an exploit (OSX does have layers of security, but this was a barn-door through an important security layer).
They need to do a bit more thinking about that whole concept and produce their equivalent of "iPhone cut and paste" that solves major dilemmas (usability vs. security) while also being default secure (and optionally allowing lockdown for the paranoid).
Gruber aside (he posed Mac App Store as the "solution" to these kind of trojans), Apple needs to acknowledge that 90% of users download potentially-executable stuff from the internet, and OSX needs to get savvy security-wise on that... growing pains and all.
At my organization (and some of my previous employers including BOBJ and ORCL), developers really liked having Linux desktop (ie, local "server") combined with laptops (usually running Windows). For the laptop, OSX is really nice because it is Unix (no crufty putty, symlinks aren't a pain, etc) and it was pretty much "safe" as a thin client to your linux box (this was pre-Vista). Nowadays, Windows 7 is far more usable/modern, but the lack of good Unix tools is still (surprisingly) evident (I would love for someone to correct me on this).
If you're looking for a good 'nix laptop, a MacbookPro running OSX is a quite good combo.
Heh, its ironic - I'm currently sat in an office where all the computers (a dozen or so) are Macs - iMac 27" to be precise.
The irony is that they are all running Windows 7, not one is running OSX. Business owner bought them because they looked cool, but the business is a.Net software development house.
One of my good friends who works at Microsoft uses an MacbookPro, and no he doesn't work in the MacBU... he says it's one of the better windows machines he's had (apparently Microsoft will get you any machine you want, as long as you can do your work - ie, for 95% of softies that means it runs Windows).
"I'm going to be framed!" Sow the seeds of reasonable doubt before the crime.
What would DSK have to gain by commiting this crime? You know, as head of the IMF, I'm sure DSK could afford a decent call girl if he needed. In fact, what's to say this maid wasn't his call girl a la Elliot Spitzer's "Audre Dupre"? More details needed before we decide to hang this guy publicly.
At first I thought it was related to Columbia, the country. Then I was like, heh, maybe it's about the Worms videogame (Worms: Descendants?)
Finally, after RTFS, I still don't know what this means for space exploration or the earthworms in specific. I guess this will force some folks to RTFA...
This kind of shakedown economy seems to be the norm. I ought to get a patent on chewing gum "while on the internet", incorporate and then sell out for big $$$.
Trying to make money from something that isn't scarce is silly. Charge for the scarce goods not the stuff you can easily copy. The very first copy is scarce. Support is scarce. Commissioning people with talent is scarce.
I thought bottled water in places where clean water is plentiful for almost nothing would never take off. I was wrong. People aren't rational.
Bottled water is an interesting case. I believe people drank it because of convenience and for health reasons (it was promoted in the 90s as "better than sodas - no calories, no sugar"). In the respect that it's replacing the soft drink as a hydration vehicle it's quite reasonable (if you consider mass-consumption of sodas to be understandable).
The problem is that, just like with gasoline, without forcing people to pay for the consequential externalities (ie, litter, environmental damage, landfills), things like the 35-bottle costco/walmart family pack arose, and it wasn't too expensive for the "convenience". This pushed the "bottled water" into the home.
I've been down that route, but I now fill my water at a local purified water store (10-step filtration of municipal water supply, decent price, fill about 30 gallons at a time) and have nalgene bottles and such for transport and daily drinking. Everything recycled/reused (including the water), just it's much more pure than tap water and tastes better than bottled water as it hasn't been sitting in a plastic bottle for more than a week or two.
That procedure would lead to the same results. Maybe some redundancy would be removed, but obviously he doe not understand why the Tax system is complicated. Its the politics, stupid. Many of these 10000 pages are just small little promises somebody has given to *his* voters at some point. And nobody wants to cut such things, because one time this starts, it could be soon the promises to *your* voters. So no matter how absurd something is, it will stay there forever.
s/voters/sponsors/g
The modern politician is a "good" politician, they deliver 10x and higher margin returns in selling out the public to corporations. Some are not as "efficient" as others. The Citizens United ruling pretty much made this law (thanks "supreme" court).
In a galaxy, the vast majority of the matter in orbit is extremely unlikely to end up anywhere near the galaxy centre, and matter does not accrete in any significant volume (excluding galaxy mergers and collisions).
Is this the case? Perhaps since we've only seen a few frames of the reel (we've only been gazing at the stars with telescopes for a few centuries while the galaxy and universe is billions of years old), we don't really know. IANA Physicist / Cosmologist, but I wouldn't mind a take from someone who has pondered the question and can bring facts to bear.
I would go crazy trying to develop on only one monitor. In fact, I could use a third, but it's not worth getting a new video card for it.
You should look at getting/requesting a displaylink device (I got an EVGA UV-Plus+). Newer devices will drive 1080p and higher resolutions, with very usable lag, all over a USB2 hub (I have mine servicing kb, mouse, iphone sync and the monitor with no hiccups ever).
Combined with a 24" monitor, that would only cost you or your organization $300. Chump change for the potential benefits.
The cost of buying a second monitor for one developer is immaterial. The cost of buying second monitors for every developer isn't.
Really? Lets put things into perspective here. $200 for a decent 2nd monitor (we're not talking IPS Cinema displays here) compared to:
1% bonus (avg 80k salary = $800)
Any decent proprietary software license 1 seat (avg. $300)
5 hours of productivity (at 80k salary = $200)
...etc.
The dual-monitor solution of days yore has been solved with stuff like DisplayLink or Thunderbolt (or by good gfx cards if your desktops are beefy enough).
I even have a 3-monitor solution for my home setup - A macbook pro, with 1 displayport 32" HTDV + 2 extra monitors running on the 2 separate USB2 channels (one is on a hub). Combine this with a mounting solution like this and you've can easily get 2 browsers and dozens of terminal windows all open simultaneously. You could easily setup a dual-display rig for $300 in addition to an existing monitor.
I can see no reason why a hardware manufacturer would put so much effort into what, in this past decade, has proven a complete failure: putting a desktop OS into a mobile form factor.
Given that Android source exists, why would a mobile device manufacturer even consider a non-free, licensed OS which has proved unsuccessful so far? Perhaps it's because of Microsoft's patent warchest (and their willingness to use it)?
I have still not gotten a good explanation why galaxies aren't thought of as large accretion disks, since there is a large black hole (or more than one) at the center of almost every galaxy.
The article here seems to indicate that what we're seeing might be the equivalent of a 3 dimensional accretion "disk" wherein the center "drains" along the poles.
There are only four carriers in the US, and they all charge for receiving text messages
Soon to be three as AT&T digests T-Mobile. This SMS payment problem is only going to get worse (AT&T recently removed it's lowest tier of SMS plans and now you pay $10/mo for 1000 or $.20 a message for ad-hoc).
The economic damage he caused to the US economy is several trillion dollars. While he may not have won the war, but he did cause overwhelming damage.
The spiritual damage he caused to the society (happily pushed on by the MIC) in terms of freedom lost is incalculable. The hypocrisy of "land of the free, home of the brave" has never been more strong than today.
It's not clear to me if the TSA djinn can ever be put back in the bottle. We are now a police state in all but name.
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The biggest expense is the most avoidable. The ink. Don't buy an overpriced spray-and-pray blotter printer. Get a real laser printer. I bought mine at a University Surplus auction for $10. Toner for it was expensive, I paid $90 for a cartridge. But that's enough toner to print on several cases of paper.
The ink sellers will love it if you keep on using their expensive ink in your spray-printer, though.
Exactly. I bought my Mac-compatible laser printer new for $135 last year (newegg offer). There are some below the $100 mark. I have an old PC-only laser printer from years ago that still works and hasn't gone through the OEM toner package after 1000+ pages. Most toner packages are generic now, you can get a knockoff for $30 and the real thing for 2x.
You don't need to get lucky to get a cheap, decent, long-lasting printer... they just don't do color (unless you pay much more).
So instead of installing into /Applications, which does require an admin username and password, it now likely installs somewhere in the user's home folder, which doesn't require admin authorization. This means the problem would be isolated to that particular user's account.
This always confused me about the Mac, why have the /Applications directory if you allow executable .app packages to be run from other locations? /Applications or ~/Applications (which could be secured by requiring user non-admin password to install)?
I've accidentally run apps from the download directory or dmg files by using Spotlight to search for the name and choosing the wrong app.
Could they fix this by mandating all Applications run from
The TSA has done nothing to make us more secure. Every attempted airline incident has been stopped by passengers and/or air marshals.
You mean the Federal Air Marshals employed by the TSA, right?
Federal Aiur Marshals existed long before the TSA (Wesley Snipes as an air marshall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105104/ ).
The TSA is a rollup entity created after 9/11.
Except that if the site, one needs to go to is not indexed, then it's as good as dead, because it can't be reached without typing the URL into the address bar, and many business sites are exactly like that.
Not sure about you, but wherever I've worked, people tend to click on internal system (ie, intranet) with abandon. If you're talking about sharing a link with URL session-based parameters, well, those are not really portable anyway are they?
Ergo, the external box that provides functions that any new TV can provide is not a growth market and is likely a doomed market.
Next question, please.
You blithely ignore economics. The average price of a TV is somewhere north of $700. An AppleTV or Roku can be had for $100. When $newShinyStreamingService becomes available and only works with a given player, I will be quite hesitant to pony up for a whole new TV. Adding a 2nd or even 3rd streaming device is much more doable.
I wonder if this rise in internet vigilante-ism is going to birth a corporate funded internet version of the Pinkertons. I.E. a group of black hat hackers paid by big corporations to hunt down and ruin groups like Anonymous through less than legal means.
I wouldn't put it past the entrenched powers to use whatever means necessary to get this done (ie, either digital brown-shirts, or burning down the commons through excessive and unconstitutional legislation that's been "purchased"). I'm guessing it'll be a combination of both, but in the short term, expect more of the "internet death sentence" type of reaction.
I do posit this is going to get much worse. Every day, it feels like the seemingly paranoid rants by RMS seem more like the prophetic prognostications of a Cassandra who's seen the future hoping to help us avoid it.
Also from TFA, it says the passwords were "encrypted". What wasn't in TFA is the phrase "plain text" - that part YOU added. Way to get worked up over something that you formulated.
If it's reversibly encrypted, that's bad, and all encrpyted data can be exposed by knowing/finding the key. If it's one-way encrypted (ie, hash maybe with salt), then it's a whole lot more secure, but still susceptible to brute-forcing (google: rainbow table).
I'm guessing Google picked up on how several of my family members (and many, many other computer users I'm afraid) actually enter URLs:
1. Click browser home button, arrive at google.com
2. Type URL in search box, then click first link (for advanced users: click "I'm feeling lucky")
No matter how I try to explain how backwards this is, they keep doing it. Take away the search bar and I can't even argue the sane alternative.
More hits for google.com - more data, ads and more money for them. Only makes sense, really.
You know what this seemingly clumsy approach prevents? The dreaded 404.
Typing your URL into Google gives you the following:
1) A malformed URL 90% of the time is corrected by Google
2) Google provides cached results if the original site has been slashdotted/LOIC'd
3) Google can sometimes guess the original context of the content, and provide alternate content to match (this helps in veracity/context testing the content before you jump.. what happens if all the Google-provided results shout warnings or show pr0n while you link at work... useful to know).
It's a very user-friendly and helpful bonus at a cost of one additional click. It certainly feels like Google understood this use case, improved it's benefits/outcomes and promoted it's use (hell if you type a non-crawled URL Google thinks it goes to nowhere, so it actively pushes site-owners to get their content
People are often not as stupid as they seem. Don't underestimate the users; often you can learn and profit from where they do things "wrong".
What defence is there against the end users downloading and running MacDefender and giving up the Admin password?
A big part of the problem is Safari's default settings. Safari will automatically download and run the MacDefender installer. This, in itself, is harmless (you can quit the installer), but that default behavior in Safari makes it that much easier for malware authors.
Apple needs to acknowledge that Safari's default setting to automatically download "safe content" needs to be disabled.
Bingo. I remember when they included "safe content" auto-run in Safari, and thinking to myself... this is just begging for an exploit (OSX does have layers of security, but this was a barn-door through an important security layer).
They need to do a bit more thinking about that whole concept and produce their equivalent of "iPhone cut and paste" that solves major dilemmas (usability vs. security) while also being default secure (and optionally allowing lockdown for the paranoid).
Gruber aside (he posed Mac App Store as the "solution" to these kind of trojans), Apple needs to acknowledge that 90% of users download potentially-executable stuff from the internet, and OSX needs to get savvy security-wise on that... growing pains and all.
At my organization (and some of my previous employers including BOBJ and ORCL), developers really liked having Linux desktop (ie, local "server") combined with laptops (usually running Windows). For the laptop, OSX is really nice because it is Unix (no crufty putty, symlinks aren't a pain, etc) and it was pretty much "safe" as a thin client to your linux box (this was pre-Vista). Nowadays, Windows 7 is far more usable/modern, but the lack of good Unix tools is still (surprisingly) evident (I would love for someone to correct me on this).
If you're looking for a good 'nix laptop, a MacbookPro running OSX is a quite good combo.
Heh, its ironic - I'm currently sat in an office where all the computers (a dozen or so) are Macs - iMac 27" to be precise.
The irony is that they are all running Windows 7, not one is running OSX. Business owner bought them because they looked cool, but the business is a .Net software development house.
One of my good friends who works at Microsoft uses an MacbookPro, and no he doesn't work in the MacBU... he says it's one of the better windows machines he's had (apparently Microsoft will get you any machine you want, as long as you can do your work - ie, for 95% of softies that means it runs Windows).
"I'm going to be framed!" Sow the seeds of reasonable doubt before the crime.
What would DSK have to gain by commiting this crime?
You know, as head of the IMF, I'm sure DSK could afford a decent call girl if he needed. In fact, what's to say this maid wasn't his call girl a la Elliot Spitzer's "Audre Dupre"?
More details needed before we decide to hang this guy publicly.
At first I thought it was related to Columbia, the country.
Then I was like, heh, maybe it's about the Worms videogame (Worms: Descendants?)
Finally, after RTFS, I still don't know what this means for space exploration or the earthworms in specific.
I guess this will force some folks to RTFA...
Time to pay up to the Zuck!
This kind of shakedown economy seems to be the norm. I ought to get a patent on chewing gum "while on the internet", incorporate and then sell out for big $$$.
Trying to make money from something that isn't scarce is silly. Charge for the scarce goods not the stuff you can easily copy. The very first copy is scarce. Support is scarce. Commissioning people with talent is scarce.
I thought bottled water in places where clean water is plentiful for almost nothing would never take off. I was wrong. People aren't rational.
Bottled water is an interesting case. I believe people drank it because of convenience and for health reasons (it was promoted in the 90s as "better than sodas - no calories, no sugar"). In the respect that it's replacing the soft drink as a hydration vehicle it's quite reasonable (if you consider mass-consumption of sodas to be understandable).
The problem is that, just like with gasoline, without forcing people to pay for the consequential externalities (ie, litter, environmental damage, landfills), things like the 35-bottle costco/walmart family pack arose, and it wasn't too expensive for the "convenience". This pushed the "bottled water" into the home.
I've been down that route, but I now fill my water at a local purified water store (10-step filtration of municipal water supply, decent price, fill about 30 gallons at a time) and have nalgene bottles and such for transport and daily drinking. Everything recycled/reused (including the water), just it's much more pure than tap water and tastes better than bottled water as it hasn't been sitting in a plastic bottle for more than a week or two.
That procedure would lead to the same results. Maybe some redundancy would be removed, but obviously he doe not understand why the Tax system is complicated. Its the politics, stupid. Many of these 10000 pages are just small little promises somebody has given to *his* voters at some point. And nobody wants to cut such things, because one time this starts, it could be soon the promises to *your* voters. So no matter how absurd something is, it will stay there forever.
s/voters/sponsors/g
The modern politician is a "good" politician, they deliver 10x and higher margin returns in selling out the public to corporations. Some are not as "efficient" as others. The Citizens United ruling pretty much made this law (thanks "supreme" court).
Steam is usually the gaming conglomerate that's most often mentioned on /. . (I only bother to play the free games in the Ubuntu repository.)
Valve:Steam::Apple:iTunes
In a galaxy, the vast majority of the matter in orbit is extremely unlikely to end up anywhere near the galaxy centre, and matter does not accrete in any significant volume (excluding galaxy mergers and collisions).
Is this the case? Perhaps since we've only seen a few frames of the reel (we've only been gazing at the stars with telescopes for a few centuries while the galaxy and universe is billions of years old), we don't really know. IANA Physicist / Cosmologist, but I wouldn't mind a take from someone who has pondered the question and can bring facts to bear.
I would go crazy trying to develop on only one monitor. In fact, I could use a third, but it's not worth getting a new video card for it.
You should look at getting/requesting a displaylink device (I got an EVGA UV-Plus+). Newer devices will drive 1080p and higher resolutions, with very usable lag, all over a USB2 hub (I have mine servicing kb, mouse, iphone sync and the monitor with no hiccups ever).
Combined with a 24" monitor, that would only cost you or your organization $300. Chump change for the potential benefits.
The cost of buying a second monitor for one developer is immaterial. The cost of buying second monitors for every developer isn't.
Really?
Lets put things into perspective here. $200 for a decent 2nd monitor (we're not talking IPS Cinema displays here) compared to:
The dual-monitor solution of days yore has been solved with stuff like DisplayLink or Thunderbolt (or by good gfx cards if your desktops are beefy enough).
I even have a 3-monitor solution for my home setup - A macbook pro, with 1 displayport 32" HTDV + 2 extra monitors running on the 2 separate USB2 channels (one is on a hub). Combine this with a mounting solution like this and you've can easily get 2 browsers and dozens of terminal windows all open simultaneously. You could easily setup a dual-display rig for $300 in addition to an existing monitor.
I can see no reason why a hardware manufacturer would put so much effort into what, in this past decade, has proven a complete failure: putting a desktop OS into a mobile form factor.
Given that Android source exists, why would a mobile device manufacturer even consider a non-free, licensed OS which has proved unsuccessful so far? Perhaps it's because of Microsoft's patent warchest (and their willingness to use it)?
I have still not gotten a good explanation why galaxies aren't thought of as large accretion disks, since there is a large black hole (or more than one) at the center of almost every galaxy.
The article here seems to indicate that what we're seeing might be the equivalent of a 3 dimensional accretion "disk" wherein the center "drains" along the poles.
I wonder how much more similar P2P networks/algorithms are when compared to wetware neural networks like the brain...
There are only four carriers in the US, and they all charge for receiving text messages
Soon to be three as AT&T digests T-Mobile. This SMS payment problem is only going to get worse (AT&T recently removed it's lowest tier of SMS plans and now you pay $10/mo for 1000 or $.20 a message for ad-hoc).
The economic damage he caused to the US economy is several trillion dollars. While he may not have won the war, but he did cause overwhelming damage.
The spiritual damage he caused to the society (happily pushed on by the MIC) in terms of freedom lost is incalculable.
The hypocrisy of "land of the free, home of the brave" has never been more strong than today.
It's not clear to me if the TSA djinn can ever be put back in the bottle. We are now a police state in all but name.