Yeah, my HP ex-printer (which had 6 cartridges) wouldn't even turn on unless all the cartridges were installed, working, and not expired. If just one dies, the printer is a brick. If a cart won't clean, all the carts use ink during cleaning. If one cart expires, the printer is a brick, and you'd better believe that the carts will expire long before their actual life is over. On top of that, I couldn't clean the black cart no matter how many times I cleaned it, so I bought a brand new one, and it was clogged right out of the box. I never did get that new cart working.
Inkjet manufacturers should all be hung. Since I only print something once in a blue moon, I don't think I've ever gotten more than 30 pages out of one before something went wrong.
I would also think that with the increased efficiency of battery storage, you'd need less solar panels to charge up the system for equivalent range in the first place.
A low-cost air car powered by an expensive electric system driving a compressor? Batteries aren't that expensive, especially if we're talking about little city cars that sport
That's because the sites are made by brown-nosing script kiddies, not designers or coders. If you can't make a coherent design, you are not a designer (or your boss sucks).
I write distributable code for shared servers. Fun stuff. It's getting less fun now that much of the new PHP code is being put into PEAR modules, which must be installed on the server by a sysadmin. Yes, I know "serious" programmers have their own server, but I like making fun little things that ordinary people, primarily artists, can put on a cheap, shared server.
I pray the PHP team doesn't make GDLib an optional module. GDLib may suck, but it keeps me from having to write an abstraction layer to do a direct system call for ImageMagik, which may not even be available, even on Linux hosts. Sometimes, it's nice to have a monolithic platform you can strip down, rather than a minimal platform you can build up.
In my opinion the biggest obstacle in the way of innovation is money.
I think that fits better, if you're one of those people that thinks that things like fame, reputation, and even pride count as a form of profit. Profit is not a dirty word.
The longer you do without junk food, the less you crave it. Real food tastes much better after you've given up donuts, burgers, and MSG. Rather than a $1/hr job, think of a diet as starting college as a broke student. It takes a while to graduate.
Every car I've ever owned had the pedals attached to the console, not to a lever joint mounted on the floor. The only exception I even know about are old Porsches and VWs. The pedals are always suspended well above the floor and will never contact the floor mats, no matter how poorly the mats are designed or how far they are jammed up into the foot well. If the mats are jammed up against the pedal joint, shouldn't that prevent acceleration by not allowing the pedal to be pushed?
I can visualize how a floor mat can end up overlapping the face of the accelerator, but not the physics to actually do it.
All kidding aside, I wouldn't trust any main storage device that costs less than $80, anyway. There are limits to the amount of craftsmanship a company will put into a cheap device, no matter how good technology gets.
I love my SSD, by the way, now that I've found a good one. Even I'm surprised that 128GB for a coding and Photoshop workstation is plenty of space for my needs.
The real nice thing is that MS extended the warranty. Officially. Class action lawsuit or not, it's nice that the company officially announces that they screwed up big time and have an actual policy in place. You know what terms of service you can get.
If you run into a problem with Nintendo, they say to contact the company and they will deal with it on a case-by-case basis. Yeah, I've heard they'll fix anything, but they still don't like making public statements that anything is their fault and that they will fix it.
As for Sony, well... they released an update to put ads in a product people already bought. That's prime customer service right there!
Especially when they are too cheap to include a backup ROM -- even a little bitty one.
Hey, how long did it take PC manufacturers to include a dual BIOS? How many still don't? My newest mobo has a backup ROM, but holding my breath during a flash was a regular practice for many years.
If people lose their discs with the PSP, people are SOL, and will accept that. If people lost their discs with the UMD dock, Sony would get a lot of angry phone calls about the "de-activation" of their purchased games.
Yet another one of the property vs license mind twisters.
Are you sure all the features of OSX are intact and working with your PPC unit?
I bought a PPC Mac to test Java compatibility after a number of people complained that my apps weren't working on the Mac. I would have been better off buying a paperweight.
How about tailoring the ads based on the web site contents? You know, by actually studying the complete audience and site content, and not individual people?
Yeah, big web sites usually do this correctly, and especially tech web sites. However, I get a little annoyed seeing ads for clothes cleaning products while browsing a web site about art. Not all artists are slobs. Honest! How about art supplies, cameras, printing services, legal services for artists, books on publishing, etc? It shocks me how often web sites can't do this right.
I would think that any code that handles flashing a chip that could render the system inoperable and require hardware replacement would be properly tested. Seriously, flashing is old hat and isn't rocket science, unless the hardware is intentionally complicated to try to stop hackers from dumping the flash contents.
Losing power while flashing is also a possibility, but really, is a backup ROM that expensive?
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Yeah, my HP ex-printer (which had 6 cartridges) wouldn't even turn on unless all the cartridges were installed, working, and not expired. If just one dies, the printer is a brick. If a cart won't clean, all the carts use ink during cleaning. If one cart expires, the printer is a brick, and you'd better believe that the carts will expire long before their actual life is over. On top of that, I couldn't clean the black cart no matter how many times I cleaned it, so I bought a brand new one, and it was clogged right out of the box. I never did get that new cart working.
Inkjet manufacturers should all be hung. Since I only print something once in a blue moon, I don't think I've ever gotten more than 30 pages out of one before something went wrong.
A shadow under a rock? Anything that has its own acronym should affect more than 0.5% of the pixels in a screenshot.
Stores already spray-paint their meat to make it red, just like they do with their apples.
What do we need the genes for?
if the iPod was made in the usa it would cost $750 and break within days. Just like the cars, which are rubbish.
You mean like Toyotas?
Learning only one language.
...less than 20 HP.
Thank you, Slashdot. The "less than" symbol really shouldn't be causing problems with web sites this day and age.
I would also think that with the increased efficiency of battery storage, you'd need less solar panels to charge up the system for equivalent range in the first place.
A low-cost air car powered by an expensive electric system driving a compressor? Batteries aren't that expensive, especially if we're talking about little city cars that sport
That's also why most Flash apps/websites suck.
That's because the sites are made by brown-nosing script kiddies, not designers or coders. If you can't make a coherent design, you are not a designer (or your boss sucks).
I write distributable code for shared servers. Fun stuff. It's getting less fun now that much of the new PHP code is being put into PEAR modules, which must be installed on the server by a sysadmin. Yes, I know "serious" programmers have their own server, but I like making fun little things that ordinary people, primarily artists, can put on a cheap, shared server.
I pray the PHP team doesn't make GDLib an optional module. GDLib may suck, but it keeps me from having to write an abstraction layer to do a direct system call for ImageMagik, which may not even be available, even on Linux hosts. Sometimes, it's nice to have a monolithic platform you can strip down, rather than a minimal platform you can build up.
In my opinion the biggest obstacle in the way of innovation is money.
I think that fits better, if you're one of those people that thinks that things like fame, reputation, and even pride count as a form of profit. Profit is not a dirty word.
The longer you do without junk food, the less you crave it. Real food tastes much better after you've given up donuts, burgers, and MSG. Rather than a $1/hr job, think of a diet as starting college as a broke student. It takes a while to graduate.
Every car I've ever owned had the pedals attached to the console, not to a lever joint mounted on the floor. The only exception I even know about are old Porsches and VWs. The pedals are always suspended well above the floor and will never contact the floor mats, no matter how poorly the mats are designed or how far they are jammed up into the foot well. If the mats are jammed up against the pedal joint, shouldn't that prevent acceleration by not allowing the pedal to be pushed?
I can visualize how a floor mat can end up overlapping the face of the accelerator, but not the physics to actually do it.
...10 TB drives will be $10?
All kidding aside, I wouldn't trust any main storage device that costs less than $80, anyway. There are limits to the amount of craftsmanship a company will put into a cheap device, no matter how good technology gets.
I love my SSD, by the way, now that I've found a good one. Even I'm surprised that 128GB for a coding and Photoshop workstation is plenty of space for my needs.
Well, where do you think data goes when it dies?
...to ensure that the caliber of our artwork represents our brand appropriately.
Good job!
The real nice thing is that MS extended the warranty. Officially. Class action lawsuit or not, it's nice that the company officially announces that they screwed up big time and have an actual policy in place. You know what terms of service you can get.
If you run into a problem with Nintendo, they say to contact the company and they will deal with it on a case-by-case basis. Yeah, I've heard they'll fix anything, but they still don't like making public statements that anything is their fault and that they will fix it.
As for Sony, well... they released an update to put ads in a product people already bought. That's prime customer service right there!
Brick happens.
Especially when they are too cheap to include a backup ROM -- even a little bitty one.
Hey, how long did it take PC manufacturers to include a dual BIOS? How many still don't? My newest mobo has a backup ROM, but holding my breath during a flash was a regular practice for many years.
...shorter validation resync.
If people lose their discs with the PSP, people are SOL, and will accept that. If people lost their discs with the UMD dock, Sony would get a lot of angry phone calls about the "de-activation" of their purchased games.
Yet another one of the property vs license mind twisters.
Are you sure all the features of OSX are intact and working with your PPC unit?
I bought a PPC Mac to test Java compatibility after a number of people complained that my apps weren't working on the Mac. I would have been better off buying a paperweight.
How about tailoring the ads based on the web site contents? You know, by actually studying the complete audience and site content, and not individual people?
Yeah, big web sites usually do this correctly, and especially tech web sites. However, I get a little annoyed seeing ads for clothes cleaning products while browsing a web site about art. Not all artists are slobs. Honest! How about art supplies, cameras, printing services, legal services for artists, books on publishing, etc? It shocks me how often web sites can't do this right.
I would think that any code that handles flashing a chip that could render the system inoperable and require hardware replacement would be properly tested. Seriously, flashing is old hat and isn't rocket science, unless the hardware is intentionally complicated to try to stop hackers from dumping the flash contents.
Losing power while flashing is also a possibility, but really, is a backup ROM that expensive?
No checksums before flashing? Really?
Even at launch I was hearing about bricking problems. Glad to see things are improving after taking in all that cash.
Plus, it brings down the cost on the low end. I love getting massive power for $100.
More enthusiast cards, please!
Birthday Blues! If my birthday was next to Christmas, I'd be depressed all the time, too.
If Nintendo had offered a $350 HD Wii parallel to the $250 SD Wii, which machine would have sold better?
No, seriously.