I too use a laser printer for my day to day printing tasks and only bother with the color printer for when a task actually benefits from the use of color.
Being able to quickly print snapshot photos is particularly handy.
Mainly, the color printer just functions as a scanner (or copier).
Normal people aren't going to mess with a dead drive and serious enterprise customers are not going to have only one copy of their data.
Ultimately, all that matters is cost. Speed is even somewhat of an optional thing with the larger archival volumes. Although you do need enough speed to make populating (or recovering from) an entire drive practical.
I'm recovering a 4TB drive right now and it's moving as fast as all of the associated bottlenecks will allow.
I don't care what the underlying tech is. It just can't be so overpriced that I can't have a duplicate (or even a 3rd copy).
Dying gracefully with some warning would be nice but is it's not a showstopper if that's missing. A few of my HDDs have given no notice or not enough.
Labeling it democratic and it actually being democratic are two entirely different things. The previous regime in Egypt was a pretty good demonstration of that. So is the current regime in Iraq that's driving the rest of the country into the arms of ISIS.
Not having centuries of experience in this area probably doesn't help. Their understanding of democracy is much like the average tea bagger's.
Much like the new Soylent, an MRE is fuss free. I can just pull a packet out of my pocket and just start eating. This even goes for the dehydrated fruit and the kool-aid powder.
I don't have to worry about whether or not I have a suitable water source or power source.
Except even the worst MREs don't taste as bad as Soylent.
It's almost as if the Army had some idea of what it was doing...
I'm appalled at the idea that this person can't manage any basic rudimentary cooking even that which includes highly prefab ingredients. It really doesn't take much, despite what people may like to think.
Self-reliance is a really low bar here, especially in the age of the microwave oven.
The real problem is the human hubris of believing that we have finally correctly figured this nutrition thing out. Based on the last few decades, we clearly have not. The modern West may not even understand it as well as some ancient cultures.
So the entire premise of a food pill is a bit premature.
They're probably missing something important less likely to be missed by eating "good food".
Just the necessary clue to eat your greens with some fat puts even the "low fat" non vegan dietary fad into the "too hard to be sustainable" category. Anything that requires the consumer to have any sort of clue is doomed to increase the general malnutrition level of the population.
It doesn't even have to be a diet for rich political extremists.
People write entire books about this kind of problem.
The heuristic "eat a little bit of everything in moderation" is a much more viable approach.
Viable diets exist within an entire cultural framework that takes the guesswork and research out of not hurting yourself. Anything else is just another variation on fad diets we were told to avoid in our youth.
Ironically, something that looks like a cracker would probably be a much better option. That's a much more portable approach that doesn't require extra resources when eating in the field. Armies have even used this sort of concept for their field rations.
Something that requires mixing assumes infastructure and resources that may not exist.
Plus everyone knows that real Soylent looks like crackers...
Even if I were a normal healthy person, all veganism would get me is a nutritional deficiency.
Although I'm with the guy that rightly pointed out that these cows would still be a problem if we left things "au naturel" since bison covered the states that now grow corn for cattle feed.
The vegans are advocating genocide of one form or another.
Yes. Just decide suddenly to stop using the monopoly that has had a choke hold on the industry for 30 years. That may well be longer than you've even been around.
Well, no one with any sense in IT goes anywhere near this close to the bleeding edge. This thing as all things similarly new should be relegated for testing and experimentation.
Although my own personal opinion is that I feel sorry for Windows users...
Mandated insurance makes no sense. It's not sufficient to cover anything but the most trivial accident. Compared to the costs and risks involved it's a completely token gesture.
I bet you're too young to have ever programmed a VCR.
It's not anything remotely comparable to what we're talking about here. If VCRs were like Win 3.1 people would have less of an excuse for their clock to be blinking at 12:00.
There's a reason that Microsoft finally created a MacOS knockoff in Win95. It's a much better interface.
Up to that point, it was pretty much no contest. It wasn't just MacOS but pretty much EVERYTHING else was easier to use than what Microsoft was trying to sell.
The only reason that any version of Windows ever made more impact was the fact that Microsoft was the dominant software vendor. Their product was force fed everywhere. It took very little effort to improve on whatever the current version of DOS and Windows was.
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I too use a laser printer for my day to day printing tasks and only bother with the color printer for when a task actually benefits from the use of color.
Being able to quickly print snapshot photos is particularly handy.
Mainly, the color printer just functions as a scanner (or copier).
...as if I didn't already have reason to avoid Epson printers.
This is just stupid. It's adding an inconvenience and another obvious opportunity for end user error.
Normal people aren't going to mess with a dead drive and serious enterprise customers are not going to have only one copy of their data.
Ultimately, all that matters is cost. Speed is even somewhat of an optional thing with the larger archival volumes. Although you do need enough speed to make populating (or recovering from) an entire drive practical.
I'm recovering a 4TB drive right now and it's moving as fast as all of the associated bottlenecks will allow.
I don't care what the underlying tech is. It just can't be so overpriced that I can't have a duplicate (or even a 3rd copy).
Dying gracefully with some warning would be nice but is it's not a showstopper if that's missing. A few of my HDDs have given no notice or not enough.
Labeling it democratic and it actually being democratic are two entirely different things. The previous regime in Egypt was a pretty good demonstration of that. So is the current regime in Iraq that's driving the rest of the country into the arms of ISIS.
Not having centuries of experience in this area probably doesn't help. Their understanding of democracy is much like the average tea bagger's.
They can certainly cause damage. Whether or not that will actually be the offending party is another matter entirely.
Much like the new Soylent, an MRE is fuss free. I can just pull a packet out of my pocket and just start eating. This even goes for the dehydrated fruit and the kool-aid powder.
I don't have to worry about whether or not I have a suitable water source or power source.
Except even the worst MREs don't taste as bad as Soylent.
It's almost as if the Army had some idea of what it was doing...
The medical industry already has it's own variant of these just as the exercise industry does.
I'm appalled at the idea that this person can't manage any basic rudimentary cooking even that which includes highly prefab ingredients. It really doesn't take much, despite what people may like to think.
Self-reliance is a really low bar here, especially in the age of the microwave oven.
The real problem is the human hubris of believing that we have finally correctly figured this nutrition thing out. Based on the last few decades, we clearly have not. The modern West may not even understand it as well as some ancient cultures.
So the entire premise of a food pill is a bit premature.
They're probably missing something important less likely to be missed by eating "good food".
Even veganism is less daft.
I did this in the 70s with Milk and Nesquick.
That's already covered. Someone managed to patent the idea of fortified Nutella.
Been there. Did that. Moved on. Grew Up.
We could also feed the world by simply distributing the food that we let rot because it isn't perfect enough or to prop up commodity prices.
Haitians don't want our feed corn.
Although I could see you forcing it on yourself strangely enough.
Just the necessary clue to eat your greens with some fat puts even the "low fat" non vegan dietary fad into the "too hard to be sustainable" category. Anything that requires the consumer to have any sort of clue is doomed to increase the general malnutrition level of the population.
It doesn't even have to be a diet for rich political extremists.
People write entire books about this kind of problem.
The heuristic "eat a little bit of everything in moderation" is a much more viable approach.
Viable diets exist within an entire cultural framework that takes the guesswork and research out of not hurting yourself. Anything else is just another variation on fad diets we were told to avoid in our youth.
Ironically, something that looks like a cracker would probably be a much better option. That's a much more portable approach that doesn't require extra resources when eating in the field. Armies have even used this sort of concept for their field rations.
Something that requires mixing assumes infastructure and resources that may not exist.
Plus everyone knows that real Soylent looks like crackers...
Don't kid yourself.
Both of those options are like "I'd rather sit at home and puke and vomit".
Although the Soylent option still fails based on price.
You could refute that trivially by clearly stating what problem it actually solves. Yet you chose not to do that.
Even if I were a normal healthy person, all veganism would get me is a nutritional deficiency.
Although I'm with the guy that rightly pointed out that these cows would still be a problem if we left things "au naturel" since bison covered the states that now grow corn for cattle feed.
The vegans are advocating genocide of one form or another.
Except fascism and communism don't generate better outcomes. They just lead to more corruption and less effective outcomes.
This is why American had guns and butter and the Soviets just had guns.
No, not really. What the FAA has to say is really meaningless. The relevant trial court judge has all of the real power (and real say) here.
Yes. Just decide suddenly to stop using the monopoly that has had a choke hold on the industry for 30 years. That may well be longer than you've even been around.
Gamers don't actually like Windows. They just tolerate it for the ecosystem.
Well, no one with any sense in IT goes anywhere near this close to the bleeding edge. This thing as all things similarly new should be relegated for testing and experimentation.
Although my own personal opinion is that I feel sorry for Windows users...
Mandated insurance makes no sense. It's not sufficient to cover anything but the most trivial accident. Compared to the costs and risks involved it's a completely token gesture.
You are a clueless idiot.
I bet you're too young to have ever programmed a VCR.
It's not anything remotely comparable to what we're talking about here. If VCRs were like Win 3.1 people would have less of an excuse for their clock to be blinking at 12:00.
You're on crack.
There's a reason that Microsoft finally created a MacOS knockoff in Win95. It's a much better interface.
Up to that point, it was pretty much no contest. It wasn't just MacOS but pretty much EVERYTHING else was easier to use than what Microsoft was trying to sell.
The only reason that any version of Windows ever made more impact was the fact that Microsoft was the dominant software vendor. Their product was force fed everywhere. It took very little effort to improve on whatever the current version of DOS and Windows was.