I think we're missing the point here, it's not the ink that's expensive it's the fact that the print mechanisms are now built into the cartridge, at least in the case of an ink jet printer. So each time you buy a cartridge you are also buying a print head. The ink itself must be a small amount of the price.
The real scandal here is that the heads can last far longer than one batch of ink. Refilling should be properly endorsed and encoraged by the printer manufacturers, and practiceslikethese should be stopped.
Of course what should actually happen is that people get out of the habbit of printing unless it is absolutely necessary. Most printed pages in the companies I've worked in end up in the bin fairly quickly anyway. What ever happened to the paperless office?
I dream of a time when the box office success of a film is concidered separately from the quality of the film itself. In my experience the two are almost always inversely proportional.
Slightly OT but - Not many UK residents know that there is an opt out service for snail mail spam run by the mail preference service. I signed up about two months ago and my junk mail has been reduced to almost nothing. Also all the banks and utilities I've contacted so far have stopped sending me their junk.
I'm surprised to read so many comments advocating what amounts to a complete lack of personal privacy for this guy, when personal privacy is fiercely defended by the same people when it concerns them.
On the other hand, the guy is obviously a scum bag and deserves all he gets, so I say lets get him!
Security issues aside, I'm not even comfortable with ANY company teaching in Universities. If I go to Uni I expect to get a rounded education covering all aspects of a given topic. I don't expect to come back indoctrinated with a specific technology just because [INSERT COMPANY NAME] is running the course.
Mozilla looks like absolute shit without smooth fonts
I have to disagree. I've been battling with anti-aliased fonts for a while now, starting with BeOS a few years back, OSX is heavily AAsed, and now they seem to be creeping in to stuff like Mozilla. I just don't like them, I find they make text look muddy and strain my eyes which I really don't need when I stare at a monitor for over 9 hours a day. Hard copy printed text isn't anti-aliased, so why the need to do it on a computer screen? Give me crisp, clear text any day.
So when is a problem a 'computer glitch' and when is it a human error? How can you blame something that is entirely of human design for making mistakes on its own? Garbage in, garbage out, surely?
Seems to me we are good at praising ourselves when machines do what we want, but we are quick to distance ourselves from them when they go wrong.
Similar talk here in the UK is being met with critisism from ISPs that it will be too expensive and time consuming to implement, potentially putting the smaller ISPs out of business unless the excersise is funded by the govenrment.
Maybe the problem is that most studies concentrate on the guns themselves rather than looking at the bigger picture? One of the points that stuck with me after seeing BFC was the US media's hyping of violent crime. If people are made to think they live in a dangerous environment they are likely to react accordingly, reguardless of whether there is a real threat.
I did some work for a courier company in Aus a few years back. The main server room was a small room at the side of the office. Didn't have much in it, a bunch of modems, a very old MIPS machine nobody had the nerve to touch, and a Sun IPC which was the main development machine. The whole lot was housed in a very rickety piece of flat pack shelving with hardly any space behind it, cables all over the place, you know the scene.
So there I am, crouching at the back amongst all the cables, helping the main sysadmin to do an audit of the modems when all of a sudden the noise in the room changes, it's gotten quieter as one of the fans has stopped. I look at him, he looks at me. I look down and see that I've kicked out the power to the IPC. "Plug it back in quick" he says with a look of panic on his face. After following his advice we both bolt out of the room, over to my PC and start pointing randomly at the screen pretending we've been there all along, just in time to meet the head developer who comes storming in shouting and screaming about having lost all connection to his baby. Hum, says the sysadmin, lets go and take a look.
We never did find out what caused that reboot...:)
Rather than just try and ban the devices shouldn't they be working on methods of blocking the signals?
Tell you what, you fly on the aircraft that are not covered by the ban, I'll fly on the ones that are, and we'll both wait for a fix to the problem.
What's wrong with editing a text file?
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I will never understand what people have against editing plain old text config files. You can use ANY text aditor without having to learn someone else's idea of a good UI, you have all the command line tools available to you (grep!), it's flexible, it works over pretty much any speed link on a text only display, you can add comments of your own, comment out lines you may want to use again later, etc.
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It's a pre-release copy that will expire in 360 days
That's funny, in my experience release copies of Windows usually 'expire' much sooner than 360 days.
Why, beyond standard geek curiosity, should I switch to *BSD?
Because it's not Linux? Competition is good. This is not a flame. Nuff said.
Kitt! I need ya!
orlando...
Expose is cool
Just seen the demo on their site, very nice. But I still miss a decent virtual desktop setup on OS X. Anyone know of one?
Orlando...
They are looking both to incease security as well as perhaps create a Chinese version of Linux.
If they want to create a Chinese version of Linux, looking at Windows source code is the last thing they want to be doing surely?
As reported here this happened almost exactly a year ago with one of their ground based robots. That one tried to attack a car.
I can just see it:
Prof Noel Sharkey - "Get down here this minute!"
Halloon - "I'm sorry Noel, I'm afraid I can't do that."
I think we're missing the point here, it's not the ink that's expensive it's the fact that the print mechanisms are now built into the cartridge, at least in the case of an ink jet printer. So each time you buy a cartridge you are also buying a print head. The ink itself must be a small amount of the price.
HowStuffWorks explains more.
The real scandal here is that the heads can last far longer than one batch of ink. Refilling should be properly endorsed and encoraged by the printer manufacturers, and practices like these should be stopped.
Of course what should actually happen is that people get out of the habbit of printing unless it is absolutely necessary. Most printed pages in the companies I've worked in end up in the bin fairly quickly anyway. What ever happened to the paperless office?
..privacy experts say the technology could easily be adapted to spy on Americans.
So being Enlgish I'd be like completely invisible? Cool.
and seems to be more or less big free.
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typo or do you mean it is smaller?
I dream of a time when the box office success of a film is concidered separately from the quality of the film itself. In my experience the two are almost always inversely proportional.
Slightly OT but - Not many UK residents know that there is an opt out service for snail mail spam run by the mail preference service. I signed up about two months ago and my junk mail has been reduced to almost nothing. Also all the banks and utilities I've contacted so far have stopped sending me their junk.
Anti-war != Anti-US
Yet an other version of the LOTR to buy....
I'm surprised to read so many comments advocating what amounts to a complete lack of personal privacy for this guy, when personal privacy is fiercely defended by the same people when it concerns them.
On the other hand, the guy is obviously a scum bag and deserves all he gets, so I say lets get him!
Security issues aside, I'm not even comfortable with ANY company teaching in Universities. If I go to Uni I expect to get a rounded education covering all aspects of a given topic. I don't expect to come back indoctrinated with a specific technology just because [INSERT COMPANY NAME] is running the course.
Mozilla looks like absolute shit without smooth fonts
I have to disagree. I've been battling with anti-aliased fonts for a while now, starting with BeOS a few years back, OSX is heavily AAsed, and now they seem to be creeping in to stuff like Mozilla. I just don't like them, I find they make text look muddy and strain my eyes which I really don't need when I stare at a monitor for over 9 hours a day. Hard copy printed text isn't anti-aliased, so why the need to do it on a computer screen? Give me crisp, clear text any day.
So when is a problem a 'computer glitch' and when is it a human error? How can you blame something that is entirely of human design for making mistakes on its own? Garbage in, garbage out, surely?
Seems to me we are good at praising ourselves when machines do what we want, but we are quick to distance ourselves from them when they go wrong.
The pending Iraqi war promises to deliver quite the display of modern, smart technology well beyond what we saw in '91.
Smart enough to know the difference between enemy soldiers and a wedding party?
Ironic since that's where their software should be....badda bing!
Similar talk here in the UK is being met with critisism from ISPs that it will be too expensive and time consuming to implement, potentially putting the smaller ISPs out of business unless the excersise is funded by the govenrment.
Maybe the problem is that most studies concentrate on the guns themselves rather than looking at the bigger picture? One of the points that stuck with me after seeing BFC was the US media's hyping of violent crime. If people are made to think they live in a dangerous environment they are likely to react accordingly, reguardless of whether there is a real threat.
Damn, I knew all those years experience were a waste of time...
So there I am, crouching at the back amongst all the cables, helping the main sysadmin to do an audit of the modems when all of a sudden the noise in the room changes, it's gotten quieter as one of the fans has stopped. I look at him, he looks at me. I look down and see that I've kicked out the power to the IPC. "Plug it back in quick" he says with a look of panic on his face. After following his advice we both bolt out of the room, over to my PC and start pointing randomly at the screen pretending we've been there all along, just in time to meet the head developer who comes storming in shouting and screaming about having lost all connection to his baby. Hum, says the sysadmin, lets go and take a look.
We never did find out what caused that reboot...
Rather than just try and ban the devices shouldn't they be working on methods of blocking the signals?
Tell you what, you fly on the aircraft that are not covered by the ban, I'll fly on the ones that are, and we'll both wait for a fix to the problem.
I will never understand what people have against editing plain old text config files. You can use ANY text aditor without having to learn someone else's idea of a good UI, you have all the command line tools available to you (grep!), it's flexible, it works over pretty much any speed link on a text only display, you can add comments of your own, comment out lines you may want to use again later, etc.
orlando....