My last color laser printer (Samsung 620DN) came with 2000 page cartridges and cost about $400 , and is a network printer capable of 21 pages per minute. New cartridges are about $100 each color but give you 2000 pages. It still prints happily if a color is out.
If I print something and spill water on it, the page stays fully readable and doesn't turn into an inky mess, unlike inkjet, so its great for documents you want to keep around for a while, printing shipping labels, etc. I bought it about 5 years ago and it's still going strong, no printing artifacts or glitches. Linux driver works ok, except for some reason perpetually warns of a non-existent paper jam - though this doesn't stop it printing . Windows driver works perfectly.
I don't know why people bother with inkjet. it's a suck-ass technology.
Now if only video ads in general caused epileptic seizures, so we could get them banned too.
Sadly, for me, they only trigger an irresistible desire to close that browser tab.
Sure - I understand a website that is providing interesting content for free has to have advertisement to support it - and I am mostly ok with that - I just wish it was static text and pictures, instead of bloody annoyingly intrusive video ads.
Greed is infinite, and is ultimately about power and control. If it were possible, I am sure there would be those who would own the entire galaxy, if for no other reason that to say it's theirs.
Even now, you have executives that earn multi-million dollar salaries, with super yachts and homes that they use for a fraction of the year. What's the point? There is little additional benefit from having a 100 ft yacht compared to a 200ft yacht, but there is a huge difference in the money you have to have to pay for them.
All those dollars have been paid to a single executive to afford such things has been done so instead of making goods and services cheaper for the customer, or by paying better salaries to the rest of the company's employees.
Executive salaries in the 60s were typically 25x the average salary. Now they are more than 200x the average salary. More efficient production is not going to change this.
I sell my excess solar back to the grid at a rate which is a really bad deal for me - only 6c per kWh, which is al any of the utilities will pay for it I expect selling my 'spare' computing cycles will be a similarly crap deal. One day I hope there will be an energy storage solution which will allowe me to better usilise this excess solar capacity. Meanwhile, I switch offwhatever cpu's I don't actually need running, so there aren't really any spare cycles to be had, and if there were, I wouldn't want to burn the electricity needed to spin them.
You have obviously never seen my cooking. Believe me, it can happen. I have been known to burn water. Actually the water evaporated off, leaving whatever minerals were left - it still made a hell of a mess of the pot though. Never try to code while you are cooking.
Linuxc has been on my home desktop for 15 years - my mum's desktop for 12 years, and my and my colleaguess work desktops for 3 years. Seems to be here already for some of us.
I think the lack of diamond coated frying pans is more because diamonds actually aren't forever, and the first time you burned your pan, your expensive nano diamond coating would sublime off into carbon dioxide.
I'd like to see a robot play fruit ninja for real. Sure, it'd be a little scary having a robot waving a razor sharp katana around, in your kitchen, but think of the time you could save making fruit salad!
I would much rather wars were fought the traditional way practiced by kings of old - with the leader riding out in front and troops rallying around behind.
Supermarket and shopping mall car parks are the perfect place for charging. Around here, it gets pretty bloody hot and sunny during the day, and getting back into your car after doing the shopping is a less than pleasant experience.
Supermarkets are already getting into the fuel business here with shopper docket discounts on petrol, so it would be a logical extension for them to shade car parks with solar panels that charged your car while you were shopping. It would give them an instant competitive advantage over rivals, or alternatively could create a new revenue stream, all while allowing them to rightly claim they were helping "save the planet"
I have replaced all my halogen down lights , 50w each, with LED lights that use only 5w, and actually provide better light. I typically have 15 on, 4 hours a day. As a proportion of my overall power usage, my lighting has dropped from about 15% to 1.5% The LED bulbs will last longer (10,000 hours) than halogens, and pay themselves off in terms of saved electricity, in 2 years. Electricity is $0.26/kwh here, and each bulb saves 0.045 kwh every hour it is being used. it will take 777 hours for it to save it's own purchase cost in electricity, or approximately 194 days of typical 4 hours a day use. Definitely worth while both economically and environmentally.
Honestly, reading the synopsis of the plot of 20,000 Leagues, it seems he contributed more to Star Trek than he did to reality.
I don't remember Captain Nemo ever losing his shirt and making out with every mermaid, daugters of Neptune or any other female denizens of the deep that get in range of his tentacles... I guess they got Kirk's predilections from elsewhere.
A week later the app went "Free" and by free I meant, all the features I paid for were now free to everyone
Look at it this way - it's not like buying stocks or something where you only buy it as an investment to sell later.
At the time you purchased it, the software offered you enough utiity to be worth buying.it was worth what you paid to get it - and as an added bonus, your purchasing it helped feed the developers and enable them to be able to afford to release it for free for the betterment of mankind - so by proxy, your payment has also helped benefit mankind. You should get a warm fuzzy feeling about that instead of feeling bitter!
How about poay a psort that doesn't require heavy physical contact? nearly all athletics events, swimming, baseball, basketball,as well as numerous other field games exist that manage to be entertaining without having to put players at huge physical risk like (American) football does. Same deal with rugby and league, but even those games have rules that avoid the worst of the heavy impacts - and lack of body armor in those sports means the players are required to play more within limits that will tend to have less impact on the brain.
Better yet, in the case of shopping centres, you can have solar panels providing shade in the car park to provide the power while also keeping cars shaded and cool. It wouldn't have to be a guaranteed supply - just whatever the sun gives out while you are parked. That might not be much of a draw for customers in Buffalo with all that snow right now, but here It's already hitting 35 to 40 degrees Celsius every day, and it's not even summer yet.
How about inventing a planetary wide gamma ray shield instead? Surely in a gamma ray prone galaxy there would have to be at least a few systems that had an atmosphere or oceans that would shield from gamma rays? In as little as 100 to 200 years I think we would easily have the technology to sustain a colony deep in the ocean, if it were necessary.
Either way you cut it, it's just another tax that gets paid by the end consumer, a big fat windfall for consolidated revenue.
I think a much better way would be for companies to bid based on the value they bring to the end consumer public, with the company that promises the best value winning. If that company fails to deliver within some reasonable time frame, the spectrum should be passed on to the next best offer. Value wound be measured based on dollars per GBit that they agree to offer the end service for. (voice calls really should be priced this way too, these days - now everything is digital)
if it really isn't practicable to implement something like the above, lt'd be nice to at least see the money spent on a fibre roll-out or other physical media based infrastructure.
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My last color laser printer (Samsung 620DN) came with 2000 page cartridges and cost about $400 , and is a network printer capable of 21 pages per minute.
New cartridges are about $100 each color but give you 2000 pages. It still prints happily if a color is out.
If I print something and spill water on it, the page stays fully readable and doesn't turn into an inky mess, unlike inkjet, so its great for documents you want to keep around for a while, printing shipping labels, etc.
I bought it about 5 years ago and it's still going strong, no printing artifacts or glitches. Linux driver works ok, except for some reason perpetually warns of a non-existent paper jam - though this doesn't stop it printing . Windows driver works perfectly.
I don't know why people bother with inkjet. it's a suck-ass technology.
Now if only video ads in general caused epileptic seizures, so we could get them banned too.
Sadly, for me, they only trigger an irresistible desire to close that browser tab.
Sure - I understand a website that is providing interesting content for free has to have advertisement to support it - and I am mostly ok with that - I just wish it was static text and pictures, instead of bloody annoyingly intrusive video ads.
Greed is infinite, and is ultimately about power and control. If it were possible, I am sure there would be those who would own the entire galaxy, if for no other reason that to say it's theirs.
Even now, you have executives that earn multi-million dollar salaries, with super yachts and homes that they use for a fraction of the year. What's the point? There is little additional benefit from having a 100 ft yacht compared to a 200ft yacht, but there is a huge difference in the money you have to have to pay for them.
All those dollars have been paid to a single executive to afford such things has been done so instead of making goods and services cheaper for the customer, or by paying better salaries to the rest of the company's employees.
Executive salaries in the 60s were typically 25x the average salary.
Now they are more than 200x the average salary. More efficient production is not going to change this.
I sell my excess solar back to the grid at a rate which is a really bad deal for me - only 6c per kWh, which is al any of the utilities will pay for it
I expect selling my 'spare' computing cycles will be a similarly crap deal.
One day I hope there will be an energy storage solution which will allowe me to better usilise this excess solar capacity.
Meanwhile, I switch offwhatever cpu's I don't actually need running, so there aren't really any spare cycles to be had, and if there were, I wouldn't want to burn the electricity needed to spin them.
There's plenty of evidence to suggest that the long term effects of living at 1G is that you die too.
You have obviously never seen my cooking. Believe me, it can happen. I have been known to burn water. Actually the water evaporated off, leaving whatever minerals were left - it still made a hell of a mess of the pot though.
Never try to code while you are cooking.
Ironically, I am pretty sure that's how Darth sounded before James Earl Jones did the voice-over
Linuxc has been on my home desktop for 15 years - my mum's desktop for 12 years, and my and my colleaguess work desktops for 3 years.
Seems to be here already for some of us.
I think the lack of diamond coated frying pans is more because diamonds actually aren't forever, and the first time you burned your pan, your expensive nano diamond coating would sublime off into carbon dioxide.
King Cnut famously demonstrated that no matter how powerful, rulers have no power over the the oceans and the tide.
Sooner or later, legislators in Florida, lacking his wisdom, are destined to learn that lesson the hard way,
I like stabbing myself in the eye with needles all weekend too.
I'd like to see a robot play fruit ninja for real. Sure, it'd be a little scary having a robot waving a razor sharp katana around, in your kitchen, but think of the time you could save making fruit salad!
I would much rather wars were fought the traditional way practiced by kings of old - with the leader riding out in front and troops rallying around behind.
Supermarket and shopping mall car parks are the perfect place for charging. Around here, it gets pretty bloody hot and sunny during the day, and getting back into your car after doing the shopping is a less than pleasant experience.
Supermarkets are already getting into the fuel business here with shopper docket discounts on petrol, so it would be a logical extension for them to shade car parks with solar panels that charged your car while you were shopping. It would give them an instant competitive advantage over rivals, or alternatively could create a new revenue stream, all while allowing them to rightly claim they were helping "save the planet"
I have replaced all my halogen down lights , 50w each, with LED lights that use only 5w, and actually provide better light. /kwh here, and each bulb saves 0.045 kwh every hour it is being used.
I typically have 15 on, 4 hours a day.
As a proportion of my overall power usage, my lighting has dropped from about 15% to 1.5%
The LED bulbs will last longer (10,000 hours) than halogens, and pay themselves off in terms of saved electricity, in 2 years.
Electricity is $0.26
it will take 777 hours for it to save it's own purchase cost in electricity, or approximately 194 days of typical 4 hours a day use.
Definitely worth while both economically and environmentally.
Honestly, reading the synopsis of the plot of 20,000 Leagues, it seems he contributed more to Star Trek than he did to reality.
I don't remember Captain Nemo ever losing his shirt and making out with every mermaid, daugters of Neptune or any other female denizens of the deep that get in range of his tentacles... I guess they got Kirk's predilections from elsewhere.
There are plenty of smokers who don't die of cancer, so that must also be safe, right?
A week later the app went "Free" and by free I meant, all the features I paid for were now free to everyone
Look at it this way - it's not like buying stocks or something where you only buy it as an investment to sell later.
At the time you purchased it, the software offered you enough utiity to be worth buying.it was worth what you paid to get it - and as an added bonus, your purchasing it helped feed the developers and enable them to be able to afford to release it for free for the betterment of mankind - so by proxy, your payment has also helped benefit mankind. You should get a warm fuzzy feeling about that instead of feeling bitter!
Argh - never post before your first coffee.
I meant to say
"How about play a sport that doesn't require heavy physical contact?" of course.
How about poay a psort that doesn't require heavy physical contact?
nearly all athletics events, swimming, baseball, basketball,as well as numerous other field games exist that manage to be entertaining without having to put players at huge physical risk like (American) football does. Same deal with rugby and league, but even those games have rules that avoid the worst of the heavy impacts - and lack of body armor in those sports means the players are required to play more within limits that will tend to have less impact on the brain.
I don't see how a green marker would help.
I think they would have gotten much better performance if they used a Chuck Norris disc though.
Better yet, in the case of shopping centres, you can have solar panels providing shade in the car park to provide the power while also keeping cars shaded and cool. It wouldn't have to be a guaranteed supply - just whatever the sun gives out while you are parked. That might not be much of a draw for customers in Buffalo with all that snow right now, but here It's already hitting 35 to 40 degrees Celsius every day, and it's not even summer yet.
How about inventing a planetary wide gamma ray shield instead?
Surely in a gamma ray prone galaxy there would have to be at least a few systems that had an atmosphere or oceans that would shield from gamma rays? In as little as 100 to 200 years I think we would easily have the technology to sustain a colony deep in the ocean, if it were necessary.
for values of infinity that approach 420.
Either way you cut it, it's just another tax that gets paid by the end consumer, a big fat windfall for consolidated revenue.
I think a much better way would be for companies to bid based on the value they bring to the end consumer public, with the company that promises the best value winning.
If that company fails to deliver within some reasonable time frame, the spectrum should be passed on to the next best offer.
Value wound be measured based on dollars per GBit that they agree to offer the end service for. (voice calls really should be priced this way too, these days - now everything is digital)
if it really isn't practicable to implement something like the above, lt'd be nice to at least see the money spent on a fibre roll-out or other physical media based infrastructure.