They are talking desktop market here. They are talking to people who print a lot. You know go over to the art dept for you company. A lot of you sound like my departed grand father, "Who uses photographs? " as he flips through popular mechanics magazine. Im not talking abouy the magazine but its contents.
an art department making proofs on a $100 consumer printer? huh?
This is why I believe in buying ONLY Postscript printers.
A Postscript printer will never lose operating system support. It's standardized, and universally supported on every operating system. Hell, all the printers at work are added on my Mac as "Generic Postscript Printer" and work flawlessly with that driver.
An open-design mono laser printer, with drivers for all platforms, that can do 300dpi, and honestly DOES NOT CARE what toner you use (literally just a reservoir that you fill).
This is like asking for a space age buggy whip, printing is dead, dead dead. You're chopping down trees and mixing nasty chemicals for no good reason at all.
Good point, and the usual reaction to a dying (or not-well) industry is to lock things down even more and raise prices.
They can't control the price of paper, and they have lots of competition, including the "why the fuck do we need to print this anyway" argument, so raising prices will just make that argument even stronger.
It should be noted that no updates will go out to regular users until they have been vetted through several rings of testing, including over a million people in the Insider Program. Not quite a guarantee that there won't be any problems, but it's not quite so reckless as it's often made to sound.
I was in the Insiders Program since last October. It was fun testing the new builds as they came out, but... I'm sticking with Windows 7. No doubt I'll get 10 on my next computer, and I know how to make it work the way I want - for now I just prefer the look and feel and performance of 7.
So now we know who to blame for the endless stream of botched microsoft patches: Users like you who think testing is "fun". How many bugs did you actually find? How many did you report? That part is not so "fun".
I would love to have an electric car, but for where I live, it simply is out of the question given the massive limitations of today's battery and charging tech.
yes, precisely, you are the one true human, the only one the counts, the only one we worry about when we make plans
Rapidly a tipping point will be reached, at which point finding a convenient gas station will be nearly impossible and owning a gasoline powered car will positively suck.
Kinda like how finding a convenient electric charging station is nearly impossible to find?
It's very easy to not see things when you are not looking for them.
What do you think about people releasing software with no license, and no copyright? I know that you are against the very idea of copyright, and that GPL is your "fix" for the system. These days, many people publish by pushing their code to places like github. Some projects have no copyright notice on them at all. In a world where copyright exists, what are the ramifications of this, for the user, for the developer, for the corporation?
I don't see how that precludes that average Joe from owning it. It only means that they'll be having it drive for Uber or some similar service while they're at work on not using it. Obviously not everyone will do that or even want to do that, but so long as it makes financial sense to do so, enough people will.
Why not do it like U-Haul, the trucks are owned by investors. They get a share of the profits from the rentals, minus the costs of repairs. At the end of its life the vehicle is sold and the investors get the profits from the sale. The investors get the pleasure of collecting profits from a vehicle that they own, even though they don't ever drive it.
Why are people attached to vehicles? When you are commuting to work, you can ride in a one passenger mini car. If you are going shopping, or a camping trip, you can get an SUV. I would rather have the freedom to choose an appropriate vehicle for my voyage.
I love drivers like you, you pay $40K for a car and sell them 3 years later for $10K. I buy cars like this for $10K and drive them for many years. Thanks for blowing $30K so that I can drive a fancy car.
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they had a hardware write blocker
USB is too sophisticated to block device writes in hardware, you need a processor, which of course can be hacked.
They are talking desktop market here. They are talking to people who print a lot. You know go over to the art dept for you company. A lot of you sound like my departed grand father, "Who uses photographs? " as he flips through popular mechanics magazine. Im not talking abouy the magazine but its contents.
an art department making proofs on a $100 consumer printer? huh?
This is why I believe in buying ONLY Postscript printers.
A Postscript printer will never lose operating system support. It's standardized, and universally supported on every operating system. Hell, all the printers at work are added on my Mac as "Generic Postscript Printer" and work flawlessly with that driver.
Postscript or nothing.
or get a printer with a ghostscript driver
And what kind of infection can a kiosk put in a JPEG?
http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/06/0019234/photo-kiosks-infecting-customers-usb-devices
An open-design mono laser printer, with drivers for all platforms, that can do 300dpi, and honestly DOES NOT CARE what toner you use (literally just a reservoir that you fill).
This is like asking for a space age buggy whip, printing is dead, dead dead. You're chopping down trees and mixing nasty chemicals for no good reason at all.
Good point, and the usual reaction to a dying (or not-well) industry is to lock things down even more and raise prices.
They can't control the price of paper, and they have lots of competition, including the "why the fuck do we need to print this anyway" argument, so raising prices will just make that argument even stronger.
If I want to print pictures to put in nice frames then I just go to the drugstore or Walmart, where I can print the picture and buy the frame.
Undoubtedly your USB sticks have been infected with some sort of virus. Just about all of these kiosk type photo print machines are virus-ridden.
Also, programmers write better code when they know people will be looking at it. The open source method for motivating better programming.
citation required
If it's not worth bothering to upgrade, then why are you bothering to use it in the first place?
MS reserves the right to share your information with whomever they deem necessary.
This is the standard operating procedure for every human and corporation on this planet. Why should you assume otherwise?
The issue for me is that I use Windows because I have to
Score another success for the marketing / brainwashing department
All in all, I'm pretty sure I won't be upgrading my Windows 7 Ultimate system to Windows 10 - ever.
whatcha gonna do when microsoft cuts off support for windows 7 while known unpatched exploits exist? so your plan is to get hacked? great.
It should be noted that no updates will go out to regular users until they have been vetted through several rings of testing, including over a million people in the Insider Program. Not quite a guarantee that there won't be any problems, but it's not quite so reckless as it's often made to sound.
I was in the Insiders Program since last October. It was fun testing the new builds as they came out, but... I'm sticking with Windows 7. No doubt I'll get 10 on my next computer, and I know how to make it work the way I want - for now I just prefer the look and feel and performance of 7.
So now we know who to blame for the endless stream of botched microsoft patches: Users like you who think testing is "fun". How many bugs did you actually find? How many did you report? That part is not so "fun".
Because "home" is an apartment or condo and there are no charging stations in the parking lot.
yes indeed we live in a time when nothing ever changes, nobody does anything
I would love to have an electric car, but for where I live, it simply is out of the question given the massive limitations of today's battery and charging tech.
yes, precisely, you are the one true human, the only one the counts, the only one we worry about when we make plans
There's just something about knowing I did it.
the car manufacturers have this whole brainwashing thing down to a science
Kinda like how finding a convenient electric charging station is nearly impossible to find?
It's very easy to not see things when you are not looking for them.
what is wrong with you? real people rent trucks to move
yeah that's why they make it so you can buy gas without setting foot in the store
People are sick and tired of car payments and insurance payments.
Those of us with paid off cars and the corresponding low low insurance rates would tend to disagree.
Nobody forced you to buy a new car, you could have bought an old one.
Car ownership is a form of freedom from those who control other forms of transportation, and I'd hate to see that go away.
So putting yourself into debt and/or signing an onerous lease agreement is a form of freedom?
I'm sure glad that your monthly car payments give you freedom from those who espouse walking and bicycling.
What do you think about people releasing software with no license, and no copyright? I know that you are against the very idea of copyright, and that GPL is your "fix" for the system. These days, many people publish by pushing their code to places like github. Some projects have no copyright notice on them at all. In a world where copyright exists, what are the ramifications of this, for the user, for the developer, for the corporation?
I don't see how that precludes that average Joe from owning it. It only means that they'll be having it drive for Uber or some similar service while they're at work on not using it. Obviously not everyone will do that or even want to do that, but so long as it makes financial sense to do so, enough people will.
Why not do it like U-Haul, the trucks are owned by investors. They get a share of the profits from the rentals, minus the costs of repairs. At the end of its life the vehicle is sold and the investors get the profits from the sale. The investors get the pleasure of collecting profits from a vehicle that they own, even though they don't ever drive it.
Why are people attached to vehicles? When you are commuting to work, you can ride in a one passenger mini car. If you are going shopping, or a camping trip, you can get an SUV. I would rather have the freedom to choose an appropriate vehicle for my voyage.
I paid almost $40k for it
I love drivers like you, you pay $40K for a car and sell them 3 years later for $10K. I buy cars like this for $10K and drive them for many years. Thanks for blowing $30K so that I can drive a fancy car.
I remember someone saying that about CRT displays, they thought that LCD displays would never get cheap enough to replace them.