And I'm guessing the circuitry that's built in to each cartrige is free?
Basically, yeah. It's more "a bunch of resistors that heat up the ink and squirt it out" and less "circuity". If you want to be anal, sure, you're right, but this isn't anything near as complex as the microprocessor in an optical mouse. Costs of production aren't high by any sense of the word.
The imaging drums (I think, it could be the intermediate transfer belt, could be both, it has been years since I looked it up) on HP Color LaserJet 4500/4550 use a fuse that gets blown as well.
Replace the fuse... and your imaging drum continues to work. The ITB eventually dies, but the imaging drum is rated for something like 25,000 BW pages and 6,000 color (which is bullshit, it can do way more)
The fuser was a 100,000 page consumable, but I think that you won't find that it lasts for much longer.
This article is mainly about the 85xx series, but mentions the 4500 issues. I believe the Drum Life Out message was caused by the printer being "on". The fuse would be blown as soon as the new drum was inserted, but the firmware didn't reset unless you switched the drum during a power cycle.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a PCL command you could send to the printer to reset that though. You can do a lot with PCL, from changing the control panel message (sadly, you couldn't address each pixel - it would of have been very cool to draw little pictures and do animations - but had to put in ASCII characters, but a great deal of fun could be had by changing "READY" to "50.1 FUSER ERROR" and watch techs play with the printer and try to figure out what is happening;) I wrote a program that updated the control panel with the time and date, which made, I believe, the only 140 watt clock (500 watts while printing) / space heater combination machine anywhere in the world;)
http://www.partsnow.com/service_today/0103.asp/used to work for HP
Oh come on, even if this were true, napster came out a couple days ago and said they were going to take out Apple / iTunes. If you declare war, you can't really bitch that the other side just spanked you.
Time to go buy a gun... A 12 gauge slug in a 3" shell will penetrate most bulletproof vests at short range. Even if it doesn't, the 2500+ foot pounds of kinetic energy will break bones, put down your target and keep it down for a while (a.357 mag has about 500). If that doesn't work, get a 10 gauge.
It would be nice, but embedded processors and the power reqs for them change all the time. Some stuff just can't handle what you want it to do. You're also assuming that there is a ton of people who can program for the devices. There isn't, and it takes a fair bit of time / money to start programming for them. (This is kind of assuming you're not just using the.net Compact Framework (which I'm guessing you're probably not, this being/. and all, but it is a pretty easy way to program for ARM, MIPS, et al.)
Even if you overcome that, a cell phone that lasts for 6 hours just isn't going to fly, even if it can play video, mp3s and use strong encryption for your calls (and if your average joe is programming, you're probably going to get bloated code)
Anyways, you're probably going to end up tossing / replacing the device in 3 years anyways if you carry it around (mainly because the quality of most modern electronics is crap) and by that time, something better will be out.
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Not quite $5, but they were a few bucks shy of $200, so I'm sure there are a couple of pissed people somewhere. As for using it? feh, don't personally, never seemed to get good results, tho the "see what other people are searching for" feature was kinda interesting;)
Are you seriously telling me that there are USB keyboards out there that don't have ports on them? Where are you supposed to plug in your mouse? Abso-fuckin-lutely. The PC market is full of, well, crap. That said, most macs that I've seen ship with a 2-3' usb a to a extension cable. I'm guessing that it is there if you don't want your mouse to be plugged in your keyboards. I always found it was a bit of a pain in the ass to plug the mouse in the side of the keyboard, the cord always seemed to get in the way.
Yay, 6 months in prison for stealing a test. Remember when shit like this was handled by the school administration, without pissing away thousands of dollars in public funds? You probably don't, which is why you made your boneheaded statement. And yeah, HARDWARE keylogger, network security had fuck-al to do with it.
Former MP3.com chief and Lindows CEO Michael Robertson reentered the music world last week with MP3tunes, a service that promised music without DRM restrictions. While MP3tunes hoped to attract users who were fed up with restrictions on DRM crippled music, it also attracted dozens of lawyers. In an unprecedented move, 16 labels sued the company today in court, claiming that the company violated antitrust laws by allowing the distribution of "all music not controled by the label cartel" When asked to comment, James Hetfield of Metallica cried out, "The labels are the only ones who can fight the onslaught of rampant piracy!" before chanting "Artists must eat!" until he left in his 2005 Dodge Viper.
Can't really blame them, I'm going to get flamed for this, but it is the best player out there on the market if you just "want something to work without playing with it" and looks good while it's doing it. The interface is intuitive, the wheel is hella cool and it takes about 10 seconds to learn how to use. Added to that they look expensive, aren't that bulky. Not everyone at Microsoft is a programmer geek. The "just sync, don't bother me" feature is nice too. Sometimes you just want your stuff to work without thinking about it.
The majority of the players out there for PC are DRM crippled and have shitty drivers, some 3rd parties even sell driver upgrades for mp3 players because the company does a shit job of it. Not enough allow you to mount the unit as a drive and copy the files there. Archos does, and they makes a bunch of nice units, but their designs are bulky, that isn't really a bad thing, they usually the newest features and their stuff is cheap and it works reliably, but it is sort of like comparing a pinto to a caddy.
Iriver had the H20 which were great, but they've been discontinued. They have some video one now, but it looks kinda crappy.
The article says it, people returned their Windows devices (ie PC Garbage) because they DIDN'T WORK. The Windows Digital Media division needs to get beat with the clue stick and start getting on the asses of lazy manufacturers who release shoddy products with a "windows compatible" sticker on the box.
Defending the one-button mouse is like defending the Iraq war. It's an exercise in futility.
May you have to work tech support supporting $300 Walmart PCs. Actually, no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone (except perhaps Indians) The concept of a multi-button mouse or double clicking is amazingly difficult for some to grasp. I don't want to sound elitist or anything, but some people just need a one button mouse.
Exactly, choose your clients well. If you walk into a "server room" and there is about a half mile of Cat5 on the floor, the servers are being used as a table for paperwork, you see a Windows NT 3.1 CD lying around among over a hundred boxes of software, there are huge freaking dust bunnies (like 6" wide) in the server cases (which you can see because the sides are missing) and the "IT guy" is still working there - don't walk, RUN out of there. It doesn't matter if your family needs to eat raman noodle for a month, the job is not worth it, and they are liable to stiff you. (/started being picky picking clients after that)
I say this half seriously, and half as a joke, but the Mac is designed to be used by a person with both hands, umm "above the desk". [Insert your fark-like joke here.] As you may or may not know, the modifier buttons (known as control, alt and the windows / task key for the pc people) allow people on a mac to do the same stuff that a PC user could with a multi-button mouse, and even more quickly (I have an intellimouse wireless with the "forward" key placed so far towards the front of the mouse, it is damn near impossible to use it.)
Proper posture seems to be a side effect of using the modifier keys. You can't be leaned back, with one arm draped across the back of your seat while using a Mac without a multi-button mouse.
I worked Mac support a while and although you have 3-4 days of going "dammit, one button mouse" after that it doesn't feel so strange. You can use everything (well, mostly) with just a one button mouse, but power users (and those who use Maya / Photoshop)
Oh, and anyone who has worked support for a company that supports the technology illiterate (and apparantly blind) from zip codes that start with 3 (Florida, Alabama, Georgia et al) know the benefits of a one button mouse when "helping" someone who just bought a computer from walmart for $300. Sometimes it takes a really long time for people to be ready for something that can confuse them.
One thing that really is a pain to do is just lean back and browse the web, the lack of back / forward buttons and a scroll wheel is a real pain (damn are we spoiled;).
Stronger punishment? Well, to satisfy that little need for vengance of yours, how about this. He gets raped in prison and gets AIDS. Good enough for you?
So, it is ok for the police to beat people as long as it can't be captured on video / pictures? That is the whole point of this thread.
I guess it was ok for Rodney to get his ass beat by the LAPD, because, you know, he was speeding or something. Or it was ok for Nguyen Ngoc Loan to execute a prisoner on a Saigon street corner.
Photography is an essential part of informing the public, mainly because pictures are much more valuable and reliable (or seen as such) than eyewitness accounts. This is especially true in cases where people witness abuses of authority.
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And I'm guessing the circuitry that's built in to each cartrige is free?
Basically, yeah.
It's more "a bunch of resistors that heat up the ink and squirt it out" and less "circuity". If you want to be anal, sure, you're right, but this isn't anything near as complex as the microprocessor in an optical mouse.
Costs of production aren't high by any sense of the word.
The imaging drums (I think, it could be the intermediate transfer belt, could be both, it has been years since I looked it up) on HP Color LaserJet 4500/4550 use a fuse that gets blown as well.
;) ;)
/used to work for HP
Replace the fuse... and your imaging drum continues to work. The ITB eventually dies, but the imaging drum is rated for something like 25,000 BW pages and 6,000 color (which is bullshit, it can do way more)
The fuser was a 100,000 page consumable, but I think that you won't find that it lasts for much longer.
This article is mainly about the 85xx series, but mentions the 4500 issues. I believe the Drum Life Out message was caused by the printer being "on". The fuse would be blown as soon as the new drum was inserted, but the firmware didn't reset unless you switched the drum during a power cycle.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a PCL command you could send to the printer to reset that though. You can do a lot with PCL, from changing the control panel message (sadly, you couldn't address each pixel - it would of have been very cool to draw little pictures and do animations - but had to put in ASCII characters, but a great deal of fun could be had by changing "READY" to "50.1 FUSER ERROR" and watch techs play with the printer and try to figure out what is happening
I wrote a program that updated the control panel with the time and date, which made, I believe, the only 140 watt clock (500 watts while printing) / space heater combination machine anywhere in the world
http://www.partsnow.com/service_today/0103.asp
Oh come on, even if this were true, napster came out a couple days ago and said they were going to take out Apple / iTunes.
If you declare war, you can't really bitch that the other side just spanked you.
Skype has strong encryption on computer to computer calls. It's free. Not sure about open source.
Time to go buy a gun... .357 mag has about 500).
A 12 gauge slug in a 3" shell will penetrate most bulletproof vests at short range. Even if it doesn't, the 2500+ foot pounds of kinetic energy will break bones, put down your target and keep it down for a while (a
If that doesn't work, get a 10 gauge.
I reccomend the "Christian's Guide to Small Arms" for mre information.
I've had good experiences with Antec and RMA's too.
At $200+ for 512mb of ram, they have a bit of room...
It would be nice, but embedded processors and the power reqs for them change all the time. Some stuff just can't handle what you want it to do. .net Compact Framework (which I'm guessing you're probably not, this being /. and all, but it is a pretty easy way to program for ARM, MIPS, et al.)
You're also assuming that there is a ton of people who can program for the devices. There isn't, and it takes a fair bit of time / money to start programming for them. (This is kind of assuming you're not just using the
Even if you overcome that, a cell phone that lasts for 6 hours just isn't going to fly, even if it can play video, mp3s and use strong encryption for your calls (and if your average joe is programming, you're probably going to get bloated code)
Anyways, you're probably going to end up tossing / replacing the device in 3 years anyways if you carry it around (mainly because the quality of most modern electronics is crap) and by that time, something better will be out.
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Not quite $5, but they were a few bucks shy of $200, so I'm sure there are a couple of pissed people somewhere.
As for using it? feh, don't personally, never seemed to get good results, tho the "see what other people are searching for" feature was kinda interesting
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Are you seriously telling me that there are USB keyboards out there that don't have ports on them? Where are you supposed to plug in your mouse?
Abso-fuckin-lutely. The PC market is full of, well, crap.
That said, most macs that I've seen ship with a 2-3' usb a to a extension cable. I'm guessing that it is there if you don't want your mouse to be plugged in your keyboards. I always found it was a bit of a pain in the ass to plug the mouse in the side of the keyboard, the cord always seemed to get in the way.
Yay, 6 months in prison for stealing a test.
Remember when shit like this was handled by the school administration, without pissing away thousands of dollars in public funds?
You probably don't, which is why you made your boneheaded statement.
And yeah, HARDWARE keylogger, network security had fuck-al to do with it.
Former MP3.com chief and Lindows CEO Michael Robertson reentered the music world last week with MP3tunes, a service that promised music without DRM restrictions.
While MP3tunes hoped to attract users who were fed up with restrictions on DRM crippled music, it also attracted dozens of lawyers.
In an unprecedented move, 16 labels sued the company today in court, claiming that the company violated antitrust laws by allowing the distribution of "all music not controled by the label cartel"
When asked to comment, James Hetfield of Metallica cried out, "The labels are the only ones who can fight the onslaught of rampant piracy!" before chanting "Artists must eat!" until he left in his 2005 Dodge Viper.
Can't really blame them, I'm going to get flamed for this, but it is the best player out there on the market if you just "want something to work without playing with it" and looks good while it's doing it. The interface is intuitive, the wheel is hella cool and it takes about 10 seconds to learn how to use.
Added to that they look expensive, aren't that bulky. Not everyone at Microsoft is a programmer geek.
The "just sync, don't bother me" feature is nice too. Sometimes you just want your stuff to work without thinking about it.
The majority of the players out there for PC are DRM crippled and have shitty drivers, some 3rd parties even sell driver upgrades for mp3 players because the company does a shit job of it.
Not enough allow you to mount the unit as a drive and copy the files there.
Archos does, and they makes a bunch of nice units, but their designs are bulky, that isn't really a bad thing, they usually the newest features and their stuff is cheap and it works reliably, but it is sort of like comparing a pinto to a caddy.
Iriver had the H20 which were great, but they've been discontinued. They have some video one now, but it looks kinda crappy.
The article says it, people returned their Windows devices (ie PC Garbage) because they DIDN'T WORK. The Windows Digital Media division needs to get beat with the clue stick and start getting on the asses of lazy manufacturers who release shoddy products with a "windows compatible" sticker on the box.
I forget who said it, but looking through a british newspaper is like a true / false test. "That's true, that's false"
Adding to your post, this is the British media, who aren't known for their journalistic integrity.
Defending the one-button mouse is like defending the Iraq war. It's an exercise in futility.
May you have to work tech support supporting $300 Walmart PCs.
Actually, no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone (except perhaps Indians)
The concept of a multi-button mouse or double clicking is amazingly difficult for some to grasp.
I don't want to sound elitist or anything, but some people just need a one button mouse.
Exactly, choose your clients well. If you walk into a "server room" and there is about a half mile of Cat5 on the floor, the servers are being used as a table for paperwork, you see a Windows NT 3.1 CD lying around among over a hundred boxes of software, there are huge freaking dust bunnies (like 6" wide) in the server cases (which you can see because the sides are missing) and the "IT guy" is still working there - don't walk, RUN out of there.
It doesn't matter if your family needs to eat raman noodle for a month, the job is not worth it, and they are liable to stiff you.
(/started being picky picking clients after that)
I say this half seriously, and half as a joke, but the Mac is designed to be used by a person with both hands, umm "above the desk". [Insert your fark-like joke here.]
;).
As you may or may not know, the modifier buttons (known as control, alt and the windows / task key for the pc people) allow people on a mac to do the same stuff that a PC user could with a multi-button mouse, and even more quickly (I have an intellimouse wireless with the "forward" key placed so far towards the front of the mouse, it is damn near impossible to use it.)
Proper posture seems to be a side effect of using the modifier keys. You can't be leaned back, with one arm draped across the back of your seat while using a Mac without a multi-button mouse.
I worked Mac support a while and although you have 3-4 days of going "dammit, one button mouse" after that it doesn't feel so strange. You can use everything (well, mostly) with just a one button mouse, but power users (and those who use Maya / Photoshop)
Oh, and anyone who has worked support for a company that supports the technology illiterate (and apparantly blind) from zip codes that start with 3 (Florida, Alabama, Georgia et al) know the benefits of a one button mouse when "helping" someone who just bought a computer from walmart for $300. Sometimes it takes a really long time for people to be ready for something that can confuse them.
One thing that really is a pain to do is just lean back and browse the web, the lack of back / forward buttons and a scroll wheel is a real pain (damn are we spoiled
So it melts the retaining clip too? cool. Where can I get one?
It is generally the dealer that sets the price. Find another dealer.
Wrong, the card is linked to your credit cards.
Stronger punishment? Well, to satisfy that little need for vengance of yours, how about this. He gets raped in prison and gets AIDS. Good enough for you?
You're full of shit
So, it is ok for the police to beat people as long as it can't be captured on video / pictures? That is the whole point of this thread.
I guess it was ok for Rodney to get his ass beat by the LAPD, because, you know, he was speeding or something. Or it was ok for Nguyen Ngoc Loan to execute a prisoner on a Saigon street corner.
Photography is an essential part of informing the public, mainly because pictures are much more valuable and reliable (or seen as such) than eyewitness accounts. This is especially true in cases where people witness abuses of authority.
Why the consistent anti-law inforcement sentiment on /.?
Oooh, oooh.
This is why