My old HPLJ-2 (that I bought for $10) is so cheap to run it's ridiculous. A $25 cartridge lasts me about two years.
I see new lasers for under $100, but the cartridges cost about $70; and they're smaller than the HP's.
I'm guess that even with the absurd cost of toner cartridges, laser's are a lot cheaper to run than most injet's. With home monochrome laser's around $100; and home color laser's around $600; maybe the era of inkjet's is over?
The reason is: with PCs, I have a consistant interface. Even if I use different OSes, the idea is the same, just follow the menus.
Maybe it's just me, but I still haven't mastered my stereo, or my TV/DVD/VCR/Remotes. My PC, by contrast, is a cinche.
With my entertainment system, it's always: " . . . no wait, if I'm going to tape the show, *first* I have to VCR power, *then* power-TV, then switch to the other remote, then push that little button on the top - no wait - that was with old remote - with *this* remote, I have to use the VCR remote to turn on the TV, I only use the TV remote to change to channel 3, and to adjust the volume. Damnit, that didn't work . .."
And every settup is completely different. I don't have that sort of problem with a PC, with a PC I just follow the menus.
If bill gates announced that he took a piss after waking up in the morning, it would be all over the web (the story, I mean). There would be all sorts of lengthy discussions about it.
Msft just wants to keep longhorn in the news. I wouldn't be surprised if msft decided to change back the "My" thing.
Other *huge* news stories from msft, might include:
- we thought about changing the modem icon, then we said naw.
- maybe we'll re-arrange some of the desktop stuff, or maybe not.
- we added something or other to the control panel; but we do away with it.
Before you dismiss the idea, consider these points:
1) A good student should do about six hours of school, two hours of extracurricular activities, and two hours of homework - that adds up to ten hours anyway.
2) A ten hour school day would keep kids off the streets, and out of trouble, in those two hours (roughly: 3:30 to 5:30) between the time that school is out, and the time parents get home.
3) A ten hour school day would be a god-send for lower income families with very young children. It would free them from very expensive day-care.
4) The present six hour school day is based on an agrarian economy that is out of date by centuries. Way back when, the kids had to slop the hogs in the morning, and pick peas in the afternoon. Even rural kids don't do that anymore.
5) What do school age kids have to do that is more important than their school work? Video games? Web surfing? TV?
6) It would cost more, but not that much. For example, a two hour study hall, would not need a licensed teacher to oversee it.
7) Students would not have to carry books, or anything else, between home and school. All school work would be done at school.
8) Students would not need computers, or internet connections, at their homes. That would be provided by the schools.
>> "Neither of us really cared for that film," Schickel told Reuters, calling "Gone With the Wind" a "faux epic."
Stop the presses! Some snotty film critic doesn't like "Gone With the Wind" ! An article like this would be much more interesting if it were based on a poll of 1200 or more people. Although even then it wouldn't be that interesting.
Has anybody noticed that for the last five years, somebody publishes an article with the exact same argument about six months?
And that the article is thoroughly debunked here on slashdot, in the exact same manner?
*sigh* Okay one more time:
1) To work as a lawyer/doctor/nurse/chemical engineer, you must have a degree like JD/MD/RNBS/BSCE. IT has never been like that, and still isn't. A CCIE or CISSP will earn you more than BSCS. Very few IT jobs require a degree of any kind, and the few IT jobs that do require a degree, will typically accept any technical degree.
2) How many IT workers can actually be called "Computer Scientists" ? There are all sorts of IT related degrees today: network engineering, software engineering, information science, etc. Most of these degrees seem much closely related to an actual IT job roles than "computer science."
3) The IT is glutted as it is. Where is the crises in a lack new BSCSs? Especially when that degree was never in high demand, even when there was a shortage of IT pros.
4) IT jobs are sent overseas as fast the major companies can ship them. Why train for a field that is already glutted, and likely to get worse?
5) I suspect that employers will never be satisfied with the pool of IT workers; and that colleges are finding it difficult to find people to sign up for the nearly worthless BSCS (especially women). So we see these bogus articles about the the bogus shortage of BSCSs. College comp sci departments, and employers are looking out for their interests - not yours.
James Turner, former senior editor of LinuxWorld wrote Fred Brown of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Commitee. Here is what Fred Brown wrote:
James,
I agree with you. That piece by O'Gara definitely is outside the norms of good journalism. It's bullying, insulting and harassing, and I, for one, really don't get the point of it. That's not to say that other journalists are sometimes guilty of those sins, but that still doesn't make it good journalism.
So I don't think you did the wrong thing in using you First Amendment rights to call for O'Gara's ouster or reprimand or whatever. The SPJ Code of Ethics says ethical journalists should "expose unethical practices of journalists and the news media" and "abide by the same high standards to which they hold others."
>>We do not make decisions on behalf of Ms. O'Gara. I'm not her boss.
I don't know much about publishing. But, I thought that controlling content was indeed the responsibility of the editor?
If I were the editor, and I saw content that included publishing the address, and photos, of the home of PJ's elderly monther; I don't think I'd publish the story. That is the responsibility of an editor, isn't it?
Also, why does a tech publisher want to publish the address of a blogger's elderly mother? How is that related to technology?
I mean, that is supposed to be the entire idea of capitalism: competition. No?
I suppose that msft has monopolized the desktop for so long, that the very idea of msft having to compete like a normal company is considered peculiar.
Putting aside the issue of whether google is evil or not. Will this really accelerate the web?
It's just more compression, right? Correct me if I'm wronge, but isn't practically everything on the web already compressed? And, won't you actually slow things down by trying to compress the already compressed? Since compressing adds it's own overhead?
JPEGs and MPEGs and MP3s are already compressed, so are.zip, and.bz2 files. Don't modems have some sort of compression built in?
Isn't this going to be as big a joke as those web-accellerator services? For $5 extra you will get your data 5X as fast?
"...we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about...we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
Msft has been very actively attacking F/OSS. F/OSS has been trying to be compatible with msft. If msft wants to stop being scum, all they have to do is stop.
I keep reading that over and over here. About how IT workers can't keep expecting to earn $90K/year right out of college.
When I look at the job boards, the only jobs I see available, above $10/hour, are for people who have at least five years of recent and verifiable experience in a long list of very speicialized skills.
I know several well qualified IT professions, who have left the field to become mechanics, truch drivers, etc.
I think job seekers will stop listing more skillsets than a person can possibly earn in a lifetime, when employers stop demanding more skillsets than a person can earn in a lifetime. I've seen job ads with more than 30 skill sets specified.
Maybe not a union, but something more like a lobbying organization. Something to counter the corporations that exporting US jobs as fast as they can - all with the help of the USA government.
The USA has the best congress money can buy, and companies like msft have nearly infinate resources to lobby congress to provide tax incentives to export USA jobs.
Maybe the situation needs a little counter balance?
It sucks to have a college degree, and 25 years experience, and earn less than the janitor.
I'm sorry, it's been a while and don't remember the details. But, please consider my experience, if you are wondering if msft can get this right.
My mother bought some e-book that was distributed in some msft proprietary formate. She couldn't figure how to open the thing, she called me, and I tried to help.
It was an ordeal like you wouldn't belive: my mom had to get some.NET account, which you are supposed to get automatically by signing up for a hotmail account. Then there is a series of registration numbers, and those deals where you have to enter the code that are in an obfuscated graphic, and on and on. And, of course, nothing worked.
The instructions were not where you would be expect them to be, and they were not straight forward. We had to try calling support, and starting all over, again and again. I believe it was a few weeks before my mom was actually able to open the book.
Who needs another msft proprietary format? We already PDF established as standard.
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My old HPLJ-2 (that I bought for $10) is so cheap to run it's ridiculous. A $25 cartridge lasts me about two years.
I see new lasers for under $100, but the cartridges cost about $70; and they're smaller than the HP's.
I'm guess that even with the absurd cost of toner cartridges, laser's are a lot cheaper to run than most injet's. With home monochrome laser's around $100; and home color laser's around $600; maybe the era of inkjet's is over?
The reason is: with PCs, I have a consistant interface. Even if I use different OSes, the idea is the same, just follow the menus.
."
Maybe it's just me, but I still haven't mastered my stereo, or my TV/DVD/VCR/Remotes. My PC, by contrast, is a cinche.
With my entertainment system, it's always: " . . . no wait, if I'm going to tape the show, *first* I have to VCR power, *then* power-TV, then switch to the other remote, then push that little button on the top - no wait - that was with old remote - with *this* remote, I have to use the VCR remote to turn on the TV, I only use the TV remote to change to channel 3, and to adjust the volume. Damnit, that didn't work . .
And every settup is completely different. I don't have that sort of problem with a PC, with a PC I just follow the menus.
If bill gates announced that he took a piss after waking up in the morning, it would be all over the web (the story, I mean). There would be all sorts of lengthy discussions about it.
Msft just wants to keep longhorn in the news. I wouldn't be surprised if msft decided to change back the "My" thing.
Other *huge* news stories from msft, might include:
- we thought about changing the modem icon, then we said naw.
- maybe we'll re-arrange some of the desktop stuff, or maybe not.
- we added something or other to the control panel; but we do away with it.
Before you dismiss the idea, consider these points:
1) A good student should do about six hours of school, two hours of extracurricular activities, and two hours of homework - that adds up to ten hours anyway.
2) A ten hour school day would keep kids off the streets, and out of trouble, in those two hours (roughly: 3:30 to 5:30) between the time that school is out, and the time parents get home.
3) A ten hour school day would be a god-send for lower income families with very young children. It would free them from very expensive day-care.
4) The present six hour school day is based on an agrarian economy that is out of date by centuries. Way back when, the kids had to slop the hogs in the morning, and pick peas in the afternoon. Even rural kids don't do that anymore.
5) What do school age kids have to do that is more important than their school work? Video games? Web surfing? TV?
6) It would cost more, but not that much. For example, a two hour study hall, would not need a licensed teacher to oversee it.
7) Students would not have to carry books, or anything else, between home and school. All school work would be done at school.
8) Students would not need computers, or internet connections, at their homes. That would be provided by the schools.
Any thoughts?
>>
"Neither of us really cared for that film," Schickel told Reuters, calling "Gone With the Wind" a "faux epic."
Stop the presses! Some snotty film critic doesn't like "Gone With the Wind" ! An article like this would be much more interesting if it were based on a poll of 1200 or more people. Although even then it wouldn't be that interesting.
If so, I don't think I remember. Maybe in the very early days of the MAC? I'm sure this has been predicted since 1990.
Has anybody noticed that for the last five years, somebody publishes an article with the exact same argument about six months?
And that the article is thoroughly debunked here on slashdot, in the exact same manner?
*sigh* Okay one more time:
1) To work as a lawyer/doctor/nurse/chemical engineer, you must have a degree like JD/MD/RNBS/BSCE. IT has never been like that, and still isn't. A CCIE or CISSP will earn you more than BSCS. Very few IT jobs require a degree of any kind, and the few IT jobs that do require a degree, will typically accept any technical degree.
2) How many IT workers can actually be called "Computer Scientists" ? There are all sorts of IT related degrees today: network engineering, software engineering, information science, etc. Most of these degrees seem much closely related to an actual IT job roles than "computer science."
3) The IT is glutted as it is. Where is the crises in a lack new BSCSs? Especially when that degree was never in high demand, even when there was a shortage of IT pros.
4) IT jobs are sent overseas as fast the major companies can ship them. Why train for a field that is already glutted, and likely to get worse?
5) I suspect that employers will never be satisfied with the pool of IT workers; and that colleges are finding it difficult to find people to sign up for the nearly worthless BSCS (especially women). So we see these bogus articles about the the bogus shortage of BSCSs. College comp sci departments, and employers are looking out for their interests - not yours.
1) MOG probably was lying.
2) PJ did not specifically accuse MOG of lying:
"I therefore conclude that Ms. O'Gara has been provided with some misinformation, or she has decided to spread a bit of the Blarney sua sponte."
3) Even if PJ *did* accuse MOG of lying, that does give MOG a license to stalk and harrass PJ.
James Turner, former senior editor of LinuxWorld wrote Fred Brown of the Society of Professional Journalists Ethics Commitee. Here is what Fred Brown wrote:
James,
I agree with you. That piece by O'Gara definitely is outside the norms of good journalism. It's bullying, insulting and harassing, and I, for
one, really don't get the point of it. That's not to say that other journalists are sometimes guilty of those sins, but that still doesn't make it
good journalism.
So I don't think you did the wrong thing in using you First Amendment rights to call for O'Gara's ouster or reprimand or whatever. The SPJ Code of
Ethics says ethical journalists should "expose unethical practices of journalists and the news media" and "abide by the same high standards to which they hold others."
Fred Brown
Co-chair, SPJ Ethics Committee
http://turner.linuxworld.com/read/1277987.htm
I think it might make more sense to phase in F/OSS, rather than making a sudden switch.
Start putting Linux in this lab, or that. Use it a leverage against msft. Start using non-msft apps as often as possible: openoffice, firefox, etc.
>>We do not make decisions on behalf of Ms. O'Gara. I'm not her boss.
I don't know much about publishing. But, I thought that controlling content was indeed the responsibility of the editor?
If I were the editor, and I saw content that included publishing the address, and photos, of the home of PJ's elderly monther; I don't think I'd publish the story. That is the responsibility of an editor, isn't it?
Also, why does a tech publisher want to publish the address of a blogger's elderly mother? How is that related to technology?
and harrassment.
MOG published unlisted numbers, invaded PJ's home, harrassed PJ's elderly mother, published addresses and photo of the homes of PJ realitives.
Sys-con would be insane to be a party to that. BTW: the article is published on MOG's own site. So, the story wasn't "censored."
I mean, that is supposed to be the entire idea of capitalism: competition. No?
I suppose that msft has monopolized the desktop for so long, that the very idea of msft having to compete like a normal company is considered peculiar.
Putting aside the issue of whether google is evil or not. Will this really accelerate the web?
.zip, and .bz2 files. Don't modems have some sort of compression built in?
It's just more compression, right? Correct me if I'm wronge, but isn't practically everything on the web already compressed? And, won't you actually slow things down by trying to compress the already compressed? Since compressing adds it's own overhead?
JPEGs and MPEGs and MP3s are already compressed, so are
Isn't this going to be as big a joke as those web-accellerator services? For $5 extra you will get your data 5X as fast?
I used to love starwars, now it's becoming tiresome. I'm sick to death of all the hype.
The stories have gone down the toilet also.
"...we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about...we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
Msft has been very actively attacking F/OSS. F/OSS has been trying to be compatible with msft. If msft wants to stop being scum, all they have to do is stop.
I keep reading that over and over here. About how IT workers can't keep expecting to earn $90K/year right out of college.
When I look at the job boards, the only jobs I see available, above $10/hour, are for people who have at least five years of recent and verifiable experience in a long list of very speicialized skills.
I know several well qualified IT professions, who have left the field to become mechanics, truch drivers, etc.
I think job seekers will stop listing more skillsets than a person can possibly earn in a lifetime, when employers stop demanding more skillsets than a person can earn in a lifetime. I've seen job ads with more than 30 skill sets specified.
Maybe not a union, but something more like a lobbying organization. Something to counter the corporations that exporting US jobs as fast as they can - all with the help of the USA government.
The USA has the best congress money can buy, and companies like msft have nearly infinate resources to lobby congress to provide tax incentives to export USA jobs.
Maybe the situation needs a little counter balance?
It sucks to have a college degree, and 25 years experience, and earn less than the janitor.
>>Microsoft is having a hard time finding skilled workers within the United States
Translation:
"Microsoft is having a hard time finding skilled workers within the United States who are willing to work for minimum wage, or less."
Hasn't msft been screaming that F/OSS is killing jobs for USA developers?
Articles like this make it seem like msft is only creating jobs for overseas workers.
Where on earth did you get that figure?
Sure, some coders get $90K and even more, but I think that is far from average.
For failure to take proper actions to prevent piracy, or something. Maybe it's time for the BSA to do an audit, of that schools information system?
Like lawyer/client or priest/parishiner. I don't think the student enjoys the same sort of privelege with the school.
I'm sorry, it's been a while and don't remember the details. But, please consider my experience, if you are wondering if msft can get this right.
My mother bought some e-book that was distributed in some msft proprietary formate. She couldn't figure how to open the thing, she called me, and I tried to help.
It was an ordeal like you wouldn't belive: my mom had to get some
The instructions were not where you would be expect them to be, and they were not straight forward. We had to try calling support, and starting all over, again and again. I believe it was a few weeks before my mom was actually able to open the book.
Who needs another msft proprietary format? We already PDF established as standard.