I think the cost of printing, long term, is usually the cost of the consumables.
I am presently using an HPLJ-2, very cheap to operate. I can get those toner cartridges for $25, and they last forever. But, the resolution is not that good, and the printer is showing signs of it's age. It jams often, and I'm not sure I can justify a rebuilding, considering how cheap lasers are today.
I suppose inkjets could be reasonably cheap, if I could actually get those refill things to work correctly. In my experience, refill kits have never worked correctly.
I'm somewhat interested in color lasers, but I suspect very high priced tonor, especially for the cheaper printers.
10 years ago, I was happy with my dot-matrix and daisy-wheel. I still have the dot-matrix, can't find any daisy-wheels. Just kidding, I guess.
Seriously. I've got it, I installed it right after it came out. I run it on my laptop. My laptop is a 1.7ghz celeron which had 256mb of ram. I had to upgrade to 512MB ram because sp2 bogged my system down so badly. It also confilicts with my symantec stuff.
Why do I want this pig? Does it really make my PC more secure?
Funny, I thought "tax-cuts" were just political hype, and that the USA (especially middle income) has never had a true tax-cut. They just shuffle the numbers around, but in the end, the USA government takes more money every year.
Furthermore, I thought schools were about 95% funded by state and local taxes.
Also, I thought schools were getting more money than ever. When has the $$ spent per student ever gone down?
In fact, I thought that we continue to throw money at education, the USA just keeps falling further behind.
When I was in college (mid-80's), I hated the idea of having to pay a new hook-up every semester. I also hated trying to figure out the phone bill - who made what long distance call. And then you have room-mates who don't claim their calls, or don't pay on time, or who hogged the phone all day.
If they had cell-phones now, like they had then, no doubt about which way I'd go. Not to mention the convienience of have a phone with you everywhere you go.
I can hardly believe the spin here, and on groklaw.
The judge may scold scox until he's blue in the face, to try to appear impartial. But the bottom line is that the judge ruled in favor of scox. IBM lost.
IBM's request for PSJ was denied. SCO won, IBM lost. It's groklaw and slashdot that are spinning this.
The Utah judges make speak harshly to scox, but in the end, they can't bring themselves to rule against their favorite little msft backed Utah company.
You are wrong. I am not a "fanboy" of either KDE or Gnome. I just think trolltech is far to good a company to have a crimminal like Ralph Yarro on the BOD, and to be financially involved with the likes of canopy and scox.
Question: if trolltech really and truely disapproves of canopy and scox; then why doesn't trolltech publicly ask canopy and scox to divest? Trolltech could then divest their own interests, and of course ask Yarro to leave.
If canopy can force trolltech to stay associated with canopy, then so be it. At least I could feel comfortable about trolltech having clean hands.
Canopy of course is the parent company of scox. Recently Canopy's CEO (Yarrro) and CFO (Mott) were both fired, and Noorda Family trust, which owns canopy is suing Yarro for stealling over $20MM.
Canopy is an absolutely filthy organization. But, trolltech refuses to disassociate from canopy or scox. Trolltech will tell you that they don't approve of scox, but trolltech refuses to ask canopy to divest; and trolltech will not sell their own investment in canopy companies.
Clearly, msft is on a mission to patent every piece of prior-art msft can possibly imagine.
Could there be any downside for msft? Could this clearly unethical behavior possibly bite msft in the azz? Could the DOJ say "Um, msft, you have 4000 patents for stuff you didn't invent - that's no good."
Could somebody suing msft point out all the fake patents as evidence that msft is a scam organization?
StarTrek TOS, ended in mid 60's. Then movies started in early 80's. Then there was an explosion - all at once we had Startrek TNG, Voyager, DS9, and movies from the TOS and TNG. One startrek thing right on top of the other.
Now. . . nothing, no movies, no series.
What happend? Did everybody just get sick of it? Was it exploited until it was ruined? Or was it always cr@p?
I use debian myself. But the distro that makes management happy is RedHat.
RedHat is security certified, and oracle certified. Redhat has something like 75% of the enterprise market for linux. Redhat has a real company behind it. To many in the business world, redhat *is* linux.
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I don't use Quicken, so I wouldn't know, but is there any reason why the transactions can't be done via FOSS?
Yes. The banks have some special codes used to connect. The banks refuse to share those codes with gnucash. Talk to the guys at gnucash, they can explain it better than me.
It has been speculated that IBM sold off it's x86 business in order to get away from any msft entanglement. IBM may be planning to start selling linux PowerPC - at least in China. China has made it clear that China wants to move away from windows.
Pffft. This is not exactly a supercomputer we're talking about here. China already has computers far more powerful than the PC that IBM is considering.
This may a matter of msft using political influence to control the competition.
The move by IBM to somewhat re-invent the PC, starting in China, is msft's worst nightmare. A move like that could eventually make linux a serious contender against windows. Let's face it, right now linux has about 2% of the desktop market, and is largly ignored by major software developers like intuit, adobee, and autodesk.
Msft is certainly not above abusing the USA legal, or political system, in order to maintain msft's market position.
How many cases are unreported? How many molestors are not caught?
I think it's very possible that the internet actually reduces the number of child molestors out free in the world.
Law enforcement have set up sting opperations, where they impersonate children on IRC. They can also trace those who traffic in child porn. Those child molestors would have gone un-noticed by law enforcement pre-internet.
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I think the cost of printing, long term, is usually the cost of the consumables.
I am presently using an HPLJ-2, very cheap to operate. I can get those toner cartridges for $25, and they last forever. But, the resolution is not that good, and the printer is showing signs of it's age. It jams often, and I'm not sure I can justify a rebuilding, considering how cheap lasers are today.
I suppose inkjets could be reasonably cheap, if I could actually get those refill things to work correctly. In my experience, refill kits have never worked correctly.
I'm somewhat interested in color lasers, but I suspect very high priced tonor, especially for the cheaper printers.
10 years ago, I was happy with my dot-matrix and daisy-wheel. I still have the dot-matrix, can't find any daisy-wheels. Just kidding, I guess.
Seriously. I've got it, I installed it right after it came out. I run it on my laptop. My laptop is a 1.7ghz celeron which had 256mb of ram. I had to upgrade to 512MB ram because sp2 bogged my system down so badly. It also confilicts with my symantec stuff.
Why do I want this pig? Does it really make my PC more secure?
Funny, I thought "tax-cuts" were just political hype, and that the USA (especially middle income) has never had a true tax-cut. They just shuffle the numbers around, but in the end, the USA government takes more money every year.
Furthermore, I thought schools were about 95% funded by state and local taxes.
Also, I thought schools were getting more money than ever. When has the $$ spent per student ever gone down?
In fact, I thought that we continue to throw money at education, the USA just keeps falling further behind.
Where am I wrong?
I wonder if it will affect the price?
When I was in college (mid-80's), I hated the idea of having to pay a new hook-up every semester. I also hated trying to figure out the phone bill - who made what long distance call. And then you have room-mates who don't claim their calls, or don't pay on time, or who hogged the phone all day.
If they had cell-phones now, like they had then, no doubt about which way I'd go. Not to mention the convienience of have a phone with you everywhere you go.
IBM's motion for PSJ was denied.
These judges often speak harshly towards scox (maybe to appear impartial) but they always rule in scox's favor.
Discovery isn't even supposed to over until November. And that's in the unlikely event that it doesn't get pushed back again.
Scox will simply go bankrupt, and go out of business, and never go to trial. Just like they planned all along.
I can hardly believe the spin here, and on groklaw.
The judge may scold scox until he's blue in the face, to try to appear impartial. But the bottom line is that the judge ruled in favor of scox. IBM lost.
IBM's request for PSJ was denied. SCO won, IBM lost. It's groklaw and slashdot that are spinning this.
The Utah judges make speak harshly to scox, but in the end, they can't bring themselves to rule against their favorite little msft backed Utah company.
Thank you. That is good to know. I feel much better about trolltech now.
You are wrong. I am not a "fanboy" of either KDE or Gnome. I just think trolltech is far to good a company to have a crimminal like Ralph Yarro on the BOD, and to be financially involved with the likes of canopy and scox.
Question: if trolltech really and truely disapproves of canopy and scox; then why doesn't trolltech publicly ask canopy and scox to divest? Trolltech could then divest their own interests, and of course ask Yarro to leave.
If canopy can force trolltech to stay associated with canopy, then so be it. At least I could feel comfortable about trolltech having clean hands.
Canopy of course is the parent company of scox. Recently Canopy's CEO (Yarrro) and CFO (Mott) were both fired, and Noorda Family trust, which owns canopy is suing Yarro for stealling over $20MM.
Canopy is an absolutely filthy organization. But, trolltech refuses to disassociate from canopy or scox. Trolltech will tell you that they don't approve of scox, but trolltech refuses to ask canopy to divest; and trolltech will not sell their own investment in canopy companies.
Clearly, msft is on a mission to patent every piece of prior-art msft can possibly imagine.
Could there be any downside for msft? Could this clearly unethical behavior possibly bite msft in the azz? Could the DOJ say "Um, msft, you have 4000 patents for stuff you didn't invent - that's no good."
Could somebody suing msft point out all the fake patents as evidence that msft is a scam organization?
I've had to ask somebody for their account name, and they tell me: my account name is .... and my password is . . . . .
Or, how many passwords I've found on the backs of keyboards, or on post it notes stuck to the desktop or monitor.
Maybe that only begs the question: why is mysql webspace cheaper?
I don't know why, but if you are looking for way cheap webspace. Like free to $5/month. You'll probably find more offer mysql than postgre.
Seems to be my experience anyway.
StarTrek TOS, ended in mid 60's. Then movies started in early 80's. Then there was an explosion - all at once we had Startrek TNG, Voyager, DS9, and movies from the TOS and TNG. One startrek thing right on top of the other.
Now. . . nothing, no movies, no series.
What happend? Did everybody just get sick of it? Was it exploited until it was ruined? Or was it always cr@p?
I use debian myself. But the distro that makes management happy is RedHat.
RedHat is security certified, and oracle certified. Redhat has something like 75% of the enterprise market for linux. Redhat has a real company behind it. To many in the business world, redhat *is* linux.
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I don't use Quicken, so I wouldn't know, but is there any reason why the transactions can't be done via FOSS?
Yes. The banks have some special codes used to connect. The banks refuse to share those codes with gnucash. Talk to the guys at gnucash, they can explain it better than me.
I just download into spreadsheets. I don't use any financial software.
It has been speculated that IBM sold off it's x86 business in order to get away from any msft entanglement. IBM may be planning to start selling linux PowerPC - at least in China. China has made it clear that China wants to move away from windows.
What expionage aspects?
Pffft. This is not exactly a supercomputer we're talking about here. China already has computers far more powerful than the PC that IBM is considering.
This may a matter of msft using political influence to control the competition.
The move by IBM to somewhat re-invent the PC, starting in China, is msft's worst nightmare. A move like that could eventually make linux a serious contender against windows. Let's face it, right now linux has about 2% of the desktop market, and is largly ignored by major software developers like intuit, adobee, and autodesk.
Msft is certainly not above abusing the USA legal, or political system, in order to maintain msft's market position.
How many cases are unreported? How many molestors are not caught?
I think it's very possible that the internet actually reduces the number of child molestors out free in the world.
Law enforcement have set up sting opperations, where they impersonate children on IRC. They can also trace those who traffic in child porn. Those child molestors would have gone un-noticed by law enforcement pre-internet.
It's a classic fallacy of logic. It's been 20 years since I took that stuff in college, but even I remember that.