You are. He was assuming that the purpose was to print out photos, and pointing out that often people print things out out of habit, and that there can be other options.
That's because today's HP is to color laser printers what Stephen Hawking is to synchronized swimming.
I have a $500 Konica Minolta magicolor 2430DL laser printer. It produces glossy color photos that are better in quality than the glossy magazines on my coffee table; and that is quite sufficient quality for almost all home and business purposes. For the occasions when I really need true photographic print quality, there's Ofoto or the nearest camera store.
The only remaining advantage of inkjets is their ability to print on all kinds of stuff, like CDs and cardboard and ordinary envelopes.
I have a Denon AV receiver. When I want to watch a DVD, I push the DVD button on the Denon remote. The receiver automatically switches the video to a composite signal it has down-converted from S-video input 2, switches the audio to optical input 1, switches the surround sound mode to 5.1, and turns on the DVD player.
If spammers become e-mail recipients, so what? They've stopped spamming. If they think they can make money joining mailing lists, they're welcome to go ahead and try.
As for spammers becoming ISPs--that has already happened. But no, my article explains why the payment has to go to the end user, not the ISP. (Though one option would be for the ISP to take a cut.)
For #1, I have a couple of possible solutions I intend to write about.
For #2, the same argument could be made as to the impossibility of credit card payments. Somehow, we found a way.
"Trusted" computing doesn't solve anything, because there's no way you'll ever get it to be ubiquitous and mandatory. I'd go back to setting up a UUCP network with my friends before I'd agree to Trusted Computing as a condition of TCP/IP e-mail access.
Basically, spam is an economic problem. Attempts at a technological solution usually involve filtering spam. Since a filter can never be 100% accurate, as filters are deployed the volume of spam increases. So basically, filters "work" as long as most people aren't using them; once they become widespread, the spam volume goes up and up until the network collapses under the bandwidth load (or we try a different approach).
As I conclude in my article, attempting to analyze logically from first principles, the only type of solution which will work is an economic one. Unfortunately, most people dismiss economic solutions out of hand. They're too attached to the fundamentally broken economic model of today's e-mail.
Ironically, the same people often express surprise that the RIAA can't see how broken their economic model is...
So what? It's a given that the ID cards will be introduced as "a means of preventing terrorist attacks", even though there's no real evidence they would be effective at doing so. Hence the figure is relevant.
Both might be perfectly functional in terms of parking one's botttom, but in a hundred years time no-one will be seeking out Ikea chairs in antique shops.
That's what they said about 50s furniture and the Bauhaus.
I'm not saying light, entertaining movies are a bad thing; I'm saying shit movies are a bad thing. The Rollerball remake is in the Bottom 100 on IMDB, and the Scooby-Doo movies barely scrape ahead of Xanadu in the ratings.
Well, not everyone can afford to ban laptops and mobile phones, CD-Rs and CD-RWs, and cripple the USB ports on their machines. Some organizations like to, you know, get work done.
Most JavaDoc seems to be useless unless you already know how to use the package. It's so frustrating to be faced with a huge list of classes, no overall documentation on what the hell they are supposed to do or how to approach using them, and to know that the people who wrote the code probably think it's documented.
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The top level page (the one linked to in the Slashdor blurb) makes Firefox crash for me. Debian testing, Mozilla release of Firefox.
You are. He was assuming that the purpose was to print out photos, and pointing out that often people print things out out of habit, and that there can be other options.
That's because today's HP is to color laser printers what Stephen Hawking is to synchronized swimming.
I have a $500 Konica Minolta magicolor 2430DL laser printer. It produces glossy color photos that are better in quality than the glossy magazines on my coffee table; and that is quite sufficient quality for almost all home and business purposes. For the occasions when I really need true photographic print quality, there's Ofoto or the nearest camera store.
The only remaining advantage of inkjets is their ability to print on all kinds of stuff, like CDs and cardboard and ordinary envelopes.
The main impact of Echo seems to be that when I try to go to the web site, it crashes Firefox on Linux. Nice.
I guess that's what I get for trying to RTFA.
I have a Denon AV receiver. When I want to watch a DVD, I push the DVD button on the Denon remote. The receiver automatically switches the video to a composite signal it has down-converted from S-video input 2, switches the audio to optical input 1, switches the surround sound mode to 5.1, and turns on the DVD player.
If spammers become e-mail recipients, so what? They've stopped spamming. If they think they can make money joining mailing lists, they're welcome to go ahead and try.
As for spammers becoming ISPs--that has already happened. But no, my article explains why the payment has to go to the end user, not the ISP. (Though one option would be for the ISP to take a cut.)
For #1, I have a couple of possible solutions I intend to write about.
For #2, the same argument could be made as to the impossibility of credit card payments. Somehow, we found a way.
"Trusted" computing doesn't solve anything, because there's no way you'll ever get it to be ubiquitous and mandatory. I'd go back to setting up a UUCP network with my friends before I'd agree to Trusted Computing as a condition of TCP/IP e-mail access.
Stockholm Syndrome? He's in full-on Patty Hearst mode!
I wrote a series of articles in which I mentioned this problem, caused by many approaches to spam filtering. http://www.xciv.org/~meta/Technology/2005-02-14-di smal.html
Basically, spam is an economic problem. Attempts at a technological solution usually involve filtering spam. Since a filter can never be 100% accurate, as filters are deployed the volume of spam increases. So basically, filters "work" as long as most people aren't using them; once they become widespread, the spam volume goes up and up until the network collapses under the bandwidth load (or we try a different approach).
As I conclude in my article, attempting to analyze logically from first principles, the only type of solution which will work is an economic one. Unfortunately, most people dismiss economic solutions out of hand. They're too attached to the fundamentally broken economic model of today's e-mail.
Ironically, the same people often express surprise that the RIAA can't see how broken their economic model is...
#0: BOSS FIGHTS
Stupid, stupid cliché that has been done to death now.
So what? It's a given that the ID cards will be introduced as "a means of preventing terrorist attacks", even though there's no real evidence they would be effective at doing so. Hence the figure is relevant.
According to a poll today, 66% of Americans think everyone should be required to carry a mandatory federal ID card.
With the current bunch running the government, I'm sure that's only a matter of time.
That's what they said about 50s furniture and the Bauhaus.
Write code in a proprietary language at the whim of a single vendor? One that doesn't even have a Mac version? No thanks.
For running on systems where you don't have MiB spare to run GCC 3.
I'm not saying light, entertaining movies are a bad thing; I'm saying shit movies are a bad thing. The Rollerball remake is in the Bottom 100 on IMDB, and the Scooby-Doo movies barely scrape ahead of Xanadu in the ratings.
So do you also ban mobile phones, laptops, CD-Rs and CD-RWs, and so on?
If not, my guess is that users see the rule as the kind of stupid, inconsistent and obstructionist policy it is, and therefore decide not to obey.
Rules need to be seen as fair and reasonable if they're going to be obeyed.
Well, not everyone can afford to ban laptops and mobile phones, CD-Rs and CD-RWs, and cripple the USB ports on their machines. Some organizations like to, you know, get work done.
That was my first thought too. As a followup, perhaps we could ask:
Q: What does 30 pieces of silver buy, these days?
1. Apple switches to Intel.
2. Apple releases multi-button mouse.
3. Apple releases tablet format computer.
4. Apple releases PDA/phone.
I certainly hope so, anyway.
I know. I was eliding the details.
For the hard of thinking:
1. Remove RPM.
1b. Replace it with dpkg.
2. Add APT.
2b. Removing YUM.
3. Er...
4. That's about it.
1. Get rid of RPM.
2. Add APT.
3. Er...
4. That's about it.
Most JavaDoc seems to be useless unless you already know how to use the package. It's so frustrating to be faced with a huge list of classes, no overall documentation on what the hell they are supposed to do or how to approach using them, and to know that the people who wrote the code probably think it's documented.
It's probably easier to get a device that'll remind you to take your medication.
Yeah, you can just bet there would be a ton of people campaigning to call it Reaganember.