Point being here we don't know which sites were compromised, and by way of reports, they certainly were not unknown
If you are searching Google or reading Slashdot, you may typicaly hit several hundred websits. If you just visit Intuit, IRS, & Bank of America, then 1; your exposure is much less and 2; the sites are professional sites, not some amature easly compromised site.
I agree, there is a RISK, but why take un-nessary risks following every link of the day, links in e-mail, links from Slashdot (can you say goaste?) and other traps for the unwary. There are just some actions I don't do on the personal finance computer.
It's like my Rolls. I don't drive it everywhere because it might get scratches and door dents. I have a beater to mix with the masses at the mall.
My banking computer is treated like my Rolls. My entertainment PC is treated like my Dodge van.
That's why I like to fly with a GPS and TOPO map running on a laptop. When the altitude on the GPS matches the altitude on the map, you better have the landing gear down. The TOPO map is very good at seeing the granite clouds that you might not see through the condensed water vapor clouds.
I don't condone flying IFR when you are only permitted to fly VFR. It's just a backup just in case... Really.
Yes, if a trojan silently installed itself as I innocently browse a web page from an infected web server, and if as a result of that my banking details are compromised and my bank account is emptied, it would be rather annoying.
That is why my entertainment and iformation search PC is not the PC used for online transactions. There is NO personal data including real name, address, phone number, any banking info etc. is on it. It's never been used to fill out any online form that needs any personal finance info. I may use it to browse and research items such as replacement keys for my car, but the other PC is used for transactions.
The banking PC is not used for general use browsing and games. It is used for taxes and banking, not IM, E-mail, newsgroups, peer to peer, etc. It it is not used to visit unknown sites.
True, it would have been cheaper if I lost them in a space that could be defined in a few cubic feet. The problem is I know where I lost my keys. It's somewhere in a 1 square mile wooded area with heavy underbrush. It's cheaper to buy new keys than spend a week combing the woods.
Would you mind sharing your source for the remote? I need a spare for my van, and like you found that the dealer prices are a no go.
Sure. I found them at keylessride.com. They are $29.00 each. I got them with no problems. It sure beats the dealer at over $150. WIth the keys at $18 from Coastal Tech and the remote for $29.00 from keylessride.com, the remote and key was much less than just a key from the dealer.
google's approach is fairly good for people who are trying to find something and just get annoyed by irrelevant ads.
I second that. I lost a keyring while on a cross contry hike. The chances of finding them are very slim. They are somewhere in about a 1 mile square wooded area with no trails and lots of underbrush.
I was apalled by the price the dealer wanted for a replacement transponder key and remote. It took some weeding out of the Google results, but I found programming instructions online. Keys varied from $18 to $125 each online. Remotes were about double that. I bought the keys (I got an extra spare) and remote online for less than what the dealer wanted for 1 key. (over $60) The dealer wanted over $150 for the remote. I did the programming myself and had a key shop cut the keys for $1.00 each. Google saved me over $140 for the keys and remote. Needless to say, stuff I wasn't looking for was just in the way. If you are advertising, show up in a search and in good reviews. (yes I check history, discussion boards, and BBB) I'm not a easy target for online fraud. Advertising mobile locksmith services when I'm searching for key blanks is useless. (Nice try Streetkeys) When I need a mobile locksmith, I'll search for one.
Hats off to Coastal Tech for having all the programming information online for the keys and remote for the Prius. Thanks for the affordable keys.
Same thing when I'm looking for bulk inkjet ink, don't advertise your refilled cartridges. I'm looking for supplies to do it myself. Show up in revelant searches, not anything remotely related. It'll save you advertising dollars and me time weeding out the cruft.
People have been known to download tiny web images and print them up to 8x10. Then they complain to the photographer that the prints are bad.
I am asked to do slide shows regularly for weddings. It includes scanning photos from childhood showing the couple growing up and including embarassing toddler streaking photos. The problem isn't with how the photos look when they are new, it's what they look like 10 - 15 years later. If I could scan the negatives, I could do a better show. Scanning faded off color prints from the school photographer is both a copyright violation and presenta a poor image of the commercial print compared to the home prints that retain their sharp colors. I've spent many hours color correcting professional baby, school & sports photos. (yes I've used school photos in a slideshow shame on me!) Quick, dig into your box of childhood photos. Now contact all the copyright owners to get permission to put them into a PowerPoint slideshow for a wedding... Better yet, ask for reprints so the color is good. Good luck! That's the problem with the current copyright model. It simply doesn't cover the new way to display & share photos.
Now what do I do when the families ask for copies of the slide show on a CD. Can you say copyright violation?
Something has to give. What is fair use of photos of me that I have? Not being able to present them is unacceptable.
Buying them in the first place without permission to copy, scan, web publish, reprint faded prints, etc, is pretty much a gurantee you won't meet my photography needs and get the job.
Word of mouth, and sample photos are crucial to photographers.
I guess a great way to get exposure is not let me refresh my faded prints so they are green or purple in the slide show at the wedding. Those are the ones I leave the Olan Mills Studios logos on. Ever try to trace down the correct studio and photographer that took the cute baby pricture of the bride?
IF you want good exposure, privide a lifetime warranty against fading and color. Include the contact iformation on the back of the print. Then when I contact you for fresh prints (under warranty) I can ask permission to display and provide electronic slide shows to parrents, and bride/groom. If permission is given provided I not obsure the studio logo, great. Good slide show, good exposure, and good studio recommendation. Poor print life, no contact info, charges to replace prints, etc simply are not going to get good word of mouth.
The photographer that permits me to web publish (quality, not tiny junk proofs) and has a free replacemet warranty against fading, includes reprint info on the back, and has good work are the ones that get my recommendations.
Don't get frustrated with the assholes who try to belittle your requirements, just hang up on them.
If you like their work, ask for a bid on the job. Specify X number of shots, X number of family poses, X number of proofs, X number of hours to cover ceremony and reception, and rights. If they don't submit a bid, then it's them turning down work, not you turning them down. If they do good work and submit a winning bid, you both win. Be sure to approve of the style of work beforehand. Some wedding photographers think a 35mm SLR and attached flash is good enough, others come with a large format camera and diffused set of lights. Don't go on price alone. You don't want junk. If you'll settle for junk, get your uncle to bring his 35mm and flash.
I settled on my photographer by his creative protfolio. In it he had a great shot of a bride hugging the groom while holding the license and flashing an OK sign behind the groom's back. It was a great funny creative shot. I requested it from my photographer to include in the bride's parrents album. I used him even though we didn't settle on the copyright issue. We did settle on terms of minimum large format proofs, 35mm candid shots, reception shots and minimum package purchases with the option to bundle buy all the proofs. He did provide an offer including copyright and one including all proofs, but I declined both due to price. The packages are very nice and worth the money. My only fear is the inability to preserve them legaly against the element of time. The more ask for bids including electronic publishing rights (website for remote family), the more the photographers will realise there is a sellable market. Over time, prices will settle as overpriced offers mean failure to get the job.
Actually, it's not so you can't compare. It's so they can get the printer off the market and make sure it stays off the market.
Are you referring to getting the Dell printer off the market? Without data, it's hard to justify getting a Dell printer to replace a printer of known quality and yield (known cost per page).
To get past the PHB at my house (me) they need to provide proof of value. If they provided a quality printer and had low cost supplies with good yield (the hard to find info) then I'd be glad to take the higher cost to operate printers offline. The way to get the HP's at my house off the market is to simply provide a better printer. TCO is part of the defenition of a better printer.
The lack of data showing they have a superior printer that is budget friendly is what is keeping me from replacing my old printers.
Until I see evidence of value, I'll keep my existing value. Sorry Dell, I'm not a great fan of buying ink in the pig in a poke yield model.
Please list how much ink comes in a cartridge and what it's expected yield is. How many pages at how much coverage.. I cam't compare cost per page without the data. I can compare print quality since my wife got one of the all in one printer, and it's not in the same ball park as HP.
Show me a valid reason to consider replacing the Dell ink when it runs out.. I know the quality. I know the price of the tiny unknown capacity cartriges. What's the yield??? When it runs out, it may become a flatbed scanner or it may be replaced with a flatbed scanner of better quality, but I have no reason to buy it more ink.
I dont have the R300 as lumpy does, but I have the R100 which is the exact same printer less the stand-alone CF reader+print engine + thumbdrive trasnfer software/hardware.
Cheap to print with as far as a inkjet goes... and Epson is ok, but they have some print driver issues...
I suspected it was an Epson, not a Canon printer.
Best Buy has the Tanks for $9.00 each.
the High capacity Tanks are $19.00 apiece and those have 3X the ink as the regular tanks.
Thanks. My initial search turned up the full carts, not the 1/3 full ones. I guess they are doing the same thing HP is doing with the 78 cartridge in offering it in 2 capacities.
Now I need to research if they are refillable, page yield, etc to find the TCO.
my most recent canon is the photo R300. seperate ink-wells that are $9.00 each prints as good as all the others and prints directly onto CD's which kicks the arse out of everything that DELL might sell.
I did a serch with Google for the Canon Photo R300. It doesn't exist.
only one choice...
Canon.
Um maybe Epson? Maybe Cannon unless you want to print directly onto a CD?
I did a Google search for the R300 inks. They are closer to $19 each than $9 each.
Please tell me more about the Canon R300 that uses $9 ink. I'm having a little trouble finding it.
you want a printer that doesnt bend you over and try to make you squeal when you buy ink?
only one choice...
Canon.
To be honest, I've been looking at the Cannon i850. I just can't buy another inkjet while the HP's are working so well and use the same easily refilled black cartridge.
Due to the cost of the color cartridges for the HP950c, it hasn't been plugged in for 6 months. I get my photo printing done at Costco instead. 8X10's on real film print is $2. Results look like 35mm prints, not glossy inkjet prints.
The older printer (722c) uses ink that comes in a twin pack (full, not half full carts!) that costs less than a single full 78 cartridge. (the 78 cart is the birth of the 1/2 full cartridges. It's 19mL or 38mL)
If/when my 722c dies, I'll probably get a newer Cannon. New models will require checking the reviews, prices, page yeild, chipped carts DMCA problems, and supplies sources again. I've been looking at them for some time, but I don't do enough printing to justify the cost of another printer yet. I've also been looking at color lasers, but the cost of supplies are quite a bit more than black.
Someday someone will enter the market and try to get marketshare by providing a reasonable priced printer with reasonably priced supplies. When they do, then they will get marketshare as the curent prices on supplies are getting lots of notice in the give away the razor model. People are paying attention to the price of the razor blades. Dell is looking for a few that are not paying attention to cartridge volume and yeild.
It's why I'm still using a Laserjet III. An aftermarket $35 cartridge is good for about 3500 pages, not 830 pages the HP49 42mL black cartridge gives for the same price.
For color the 722 uses the 23D cartridge. A twin pack MSRP is $60.99 with a page yield of 890 pages at 15% coverage. Street price is less than %$50. The 950 uses the 78AN cartridge (the full 38mL cart) with a MSRP of $73.13 and page yield of 970 pages at 5% coverage. Street price is about $60.
Notice the page yield numbers are close to the same but the coverage isn't. At first glance it looks like the 78AN cart has more yield, but they are not comparing apples to apples such as 5% and 5% or 15% and 15% coverage. Guess why I don't use the 950 printer much! Ink for the same coverage is several times the price. That's why I use the old 722c printer as the primary color printer. So much for using the newer printer. Except for photos I can't tell the printers output apart, so why pay several times the price for ink when it's really hard to tell them apart?
I attempted to compare the DELL printer but content and yield information on the cartridges are not listed anywhere on the Dell site. They are priced about the same as the half full HP cartridges and are about 1/4 the size physicaly so I'm guessing the cost is about double the expensive HP950c inks. Since I've pretty much discontinued using the HP950c due to the cost of supplies, the Dell hasn't got a chance for an ink reorder.
Inofrmation on HP MSRP prices and page yield were found here: http://www.superwarehouse.com/HP_78_High_Yi eld_Tri -Color_Ink_Cartridge/C6578AN/p/58841
Each time you convert someone you're bringing Firefox one step closer to being the dominant browser. Then what?
Then the sheep will have made the jump from default to free choice. This is a good thing. They can think for themselves and can make any nessary changes as needed instead of depending on a single vendor to hold their hand while they get burned. Next question please.
We don't want to comptete. We want to take the market and the profit margins.
Enter the ship a printer with a PC program. We also include a ship us your old printer free box and pre paid UPS.
The idea is to get you to send them your old printer before you find out the new printer has postage stamp size cartridges for the same price + S&H as the old printer. Visit their website. THERE IS NO DATA ON CARTRIDGE VOLUME OR PAGE YEILD. They provide no way to figure cost of operation. They don't want you to know.
My wife bought a new DEL PC and got the companion all in one printer. I was skeptical with the recycle your old printer program. I checked into the prices and sources of ink for the new printer. The lack of information was apalling. When installing the cartridges, I was astounded the big all in one printer/fax/copier used such tiny cartridges. I was even more upset by the price for replacements.
My other printers are networked and work with my other PC's. The Dell printer has drivers for Win 2K and Win XP only. As such, none of my other PC's can use it, even if it were networked. Needless to say, we'll probably "recycle" the new printer when it runs out of ink instead of sending a good printer.
The printers on my LAN are a HP Laserjet III (cheap operation) HP 720c (cheap web page color printing) and a HP 950 (nice photo prints, but expensive color cartridges) The black cartridges are easly refillable as well as the Laser. The Dell will be replaced with a flatbed scanner when it runs out of ink. There is no info on refilling it. The ink is from Dell only with shipping and handeling costs. Yuck.
I love the Hawking print servers. They support both Windows and Linux.
This is the idea behind constantly variable transmissions. Keep the engine in its powerband and change the gearing constantly. Only problem is you can't put too much torque to them or they fall apart.
Keep an eye on Toyota. Their CVT is quite robust unlike the Honda Hybrids using belt drive. I have a Prius. It's gearbox is simply a planatary gearbox with a couple motor generators strapped on. It's as robust as most car's differential and for the same reason. Few moving parts and no delicate clutches, bands, friction parts, belts, or hydraulics.
It does not take that long thesed ays to boot up a machine
I don't think the issue is the boot time. For a laptop, the issue may be battery life. If you can run a 15 watt display and tuner and leave the 60 watt CPU, HD, Memory, and interfaces un-powered, it may greatly extend the battery life. Too bad the extra time gets eaten by long adverts on over the air TV.
On second thought, this may have trouble selling. NTSC is scheduled to go away. There is very little worth watching on over the air TV. Why bother?
NTSC video bandwidth is 4.2 MHZ. 525 lines including retrace. How do you get 800 X 600 out of that?
Check the spec. Only the 3 X 4 aspect ratio matches. Everything else is stretched to fit. Lines that are not there are generated, not sent from the source.
A very brief spec for NTSC is found here; http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/NTSC.html
I was able to hear the 16K but it sounded 'lower' than the 10K and 20K. 20K less audible than 10K
Never trust your speakers. Get a sound pressure meter. Take it's output and check the THD. You may find the sound at 45 DB sounds quiter than the one at 67 DB. Many home stereo speakers have more than 15 DB changes when swept from 200 HZ to 5 KHZ. Only the very best speakers hold the level within 10 DB from 100 HZ - 20 KHZ. Most home stereo speakers won't give the response curves in their technical data. They are a much bigger influance over sound quality than most stereo amplifiers. That's why I spent more time and money on my selection of speakers than I did on the amplifier. It's not hard to find an amp that puts out a response of 20 HZ - 20 KHZ Plus or minus 3 DB with less than 0.01 THD. Finding speakers that put out 60 HZ - 15 KHZ plus or minus 10 DB is a little harder. Finding one that puts out less than 0.01 THD is even harder.
The discussion may need to be on speakers next time instead of amplifiers.
I went to the CES a few years ago. I went to a room with a grand piano solo playing. The pianist got up and greeted me. The music didn't stop. It was that real. Most stereo speakers sound like a piano playing over a stereo, not like a grand piano playing. A good amplifier by itself won't create the illusion of a real piano. Get good speakers.
So P2P applications will only be written by people outside the US. If he wants to stop P2P, he should try outlawing possession of a P2P
In other news, the senator introduced a bill making it illegal to sell wine in containers larger than a single serving as large containers promoted overconsumption.
In other news, the senator intorduced a bill outlawing making cars with accelerator pedals as it encourages drivers to speed.
In other news, the senator introduced a bill that prohibited stores for displaying candy within the reach of children as it encouraged theft by young children.
In other news, the senator intorduced a bill that would prohibit the manufacture of copy machines because they encourage duplication of copyrighted work.
In other news, the senator introduced a bill that would prohibit the manufacture of a video recorder because they encourage the duplication of copyrighted work,
Thanks for the first post indicating a store with smaller digital TV's IN STOCK. I'll have to go check them out. The sets are still more than 3X the price of the sub $200 sets they are to replace. I'll have to go and see what features and jacks are provided on the sets. Will they work with a DVD, VCR, sound system etc.
I used to to repairs. When VCR's were $600-$1200, they made sense to spend a couple hours fixing them. Replacing all the belts, repacing the head, and doing a full alignment took a couple hours. You go broke attempting that on sub $100 vcr's. Due to the falling price of consumer electronics and warranty payments, and the increase in skills needed, and additional special tools, jigs, service software, test equipment, etc, the profits are not there unless you do depot level repair on a single product line, such as TIVO's. No nonger can a small shop do repairs on boom boxes, tv's, video game consoles, camcorders, DVD's, CD's, car audio, and microwaves and pay the rent.
That is why it's shipped to headquarters, then gets panned out to the manufacture's depot. It's where the service tools, jigs, parts, and trained tech is for that item. So much is trade secret stuff nowdays, many items can't be repaired by the local shop.
Slashdot Mirror
Point being here we don't know which sites were compromised, and by way of reports, they certainly were not unknown
If you are searching Google or reading Slashdot, you may typicaly hit several hundred websits. If you just visit Intuit, IRS, & Bank of America, then 1; your exposure is much less and 2; the sites are professional sites, not some amature easly compromised site.
I agree, there is a RISK, but why take un-nessary risks following every link of the day, links in e-mail, links from Slashdot (can you say goaste?) and other traps for the unwary. There are just some actions I don't do on the personal finance computer.
It's like my Rolls. I don't drive it everywhere because it might get scratches and door dents. I have a beater to mix with the masses at the mall.
My banking computer is treated like my Rolls. My entertainment PC is treated like my Dodge van.
(My Rolls is ficticious for example only)
weather phenomena known as "Cumulus Granite"
That's why I like to fly with a GPS and TOPO map running on a laptop. When the altitude on the GPS matches the altitude on the map, you better have the landing gear down. The TOPO map is very good at seeing the granite clouds that you might not see through the condensed water vapor clouds.
I don't condone flying IFR when you are only permitted to fly VFR. It's just a backup just in case... Really.
Yes, if a trojan silently installed itself as I innocently browse a web page from an infected web server, and if as a result of that my banking details are compromised and my bank account is emptied, it would be rather annoying.
That is why my entertainment and iformation search PC is not the PC used for online transactions. There is NO personal data including real name, address, phone number, any banking info etc. is on it. It's never been used to fill out any online form that needs any personal finance info. I may use it to browse and research items such as replacement keys for my car, but the other PC is used for transactions.
The banking PC is not used for general use browsing and games. It is used for taxes and banking, not IM, E-mail, newsgroups, peer to peer, etc. It it is not used to visit unknown sites.
permit tcp any eq smtp
deny tcp any any eq smtp
Is this a registery hack?
Where do you set that up on my WIN XP box. I don't see any button marked permit and deny.
Just kidding. I know it's not for Windows. However most of the compromised zombies are Win boxes. They are the ones needing the limit.
this would have been even cheaper
;-)
http://vunct.com/~jasonalter/googlekeys.jpg
True, it would have been cheaper if I lost them in a space that could be defined in a few cubic feet. The problem is I know where I lost my keys. It's somewhere in a 1 square mile wooded area with heavy underbrush. It's cheaper to buy new keys than spend a week combing the woods.
Funny photo by the way
Would you mind sharing your source for the remote? I need a spare for my van, and like you found that the dealer prices are a no go.
Sure. I found them at keylessride.com. They are $29.00 each. I got them with no problems. It sure beats the dealer at over $150. WIth the keys at $18 from Coastal Tech and the remote for $29.00 from keylessride.com, the remote and key was much less than just a key from the dealer.
google's approach is fairly good for people who are trying to find something and just get annoyed by irrelevant ads.
I second that. I lost a keyring while on a cross contry hike. The chances of finding them are very slim. They are somewhere in about a 1 mile square wooded area with no trails and lots of underbrush.
I was apalled by the price the dealer wanted for a replacement transponder key and remote. It took some weeding out of the Google results, but I found programming instructions online. Keys varied from $18 to $125 each online. Remotes were about double that. I bought the keys (I got an extra spare) and remote online for less than what the dealer wanted for 1 key. (over $60) The dealer wanted over $150 for the remote. I did the programming myself and had a key shop cut the keys for $1.00 each. Google saved me over $140 for the keys and remote. Needless to say, stuff I wasn't looking for was just in the way. If you are advertising, show up in a search and in good reviews. (yes I check history, discussion boards, and BBB) I'm not a easy target for online fraud. Advertising mobile locksmith services when I'm searching for key blanks is useless. (Nice try Streetkeys) When I need a mobile locksmith, I'll search for one.
Hats off to Coastal Tech for having all the programming information online for the keys and remote for the Prius. Thanks for the affordable keys.
Same thing when I'm looking for bulk inkjet ink, don't advertise your refilled cartridges. I'm looking for supplies to do it myself. Show up in revelant searches, not anything remotely related. It'll save you advertising dollars and me time weeding out the cruft.
People have been known to download tiny web images and print them up to 8x10. Then they complain to the photographer that the prints are bad.
I am asked to do slide shows regularly for weddings. It includes scanning photos from childhood showing the couple growing up and including embarassing toddler streaking photos. The problem isn't with how the photos look when they are new, it's what they look like 10 - 15 years later. If I could scan the negatives, I could do a better show. Scanning faded off color prints from the school photographer is both a copyright violation and presenta a poor image of the commercial print compared to the home prints that retain their sharp colors. I've spent many hours color correcting professional baby, school & sports photos. (yes I've used school photos in a slideshow shame on me!) Quick, dig into your box of childhood photos. Now contact all the copyright owners to get permission to put them into a PowerPoint slideshow for a wedding... Better yet, ask for reprints so the color is good. Good luck! That's the problem with the current copyright model. It simply doesn't cover the new way to display & share photos.
Now what do I do when the families ask for copies of the slide show on a CD. Can you say copyright violation?
Something has to give. What is fair use of photos of me that I have? Not being able to present them is unacceptable.
Buying them in the first place without permission to copy, scan, web publish, reprint faded prints, etc, is pretty much a gurantee you won't meet my photography needs and get the job.
Word of mouth, and sample photos are crucial to photographers.
I guess a great way to get exposure is not let me refresh my faded prints so they are green or purple in the slide show at the wedding. Those are the ones I leave the Olan Mills Studios logos on. Ever try to trace down the correct studio and photographer that took the cute baby pricture of the bride?
IF you want good exposure, privide a lifetime warranty against fading and color. Include the contact iformation on the back of the print. Then when I contact you for fresh prints (under warranty) I can ask permission to display and provide electronic slide shows to parrents, and bride/groom. If permission is given provided I not obsure the studio logo, great. Good slide show, good exposure, and good studio recommendation. Poor print life, no contact info, charges to replace prints, etc simply are not going to get good word of mouth.
The photographer that permits me to web publish (quality, not tiny junk proofs) and has a free replacemet warranty against fading, includes reprint info on the back, and has good work are the ones that get my recommendations.
Don't get frustrated with the assholes who try to belittle your requirements, just hang up on them.
If you like their work, ask for a bid on the job. Specify X number of shots, X number of family poses, X number of proofs, X number of hours to cover ceremony and reception, and rights. If they don't submit a bid, then it's them turning down work, not you turning them down. If they do good work and submit a winning bid, you both win. Be sure to approve of the style of work beforehand. Some wedding photographers think a 35mm SLR and attached flash is good enough, others come with a large format camera and diffused set of lights. Don't go on price alone. You don't want junk. If you'll settle for junk, get your uncle to bring his 35mm and flash.
I settled on my photographer by his creative protfolio. In it he had a great shot of a bride hugging the groom while holding the license and flashing an OK sign behind the groom's back. It was a great funny creative shot. I requested it from my photographer to include in the bride's parrents album. I used him even though we didn't settle on the copyright issue. We did settle on terms of minimum large format proofs, 35mm candid shots, reception shots and minimum package purchases with the option to bundle buy all the proofs. He did provide an offer including copyright and one including all proofs, but I declined both due to price. The packages are very nice and worth the money. My only fear is the inability to preserve them legaly against the element of time. The more ask for bids including electronic publishing rights (website for remote family), the more the photographers will realise there is a sellable market. Over time, prices will settle as overpriced offers mean failure to get the job.
when they send this e-mail to a Federal Agent, Judge, etc.
;-)
Disney may be upset. Know how many replies to 419's are from M Mouse or George Bush? I wonder how many have M Mouse on the hit list.
I wonder where they will go to snipe him.
Actually, it's not so you can't compare. It's so they can get the printer off the market and make sure it stays off the market.
Are you referring to getting the Dell printer off the market? Without data, it's hard to justify getting a Dell printer to replace a printer of known quality and yield (known cost per page).
To get past the PHB at my house (me) they need to provide proof of value. If they provided a quality printer and had low cost supplies with good yield (the hard to find info) then I'd be glad to take the higher cost to operate printers offline. The way to get the HP's at my house off the market is to simply provide a better printer. TCO is part of the defenition of a better printer.
The lack of data showing they have a superior printer that is budget friendly is what is keeping me from replacing my old printers.
Until I see evidence of value, I'll keep my existing value. Sorry Dell, I'm not a great fan of buying ink in the pig in a poke yield model.
Please list how much ink comes in a cartridge and what it's expected yield is. How many pages at how much coverage.. I cam't compare cost per page without the data. I can compare print quality since my wife got one of the all in one printer, and it's not in the same ball park as HP.
Show me a valid reason to consider replacing the Dell ink when it runs out.. I know the quality. I know the price of the tiny unknown capacity cartriges. What's the yield??? When it runs out, it may become a flatbed scanner or it may be replaced with a flatbed scanner of better quality, but I have no reason to buy it more ink.
I dont have the R300 as lumpy does, but I have the R100 which is the exact same printer less the stand-alone CF reader+print engine + thumbdrive trasnfer software/hardware.
Cheap to print with as far as a inkjet goes... and Epson is ok, but they have some print driver issues...
I suspected it was an Epson, not a Canon printer.
Best Buy has the Tanks for $9.00 each.
the High capacity Tanks are $19.00 apiece and those have 3X the ink as the regular tanks.
Thanks. My initial search turned up the full carts, not the 1/3 full ones. I guess they are doing the same thing HP is doing with the 78 cartridge in offering it in 2 capacities.
Now I need to research if they are refillable, page yield, etc to find the TCO.
my most recent canon is the photo R300. seperate ink-wells that are $9.00 each prints as good as all the others and prints directly onto CD's which kicks the arse out of everything that DELL might sell.
I did a serch with Google for the Canon Photo R300. It doesn't exist.
only one choice...
Canon.
Um maybe Epson? Maybe Cannon unless you want to print directly onto a CD?
I did a Google search for the R300 inks. They are closer to $19 each than $9 each.
Please tell me more about the Canon R300 that uses $9 ink. I'm having a little trouble finding it.
you want a printer that doesnt bend you over and try to make you squeal when you buy ink?
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only one choice...
Canon.
To be honest, I've been looking at the Cannon i850. I just can't buy another inkjet while the HP's are working so well and use the same easily refilled black cartridge.
Due to the cost of the color cartridges for the HP950c, it hasn't been plugged in for 6 months. I get my photo printing done at Costco instead. 8X10's on real film print is $2. Results look like 35mm prints, not glossy inkjet prints.
The older printer (722c) uses ink that comes in a twin pack (full, not half full carts!) that costs less than a single full 78 cartridge. (the 78 cart is the birth of the 1/2 full cartridges. It's 19mL or 38mL)
If/when my 722c dies, I'll probably get a newer Cannon. New models will require checking the reviews, prices, page yeild, chipped carts DMCA problems, and supplies sources again. I've been looking at them for some time, but I don't do enough printing to justify the cost of another printer yet. I've also been looking at color lasers, but the cost of supplies are quite a bit more than black.
Someday someone will enter the market and try to get marketshare by providing a reasonable priced printer with reasonably priced supplies. When they do, then they will get marketshare as the curent prices on supplies are getting lots of notice in the give away the razor model. People are paying attention to the price of the razor blades. Dell is looking for a few that are not paying attention to cartridge volume and yeild.
It's why I'm still using a Laserjet III. An aftermarket $35 cartridge is good for about 3500 pages, not 830 pages the HP49 42mL black cartridge gives for the same price.
For color the 722 uses the 23D cartridge. A twin pack MSRP is $60.99 with a page yield of 890 pages at 15% coverage. Street price is less than %$50.
The 950 uses the 78AN cartridge (the full 38mL cart) with a MSRP of $73.13 and page yield of 970 pages at 5% coverage. Street price is about $60.
Notice the page yield numbers are close to the same but the coverage isn't. At first glance it looks like the 78AN cart has more yield, but they are not comparing apples to apples such as 5% and 5% or 15% and 15% coverage. Guess why I don't use the 950 printer much! Ink for the same coverage is several times the price. That's why I use the old 722c printer as the primary color printer. So much for using the newer printer. Except for photos I can't tell the printers output apart, so why pay several times the price for ink when it's really hard to tell them apart?
I attempted to compare the DELL printer but content and yield information on the cartridges are not listed anywhere on the Dell site. They are priced about the same as the half full HP cartridges and are about 1/4 the size physicaly so I'm guessing the cost is about double the expensive HP950c inks. Since I've pretty much discontinued using the HP950c due to the cost of supplies, the Dell hasn't got a chance for an ink reorder.
Inofrmation on HP MSRP prices and page yield were found here:
http://www.superwarehouse.com/HP_78_High_Y
http://www.superwarehouse.com/HP_23_Twin_Pack_I
Each time you convert someone you're bringing Firefox one step closer to being the dominant browser. Then what?
Then the sheep will have made the jump from default to free choice. This is a good thing. They can think for themselves and can make any nessary changes as needed instead of depending on a single vendor to hold their hand while they get burned.
Next question please.
Executranslator output:
We don't want to comptete. We want to take the market and the profit margins.
Enter the ship a printer with a PC program. We also include a ship us your old printer free box and pre paid UPS.
The idea is to get you to send them your old printer before you find out the new printer has postage stamp size cartridges for the same price + S&H as the old printer. Visit their website. THERE IS NO DATA ON CARTRIDGE VOLUME OR PAGE YEILD. They provide no way to figure cost of operation. They don't want you to know.
My wife bought a new DEL PC and got the companion all in one printer. I was skeptical with the recycle your old printer program. I checked into the prices and sources of ink for the new printer. The lack of information was apalling. When installing the cartridges, I was astounded the big all in one printer/fax/copier used such tiny cartridges. I was even more upset by the price for replacements.
My other printers are networked and work with my other PC's. The Dell printer has drivers for Win 2K and Win XP only. As such, none of my other PC's can use it, even if it were networked. Needless to say, we'll probably "recycle" the new printer when it runs out of ink instead of sending a good printer.
The printers on my LAN are a HP Laserjet III (cheap operation) HP 720c (cheap web page color printing) and a HP 950 (nice photo prints, but expensive color cartridges) The black cartridges are easly refillable as well as the Laser. The Dell will be replaced with a flatbed scanner when it runs out of ink. There is no info on refilling it. The ink is from Dell only with shipping and handeling costs. Yuck.
I love the Hawking print servers. They support both Windows and Linux.
This is the idea behind constantly variable transmissions. Keep the engine in its powerband and change the gearing constantly. Only problem is you can't put too much torque to them or they fall apart.
Keep an eye on Toyota. Their CVT is quite robust unlike the Honda Hybrids using belt drive. I have a Prius. It's gearbox is simply a planatary gearbox with a couple motor generators strapped on. It's as robust as most car's differential and for the same reason. Few moving parts and no delicate clutches, bands, friction parts, belts, or hydraulics.
It does not take that long thesed ays to boot up a machine
I don't think the issue is the boot time. For a laptop, the issue may be battery life. If you can run a 15 watt display and tuner and leave the 60 watt CPU, HD, Memory, and interfaces un-powered, it may greatly extend the battery life. Too bad the extra time gets eaten by long adverts on over the air TV.
On second thought, this may have trouble selling. NTSC is scheduled to go away. There is very little worth watching on over the air TV. Why bother?
regular tv is 800x600
hdtv is 1024x768
NTSC video bandwidth is 4.2 MHZ. 525 lines including retrace. How do you get 800 X 600 out of that?
Check the spec. Only the 3 X 4 aspect ratio matches. Everything else is stretched to fit. Lines that are not there are generated, not sent from the source.
A very brief spec for NTSC is found here;
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/NTSC.html
Oh, they'll take everything
The problem with them is they start at your bank, not your basement.
I was able to hear the 16K but it sounded 'lower' than the 10K and 20K. 20K less audible than 10K
Never trust your speakers. Get a sound pressure meter. Take it's output and check the THD. You may find the sound at 45 DB sounds quiter than the one at 67 DB. Many home stereo speakers have more than 15 DB changes when swept from 200 HZ to 5 KHZ. Only the very best speakers hold the level within 10 DB from 100 HZ - 20 KHZ. Most home stereo speakers won't give the response curves in their technical data. They are a much bigger influance over sound quality than most stereo amplifiers. That's why I spent more time and money on my selection of speakers than I did on the amplifier. It's not hard to find an amp that puts out a response of 20 HZ - 20 KHZ Plus or minus 3 DB with less than 0.01 THD. Finding speakers that put out 60 HZ - 15 KHZ plus or minus 10 DB is a little harder. Finding one that puts out less than 0.01 THD is even harder.
The discussion may need to be on speakers next time instead of amplifiers.
I went to the CES a few years ago. I went to a room with a grand piano solo playing. The pianist got up and greeted me. The music didn't stop. It was that real. Most stereo speakers sound like a piano playing over a stereo, not like a grand piano playing. A good amplifier by itself won't create the illusion of a real piano. Get good speakers.
So P2P applications will only be written by people outside the US. If he wants to stop P2P, he should try outlawing possession of a P2P
In other news, the senator introduced a bill making it illegal to sell wine in containers larger than a single serving as large containers promoted overconsumption.
In other news, the senator intorduced a bill outlawing making cars with accelerator pedals as it encourages drivers to speed.
In other news, the senator introduced a bill that prohibited stores for displaying candy within the reach of children as it encouraged theft by young children.
In other news, the senator intorduced a bill that would prohibit the manufacture of copy machines because they encourage duplication of copyrighted work.
In other news, the senator introduced a bill that would prohibit the manufacture of a video recorder because they encourage the duplication of copyrighted work,
In other news......
Thanks for the first post indicating a store with smaller digital TV's IN STOCK. I'll have to go check them out. The sets are still more than 3X the price of the sub $200 sets they are to replace. I'll have to go and see what features and jacks are provided on the sets. Will they work with a DVD, VCR, sound system etc.
Where is the source?
I don't know, but the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the CIA are looking for them also.
I used to to repairs. When VCR's were $600-$1200, they made sense to spend a couple hours fixing them. Replacing all the belts, repacing the head, and doing a full alignment took a couple hours. You go broke attempting that on sub $100 vcr's. Due to the falling price of consumer electronics and warranty payments, and the increase in skills needed, and additional special tools, jigs, service software, test equipment, etc, the profits are not there unless you do depot level repair on a single product line, such as TIVO's. No nonger can a small shop do repairs on boom boxes, tv's, video game consoles, camcorders, DVD's, CD's, car audio, and microwaves and pay the rent.
That is why it's shipped to headquarters, then gets panned out to the manufacture's depot. It's where the service tools, jigs, parts, and trained tech is for that item. So much is trade secret stuff nowdays, many items can't be repaired by the local shop.
I moved on to R&D. It pays the bills.