Begs the question of "how do you measure fuel economy". Simple. Look at the word economy. It's as simple a comparing propane, gas, diesel, etc. How much does it cost to go a mile. Any other measure is not important. They advertise MPG only because the price pre gallon is not standard.
You can do the math. The HP 78 cartridge (not the half full one) holds 38 mL of ink. 1 qt = 960 ml. 1 38 mL cartridge is aprox $60. There is about 25 refills per quart. A quart of color ink is about $30. 25 Cartridges at $60 each is $1500. Black ink savings is a little lower because the black cartridges cost much less than the color, but the volume used is much higher. I use about 1 quart of color/year and about 3 quarts of black. I use them for proofs. They are not intended to be archival quality. I've been refilling for 3 years. A decent car can be bought for $5000.
Funny you should mention ink costs. I learned long ago to read and research my purchases. I only bought a printer after I knew how to buy bulk ink, refill the cartridges, and reset the estimated ink levels. I found the estimated ink cost very deceiving. Sometimes they talk about percent coverage. I bought a printer for printing photos. Nobody will specify the cost of printing photos. All the estimates are for doing things like reports and other text things with a splash of color for a few web page prints or line stock graphs. Try printing a bunch of 8 X 10 photos and try to figure out your cost per page. I learned to buy ink in bottles. My color ink costs about $14 per half pint. I can get black ink in Pint, Quart, Gallon, 5 Gallon and 55 Gallon drum sizes. I think it interesting I can get the gallon size for about the same cost as 2 color cartridges. ($120) The full HP 78 cartridge is about $60 for 38 mL and $35 for the half full 19 mL. Printing photos and refilling has saved me enough money to buy a new car. (not an advert but for those who need to know I get my ink from Atlascopy.com)
Most $1000 used cars are far from reliable and badly overdue major repairs. 25 years ago, you could get decent $1000 dollar used cars. I have had the best value with cars under $5K with 40-60K miles. Most of those have seen regular oil changes and maitnance to qualify for the factory warrenty. After the warranty has expired, they tend to become a hand-me down car which gets abused by a starving student and others who neglect routine maitenance then ditch it when it becomes unrelaiable or won't pass emissions tests. My current car, bought used, got an engine rebuild at 100K miles and is now over 200K and going strong. A little care goes a long way. When I sell it, it will be one of the worn out $1000 dollar wonders on the back lot. I will only continue to drive it as long as it remains reliable. Believe me, you won't want it. It will be due for major work. Since I've had it for 6 years, the cost including all repars has been under $500/ year. Now if I can figure how to get insurance cheaper than my car, I'll be doing well.
Thanks for the update. Reading the page as a visitor seemed to indicate the library does not actualy check out the books, but the keys and check-out are handled by the publisher who does require financial information. When you check out an ebook, do you actualy download it from the library, or do they redirect you to the publisher to get your e-copy?
Please read the page on e-books in the library link. In particular is the following snipped directly from the page supplied in the link;
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (such as their name and email address), financial information (such as credit card numbers), and company information (such as name). We use customer contact information from the registration form to inform users of updates to Books24x7.com (such as New Book alerts that we send out weekly to advise of new titles added to the service) and to send information about our company and promotional material
What part of financial information such as credit card number didn't you understand?
Sure they are available for free. I read the page in your link. If it's free, why do they need my credit card number? I never give credit card information online. It's easier than fighting bogus charges.
You also can't grep an encrypted text. So what's the point. This is not an unencrypted text file. I think it will only be readable on some protected (not open) client on a protected OS (not Linux). Don't expect to read these books on your Linux handheld until after the DMCA is broken.
I agree on stop moving ads. It is the reason I removed Macromedia from my system. It was bad enough when you had to right click the ad to get a menu to uncheck play and loop. When a right click only gave "About Macromedia" with no control, that was the straw that convinced me to extract it completely. Macromedia forgot who the end users are. It is not the advertisers they sell the tools to. You can't sell to the advertisers if you offend enough end users who remove the client.
Anybody at Macromedia care to comment?
A simple "play this animation" button would be a nice feature. Then I could then again visit flash sites. Right now it's an all or nothing choice. Abuse by advertisers convinced me to drop flash. Value of flash only sites did not outweigh the detraction of unstoppable flash ads.
If a flash AD was revelant to what I was interested in, A play button may get a click. Always leave me a stop button. Even better would be a play button.
So far I haven't removed banner ads because the ESC key stops the animated GIF's. Otherwise they would have been blocked long ago.
Price resistance is a biggie. Most of us have done it. The 12 inch laserdisk was supposed to be less expensive than videotape because it could be pressed cheaper than recording and assembling a VHS tape. It never happened. The royalties for the content went through the roof for a media that could be higher quality and could possibly have a used market. Very few people purchased movies on laserdisk. RCA came out with the capacitive disk which did have lower prices, but of course were plagued with reliability problems. These formats have basicly died. I was burned by the promise. I have a laser disk player, but still have less than a dozen movies in that format due to the cost. I opted for the much cheaper tape instead.
Now we have consumers having to buy decoder boxes to receive the new DTV. Anybody bought a DTV that includes the DTV tuner? Most people that have done anything HDTV, have a monitor, not a receiver with a DTV tuner. Nobody has anything on the store shelf in the 20 inch size showing my local broadcast shows on DTV. The only HDTV demo I have seen has been some subscription stuff. Needless to say, those who don't have the time and money to spend on the junk on TV are not buying them. The manufactures know there is no market for it. Nobody can produce and sell a DTV receiver in the 20 inch size for under $500. I don't have room for home theatre as well as not having the budget.
So Yes I have done something. I haven't bought a subscrition box or any content that requires it to view it.
Let the market forces do their job and show the industry that the laws of economics still rule the market.
Simple, Map Exchange has it. If you have the TOPO series maps by Wildflower Productions which has been bought by National Geographic, These routes overlay right on your TOPO maps. Upload the route to your GPS and follow the route. I downloaded this last summer and have checked some segmets of it. Map Exchange
He bought one of the X10 cameras from the evil advert! It is the only product I know of from X10 that uses the 2.4 Ghz Band. The wireless RF light controllers are below 400 Meg. I forgot the exact spec, but I believe they are in the 300 Meg band. The carrier current remotes are near 120 Khz.
For a hint to sound quality, check what the labs use for a refrence. 30 year old Acoustic Research 3a's are still listed as a refrence in many labs. I have a pair. In AB tests, many people will rate them lower because they aren't boomy and are not as loud because they are not very effecient. However when the volume is matched to compensate for the low effeciency, the realism is outstanding. There were very few speakers that even aproached the sound of AR's in the 70's. The best match I could find was some Yamaha M2000's with the Berilium midrange and tweeter. I had to wait 6 months to get them, but they were worth it. Now some of the Boston Acoustics and Cerwin Vega (sp?) speakers come close. There is a much larger selection of quality speakers now, but they are hard to find due to the saturation of the cheap junk in the market. My favorite test of a speaker drives salesmen crazy. Don't turn on the speaker at all. Knock on the back of the cabinet. What does it sound like? Pick the qietest one, the one that sounds like knocking on a concrete sidewalk. Other speakers will add the enclosure resonances to your music. That is an ungood thing if you want the natural sound. Most speakers fail this test miserably because of the high cost of shipping solid heavy speaker cabinets. 5 Lb speakers are not quality speakers. Most of mine are heavy and don't sound like knocking on a wooden door with the knocking test.
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people who use e-mail for business, for example customer support Actualy e-mail for most of these people has already gone away due to spam and other abuse of the inbox. Try e-mailing your bank if you don't believe me. Most likely the contact information is not an e-mail box. It is an online web form that has to be filled out. The days of an open inbox are over for many people. I have abandoned several inboxes and have moved some of my contact info to a web form. It is not subject to bulk deliveries of any kind. It also will not accept any attachments so it doubles as a virus filter. If you have to send me an attachment, fill out the form and ask for a single use FTP drop location. I know it's cumbersome, but I no longer have to waste time weeding my inbox. No legit mail gets canned due to a deny list or other false positive.
Out of curiosity and boredom I clicked on the link They didn't expect you to join or pay anything. They wanted you to follow the link on their fake girl website so their advertiser pays them for the click-through to the online dating service. It looks you followed the link just like they hoped. (you did click on the link to see where it went didn't you?) You didn't see the obvious. Ker-ching $$ P.T. Barnum was right!
Be prepared to return the laptop for full refund. Be sure you have re-partitioned the hard drive before you return it. Ask them to demonstrate the OS recovery for you. Make selling crippled machines an expensive support cost. Let them negotiate with their software vendor for someting with lower support costs. Also be sure to call the Microsoft Piracy Hotline and carefully explain that you got a new laptop without the Media. Accuse the seller of stealing your recovery CD's.
Some people will never get tokens due to privacy issues, just the same way some people will not subscribe to the free subscription required New York Times.
Many view any of these blockers as having their hand out or a huge No Tresspassing Violators will be Shot sign on the front lawn. A do not call sign like this will keep me from calling.
Weeks later if and when I see you, I may let you know you forgot to include me on your white list, and it may have been an oversight. But if you don't wish me to call, I'll respect your wishes.
Now if you want to enable it only for blocked calls or toll free (telemarketing) calls, I have no problem with that. Anonymous Coward marketers should be blocked.
It shows a larger proprotion of the downloaders have tried a pay service. I wonder if the proportion isn't more people, but less quality free stuff due to Napster shutdown, Aimster/Madser litigation, looping files, improperly named files, etc. and those Dl'ing for free, not admiting it due to possible litigation exposure.
The company I work for has a warning out regarding "Official company position". All my posts have no refrence to my place of employment. (OK maybe a generic refrence - I do hardware, not software) Once in a while if I see genuine wrong information on Slashdot (very rare), I may post a link to the official company website showing the disputed fact instead of giving "My opinion IMHO". I never provide an opinion on the company or it's direct competitors. It keeps me out of trouble and many times allows insight in the industry not colored by company position. From the article the company had no problem regarding generic tech support postings only. Just don't get into anything regarding if the company is fair, doing well, biased, cheating, etc. That will raise red flags whether the info is true or not. Don't do water cooler talk outside your company. EVER!
Actualy, I had a 10 year old visitor checking his e-mail try to close the "dialog box". The young really fall for this one as they are just used to closing all pop-up dialog boxes in windows without reading them just to keep windows running a little longer before it crashes. I got to inform him of his mistake on my machine.
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Begs the question of "how do you measure fuel economy".
Simple. Look at the word economy. It's as simple a comparing propane, gas, diesel, etc. How much does it cost to go a mile. Any other measure is not important. They advertise MPG only because the price pre gallon is not standard.
You can do the math. The HP 78 cartridge (not the half full one) holds 38 mL of ink. 1 qt = 960 ml. 1 38 mL cartridge is aprox $60. There is about 25 refills per quart. A quart of color ink is about $30. 25 Cartridges at $60 each is $1500. Black ink savings is a little lower because the black cartridges cost much less than the color, but the volume used is much higher. I use about 1 quart of color/year and about 3 quarts of black. I use them for proofs. They are not intended to be archival quality. I've been refilling for 3 years. A decent car can be bought for $5000.
Funny you should mention ink costs. I learned long ago to read and research my purchases. I only bought a printer after I knew how to buy bulk ink, refill the cartridges, and reset the estimated ink levels.
I found the estimated ink cost very deceiving. Sometimes they talk about percent coverage. I bought a printer for printing photos. Nobody will specify the cost of printing photos. All the estimates are for doing things like reports and other text things with a splash of color for a few web page prints or line stock graphs. Try printing a bunch of 8 X 10 photos and try to figure out your cost per page.
I learned to buy ink in bottles. My color ink costs about $14 per half pint. I can get black ink in Pint, Quart, Gallon, 5 Gallon and 55 Gallon drum sizes. I think it interesting I can get the gallon size for about the same cost as 2 color cartridges. ($120) The full HP 78 cartridge is about $60 for 38 mL and $35 for the half full 19 mL. Printing photos and refilling has saved me enough money to buy a new car.
(not an advert but for those who need to know I get my ink from Atlascopy.com)
Most $1000 used cars are far from reliable and badly overdue major repairs. 25 years ago, you could get decent $1000 dollar used cars. I have had the best value with cars under $5K with 40-60K miles. Most of those have seen regular oil changes and maitnance to qualify for the factory warrenty. After the warranty has expired, they tend to become a hand-me down car which gets abused by a starving student and others who neglect routine maitenance then ditch it when it becomes unrelaiable or won't pass emissions tests. My current car, bought used, got an engine rebuild at 100K miles and is now over 200K and going strong. A little care goes a long way.
When I sell it, it will be one of the worn out $1000 dollar wonders on the back lot. I will only continue to drive it as long as it remains reliable. Believe me, you won't want it. It will be due for major work. Since I've had it for 6 years, the cost including all repars has been under $500/ year. Now if I can figure how to get insurance cheaper than my car, I'll be doing well.
Thanks for the update. Reading the page as a visitor seemed to indicate the library does not actualy check out the books, but the keys and check-out are handled by the publisher who does require financial information. When you check out an ebook, do you actualy download it from the library, or do they redirect you to the publisher to get your e-copy?
Please read the page on e-books in the library link. In particular is the following snipped directly from the page supplied in the link;
Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (such as their name and email address), financial information (such as credit card numbers), and company information (such as name). We use customer contact information from the registration form to inform users of updates to Books24x7.com (such as New Book alerts that we send out weekly to advise of new titles added to the service) and to send information about our company and promotional material
What part of financial information such as credit card number didn't you understand?
Sure they are available for free. I read the page in your link. If it's free, why do they need my credit card number? I never give credit card information online. It's easier than fighting bogus charges.
You also can't grep an encrypted text. So what's the point. This is not an unencrypted text file.
I think it will only be readable on some protected (not open) client on a protected OS (not Linux). Don't expect to read these books on your Linux handheld until after the DMCA is broken.
I agree on stop moving ads. It is the reason I removed Macromedia from my system. It was bad enough when you had to right click the ad to get a menu to uncheck play and loop. When a right click only gave "About Macromedia" with no control, that was the straw that convinced me to extract it completely. Macromedia forgot who the end users are. It is not the advertisers they sell the tools to. You can't sell to the advertisers if you offend enough end users who remove the client.
Anybody at Macromedia care to comment?
A simple "play this animation" button would be a nice feature. Then I could then again visit flash sites. Right now it's an all or nothing choice. Abuse by advertisers convinced me to drop flash. Value of flash only sites did not outweigh the detraction of unstoppable flash ads.
If a flash AD was revelant to what I was interested in, A play button may get a click. Always leave me a stop button. Even better would be a play button.
So far I haven't removed banner ads because the ESC key stops the animated GIF's. Otherwise they would have been blocked long ago.
Price resistance is a biggie. Most of us have done it. The 12 inch laserdisk was supposed to be less expensive than videotape because it could be pressed cheaper than recording and assembling a VHS tape. It never happened. The royalties for the content went through the roof for a media that could be higher quality and could possibly have a used market. Very few people purchased movies on laserdisk. RCA came out with the capacitive disk which did have lower prices, but of course were plagued with reliability problems. These formats have basicly died. I was burned by the promise. I have a laser disk player, but still have less than a dozen movies in that format due to the cost. I opted for the much cheaper tape instead.
Now we have consumers having to buy decoder boxes to receive the new DTV. Anybody bought a DTV that includes the DTV tuner? Most people that have done anything HDTV, have a monitor, not a receiver with a DTV tuner. Nobody has anything on the store shelf in the 20 inch size showing my local broadcast shows on DTV. The only HDTV demo I have seen has been some subscription stuff. Needless to say, those who don't have the time and money to spend on the junk on TV are not buying them. The manufactures know there is no market for it. Nobody can produce and sell a DTV receiver in the 20 inch size for under $500. I don't have room for home theatre as well as not having the budget.
So Yes I have done something. I haven't bought a subscrition box or any content that requires it to view it.
Let the market forces do their job and show the industry that the laws of economics still rule the market.
Simple, Map Exchange has it. If you have the TOPO series maps by Wildflower Productions which has been bought by National Geographic, These routes overlay right on your TOPO maps. Upload the route to your GPS and follow the route. I downloaded this last summer and have checked some segmets of it.
Map Exchange
He bought one of the X10 cameras from the evil advert! It is the only product I know of from X10 that uses the 2.4 Ghz Band. The wireless RF light controllers are below 400 Meg. I forgot the exact spec, but I believe they are in the 300 Meg band. The carrier current remotes are near 120 Khz.
Hmmm,,
I see a new spam business model here.
1 Be a Wholesaler
2 Spam retail
3 Take Wholesale orders from frantic retailers
4 Profit!
For a hint to sound quality, check what the labs use for a refrence. 30 year old Acoustic Research 3a's are still listed as a refrence in many labs. I have a pair. In AB tests, many people will rate them lower because they aren't boomy and are not as loud because they are not very effecient. However when the volume is matched to compensate for the low effeciency, the realism is outstanding. There were very few speakers that even aproached the sound of AR's in the 70's. The best match I could find was some Yamaha M2000's with the Berilium midrange and tweeter. I had to wait 6 months to get them, but they were worth it. Now some of the Boston Acoustics and Cerwin Vega (sp?) speakers come close. There is a much larger selection of quality speakers now, but they are hard to find due to the saturation of the cheap junk in the market.
My favorite test of a speaker drives salesmen crazy. Don't turn on the speaker at all. Knock on the back of the cabinet. What does it sound like? Pick the qietest one, the one that sounds like knocking on a concrete sidewalk. Other speakers will add the enclosure resonances to your music. That is an ungood thing if you want the natural sound. Most speakers fail this test miserably because of the high cost of shipping solid heavy speaker cabinets. 5 Lb speakers are not quality speakers. Most of mine are heavy and don't sound like knocking on a wooden door with the knocking test.
people who use e-mail for business, for example customer support
Actualy e-mail for most of these people has already gone away due to spam and other abuse of the inbox. Try e-mailing your bank if you don't believe me. Most likely the contact information is not an e-mail box. It is an online web form that has to be filled out. The days of an open inbox are over for many people. I have abandoned several inboxes and have moved some of my contact info to a web form. It is not subject to bulk deliveries of any kind.
It also will not accept any attachments so it doubles as a virus filter.
If you have to send me an attachment, fill out the form and ask for a single use FTP drop location.
I know it's cumbersome, but I no longer have to waste time weeding my inbox. No legit mail gets canned due to a deny list or other false positive.
Out of curiosity and boredom I clicked on the link
They didn't expect you to join or pay anything. They wanted you to follow the link on their fake girl website so their advertiser pays them for the click-through to the online dating service. It looks you followed the link just like they hoped. (you did click on the link to see where it went didn't you?)
You didn't see the obvious. Ker-ching $$
P.T. Barnum was right!
Be prepared to return the laptop for full refund. Be sure you have re-partitioned the hard drive before you return it. Ask them to demonstrate the OS recovery for you. Make selling crippled machines an expensive support cost. Let them negotiate with their software vendor for someting with lower support costs. Also be sure to call the Microsoft Piracy Hotline and carefully explain that you got a new laptop without the Media. Accuse the seller of stealing your recovery CD's.
Thanks, I just made note of it. I'll try it.
Yahoo Article
Some people will never get tokens due to privacy issues, just the same way some people will not subscribe to the free subscription required New York Times.
Many view any of these blockers as having their hand out or a huge No Tresspassing Violators will be Shot sign on the front lawn. A do not call sign like this will keep me from calling.
Weeks later if and when I see you, I may let you know you forgot to include me on your white list, and it may have been an oversight. But if you don't wish me to call, I'll respect your wishes.
Now if you want to enable it only for blocked calls or toll free (telemarketing) calls, I have no problem with that. Anonymous Coward marketers should be blocked.
Your company payroll dependant on machines that shoppers can tinker with wihle on display at a store?
Seriously, what data would you pay to have crunched in public?
The lamenesss filter stuck a space in the middle of it. I hate it when cut and paste is cut alter and paste.
The story is atn cid= 1209&e=1&u=/nm/20021210/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_linux _dc&sid=95573713
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&
Sorry I'm not a HTML guru. You will have to copy and paste it yourself.
It shows a larger proprotion of the downloaders have tried a pay service. I wonder if the proportion isn't more people, but less quality free stuff due to Napster shutdown, Aimster/Madser litigation, looping files, improperly named files, etc. and those Dl'ing for free, not admiting it due to possible litigation exposure.
The company I work for has a warning out regarding "Official company position". All my posts have no refrence to my place of employment. (OK maybe a generic refrence - I do hardware, not software) Once in a while if I see genuine wrong information on Slashdot (very rare), I may post a link to the official company website showing the disputed fact instead of giving "My opinion IMHO". I never provide an opinion on the company or it's direct competitors. It keeps me out of trouble and many times allows insight in the industry not colored by company position. From the article the company had no problem regarding generic tech support postings only. Just don't get into anything regarding if the company is fair, doing well, biased, cheating, etc. That will raise red flags whether the info is true or not. Don't do water cooler talk outside your company. EVER!
Actualy, I had a 10 year old visitor checking his e-mail try to close the "dialog box". The young really fall for this one as they are just used to closing all pop-up dialog boxes in windows without reading them just to keep windows running a little longer before it crashes. I got to inform him of his mistake on my machine.