Also I only print B&W, so I really do not care if the Yellow is out. Well, Epsons like others use color in B&W. If you are only doing text printing, likely not an issue. Most of the Ink in my experience is used on the cleaning cycles.
Other users may enjoy a chip resetting tool, though your idea is fine.
You may consider bulk ink or a CIS system. On dye printers there is a huge difference in print life but for pigment printers, not so much an issue. The Durabright series tend to be one of the more lightfast options, but still not worth the pricetag IMHO.
The Epson has been fiendishly engineered to reject all outsiders. I'll find out my self on my epson 1280. You do have to be careful with aftermarket ink, esp on an epson. Image Specialists and formulabs manufacture decent quality ink. I have used IS ink on an epson r200.
Much of the epson annoyance is their over engendered cartridges. If I decide to play the refill game on my 1280, i'd go for sponge cartridges.
laser printers are far more cost effective than any inkjet. Even color lasers are coming down in price. Unless you do a lot of printing the cartridges will last a while. Many, perhaps most, lasers are far more cost effective than any inkjet. However you better double check that on many entry level lasers. I've met many B&Ws which are in excess of 3c/page for toner alone. A cheep inkjet is 2.5c/page.
Canon's older series, the ip4000 and such was at that level Kodak is currently offering inkjets with black about that level HP Business jets often have high yield low cost per page options. The #10 big black comes to mind.
1. Use an audio editor like Audacity to pull a 30 second or less chunk of music from your audio file. Save this as an mp3
2. Import the mp3 into iTunes
3. Use iTunes to convert the mp3 to AAC
4. Rename the new.m4a file to.m4r
5. Re-import the.m4r file into iTunes and it will go into the Ringtones folder, which can then be synced to your iPhone My nokia 6103, I just
1. Use an audio editor like Audacity, or hell even Windows Sound Recorder, and chop up a song into a small segment 2. Upload to phone 3. select as ring tone.
My 6800 was more of a problem as it didn't support MP3, AMR only.
But needless to say if you bought the song, you should have the right to listen to a 30 second segment when ever any bugger calls you.
How many people really believe ads anyways? Are they REALLY that effective? I can see a few ads here and there... but the more intrusive ones really just turn me off to the company. I know I'll make a point never to buy a product that gets injected into my ears. I agree with you. I swore off cola primarily due to the huge amount of advertising for one or the other. Before that I was into Jolt in part due to the advertising, and before that I bought much cola from vending machines as water fountains were few and far between, right about the time HFCS began infecting the US.
But as far as whether advertising is effective... RC cola is a good example. Royal Crown once was a big player in the market but faided away IMHO due to a lack of advertising in the 1970s.
McDonald's is another. Given the choice between a pub burger at about $10/per and a $2.50 Big Mac, i'd have to go with the pub burger. But even then I still remember well the "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" tongue twister.
But the best example I can think of is Coca Cola when they phased in "new Coke". New Coke wasn't a bad product. It was a tad more sweet, but all and all not a bad cola. Blind taste tests suggested that your average Joe preferred it. The only logical reason for the outcry was some form of patriotic loyalty to some arbitrary formula some company spent billions convincing everyone it was a part of their lives for some 80 years.
I don't mean to be offensive but it seems from my POV in the UK that Americans (and other countries like Australia?) need to stop putting such damn big engines in cars/pickups. I mean seriously, there is no need for everyone to own a vehicle with a 3.0 litre or bigger engine. I own a vehicle with a 5.7l petrol engine. I don't use it very often but it gets a very fuel efficient 12mpg pretty much no matter what you do. Other Gas trucks drop down to 8mpg going uphills or with a heavy load. If I had to actually buy a truck again, I'd go diesel. But I certainly would NOT use a 3/4 ton pickup truck as a daily driver.
3.0l is a good size for a passenger car which might need to tow a boat.
For my daily driver I have a nissan sentra which gets about 40mpg.
My car (Peugeot 107) has a 1.0 litre engine, it does upto 60MPG, although I usually get 50 - 55 out of it in the current cold weather, and it gets me to and from work fine and is plenty fast enough for motorway driving too. I know there are places in the states what would benifit from a sub 1.6l engine. Where I live is just too damned hilly. I tried a tercel @ 1.5l and it got worse fuel economy than the bigger heavier car with a 1.6. Same deal with people who got 1.2l Nissans from Canada.
That's absolute rubbish. Japanese cars are more reliable than anything coming out of the US. It's far more common to see a twenty year old Toyota than a Ford from the same year. This is certainly true, though the late 80s were slightly better for American cars as well, a few were actually Japanese relabeled.
The following comes from a man who has owned 5 cars, 4 were Japanese. I forget how many years I drove a '79 Toyota Corolla wagon but I gave it away after 360,000 miles, 280,000 were mine.
Whether you see more Japanese or American cars on the road in the states I believe has more to do with location. Much of the east coast has harsh winters and the roads get salted, same with much of the midwest. Your average Japanese car uses a thinner steel with a higher carbon content. This is really good for strength, but is more prone to rust.
Now your average American car... Dodge Neon, Grand Am, I've observed requires engine work after about 50,000-80,000 miles. Not a good deal where the cost of labor is high, but you CAN find places on the east coast who will offer rebuilt engines with a lifetime warranty. Under this scenario the major shortcoming isn't an issue... just major service every 3-5 years depending on how much you commute.
I was looking for alternative fuel to my self back in the early 1990s. I commuted to work, and fuel at $1.00/gal was an expense, a legit expense but regardless. My first choice for a retrofit was Natural Gas as your typical carbonated vehicle, which was normal at the time requires very little modification. Just shut off the petrol supply and add an air air mixer, adjust the timing and poof. The ONLY reason I didn't shell out the couple of grand to do the conversion was the simple fact that there was NO place with in 30 miles I could fuel up.
Ethanol looks attractive, more so now that fuel is in excess of $3.00/gal. Brazil tried switching in the 1980s IIRC and last I checked continued to promote the use of the sugar beet surplus to make Ethanol.
Turbo diesel engines on the other hand look even more attractive. Diesel makes MORE sense for SUVs and trucks than petrol or Ethanol, and AFAIK is are much more flexable as far as the fuel medium due to the very high compression ratio and fuel injection at the top of the stroke cycle.
Methane, while not as practical to store as fuels which are liquid at standard pressures, is another form of fossil / renewable we should look into as well. We produce a ton of waste, some is converted to tegro, a form of fertilizer made from human waste.
But regardless of the path America decides to go as far as fuel, we NEED good public transportation.
Do you remember making long distance phone calls on a pay phone? Or hell, even local call on a payphone post deregulation, where a quarter/2quarters would only buy you three min or so. The thing I found annoying were the operators that phoned back and asked for more money.
These days "The line is busy. For only (so many) cents, we will continue to call)". I have to say that's annoying for data/fax calls.
Don't worry, between the security line, customs, delays, and waiting on the tarmac, you'll still be garunteed at least 10 hours at the airport for any trip. Hey 12 hours from NY to Tokyo. 2 hours of flight, 10 hours of latency. That's a 2 hour improvement over current airtime not including customs, delays, waiting on the tarmac.
Just because you are harried and in a hurry does *not* give you the excuse to be rude, especially to some sap making damned close to minimum wage who's just there to help you. If she had been polite to start with, his response itself would've been rude. However, being rude in response to rudeness is perhaps the only valid response. I know there are times where it's correct to be a little rude. But really... just saying "can't help you, I don't work here" would have been indicated.
While I agree it's funny, keep in mind that the joke could cost someone their job.
People who want to communicate with their ISP. This is one of those comments that should be moderated up. I made a trivial comment about WiMax providers who in the event you bill is late they redirect you to a page and let you continue. Someone else spoke of WiFi providers doing something similar to access.
Most ISPs I've used with the exception of the super large ones, they prefer billing via e-mail and often charge a small fee if you must have paper billing. I personally accept an ISP e-mail account for this purpose and this purpose alone.
A couple of years ago, I ducked into my local BB completely unaware that I was dressed very much like all the people who work there I like to wear vests my self. Suede, leather, just about anything with extra pockets. I'm sure some geeks would agree. One side effect of wearing a vest, even a plain leather one, is some people presume you are an employee.
I don't have any interesting tales like your self. I respond, "Sorry, I don't know, I don't work here".
How would you like it if your cellular carrier did things this way? It use to be that way on payphones. The operator would break in and ask for more money. Later this process was automated, I think in the 1980s. You could even ask for operator assistance and break in on someone conversation on a land line.
Let's get rational for a second here; the ISP is trying to inform you you're reaching your limit, so you don't overshoot it and start having to pay extra If that was the case... then the ISP can simply redirect all external requests to an internal page informing you as such... if for some odd reason they didn't want to use e-mail. In fact... some a local wi-max provider does just that in the event your account is overdue... a simple "you own us money" in between browsing session and poof gone.
My data on Rogers and Shaw is dated the last I checked they didn't meter. Even if they did meter odds are you're not going to go over your limit surfing the web so any injected web based waring isn't going to be that useful.
Remember those computer fairs that used to come around? They suffered from the same problem that eventually got Comp-USA but they dropped out earlier. Circa 1988 bought my first amber monochrome monitor from such a fair. I think I spent $50 or so, but I wanted to piece together a pc and save as much as possible. Herc monochrome was a start. I didn't have much of a clue at that point, hardly knew my XT from AT.
Circa 1995 there were a few good deals as far as misc hardware went, but for the most part the popularity of the PC lead to a ton of stores supporting it. I remember trying to tell someone the tape drives, despite having 50 pins, were not SCSI but rather QIC-02. But it was painfully clear that the stock came from auctions.
Pretty much any mass replicator sells them. I go to CD-ROM 2 Go, personally. Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep the look out and I do have some leads but I can tell you from my experience no mass replicator sells them. The problem is this, the style of case I wish to use was only popular where VCDs were sold. That is a a wrap around box, and a CD drawer usually two to four per pack, where 4 fit in the same width as a standard jewel, about 12mm wide or so. I'm too lazy to fold up boxes for the cases so I just glue on a spine label and a front and back label.
if you go to a dozen replicators, you're going to find 30 different kinds of case, with different features - cut wheels, closed-case ejection levers, clear back panelling, N-tray, fold up inserts (think children's popup books) I'll keep searching, I got two options on here I'll look into. But really what i've been looking for is a tough find. 4 cds, about 12mm wide. Ability to take either a slip on cover or accept a glue on cover.
Bushnell, for example, sells laser range finders. The low end model measures out to 400 yards, the high end model measures to 1500 yards. They have the same case, the same optics, the same guts, but the 1500 yard model costs a lot more, because the consumer will pay more. But in the case of Bushnell, there are only two models (you were not clear on which series)... a low end and a high end, essentially the same but with clear parameters what each is sold to do. I'm less offended by this, just like I was less offended by the price difference between 9x and NT, ME and 2K.
As someone else pointed out, let's say you wanted wanted something just high on the video performance "Half Life 2, Counter Strike Source and Team Fortress 2". No bugger knows which flavor of vista would be best. I highly doubt the developers really have a clue nor is it really all that reasonable to test the 4 major flavors of vista.
here are lots of things to take issue with about Vista, but the versioning scheme is just business, and not even particularly nefarious business It's a tad above and beyond usual business. But I would agree one gets more value from XP.
The last time I ever considered buying a cable at CompUSA (several years ago) was when they wanted $12 for one of those. Well, first of all when I made this post there was defiantly stock of the power supply y-cable, and now there is not at compusa. I know nothing about your CompUSA but my local one they were, as far as I can remember, always $5.00, this would include 7 years ago when I noted Rat Shack's version cost $1.00 more and did not offer a yellow wire for the 12v.
A couple of things. In Europe land is scarce and expensive - even if someone wanted to build a specialty "super-store" they'd have a hard time trying to figure out where to put it and pay for it. I agree that in Europe space is at a premium, however there still are at least a few superstores among which is PCworld which according to their website hits 28 countries.
Second, gas is cheaper here and the distances between cities large enough to support a super-store are greater. In Europe things are closer together and gas is so much more expensive that it has fostered a shop near home mentality. This I understand and had to learn early on. It was trivial for me in the US to comparison shop from home. Local calls were free, and mail order businesses were toll free. I couldn't tell people in Europe to do the same thing. I do know comparison shopping via bus is a pain.
I have to agree I enjoy the village aspect of some cities like Merida MX. But... given the choice between visiting the local shop which was within foot distance of me and special ordering a CRT, or hitting a website and getting delivered... I have to say I prefer getting it delivered.
Is it fair that first class plane tickets cost 400% of the economy price but you only get 40% more functionality (wider seats, etc)? I object less to the concept of first class, though I think it's more like 120% more for a tad more room and priority service, at least according the the united website going from SEA to IAD. Though it seems like It's mostly artificial but either way you get from point A to point B. While annoying, space on a flight is at a premium, and it almost seems like it's more cost effective to buy two coach seats. -
With vista there really is no difference in the cost to physically make and distribute the product. In fact, one could say it costs MORE to take a product and dumb it down to various editions. To make things worse, you might not be able to get from point A to point B.
I support vista protests. This product should have never went to market, and the anything beyond 2 tiers is over exploitation.
That is harsh... But why did he throw it out his car window? Isn't that what the ashtray is for? (Drivers in the US never seem to bother using their ashtrays. Burning cigarettes dangle out the window, and then are cast aside when they're finished. It's like, what the hell, people? Why do you think that's OK?) I don't think it's OK. As with all litter it's hard to understand it all adds up, as with cigarette butts you don't really know until you've done some road clean up how fast this stuff adds up. If you are a child of the 70s or older you may remember pull tab litter, from the days when the soda pull tab was the ring-pull type.
But a good rule of thumb for all small litter bugs is for the most part, they don't think.
My biggest complaint wasn't the fact that Vista was a bug ridden piece of filth the likes of which made windows ME look good, but the fact they have Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate... oh and Enterprise too that no bugger seems to be using. An OS which will cost you $100 to $400.
I'm not going to say $100 isn't reasonable for the OS that runs your PC. It's a fair price. But the version game is unacceptable. So hopefully some of the linux based PCs will drive down prices of MS's OS down to reasonable and sane levels.
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Most of the Ink in my experience is used on the cleaning cycles.
Other users may enjoy a chip resetting tool, though your idea is fine.
You may consider bulk ink or a CIS system. On dye printers there is a huge difference in print life but for pigment printers, not so much an issue. The Durabright series tend to be one of the more lightfast options, but still not worth the pricetag IMHO.
Much of the epson annoyance is their over engendered cartridges. If I decide to play the refill game on my 1280, i'd go for sponge cartridges.
Canon's older series, the ip4000 and such was at that level
Kodak is currently offering inkjets with black about that level
HP Business jets often have high yield low cost per page options. The #10 big black comes to mind.
2. Import the mp3 into iTunes
3. Use iTunes to convert the mp3 to AAC
4. Rename the new
5. Re-import the
1. Use an audio editor like Audacity, or hell even Windows Sound Recorder, and chop up a song into a small segment
2. Upload to phone
3. select as ring tone.
My 6800 was more of a problem as it didn't support MP3, AMR only.
But needless to say if you bought the song, you should have the right to listen to a 30 second segment when ever any bugger calls you.
But as far as whether advertising is effective... RC cola is a good example. Royal Crown once was a big player in the market but faided away IMHO due to a lack of advertising in the 1970s.
McDonald's is another. Given the choice between a pub burger at about $10/per and a $2.50 Big Mac, i'd have to go with the pub burger. But even then I still remember well the "Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun" tongue twister.
But the best example I can think of is Coca Cola when they phased in "new Coke". New Coke wasn't a bad product. It was a tad more sweet, but all and all not a bad cola. Blind taste tests suggested that your average Joe preferred it. The only logical reason for the outcry was some form of patriotic loyalty to some arbitrary formula some company spent billions convincing everyone it was a part of their lives for some 80 years.
3.0l is a good size for a passenger car which might need to tow a boat.
For my daily driver I have a nissan sentra which gets about 40mpg. My car (Peugeot 107) has a 1.0 litre engine, it does upto 60MPG, although I usually get 50 - 55 out of it in the current cold weather, and it gets me to and from work fine and is plenty fast enough for motorway driving too. I know there are places in the states what would benifit from a sub 1.6l engine. Where I live is just too damned hilly. I tried a tercel @ 1.5l and it got worse fuel economy than the bigger heavier car with a 1.6. Same deal with people who got 1.2l Nissans from Canada.
The following comes from a man who has owned 5 cars, 4 were Japanese. I forget how many years I drove a '79 Toyota Corolla wagon but I gave it away after 360,000 miles, 280,000 were mine.
Whether you see more Japanese or American cars on the road in the states I believe has more to do with location. Much of the east coast has harsh winters and the roads get salted, same with much of the midwest. Your average Japanese car uses a thinner steel with a higher carbon content. This is really good for strength, but is more prone to rust.
Now your average American car... Dodge Neon, Grand Am, I've observed requires engine work after about 50,000-80,000 miles. Not a good deal where the cost of labor is high, but you CAN find places on the east coast who will offer rebuilt engines with a lifetime warranty. Under this scenario the major shortcoming isn't an issue... just major service every 3-5 years depending on how much you commute.
I was looking for alternative fuel to my self back in the early 1990s. I commuted to work, and fuel at $1.00/gal was an expense, a legit expense but regardless. My first choice for a retrofit was Natural Gas as your typical carbonated vehicle, which was normal at the time requires very little modification. Just shut off the petrol supply and add an air air mixer, adjust the timing and poof. The ONLY reason I didn't shell out the couple of grand to do the conversion was the simple fact that there was NO place with in 30 miles I could fuel up.
Ethanol looks attractive, more so now that fuel is in excess of $3.00/gal. Brazil tried switching in the 1980s IIRC and last I checked continued to promote the use of the sugar beet surplus to make Ethanol.
Turbo diesel engines on the other hand look even more attractive. Diesel makes MORE sense for SUVs and trucks than petrol or Ethanol, and AFAIK is are much more flexable as far as the fuel medium due to the very high compression ratio and fuel injection at the top of the stroke cycle.
Methane, while not as practical to store as fuels which are liquid at standard pressures, is another form of fossil / renewable we should look into as well. We produce a ton of waste, some is converted to tegro, a form of fertilizer made from human waste.
But regardless of the path America decides to go as far as fuel, we NEED good public transportation.
I was going to say MOS my self, as in the effect of EMP on MOSs or cross flash the CMOS, but MUX works better.
These days "The line is busy. For only (so many) cents, we will continue to call)". I have to say that's annoying for data/fax calls.
While I agree it's funny, keep in mind that the joke could cost someone their job.
People who want to communicate with their ISP. This is one of those comments that should be moderated up. I made a trivial comment about WiMax providers who in the event you bill is late they redirect you to a page and let you continue. Someone else spoke of WiFi providers doing something similar to access.
Most ISPs I've used with the exception of the super large ones, they prefer billing via e-mail and often charge a small fee if you must have paper billing. I personally accept an ISP e-mail account for this purpose and this purpose alone.
I don't have any interesting tales like your self. I respond, "Sorry, I don't know, I don't work here".
Great! I want my copy of office for use in interior of Mexico about 750 miles away from the nearest network connection. Monitor me all you like.
My data on Rogers and Shaw is dated the last I checked they didn't meter. Even if they did meter odds are you're not going to go over your limit surfing the web so any injected web based waring isn't going to be that useful.
Redirection on the other hand... not so bad.
Circa 1995 there were a few good deals as far as misc hardware went, but for the most part the popularity of the PC lead to a ton of stores supporting it. I remember trying to tell someone the tape drives, despite having 50 pins, were not SCSI but rather QIC-02. But it was painfully clear that the stock came from auctions.
As someone else pointed out, let's say you wanted wanted something just high on the video performance "Half Life 2, Counter Strike Source and Team Fortress 2". No bugger knows which flavor of vista would be best. I highly doubt the developers really have a clue nor is it really all that reasonable to test the 4 major flavors of vista. here are lots of things to take issue with about Vista, but the versioning scheme is just business, and not even particularly nefarious business It's a tad above and beyond usual business. But I would agree one gets more value from XP.
I have to agree I enjoy the village aspect of some cities like Merida MX. But... given the choice between visiting the local shop which was within foot distance of me and special ordering a CRT, or hitting a website and getting delivered... I have to say I prefer getting it delivered.
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With vista there really is no difference in the cost to physically make and distribute the product. In fact, one could say it costs MORE to take a product and dumb it down to various editions. To make things worse, you might not be able to get from point A to point B.
I support vista protests. This product should have never went to market, and the anything beyond 2 tiers is over exploitation.
But a good rule of thumb for all small litter bugs is for the most part, they don't think.
My biggest complaint wasn't the fact that Vista was a bug ridden piece of filth the likes of which made windows ME look good, but the fact they have Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, and Ultimate... oh and Enterprise too that no bugger seems to be using. An OS which will cost you $100 to $400.
I'm not going to say $100 isn't reasonable for the OS that runs your PC. It's a fair price. But the version game is unacceptable. So hopefully some of the linux based PCs will drive down prices of MS's OS down to reasonable and sane levels.