I made a purchase at Frys once, using my credit card, and they asked me for photo ID. I discovered that the phrase "I'm English: we don't carry photo ID because Britain is a free country" works just fine.
Of the things I don't object to is being carded for card purchaces. I like the idea that if I lose my wallet there is someone willing to ask for photoID. I don't see the privacy issue because you are already handing them a card with your name on it. If I want to retain my privacy I pay cash esp. for places like Best Buy who seem to be far too obsessed with knowing who you are.
I would so pay a monthly subscription to download my TV shows off the respective channels.
Like $5 a month or something per channel/show would be fine for me and would allow me to finally get rid of my "traditional" TV subscription for satellite, AND it would get me exactly what I want.
$5 for all you want when you want on demand download a copy comercial free? HBO multi plex a la carte for me would cost $13.99/month, showtime / TMC / Sundance is $12.99, Cinimax $10.99 and Starz is $9.99. Given that people are willing to pay for premium movie channels, I would think that any sort of on demand net system would base it's price based on existing options... and tack on a little extra.
I know, I know, HBO is pay per view. But guess what?....Copying TV is not piracy. Passing copies around is not piracy. I know, I know, HBO is pay per view. But guess what? We've been recording the shows on VCR's for years. Passing them out to friends without cable. AND NO ONE CARED. Because it's not piracy, ie SELLING the tapes, and two, it didn't hurt HBO, it only made it more popular and made more people want to subscribe.
First, HBO isn't pay per view it's a subscription network. Playboy for example offers subscription or pay per view but near as I'm aware this is not an option for HBO.
Second, when you give someone a home brewed disk and they ask where you got it, do you say HBO or some P2P network?
Pay networks and VCRs were a match made in heaven. You the subscriber got a cheap way to start a movie colleciton and the networks got more subscribers for people who wanted access to cheap movies. But pay networks have a right to be concerned. In the 80s and 90s when people asked you where you got the tape you gave them you could say HBO. In fact some pay networks advertised a time to set your VCRs (2:00am IIRC). So if you wanted to be cool and get a cheep movie collection of your own you got HBO. But in this decade you don't need a pay network to get content, you can get it via P2P.
Now rather than fight the public, I would think it would be wise of HBO and other networks to offer on demand downloads of content. Not only that but sell licensed cases and DVD fly leaves and add an element of legitimacy to the home brewed disc or printable coverart for those of us who can print on discs. Let's face it, sharpy marked discs look cheap.
I'm a strong advocate of copyright holders making money by offering downloads but selling cover art, bumper stickers, and posters. Consumers support and advertise at the same time and get a golden feeling they are supporting someone... and Weyerhaeuser.
My Canon bubble jet (came free with an old Dell) went through cartridges like candy.... I can keep ink from drying up in my 50 year old Esterbrook fountain pen.
I think your easterbrook fountain pen holds about the same amount of ink as your Canon. Volume wise the cartrage is clearly larger than your bladder in your fountain pen, but there is that blasted sponge bringing the total capacity to about 5 to 10mils at best. I'm sure they ship with less as 10mills caused my cartrage to spew.
If you're talking about the Canon BJC-2100 which was the Gateway free printer for a time... the black yield is squat in the 200 range or so. This is the same printer others love due to it's low cost for cartrages, about $7.00 each. The cost per page is lowish, about 3.5cents/page for ink. As long as you don't mind taking the time to add ink at least twice per packet of paper and are willing to wait for the slugish printer the results are a very low cost per page.
It's not beyond modern science to improve on this figure. You can always get an aftermarket "continuous ink feed" if you are the sort of person who prefers not taking the time to change out their cartrages all the time. Google it and see for your self.
It's wouldn't be beyond modern science to offer a printer that took liquid ink in a flip top lid varity... but then they wouldn't make the bucks on the damn cartrages.
Do you have a nose? Check -- it should be on your face.
Can you smell the odor of sour milk after dumping a can of cat food, morning yogurt, and brewing coffee?
Very sour milk, perhaps. But that so so milk that doesn't seem to bother anyone else, that so so milk that only has a slightly sour odor that no one else seems to mind. Don't understand how anyone can stand that almost off taste. That's the one that makes me fart.
But like most people, there have been times when you don't take the time to sniff the milk in the jug, and it ends up in the glass, in its chunky yet white and opaque glory. to the mouth that first sip... and boom chunky spew everywhere.
I have an older HP Laserjet 5P. It uses a toner cartridge you can get for 30-80 dollars that will print a whole CASE of paper. It makes your price per page figures look just sad. Also it prints 6 or 7 pages per minute.
I wasn't touching the subject of laser, mostly inkjets as there were lots of claims that canon inktanks are so cheap. I see them as cheepish, but not dirt cheap but at least easy to refill.
But I also have a laser that takes raw toner. IIRC correctly the HP 5P has a 3000 or 4000 page yield @ $30 for a referb cartrage. Penny sub penny range. But I can pickup a pint of toner at the local copy repair shop for $12 or so. Anything bulk goes to my laser, and I shut off the laser as it really sucks up the juice. I estimate my yield of 1 pint of toner at about 5000.
But if I really wanted to be a cheap bastard i'd go back to dot matrix.
i believe the epson printer has the printheads built-in. this was after talking to an epson rep about the r300s . the r200s might be the same.
The Epson rep I talked to at compusa sounded very clueless. When I asked about CD printing he showed me the driver disc and said it was a demo printed on the printer. I tried to feed a CD through and he told me how I would "damage" the printer if I tried using their demo to print. He also said I would damage the printer if I printed from word onto the CD even if I stay within the margins. He also said that it would damage the printer if the front feed was down as printing in normal mode would grab a sheet of paper. Damage Damage Damage over and over again. Even putting a non printable CD/DVD into the printer according to him would cause damage! I asked him why I should consider such a fragile printer... he got pissed off and walked away. So did I and bought it else where.
The info he provided was mostly bogus. It's true that if you use the CD try and try to print to "paper" it won't rise and the printhead will hit the tray. Seems silly that this logic isn't handeled in the printer or the driver esp since it warns you "please remove CD/DVD tray". Near as I can tell you can put non-printable media in the printer and looks soso on the transparancy setting. And the driver CD was clearly silkscreened. Had he not tried to use bullshit in the first place and say right off the bat "this was printed on an epson" I wouldn't have tried to put a damn CD through. I tend not to trust reps.
The r300 and r200 take the same ink tanks. The print assembly looks similar and both offer the same sort of front feed dvd tray. But built in is an odd term for something that that was mounted at some point and designed to move left to right freely. It's not freely detachable like some Canons, it does look like you have to disassemble the entire printer to replace the print head, a major pain as the printhead track rises and falls to accomidate the ultra thick tray that is offered.
The way I see it is this. A printhead I expect to cost $50 or so. Ink runs about 7 to 14 bucks each, assuming 14 black and 7 color that's $49, or $42 from a cheeper place. The r200 cost $100 and comes with ink. I could replace the printhead, or I could get a new printer and get new ink. Sadly if my printhead goes, a new printer would likely be justified unless you already spent the extra money on refillable tanks which you may be able to run solvent and clean up a nasty print head.
Would you like your local dairy to put something in your milk that will spoil it for you on the expiration date? Or would you rather check if the milk is sour before you drink it, and decide for yourself if it is usable?
I'd love a time actived dye cap in my milk that will clearly identify it's past its expiration date. Nothing worse than being half awake fuzzy eyed making my morning latté only to discover that the milk is either a little bit off resulting in my farting all day, or really off resulting in that sour milk taste and farting all day, or really really off with that sour taste farting all day and vomiting.
Come midnight, poof the milk goes red. Easy to spot without my glasses.
Good thing my cannon cartridges come with JUST INK, no stupid electronics to get in the way.
The Canon's I've seen are nice in the fact that they use simple ink tanks and have a easily detachable printhead when the time comes to replace it.
The Epson I own, the R200 doesn't look as easy as the Canon to replace the printhead.
The HP PSC 950 I own takes a $30 black cartrage with an estimated yield of 603 pages. The print head is as usual onboard. About.5cents/page.
There is another cartrage for HP ( 51645A ) that is the same price but has an estimated yield of 833 pages. It was for the 950c series among many others. It works out to be 3.6 cents a page. I no longer own this printer.
My Epson r200 takes a $17 black ink tank with an estimated yield of 450 pages. Unknown inkhead replacement cost. The tanks are chipped to prevent running totally dry (or refilling). About 3.7cents/page
The Canon BJC 2100 takes an inktank that costs $7.00 with an estimated yield of 200 pages. About 3.5cents/page. The printhead costs $50 or so if you need to replace it.
My numbers come from Office Depot, and my printer selection is limited. While it's true that the Canon's ink tanks for the bj 2100 are slighty cheaper than the HP 51645A, this cheepness is dependent on how often you replace your printhead.
What happened to the old days when the customer was king and great customer service was the way to do business.
People are too cheap to *pay* for customer service.
But don't think Lexmark is unique. Back in the typewriter days it was common place to offer low price typewriters but only supply carbon ribbons and charge an arm and a leg for them rather than the fabric ribbons that lasted longer and could be reinked.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
Compression ratio on divx/xvid is better under rar than winzip. The random xvid shows 367,044,608 packed to 337,342,228. That's a savings of 29,662,380 bytes. While some might not think it's worth the time to say 30 odd megs, it is close to 9% savings.
(who gives a shit about sizes these days)
Few would care. Among those that would are co-lo users who don't want to replace their hard drives so often. Even a small 9% means 9 extra gigs per 100gigs. Users in regions who pay by the byte would also care.
What possible features could you want except that it compresses
The number of archive standards it supports? Winrar supports "7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z" -(winrar help file). This was a good argument pre-windowsXP. Why buy winzip that supports only ZIP when you can buy WinRAR that supports a whole slew of standards used on the net including zip.
You can't say that now XP supports zip. Winrar may still be useful for a windows user for it's ISO, JAR, and CAB support.
Passwords are a pain in the ass and anyone that password locks their archive then uploads it for people is just trying to get their hit counts up for their web sites.
Encrypted archives are useful to prevent 3rd parties from sniffing packets. You might be paranoid that your ISP is looking for pirated material. While keeping a password on a website is a weak form of security, it's also adquate to prevent random detection. It's likely to keep their hit counts up, but that doesn't mean there isn't a side benifit.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
1. Higher compression ratio esp on divx/xvid. 2. The rarlabs application supports compression standards than winzip. It also supports ISO and TAR.
I'm not saying the world should convert to RAR. I even concede that it's damned annoying hitting rogue sites that use an *alternative* standard. But there are valid reasons to use RAR that I can not ignore.
So. Korea being the size of about New Jersey might be the reason broadband has deeper penetraton than in the US
New Jersey a population of about 8.6 million, of those about 693,000 were subscribed to broadband in 2003 or about 8%. This state is in the top 5 list of subscribers in America.
South Korea is about 38,023 sq. miles in size New Jersey is about 8,721 sq. miles.
Virginia on the other hand is larger than South Korea, but close at 39,598 sq. miles. It would be less insulting to say that South Korea was the about the same size as on of the sothern states.
N.J. is smaller in terms of size and population than South Korea, yet has less in terms of percent of broadband subscribers.
I dunno if it's illegal exactly... ISPs aren't part of law enforcement (yet.) But I'm sure it's against the TOS of most providers.
That is a good question whether it would fall in the same catagory as theft of service. If we're talking cableTV, and you run a cable from your house to another it would be considered theft of service.
Key difference with WiFi is you are not actually running a physical wire, and WiFi is often offered directly from the ISP. Having one in it self isn't illegal like running a rogue wire. You can't see it, or photograph it. I have yet to see a case where someone gets taken to court over sharing beyond their property.
I expect a hydrogen car to have similar advantages and similar disadvantages.
I'll agree CNG is better for the daily drive than cross country trips. But most cars/trucks i've looked at are dual fuel, as in you can switch between fuels at the flip of a switch. In the case of an aftermarket conversion you would lose cargo space but gain range if you use both fuels. I looked into this some years back and am basicly ready to switch just as soon as there is a public filling station within 5 miles of me.
Running CNG requires a top notch ignition system, where petrol requires more frequent oil changes.
If, under the old system, they charged you the retail price of the video after seven days (plus the restocking fee if you returned the video for a refund) AND charged you a late fee, and now they don't, then their ads are perfectly legit.
Their old system last I saw was prorated based on the rental price * days rented. I.e. $4.00 movie was 80cents for each day late. So no in by noon and you are stuck with restocking late fee:P
Not to speak of stores that charge the traditional late fees dispite the fact that the national ads say no late fees.
When they advertise free coffee, do you expect to get to keep the cup? How about a free donut?
In the case of refills, filling the cup is free but the cup in not... clearly as described in the menu. Coffee buck and something, refills free.
In the case of free rest area coffee, yea they expect you to keep the cup, which is probally why they offer it in styrofoam cups.
They say no late fees. They mean no late fees. It doesn't say anything about other fees.
When they say no late fees, they mean a restocking fee if returned late, or purchace of the damn movie if you are really really late. There clearly is a fee if late, not to be confused with a late fee which is a fee if late.
That's the whole point. It shouldn't be cheaper. But since it is (presumably, since I have no personal experience with this), that means that the 0% financing isn't really 0% percent financing. They're just adding what they would get in interest to the base price. That's where the misleading advertising comes into play.
If you offer to buy a car at the sticker price, they will sell you the car at the sticker price. A dealer would be stupid not to. This is why I hate buying cars from dealers. All the sticker prices, new or used, are pretty meaningless... it's the first thing the salesman tells you when you say, "I can't afford that." They want you to try it out, like it, and after you just gotta-have-it they lower the price just a little. Dealers, for the most part... suck.
What is typicaly advertised is "0% APR" where APR means Annual Percentage Rate. So long as you conform to the terms of the contract and pay your balance within the set time, even though the finance charges are a flat rate calculated into the sales price, your annual percentage rate = 0%. Even if the flat rate would equal the same as.9 or 1.9 or 5.9 over x years, since it's a flat rate the annual percentage rate is still 0%. That's how flat rates work.
Now how many months 0% is valid depends on the contract, could be 12, 24, or 48months before they kick in an interest rate, and it might be retro active. But it's still possible to get flat rate financing.
I mean if people today are so dumb that they think Blockbuster's commercials meant they could just keep rental movies forever then we have reached a new level of stupidity not equaled in quite a while.
Why? Baskin and Robins claims free ice cream on halloween, and you do get free ice cream. Many resturants claim free refills on coffee and sure enough they have free refills. I get free coffee at rest areas on the highway. Even those cheesy some see our property and get a free gift adverts after listening to the morons for hours do give you a cheepo free gift but always one of the three that are listed.
So why shouldn't someone believe "no more late fees" when clearly advertised as such?
Well, their main customer base is american after all...
That being the case, they could have called them selves "T-Cell" but this might result in some confusion, protests, and mayhem. "T-Cell - Get more from life!"
Not true- if you have to dial 9 to reach an outside line, you have to dial 9-911 to call 911.
But... if you don't have to dial 9 to reach an outside line, and do it anyway... click the checkbox to prefix with a 1, and in the number field have 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx, the end result would be 9,1-1-xxx-xxx-xxxx.
But perhaps such a safety feature should be incorporated directly into all modems
It reminds me of some tech support story where someone enabled dial 9 for an outside line, long distance so dial 1 and for the number they used the syntax 1-xxx-xxxx. So the modem would end up dialing 9-1-1. I don't know if it's a true story but it sounds possible.
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to have modems start restricting your ability to dial 911. It would be a damn useful feature for an alarm system. Someone breaks in triggers an alarm and boom 911 gets dialed.
And also while 911 a popular emergency number... not everyone uses 911 in the same way. You could be restricting calling legit numbers.
Cherry bombs in toilets? Doesn't the wick die when it hits the water?
They make underwater fuses. I found them useful when using Estes rocket engines on model boats. Fireworks that have that thick black twisted fuse with twisted cotten will often stay lit underwater. Smokebombs and cherry bombs often do. I've seen some bottlerockets with underwater fuses which were useful for playing battleship on a pond.
You can find Firecrackers with underwater fuses here.
Now why anyone would put a cherry bomb in a toilet is beyond me. Either it will back flow and get shit everwhere including the dumb ass who dropped it, or it will break a pipe and get shit everywhere. I can not deny there are a few kids who will do this but I would think that anyone who did this would grow out of it at some point.
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I made a purchase at Frys once, using my credit card, and they asked me for photo ID.
I discovered that the phrase "I'm English: we don't carry photo ID because Britain is a free country" works just fine.
Of the things I don't object to is being carded for card purchaces. I like the idea that if I lose my wallet there is someone willing to ask for photoID. I don't see the privacy issue because you are already handing them a card with your name on it. If I want to retain my privacy I pay cash esp. for places like Best Buy who seem to be far too obsessed with knowing who you are.
I would so pay a monthly subscription to download my TV shows off the respective channels.
Like $5 a month or something per channel/show would be fine for me and would allow me to finally get rid of my "traditional" TV subscription for satellite, AND it would get me exactly what I want.
$5 for all you want when you want on demand download a copy comercial free? HBO multi plex a la carte for me would cost $13.99/month, showtime / TMC / Sundance is $12.99, Cinimax $10.99 and Starz is $9.99. Given that people are willing to pay for premium movie channels, I would think that any sort of on demand net system would base it's price based on existing options... and tack on a little extra.
I know, I know, HBO is pay per view. But guess what? ....Copying TV is not piracy. Passing copies around is not piracy. I know, I know, HBO is pay per view. But guess what? We've been recording the shows on VCR's for years. Passing them out to friends without cable. AND NO ONE CARED. Because it's not piracy, ie SELLING the tapes, and two, it didn't hurt HBO, it only made it more popular and made more people want to subscribe.
First, HBO isn't pay per view it's a subscription network. Playboy for example offers subscription or pay per view but near as I'm aware this is not an option for HBO.
Second, when you give someone a home brewed disk and they ask where you got it, do you say HBO or some P2P network?
Pay networks and VCRs were a match made in heaven. You the subscriber got a cheap way to start a movie colleciton and the networks got more subscribers for people who wanted access to cheap movies. But pay networks have a right to be concerned. In the 80s and 90s when people asked you where you got the tape you gave them you could say HBO. In fact some pay networks advertised a time to set your VCRs (2:00am IIRC). So if you wanted to be cool and get a cheep movie collection of your own you got HBO. But in this decade you don't need a pay network to get content, you can get it via P2P.
Now rather than fight the public, I would think it would be wise of HBO and other networks to offer on demand downloads of content. Not only that but sell licensed cases and DVD fly leaves and add an element of legitimacy to the home brewed disc or printable coverart for those of us who can print on discs. Let's face it, sharpy marked discs look cheap.
I'm a strong advocate of copyright holders making money by offering downloads but selling cover art, bumper stickers, and posters. Consumers support and advertise at the same time and get a golden feeling they are supporting someone... and Weyerhaeuser.
My Canon bubble jet (came free with an old Dell) went through cartridges like candy. ... I can keep ink from drying up in my 50 year old Esterbrook fountain pen.
I think your easterbrook fountain pen holds about the same amount of ink as your Canon. Volume wise the cartrage is clearly larger than your bladder in your fountain pen, but there is that blasted sponge bringing the total capacity to about 5 to 10mils at best. I'm sure they ship with less as 10mills caused my cartrage to spew.
If you're talking about the Canon BJC-2100 which was the Gateway free printer for a time... the black yield is squat in the 200 range or so. This is the same printer others love due to it's low cost for cartrages, about $7.00 each. The cost per page is lowish, about 3.5cents/page for ink. As long as you don't mind taking the time to add ink at least twice per packet of paper and are willing to wait for the slugish printer the results are a very low cost per page.
It's not beyond modern science to improve on this figure. You can always get an aftermarket "continuous ink feed" if you are the sort of person who prefers not taking the time to change out their cartrages all the time. Google it and see for your self.
It's wouldn't be beyond modern science to offer a printer that took liquid ink in a flip top lid varity... but then they wouldn't make the bucks on the damn cartrages.
Do you have a nose? Check -- it should be on your face.
Can you smell the odor of sour milk after dumping a can of cat food, morning yogurt, and brewing coffee?
Very sour milk, perhaps. But that so so milk that doesn't seem to bother anyone else, that so so milk that only has a slightly sour odor that no one else seems to mind. Don't understand how anyone can stand that almost off taste. That's the one that makes me fart.
But like most people, there have been times when you don't take the time to sniff the milk in the jug, and it ends up in the glass, in its chunky yet white and opaque glory. to the mouth that first sip... and boom chunky spew everywhere.
I have an older HP Laserjet 5P. It uses a toner cartridge you can get for 30-80 dollars that will print a whole CASE of paper. It makes your price per page figures look just sad. Also it prints 6 or 7 pages per minute.
I wasn't touching the subject of laser, mostly inkjets as there were lots of claims that canon inktanks are so cheap. I see them as cheepish, but not dirt cheap but at least easy to refill.
But I also have a laser that takes raw toner. IIRC correctly the HP 5P has a 3000 or 4000 page yield @ $30 for a referb cartrage. Penny sub penny range. But I can pickup a pint of toner at the local copy repair shop for $12 or so. Anything bulk goes to my laser, and I shut off the laser as it really sucks up the juice. I estimate my yield of 1 pint of toner at about 5000.
But if I really wanted to be a cheap bastard i'd go back to dot matrix.
i believe the epson printer has the printheads built-in. this was after talking to an epson rep about the r300s . the r200s might be the same.
The Epson rep I talked to at compusa sounded very clueless. When I asked about CD printing he showed me the driver disc and said it was a demo printed on the printer. I tried to feed a CD through and he told me how I would "damage" the printer if I tried using their demo to print. He also said I would damage the printer if I printed from word onto the CD even if I stay within the margins. He also said that it would damage the printer if the front feed was down as printing in normal mode would grab a sheet of paper. Damage Damage Damage over and over again. Even putting a non printable CD/DVD into the printer according to him would cause damage! I asked him why I should consider such a fragile printer... he got pissed off and walked away. So did I and bought it else where.
The info he provided was mostly bogus. It's true that if you use the CD try and try to print to "paper" it won't rise and the printhead will hit the tray. Seems silly that this logic isn't handeled in the printer or the driver esp since it warns you "please remove CD/DVD tray". Near as I can tell you can put non-printable media in the printer and looks soso on the transparancy setting. And the driver CD was clearly silkscreened. Had he not tried to use bullshit in the first place and say right off the bat "this was printed on an epson" I wouldn't have tried to put a damn CD through. I tend not to trust reps.
The r300 and r200 take the same ink tanks. The print assembly looks similar and both offer the same sort of front feed dvd tray. But built in is an odd term for something that that was mounted at some point and designed to move left to right freely. It's not freely detachable like some Canons, it does look like you have to disassemble the entire printer to replace the print head, a major pain as the printhead track rises and falls to accomidate the ultra thick tray that is offered.
The way I see it is this. A printhead I expect to cost $50 or so. Ink runs about 7 to 14 bucks each, assuming 14 black and 7 color that's $49, or $42 from a cheeper place. The r200 cost $100 and comes with ink. I could replace the printhead, or I could get a new printer and get new ink. Sadly if my printhead goes, a new printer would likely be justified unless you already spent the extra money on refillable tanks which you may be able to run solvent and clean up a nasty print head.
Would you like your local dairy to put something in your milk that will spoil it for you on the expiration date? Or would you rather check if the milk is sour before you drink it, and decide for yourself if it is usable?
I'd love a time actived dye cap in my milk that will clearly identify it's past its expiration date. Nothing worse than being half awake fuzzy eyed making my morning latté only to discover that the milk is either a little bit off resulting in my farting all day, or really off resulting in that sour milk taste and farting all day, or really really off with that sour taste farting all day and vomiting.
Come midnight, poof the milk goes red. Easy to spot without my glasses.
Good thing my cannon cartridges come with JUST INK, no stupid electronics to get in the way.
.5cents/page.
The Canon's I've seen are nice in the fact that they use simple ink tanks and have a easily detachable printhead when the time comes to replace it.
The Epson I own, the R200 doesn't look as easy as the Canon to replace the printhead.
The HP PSC 950 I own takes a $30 black cartrage with an estimated yield of 603 pages. The print head is as usual onboard. About
There is another cartrage for HP ( 51645A ) that is the same price but has an estimated yield of 833 pages. It was for the 950c series among many others. It works out to be 3.6 cents a page. I no longer own this printer.
My Epson r200 takes a $17 black ink tank with an estimated yield of 450 pages. Unknown inkhead replacement cost. The tanks are chipped to prevent running totally dry (or refilling). About 3.7cents/page
The Canon BJC 2100 takes an inktank that costs $7.00 with an estimated yield of 200 pages. About 3.5cents/page. The printhead costs $50 or so if you need to replace it.
My numbers come from Office Depot, and my printer selection is limited. While it's true that the Canon's ink tanks for the bj 2100 are slighty cheaper than the HP 51645A, this cheepness is dependent on how often you replace your printhead.
Consumer Reports puts a Price per Page figure in their articles.
When I shop office depot, they offer a page yield for the cartrages they sell.
What happened to the old days when the customer was king and great customer service was the way to do business.
People are too cheap to *pay* for customer service.
But don't think Lexmark is unique. Back in the typewriter days it was common place to offer low price typewriters but only supply carbon ribbons and charge an arm and a leg for them rather than the fabric ribbons that lasted longer and could be reinked.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
Compression ratio on divx/xvid is better under rar than winzip. The random xvid shows 367,044,608 packed to 337,342,228. That's a savings of 29,662,380 bytes. While some might not think it's worth the time to say 30 odd megs, it is close to 9% savings.
(who gives a shit about sizes these days)
Few would care. Among those that would are co-lo users who don't want to replace their hard drives so often. Even a small 9% means 9 extra gigs per 100gigs. Users in regions who pay by the byte would also care.
What possible features could you want except that it compresses
The number of archive standards it supports? Winrar supports "7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z" -(winrar help file). This was a good argument pre-windowsXP. Why buy winzip that supports only ZIP when you can buy WinRAR that supports a whole slew of standards used on the net including zip.
You can't say that now XP supports zip. Winrar may still be useful for a windows user for it's ISO, JAR, and CAB support.
Passwords are a pain in the ass and anyone that password locks their archive then uploads it for people is just trying to get their hit counts up for their web sites.
Encrypted archives are useful to prevent 3rd parties from sniffing packets. You might be paranoid that your ISP is looking for pirated material. While keeping a password on a website is a weak form of security, it's also adquate to prevent random detection. It's likely to keep their hit counts up, but that doesn't mean there isn't a side benifit.
So again I ask, give me a good reason why rar is better?
1. Higher compression ratio esp on divx/xvid.
2. The rarlabs application supports compression standards than winzip. It also supports ISO and TAR.
I'm not saying the world should convert to RAR. I even concede that it's damned annoying hitting rogue sites that use an *alternative* standard. But there are valid reasons to use RAR that I can not ignore.
So. Korea being the size of about New Jersey
might be the reason broadband has deeper penetraton than in the US
New Jersey a population of about 8.6 million, of those about 693,000 were subscribed to broadband in 2003 or about 8%. This state is in the top 5 list of subscribers in America.
South Korea is about 38,023 sq. miles in size
New Jersey is about 8,721 sq. miles.
Virginia on the other hand is larger than South Korea, but close at 39,598 sq. miles. It would be less insulting to say that South Korea was the about the same size as on of the sothern states.
N.J. is smaller in terms of size and population than South Korea, yet has less in terms of percent of broadband subscribers.
I dunno if it's illegal exactly ... ISPs aren't part of law enforcement (yet.) But I'm sure it's against the TOS of most providers.
That is a good question whether it would fall in the same catagory as theft of service. If we're talking cableTV, and you run a cable from your house to another it would be considered theft of service.
Key difference with WiFi is you are not actually running a physical wire, and WiFi is often offered directly from the ISP. Having one in it self isn't illegal like running a rogue wire. You can't see it, or photograph it. I have yet to see a case where someone gets taken to court over sharing beyond their property.
I expect a hydrogen car to have similar advantages and similar disadvantages.
I'll agree CNG is better for the daily drive than cross country trips. But most cars/trucks i've looked at are dual fuel, as in you can switch between fuels at the flip of a switch. In the case of an aftermarket conversion you would lose cargo space but gain range if you use both fuels. I looked into this some years back and am basicly ready to switch just as soon as there is a public filling station within 5 miles of me.
Running CNG requires a top notch ignition system, where petrol requires more frequent oil changes.
The question of the day is...
If you buy and return a video, do they charge a restocking fee?
If, under the old system, they charged you the retail price of the video after seven days (plus the restocking fee if you returned the video for a refund) AND charged you a late fee, and now they don't, then their ads are perfectly legit.
:P
Their old system last I saw was prorated based on the rental price * days rented. I.e. $4.00 movie was 80cents for each day late. So no in by noon and you are stuck with restocking late fee
Not to speak of stores that charge the traditional late fees dispite the fact that the national ads say no late fees.
When they advertise free coffee, do you expect to get to keep the cup? How about a free donut?
In the case of refills, filling the cup is free but the cup in not... clearly as described in the menu. Coffee buck and something, refills free.
In the case of free rest area coffee, yea they expect you to keep the cup, which is probally why they offer it in styrofoam cups.
They say no late fees. They mean no late fees. It doesn't say anything about other fees.
When they say no late fees, they mean a restocking fee if returned late, or purchace of the damn movie if you are really really late. There clearly is a fee if late, not to be confused with a late fee which is a fee if late.
That's the whole point. It shouldn't be cheaper. But since it is (presumably, since I have no personal experience with this), that means that the 0% financing isn't really 0% percent financing. They're just adding what they would get in interest to the base price. That's where the misleading advertising comes into play.
.9 or 1.9 or 5.9 over x years, since it's a flat rate the annual percentage rate is still 0%. That's how flat rates work.
If you offer to buy a car at the sticker price, they will sell you the car at the sticker price. A dealer would be stupid not to. This is why I hate buying cars from dealers. All the sticker prices, new or used, are pretty meaningless... it's the first thing the salesman tells you when you say, "I can't afford that." They want you to try it out, like it, and after you just gotta-have-it they lower the price just a little. Dealers, for the most part... suck.
What is typicaly advertised is "0% APR" where APR means Annual Percentage Rate. So long as you conform to the terms of the contract and pay your balance within the set time, even though the finance charges are a flat rate calculated into the sales price, your annual percentage rate = 0%. Even if the flat rate would equal the same as
Now how many months 0% is valid depends on the contract, could be 12, 24, or 48months before they kick in an interest rate, and it might be retro active. But it's still possible to get flat rate financing.
I mean if people today are so dumb that they think Blockbuster's commercials meant they could just keep rental movies forever then we have reached a new level of stupidity not equaled in quite a while.
Why? Baskin and Robins claims free ice cream on halloween, and you do get free ice cream. Many resturants claim free refills on coffee and sure enough they have free refills. I get free coffee at rest areas on the highway. Even those cheesy some see our property and get a free gift adverts after listening to the morons for hours do give you a cheepo free gift but always one of the three that are listed.
So why shouldn't someone believe "no more late fees" when clearly advertised as such?
Well, their main customer base is american after all...
That being the case, they could have called them selves "T-Cell" but this might result in some confusion, protests, and mayhem. "T-Cell - Get more from life!"
Where if it's BBC stuff is it piracy if they are taxed for it?
Not true- if you have to dial 9 to reach an outside line, you have to dial 9-911 to call 911.
But... if you don't have to dial 9 to reach an outside line, and do it anyway... click the checkbox to prefix with a 1, and in the number field have 1-xxx-xxx-xxxx, the end result would be 9,1-1-xxx-xxx-xxxx.
But perhaps such a safety feature should be incorporated directly into all modems
It reminds me of some tech support story where someone enabled dial 9 for an outside line, long distance so dial 1 and for the number they used the syntax 1-xxx-xxxx. So the modem would end up dialing 9-1-1. I don't know if it's a true story but it sounds possible.
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to have modems start restricting your ability to dial 911.
It would be a damn useful feature for an alarm system. Someone breaks in triggers an alarm and boom 911 gets dialed.
And also while 911 a popular emergency number... not everyone uses 911 in the same way. You could be restricting calling legit numbers.
Cherry bombs in toilets? Doesn't the wick die when it hits the water?
They make underwater fuses. I found them useful when using Estes rocket engines on model boats. Fireworks that have that thick black twisted fuse with twisted cotten will often stay lit underwater. Smokebombs and cherry bombs often do. I've seen some bottlerockets with underwater fuses which were useful for playing battleship on a pond.
You can find Firecrackers with underwater fuses here.
Now why anyone would put a cherry bomb in a toilet is beyond me. Either it will back flow and get shit everwhere including the dumb ass who dropped it, or it will break a pipe and get shit everywhere. I can not deny there are a few kids who will do this but I would think that anyone who did this would grow out of it at some point.