My Epson Stylus R300 can print directly onto printable CDs.
Both the R300 and R200 can. The R300 is a touch more spendy than the R200 but offers onboard LCD display, memory cards slots, and they offer a bluetooth adapter that isn't listed for the R200. I went for the R200 model my self. I couldn't justify the extra $80 for fancy features I won't use.
But I have tried the R200 model on regular media. While the ink takes days to dry black text is readable.
While I stand corrected on CVCC... the CVCC had a 1500cc engine. 105cc would be be decent for a moped or small motorcycle but wouldn't power anything car sized.
Says the New Scientist article linked to above. So I'd guesstimate that it would be around 50 cents per disk...
Where one can buy a printer like the Epson Stylus R200 and use ink jet printable media. The printer fetches $100 and the printable media 25 cents to 77 cents each plus ink. You can print on regular media but the drytime is 1-7 days and the quality is piss poor. I have only printed 100 DVDs with it so far on one black cartrage. The black cartrage runs about $20 for the Epson or less than half for a generic.
There is also the Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer which is a 200dpi thermal ribbon printer that fetches $140 or so. The ribbon fetchs $20 or so which from what i've heard prints on about 200 cds. So about 10cents a piece. This can be cheaper if you buy brand name media like Verbatim.
LightScribe looks nice, wouldn't run like liquid ink can, and would take up less desktop space but it isn't here yet. At least with the two above options there is a snowball's chance in hell the media will still be around in 5 years.
Ask the cardholder to sign the card and provide current government identification, such as a driver's license or passport (if local law permits).
Everyone sucks at reading that. I used an unsigned card for years. Actually I did "sign it" but for some odd reason the ink refused to stick and it disapeared everytime I put it back in my wallet.
The few places who asked me to sign my card took extra time to make sure the signature I just signed on my card was the same as what I put on the rescript... and didn't bother to ask for ID.
1) Why is it so damn dark? Here it is in 2005 and we have light bulbs that put use 25 wants and act like a 75 watt light bulb. The enterprise looks like it is lit with a few flashlighs that need new batteries.
It's likely a budget issue. Dark sets not only set the mood but save bucks.... well it saves them bucks. Thanks to Enterprise I discovered how shot my old Sony 20SE was and had to buy another damn monitor. Thanks guys!
Could have been phrased better, but it's a good point: would super-cheap phones encourage crooks to use disposable phones, making it harder for the phone to be tracked and conversations recorded? It's certainly much more convenient. Are there any other advantages for criminals, and how could cops counter this?
You can already buy pay as you go phones. The pricerange seems to be between $50 and $100 plus airtime which usually is 25 to 50cents/min. They often come with bonus time if you give them your address but I imagine a criminal wouldn't need to do this.
But better still you can just buy the pay as you go sim cards at least from t-mobile. Get a junk phone from a 2nd hand store for the $20 range or so and a sim card from where ever and boom. GSM phones are not at all uncommon as people on contracts can often get a free for cheap phone yearly which might save them money on batteries.
I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad. I hardly ever use the keypad and my mouse could occupy the space where the number pad and arrow/home keys reside now.
There are a number of 86-key keyboards but yes they start between $50-$100. I see often keyboards with trackpads and sometimes trackballs.
Compaq had one 164989-001 that I found to be nice... but at the price I could buy a normal keyboard and use a trackball.
I also like the backspace and tab key locations - I think I could get used to those. Enter key is also in a more natural location.
Compaq had keyboards with a split spacebar. Right side was the space and the left side was back space. Using it drove me 100% batty but I could see where one would find it useful if doing much data entry.
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It's called the Gateway AnyKey Keyboard and it's the best keyboard ever made, since it did the macros in internal non-volital keyboard memory, rather than in a PC program that was platform dependant.
Except when you had people press the *Macro* button wondering what it did then typing away as normal which resulted in one key spewing off half a sentence. And it being non-volital there was no obvious way to remove the damn macro.
Somewhere around here I have some old Amiga ads shown on latenite television... MTV 120min to be specific. But nothing beats Bill Gate's 1983 Teen Beat spread.
Could of swore the American people can record something with a VCR/TiVo and happily watch it back.
Time shifting is fair use. You can record something for your own use and watch it later.
Surely the same thing applies to downloading it after watching it on TV a day or so before too.
You didn't record it. Someone else recorded it and gave you a copy. That in most cases is a violation of the copyright, not fair use. You may have the right to timeshift but you don't have the right to distribute.
In the past this was not a big deal because you had to copy in real time, analog copies were lossy, and distribution was limited by the speed of shipping. But even in the 20th century from time to time pirate/bootleg video rings were busted.
(...)people totally ignore anything "in the real world" when it comes to "cyber" crime.
It would be the same thing if someone offered free access to a bank of professional VCRs that would produce copies of copyrighted material in mass. It was a crime then and it is a crime now.
Sweet! It will now be able to legally store the complete collection of cracked Commodore 64 disk games!
Oh joy. Eternaly preserved load screens with "Cracked by xxxxxx" "Greetz to...." and "k-rad 0-day vvarzz". And worse yet... eternaly preserved bogus hex-edited credits that say "Cracked by Kaptain K Mart".
Do narrow-minded and prudish Americans stay at home, while the broad-minded and friendly ones visit Europe in the summer?
You have the zelot-prudes who don't allow evolution to be taught in the classroom. They don't travel for the most part. The ones who do buy bulk plastic fig leaves at staple them everywhere.
Seriously. It's $10 cheaper to order Comcast cable Internet with basic cable
The monthly fee where I live for "Comcast Basic cable" is $33.75/month.
According to their website with cable it's $42.95/month $57.95/month without.
Extra fee to me looks like $15/month. You lose 18.75/month getting "Comcast basic cable".
AT&T cable offered something called "lifeline" which was below basic cable. If this is what you have I would enjoy it if you shared what the sucker is called on the bill. I've tried talking to sales about the subject but they seemed to have NO clue.
Did someone call him up and say "hey dude share some crappy movies? No. Did the cops install bittorrent on his pc and set it up? No. This dude broke the law in his country and is being punished. Whether or not you agree with it is a different story.
entrap v.
To lure into performing a previously or otherwise uncontemplated illegal act.
You raise an interesting point. Bittorrent does not give the end user the option to share or not to share. The software it self shares whatever you happen to be getting by it's design. If this is true you can not say the dude wanted to "share some crappy movies"... only download crappy movies.
Add to that the fact that access to many Bittorrent services are sold by 3rd parties. For example suprnova.com charged for access to torrents stored on suprnova.org. From the end user's perspective they paid for a service. One could say they were tricked into violating copyrights because material was offered for a fee.
Both cases could be argued as a form of entrapment.
I remember in Tacoma TCI / AT&T took out full page adverts in the newspaper and lots of airtime from a group that claimed to be "Citizens for Fair Cable". This was back 1997 or so. The CFFC claimed that a monopoly was good because if there was competition they would have to lower prices resulting in a negative impact on quality of service. Quality of service was piss poor anyway in the TCI territory due to their low grade cable and major leakage to the point that you could pirate the service somewhat with rabbit ears.
Rather than using a heat sync you use your RAM to cook micro pizzas. The heat is dissipated and consumed by the user in the form of 7mm circular pizzas. Betty Crocker eat your heart out.
If I had a child, I can't imagine them providing any viable excuse as to why I should purchase a cell phone for them and pay the bill
1. Payphones are not everywhere anymore. Even when I was in school there was only one payphone on campus for grades 7-12. Now there is none. 2. Collect calls cost an arm and a leg. After getting a few "come pick me up" calls I was in awe. 3. Calling cards don't always work in payphones. 4. You can often get a family plan with unlimited airtime between family phones. 5. Safety
I'm not saying that getting a cellphone for a kid is the right choice. But there are good reasons why one may consider it. I went with a pre-paid phone for my nieces. "Come pick me up" cost 25-55cents and there was no chance in hell there would be a charge above and beyond what was pre-paid.
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My Epson Stylus R300 can print directly onto printable CDs.
Both the R300 and R200 can. The R300 is a touch more spendy than the R200 but offers onboard LCD display, memory cards slots, and they offer a bluetooth adapter that isn't listed for the R200. I went for the R200 model my self. I couldn't justify the extra $80 for fancy features I won't use.
But I have tried the R200 model on regular media. While the ink takes days to dry black text is readable.
and furthermore, CVCC = "105 cubic centimetres"
While I stand corrected on CVCC... the CVCC had a 1500cc engine. 105cc would be be decent for a moped or small motorcycle but wouldn't power anything car sized.
Honda Inside.
Now known as the Civic.
Says the New Scientist article linked to above. So I'd guesstimate that it would be around 50 cents per disk...
Where one can buy a printer like the Epson Stylus R200 and use ink jet printable media. The printer fetches $100 and the printable media 25 cents to 77 cents each plus ink. You can print on regular media but the drytime is 1-7 days and the quality is piss poor. I have only printed 100 DVDs with it so far on one black cartrage. The black cartrage runs about $20 for the Epson or less than half for a generic.
There is also the Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer which is a 200dpi thermal ribbon printer that fetches $140 or so. The ribbon fetchs $20 or so which from what i've heard prints on about 200 cds. So about 10cents a piece. This can be cheaper if you buy brand name media like Verbatim.
LightScribe looks nice, wouldn't run like liquid ink can, and would take up less desktop space but it isn't here yet. At least with the two above options there is a snowball's chance in hell the media will still be around in 5 years.
Everyone sucks at reading that. I used an unsigned card for years. Actually I did "sign it" but for some odd reason the ink refused to stick and it disapeared everytime I put it back in my wallet.
The few places who asked me to sign my card took extra time to make sure the signature I just signed on my card was the same as what I put on the rescript... and didn't bother to ask for ID.
Gamma correction?? :)
Gamma correction resulted in showing semi-horizontal lines and a washed out image. I.e. showing exactly how shot the monitor was.
1) Why is it so damn dark? Here it is in 2005 and we have light bulbs that put use 25 wants and act like a 75 watt light bulb. The enterprise looks like it is lit with a few flashlighs that need new batteries.
It's likely a budget issue. Dark sets not only set the mood but save bucks.... well it saves them bucks. Thanks to Enterprise I discovered how shot my old Sony 20SE was and had to buy another damn monitor. Thanks guys!
Could have been phrased better, but it's a good point: would super-cheap phones encourage crooks to use disposable phones, making it harder for the phone to be tracked and conversations recorded? It's certainly much more convenient. Are there any other advantages for criminals, and how could cops counter this?
You can already buy pay as you go phones. The pricerange seems to be between $50 and $100 plus airtime which usually is 25 to 50cents/min. They often come with bonus time if you give them your address but I imagine a criminal wouldn't need to do this.
But better still you can just buy the pay as you go sim cards at least from t-mobile. Get a junk phone from a 2nd hand store for the $20 range or so and a sim card from where ever and boom. GSM phones are not at all uncommon as people on contracts can often get a free for cheap phone yearly which might save them money on batteries.
I have a small workspace and with the prevalence of Mouse usage, I would like to reclaim the space wasted by the keypad. I hardly ever use the keypad and my mouse could occupy the space where the number pad and arrow/home keys reside now.
There are a number of 86-key keyboards but yes they start between $50-$100. I see often keyboards with trackpads and sometimes trackballs.
Compaq had one 164989-001 that I found to be nice... but at the price I could buy a normal keyboard and use a trackball.
I also like the backspace and tab key locations - I think I could get used to those. Enter key is also in a more natural location.
Compaq had keyboards with a split spacebar. Right side was the space and the left side was back space. Using it drove me 100% batty but I could see where one would find it useful if doing much data entry.
It's called the Gateway AnyKey Keyboard and it's the best keyboard ever made, since it did the macros in internal non-volital keyboard memory, rather than in a PC program that was platform dependant.
Except when you had people press the *Macro* button wondering what it did then typing away as normal which resulted in one key spewing off half a sentence. And it being non-volital there was no obvious way to remove the damn macro.
Somewhere around here I have some old Amiga ads shown on latenite television... MTV 120min to be specific. But nothing beats Bill Gate's 1983 Teen Beat spread.
Does anyone else find it oddly fitting that this was preserved on a Betamax tape?
They likely mean Betacam not betamax. But who knows.
A "salvo" is something that is fired. A "suit" is something that is filed.
A suit is someone you hire... or fire. See lawyer.
But if you want to be literal... imagine a 16 gun barque lobbing of lawyers (suits) at MGM.
Could of swore the American people can record something with a VCR/TiVo and happily watch it back.
Time shifting is fair use. You can record something for your own use and watch it later.
Surely the same thing applies to downloading it after watching it on TV a day or so before too.
You didn't record it. Someone else recorded it and gave you a copy. That in most cases is a violation of the copyright, not fair use. You may have the right to timeshift but you don't have the right to distribute.
In the past this was not a big deal because you had to copy in real time, analog copies were lossy, and distribution was limited by the speed of shipping. But even in the 20th century from time to time pirate/bootleg video rings were busted.
(...)people totally ignore anything "in the real world" when it comes to "cyber" crime.
It would be the same thing if someone offered free access to a bank of professional VCRs that would produce copies of copyrighted material in mass. It was a crime then and it is a crime now.
Sweet! It will now be able to legally store the complete collection of cracked Commodore 64 disk games!
Oh joy. Eternaly preserved load screens with "Cracked by xxxxxx" "Greetz to...." and "k-rad 0-day vvarzz". And worse yet... eternaly preserved bogus hex-edited credits that say "Cracked by Kaptain K Mart".
Do narrow-minded and prudish Americans stay at home, while the broad-minded and friendly ones visit Europe in the summer?
You have the zelot-prudes who don't allow evolution to be taught in the classroom. They don't travel for the most part. The ones who do buy bulk plastic fig leaves at staple them everywhere.
Would it help if the ISP's were forced to only sell internet access with at least a router?
Ask MSN DSL users. The last time I checked they offered an Arescom modem with nat enabled without the ability for the end user to configure it.
True enough- except for Monsanto has been successfull in suing farmers who DIDN'T SIGN THE CONTRACT for patent infringement, so it's also illegal.
Why not sue the plants for unauthorized duplication? It's the plants who are infringing on the rights of Monsanto.
Providing a self replicating product and then suing people for it could be perceived as a form of corporate entrapment.
Seriously. It's $10 cheaper to order Comcast cable Internet with basic cable
The monthly fee where I live for "Comcast Basic cable" is $33.75/month.
According to their website with cable it's $42.95/month
$57.95/month without.
Extra fee to me looks like $15/month. You lose 18.75/month getting "Comcast basic cable".
AT&T cable offered something called "lifeline" which was below basic cable. If this is what you have I would enjoy it if you shared what the sucker is called on the bill. I've tried talking to sales about the subject but they seemed to have NO clue.
Did someone call him up and say "hey dude share some crappy movies? No. Did the cops install bittorrent on his pc and set it up? No. This dude broke the law in his country and is being punished. Whether or not you agree with it is a different story.
entrap v.
To lure into performing a previously or otherwise uncontemplated illegal act.
You raise an interesting point. Bittorrent does not give the end user the option to share or not to share. The software it self shares whatever you happen to be getting by it's design. If this is true you can not say the dude wanted to "share some crappy movies"... only download crappy movies.
Add to that the fact that access to many Bittorrent services are sold by 3rd parties. For example suprnova.com charged for access to torrents stored on suprnova.org. From the end user's perspective they paid for a service. One could say they were tricked into violating copyrights because material was offered for a fee.
Both cases could be argued as a form of entrapment.
I remember in Tacoma TCI / AT&T took out full page adverts in the newspaper and lots of airtime from a group that claimed to be "Citizens for Fair Cable". This was back 1997 or so. The CFFC claimed that a monopoly was good because if there was competition they would have to lower prices resulting in a negative impact on quality of service. Quality of service was piss poor anyway in the TCI territory due to their low grade cable and major leakage to the point that you could pirate the service somewhat with rabbit ears.
"Why woudl my RAM want Pizzas?"
Rather than using a heat sync you use your RAM to cook micro pizzas. The heat is dissipated and consumed by the user in the form of 7mm circular pizzas. Betty Crocker eat your heart out.
If I had a child, I can't imagine them providing any viable excuse as to why I should purchase a cell phone for them and pay the bill
1. Payphones are not everywhere anymore. Even when I was in school there was only one payphone on campus for grades 7-12. Now there is none.
2. Collect calls cost an arm and a leg. After getting a few "come pick me up" calls I was in awe.
3. Calling cards don't always work in payphones.
4. You can often get a family plan with unlimited airtime between family phones.
5. Safety
I'm not saying that getting a cellphone for a kid is the right choice. But there are good reasons why one may consider it. I went with a pre-paid phone for my nieces. "Come pick me up" cost 25-55cents and there was no chance in hell there would be a charge above and beyond what was pre-paid.
In the past I....
1. Did forms by hand
2. Download PDF... Print to TIFF [pre PDF years I just scanned in the form]
3. Copy and pasted the numbers from their "write their numbers like this" to the boxes
4. Submit