I used to work in an office with a Phaser 850DP crayon printer.
It required a lot of work to get it calibrated to print colours anything near what basically all other printers produced (e.g., for a given colour blue, it would print it very differently from the small range that other printer makes/models produced). Their colour profiles were whacked, and after hours on the phone with their tech support, I gave up and created my own by hand.
The printer refused to print grey under almost any circumstance. It would instead print a murky beige. In some applications (like Illustrator) you can explicitly choose a 1-ink black but in most this is not an option. This was never resolved and resulted in a lot of trips to Kinkos to use their laser printer when it was important to actually have grey.
The ink was quite thick and on pages with a lot of coverage, the paper had a strange tacky feel, smelled like a Crayola carton, and was noticeably heavy.
It took about a month to warm up when you powered it on.
Here's the problem I have with color inkjets. I rarely print in color. I do a lot of black and white printing. What I was finding was when I needed color the ink had dried out. So I was running out to the office store to buy more ink. I can't imagine what the cost per page was.
You've discovered one of the dirty secrets of inkjets.
Under optimal conditions, the cost per page tends to be a few times that of a laser. But for many users, who only print occasionally, and have to deal with the dry-ink problem, the cost per page skyrockets. For my mother, who just had to have the printer but ends up printing 2 or 3 photos a year and nothing else, it's probably about 10 euro.
Picked a HP 2100TN for about US$25 5 years ago and it's been chugging away smoothly ever since. Based on the IP address that was configured into it, it was previously owned by Siemens, who I assume used it in an office setting. I run it in an un-airconditioned room where the open windows let in 85F, 90% humidity air 365 days a year. The sticker says it was made in February 2001.
There aren't many consumer devices - especially things this complex, with moving parts - that I've seen last this long.
Let's face it: we geeks all do the same thing. When you show up with your dirty beard, beer gut, suspenders, blackened coffee mug, you are telling the world "everyone values my competence so much that I don't need to sell myself via superficial means."
It's true. Until I bought that strap-on beer gut, I couldn't get hired to save my life. Now I'm drowning in job offers.
Maybe it is actually a good thing to encourage you old folks to get together and learn "the new technology". Do you relate to it?
Oh God please no.
Some slick talker in a computer shop convinced my mom to replace her aging Mac with a Windows machine so she could "play more games."
Overnight my quality of life went straight into the crapper. It changed from one computer-question phone call every 6 months to two or three per week, and has been at that agonising level ever since. Every time I visit her I have to spend several hours cleaning the machine up and trying to get stuff to work.
A shell is a very powerful tool (one that I can't live without) but a common view is that Windows is great because it provides a pretty, easy graphical frontend to everything and doesn't need a shell. Installing a Windows web server is as easy as checking a little box that says IIS and flipping through an intuitive configuration applet with checkboxes and helpful explanations. When I first discovered that I could install IIS as a Windows component I went through the configuration and was amazed at how easy it all was. God help you if you're a newbie trying to figure out Apache configuration.
In the context, I find your comment confusing. Apache is installed on every Mac and you can activate it with a couple clicks.
And how may I ask does the month your mother gave birth to you lead to a lifelong plight? If ever their was a classic junk study showing the usual correlation-causation woolly thinking, this is it. Apparently, a lot of unmarried, less educated mothers have more unprotected sex in May (or less in January). Why would this lead you to conclude that being born in winter disadvantages someone. I was born in winter and my mother was married, educated and employed. Has my life been deprived somehow? Do I need extra money or protection or something?
Nope, just a stats class.
Across a population, being tall confers a slight advantage in terms of income.
That doesn't mean any given tall person is going to earn more than he'd earn if he were shorter.
A "gang" that goes around conspiring to cadge one-euro Metro rides? Pretty damn badass. What's next, stealing power by plugging AA battery chargers into outlets in the library?
I don't think this is because of organization, I think it is because of all the rote learning you've done. You aren't reading & reacting to the menu bar you "just know" where to go because you've done it a million times.
Actually I specifically meant to refer to situations where I don't know how to perform the task in question. With the menu bar I can quickly figure it out. With the ribbon I am flipping things in and out, trying to find something that seems relevant, wasting vast amounts of time waiting for tooltips to appear on undecipherable icons.
The problem I have with the ribbon, and the reason I'll download an add-on to replace the menus in Firefox or just switch to Safari, is that it's a disorganized mess, with everything getting roughly the same amount of visual play. Worse still, some things get more play just because they take more space to show.
With the menu, some things may be buried a few levels deep, but at least it's highly organised and I can quickly figure out where to find things using common sense. In the long run this works out much better for me. Maybe it's different for users who are just encountering a computer for the first time or something.
As a fairly old hand in the print world, I think you're not grasping how much manipulation was going on, especially in the 1980s, before digital photo editing was common. The biggest difference now is that it's vastly cheaper so you see a lot more of it. There was an astonishing array of pre- and post-shutter techniques that could achieve pretty much anything that Photoshop can today.
I can buy lenses that will alter the geometry of image content. Combine them with tasteful reserve plus skillful background/placement and nobody's the wiser.
I think the point is that you have to put it on if you "modify the appearance of a person". I would doubt that modifying the white-balance would count as this, but agree that it will be hard to choose an arbitrary point to draw the line of what does and what does not need the disclaimer.
More like impossible, if you want it to be meaningful.
If you've spent some time working with photographers, you know that moving a light just a tiny bit can dramatically change how much someone appears to weigh. Changing the colour of light - or even the colour of other nearby objects that reflect some light - can change someone from vibrant to sickly. And don't even get started on makeup. Labeling only an arbitrary set of electronic manipulations is at best a joke. It'll be great news for touch-up artists who still have their old-school airbrushes, though.
Just to clarify - the Malaysian government treat non-indigenous people like shit. It sounds opposite from the way you describe it.
The Malaysian government treats indigenous people (Kadazan, Iban, Dusun, etc.) like shit. Then it invents and reinforces a fiction that the plurality-race Malays are indigenous, which they are clearly not, and showers them with privilege in the name of defending the natives. This further marginalises the actual indigenous people.
It's like if the American government had special laws to favour indigenous people, and interpreted them as covering white people, since some of them were there a few years longer than the Africans and the Asians.
What Malaysia is claiming is that they own the "copyright" to these food and that no one else is allowed to even produce it elsewhere.
I don't see that in TFA. It just says that they want some the dishes to be declared as "Malaysian".
Which is sort of stupid, since almost everyone in Malaysia with a famous recipe is a relatively recent immigrant - only the indigenous people have been around for any significant amount of time and the government treats them like shit.
But it's not particularly aggressive or contentious. Just a typical Malaysian government waste of time.
My intention was to come up with an example in which there was no conceivable argument of corporate copyright interest. I should have thought that would be obvious given the context.
What if I record something myself using the "voice recorder" function and want to play it? Will that have to be run by the RIAA first? Will I be forbidden from exchanging my own recordings (of my baby laughing or whatever) with my friends?
If not, then surely someone will make a simple scrubber app that makes an MP3 look to the phone like a user-recorded sound.
Ya, and homerow bullshit is the cause of much of the hand crippling RSI that people experience. It's sad that something so obvious as "that's not natural" has to be argued for.
I've been typing most of the day for 35 years and my hands are fine. All I needed to know was "watch your posture and keep your wrists straight," which my mother told me in about 15 seconds. Not worth a slot that could be used for an actual class on something important.
Won't kids learn to type anyway? By the time I was forced to take typing class by my smugly progressive high school in the 1980s I had already taught myself to type. I had a different method (and still do) and resisted the home-key touch-typing method, with the result that I scored poorly in typing class. This was despite the fact that I can type accurately at 90wpm.
Perhaps there are some kids who haven't had much keyboard exposure who would benefit from it, but for those who have and use computers at home, it seems kind of like a waste of time.
You're wrong. The initial '1' is not the country code, else you would be able to dial '800' from within the US.
What sort of sense does that make? The "1" at the beginning of "1800" behaves identically to the "1" at the beginning of "1415" or "1202". It is required and is not required in exactly the same contexts.
In fact, you have to drop the initial '1' from US numbers when dialing from outside the US. The fact that you then have to add it again is just coincidental - it's a coincidence that the country code is the same as the first one.
You are confusing coincidence with design.
Sorry, but I'm not interested in talking about this any more.
Understandable. Well, hope at least you learned something.
It is a complete telephone number. It starts with country code and finishes with the local component.
The dialing prefix you may have to use from a specific place is not part of the number, it's part of the process that you use to dial that number when you are in that specific place.
It's like if you claimed that "double-click on the outlook icon and click 'new message'" was part of your email address.
Your 1800 number isn't much use from outside your country, unless you specify the country.
The "1" at the beginning specifies the country (well, it specifies NANPA, but same thing for this purpose). This is why I, as part of my ongoing commitment to accuracy, have been writing "1800" instead of "800".
And I am pretty sure that the US 1800 numbers don't work from China. I would be surprised if they work from anywhere - though I've not tried them from anywhere apart from China.
I can help you out here, since I've been to about 25 countries this year and almost 100 in the last few years, and have been having an ongoing issue with the bank which has required frequent calls to a US-based 1800 number. It works almost everywhere, as have incidental calls to other 1800 numbers.
I strongly suspect that whether 'it works' or not depends on some bi-lateral agreement between the networks involved; irrespective of if it is free.
Whether it works or not depends on whether it was blocked for some reason. There are two reasons it could be blocked:
1. It could be blocked at the originating (calling) end, because the phone company there doesn't realise it's a valid number, or is sick of people complaining about being charged standard USA IDD rates for the calls.
2. It could be blocked at the terminating (answering) end, because the 1800 number holder opted for geographic limitations on where they'd accept calls from - perhaps because they only want calls from New York and New Jersey, or whatever. Some companies choose this because they don't believe they have legitimate customers in other places and don't want to pay their standard per-minute rate to receive calls from them (the cost to a USA 1800 et al number user to receive a call from Germany is the same as receiving a call from Ohio, and generally lower than receiving a call from Canada).
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I used to work in an office with a Phaser 850DP crayon printer.
It required a lot of work to get it calibrated to print colours anything near what basically all other printers produced (e.g., for a given colour blue, it would print it very differently from the small range that other printer makes/models produced). Their colour profiles were whacked, and after hours on the phone with their tech support, I gave up and created my own by hand.
The printer refused to print grey under almost any circumstance. It would instead print a murky beige. In some applications (like Illustrator) you can explicitly choose a 1-ink black but in most this is not an option. This was never resolved and resulted in a lot of trips to Kinkos to use their laser printer when it was important to actually have grey.
The ink was quite thick and on pages with a lot of coverage, the paper had a strange tacky feel, smelled like a Crayola carton, and was noticeably heavy.
It took about a month to warm up when you powered it on.
In sum, not an experience I'd want to repeat.
You've discovered one of the dirty secrets of inkjets.
Under optimal conditions, the cost per page tends to be a few times that of a laser. But for many users, who only print occasionally, and have to deal with the dry-ink problem, the cost per page skyrockets. For my mother, who just had to have the printer but ends up printing 2 or 3 photos a year and nothing else, it's probably about 10 euro.
Picked a HP 2100TN for about US$25 5 years ago and it's been chugging away smoothly ever since. Based on the IP address that was configured into it, it was previously owned by Siemens, who I assume used it in an office setting. I run it in an un-airconditioned room where the open windows let in 85F, 90% humidity air 365 days a year. The sticker says it was made in February 2001.
There aren't many consumer devices - especially things this complex, with moving parts - that I've seen last this long.
It's true. Until I bought that strap-on beer gut, I couldn't get hired to save my life. Now I'm drowning in job offers.
Nicely done.
Oh God please no.
Some slick talker in a computer shop convinced my mom to replace her aging Mac with a Windows machine so she could "play more games."
Overnight my quality of life went straight into the crapper. It changed from one computer-question phone call every 6 months to two or three per week, and has been at that agonising level ever since. Every time I visit her I have to spend several hours cleaning the machine up and trying to get stuff to work.
In the context, I find your comment confusing. Apache is installed on every Mac and you can activate it with a couple clicks.
Nope, just a stats class.
Across a population, being tall confers a slight advantage in terms of income.
That doesn't mean any given tall person is going to earn more than he'd earn if he were shorter.
A "gang" that goes around conspiring to cadge one-euro Metro rides? Pretty damn badass. What's next, stealing power by plugging AA battery chargers into outlets in the library?
Actually I specifically meant to refer to situations where I don't know how to perform the task in question. With the menu bar I can quickly figure it out. With the ribbon I am flipping things in and out, trying to find something that seems relevant, wasting vast amounts of time waiting for tooltips to appear on undecipherable icons.
The problem I have with the ribbon, and the reason I'll download an add-on to replace the menus in Firefox or just switch to Safari, is that it's a disorganized mess, with everything getting roughly the same amount of visual play. Worse still, some things get more play just because they take more space to show.
With the menu, some things may be buried a few levels deep, but at least it's highly organised and I can quickly figure out where to find things using common sense. In the long run this works out much better for me. Maybe it's different for users who are just encountering a computer for the first time or something.
As a fairly old hand in the print world, I think you're not grasping how much manipulation was going on, especially in the 1980s, before digital photo editing was common. The biggest difference now is that it's vastly cheaper so you see a lot more of it. There was an astonishing array of pre- and post-shutter techniques that could achieve pretty much anything that Photoshop can today.
I can buy lenses that will alter the geometry of image content. Combine them with tasteful reserve plus skillful background/placement and nobody's the wiser.
More like impossible, if you want it to be meaningful.
If you've spent some time working with photographers, you know that moving a light just a tiny bit can dramatically change how much someone appears to weigh. Changing the colour of light - or even the colour of other nearby objects that reflect some light - can change someone from vibrant to sickly. And don't even get started on makeup. Labeling only an arbitrary set of electronic manipulations is at best a joke. It'll be great news for touch-up artists who still have their old-school airbrushes, though.
The Malaysian government treats indigenous people (Kadazan, Iban, Dusun, etc.) like shit. Then it invents and reinforces a fiction that the plurality-race Malays are indigenous, which they are clearly not, and showers them with privilege in the name of defending the natives. This further marginalises the actual indigenous people.
It's like if the American government had special laws to favour indigenous people, and interpreted them as covering white people, since some of them were there a few years longer than the Africans and the Asians.
Actually, no, it was the Discovery Channel who made that claim and since apologised for it.
I don't see that in TFA. It just says that they want some the dishes to be declared as "Malaysian".
Which is sort of stupid, since almost everyone in Malaysia with a famous recipe is a relatively recent immigrant - only the indigenous people have been around for any significant amount of time and the government treats them like shit.
But it's not particularly aggressive or contentious. Just a typical Malaysian government waste of time.
My intention was to come up with an example in which there was no conceivable argument of corporate copyright interest. I should have thought that would be obvious given the context.
What if I record something myself using the "voice recorder" function and want to play it? Will that have to be run by the RIAA first? Will I be forbidden from exchanging my own recordings (of my baby laughing or whatever) with my friends?
If not, then surely someone will make a simple scrubber app that makes an MP3 look to the phone like a user-recorded sound.
I've been typing most of the day for 35 years and my hands are fine. All I needed to know was "watch your posture and keep your wrists straight," which my mother told me in about 15 seconds. Not worth a slot that could be used for an actual class on something important.
Won't kids learn to type anyway? By the time I was forced to take typing class by my smugly progressive high school in the 1980s I had already taught myself to type. I had a different method (and still do) and resisted the home-key touch-typing method, with the result that I scored poorly in typing class. This was despite the fact that I can type accurately at 90wpm.
Perhaps there are some kids who haven't had much keyboard exposure who would benefit from it, but for those who have and use computers at home, it seems kind of like a waste of time.
What's the counterpart to "whoosh" for someone who explaineth too much?
What sort of sense does that make? The "1" at the beginning of "1800" behaves identically to the "1" at the beginning of "1415" or "1202". It is required and is not required in exactly the same contexts.
You are confusing coincidence with design.
Understandable. Well, hope at least you learned something.
It is a complete telephone number. It starts with country code and finishes with the local component.
The dialing prefix you may have to use from a specific place is not part of the number, it's part of the process that you use to dial that number when you are in that specific place.
It's like if you claimed that "double-click on the outlook icon and click 'new message'" was part of your email address.
The "1" at the beginning specifies the country (well, it specifies NANPA, but same thing for this purpose). This is why I, as part of my ongoing commitment to accuracy, have been writing "1800" instead of "800".
I can help you out here, since I've been to about 25 countries this year and almost 100 in the last few years, and have been having an ongoing issue with the bank which has required frequent calls to a US-based 1800 number. It works almost everywhere, as have incidental calls to other 1800 numbers.
Whether it works or not depends on whether it was blocked for some reason. There are two reasons it could be blocked:
1. It could be blocked at the originating (calling) end, because the phone company there doesn't realise it's a valid number, or is sick of people complaining about being charged standard USA IDD rates for the calls.
2. It could be blocked at the terminating (answering) end, because the 1800 number holder opted for geographic limitations on where they'd accept calls from - perhaps because they only want calls from New York and New Jersey, or whatever. Some companies choose this because they don't believe they have legitimate customers in other places and don't want to pay their standard per-minute rate to receive calls from them (the cost to a USA 1800 et al number user to receive a call from Germany is the same as receiving a call from Ohio, and generally lower than receiving a call from Canada).
18005551212. What is the number, if not 18005551212?