It continually amazes me that in the global world that comprises the internet, some people can continue to be so egocentric. Get outside the box dude. Not everyone can just sit back in their Herman Miller office chair in their air conditioned office and order up expensive solutions to their problems. One hell of a lot of the planet has to be a little more creative in solving some of lifes little challenges.
I've been working in Lijiang, China since a 7.0 earthquake devastated the area in 1986, destroying nearly 200,000 homes. I make about $300 a month, making expensive solutions, well, no solution at all. The company that wrote our present (6 year old) driver, GDT Softworks (Powerplot driver) no longer maintains/improves the product. It works, but it's not great. Tell me, where would the world of computers, or damn near anything else for that matter be, if we accepted the status quo. No, I don't spend my employer's precious money searching for solutions, I search on my own precious time. Forget about going out and buying a $6000 professional RIP solution. I'll be able to afford that on the 12th...of never.
A hearty xie xie (thank you) to all the posters who took some of their precious time to attempt to be helpful.
One of every 8 people walking the face of the earth is a Chinese peasant. While they may be hungry themselves, they would share a meal with you. Can't we be a little more generous in brain-storming solutions and not try to frame the rest of world's problems in our narrow little world?
Oh yeah, the nearest Kinkos is uh, about 8000 miles away!
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It continually amazes me that in the global world that comprises the internet, some people can continue to be so egocentric. Get outside the box dude. Not everyone can just sit back in their Herman Miller office chair in their air conditioned office and order up expensive solutions to their problems. One hell of a lot of the planet has to be a little more creative in solving some of lifes little challenges.
I've been working in Lijiang, China since a 7.0 earthquake devastated the area in 1986, destroying nearly 200,000 homes. I make about $300 a month, making expensive solutions, well, no solution at all. The company that wrote our present (6 year old) driver, GDT Softworks (Powerplot driver) no longer maintains/improves the product. It works, but it's not great. Tell me, where would the world of computers, or damn near anything else for that matter be, if we accepted the status quo. No, I don't spend my employer's precious money searching for solutions, I search on my own precious time. Forget about going out and buying a $6000 professional RIP solution. I'll be able to afford that on the 12th...of never.
A hearty xie xie (thank you) to all the posters who took some of their precious time to attempt to be helpful.
One of every 8 people walking the face of the earth is a Chinese peasant. While they may be hungry themselves, they would share a meal with you. Can't we be a little more generous in brain-storming solutions and not try to frame the rest of world's problems in our narrow little world?
Oh yeah, the nearest Kinkos is uh, about 8000 miles away!