Since when is a lease more advantageous? Leasing is for people with no money or too much money. You pay the same as for a car loan, but the difference is that once you are done with the lease you cannot keep the car. Buy a car instead and plan on replacing it every ten years....unless you are one of those insane people who drive 50k or more per year. In that case you should just move closer to where you need to go.
Agree, it also depends on how much one drives. I drive about 15 miles a day which would be ideal with an EV, but EVs are so much more expensive and gas is cheap that the math just does not come out in my favor. Besides that, there is not a single affordable EV or hybrid hatchback that is beefy enough to make it in the Northeastern winters. Charging would be not a problem, I have an unused 230V circuit available, just need to extend the cable to the car port.
I guess for the one off long road trips I could rent a suitable car, but that is not cheap and needs to be considered as operation cost.
As with almost everything, it is purely a matter of cost. As long as gas powered vehicles are significantly cheaper than EVs not much will change.
...a second too early. Worked as broadcasting engineer and cut short a commercial by one second. Lucky me, that was in the middle of the night, so the damage was not that bad. As you may have guessed, that was in Germany and quite a while ago. When I watch commercials on US TV they get cut off constantly, seems as if the ad customers are more forgiving here.
Working as broadcasting engineer was awesome except for the craptastic hours and the constant stress of not being allowed to make even a tiny mistake.
Since when is cybercrime willing acceptance? Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies bankroll mainly criminal activities, the legal and friendly usage is there, but negligible. I find it quite normal that people rather bank on a currency that is backed by something tangible rather than just hype and fluff.
Any information on such places? My local place does a refill for 59.95$ when I bring an empty cartridge. I can buy it online for 51$ shipping included and no need to take time off from work due to the local store's hours being from 9 to 5 (I work 8 to 5) and no weekend hours.
So when the question was so stupid, why bother with a dumb response? Besides that, more than half of the commenters actually provided some helpful advice. Seems they did not have a problem with the question.
This is from private use...and yes, I do have bigger issues to deal with, but given the many dumb responses here I wonder by now if asking on slashdot was not a colossal mistake. C'mon folks, do you really have to be so mean when someone asks a simple question?
Mainly school stuff that I obtained digitally. I know, how ironic to print it out then, but there is a significant problem when it is not on paper. To put that into perspective, I have that printer for four years now and used up 5 cartridges of which three are collecting dust under my desk.
The remaining toner is a health hazard because it is tiny particles (similar to asbestos). It is fine once it is fused to the paper. Some cartridges also have more than just toner in them.
The credit is not large enough compared to the place selling brand new cartridges without asking me about my underwear size. The issue is that their credit is no deal because the base price is insane.
Might be little to you...and I did use startpage to look for solutions, but came up empty. Sorry that I wasted your time although you seem to have plenty for writing a useless and nasty reply.
That was not my motivation. Selling them on eBay costs more money in fees than I would make off it. I just don't want to throw them in the trash. We already produce way too much trash. Sure, if there are means to benefit from it such as inexpensive refills as there are available for ink jet cartridges I wouldn't say no to that, but the refill services around here only do an exchange for a refilled cartridge that costs more than a brand new one.
I asked this because I do not accumulate those in a business setting. In our office we have the printer service companies (who beat each other up to get our business) deal with that, but they do not do private households and I am not bold enough to just dump my empty cartridges on the pile. I am sure they'd catch on to that quickly because we only have HP at work.
That was too easy...neat program, especially since it is prepaid postage to send the stuff back.
I bet they fill 2$ worth of toner in it, reset the chip if there even is one, and then sell it as new. Power to them, as far as consumables go Brother is among the least expensive.
Windows generates a lot of gunk that you can safely delete. That is all content in C:\Windows\Temp, C:\Windows\Prefetch (is empty on an SSD system), all.log files in C:\Windows except WindowsUpdate.log (can't delete that file), C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp, and C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files (including all cookies you no longer want to keep).
Prefetch content actually does serve a purpose, but especially after applying updates prefetch prefetches installer files that you will never ever use again. Prefetch will automatically fill up again with useful content.
Add disk cleanup and on HDD systems a real defrag to it (see http://www.mydefrag.com/ and you can keep your system running fine for a long time. Also, once a month weed through the installed programs list and uninstall everything that you haven't used in a while and are unlikely to use again. Make sure to clean up after the uninstallers who are notoriously bad in leaving abandoned files and folders behind. I also make decent experiences with CCleaner, but you want to pull at least a registry backup before running CCleaner.
I do all that on a regular basis on around 80 desktop systems that I manage and that for over a decade using the same process. Only once I ran into an issue where one Windows update insisted on having an old update package in the Temp folder in place.
Also, if you happen to play Roblox craft a scheduled task that deletes the files in the user's temp folder. Roblox as well as other apps are so badly designed that they leave gazillion of temp files behind without ever cleaning up.
Same as destroying Obamacare should be off the table? Three Supreme Court routings...errr....rulings later and the Reps are still piping the same line "Undo Obamacare!". And for good measure start the 173457th panel on reviewing Benghazi just to come to the same conclusions as all of them before.
Amazon makes money and they look for maximizing the money they make. In case you do not know, Amazon is a for profit business, not the publishing arm of the Salvation Army. I wish there would be more competition in the self-publishing arena, then we as authors could pick the model and outlet we want. Marketing directly from author to reader is no easily possible because most authors cannot afford running servers that distribute ebooks and do all the financial processing.
A few years back I translated a tech book that is of interest to a small audience. I contacted numerous tech publishers and they had not interest...at least I assume because most of them did not even bother to reply to my inquiry. Maybe it was because they get slammed with proposals and suggestions, maybe it is that they instantly decided that it is not even worth their time sending a response.
So I looked around for printers who do small volume prints and binding. I did find a few, they even offered registering an ISBN and put together a nice softcover package. The problem was that they would not do less than 500 copies which I had to pay for in full up front. I understand that it may not be worthwhile for them to do smaller volumes than that, but I had neither the money to pay for 500 copies nor the room to store 500 books so that I could reasonably resell them. Selling the books would also mean traveling to trade shows and training events, contacting distributors, keeping track of finances, run promotions, get sort of press coverage, and all the while figure out how to turn over 500 books.
I then came across CreateSpace which back then was independent, but was shortly after I signed up with them bought by Amazon. I think they always has some connection. CreateSpace / Amazon not only took care of the printing, they also do the distribution, the shipping, and all I had to do is buy one copy as proof. So rather than putting up a few thousand dollars that I did not have getting with CreateSpace cost me less than 50 bucks. And since then over 300 copies were sold worldwide. Nothing to get rich from, but way better this way than having to wonder how I write off 200 books that by now are all dusty and wrinkled.
I disagree on the price that CreateSpace made me set for the book. It is listed at 39.99 which I think is too expensive. I could have picked a lower price, but that would have sent all the money to Amazon and none to me. They also do not let you set a price where they would not get enough money out on top of covering production cost. If someone buys directly from the CreateSpace site I get 13$ per copy, when buying directly through Amazon I get 5$. I have no idea why the royalty is so much different. Anyhow, the bulk of the sales is from Amazon's site and by now I think I got fair compensation for my efforts. In comparison, the author of the original issue had it published through a real publishing company and gets about 1$ per copy sold!! Neither of us is in it for the money, but many others do not even get royalty payments from traditional publishers unless there is a threshold number of copies sold. As author you get the much better deal through CreateSpace/Amazon with wayyyy less upfront risk and basically no work for distribution.
CreateSpace eventually also made it very easy to publish the book as ebook although I had to do the file conversion myself (they do that for a fee, I'm cheap). The quality of both the printed and electronic version is excellent, both are in full color. Best is, I do not have to do a damn thing. And for that I am very thankful and think that the 18$ something that Amazon pockets as their 'royalty' isn't all that bad.
The new plan of paying authors by page turns is something that has to do with the insane amount of total crap ebooks that flood the market. There are 'authors' writing dozens of books that really just badly pasted together blips of crap that was clobbered together at some point in any one of their books. The expense for Amazon to push an ebook through distribution is roughly the same per book, no matter how
Airlines want the cargo room to be free because then they can load much more air freight on passenger planes and make even more money. Charging 20$ or more per piece of checked baggage isn't because fuel cost is so high which it was when they introduced these charges, but by now jet fuel costs half as much as it did back then. But they kept the insane charge and now take on air freight instead. Waiting for checked baggage would be OK if domestic flights would not be so notoriously delayed everywhere and airlines are too lazy to check baggage through to the destination in some cases. So forget that for any connecting flights that are not at least two hours apart...and even that might not be enough when you need to change flights in nightmarisch hell holes like O'Hare.
Flying used to be fun. You go to the airport, walk up to one of the many check-in counters, give them your ticket, throw all your stuff on the belt, and eventually go to the gate and enjoy the flight. Now you need to discuss your boarding pass with a stupid machine, carry all your luggage, get scanned three times at the TSA checkpoint (which we now know if utterly useless), take off your shoes (WHY???) and belt, listen to the gate staff that they sold 300 tickets for a 230 seat air plane, hope that they do not object to the IATA/TSA approved carry-on, and then endure their 'you are so friggin cheap' stare when you do not want to pay 5$ for a 20 cent snack and a soda. All that while airlines rake in the dough like never before.
The solution is to heavily invest in public transit. People will walk more when riding the bus or local train is much better/faster/cheaper/convenient than driving a car. At the same time, start adding sidewalks to streets that are wide enough to be shared between pedestrians and bikes. Further, drop the average work time down from 40 hours to 35 hours and give people more mandatory vacation. That gives them more time to spend on living a healthy life rather than being constantly under stress.
Working with a project written in Delphi. It is not quite 25 years old, but getting up there. One difference might be that we continuously maintain and improve it, it was not created once and then thrown in the corner expecting it to work forever. Although, it probably would thanks to Windows backwards compatibility.
My concern would be finding the exact same hardware 10, 15, or 20 years from now. As OP mentioned, there are emulators for software and with a Linux based system you should be able to find some x86 hardware even 50 years from now that still works. The difference between that hardware and the hardware the embedded code runs on is that there is a magnitude more of x86 (compatible) hardware around compared to the embedded platform.
I think you are asking the wrong question. Do not ask if there is a development environment that runs 25 years from now. Ask why the embedded platform is expected to work fine without changes for 25 years. If it does, great! But don't count on it!
It is called "sneakERnet" because you walk the data over from one place to the other using your sneakers / tennis shoes / athletic footwear (not everyone knows what a sneaker is...like a grinder/sub/hoagie/po'boy).
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Tried it, my knees are now shot.
Since when is a lease more advantageous? Leasing is for people with no money or too much money. You pay the same as for a car loan, but the difference is that once you are done with the lease you cannot keep the car. Buy a car instead and plan on replacing it every ten years....unless you are one of those insane people who drive 50k or more per year. In that case you should just move closer to where you need to go.
Agree, it also depends on how much one drives. I drive about 15 miles a day which would be ideal with an EV, but EVs are so much more expensive and gas is cheap that the math just does not come out in my favor. Besides that, there is not a single affordable EV or hybrid hatchback that is beefy enough to make it in the Northeastern winters. Charging would be not a problem, I have an unused 230V circuit available, just need to extend the cable to the car port. I guess for the one off long road trips I could rent a suitable car, but that is not cheap and needs to be considered as operation cost. As with almost everything, it is purely a matter of cost. As long as gas powered vehicles are significantly cheaper than EVs not much will change.
...a second too early. Worked as broadcasting engineer and cut short a commercial by one second. Lucky me, that was in the middle of the night, so the damage was not that bad. As you may have guessed, that was in Germany and quite a while ago. When I watch commercials on US TV they get cut off constantly, seems as if the ad customers are more forgiving here. Working as broadcasting engineer was awesome except for the craptastic hours and the constant stress of not being allowed to make even a tiny mistake.
Since when is cybercrime willing acceptance? Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies bankroll mainly criminal activities, the legal and friendly usage is there, but negligible. I find it quite normal that people rather bank on a currency that is backed by something tangible rather than just hype and fluff.
Any information on such places? My local place does a refill for 59.95$ when I bring an empty cartridge. I can buy it online for 51$ shipping included and no need to take time off from work due to the local store's hours being from 9 to 5 (I work 8 to 5) and no weekend hours.
So when the question was so stupid, why bother with a dumb response? Besides that, more than half of the commenters actually provided some helpful advice. Seems they did not have a problem with the question.
I will ask around, thanks for the suggestion.
This is from private use...and yes, I do have bigger issues to deal with, but given the many dumb responses here I wonder by now if asking on slashdot was not a colossal mistake. C'mon folks, do you really have to be so mean when someone asks a simple question?
Mainly school stuff that I obtained digitally. I know, how ironic to print it out then, but there is a significant problem when it is not on paper. To put that into perspective, I have that printer for four years now and used up 5 cartridges of which three are collecting dust under my desk.
The remaining toner is a health hazard because it is tiny particles (similar to asbestos). It is fine once it is fused to the paper. Some cartridges also have more than just toner in them.
The credit is not large enough compared to the place selling brand new cartridges without asking me about my underwear size. The issue is that their credit is no deal because the base price is insane.
Might be little to you...and I did use startpage to look for solutions, but came up empty. Sorry that I wasted your time although you seem to have plenty for writing a useless and nasty reply.
THANKS! And thanks for making me feel stupid for not thinking about this myself....d'oh.
I have a laser printer....this is why I asked the question in the first place!
That was not my motivation. Selling them on eBay costs more money in fees than I would make off it. I just don't want to throw them in the trash. We already produce way too much trash. Sure, if there are means to benefit from it such as inexpensive refills as there are available for ink jet cartridges I wouldn't say no to that, but the refill services around here only do an exchange for a refilled cartridge that costs more than a brand new one.
I asked this because I do not accumulate those in a business setting. In our office we have the printer service companies (who beat each other up to get our business) deal with that, but they do not do private households and I am not bold enough to just dump my empty cartridges on the pile. I am sure they'd catch on to that quickly because we only have HP at work.
That was too easy...neat program, especially since it is prepaid postage to send the stuff back. I bet they fill 2$ worth of toner in it, reset the chip if there even is one, and then sell it as new. Power to them, as far as consumables go Brother is among the least expensive.
Windows generates a lot of gunk that you can safely delete. That is all content in C:\Windows\Temp, C:\Windows\Prefetch (is empty on an SSD system), all .log files in C:\Windows except WindowsUpdate.log (can't delete that file), C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Temp, and C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files (including all cookies you no longer want to keep).
Prefetch content actually does serve a purpose, but especially after applying updates prefetch prefetches installer files that you will never ever use again. Prefetch will automatically fill up again with useful content.
Add disk cleanup and on HDD systems a real defrag to it (see http://www.mydefrag.com/ and you can keep your system running fine for a long time. Also, once a month weed through the installed programs list and uninstall everything that you haven't used in a while and are unlikely to use again. Make sure to clean up after the uninstallers who are notoriously bad in leaving abandoned files and folders behind. I also make decent experiences with CCleaner, but you want to pull at least a registry backup before running CCleaner.
I do all that on a regular basis on around 80 desktop systems that I manage and that for over a decade using the same process. Only once I ran into an issue where one Windows update insisted on having an old update package in the Temp folder in place.
Also, if you happen to play Roblox craft a scheduled task that deletes the files in the user's temp folder. Roblox as well as other apps are so badly designed that they leave gazillion of temp files behind without ever cleaning up.
Same as destroying Obamacare should be off the table? Three Supreme Court routings...errr....rulings later and the Reps are still piping the same line "Undo Obamacare!". And for good measure start the 173457th panel on reviewing Benghazi just to come to the same conclusions as all of them before.
Amazon makes money and they look for maximizing the money they make. In case you do not know, Amazon is a for profit business, not the publishing arm of the Salvation Army. I wish there would be more competition in the self-publishing arena, then we as authors could pick the model and outlet we want. Marketing directly from author to reader is no easily possible because most authors cannot afford running servers that distribute ebooks and do all the financial processing. A few years back I translated a tech book that is of interest to a small audience. I contacted numerous tech publishers and they had not interest...at least I assume because most of them did not even bother to reply to my inquiry. Maybe it was because they get slammed with proposals and suggestions, maybe it is that they instantly decided that it is not even worth their time sending a response. So I looked around for printers who do small volume prints and binding. I did find a few, they even offered registering an ISBN and put together a nice softcover package. The problem was that they would not do less than 500 copies which I had to pay for in full up front. I understand that it may not be worthwhile for them to do smaller volumes than that, but I had neither the money to pay for 500 copies nor the room to store 500 books so that I could reasonably resell them. Selling the books would also mean traveling to trade shows and training events, contacting distributors, keeping track of finances, run promotions, get sort of press coverage, and all the while figure out how to turn over 500 books. I then came across CreateSpace which back then was independent, but was shortly after I signed up with them bought by Amazon. I think they always has some connection. CreateSpace / Amazon not only took care of the printing, they also do the distribution, the shipping, and all I had to do is buy one copy as proof. So rather than putting up a few thousand dollars that I did not have getting with CreateSpace cost me less than 50 bucks. And since then over 300 copies were sold worldwide. Nothing to get rich from, but way better this way than having to wonder how I write off 200 books that by now are all dusty and wrinkled. I disagree on the price that CreateSpace made me set for the book. It is listed at 39.99 which I think is too expensive. I could have picked a lower price, but that would have sent all the money to Amazon and none to me. They also do not let you set a price where they would not get enough money out on top of covering production cost. If someone buys directly from the CreateSpace site I get 13$ per copy, when buying directly through Amazon I get 5$. I have no idea why the royalty is so much different. Anyhow, the bulk of the sales is from Amazon's site and by now I think I got fair compensation for my efforts. In comparison, the author of the original issue had it published through a real publishing company and gets about 1$ per copy sold!! Neither of us is in it for the money, but many others do not even get royalty payments from traditional publishers unless there is a threshold number of copies sold. As author you get the much better deal through CreateSpace/Amazon with wayyyy less upfront risk and basically no work for distribution. CreateSpace eventually also made it very easy to publish the book as ebook although I had to do the file conversion myself (they do that for a fee, I'm cheap). The quality of both the printed and electronic version is excellent, both are in full color. Best is, I do not have to do a damn thing. And for that I am very thankful and think that the 18$ something that Amazon pockets as their 'royalty' isn't all that bad. The new plan of paying authors by page turns is something that has to do with the insane amount of total crap ebooks that flood the market. There are 'authors' writing dozens of books that really just badly pasted together blips of crap that was clobbered together at some point in any one of their books. The expense for Amazon to push an ebook through distribution is roughly the same per book, no matter how
Airlines want the cargo room to be free because then they can load much more air freight on passenger planes and make even more money. Charging 20$ or more per piece of checked baggage isn't because fuel cost is so high which it was when they introduced these charges, but by now jet fuel costs half as much as it did back then. But they kept the insane charge and now take on air freight instead. Waiting for checked baggage would be OK if domestic flights would not be so notoriously delayed everywhere and airlines are too lazy to check baggage through to the destination in some cases. So forget that for any connecting flights that are not at least two hours apart...and even that might not be enough when you need to change flights in nightmarisch hell holes like O'Hare. Flying used to be fun. You go to the airport, walk up to one of the many check-in counters, give them your ticket, throw all your stuff on the belt, and eventually go to the gate and enjoy the flight. Now you need to discuss your boarding pass with a stupid machine, carry all your luggage, get scanned three times at the TSA checkpoint (which we now know if utterly useless), take off your shoes (WHY???) and belt, listen to the gate staff that they sold 300 tickets for a 230 seat air plane, hope that they do not object to the IATA/TSA approved carry-on, and then endure their 'you are so friggin cheap' stare when you do not want to pay 5$ for a 20 cent snack and a soda. All that while airlines rake in the dough like never before.
The solution is to heavily invest in public transit. People will walk more when riding the bus or local train is much better/faster/cheaper/convenient than driving a car. At the same time, start adding sidewalks to streets that are wide enough to be shared between pedestrians and bikes. Further, drop the average work time down from 40 hours to 35 hours and give people more mandatory vacation. That gives them more time to spend on living a healthy life rather than being constantly under stress.
Working with a project written in Delphi. It is not quite 25 years old, but getting up there. One difference might be that we continuously maintain and improve it, it was not created once and then thrown in the corner expecting it to work forever. Although, it probably would thanks to Windows backwards compatibility. My concern would be finding the exact same hardware 10, 15, or 20 years from now. As OP mentioned, there are emulators for software and with a Linux based system you should be able to find some x86 hardware even 50 years from now that still works. The difference between that hardware and the hardware the embedded code runs on is that there is a magnitude more of x86 (compatible) hardware around compared to the embedded platform. I think you are asking the wrong question. Do not ask if there is a development environment that runs 25 years from now. Ask why the embedded platform is expected to work fine without changes for 25 years. If it does, great! But don't count on it!
It is called "sneakERnet" because you walk the data over from one place to the other using your sneakers / tennis shoes / athletic footwear (not everyone knows what a sneaker is...like a grinder/sub/hoagie/po'boy).