In fact, just behind me and a bit to the left is a Laserjet 5550. This is a five thousand dollar printer, give or take a grand, if you load it up with RAM. The cost to replace all the toner? You might be able to get it cheaper elsewhere, but buying HP carts from CDW, which is what we do, costs literally $1300 for a full set. The cost per page is something like 26 cents if you're printing an average sheet with something like 20% coverage.
We bought a Color LaserJet 3800dn for the office a while back. It's a little slower (22 ppm vs. 27) and the duty cycle is a lower (65k pages vs. 120k), but it was only about $1300 (with the duplexer and print server) and a full set of toner cartridges is about $650.
I don't know what kind of printing you're doing that results in 20% coverage. Ours is just typical office printing--manuals, source code, some images, etc. The stats webpage from our printer says we're averaging 3.5% black, 0.7% cyan, 0.6% magenta, and 0.5% yellow. We're getting about 8500 pages from the black cartridges and 13000 pages from the color cartridges, which works out to about 1.5 cents for a black page and 5.5 cents for a color page.
It's been about 8 months since I gave up on inkjet as a technology. We'd been through about 6 printers over the past 6 years, some lasting longer than others, and would usually get one that was cheap-ish, but inevitably they would clog. Why? Because we didn't print every day. The last one was actually 2 printers as Canon replaced it for free. But if you went more than 2 weeks without printing anything, you were headed to clogsville.
That's been my experience with an Epson Stylus Photo R200. I had long avoided Epsons because of bad experience keeping the demo printers in good working order back when I wore the blue shirt, but they're the only game in town for printing on CDs and DVDs (unless you want to spend $300+, or are OK with the monochrome thermal-transfer disc printers from Casio). I've had to send mine away for service once so far, and even after 3-4 cleaning cycles, there are some nozzles that still won't clear. Printing discs in best-quality mode minimizes the appearance of problems, so that's what I usually end up doing.
OTOH, I have an HP DeskJet 450wbt that is still running on its original color cartridge (I think I've had to replace the black cartridge once after it ran out) after about a year and a half. It gets used twice a year at homebrew competitions, and sporadically in between. The last time I used it, I didn't even need to run the cleaning cycle first; it spit out a flawless test page right off the bat, after having sat idle for 3-4 months. It definitely cost more than most inkjet printers (being a portable printer with a battery and Bluetooth for 100% wireless operation will do that, but you could save ~$100 by leaving those off), but it's been one of the better inkjet printers I've bought. It works like a champ with Linux, too, over both Bluetooth and USB, and HPLIP reads ink level and battery charge when connected over USB.
Regardless of whether global warming is caused by CO2, it's still a good idea to reduce CO2 output.
...but at what cost? Is it worth bankrupting the western world and condemning the third world to inescapable poverty (or worse) to effect a temperature change that will most likely get lost in the noise of ordinary variations?
Compare this to the way automobile emissions have been cleaned up over the past 35-40 years. The first steps taken produced fairly dramatic results at a not-unreasonable cost. Cars that are rolling off assembly lines today are running so clean that any further changes are likely to have a negligible impact on air quality, but will cost at least as much as previously-taken measures (if not more). Bang for the buck has been forgotten; cost-benefit analysis appears to have become a forgotten concept.
1.) Apparently, the Earth magnetic field has decreased by 10% in the last 150 years. I'm an electrical engineer and during my studies in particle physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be affected by magnetic fields. I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetosphere due to it being weaker. If more radiation hits the Earth, shouldn't that also increase the overall temperature of the Earth and can global warming be attributed to this?
Since when does manufacturing cost/cost over life equal friendly to the environment?
Building only one Hummer instead of three Priuses has to be a win WRT materials and energy used, unless the Prius is even more of a tin-can-on-wheels than I already suspect.
I prefer my technology to be utilitarian. I like plain old boxen.
If you really wanted "utilitarian", you wouldn't even have boxes. An empty frame is cheaper, simpler, and easier to work with. Computers didn't use to come in cases, you know.
They keep kids and pets out. If properly designed, they channel airflow where it's needed so that components stay cool. It's easier to handle a complete system assembled in a case than a hodgepodge of boards and boxes. Those are just a few reasons why a case is useful.
That doesn't mean your computer's case needs to be a blinged-up eyesore with plexiglass windows that leak RF all over the place and neon lights. It doesn't need to look like the only bits missing are a fart-can tailpipe and a "Type R" badge. There are those of us who build our computers to get real work done, and then there are the computing equivalent of riceboys.
Also, her 'can't print' script must only work on IE, since I just PDF'd a whole bunch of her pages with no problem.
Could this woman be any less informed?
It gets even better. Try viewing the source for any of her pages. A comment near the top says "source code not available" and is followed by a bunch of empty lines. Those empty lines are then followed by...
...wait for it...
...the page's "source code!"
1997 called. It wants its lame "website protection" tricks back.
You seem not to understand that the safety record of the nuclear power industry is very poor
Let's see...one incident nearly 30 years ago that didn't kill anybody and didn't release any radiation into the surrounding environment constitutes a "very poor" safety record? Pipe down, Chicken Little...there are plenty of worse offenders out there.
Us Californians just have to worry about California breaking off from the United States...
The rest of us pray for that to happen.:-)
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
are the new Jews. Give history a little time to repeat itself.
How idiotic. Jews didn't go around slicing people's heads off for not believing as they do. Jews didn't wear bomb vests into schools and restaurants and blow themselves up. Jews didn't hijack airliners and fly them into buildings.
If the world wakes from its multicultural stupor in time, the Mohammedans will deserve whatever dire consequences befall them.
Intel's x64 is actually a fully compatible (read copied) implementation of AMD64.
It's not a 100%-compatible implementation, as Intel left out 3DNow! support.
That said, when I upgraded an Athlon 64 box to a Core 2 Duo, the AMD64 Gentoo install on it continued working just fine (most likely because the "3dnow" and "3dnowext" USE flags (and the other SIMD USE flags, too) have been masked in the AMD64 profiles until the yet-to-be-released 2007.0).
NT is designed to be portable, and Microsoft has ported it to MIPS, Alpha, PPC, x86, Itanium and AMD64 each at one time or another. The ReactOS developers are retaining NT's portability, but running anything other than x86 is a very low priority right now.
The big stumbling block to running on non-x86, non-AMD64 hardware is that most Windows drivers and apps are only distributed in binary form, and the vast majority of those are built for x86. Even if you were to get ReactOS running on (for instance) a G4 Mac mini, you're still not going to get the Windows version of Office running on it unless you have some sort of x86 emulation thrown in. It's possible (Palm OS 5 emulates 68K on ARM, while Mac OS X emulates 68K on PowerPC (through the Classic environment) and PowerPC on x86), but it'd be far from optimal.
[Last week], the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment is an individual right and concluded that the District of Columbia's ban on guns in the home is unconstitutional. According to the majority opinion, "[T]he phrase 'the right of the people'...leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual." Also, earlier this week, Second Amendment supporters on Capitol Hill introduced H.R. 1399 - the "District of Columbia Personal Protection Act."
In ruling on the D.C. gun ban case, the majority opinion of the Circuit Court held as follows:
"To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad). In addition, the right to keep and bear arms had the important and salutary civic purpose of helping to preserve the citizen militia. The civic purpose was also a political expedient for the Federalists in the First Congress as it served, in part, to placate their Anti-federalist opponents. The individual right facilitated militia service by ensuring that citizens would not be barred from keeping the arms they would need when called forth for militia duty. Despite the importance of the Second Amendment's civic purpose, however, the activities it protects are not limited to militia service, nor is an individual's enjoyment of the right contingent upon his or her continued or intermittent enrollment in the militia."
Then again, I wouldn't expect someone who refers to Marx (a man whose ideas are responsible for the deaths of about 200 million people in the 20th century) favorably would understand such nuance.
I think the disadvantage is that a camera supporting DNG will output 16 bits per channel, even though most of the sensors in the industry will resolve 12 bits, at least I think that's how it works, unless they've massaged TIFF into doing 12 bit pixels, and to be honest I'm not all that familiar with how DNG works.
That may be the situation now, but who's to say that won't change in the future? It sounds like they've put in a little future-proofing. Compare to CDs and CD players when they were introduced...the media stored 16 bits per channel per sample, but many (most? all?) of the first CD players were only equipped with 14-bit DACs. Should the format have been limited to 14-bit samples, or should they have gone 16-bit on the assumption that equipment would improve to take advantage of it?
Because VLC handles codecs internally. It has all of the common decoders built into it so you don't have to hassle with installing a ton of different AVI codecs.
On Windows, the better solution for codec hell is ffdshow (link is to Afterdawn instead of SourceForge because the binaries offered by SourceForge are old and busted). It integrates all of the same codecs used by VLC (and mplayer, for that matter) with DirectShow, so any player, editor, or encoder that uses DirectShow can use it. ffdshow is also recommended over all of those "codec packs" that are out there.
Holy crap...do you have a phone embedded in your skull? That's over 52 hours for the month, or about one hour and 45 minutes per day. How do you get anything done when you're yakking on the phone all the time?
Looks like some overpaid hack government worker got some mod points to play with. Too bad those points didn't come with the balls to mod posts as something other than "overrated." Too chickenshit to let the metamoderators have at you? Go suck the barbed cock of Satan.
I'll bet the downmod came on "company time," too. That's your tax dollars at work, boys and girls.
Actually, you mean the Council of Europe. The European Council is an EU thing.
BRIAN: Are you the Council of Europe? REG: Fuck off! BRIAN: What? REG: Council of Europe. We're the European Council! Council of Europe. Cawk. FRANCIS: Wankers. BRIAN: Can I... join your group? REG: No. Piss off.
I have an 80s vehicle with manual everything but brakes (even radiatorless), but I can't imagine they still made cars with manual brakes in the '80s.
My first car was an '80 Chevette, and it was equipped with manual brakes, manual steering, manual transmission, no A/C, AM radio...about the only upgrade was the cloth seats, because Dad learned from his previous car just how hard vinyl seats suck in both cold weather (winter in Colorado) and hot weather (summer in Florida). For something that small and light, you don't really need power brakes or power steering. (You might need power steering in even the wimpiest FWD econobox to overcome the added resistance from the spinning driveaxles...good thing the Chevette was RWD instead.)
Because Best Buy, Fry's, Circuit City, Dell, and any other retailer that matters don't have a demo unit setup nor do they advertise that is is sold.
Fry's usually has one or two of its house-brand machines with Linux preloaded (typically with Linspire). These are out on display next to all of the Winboxen.
I got my item at the price I wanted and at the same time I screwed a smart ass sales moron out of his commission.
Unless things have changed sometime in the past 8 years (when I last worked at Best Buy), they don't work on commission. Not wanting to match their own online price is still idiotic of them, though, especially if they're offering in-store pickup.
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We bought a Color LaserJet 3800dn for the office a while back. It's a little slower (22 ppm vs. 27) and the duty cycle is a lower (65k pages vs. 120k), but it was only about $1300 (with the duplexer and print server) and a full set of toner cartridges is about $650.
I don't know what kind of printing you're doing that results in 20% coverage. Ours is just typical office printing--manuals, source code, some images, etc. The stats webpage from our printer says we're averaging 3.5% black, 0.7% cyan, 0.6% magenta, and 0.5% yellow. We're getting about 8500 pages from the black cartridges and 13000 pages from the color cartridges, which works out to about 1.5 cents for a black page and 5.5 cents for a color page.
That's been my experience with an Epson Stylus Photo R200. I had long avoided Epsons because of bad experience keeping the demo printers in good working order back when I wore the blue shirt, but they're the only game in town for printing on CDs and DVDs (unless you want to spend $300+, or are OK with the monochrome thermal-transfer disc printers from Casio). I've had to send mine away for service once so far, and even after 3-4 cleaning cycles, there are some nozzles that still won't clear. Printing discs in best-quality mode minimizes the appearance of problems, so that's what I usually end up doing.
OTOH, I have an HP DeskJet 450wbt that is still running on its original color cartridge (I think I've had to replace the black cartridge once after it ran out) after about a year and a half. It gets used twice a year at homebrew competitions, and sporadically in between. The last time I used it, I didn't even need to run the cleaning cycle first; it spit out a flawless test page right off the bat, after having sat idle for 3-4 months. It definitely cost more than most inkjet printers (being a portable printer with a battery and Bluetooth for 100% wireless operation will do that, but you could save ~$100 by leaving those off), but it's been one of the better inkjet printers I've bought. It works like a champ with Linux, too, over both Bluetooth and USB, and HPLIP reads ink level and battery charge when connected over USB.
Compare this to the way automobile emissions have been cleaned up over the past 35-40 years. The first steps taken produced fairly dramatic results at a not-unreasonable cost. Cars that are rolling off assembly lines today are running so clean that any further changes are likely to have a negligible impact on air quality, but will cost at least as much as previously-taken measures (if not more). Bang for the buck has been forgotten; cost-benefit analysis appears to have become a forgotten concept.
Another theory postulates that cosmic rays are at least partly responsible for cloud formation. When the solar wind picks up, inbound cosmic rays are deflected away from us, fewer clouds form, and things get warmer. When solar output falls off, more cosmic rays get through, more clouds form, and things get cooler. "Evidence from ice cores show this [lower solar activity, high cosmic rays, and lower temperatures] happening long into the past. We have the highest solar activity we have had in at least 1,000 years."
Building only one Hummer instead of three Priuses has to be a win WRT materials and energy used, unless the Prius is even more of a tin-can-on-wheels than I already suspect.
They keep kids and pets out. If properly designed, they channel airflow where it's needed so that components stay cool. It's easier to handle a complete system assembled in a case than a hodgepodge of boards and boxes. Those are just a few reasons why a case is useful.
That doesn't mean your computer's case needs to be a blinged-up eyesore with plexiglass windows that leak RF all over the place and neon lights. It doesn't need to look like the only bits missing are a fart-can tailpipe and a "Type R" badge. There are those of us who build our computers to get real work done, and then there are the computing equivalent of riceboys.
Fortunately, it's in dead-tree format. Volume 1 (the first edition of which was published in 1968) covers linked lists, among other things.
It gets even better. Try viewing the source for any of her pages. A comment near the top says "source code not available" and is followed by a bunch of empty lines. Those empty lines are then followed by...
1997 called. It wants its lame "website protection" tricks back.
Let's see...one incident nearly 30 years ago that didn't kill anybody and didn't release any radiation into the surrounding environment constitutes a "very poor" safety record? Pipe down, Chicken Little...there are plenty of worse offenders out there.
The rest of us pray for that to happen. :-)
Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call LA
The only way to fix it is to flush it all away.
Any fucking time. Any fucking day.
Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay.
How idiotic. Jews didn't go around slicing people's heads off for not believing as they do. Jews didn't wear bomb vests into schools and restaurants and blow themselves up. Jews didn't hijack airliners and fly them into buildings.
If the world wakes from its multicultural stupor in time, the Mohammedans will deserve whatever dire consequences befall them.
It's not a 100%-compatible implementation, as Intel left out 3DNow! support.
That said, when I upgraded an Athlon 64 box to a Core 2 Duo, the AMD64 Gentoo install on it continued working just fine (most likely because the "3dnow" and "3dnowext" USE flags (and the other SIMD USE flags, too) have been masked in the AMD64 profiles until the yet-to-be-released 2007.0).
The big stumbling block to running on non-x86, non-AMD64 hardware is that most Windows drivers and apps are only distributed in binary form, and the vast majority of those are built for x86. Even if you were to get ReactOS running on (for instance) a G4 Mac mini, you're still not going to get the Windows version of Office running on it unless you have some sort of x86 emulation thrown in. It's possible (Palm OS 5 emulates 68K on ARM, while Mac OS X emulates 68K on PowerPC (through the Classic environment) and PowerPC on x86), but it'd be far from optimal.
The better question is, "What part of 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed' do you not understand?"
D.C. Gun Ban Ruled Unconstitutional, Violates Individual Right To Own A Gun
Then again, I wouldn't expect someone who refers to Marx (a man whose ideas are responsible for the deaths of about 200 million people in the 20th century) favorably would understand such nuance.
That may be the situation now, but who's to say that won't change in the future? It sounds like they've put in a little future-proofing. Compare to CDs and CD players when they were introduced...the media stored 16 bits per channel per sample, but many (most? all?) of the first CD players were only equipped with 14-bit DACs. Should the format have been limited to 14-bit samples, or should they have gone 16-bit on the assumption that equipment would improve to take advantage of it?
On Windows, the better solution for codec hell is ffdshow (link is to Afterdawn instead of SourceForge because the binaries offered by SourceForge are old and busted). It integrates all of the same codecs used by VLC (and mplayer, for that matter) with DirectShow, so any player, editor, or encoder that uses DirectShow can use it. ffdshow is also recommended over all of those "codec packs" that are out there.
Holy crap...do you have a phone embedded in your skull? That's over 52 hours for the month, or about one hour and 45 minutes per day. How do you get anything done when you're yakking on the phone all the time?
I'll bet the downmod came on "company time," too. That's your tax dollars at work, boys and girls.
That, unfortunately, is rarely an option when you're talking about people who work for the government. It's damn near impossible to fire them.
BRIAN: Are you the Council of Europe?
REG: Fuck off!
BRIAN: What?
REG: Council of Europe. We're the European Council! Council of Europe. Cawk.
FRANCIS: Wankers.
BRIAN: Can I... join your group?
REG: No. Piss off.
My first car was an '80 Chevette, and it was equipped with manual brakes, manual steering, manual transmission, no A/C, AM radio...about the only upgrade was the cloth seats, because Dad learned from his previous car just how hard vinyl seats suck in both cold weather (winter in Colorado) and hot weather (summer in Florida). For something that small and light, you don't really need power brakes or power steering. (You might need power steering in even the wimpiest FWD econobox to overcome the added resistance from the spinning driveaxles...good thing the Chevette was RWD instead.)
My Apple IIe pwns both of those. I use mine (present tense, not past) to make beer...can your computer do that? :-)
(And thus the 8-bit flame wars of old begin anew...)
Fry's usually has one or two of its house-brand machines with Linux preloaded (typically with Linspire). These are out on display next to all of the Winboxen.
Unless things have changed sometime in the past 8 years (when I last worked at Best Buy), they don't work on commission. Not wanting to match their own online price is still idiotic of them, though, especially if they're offering in-store pickup.
Not only that, but it was a common practice at the time to hang the old catalog in the outhouse and use it as t.p. when its primary use was done.