I looked in to one of these before opting for a color laser instead. Yes the black is free but there are other unfree consumables which wear out proportionally to your black usage.
Printer vendors have figured out something their customers don't understand: you get what you pay for.
Whoah.... there's some whacky recursive shit going on here. Go do the search now and you get this:
Yahoo Buys Overture for $1.63 Billion Slashdot-11 minutes ago... by Jad LaFields (Score:2) Monday July 14, @11:37AM. Your search - Overture Yahoo - did not match any documents. Make sure all words fit our corporate standards....
That's the text of your post, and the link points to this slashdot page as of 11 minutes ago!
I think this pretty much demonstrates that the slashdot effect is all about bandwidth, not the speed of the server.
Often, an article (esp controversial material) disappears due to administrative action. Other times even small text pages can cause a site to shut down due to CPU-intensive dynamic generation or usage quotas.
Besides, it only took all of three seconds to webwhack it.:)
Exsqueeze me? You're faulting the *user* here? Let's get this straight:
Mac: you attach your camera, a window nags you about whether to use iPhoto. You say OK and then boom, you see your pics. Browse, catalogue, order prints - all a click away. Yes iPhoto is pitifully slow and underpowered but at least it's easy to get started.
Windows: you attach your camera, and a series of windows nag you through the USB generic driver detection/installation, then your files show up and you can open them with whatever 3rd party software you choose.
Linux: you plug in your camera, and get some error about an unsupported USB device. Being the resourceful n00b that you are, you search google, you find the HOWTO, and you spend six hours getting your OS to see the camera. Then if you're lucky, you're running one of the distros which includes gimp. You fire up gimp, figure out its quirky UI, then if you're EXTREMELY lucky the printer works on the first try... and so on.
Let's not blame the user for "not having learned it yet". There a LOT to learn and set up before you can get anything done on Linux (if at all). Mac and Windows have their rough edges, but at least it's not much more than dismissing a couple of needless dialog moxes.
There was a time when selling software without a manual was considered unprofessional. Now you can buy software online and get NOTHING except for the string of bits - not even a CD.
This is just a preemptive response to all the misinformed posts about how many "volts" it takes to kill you.
It's the AMPS that hurt, not the volts. But it takes VOLTS to overcome your body's resistance. If the current passes across vital organs, it's a different story.
E=I*R
Or DEATH = VOLTS / RESISTANCE
It takes about 100mA, or 0.1A, through the chest cavity to kill you. A couple of amps from one finger to the other will cause extreme damage and pain, but probably will not kill you.
You can stick your tongue on a 5V, 100A power supply and nothing will happen. You can also put you hand on a tesla coil producing a few KV, and you hair will stand on end but that's it.
But touch with each hand to a source capable of delivering 1+ KV at 10mA or more, and prepare to be zapped out of your gourd or maybe killed. A common stun gun generates a few KV but it is DESIGNED not deliver enough current (electron movement as opposed to "pressure") to kill. Same goes for this xbox mod - I'd have a go at it.:)
I called my broker TD Waterhouse this morning and they said they had "no shares available to short". I've never shorted a stock before - what should I do? Do I need to get an accct somewhere else?
This is such a grossly misinformed statement, I don't even know where to begin. Assembler and machine language ("binary") are semantically identical. You can go back and forth from assembler to machine code all day and still have the same thing. All you lose when going from human/compiler generated (vs disassebled machine code) is labels and comments.
With C++ or any high-level language, there zillions of ways a compiler might interpret the code - just as long as the machine code effectively does was the C code says. Even identifying what compiler was used will not help - there are just so many ways to say the same thing in C. for, while, goto, case, it's all syntactic sugar that disappears when you compile.
You can make a decompiler which identifies various code structures and converts them to high-level representations, but it can't EVER know what the original source looked like.
Only an idiot would get all high and mighty, and call the police right away. He deserved to be fired.
Tell your boss and let the company deal with it. Don't embarrass yourself and your employer all in one go. Sheesh, this is worthy of a front page story?
A 5 times speedup is still many orders of magnitude too slow to personalize terabytes of data for millions of customers.
That's assuming every one of those millions of individuals has very diverse preferences.
I doubt if there are more than a dozen or so useful ways to customize pagerank - we're talking about how the various link structures are weighted, not specific content. Any further "personalization" could just be done by filtering (and perhaps merging) smaller sets of search results.
However, I also listened to their speakers and was utterly blown away by how awful they sounded.
In general, the rule for speakers is the sleeker/fancier they look, the crappier they sound. Nobody has really improved on the rectangular sealed box. Add ports (or "bass labyrinth" as bose calls it) and you get a bandpass boost that makes small speakers sound louder, but totally fucks the frequency response and distorts everything at higher volume levels. A driver needs a sealed chamber behind it to stabilize it for clean mids - channel that air around to the front of the box and it just starts to slop. Sealed box == clean sound but you need a lot more power and bigger drivers.
In the end I went with the BEO9000 wall-mount changer, but there was no way I'd have their speakers even if they were 1/10th the price. I just picked up a pair of Infinity studio monitors and a seaparate amp, and the sound is just phenomenal. I would love to take these speakers into the B&O show room and listen to them double-blind in the same room... I'll bet this pair of big rectangular speakers sound better than their "sleek and elegant" speakers for 1/4 the price.:)
I'm definitely going to head down there and listen to the new ones though. It doesn't look like they've made compromises on sound quality to get more power from a smaller box... they're just huge. Too bad I can't afford 'em.
BTW, B&O is big on using funky proprietary connectors for everything. The analog connections use 5-pin DIN connectors (???). However, they will sell you the necessary adaptors if you want to use your own choice of amp/speakers.
That's mostly not true. The vast majority of the labor is in board assembly and testing, and it's all done in Asia. Final assembly and test of the completed system is done in California for SOME of their systems.
However, if you order an ibook for example, it'll come shipped direct by fedex from Thailand. iPods are made in Taiwan or China I think.
People need to understand the spin/slant/censorship of medium they're reading, and it should be clearly disclosed. If ebay's feedback were filtered to protect the guilty, then who'd trust ebay? By the same token, anyone reading the feeback should realize that USER feedback is given by the USERS, not ebay. It's so fucking simple... I'm glad the court dismissed this quickly.
I'm apalled that google, for example, downplays the fact that their search results are filtered, tuned, and censored depending on regional law and demographics. The flip-side of this is that anyone hoping for "common carrier" status must truly be transparent to whatever information they convey.
I can second that - UPS' XML interface is needlessly complicated and very unreliable. I implemented it as part of my ordering page and it was a disaster. It worked okay during testing and for the first couple weeks of deployment, but then their servers started going offline for 2-3 hours a day. Many sales were lost. Why, in the name of god, should an application have to go over the public Internet in order to get rate quotes and ship packages? UPS' own software doesn't do this, so why do they force their customers to use an inferior system?
The main thing I needed from it was their rate calculator. After much digging around on their web site and several calls to my account rep, I finally found their rate tables. They came in tab delimited format which was great, except these spreadsheets were not suitable for automated processing because there were many formatting inconsistencies - the data was obviously maintained by hand.
To make a long story short, in the end I was able to make some perl scripts for looking up domestic and international rates using those files, without having to go across the net. But I wasted a LOT of time finding out out how badly their XML interface sucks, and we still don't have a solution for automated shipping - only rate quotes.
When it comes to software, UPS is as clueless as it gets. I'm going to be getting set up with Fedex soon and if they're any better software-wise, it will be my pleasure to drop UPS.
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all the black ink she wants for free
I looked in to one of these before opting for a color laser instead. Yes the black is free but there are other unfree consumables which wear out proportionally to your black usage.
Printer vendors have figured out something their customers don't understand: you get what you pay for.
Murder someone: bad. Murder a cop: doubleplusbad.
:)
doubleplusungood.
How many big contracts have to be won by Linux companies before the papers realize that it's been around for a dozen years?
The previous generation can only grok business acceptance in terms of contracts won. With Linux/FreeBSD, you just download and use.
Whoah.... there's some whacky recursive shit going on here. Go do the search now and you get this:
... by Jad LaFields (Score:2) Monday July 14, @11:37AM. Your search - Overture Yahoo ...
Yahoo Buys Overture for $1.63 Billion
Slashdot-11 minutes ago
- did not match any documents. Make sure all words fit our corporate standards.
That's the text of your post, and the link points to this slashdot page as of 11 minutes ago!
Would someone please spend a mod point and change that to "Insightful"?
I think this pretty much demonstrates that the slashdot effect is all about bandwidth, not the speed of the server.
:)
Often, an article (esp controversial material) disappears due to administrative action. Other times even small text pages can cause a site to shut down due to CPU-intensive dynamic generation or usage quotas.
Besides, it only took all of three seconds to webwhack it.
Exsqueeze me? You're faulting the *user* here? Let's get this straight:
Mac: you attach your camera, a window nags you about whether to use iPhoto. You say OK and then boom, you see your pics. Browse, catalogue, order prints - all a click away. Yes iPhoto is pitifully slow and underpowered but at least it's easy to get started.
Windows: you attach your camera, and a series of windows nag you through the USB generic driver detection/installation, then your files show up and you can open them with whatever 3rd party software you choose.
Linux: you plug in your camera, and get some error about an unsupported USB device. Being the resourceful n00b that you are, you search google, you find the HOWTO, and you spend six hours getting your OS to see the camera. Then if you're lucky, you're running one of the distros which includes gimp. You fire up gimp, figure out its quirky UI, then if you're EXTREMELY lucky the printer works on the first try... and so on.
Let's not blame the user for "not having learned it yet". There a LOT to learn and set up before you can get anything done on Linux (if at all). Mac and Windows have their rough edges, but at least it's not much more than dismissing a couple of needless dialog moxes.
Rough guess
CRTs: 10 x $250 = 2500
TFTs: 3 x $650 = 1950
Vid cards: 13 x $250 = 3250
PCs: 9 x $500 = 4500
So about $15K altogether, give or take a couple K.
There was a time when selling software without a manual was considered unprofessional. Now you can buy software online and get NOTHING except for the string of bits - not even a CD.
Is it just me, or does the word "exercise" seem misspelled no matter how you spell it?
I drive past the Livermore windmills every day.
:(
I remember riding through there with my family (on the way to Manteca water slides, w000!) and asking my dad what all the props were for.
"Those keep the earth spinning to keep gravity going - otherwise we'd all lift off into space"
Made sense at the time - no wonder I failed physics.
This is just a preemptive response to all the misinformed posts about how many "volts" it takes to kill you.
:)
It's the AMPS that hurt, not the volts. But it takes VOLTS to overcome your body's resistance. If the current passes across vital organs, it's a different story.
E=I*R
Or DEATH = VOLTS / RESISTANCE
It takes about 100mA, or 0.1A, through the chest cavity to kill you. A couple of amps from one finger to the other will cause extreme damage and pain, but probably will not kill you.
You can stick your tongue on a 5V, 100A power supply and nothing will happen. You can also put you hand on a tesla coil producing a few KV, and you hair will stand on end but that's it.
But touch with each hand to a source capable of delivering 1+ KV at 10mA or more, and prepare to be zapped out of your gourd or maybe killed. A common stun gun generates a few KV but it is DESIGNED not deliver enough current (electron movement as opposed to "pressure") to kill. Same goes for this xbox mod - I'd have a go at it.
I called my broker TD Waterhouse this morning and they said they had "no shares available to short". I've never shorted a stock before - what should I do? Do I need to get an accct somewhere else?
This is such a grossly misinformed statement, I don't even know where to begin. Assembler and machine language ("binary") are semantically identical. You can go back and forth from assembler to machine code all day and still have the same thing. All you lose when going from human/compiler generated (vs disassebled machine code) is labels and comments.
With C++ or any high-level language, there zillions of ways a compiler might interpret the code - just as long as the machine code effectively does was the C code says. Even identifying what compiler was used will not help - there are just so many ways to say the same thing in C. for, while, goto, case, it's all syntactic sugar that disappears when you compile.
You can make a decompiler which identifies various code structures and converts them to high-level representations, but it can't EVER know what the original source looked like.
Actually you'd need to rub the sheep on something with an opposite charge, like plastic or rubber.
Rubbing them together will generate nothing but more sheep.
Only an idiot would get all high and mighty, and call the police right away. He deserved to be fired.
Tell your boss and let the company deal with it. Don't embarrass yourself and your employer all in one go. Sheesh, this is worthy of a front page story?
A 5 times speedup is still many orders of magnitude too slow to personalize terabytes of data for millions of customers.
That's assuming every one of those millions of individuals has very diverse preferences.
I doubt if there are more than a dozen or so useful ways to customize pagerank - we're talking about how the various link structures are weighted, not specific content. Any further "personalization" could just be done by filtering (and perhaps merging) smaller sets of search results.
B&O's hardware is gorgeous. Simply works of art.
:)
However, I also listened to their speakers and was utterly blown away by how awful they sounded.
In general, the rule for speakers is the sleeker/fancier they look, the crappier they sound. Nobody has really improved on the rectangular sealed box. Add ports (or "bass labyrinth" as bose calls it) and you get a bandpass boost that makes small speakers sound louder, but totally fucks the frequency response and distorts everything at higher volume levels. A driver needs a sealed chamber behind it to stabilize it for clean mids - channel that air around to the front of the box and it just starts to slop. Sealed box == clean sound but you need a lot more power and bigger drivers.
In the end I went with the BEO9000 wall-mount changer, but there was no way I'd have their speakers even if they were 1/10th the price. I just picked up a pair of Infinity studio monitors and a seaparate amp, and the sound is just phenomenal. I would love to take these speakers into the B&O show room and listen to them double-blind in the same room... I'll bet this pair of big rectangular speakers sound better than their "sleek and elegant" speakers for 1/4 the price.
I'm definitely going to head down there and listen to the new ones though. It doesn't look like they've made compromises on sound quality to get more power from a smaller box... they're just huge. Too bad I can't afford 'em.
BTW, B&O is big on using funky proprietary connectors for everything. The analog connections use 5-pin DIN connectors (???). However, they will sell you the necessary adaptors if you want to use your own choice of amp/speakers.
That's mostly not true. The vast majority of the labor is in board assembly and testing, and it's all done in Asia. Final assembly and test of the completed system is done in California for SOME of their systems.
However, if you order an ibook for example, it'll come shipped direct by fedex from Thailand. iPods are made in Taiwan or China I think.
People need to understand the spin/slant/censorship of medium they're reading, and it should be clearly disclosed. If ebay's feedback were filtered to protect the guilty, then who'd trust ebay? By the same token, anyone reading the feeback should realize that USER feedback is given by the USERS, not ebay. It's so fucking simple... I'm glad the court dismissed this quickly.
I'm apalled that google, for example, downplays the fact that their search results are filtered, tuned, and censored depending on regional law and demographics. The flip-side of this is that anyone hoping for "common carrier" status must truly be transparent to whatever information they convey.
I think you mean 30MB/s. At 30GB/s you'd spin through a whole tape in 4sec!!
Just a little career advice: learn to spell "you're," and watch your salary double!
I can second that - UPS' XML interface is needlessly complicated and very unreliable. I implemented it as part of my ordering page and it was a disaster. It worked okay during testing and for the first couple weeks of deployment, but then their servers started going offline for 2-3 hours a day. Many sales were lost. Why, in the name of god, should an application have to go over the public Internet in order to get rate quotes and ship packages? UPS' own software doesn't do this, so why do they force their customers to use an inferior system?
The main thing I needed from it was their rate calculator. After much digging around on their web site and several calls to my account rep, I finally found their rate tables. They came in tab delimited format which was great, except these spreadsheets were not suitable for automated processing because there were many formatting inconsistencies - the data was obviously maintained by hand.
To make a long story short, in the end I was able to make some perl scripts for looking up domestic and international rates using those files, without having to go across the net. But I wasted a LOT of time finding out out how badly their XML interface sucks, and we still don't have a solution for automated shipping - only rate quotes.
When it comes to software, UPS is as clueless as it gets. I'm going to be getting set up with Fedex soon and if they're any better software-wise, it will be my pleasure to drop UPS.
"real" geeks don't have that much time to devote to playing games
Yet somehow, there's always time for Slashdot...