I wouldn't say there is "no waste". Have you looked at your waste tray lately? Yea, all that 'black' ink down there? That's the waste ink. Depending on what you print, there can be *lots* of it. One customer of ours decided they didn't have to empty that tray. Know what happened? The ink built up untill it was spilling into the paper tray. I was only able to remove the waste tray after pulling and tugging for quite some time. Ruined a seal on a part of the printer that cleans the head in the process. I have pictures for anyone who wants to see what happens when you misuse one of these printers (mike@protechco.com -- put "tektronix pix" in the subject, and I'll mail'em to 'ya).
If your Phasers are taking any longer than 30-40 minutes to warm up, they are broken.
I assumed you are being sarcastic, but I just figured I'd half to reply just to make sure.
We have an 840 here, and have sold several 850/860's. All of them have a warmup time in the 30-45 minute range depending on room temp.
Also, the 'ink' for those printers may be like a big Crayola, but they aren't. Talley made (still makes?) a substitute for those printers that ended up screwing up the print heads. Many of our customers had to have Xerox replace the head (Actually, it was Talley that paid for it) in a settelment. Wasn't very fun, but it drove home the point we try to make with our customers. We don't tell you to not use 3rd party ink/toner because we want to rip them off for as much as possible. We tell them this because of the problems that *can* (but not always do) come about from doing such things.
What?! You can get DirecTV and DishNetwork nearly everywhere in the US. The only problem you'd have is if you are in an apartment that doesn't have a porch/whatnot that points to the south.
Are you in that situation, or am I just missing something?
Today, most devices and systems support USB version 1.1, which supported two device speeds: low speed at 1.5 Mbit/sec, and full speed at 12 Mbit/sec. USB 2.0 is appearing in current product designs, and one of its main features is adding a new speed: high speed, at 480 Mbit/sec.
To put it another way: USB 1.1 was OK for low speed devices like mice and keyboards, and even for medium speed ones like Ethernet (10 Mbit/sec) adapters, or consumer electronics gadgets that only exchange a few megabytes of data (like many digital still cameras and MP3 players). USB 2.0 "full speed" or "low speed" is effectively just the familiar old "USB 1.1". You need USB 2.0 high speed to get reasonable speed for multiple large transfers as with some PC peripherals like disk drives (including MP3 jukeboxes:) or high resolution webcams (USB video), or get concurrent use from a bunch of 100BaseT networking adapters.
Right. I second this. We, therefore, should also make cars so that blind people can drive without worry in normal traffic. Why don't all the damned buildings shout what they are for blind people? This is outrageous. Why, even my pens can't be used by the blind people. How are they going to know what colour they are? Or know that they are ball point pens instead of felt pens, without getting ink on themselv's?! Oh, the horror! Yes. Planes. Those aren't brail friendly to fly either. All of earth needs to shout what it is and where it is so that blind people can fly, too. Geez.. How can we have been so inhumane about this? Won't *someone* think of the blind people?!
For those with no sense of humor (I'm fully expecting this to get modded down in record time...), you need to stop and take a look at yourself for a second. A reality-check, as it were. No matter a person's condition, there are some things that they simply cannot do. If a group of people want to work on a way to fix whatever is perceived to be wrong, fine. Don't force it on everyone. This is way out of hand. For Pete sakes.. Is it such a problem with email that it is impossible to get an account that can't be used? Has *every* provider gone and made it impossible for the blind to use email? Short answer: NO. If some service doesn't work for you, find another. My local phone company didn't work for me. Did I force them, via lawsuits, to bring all sorts of new equipment to my lil' town of 1400 (or so) people just so I could have high speed internet? No. I went with someone else (satellite - not that I use it anymore). If every company on earth were to try to set themselv's up for blind access, nearly all of them would go bankrupt.
Get over yourselv's. So you've got a handicap. Deal with it like adults. You are not going to have everything handed to you all of your life. This is such a non-issue, it's not even funny...
and should not be extended to encompass, an electronic communication that neither damages the recipient computer system nor impairs its functioning.
Spam, in many cases, stops the mail servers from responding in a timely way, forcing the ISP to add more bandwidth/hardware at the problem. I think spam, because of that fact (if it can be shown via logs or something) is exempted. I, however, am obviously not a lawyer (though I've done computer work for several =] ) so you couldn't hold me to that, but it just seems logical to conclude the above to me...
But what do I know.. I'm just a moderator (for today - 5 points to go!)
Get Dish Network instead. It has more channels capable of Dolby Digital than DTV does, has more HDTV channels (if your into that), and just has a larger selection of channels (not that it means they have anything more interesting on). The receivers do *not* require a phone line for *anything* what-so-ever. If you want PPV, you can just use your cell phone and dial the 800 number or use their web page.
The *only* thing Dish is missing is that stupid-assed Sunday Ticket (or whatever it's called).. Has something to do with sports so I ignore it all-together.
Oh well.. I'm rambling now.. The above is just my two cents.. =]
If Apple can stay competitive in terms of hardware speeds I don't see why OS X can't become the leading OS. It is certainly better than any other OS around right now.
Apple doesn't have the resources, in my opinion, to become the leading OS simply because I don't believe they can get enough boxes built in a short amount of time. I think Apple should have turned themselv's into the MS of the Apple world (although not as evil as MS) and allowed other people to make clones of the boxes. There's more money in software than there is in hardware anyway (as evidenced by the $129 'upgrades' to their OS. See? They are already acting like MS!)
Just my two cents.. Now I'm 128.98 away from an OS/X upgrade!
Except that it's more a port of one of the BSD's than linux.. =]
And all of you "port to x86, you bastards!" people; Get over it. MacOS/OSX will never be on any x86 hardware.
As a side note, it's not *that* hard to get a $20-$70+ (depending on taste) mouse for your MAC that has more than one button and even a scroll wheel (or two!)... Shesh!
Yea, yea.. It should come with a better mouse. It doesn't. Get over it.. =]
I beg to differ. I'd say 99% of the people that I sell computers to use "will I be able to do what (insert person/people they know here) is doing?" as a factor above price when deciding what kind of computer to purchase.
There is one in Macon, MO and another in Moberly, MO. Both are still in use. Just FYI.
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As for starband and CRC errors , you may have just have got some bad gear from them
Nope. It was system-wide. Just go to alt.satellite.starband (a.s.s as it was known in Starband's starband.general internal group). Look back through the last year (or more). It's littered with people (mostly hateful little trolls) that were experiencing it. I didn't have it *nearly* as bad as some did.... Depended on what cluster/subcluster you were on..
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Except for Drecway's FAP. Download what they feel is too much and you get knocked down to modem speeds for however long they feel (The newsgroups lare littered with people who are slowed down for anywhere from an hour to several hours).
Starband? HA! They are *just* getting over the MAJOR CRC failures in the download stream (meaning, that shiney new linux.iso (or any other file) you downloaded will have CRC errors all over it). Not to mention the fact that they are still in in Chapter7 or 11.. I forget which.. Starband was, and will always be, a joke.
Not to mention that with either of those options you have HUGE startup costs. Yea, they finally broke it down so that you can pay the install fee over the period of a year, but it is still HUGE. The other day Starband wrote me to tell me they'd buy my equipment back for $95. THE STUFF WAS USED FOR THREE MONTHS! It sat in it's boxes the rest of the time. $399 for the equpment and they are going to give me $95? Hell no.. Seeing that I wasn't going to get much for it, I sold it to a local dealer up here that was more than happy to pay $150 for it. I probably could have gotten slightly more if I had advertised it in the paper or put it on ebay or something..
Besides, $65m for the domain stealer and $100m for VeriSign? This has got to be a joke! How can any respectable court award him that much money. I cannot believe for one second that the domain - even over the course of 6 years - would've made even close to $65m! Maybe close to $1m, but even that's probably pushing it! This is rediculous.
It's fairly well known that people almost *never* get the exact amount they ask for. They generally always get less. What you do is ask for a rediculous amount (like one hundred million) so that you are more likely to get what you were wanting in the first place.
However, if I were the one who had my domain stolen, I'd ask for a huge amount just to teach the company a lesson. Say you were VeriSign. Say you were being careless and allowed dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of domains to be transfered without the consent/permission of the one with the legal 'lease'. Wouldn't a penalty of $100m make you more likely to do your job properly in the future; that is assuming you still had a company after that fine?
Need I keep digging to prove my point? OK. So I haven't seen any shows of "The Mullets" yet, but, do you half to? As for The Pits... I'd *LOVE* to know who got blown to get that show on the air...
For those that are still with me and wondering where I'm going... I'm stating that there is already an abundance of CRAP on TV -- even before the ability to skip past commercials is commonplace (I mean, come on, ho wmany people really skip commercials, or even have the ability to, outside of slashdot?) Right now the networks are just blowing smoke up our asses to have yet more technology taken away from us. Nothing more.
Just when you think Novak has filed just about everything he can, on June 2, 3003 he filed a bankruuptcy petition. He also has sued Tucows, Inc., an Internet Registrar as well as the Circuit Court of Colbert County, Alabama.
Wow! He lived over a thousand years to file yet another suit AND these people were able to scan through time itself to find out about it? Now THAT is the kind of service I expect to find in my news sources!:)
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What's the difference?
I wouldn't say there is "no waste". Have you looked at your waste tray lately? Yea, all that 'black' ink down there? That's the waste ink. Depending on what you print, there can be *lots* of it. One customer of ours decided they didn't have to empty that tray. Know what happened? The ink built up untill it was spilling into the paper tray. I was only able to remove the waste tray after pulling and tugging for quite some time. Ruined a seal on a part of the printer that cleans the head in the process. I have pictures for anyone who wants to see what happens when you misuse one of these printers (mike@protechco.com -- put "tektronix pix" in the subject, and I'll mail'em to 'ya).
Anyway..
If your Phasers are taking any longer than 30-40 minutes to warm up, they are broken.
I assumed you are being sarcastic, but I just figured I'd half to reply just to make sure.
We have an 840 here, and have sold several 850/860's. All of them have a warmup time in the 30-45 minute range depending on room temp.
Also, the 'ink' for those printers may be like a big Crayola, but they aren't. Talley made (still makes?) a substitute for those printers that ended up screwing up the print heads. Many of our customers had to have Xerox replace the head (Actually, it was Talley that paid for it) in a settelment. Wasn't very fun, but it drove home the point we try to make with our customers. We don't tell you to not use 3rd party ink/toner because we want to rip them off for as much as possible. We tell them this because of the problems that *can* (but not always do) come about from doing such things.
Anyway, I'm rambling now...
What?! You can get DirecTV and DishNetwork nearly everywhere in the US. The only problem you'd have is if you are in an apartment that doesn't have a porch/whatnot that points to the south.
Are you in that situation, or am I just missing something?
Yes. Dell is a VAR.
The affore mentioned person said that he had heard/read that we could all fit there, not that we could all live there comfortably.
Don't read into what people are saying. Sometimes what they are trying to tell you really is as simple as the words they use.
But what if you get there and all the algae simply aren't where they are supposed to be and the pre-built habitat is in ruin?
Not so gung-ho now, are 'ya?!
Support for USB 2.0! Great!
:) or high resolution webcams (USB video), or get concurrent use from a bunch of 100BaseT networking adapters.
Wait a minute... is that HIGH SPEED, or FULL SPEED?
From this page:
Today, most devices and systems support USB version 1.1, which supported two device speeds: low speed at 1.5 Mbit/sec, and full speed at 12 Mbit/sec. USB 2.0 is appearing in current product designs, and one of its main features is adding a new speed: high speed, at 480 Mbit/sec.
To put it another way: USB 1.1 was OK for low speed devices like mice and keyboards, and even for medium speed ones like Ethernet (10 Mbit/sec) adapters, or consumer electronics gadgets that only exchange a few megabytes of data (like many digital still cameras and MP3 players). USB 2.0 "full speed" or "low speed" is effectively just the familiar old "USB 1.1". You need USB 2.0 high speed to get reasonable speed for multiple large transfers as with some PC peripherals like disk drives (including MP3 jukeboxes
I think this answers your question.
"Security through obsurity is worthless..."
Well, it works for our "National Secrets", why not for voting?
(for those with no sense of humor, yes, it was a joke).
Actually, AIBO is Sony's baby. Your thinking of ASIMO, which is Handa's.
Right. I second this. We, therefore, should also make cars so that blind people can drive without worry in normal traffic. Why don't all the damned buildings shout what they are for blind people? This is outrageous. Why, even my pens can't be used by the blind people. How are they going to know what colour they are? Or know that they are ball point pens instead of felt pens, without getting ink on themselv's?! Oh, the horror! Yes. Planes. Those aren't brail friendly to fly either. All of earth needs to shout what it is and where it is so that blind people can fly, too. Geez.. How can we have been so inhumane about this? Won't *someone* think of the blind people?!
For those with no sense of humor (I'm fully expecting this to get modded down in record time...), you need to stop and take a look at yourself for a second. A reality-check, as it were. No matter a person's condition, there are some things that they simply cannot do. If a group of people want to work on a way to fix whatever is perceived to be wrong, fine. Don't force it on everyone. This is way out of hand. For Pete sakes.. Is it such a problem with email that it is impossible to get an account that can't be used? Has *every* provider gone and made it impossible for the blind to use email? Short answer: NO. If some service doesn't work for you, find another. My local phone company didn't work for me. Did I force them, via lawsuits, to bring all sorts of new equipment to my lil' town of 1400 (or so) people just so I could have high speed internet? No. I went with someone else (satellite - not that I use it anymore). If every company on earth were to try to set themselv's up for blind access, nearly all of them would go bankrupt.
Get over yourselv's. So you've got a handicap. Deal with it like adults. You are not going to have everything handed to you all of your life. This is such a non-issue, it's not even funny...
They didn't backstab IBM.. They were "innovating" and IBM just couldn't keep up with them! Yea, that's it!
*takes anther puff of the crack pipe*
Ahhh...
and should not be extended to encompass, an electronic communication that neither damages the recipient computer system nor impairs its functioning.
Spam, in many cases, stops the mail servers from responding in a timely way, forcing the ISP to add more bandwidth/hardware at the problem. I think spam, because of that fact (if it can be shown via logs or something) is exempted. I, however, am obviously not a lawyer (though I've done computer work for several =] ) so you couldn't hold me to that, but it just seems logical to conclude the above to me...
But what do I know.. I'm just a moderator (for today - 5 points to go!)
Get Dish Network instead. It has more channels capable of Dolby Digital than DTV does, has more HDTV channels (if your into that), and just has a larger selection of channels (not that it means they have anything more interesting on). The receivers do *not* require a phone line for *anything* what-so-ever. If you want PPV, you can just use your cell phone and dial the 800 number or use their web page.
The *only* thing Dish is missing is that stupid-assed Sunday Ticket (or whatever it's called).. Has something to do with sports so I ignore it all-together.
Oh well.. I'm rambling now.. The above is just my two cents.. =]
If Apple can stay competitive in terms of hardware speeds I don't see why OS X can't become the leading OS. It is certainly better than any other OS around right now.
Apple doesn't have the resources, in my opinion, to become the leading OS simply because I don't believe they can get enough boxes built in a short amount of time. I think Apple should have turned themselv's into the MS of the Apple world (although not as evil as MS) and allowed other people to make clones of the boxes. There's more money in software than there is in hardware anyway (as evidenced by the $129 'upgrades' to their OS. See? They are already acting like MS!)
Just my two cents.. Now I'm 128.98 away from an OS/X upgrade!
Except that it's more a port of one of the BSD's than linux.. =]
And all of you "port to x86, you bastards!" people; Get over it. MacOS/OSX will never be on any x86 hardware.
As a side note, it's not *that* hard to get a $20-$70+ (depending on taste) mouse for your MAC that has more than one button and even a scroll wheel (or two!)... Shesh!
Yea, yea.. It should come with a better mouse. It doesn't. Get over it.. =]
Thus hath spoketh, an avid PC user.
I beg to differ. I'd say 99% of the people that I sell computers to use "will I be able to do what (insert person/people they know here) is doing?" as a factor above price when deciding what kind of computer to purchase.
Just my two cents...
There is one in Macon, MO and another in Moberly, MO. Both are still in use. Just FYI.
As for starband and CRC errors , you may have just have got some bad gear from them
Nope. It was system-wide. Just go to alt.satellite.starband (a.s.s as it was known in Starband's starband.general internal group). Look back through the last year (or more). It's littered with people (mostly hateful little trolls) that were experiencing it. I didn't have it *nearly* as bad as some did.... Depended on what cluster/subcluster you were on..
Except for Drecway's FAP. Download what they feel is too much and you get knocked down to modem speeds for however long they feel (The newsgroups lare littered with people who are slowed down for anywhere from an hour to several hours).
.iso (or any other file) you downloaded will have CRC errors all over it). Not to mention the fact that they are still in in Chapter7 or 11.. I forget which.. Starband was, and will always be, a joke.
Starband? HA! They are *just* getting over the MAJOR CRC failures in the download stream (meaning, that shiney new linux
Not to mention that with either of those options you have HUGE startup costs. Yea, they finally broke it down so that you can pay the install fee over the period of a year, but it is still HUGE. The other day Starband wrote me to tell me they'd buy my equipment back for $95. THE STUFF WAS USED FOR THREE MONTHS! It sat in it's boxes the rest of the time. $399 for the equpment and they are going to give me $95? Hell no.. Seeing that I wasn't going to get much for it, I sold it to a local dealer up here that was more than happy to pay $150 for it. I probably could have gotten slightly more if I had advertised it in the paper or put it on ebay or something..
Oh.. no I'm rambling... Bah...
Besides, $65m for the domain stealer and $100m for VeriSign? This has got to be a joke! How can any respectable court award him that much money. I cannot believe for one second that the domain - even over the course of 6 years - would've made even close to $65m! Maybe close to $1m, but even that's probably pushing it! This is rediculous.
It's fairly well known that people almost *never* get the exact amount they ask for. They generally always get less. What you do is ask for a rediculous amount (like one hundred million) so that you are more likely to get what you were wanting in the first place.
However, if I were the one who had my domain stolen, I'd ask for a huge amount just to teach the company a lesson. Say you were VeriSign. Say you were being careless and allowed dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of domains to be transfered without the consent/permission of the one with the legal 'lease'. Wouldn't a penalty of $100m make you more likely to do your job properly in the future; that is assuming you still had a company after that fine?
I knew you could see the point.
I submit the following:
The Pitts
The Mullets
Need I keep digging to prove my point? OK. So I haven't seen any shows of "The Mullets" yet, but, do you half to? As for The Pits... I'd *LOVE* to know who got blown to get that show on the air...
For those that are still with me and wondering where I'm going... I'm stating that there is already an abundance of CRAP on TV -- even before the ability to skip past commercials is commonplace (I mean, come on, ho wmany people really skip commercials, or even have the ability to, outside of slashdot?) Right now the networks are just blowing smoke up our asses to have yet more technology taken away from us. Nothing more.
anyway.. back to work...
Macs aren't just for graphic arts and publishing.
Then why don't I see more of them around?
Where is mac Half-Life?
It already expired.
Just when you think Novak has filed just about everything he can, on June 2, 3003 he filed a bankruuptcy petition. He also has sued Tucows, Inc., an Internet Registrar as well as the Circuit Court of Colbert County, Alabama.
:)
Wow! He lived over a thousand years to file yet another suit AND these people were able to scan through time itself to find out about it? Now THAT is the kind of service I expect to find in my news sources!