Can you imagine Luddites visiting a place with a loom 20 years later and going "Your sweater didn't turn out right? I guess your loom froze!! HAHAHAHA" This is how I feel every time I see this sentiment on Slashdot.
How about... "Your sweater didn't turn out right? HAHA! Maybe your Loom Activation Key expired!"
That's hardly Microsoft.NET -- it's an incomplete re-implementation of questionable legal standing. Compare that with the Java runtimes available for Windows, Solaris, Linux, MacOSX, etc.
It uses the WIN OS for printing, NOT an onboard Proc!!
Hmm. Indeed.
4.1 Does this printer work with free software? http://www.linuxprinting.org/minolta-faq.html#q_4_ 1
No. This printer does not use ZjStream, which is a JBIG based language. It looks like an ESC based language with compression. Therefore, the foo2zjs driver will fail.
The compression is inferior to the 2300DL, however, it should not be difficult to create a driver. Good luck.
http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/testdrive/ar ticle.php/2202421
the W indicates that, like some low-cost monochrome lasers, it's a Windows-based (95, 98SE, Me, 2000, XP) printer, using the operating system's own interface instead of a Linux- and Mac-compatible language like PCL or PostScript.
Here's a TechTV review I dug up on this printer. The good news: it takes 4 separate cartridges. http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/pr oducts/story/ 0,24330,3425354,00.html
Here's what we found in our speed tests of the 2300W:
* Our black-and-white test document took 49 seconds to print, which averages to 12 ppm. * The black-and-white test took two minutes, 32 seconds when the printer was cold. * It took seven minutes to print 10 letter-size color photographs. * It took less than three minutes to print 10 color webpages. [...] The 2300W comes preinstalled with color and black toner cartridges, all four of which will need to be changed after approximately 1,500 prints. Subsequent high-capacity (4,500 prints) black toner cartridges will set you back $79 each, while each of the standard cyan, magenta, and yellow toner cartridges cost $69. For all you mathphobes, that works out to a total of $286 for all consumables -- under 2 cents per page for black-and-white prints and about 11 cents per page using high-capacity cartridges. By comparison, the i9100 costs over 2 cents per page for black-and-white and 14 cents per color page. (And that's not considering special ink-jet paper.)
Summary: If you're looking for color with the benefits of laser printing, the 2300W is the best value around. HP's LaserJet 2500 color laser printer comes closest in price at $899.
Microsoft bet big on the internet AFTER it was already popular. They were playing catch-up.
There were lots of people running Win3.1, OS/2 and Macintosh computers and using the internet before WIndows 95. Not just "geeks." Businesses. Moms and Dads. Universities.
Microsoft is not the Messiah, and Windows 95 was not the second coming, Microsoft P.R. not withstanding.
"Argue with me all you want, the fact remains that Microsoft bet rather heavily on the internet and won."
Yes, Microsoft more or less obliterated the competition, through a mixture of legal and illegal means. It doesn't mean they started the boom of the 90s. They rode it.
"Argue with me all you want" -- this is just another way of saying, "Keep talking, I'm not listening," I think.
There is a lot of it. The states are sometimes called the "laboritories" for legislation. The U.S. was set up with way -- a relatively weak and powerless federal government that provides for the common defense, currency, bankruptcy, and a few other things in the "enumerated powers." The states were responsible for all other legislation, except in areas reserved exclusively to the people. Things like freedom of speech, religion and assembly, and the right to bear arms are in that category (see 9th and 10th amendments). These days, a lot of federal mandates are achieved through the federal government's power of taxation, rather than more direct (and unconstitutional) means.
I'm not sure if the U.S. federal government is all that constitutional these days. Before FDR, there was a "presumption of liberty" that favors individuals and the states. Post-FDR, there was a "presumption of constitutionality" which favors congress and the president, and disfavors states and individual citizens. This flies in the face of the 9th and 10th Amendments, which are supposed to be part of the "supreme law of the land" that places limitations on the power of the federal government.
They had created at least 4 previous "OS + GUI" that ran on commodity hardware before that. I guess they created the 80s tech boom, too.
Windows 95 also explains the huge uptick in sales of Sun, Cisco, IBM, etc. hardware. Windows 95 also explains the wide availability of the internet.
Yep.
All Windows 95. Amazing software.
Not.
If it wasn't for the internet, we wouldn't have had the network and telecommunications boom of the 90s. Computers were a sideshow. It *was* a big, huge coincidence that Windows95 arrived at the same time.
2) We are the governed from whose constent the power of government is derived
3) We provide our consent by voting
4) The government has an obligation to not shut out any voters
5) No poll tax of any type can be levied
6) Requiring Windows shuts out non-Windows users, provides a subsidy to a criminal company, and possibly drives more people to purchase Windows in order to vote (e.g., amounts to a poll tax)
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Linking directly to an Excel spreadsheet *is* kind of lame.
Can you imagine Luddites visiting a place with a loom 20 years later and going "Your sweater didn't turn out right? I guess your loom froze!! HAHAHAHA" This is how I feel every time I see this sentiment on Slashdot.
How about... "Your sweater didn't turn out right? HAHA! Maybe your Loom Activation Key expired!"
Volume three deals with "portability." It's one page long. The page says, "It's not!"
Re: "map"
So the ECMA patent-free parts (Microsoft's true intentions not withstanding) are Cyan. What are the Red and Green parts?
I said: .NET -- installing Linux/FreeBSD, Apache, Java and Tomcat."
"Essential
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.NET -- it's an incomplete re-implementation of questionable legal standing. Compare that with the Java runtimes available for Windows, Solaris, Linux, MacOSX, etc.
That's hardly Microsoft
How can the antichrist ever be off topic?
Thanks for your support!
It *is* cross platform! ... it runs on more than one release of Windows ...
Offtopic. Thanks.
Essential .NET -- installing Linux/FreeBSD, Apache, Java and Tomcat.
doesn't that give MS an incentive to leave bugs in?
As if they need one...
Perhaps the Swedes should make an exception for session-length cookies.
Hmm. Indeed.
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/p
Here's what we found in our speed tests of the 2300W:
* Our black-and-white test document took 49 seconds to print, which averages to 12 ppm.
* The black-and-white test took two minutes, 32 seconds when the printer was cold.
* It took seven minutes to print 10 letter-size color photographs.
* It took less than three minutes to print 10 color webpages.
[...]
The 2300W comes preinstalled with color and black toner cartridges, all four of which will need to be changed after approximately 1,500 prints. Subsequent high-capacity (4,500 prints) black toner cartridges will set you back $79 each, while each of the standard cyan, magenta, and yellow toner cartridges cost $69. For all you mathphobes, that works out to a total of $286 for all consumables -- under 2 cents per page for black-and-white prints and about 11 cents per page using high-capacity cartridges. By comparison, the i9100 costs over 2 cents per page for black-and-white and 14 cents per color page. (And that's not considering special ink-jet paper.)
Summary: If you're looking for color with the benefits of laser printing, the 2300W is the best value around. HP's LaserJet 2500 color laser printer comes closest in price at $899.
Pros: Attractive price; fast
Cons: Slow warmup; good but not ideal for photos
How much do the consumables cost? Toner, fusers, etc?
Do slashdot rules allow killing the messenger?
Sure. Assassinate Webster while you're at it.
When the economy is in recession, it is shrinking. Because the U.S. economy is not shrinking, it cannot, by definition, be in a recession.
It's not growing as much as all of us would like, for sure.
The whole world's population could be moved to Texas and have a population density about that of Tokyo.
So I hear.
Then they should have sent her free "P4" cards, rather than trying to squeeze $20/card to fix their problem.
Microsoft bet big on the internet AFTER it was already popular. They were playing catch-up.
There were lots of people running Win3.1, OS/2 and Macintosh computers and using the internet before WIndows 95. Not just "geeks." Businesses. Moms and Dads. Universities.
Microsoft is not the Messiah, and Windows 95 was not the second coming, Microsoft P.R. not withstanding.
"Argue with me all you want, the fact remains that Microsoft bet rather heavily on the internet and won."
Yes, Microsoft more or less obliterated the competition, through a mixture of legal and illegal means. It doesn't mean they started the boom of the 90s. They rode it.
"Argue with me all you want" -- this is just another way of saying, "Keep talking, I'm not listening," I think.
There is a lot of it. The states are sometimes called the "laboritories" for legislation. The U.S. was set up with way -- a relatively weak and powerless federal government that provides for the common defense, currency, bankruptcy, and a few other things in the "enumerated powers." The states were responsible for all other legislation, except in areas reserved exclusively to the people. Things like freedom of speech, religion and assembly, and the right to bear arms are in that category (see 9th and 10th amendments). These days, a lot of federal mandates are achieved through the federal government's power of taxation, rather than more direct (and unconstitutional) means.
I'm not sure if the U.S. federal government is all that constitutional these days. Before FDR, there was a "presumption of liberty" that favors individuals and the states. Post-FDR, there was a "presumption of constitutionality" which favors congress and the president, and disfavors states and individual citizens. This flies in the face of the 9th and 10th Amendments, which are supposed to be part of the "supreme law of the land" that places limitations on the power of the federal government.
They had created at least 4 previous "OS + GUI" that ran on commodity hardware before that. I guess they created the 80s tech boom, too.
Windows 95 also explains the huge uptick in sales of Sun, Cisco, IBM, etc. hardware. Windows 95 also explains the wide availability of the internet.
Yep.
All Windows 95. Amazing software.
Not.
If it wasn't for the internet, we wouldn't have had the network and telecommunications boom of the 90s. Computers were a sideshow. It *was* a big, huge coincidence that Windows95 arrived at the same time.
Yes they did. Take off your Communist Open Source I-Hate-Everything-Microsoft glasses and think for yourself.
Spoken like a true.... coward. Come out in the open and back up your assertion.
Microsoft did not "cause the 90s tech boom." Microsoft did not "bring computers to the masses."
Microsoft did not "bring computers to the masses," "Enable the tech boom," etc. Take of the Rose-Colored Glasses.
How about:
1) This is our government we're talking about
2) We are the governed from whose constent the power of government is derived
3) We provide our consent by voting
4) The government has an obligation to not shut out any voters
5) No poll tax of any type can be levied
6) Requiring Windows shuts out non-Windows users, provides a subsidy to a criminal company, and possibly drives more people to purchase Windows in order to vote (e.g., amounts to a poll tax)