I have one of those cheap Lexmark printers, and I'll let you in one a dirty little secret:
Yes, it's color. And it prints in color out of the box. It takes a color and a separate black cartridge. It is perfectly capable printing black by using a mixture of colors from the color cart and leaving the black cart slot empty.
Now guess what cartridges come with the printer?
Yup, a single color cartridge. Lasts only a few pages too. A black and white cartridge costs more than 1/2 the cost of the printer. A new set of both cartridges costs pretty much the same as the printer.
No, the chips also monitor usage. So it gets marked empty the same way it gets marked expired.
Refilling is useless, you need to buy another print cartridge.
The expiry is just a way of forcing printer users to buy more ink more often.
I can't wait to see what they think of next... forcing unecessary cleaning cycles perhaps? Optical sensors in the printhead that only print on specially watermarked HP-brand inkjet paper?
Umm, actually Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are from California. Hollings is from South Carolina.
It doesn't matter a whit that Disney isn't in the state that Hollings represents. All Senators and Representatives, regardless of political party, represent large wads of cash.
This company had POTS-type videophone add-ons too. They got out of that market in a hurry.
They made several devices a few years back, an all-in-one videophone, a camera you hook up to your phone or TV, or a box you can hook up to a camera, phone and TV. They were pricey, up to $500 or so for the camera box and $800 for the all-in one.
Quality looked a lot like the CNN videos of their satellite video phones. Crappy when there's lots of movement, but if you just sit in front of it and don't spaz out it looks pretty good. I picked up a couple for $99 each at Fry's when they were being blown out and sent one off to Japan so the in-laws can see the wife and grandkid.
What you earn before you pay your protection fees to FICA and the kickback to the Feds & State governments on a convenient installment plan is your Gross Pay.
Storage is cheap and plentiful. I don't care *how* much you like your porn, your 120 GB hard drive is *not* filled because of image data.
Perhaps you don't like porn as much as I do? I have 300 gigs of storage on my machine at home and a broadband connection, I ain't paying all that money to the ISP for nothing so you gotta fill it with something.
It just may RAID Zip drives, but we also must remember the piss-poor throughput of USB for mass storage devices.
He mentioned trying to max out the number of devices and ran out of ports, but how many floppy drives are really needed to saturate USB in a RAID configuration? I would guess a hell of a lot less than 127 of them. Aren't floppy drives something like 150K/sec? So wouldn't 8 or so of them completely saturate the USB bandwidth?
RC maybe not (It's the cola of choice in my household) but 7-Up is not owned by either Coke or Pepsi and it winds up on endcaps frequently.
On a side note, I remember the 7-Up campaign "Never had it, never will" regarding AFAIR, caffeine and/or coloring in their products.
Since they are now marketing to the pep-drink, Jolt cola and Mt. Dew crowd with their new product that is a yellow-orange speed freak drink, can we all sue them for false advertising?
Actually, before the current Jaguar "pinwheel" implementation, it was a spinning rainbow disk platter, a holdover from the magneto-optical disks from the NeXT computer era.
My first dealing with OS X had this spinning icon appear after opening a file, and it brought back memories of the older NeXT operating system I used to use back in the 90's.
I was rather sad to see it go in the current version of OS X, I always considered it a sort of tribute to OS X's beginnings.
They didn't just restrict overclocking, but underclocking as well.
There are some very good reasons to underclocking processors, especially since they can be run a lot cooler than the equivalent chip rated for that clock speed, this allows passive instead of active cooling, or smaller cases.
I can see what's coming up next, like Lexmark, they implemented a way of controlling the access to the microcode on the chip, so bypassing the "overclock detector" will shortly become a DMCA violation.
I beg to differ, we have an iBook, iMac (Lamp-style) a Quicksilver, some NeXT equipment and a bevvy of Wintel PCs & notebooks.
The Quicksilver is by far the sexiest piece of hardware to grace the planet (The MDD is too flashy), especially when paired with an Apple display.
Tastes change over time though, the NeXT cube used to be the sexiest back in the mid-1990's
Funny thing is, althought I owned many Wintel and a few Macs, I never thought of Wintel systems as "sexy" but utilitarian. The only Wintel brand to break that mold would be Sony's Vaio series esp. their notebooks.
Funny you mention infrastructure, here in Los Angeles there are lots of electric vehicle charging stations. One Mall here has one that will give you a primo parking spot next to the entrance as you charge up... for free.
It is a shame with all that built up, there's nothing left to use it. More money wasted.
Another shame is the lack of sales of the Honda Civic GX. That is a very good attempt at an alternative-fuel car. Runs off of natural gas, fuel it in your garage for about $5-7 a tank, and it has a 275-300 mile range with no performance penalty. The problem? Infrastructure is there, but what is there is mostly set up for private fleet use. The home fueling unit is set back by delays, and every time the release date comes up, it gets pushed back another year.
The car's only sin is that it emits greenhouse gases and water: C02 and H20.
Of course, California considers it a non-polluting car, and you get tax benefits, free parking at meters and the ability to drive solo in the carpool lane.
In order to post code for a code review, we must first:
1) Have a Premilinary Design Review 2) Have a Critical Design Review 3) Submit your code package to CVS 4) Call for a review meeting at least 5 business days in advance 5) Submit a package for review at the time of the meeting notice complete with Engineering Notes, Class Diagrams, Structure Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
They can simply set up shop in the Bahamas, where those bastards who made my having a fax machine useless by sending their crap to it on a daily basis.
Try it sometime. Get a fax machine and put it in your home. Once those junk faxers wardial your machine, you'll get all sorts of calls between 12AM and 5AM.
Yup, great point. As an example, Limewire is available for the Mac and they don't bother to install any extra crud either, they just nag you now and then to buy the pro version.
Yup, they day before a big presentation and my wife gets up from bed to get a drink...
She kicks the iBook charging on the floor next to the bookshelf and loses it. She then picks up the iBook and flings it across the room.
Knowing better than to say anything, I waited until morning to survey the damage. The lid was slightly out of alignment and the latch lock was busted all to hell. I hit the power switch and the lil' bugger booted right up.
I then got the integrated trackpad/wristrest/latch on the 'net and it's now as good as new.
Too bad, if it was busted, I have a backup of my presentation on my Powermac, and I always wanted a TiBook.
As for following agreements, kicking out the IAEA and firing up reactors to make plutonium, and backing out of nonpoliferation treaties hardly counts as a "capability of following agreements they have signed". The leader of NK is a total nutcase, that makes him much more dangerous than Saddam ever was.
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I have one of those cheap Lexmark printers, and I'll let you in one a dirty little secret:
Yes, it's color. And it prints in color out of the box. It takes a color and a separate black cartridge. It is perfectly capable printing black by using a mixture of colors from the color cart and leaving the black cart slot empty.
Now guess what cartridges come with the printer?
Yup, a single color cartridge. Lasts only a few pages too. A black and white cartridge costs more than 1/2 the cost of the printer. A new set of both cartridges costs pretty much the same as the printer.
No, the chips also monitor usage. So it gets marked empty the same way it gets marked expired.
Refilling is useless, you need to buy another print cartridge.
The expiry is just a way of forcing printer users to buy more ink more often.
I can't wait to see what they think of next... forcing unecessary cleaning cycles perhaps? Optical sensors in the printhead that only print on specially watermarked HP-brand inkjet paper?
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Can you he...
*Call Ended*
Actually, there's a "Moist Towelette" song from the group Killer Pussy on their album Bikini Wax.
If you want to know what kind of music they play, they played the song "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage" - and sound a lot like the B-52's.
That should be all the info anyone needs for Limewire, Bearshare, or WinMX
Umm, actually Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are from California. Hollings is from South Carolina.
It doesn't matter a whit that Disney isn't in the state that Hollings represents. All Senators and Representatives, regardless of political party, represent large wads of cash.
This company had POTS-type videophone add-ons too. They got out of that market in a hurry.
They made several devices a few years back, an all-in-one videophone, a camera you hook up to your phone or TV, or a box you can hook up to a camera, phone and TV. They were pricey, up to $500 or so for the camera box and $800 for the all-in one.
Quality looked a lot like the CNN videos of their satellite video phones. Crappy when there's lots of movement, but if you just sit in front of it and don't spaz out it looks pretty good. I picked up a couple for $99 each at Fry's when they were being blown out and sent one off to Japan so the in-laws can see the wife and grandkid.
What you earn before you pay your protection fees to FICA and the kickback to the Feds & State governments on a convenient installment plan is your Gross Pay.
It just may RAID Zip drives, but we also must remember the piss-poor throughput of USB for mass storage devices.
He mentioned trying to max out the number of devices and ran out of ports, but how many floppy drives are really needed to saturate USB in a RAID configuration? I would guess a hell of a lot less than 127 of them. Aren't floppy drives something like 150K/sec? So wouldn't 8 or so of them completely saturate the USB bandwidth?
I got to admit, the article is funny as hell.
RC maybe not (It's the cola of choice in my household) but 7-Up is not owned by either Coke or Pepsi and it winds up on endcaps frequently.
On a side note, I remember the 7-Up campaign "Never had it, never will" regarding AFAIR, caffeine and/or coloring in their products.
Since they are now marketing to the pep-drink, Jolt cola and Mt. Dew crowd with their new product that is a yellow-orange speed freak drink, can we all sue them for false advertising?
Actually, before the current Jaguar "pinwheel" implementation, it was a spinning rainbow disk platter, a holdover from the magneto-optical disks from the NeXT computer era.
My first dealing with OS X had this spinning icon appear after opening a file, and it brought back memories of the older NeXT operating system I used to use back in the 90's.
I was rather sad to see it go in the current version of OS X, I always considered it a sort of tribute to OS X's beginnings.
They didn't just restrict overclocking, but underclocking as well.
There are some very good reasons to underclocking processors, especially since they can be run a lot cooler than the equivalent chip rated for that clock speed, this allows passive instead of active cooling, or smaller cases.
I can see what's coming up next, like Lexmark, they implemented a way of controlling the access to the microcode on the chip, so bypassing the "overclock detector" will shortly become a DMCA violation.
Someone put up a scan of this ad, preferably one that can be blown up or at least is higher res than the one in the article. It's just too funny.
I need a copy of that to put up in my computer security lab.
I beg to differ, we have an iBook, iMac (Lamp-style) a Quicksilver, some NeXT equipment and a bevvy of Wintel PCs & notebooks.
The Quicksilver is by far the sexiest piece of hardware to grace the planet (The MDD is too flashy), especially when paired with an Apple display.
Tastes change over time though, the NeXT cube used to be the sexiest back in the mid-1990's
Funny thing is, althought I owned many Wintel and a few Macs, I never thought of Wintel systems as "sexy" but utilitarian. The only Wintel brand to break that mold would be Sony's Vaio series esp. their notebooks.
So:
NeXT cube = old and busted
Quicksilver = new hotness
And now there's no reason for the "low on web fluid" plots.
All he has to do now is massage his spidey-prostate and he's good to go.
Funny you mention infrastructure, here in Los Angeles there are lots of electric vehicle charging stations. One Mall here has one that will give you a primo parking spot next to the entrance as you charge up... for free.
It is a shame with all that built up, there's nothing left to use it. More money wasted.
Another shame is the lack of sales of the Honda Civic GX. That is a very good attempt at an alternative-fuel car. Runs off of natural gas, fuel it in your garage for about $5-7 a tank, and it has a 275-300 mile range with no performance penalty. The problem? Infrastructure is there, but what is there is mostly set up for private fleet use. The home fueling unit is set back by delays, and every time the release date comes up, it gets pushed back another year.
The car's only sin is that it emits greenhouse gases and water: C02 and H20.
Of course, California considers it a non-polluting car, and you get tax benefits, free parking at meters and the ability to drive solo in the carpool lane.
That's fine, but it beats the DMA's web solution of charging everyone $5 to get off junk mail lists.
If I didn't post on this thread, I'd give you mod points for sure :)
Great Job!
In order to post code for a code review, we must first:
1) Have a Premilinary Design Review
2) Have a Critical Design Review
3) Submit your code package to CVS
4) Call for a review meeting at least 5 business days in advance
5) Submit a package for review at the time of the meeting notice complete with Engineering Notes, Class Diagrams, Structure Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams.
Thank you.
They can simply set up shop in the Bahamas, where those bastards who made my having a fax machine useless by sending their crap to it on a daily basis.
Try it sometime. Get a fax machine and put it in your home. Once those junk faxers wardial your machine, you'll get all sorts of calls between 12AM and 5AM.
Cool, and do-no-call activists can write up a nifty perl script that will register every number from 000-000-0000 to 999-999-9999.
./ member taking a few hundred thousand numbers.
Yes, I know that the above can be pared down considerably by removing invalid area codes and prefixes.
We could set this up as a distributed effort, with each
Yup, great point. As an example, Limewire is available for the Mac and they don't bother to install any extra crud either, they just nag you now and then to buy the pro version.
Yup, they day before a big presentation and my wife gets up from bed to get a drink...
She kicks the iBook charging on the floor next to the bookshelf and loses it. She then picks up the iBook and flings it across the room.
Knowing better than to say anything, I waited until morning to survey the damage. The lid was slightly out of alignment and the latch lock was busted all to hell. I hit the power switch and the lil' bugger booted right up.
I then got the integrated trackpad/wristrest/latch on the 'net and it's now as good as new.
Too bad, if it was busted, I have a backup of my presentation on my Powermac, and I always wanted a TiBook.
Naval engagements, sunk ships, and submarines combined with tunneling under the DMZ and the kidnapping of Japanese nationals for "spy training" hardly counts as minor border skirmishes. Yes, the war is still on, but on a very, very low simmer.
As for following agreements, kicking out the IAEA and firing up reactors to make plutonium, and backing out of nonpoliferation treaties hardly counts as a "capability of following agreements they have signed". The leader of NK is a total nutcase, that makes him much more dangerous than Saddam ever was.
Actually, NK, SK and the US have been shooting at each other for quite a while already. This has been going on ever since the cease fire agreement.