I never had the DJ 500 but I remember it vividly, it was a nice machine.
I also use Canon knockoffs for the same reason, the color is perfect but on some papers they fade within months. On other papers they last for years though. I wonder if the OEM inks would have the same issue.
Depends on your point of view. Before this, I had an HP Laserjet 3 with approx 50,000 pages (so maybe 2,000-2,500 pages a year). So yeah, the Brother may get me around 5+ years, but a) the drum has a shorter shelf life than that and b) 5 years is still way to soon to junk a perfectly good printer. As long as it works, why replace it?
The HP was actually about 50 times the price of the brother. And with inflation more like 100 times the true price. I'm not saying the brother isn't good value for a solid machine, just that the environmental price of their broken business model is awful.
It's a Brother HL-2240. I just checked staples and the fuser says 12,000 pages and it's currently 2.5 times the price I paid for the printer. IMO if anything it should optionally come bundled with a toner cartridge for an extra $20 on top of the cost of the toner.
The printer really was great value, but I'm not going to buy another machine that's going to the garbage dump over such a stupid reason, I will definitely be more careful when I replace it.
I have a Brother laser printer. It really is a fantastic printer, and it was quite cheap to buy. But it has a fuser assembly that's good for about 10-15,000 pages and will cost about twice as much to replace as I paid for the whole printer. I wasn't aware of that when I bought the printer and it means the printer is going to have a very short life before becoming landfill. I really hate Brother for playing that game.
I used HP printers for years starting with a LaserJet II. From about 2000 on, they were nothing but trouble, constant cartridge errors, clogs, etc. With both OEM and non-OEM ink. One with a scanner had the scanner self-destruct after about 20 page scans.
About 5 years ago, I bought a canon. It's been through about 150 non-OEM cartridges. It's sat idle for a month and it's printed 200 photos in a day. And it works like a dream every time.
This isn't really a plug for Canon, but HP is just so unbelievably bad. Nobody should buy their printers.
Not at all. I'm saying his writing is trash because he allows the political agenda to destroy it. He doesn't has the skill to write what he's trying to and comes off as a babbling lunatic.
I "need" a $250,000 HP Indigo 7600 Digital Press. Rather than spend the money on a machine that will sit idle 99% of the time, I found a company near me whose core business is owning the machine and allowing others to use it. The company operating and maintains the machine saving me the trouble, but I get to use the machine (along with several thousand other people). I pay a tiny, tiny fraction of what it would cost to have my own machine, I get all the use I want out of it, and the company makes a nice profit on their actual investment.
Apple needs a multibillion dollar chip fab. And the'd need to replace it every 3 years with a newer process fab. Rather than invest the money themselves, they design the chips and have someone else produce them on their fab. And we're at the point where you can order as few as 10,000 units of a chip bringing the benefits of a multibillion dollar fab into the reach of just about any company.
I'm nto sure why you want to look at cheesy dumbed down action shows that make a mockery of sci-fi and and then ask why TV is excluded.
Take a look at the Honor Harrington or Lost Fleet series. They try vey hard to get the physics perfect, but it's all about the human/social issues. The Troy Rising trilogy by John Ringo is also excellent and very much about the people.
Meaning denser, and even more likely to fail catastrophically unless the makers can somehow contrive a chemistry with higher internal resistance (and thus harder to charge and less efficient).
You don't begin to understand what a high internal resistance means for a battery.
All my family's iPhone earbuds are still unopened as well, even going back to the older ones wrapped in a plastic band instead of a case. Never used, not once.
The reason for that is the quality is so crappy they're unusable. You can get some pretty amazing quality wired headphones for under $100 on black friday. Last year I got an amazing deal on some SoundSports at $50 each. Compared to cheap headphones, you can actually hear so much more detail in the music it's like a whole different song.
Besides using my phone with multiple different sets of headphones, there's 2 cars I regularly listen in. I am not carrying an adapter every where with me and I am not buying 6 more adapters to leave them on every 3.5" pin I use often.
On the bright side, this got me to try a Note 7. Wow is Apple ever living in the stone age. Just have the "courage" to spend a few days seriously giving it a go. I will never go back to Apple. The edge panels alone are worth the courage to switch. And the display on the Note is simply amazing.
Here in Ontario the way it's done is a $500 fine. Which is a blatant cash grab and useless for helping the problem.
For a lot of people, losing $500 can ruin a family; there was just an article posted here about how $1000 can keep a family from becoming homeless for 2 years. For a family living close to the edge, what will losing $500 do to them. I live in a rather affluent area, and it seems like everyone is always texting away while driving. For them a $500 fine is a minor fee for being allowed to use their phones while driving.
Taking away licenses is a good way to affect everyone about the same.
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The first Mars colony is always wiped out. It's the second one that thrives -- after 90% of the colonists are wiped out.
But where can I get Jony's special project Red limited edition plug?
I never had the DJ 500 but I remember it vividly, it was a nice machine.
I also use Canon knockoffs for the same reason, the color is perfect but on some papers they fade within months. On other papers they last for years though. I wonder if the OEM inks would have the same issue.
Depends on your point of view. Before this, I had an HP Laserjet 3 with approx 50,000 pages (so maybe 2,000-2,500 pages a year). So yeah, the Brother may get me around 5+ years, but a) the drum has a shorter shelf life than that and b) 5 years is still way to soon to junk a perfectly good printer. As long as it works, why replace it?
The HP was actually about 50 times the price of the brother. And with inflation more like 100 times the true price. I'm not saying the brother isn't good value for a solid machine, just that the environmental price of their broken business model is awful.
It's a Brother HL-2240. I just checked staples and the fuser says 12,000 pages and it's currently 2.5 times the price I paid for the printer. IMO if anything it should optionally come bundled with a toner cartridge for an extra $20 on top of the cost of the toner.
The printer really was great value, but I'm not going to buy another machine that's going to the garbage dump over such a stupid reason, I will definitely be more careful when I replace it.
I have a Brother laser printer. It really is a fantastic printer, and it was quite cheap to buy. But it has a fuser assembly that's good for about 10-15,000 pages and will cost about twice as much to replace as I paid for the whole printer. I wasn't aware of that when I bought the printer and it means the printer is going to have a very short life before becoming landfill. I really hate Brother for playing that game.
I used HP printers for years starting with a LaserJet II. From about 2000 on, they were nothing but trouble, constant cartridge errors, clogs, etc. With both OEM and non-OEM ink. One with a scanner had the scanner self-destruct after about 20 page scans.
About 5 years ago, I bought a canon. It's been through about 150 non-OEM cartridges. It's sat idle for a month and it's printed 200 photos in a day. And it works like a dream every time.
This isn't really a plug for Canon, but HP is just so unbelievably bad. Nobody should buy their printers.
Well obviously that's a much larger market than people who used wired headphones.
If you care about security, you shouldn't be using blur, you should be putting a nice black circle over it. A yellow smiley face works just as well.
Well Heinlein did do a better job writing insightful quotes than you.
Hornblower is excellent, but female Hornblower in space fits this thread better. And the Harrington books do have the sci-fi aspect down perfectly.
Not at all. I'm saying his writing is trash because he allows the political agenda to destroy it. He doesn't has the skill to write what he's trying to and comes off as a babbling lunatic.
But you don't need to own the advanced machines.
I "need" a $250,000 HP Indigo 7600 Digital Press. Rather than spend the money on a machine that will sit idle 99% of the time, I found a company near me whose core business is owning the machine and allowing others to use it. The company operating and maintains the machine saving me the trouble, but I get to use the machine (along with several thousand other people). I pay a tiny, tiny fraction of what it would cost to have my own machine, I get all the use I want out of it, and the company makes a nice profit on their actual investment.
Apple needs a multibillion dollar chip fab. And the'd need to replace it every 3 years with a newer process fab. Rather than invest the money themselves, they design the chips and have someone else produce them on their fab. And we're at the point where you can order as few as 10,000 units of a chip bringing the benefits of a multibillion dollar fab into the reach of just about any company.
6% seems pretty pessimistic.
I bet if we raise the national minimum wage to $15/hour, we could hit 10% by 2021.
Cory Doctorow is a nut who will never let the story get in the way of the political agenda he wants to spew. His trash is unreadable.
And I notice you need to post as AC to plug the loser.
I'm nto sure why you want to look at cheesy dumbed down action shows that make a mockery of sci-fi and and then ask why TV is excluded.
Take a look at the Honor Harrington or Lost Fleet series. They try vey hard to get the physics perfect, but it's all about the human/social issues. The Troy Rising trilogy by John Ringo is also excellent and very much about the people.
"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed" R. A. Heinlein.
The Matrix was right. Humans are a virus.
Meaning denser, and even more likely to fail catastrophically unless the makers can somehow contrive a chemistry with higher internal resistance (and thus harder to charge and less efficient).
You don't begin to understand what a high internal resistance means for a battery.
Second worst. You're forgetting about Hilllary.
The way I put it is Trump is a petty street thug, Clinton is a serial killer.
Both are horrible choices for president, but a different league of evil. And Hillary will be able to do a lot more damage.
Considering facebook's stance on privacy and free information / free press, if their money is that much against Trump, it's a good sign we need Trump.
All my family's iPhone earbuds are still unopened as well, even going back to the older ones wrapped in a plastic band instead of a case. Never used, not once.
The reason for that is the quality is so crappy they're unusable. You can get some pretty amazing quality wired headphones for under $100 on black friday. Last year I got an amazing deal on some SoundSports at $50 each. Compared to cheap headphones, you can actually hear so much more detail in the music it's like a whole different song.
Besides using my phone with multiple different sets of headphones, there's 2 cars I regularly listen in. I am not carrying an adapter every where with me and I am not buying 6 more adapters to leave them on every 3.5" pin I use often.
On the bright side, this got me to try a Note 7. Wow is Apple ever living in the stone age. Just have the "courage" to spend a few days seriously giving it a go. I will never go back to Apple. The edge panels alone are worth the courage to switch. And the display on the Note is simply amazing.
Now can we start tearing down research labs to build more NFL stadia...at the taxpayers' expense, of course.
Here in Ontario the way it's done is a $500 fine. Which is a blatant cash grab and useless for helping the problem.
For a lot of people, losing $500 can ruin a family; there was just an article posted here about how $1000 can keep a family from becoming homeless for 2 years. For a family living close to the edge, what will losing $500 do to them. I live in a rather affluent area, and it seems like everyone is always texting away while driving. For them a $500 fine is a minor fee for being allowed to use their phones while driving.
Taking away licenses is a good way to affect everyone about the same.