I've had a Brother HL-1240 for three years now without incident.
It's really served me well.
I recommended it to a client, they love it.
One of my other clients has had one for a while, they've loved it.
I'm only going by my experiences and others' experiences, as you obviously are for yourself.
Sorry to hear about your troubles, but it's been smooth sailing for me.
The guy helped write a pretty decent search engine for NEC, and continues to refine his work there.
During the last three years' worth of economic ups and downs, one thing has remained consistent: he has had to fight off job offers with a big thick stick.
I don't think the guy will ever go wanting for work.
And get a laser-based MFD. Brother makes solid stuff, and their cartridges are pretty reasonable.
Racetrack Playa would be a good place for this...
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There's a part of Death Valley called the Racetrack. Perhaps an exception could be made to the "no equipment in wilderness areas" policy for tiny sensors.
For those that don't know, the Racetrack is an ultra-flat part of Death Valley known for a field of rocks that move around and leave tracks when no one is looking. No one knows why, and some of those rocks are pretty damned heavy.
It would be great to leave some sort of remote sensors there to find out why they move.
Perhaps intelligent life has come about because only it can recognize and deal with the eventual "heat death" of the Universe.
I wouldn't put it past us humans to come up with some way of reversing entropy.
Doing things their own way, while
ignoring a previously created technology.
My analogy: Memory Sticks vs. CF, and now
this 4-color layered process vs. Foveon.
Perhaps the problem isn't with recommending Apple specifically, but with a lone person trying to wedge anything in that's totally new.
Novel OSes and the like are automatically viewed with suspicion, and an integration headache (despite Apple's ever-increasing ability to play nice with the Wintel) they'd rather not bring upon themselves.
I perceive most IT departments are engaged in a permanent defensive mode of keeping the existing stuff running well. So they make conservative choices.
Car horns blown by intra-city drivers.
Is it really necessary to:
- Blast your horn when you drive past someone you know?
- Honk the very instant the light turns green to get people moving?
- Honk again and again when pulling up to pick someone up, when all you have to do is get out and knock or call someone using your cell phone?
- Or honk in front of a shopping mall or office building to pick someone up - surely you know that they either don't hear it, or can't distinguish it from regular "background honking?"
Horn honking diminishes everyone's quality of life - including your own.
Only a few days ago, I posted a comment on Slashdot that we all take our power grid for granted. It's one of the first things that I remembered. Well, the *first* thought I had was that this was the result of grid overload and poor power planning, not terrorism.
A couple of Europeans working for some independent TV station interviewed me. I expressed what I felt were the causes behind the outage, and mentioned that people in the Third World live with unreliable power like this every day.
You can get to the movie trailes far more quickly by going to quicktime.com.
Incidentally, shouldn't Gigli have been called Paycheck? Cuz that's all it apparently was for Ben and Jennifer.
Widening circles of effect...
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The whole jewelry industry may be severely impacted by this, may even collapse.
Namibia and South Africa will most likely see their unemployment rates (already high) skyrocket.
Unemployment shoots up high enough, these nominally stable countries may be pushed to the brink. The Skeleton Coast, however, may unrestricted, since the chief concern is diamond mine security.
Pawn shops specializing in jewelry will see their inventories lose value quickly.
No more hocking sentimental diamond jewelry to pay off credit cards/mortgages/bar tabs.
Short selling DeBeers' ADRs may be a great way to make some quick cash.
But so is the electrical grid itself.
Imagine how difficult computing life will get if rolling blackouts/brownouts strike all of this country.
It could happen sooner than later if
our national energy policy doesn't start tilting away from nonrenewables.
The AK-47 is an assault rifle or an infantry weapon, not a machine gun.
Its popularity stems from its inexpensive construction and price - not to mention the fact
that the Soviet Union basically dropped them
off for free or nearly for free on client
state and third-world countries it wanted to
control.
It is quite reliable, but it's not as well-made
or accurate as Western assault rifles.
After some kinks were worked out in the
late 1960's the M-16 is now known for
incredible reliability.
Although I agree that Soviet technology is
underrated, and I agree that there were
embargoes, remember that this cut both ways.
The Iron Curtain was given its name for
a reason - the closed-off nature of
then-Communist countries. Even with no
embargo, we didn't need to import anything
of theirs - our military technology was
generally superior (not that they
would have sold it to us), and we certainly
didn't want to import their civilian
goods, which in a command economy were of
quite inferior design and workmanship.
If you dispute that their products sucked,
then look up "trabant" on the
Internet - it was the Soviet Union's
car for the masses, only it was worse
than a Yugo and you had to wait years
for one.
I've set up a lot of these in people's homes and I'm at the point where I'm practically begging them to get an electrician to run Cat5 behind the walls.
Why? Because 2.4 ghz phones interfere badly with them, and the ranges are nowhere nearly as good as what the manufacturers claim to be, and they just keep calling me back whenever their connectivity cuts out.
Re:Don't ya just hate em?
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>If I had my choice of economic system, I'd >choose socialism; at least we wouldn't be >killing people and the earth trying to cut costs.
Ex-communist countries have the worst pollution on earth.
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Are you implying that we're not a part of nature?
I think of the "Red Shoe Diaries" Zalman: Softcore porn for hardcore geeks?
Hmmm... what exactly do two hot CPUs talk about by the watercooler, anyway? How much better than DDR guy was than the Rambus man?
I've had a Brother HL-1240 for three years now without incident. It's really served me well. I recommended it to a client, they love it. One of my other clients has had one for a while, they've loved it. I'm only going by my experiences and others' experiences, as you obviously are for yourself. Sorry to hear about your troubles, but it's been smooth sailing for me.
The guy helped write a pretty decent search engine for NEC, and continues to refine his work there. During the last three years' worth of economic ups and downs, one thing has remained consistent: he has had to fight off job offers with a big thick stick. I don't think the guy will ever go wanting for work.
And get a laser-based MFD.
Brother makes solid stuff, and their
cartridges are pretty reasonable.
There's a part of Death Valley called the Racetrack. Perhaps an exception could be made to the "no equipment in wilderness areas" policy for tiny sensors. For those that don't know, the Racetrack is an ultra-flat part of Death Valley known for a field of rocks that move around and leave tracks when no one is looking. No one knows why, and some of those rocks are pretty damned heavy. It would be great to leave some sort of remote sensors there to find out why they move.
Perhaps intelligent life has come about because only it can recognize and deal with the eventual "heat death" of the Universe. I wouldn't put it past us humans to come up with some way of reversing entropy.
Doing things their own way, while ignoring a previously created technology. My analogy: Memory Sticks vs. CF, and now this 4-color layered process vs. Foveon.
Dealing with this topic - "The Last Question" by Issac Asimov. Awesome ending.
Darth Vader (holding out DNA test results printout): "Luke, I am 99.99 percent sure I am your father."
I heard somewhere that the newer ground-based optical telescope with adaptive optics can equal or exceed the Hubble's resolution.
Perhaps the problem isn't with recommending Apple specifically, but with a lone person trying to wedge anything in that's totally new. Novel OSes and the like are automatically viewed with suspicion, and an integration headache (despite Apple's ever-increasing ability to play nice with the Wintel) they'd rather not bring upon themselves. I perceive most IT departments are engaged in a permanent defensive mode of keeping the existing stuff running well. So they make conservative choices.
I'd like to see effort put into making batteries that last longer. Those methanol fuel cells have been two years away for five years now.
Car horns blown by intra-city drivers. Is it really necessary to: - Blast your horn when you drive past someone you know? - Honk the very instant the light turns green to get people moving? - Honk again and again when pulling up to pick someone up, when all you have to do is get out and knock or call someone using your cell phone? - Or honk in front of a shopping mall or office building to pick someone up - surely you know that they either don't hear it, or can't distinguish it from regular "background honking?" Horn honking diminishes everyone's quality of life - including your own.
And these drives with higher rotational speeds could alleviate the last severe bottleneck to good laptop performance.
Only a few days ago, I posted a comment on Slashdot that we all take our power grid for granted. It's one of the first things that I remembered. Well, the *first* thought I had was that this was the result of grid overload and poor power planning, not terrorism. A couple of Europeans working for some independent TV station interviewed me. I expressed what I felt were the causes behind the outage, and mentioned that people in the Third World live with unreliable power like this every day.
You can get to the movie trailes far more quickly by going to quicktime.com. Incidentally, shouldn't Gigli have been called Paycheck? Cuz that's all it apparently was for Ben and Jennifer.
The whole jewelry industry may be severely impacted by this, may even collapse. Namibia and South Africa will most likely see their unemployment rates (already high) skyrocket. Unemployment shoots up high enough, these nominally stable countries may be pushed to the brink. The Skeleton Coast, however, may unrestricted, since the chief concern is diamond mine security. Pawn shops specializing in jewelry will see their inventories lose value quickly. No more hocking sentimental diamond jewelry to pay off credit cards/mortgages/bar tabs. Short selling DeBeers' ADRs may be a great way to make some quick cash.
Hmmm... sounds like something that could be fixed with a pill or two. Checked the ol' spam latelh?
But so is the electrical grid itself. Imagine how difficult computing life will get if rolling blackouts/brownouts strike all of this country. It could happen sooner than later if our national energy policy doesn't start tilting away from nonrenewables.
Making a marriage work till death
do you part - now *that's* a challenge.
The AK-47 is an assault rifle or an infantry weapon, not a machine gun. Its popularity stems from its inexpensive construction and price - not to mention the fact that the Soviet Union basically dropped them off for free or nearly for free on client state and third-world countries it wanted to control. It is quite reliable, but it's not as well-made or accurate as Western assault rifles. After some kinks were worked out in the late 1960's the M-16 is now known for incredible reliability. Although I agree that Soviet technology is underrated, and I agree that there were embargoes, remember that this cut both ways. The Iron Curtain was given its name for a reason - the closed-off nature of then-Communist countries. Even with no embargo, we didn't need to import anything of theirs - our military technology was generally superior (not that they would have sold it to us), and we certainly didn't want to import their civilian goods, which in a command economy were of quite inferior design and workmanship. If you dispute that their products sucked, then look up "trabant" on the Internet - it was the Soviet Union's car for the masses, only it was worse than a Yugo and you had to wait years for one.
I've set up a lot of these in people's homes and I'm at the point where I'm practically begging them to get an electrician to run Cat5 behind the walls. Why? Because 2.4 ghz phones interfere badly with them, and the ranges are nowhere nearly as good as what the manufacturers claim to be, and they just keep calling me back whenever their connectivity cuts out.
>If I had my choice of economic system, I'd >choose socialism; at least we wouldn't be >killing people and the earth trying to cut costs. Ex-communist countries have the worst pollution on earth.