I was wondering if anybody would suggest a Brother. I have an HL-1050 myself. What I love is that the toner is only about $23 from Buy.com, and the printer is quite speedy. Linux support is good because the printer supports PCL-5 (I might have got that wrong, but it's the same as LaserJet 4).
As somebody else mentioned, replacement drums are extremely expensive (relative to the printer) and I doubt I'll ever buy one. Hopefully when it wears out I can get something full-duplex.
The code in the Shuttle's launch system is old? The entire Space Shuttle is old. I'll bet a lot of slashdotters don't even remember the Columbia's maiden voyage.
I'm not one to replace things that are working fine, but as I understand it, newer designs could be a whole lot cheaper to operate. So I wonder if pouring more into the Space Shuttle program is the best thing to do.
I'm not saying "let's throw out the space shuttle" but it bothers me that there's apparently nothing in the works with a decent shot at replacing it any time soon. It seems the field of space exploration is becoming antiquated.
Sending nude pictures of yourself to kids and downloading kiddie porn are also actions, not just thoughts. He didn't just think about setting up the meeting, he arranged and traveled to the meeting.
As for his little "I assumed all along she was a grown-up" defense, did you notice he also denied any knowledge of the child pornography on his computer? How far are you going to bend over backwards to try and believe this guy?
At the very least, can you agree that parents would be idiots to let this guy anywhere near their kids?
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Woolston could have easily spent a few months reading books and learning CGI programming, and then made an auction website. Instead, he had searched for funding and gave up, deciding to patent instead.
But if he had gone ahead with the website, he would have been only one of thousands, with a very small chance of coming out on top (just like ebay was originally.)
The lion's share of blame for these cases falls to our legislators and us as voters. If winning a game requires bad behavior, then the game is flawed and the rules should be changed. We can certainly hold in contempt those who willfully break the rules to get ahead, but this guy seems to be playing by the flawed rules of our system, and he will probably be a millionaire before it's all over.
AFAIK, the "authority" behind a Verisign SSL certificates is... Verisign itself. So the question raised is not whether Verisign can continue to sign certificates, but whether anybody should trust Verisign's assurance that company X is legit.
It's incredibly shortsighted to be in favor of dumping. Monopolies don't take short-term losses just to be nice, they do it to eliminate competitors so they can resume price gouging.
That's exactly how monopolies work - by ensuring only they can have the "best" product at the "best" price by preventing others from offering products at all. The simple fact is that pure economic darwinism does not allow for competitive marketplaces.
What would you do if you had a killer app, so Microsoft spent millions making a better one and bundled it with their monopoly OS? How do you survive?
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The transitions - the swinging of the pendulum - you must realize when you talk of these things, you are referring to the deaths of millions of people, and timespans greater than a lifetime. The future fall of communism was of little comfort to those who died in gulags 40 years ago.
I guess P4s really DO make the Internet go faster!
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I was in Sheetz once, and a man walked in and tried to order a sandwich. He was pressing buttons for quite some time and growing visibly more distressed, until after a while he looked over the counter and said "Can't I just talk to somebody?".
It became apparent to me after some reflection that the gentleman was illiterate.
Have you noticed how fast-food chains put little pictures of menu items on the cash registers so their employees don't have to read? There's a "McNugget" button, a "Gordita" button, and so on.
As I see it, there are two classes of problems: 1) problems for which there's some clever, efficient algorithm (like sorting and serching), i.e. essentially easy problems and 2) problems that are not easy, where the only known option is to try all the solutions and see which work. There is a great divide between these two classes of problems.
Computers are now fast enough to do the easy problems comfortably, even on quite large datasets. These are the ones people have in mind when they say computers are "fast enough."
But computers are no where near fast enough to solve large problems of the second kind, and it doesn't seem that they ever will be in the forseeable future. A problem of this type might be, "what lossless compression/decompression algorithm under 1000K in length has the highest average compression on a given sample dataset?" It's easy to write a program to solve this problem, but awfully hard to wait for it to finish.
I think we're falling into the gap between easy and hard problems. We can do easy problems easily, but have no feasible way to approach the hard problems.
I don't see how that would be much of a disadvantage, unless you like to send your credit card number without ssl - and that has always been a bad idea. The party with the most motive and ability to monitor unencryptied communications is the Government, and they already can and do.
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At home, I've used Slackware, Debian, RedHat, and Gentoo, and never bought a disk.
At work, my group has used a single set of RedHat disks to install into about 6 desktops and 3 laptops, plus a 20 processor cluster.
As somebody else mentioned, replacement drums are extremely expensive (relative to the printer) and I doubt I'll ever buy one. Hopefully when it wears out I can get something full-duplex.
I'm not one to replace things that are working fine, but as I understand it, newer designs could be a whole lot cheaper to operate. So I wonder if pouring more into the Space Shuttle program is the best thing to do.
I'm not saying "let's throw out the space shuttle" but it bothers me that there's apparently nothing in the works with a decent shot at replacing it any time soon. It seems the field of space exploration is becoming antiquated.
As for his little "I assumed all along she was a grown-up" defense, did you notice he also denied any knowledge of the child pornography on his computer? How far are you going to bend over backwards to try and believe this guy?
At the very least, can you agree that parents would be idiots to let this guy anywhere near their kids?
So you have no plan?
WHOA!
Hindsight is easy; let's hear your "elegant" plan to ouster Saddam.
The lion's share of blame for these cases falls to our legislators and us as voters. If winning a game requires bad behavior, then the game is flawed and the rules should be changed. We can certainly hold in contempt those who willfully break the rules to get ahead, but this guy seems to be playing by the flawed rules of our system, and he will probably be a millionaire before it's all over.
AFAIK, the "authority" behind a Verisign SSL certificates is... Verisign itself. So the question raised is not whether Verisign can continue to sign certificates, but whether anybody should trust Verisign's assurance that company X is legit.
Yes you know it's true,
Oh, oh, pirates, I blame youuu!
(It was better in all caps... stupid lameness filter).
Ok, so let's figure this out... how many minutes of sunlight does the UK average each year?
This is called "Dumping," and no it is not legal.
It's incredibly shortsighted to be in favor of dumping. Monopolies don't take short-term losses just to be nice, they do it to eliminate competitors so they can resume price gouging.
That's exactly how monopolies work - by ensuring only they can have the "best" product at the "best" price by preventing others from offering products at all. The simple fact is that pure economic darwinism does not allow for competitive marketplaces.
What would you do if you had a killer app, so Microsoft spent millions making a better one and bundled it with their monopoly OS? How do you survive?
The transitions - the swinging of the pendulum - you must realize when you talk of these things, you are referring to the deaths of millions of people, and timespans greater than a lifetime. The future fall of communism was of little comfort to those who died in gulags 40 years ago.
A voting drive? Now where am I going to get the cash for a truckload of "complimentary" cigarettes?
It's no secret that the stuff inside is cheap, that's why a 2 liter bottle costs $1, the same as a 1 liter bottle, and the same as for straight water.
Oh I forgot, Macintosh users aren't supposed to be interested in modularity and upgrading stuff.
I guess P4s really DO make the Internet go faster!
Computers are now fast enough to do the easy problems comfortably, even on quite large datasets. These are the ones people have in mind when they say computers are "fast enough."
But computers are no where near fast enough to solve large problems of the second kind, and it doesn't seem that they ever will be in the forseeable future. A problem of this type might be, "what lossless compression/decompression algorithm under 1000K in length has the highest average compression on a given sample dataset?" It's easy to write a program to solve this problem, but awfully hard to wait for it to finish.
I think we're falling into the gap between easy and hard problems. We can do easy problems easily, but have no feasible way to approach the hard problems.
Why bigoted? I can see how *avoiding* working with Japanese (or whoever) might be bigoted.
I don't see how that would be much of a disadvantage, unless you like to send your credit card number without ssl - and that has always been a bad idea. The party with the most motive and ability to monitor unencryptied communications is the Government, and they already can and do.
I've never seen rats scramble ONTO a sinking ship!
Yeah, baby