Thank you for proving my point about how successful misleading information can be in marketing. FYI, OfficeMax recently had a sale on their Olympus Dye Sublimation printers and we bought one for $150. That's cheaper than a good quality inkjet, and Dye Sub technology renders much higher quality photos than these liquid dot matrix behemoths. If you can't afford $150 for a printer than you're either too young to post, or should get back to your college classes and quit reading slashdot.
I am glad that you are so free to spend other people's money. Let's assume that you do an OCCASIONAL photo print. Let's assume 12/year. So, I am to spend $150 on a new printer for this one task. That translates to $4.17 per picture (I assume that a printer will last for three years before becoming obsolete/broken). Wow. That is quite expensive. I also have a wife and two kids. To me, $150 is a lot of money.
I also have not checked dye sub printers in a while, but the refills for them were quite expensive, from what I recall. So, the cost is likely to be even more that I have quoted above. Plus, you need to add the cost of paper. Nuff said.
Dye sub printers are greate for people who want top-quality photo output, and print enough photos to make it worthwhile. But dye sub printers make lousy general-purpose printers, due to consumables cost. You do not want to use one to print your bank account info or a bit of code for debugging.
Color laser printers are great for high volume, but it is hard to justify the expense if you do not print much. Also, most color lasers are not adept at photo printing.
B/W laser printers are fine for utility printing, but do not have color (duh). So they are not good for photo work.
The ink jet is a jack of all trades, but master of none. It can do utility work, and photo work. The only down side is that the consumables cost a bit much, and you can avoid that by getting non-manufacturer ink.
There is also the fact that I do not have the space for more than one printer. My wife wishes that my desk was even smaller. So, I will stick with an ink jet because I can afford it, I can refill it for not too much money through inkdaddy.com, and it can handle any task that I throw at it. All from one small box.
With all of that out of the way, I must admit that the combo of a B/W laser and a dye sub printer would be an attractive combo.
What you just described there is more properly known as a "displaced-emissions vehicle."
Perhaps not. With a car, you have millions of little gas-producing factories running around. So, in order to reduce emissions, you have to have millions of little catalytic converters. You also have to make it fit in around a cubit foot of space.
With entirely electric vehicles, all emissions are produced in a limited number of places (in the hundereds, I believe). And these power plants have few space limitations, and deeper pockets. So, it makes more sense to try to clean up the emissions in a lot fewer locations.
The truly greatest frontier still wide open is the human mind.
Naaaa. People have already explored the human mind with all sorts of little pointy metal objects. All they found was wet, squishy stuff.At most, the human mind is large enought to hold one human personality (unless your name is Sybil).But if you want to volunteer to let a family of four live on your noggin, feel free. But I won't sign up.
I got of of their best keyboard/mouse combos a year ago (MX Duo, list price of around $100). The hardware is rather nice, but the software has issues.
The software works well enough for what is does, but apparently Logitec still has not heard of this new program called "Firefox." The internet buttons (home, forward, back, etc.) all work OK with Netrscape and IE, but do aboslutely nothing with Firefox.
And adding the support would be easy...if they ever decide to update the software. Is has been 17 months since the last update for this product.
So, those extra buttons are only as good as the software driving them, and the software is almost never updated.
Does anybody know of any good wireless keyboard made by a company who actually cares about its users?
Brag away. But it is a poyal PITA switching between the Sun and a standard PC keyboard. I still am not sure which keyboard is "correct," and I guess that it is a matter of preference. But switching between a PC and a Sun keyobard is painful. I am always getting the backspace and backslash keys mixed up, as well as ESC and backquote ("`").
Sveasoft invests time and effort into extending the Linksys firmware. They charge a minor amount for a year of access to their beta work. Their finished work is freely available.
TheInduhvidual takes their protected beta work, hacks out the protection, and gives it away. Now who exactly is the criminal in this scenario?
Time to hit you with the clue stick...
Sveasoft bases its work on open-source software. According to the license agreement, if you modify and distribute open source software, you also have to distribute the source (which has NOT happened).
A *LOT* of other people have invested time and effort into making open-source software, only to have one selfish company shamelessly steal some of it, make a few tweaks, and sell it for money without any consideration of the people who actually did the bulk of the work.
TheIndividual is only taking back the rights that he already legally had granted him when Sveasoft decided to distribute open-source code.
Perhaps you are correct. But let's assume that you will play a MMORPG for at least a year. Assume $15/month for most commercial games, and $40 for the retail box. That makes it $220 for the first year, and $180 per year after that.
Now, if a game offers no monthly fees, that makes the game $40 for the first year, and $0 per year after that. Certainly not quite free, but still a substantial bargain.
Of course, that makes me wonder. If the publisher only takes in $40, how do they make their money? Hosting servers and providing content must cost quite a bit of money. What is actually in the "2) ???" step right before profiting?
I believe that what you say is correct. If I am not mistaken, many artists actually make more money from tours and sales of t-shirts, hats, and posters.
The article is specifically about laser printers. And you cannot tell if a laser printer is doing this or not, as there is no physical "print head" to move around.
Ink-jet printers are usually very dumb. So any mischief is done in the driver software.
You DO get a warranty with Windows. If the CD is defective, they will happily mail you a new one. And I bet that they would probably only charge $10 shipping and handling, too!
also, if you are a keen airsofter, or have just a passing interest in the sport, please support UK airsofters by signing this petition. The government is looking to ban the sale of imitation firearms, which will essentially be the death of the sport in the UK.
How much more of this stuff before the citizens pick up arms and revolt against the King of England? It worked for America a couple of centuries ago. Well, there is the fact that you don't actually have a king right now. But you most likely will in a decade or two. And then, the king had better look out.
Oh wait. You aren't allowed to have arms. Now I know why.
I am kidding here. But it does annoy me when politicians decide that the people need to be protected soooo much that they have no freedoms left. I am sorry that your government treats you like schoolchildren. America is not too far behind, and catching up fast.
Laser tag and Super Soakers should be under $50 for the pair.
To get decent painball equipment will take around $100 each -- that that just barely qualifies as decent. You could get set up real nice for around $200 or so, each.
Super soakers are refilled by water (almost free) and pumping action (cost of food). Laser tag is refilled by batteries. Rechargables can reduce the cost. Paintball requires CO2 (rather inexpensive, but not available from you corner drug store), and pain balls, which can be rather expensive.
Paintball is still fun, though. But you gotta have the bucks.
And the early computers were pathetic... No transistors. Just vacuum tubes and relays...
You have to keep in mind the times. When the super-soakers came out, they were something completely different. The SS represented an entirely new drenching technology. Before, water guns were those trigger-operated things that could dump a tablespoon of water in a minute at a distance of 5 feet. SS were the first company to use a pressure-driven system, as opposed to the cheesy piston-driven guns.
And that "backpack" thing that you mentioned followed in the footsteps of Super Soaker. Before SS came out, nobody even thought of improving the squirt gun.
To me a floppy drive is just something else to break.
I like having floppies around "just in case." But if you never use it, then it will never wear out. And if it DID break, it would likely take me over a year to notice.
Load the RAID driver on a fresh install of XP. I admit that this is a windows failing, though...
Floppies are also useful for mobo firmware updates. Creating a bootable CD-Rom just for a firmware update is a bit of a pain. Bootable floppies are very easy.
Those types of programs used to be potentially useful back in the Win9x days, but I thought that XP did that sort of thing by itself.
Just FYI: I used to use a program called "CPU Idle" back when I had my Pentium 120 laptop. My multimeter could not tell 10mA worth of difference on the AC plug when that program was running or not. I dumped it.
And then when the power goes out, so does your phone. A UPS might buy you a few hours or so, though. But if your power is off all day, there goes your phone.
Also, during a disaster, internet and cable service does not get the same level of attention that power and phone does, so you could be withoug a phone long after your neighbors are chatting it up with their relatives.
But then again, I might be biased. I just had three hurricanes come near my home in the last year. I was out of power for a combined total of around two weeks.
I would not have a problem with VOIP as a 2nd phone line, but I still want to keep one POTS line around just in case.
But what I want to know is how do these machines get infected???
It is certainly easy to get infected while using e-mail or surfing. But now that SP2 comes with a firewall turned on by default, shouldn't it now be impossible to infect a SP2 machine without some sort of user intervention?
Does the SP2 firewall have some holes pre-poked in it already? Are there flaws in the firewall?
But to a large degree the attitude on behalf of Linux users is a *big* part of the reason I'm leaving.
Can you please explain?
First, look at Microsoft XP. Large corporations (including the one that employs me) use it. Script kiddies use. Grandmothers use it. Uber-gamers use it. You cannot say that there is an "attitude of Windows users" because you cannot expect all of those people to have the same attitude.
I would expect the user base of Linux to be somewhat more homogenous than Windows, but attitudes still vary. And you have to remember that in any population large enough, you will get some jerks and butt-holes in the mix -- and that is the type of person who is most likely to chime in with their $0.02 (This includes me -- just look at this worthless post).
You also have to expect a certain amount of "Micro$shaft sux," of which I have myself posted one or two. And you have to allow for a certain amount of fan-boyism, as it is human nature -- just look at how non-geek males fawn over their favorite sports team.
So, I am sure the you have your reasons, but is it possible that your perception of reality is somewhat different from reality itself?
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I also have not checked dye sub printers in a while, but the refills for them were quite expensive, from what I recall. So, the cost is likely to be even more that I have quoted above. Plus, you need to add the cost of paper. Nuff said.
Dye sub printers are greate for people who want top-quality photo output, and print enough photos to make it worthwhile. But dye sub printers make lousy general-purpose printers, due to consumables cost. You do not want to use one to print your bank account info or a bit of code for debugging.
Color laser printers are great for high volume, but it is hard to justify the expense if you do not print much. Also, most color lasers are not adept at photo printing.
B/W laser printers are fine for utility printing, but do not have color (duh). So they are not good for photo work.
The ink jet is a jack of all trades, but master of none. It can do utility work, and photo work. The only down side is that the consumables cost a bit much, and you can avoid that by getting non-manufacturer ink.
There is also the fact that I do not have the space for more than one printer. My wife wishes that my desk was even smaller. So, I will stick with an ink jet because I can afford it, I can refill it for not too much money through inkdaddy.com, and it can handle any task that I throw at it. All from one small box.
With all of that out of the way, I must admit that the combo of a B/W laser and a dye sub printer would be an attractive combo.
With entirely electric vehicles, all emissions are produced in a limited number of places (in the hundereds, I believe). And these power plants have few space limitations, and deeper pockets. So, it makes more sense to try to clean up the emissions in a lot fewer locations.
A strong caution about Logitech...
I got of of their best keyboard/mouse combos a year ago (MX Duo, list price of around $100). The hardware is rather nice, but the software has issues.
The software works well enough for what is does, but apparently Logitec still has not heard of this new program called "Firefox." The internet buttons (home, forward, back, etc.) all work OK with Netrscape and IE, but do aboslutely nothing with Firefox.
And adding the support would be easy...if they ever decide to update the software. Is has been 17 months since the last update for this product.
So, those extra buttons are only as good as the software driving them, and the software is almost never updated.
Does anybody know of any good wireless keyboard made by a company who actually cares about its users?
Brag away. But it is a poyal PITA switching between the Sun and a standard PC keyboard. I still am not sure which keyboard is "correct," and I guess that it is a matter of preference. But switching between a PC and a Sun keyobard is painful. I am always getting the backspace and backslash keys mixed up, as well as ESC and backquote ("`").
Time to hit you with the clue stick...
Sveasoft bases its work on open-source software. According to the license agreement, if you modify and distribute open source software, you also have to distribute the source (which has NOT happened).
A *LOT* of other people have invested time and effort into making open-source software, only to have one selfish company shamelessly steal some of it, make a few tweaks, and sell it for money without any consideration of the people who actually did the bulk of the work.
TheIndividual is only taking back the rights that he already legally had granted him when Sveasoft decided to distribute open-source code.
Perhaps you are correct. But let's assume that you will play a MMORPG for at least a year. Assume $15/month for most commercial games, and $40 for the retail box. That makes it $220 for the first year, and $180 per year after that.
Now, if a game offers no monthly fees, that makes the game $40 for the first year, and $0 per year after that. Certainly not quite free, but still a substantial bargain.
Of course, that makes me wonder. If the publisher only takes in $40, how do they make their money? Hosting servers and providing content must cost quite a bit of money. What is actually in the "2) ???" step right before profiting?
I believe that what you say is correct. If I am not mistaken, many artists actually make more money from tours and sales of t-shirts, hats, and posters.
Or, download for free.
The article is specifically about laser printers. And you cannot tell if a laser printer is doing this or not, as there is no physical "print head" to move around.
Ink-jet printers are usually very dumb. So any mischief is done in the driver software.
Whoosh.. the sound of the joke going right over your head...
You DO get a warranty with Windows. If the CD is defective, they will happily mail you a new one. And I bet that they would probably only charge $10 shipping and handling, too!
Oh wait. You aren't allowed to have arms. Now I know why.
I am kidding here. But it does annoy me when politicians decide that the people need to be protected soooo much that they have no freedoms left. I am sorry that your government treats you like schoolchildren. America is not too far behind, and catching up fast.
And don't forget the cost difference.
Laser tag and Super Soakers should be under $50 for the pair.
To get decent painball equipment will take around $100 each -- that that just barely qualifies as decent. You could get set up real nice for around $200 or so, each.
Super soakers are refilled by water (almost free) and pumping action (cost of food). Laser tag is refilled by batteries. Rechargables can reduce the cost. Paintball requires CO2 (rather inexpensive, but not available from you corner drug store), and pain balls, which can be rather expensive.
Paintball is still fun, though. But you gotta have the bucks.
You have to keep in mind the times. When the super-soakers came out, they were something completely different. The SS represented an entirely new drenching technology. Before, water guns were those trigger-operated things that could dump a tablespoon of water in a minute at a distance of 5 feet. SS were the first company to use a pressure-driven system, as opposed to the cheesy piston-driven guns.
And that "backpack" thing that you mentioned followed in the footsteps of Super Soaker. Before SS came out, nobody even thought of improving the squirt gun.
Load the RAID driver on a fresh install of XP. I admit that this is a windows failing, though...
Floppies are also useful for mobo firmware updates. Creating a bootable CD-Rom just for a firmware update is a bit of a pain. Bootable floppies are very easy.
Those types of programs used to be potentially useful back in the Win9x days, but I thought that XP did that sort of thing by itself.
Just FYI: I used to use a program called "CPU Idle" back when I had my Pentium 120 laptop. My multimeter could not tell 10mA worth of difference on the AC plug when that program was running or not. I dumped it.
PS: Read my sig, then re-read your post.
And then when the power goes out, so does your phone. A UPS might buy you a few hours or so, though. But if your power is off all day, there goes your phone.
Also, during a disaster, internet and cable service does not get the same level of attention that power and phone does, so you could be withoug a phone long after your neighbors are chatting it up with their relatives.
But then again, I might be biased. I just had three hurricanes come near my home in the last year. I was out of power for a combined total of around two weeks.
I would not have a problem with VOIP as a 2nd phone line, but I still want to keep one POTS line around just in case.
But what I want to know is how do these machines get infected???
It is certainly easy to get infected while using e-mail or surfing. But now that SP2 comes with a firewall turned on by default, shouldn't it now be impossible to infect a SP2 machine without some sort of user intervention?
Does the SP2 firewall have some holes pre-poked in it already? Are there flaws in the firewall?
I have the feeling that I could put up with a LOT for $200K/year.
Let's look at the evidence (from the comics)...
1) A guy named "Robin" who...
2) Wears a tight green bikini...
Hmmm.
First, look at Microsoft XP. Large corporations (including the one that employs me) use it. Script kiddies use. Grandmothers use it. Uber-gamers use it. You cannot say that there is an "attitude of Windows users" because you cannot expect all of those people to have the same attitude.
I would expect the user base of Linux to be somewhat more homogenous than Windows, but attitudes still vary. And you have to remember that in any population large enough, you will get some jerks and butt-holes in the mix -- and that is the type of person who is most likely to chime in with their $0.02 (This includes me -- just look at this worthless post).
You also have to expect a certain amount of "Micro$shaft sux," of which I have myself posted one or two. And you have to allow for a certain amount of fan-boyism, as it is human nature -- just look at how non-geek males fawn over their favorite sports team.
So, I am sure the you have your reasons, but is it possible that your perception of reality is somewhat different from reality itself?