Ok, the wikipedia link was a little lazy on my part. Anyway, the biggest difference is Inkjets have cartridges filled with liquid ink whereas the Dye Sub printers have scrolls of color that are rolled across the image and are adhered to the paper with a heat process.
You can see an example here: http://www.pctechguide.com/23oprint_Dye-sublimatio n.htm After you're done printing with a dye sub, you can take the used scrolls out and see the after image burned into the scrolls. It ends up being slightly wasteful since you'll use, under best cases circumstances, only about half of the color medium.
I'm well aware of the pigment based printers, and you are correct that the longevity of the print had been greatly enhanced and under light based tests they fare very favorably. But the problem isn't with light and colors fading, it's with oxidization of the paper and the inks which is less easy to test for.
My main point is really the longevity and the quality of the print. Try scanning in photo printed at home and try scanning in a professionally printed photo. Yes, I know you can always reprint photos from the files. But how many people can still read the diskettes and media from 20-40 years ago?
My perspective comes from doing photo restorations professionally for the last 8 years or so, and I've seen a lot of photos and how they go bad. Even newer pigment ones only a year old.
There's also a great simple anaolgy about this: Which machine do you think will produce a better print, your $200 home printer or the $750,000 mini lab printer?
Is so you'll actually have decent prints in 20 years. Home printers use ink sprayed onto paper (Unless you happen to have a very high end Dye-sublimation printer) whereas most photo labs will use a standard photo color emulsion on acetate paper process. Unless you have specially treated paper, your prints are likely to fade and lose color to the oxidation process within 5 to 20 years. Whereas photo prints are typically guaranteed to retain their color for 100 years in moderate to indirect sunlight.
Of course, my favorite, silver emulsion Black & White prints will, theoretically, retain their look forever.:)
In any event, I've scanned in and restored a lot of photos that were 40 years or older for folks. There is nothing worse than trying to extract a decent image from a faded inkjet print on lousy, or even decent, paper.
If you don't find this manga to your liking, you might take a look at PlanetEs. A more serious and utterly fantastic manga about life in outerspace in the pre-warp universe.
One of the best mangas, and best sci-fi for that matter, that I've read in a very long time.
You have a very valid point that I will have to concede. This company could have thrown money at a broken product until they were out of business and had nothing to show for it but a still crashing business server.
I don't doubt for a second that his server was severely screwed up and was costing them huge amounts of cash and time trying to get it to work. I don't even argue the fact that the windows implementation probably went pretty smoothly. Truth be told, at work I support both Windows and Linux servers and I tend to prefer Windows, but both os'es have their merits.
I just have a contention with the writer of the article that treated it as such a childish fan boy item, "OMG! Linux is broke, this business has to choose windows 'cause Linux sux!" Which is why I think a/. Q&A would prove very interesting so both sides of the fence could get a solid answer. Not that I think anything would change for the guy, but it would be nice to know exactly what crashed.
This whole article is useless without really saying what the crash was. You could have the most rock solid stable server in the world, and it won't mean much if the applications you're hosting are buggy and badly implemented.
It would be nice to know to EXACTLY what crashes he was getting and why. Not just "Uhh, there were core dumps and blue screens, but with a linux blue instead of microsoft blue."
I think this would be a great opportunity for an Ask Slashdot poll.
Maybe he'd even post some of the core dumps.
If you don't want to pay the ridiculous rates that cell phone companies charges for the luxury of putting.jpg/.png/.mid/.mp3/whatever on your cellphone, try out this site:
From TFA "Like, there are some hardcore fans who you never can satisfy because they played that game over and over again and they have their own movie in their head, so no matter what you do, they don't like it," he says.
You know, I can agree with him on that statement.
However, it would have been nice if at one point during the film "Alone in the dark," somebody actually would have been Alone, and maybe even in the dark.
I seem to recall Meridian 59 being around long before that.
And before even that I remember wasting a lot of time playing Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, the Pit, and many many more game titles I have since forgotten.
In the 486/386 many computers had a turbo button because running at higher speeds break the bizarre copy protection scheme Lotus used on it's floppy diskettes.
Without the ability to slow down, Lotus would refuse to run.
From TFA "It said that once a film or game is copied, the pirated material is sent to servers throughout the world in minutes and then makes its way to file-sharing networks."
I usually get a max of 50 k/s upload max!
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You've been warned, since parent didn't.
You click the Start button to START the Shutdown process.
I suppose if you know nothing about computers, it seems odd.
But it makes sense if you think about it.
I do :). It was a very tight API, plus it gave a nice performance boost to some N64 emulator...
I'm blanking on the name right now...
I like it. Maybe it's been around for a while, but I like the idea better than "Generic man being gagged." So Kudos to whoever made the new YRO icon.
Ok, the wikipedia link was a little lazy on my part. Anyway, the biggest difference is Inkjets have cartridges filled with liquid ink whereas the Dye Sub printers have scrolls of color that are rolled across the image and are adhered to the paper with a heat process.
o n.htm
You can see an example here:
http://www.pctechguide.com/23oprint_Dye-sublimati
After you're done printing with a dye sub, you can take the used scrolls out and see the after image burned into the scrolls. It ends up being slightly wasteful since you'll use, under best cases circumstances, only about half of the color medium.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_print er
Wikipedia is your friend.
I'm well aware of the pigment based printers, and you are correct that the longevity of the print had been greatly enhanced and under light based tests they fare very favorably. But the problem isn't with light and colors fading, it's with oxidization of the paper and the inks which is less easy to test for.
My main point is really the longevity and the quality of the print. Try scanning in photo printed at home and try scanning in a professionally printed photo. Yes, I know you can always reprint photos from the files. But how many people can still read the diskettes and media from 20-40 years ago?
My perspective comes from doing photo restorations professionally for the last 8 years or so, and I've seen a lot of photos and how they go bad. Even newer pigment ones only a year old.
You could. But how many diskettes do you have from your 1985 computer that you can still read?
There's also a great simple anaolgy about this: Which machine do you think will produce a better print, your $200 home printer or the $750,000 mini lab printer?
Is so you'll actually have decent prints in 20 years.
:)
Home printers use ink sprayed onto paper (Unless you happen to have a very high end Dye-sublimation printer) whereas most photo labs will use a standard photo color emulsion on acetate paper process.
Unless you have specially treated paper, your prints are likely to fade and lose color to the oxidation process within 5 to 20 years. Whereas photo prints are typically guaranteed to retain their color for 100 years in moderate to indirect sunlight.
Of course, my favorite, silver emulsion Black & White prints will, theoretically, retain their look forever.
In any event, I've scanned in and restored a lot of photos that were 40 years or older for folks. There is nothing worse than trying to extract a decent image from a faded inkjet print on lousy, or even decent, paper.
If you don't find this manga to your liking, you might take a look at PlanetEs.
A more serious and utterly fantastic manga about life in outerspace in the pre-warp universe.
One of the best mangas, and best sci-fi for that matter, that I've read in a very long time.
It's what Enterprise *should* have been.
You have a very valid point that I will have to concede. This company could have thrown money at a broken product until they were out of business and had nothing to show for it but a still crashing business server. I don't doubt for a second that his server was severely screwed up and was costing them huge amounts of cash and time trying to get it to work. I don't even argue the fact that the windows implementation probably went pretty smoothly. Truth be told, at work I support both Windows and Linux servers and I tend to prefer Windows, but both os'es have their merits. I just have a contention with the writer of the article that treated it as such a childish fan boy item, "OMG! Linux is broke, this business has to choose windows 'cause Linux sux!" Which is why I think a /. Q&A would prove very interesting so both sides of the fence could get a solid answer. Not that I think anything would change for the guy, but it would be nice to know exactly what crashed.
It's so bad. Now if ONLY someone would put this on DVD or release a .torrent...
This whole article is useless without really saying what the crash was. You could have the most rock solid stable server in the world, and it won't mean much if the applications you're hosting are buggy and badly implemented. It would be nice to know to EXACTLY what crashes he was getting and why. Not just "Uhh, there were core dumps and blue screens, but with a linux blue instead of microsoft blue." I think this would be a great opportunity for an Ask Slashdot poll. Maybe he'd even post some of the core dumps.
If you don't want to pay the ridiculous rates that cell phone companies charges for the luxury of putting .jpg/.png/.mid/.mp3/whatever on your cellphone, try out this site:
.mid files to my phone, it's way too much fun.
http://www.phoneuploader.stellernet.com/
I've spent the last couple hours uploading Mario
Ok, you're correct. Praying for his death was an incorrect term.
Nevertheless, he was still praying for a US judge to vacate a life term posistion, which is a little odd for a televangelist...
But wasn't Televangelist Pat Robertson praying for the death of a supreme court judge? If so.... @_@
From TFA "Like, there are some hardcore fans who you never can satisfy because they played that game over and over again and they have their own movie in their head, so no matter what you do, they don't like it," he says.
You know, I can agree with him on that statement.
However, it would have been nice if at one point during the film "Alone in the dark," somebody actually would have been Alone, and maybe even in the dark.
I'm just saying.
Sorry if this has already been posted, but a very interesting court summary before she got the lawyer:2 9/runaround-suits
http://www.godwinslaw.org/weblog/archive/2005/08/
It know it's from TFA, but I'm not so sure about this Norman Anti-virus ^_^.
I seem to recall Meridian 59 being around long before that.
And before even that I remember wasting a lot of time playing Legend of the Red Dragon, Usurper, the Pit, and many many more game titles I have since forgotten.
That would be sweet: http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
the slashdotrix adjusting itself... Pay no attention to that cat.
In the 486/386 many computers had a turbo button because running at higher speeds break the bizarre copy protection scheme Lotus used on it's floppy diskettes.
Without the ability to slow down, Lotus would refuse to run.
From TFA "It said that once a film or game is copied, the pirated material is sent to servers throughout the world in minutes and then makes its way to file-sharing networks." I usually get a max of 50 k/s upload max!