Well, such a company wouldn't have to be more expensive than the competition! Just keep the same product price as competition and earn on sold refill sets. With such ridiculously high prices as current producers have, gaining reasonable profit from reasonable (or even by comparison very low) price would be easy. Most probably the competition would use some really dirty tricks to kick you off the market though.
...there will appear a printer company that doesn't do nasty tricks about its cartridges and sells printers and materials at reasonable prices. I'm sure there is a large market for this.
Like: Cartridges with "refill valve", authorised "refill sets" and "cleaning units" (so dried cartridges could be reused), the cartridge capacity used in 100% and not lowered, new cartridges that come with the printer full, not just with enough ink for 5 pages, and nothing that would try to make your cartridge useless sooner than it just rubs off against the paper or gets broken in some other "normal way". Plus user policy that grants not changing that.
I'm sure "per customer" profit would be way lower, but sales would beat all the competition.
> The manufacturing machine could be put on a geostationary satellite and could "grow" a thread reaching earth and further out into space.
And where would it get materials from? There's not much free carbon in vacuum!
Don't you think manufactured on Earth thin threads of the "rope" lifted to orbit, attached to existing construction and attached either to the end of built already rope, or along it, to strenghten it would be better?
You apparently didn't ever try to start a grill.;) Once it burns, it bursn, but getting it to start burning...
Besides, women aren't too worried about wearing flammable jewelry (diamonds). Engineers aren't too worried that diamond drills will burst in flames from friction. They are just nearly as flammable. That is - you need to provide quite a lot of heat to burn it.
Besides, what would it be if it had just plusses? Transistors create white noise, superconductors need low temp and are fragile, nuclear power causes unhealthy radiation, Linux has SCO issues, do you expect Nanotubes to be perfect?:)
YOUCH! Imagine a pack of those crawling around your neck, pulling a nanotube around it without you even knowing and then cutting your throat and generally your head off! Beats all, Ebola, HIV, SARS and BSE! That would be one curious viral "disease"!
Doh. Just imagine! Current fishing poles are made from carbon fiber and they are strong like the hell! With a nanotube fishing pole you could go fishing for whales! And the string! It would NEVER break! Sooner the hook would get straightened or you'd lose your hands!
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You are allowed to take hand baggage on board on all flights (1):
* One carry-on bag, no larger than 55 x 35 x 25 cm and no heavier than 10 kg (22 lbs).
* An overcoat/blanket, umbrella/walking stick, a purse, a camera bag, and an acceptable amount of reading material. -------
I have to agree with the first post, if you have that much real estate to work with, why not have a keypad on there. Hell, why not just dump the whole small keyboard footprint and go with a full 104 on there?
A full 104 won't fit (match your keyboard against your monitor) But a nice variant of 104 with out keypad but with all the rest would be more than desirable. I hate pressing DEL while using arrow keys or looking "Where the hell that "insert" is"?
But there are such broken designs like this. Nokia 5510 has MP3 recording from external audio input and "voice dialing" but no voice notes, it has a qwerty keyboard too, but no notepad-style software, USB connectivity to upload MP3 or other data onto fully featured FAT filesystem 64M memory drive device but no way to access any other kind of data from the phone - save phonebook, transfer data, load gfx SMS and logos and all that stuff.
Sometimes the first-level designer was very enthusiastic (Let's make this! And this! And this!) and the second-level much less (Since we have this and this, getting this using the previous ones would be five minutes of work and half a cent of price, but why should I bother?)
That's that neat thing that lets you create animated progress bars, throbbers, status-update-on-the-fly and all a lot of other of cool semigraphic fun. Hey!?! Are they trying to make a Linux console Embedded Devices? Without GUI? I LIKE IT!:)
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I've already briefly used Debian, but strictly as a server platform, and I got a hint of the feel. It wasn't unpleasant, even though quite different. But I need insight into how the system reacts to an user who behaves in messy way - this is nothing a week or a month of use would tell. RedHat survives this for 3 years. Windows (any version) for a month and then needs reformatting. MS-DOS doesn't care at all until the drive is full or you get a virus, you just occasionally clean up autoexec.bat. AmigaOS may survive 1-2 years of making mess but is very easy to get back in shape. Fascistically administered OpenBSD survived over 5 years without any visible damage now, while one unwise but harmless-looking command on FreeBSD cluttered whole system within hours. (installing vim+ruby installed whole X with desktop managers, libraries, font server and all that junk that should never get to a text-only console system.)
So - how will Debian behave after a year of two of my abuse?
I've been using Linux for some 5 years now, and it was mostly RedHat. Now I feel claustrophobic with my 2G/usr and generally little harddrive space on my RedHat 7.0 with lots and lots of "custom upgrades" from rpms of different distributions, alien'ed packages from others,.tgz sources and lots of others, that start getting in way of each other, breaking dependencies, conflicting and generally making my system a mess.
So, after I found out gcc -stable doesn't work anymore, I decided - it's time for a big upgrade. I'll buy a big harddrive, install a new distribution from scratch, migrate my files from the old drive, customize everything my way (i have a pretty strong idea how my UI should look like and I don't intend to change that. Afterstep, aterm, tcsh and Mozilla, all with very custom settings) - but...
If I change my system, I could migrate to something "more advanced" than RedHat which gets more and more windowsish? And the most "powerful", "serious" non-windows Linux distribution seems to be Debian. But will it work? What problems would I have to face? Okay. Problems to take into consideration:
1) I like to change stuff. Edit sources, disable options that annoy me, make software less foolproof and more powerful. But I don't like the idea of editing the sources with each upgrade and manually switching upgrade of my custom-made binaries by hand. Will that be a problem? 2) There are some programs I like to have in "bleeding-edge" versions. Especially recent custom-compiled kernel and nightlies of Mozilla. Also others that don't come with.deb yet, when I want them. Will that cause problems with apt-get, so i.e. I "manually compile" some library and then it complains I don't have it installed when I try to install a.deb which depends on it?
So, my question is - will my system work pretty if I move to Debian and keep doing this? Is there a reason to move, or should I just like before, install RedHat, spend two hours on uninstalling stuff I don't want, install all the extras that don't come "out of the box" and work on it for another 3 years before it becomes such a mess as my system now.
Or maybe I should try yet some else distro? (please, don't suggest Slack nor migrating from Linux to BSD, I don't feel ready for such a big step yet:)
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Loser.
Well, such a company wouldn't have to be more expensive than the competition! Just keep the same product price as competition and earn on sold refill sets. With such ridiculously high prices as current producers have, gaining reasonable profit from reasonable (or even by comparison very low) price would be easy.
Most probably the competition would use some really dirty tricks to kick you off the market though.
Canon is the one that sells printers with nearly empty cartridges, besides (I may be wrong) most of their models come with quite small cartridges.
HP sells half-empty cartridges, besides it has lowered the default capacity recently.
Lexmark has really small cartridges.
Nowadays the best choice is old HP and non-original cartridges (they are full and quite big plus cheaper than HP. )
Feel lucky. I recently got 5 Harry Potter [some junk] CDs with HP cartridges. (luckily I'm not the one who pays for them)
Imagine a beowulf cluster of drunken soviet cartritges that refill YOU!!!
...there will appear a printer company that doesn't do nasty tricks about its cartridges and sells printers and materials at reasonable prices. I'm sure there is a large market for this.
Like: Cartridges with "refill valve", authorised "refill sets" and "cleaning units" (so dried cartridges could be reused), the cartridge capacity used in 100% and not lowered, new cartridges that come with the printer full, not just with enough ink for 5 pages, and nothing that would try to make your cartridge useless sooner than it just rubs off against the paper or gets broken in some other "normal way". Plus user policy that grants not changing that.
I'm sure "per customer" profit would be way lower, but sales would beat all the competition.
> The manufacturing machine could be put on a geostationary satellite and could "grow" a thread reaching earth and further out into space.
And where would it get materials from? There's not much free carbon in vacuum!
Don't you think manufactured on Earth thin threads of the "rope" lifted to orbit, attached to existing construction and attached either to the end of built already rope, or along it, to strenghten it would be better?
You apparently didn't ever try to start a grill. ;)
:)
Once it burns, it bursn, but getting it to start burning...
Besides, women aren't too worried about wearing flammable jewelry (diamonds).
Engineers aren't too worried that diamond drills will burst in flames from friction. They are just nearly as flammable. That is - you need to provide quite a lot of heat to burn it.
Besides, what would it be if it had just plusses? Transistors create white noise, superconductors need low temp and are fragile, nuclear power causes unhealthy radiation, Linux has SCO issues, do you expect Nanotubes to be perfect?
YOUCH! Imagine a pack of those crawling around your neck, pulling a nanotube around it without you even knowing and then cutting your throat and generally your head off! Beats all, Ebola, HIV, SARS and BSE! That would be one curious viral "disease"!
Thinnest? Doubtly so. 15 or so meters thick by the 0g height, minimu, to carry its own weight plus 1t payload using nanotubes.
Doh. Just imagine! Current fishing poles are made from carbon fiber and they are strong like the hell! With a nanotube fishing pole you could go fishing for whales!
And the string! It would NEVER break! Sooner the hook would get straightened or you'd lose your hands!
Offtopic. Doh.
> How about another question , how easy is it for one to recycle this crap.
Burn it. It's coal.
Taken from some airlines regulations...
-------
Hand luggage
The following rules on hand baggage are important to note:
You are allowed to take hand baggage on board on all flights (1):
* One carry-on bag, no larger than 55 x 35 x 25 cm and no heavier than 10 kg (22 lbs).
* An overcoat/blanket, umbrella/walking stick, a purse, a camera bag, and an acceptable amount of reading material.
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41.66 x 29.21 x 4.57 cm. Wow, a tight fit!
I have to agree with the first post, if you have that much real estate to work with, why not have a keypad on there. Hell, why not just dump the whole small keyboard footprint and go with a full 104 on there?
A full 104 won't fit (match your keyboard against your monitor)
But a nice variant of 104 with out keypad but with all the rest would be more than desirable. I hate pressing DEL while using arrow keys or looking "Where the hell that "insert" is"?
But there are such broken designs like this. Nokia 5510 has MP3 recording from external audio input and "voice dialing" but no voice notes, it has a qwerty keyboard too, but no notepad-style software, USB connectivity to upload MP3 or other data onto fully featured FAT filesystem 64M memory drive device but no way to access any other kind of data from the phone - save phonebook, transfer data, load gfx SMS and logos and all that stuff.
Sometimes the first-level designer was very enthusiastic (Let's make this! And this! And this!) and the second-level much less (Since we have this and this, getting this using the previous ones would be five minutes of work and half a cent of price, but why should I bother?)
That's that neat thing that lets you create animated progress bars, throbbers, status-update-on-the-fly and all a lot of other of cool semigraphic fun. :)
Hey!?!
Are they trying to make a Linux console Embedded Devices? Without GUI?
I LIKE IT!
Anyone to post it here?
Let's all flood Ebay with faxes asking for personal data of bogus persons, claiming we are law enforcement officers! :)
> 4 Positive feedback: what kind of sellers prefer intracability over more money?
;)
Those, who trade in high quality and really cheap stolen goods?
> Tor
Tor?
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They provide the same kind of "privacy policy" as Mafia provides "protection".
I've already briefly used Debian, but strictly as a server platform, and I got a hint of the feel. It wasn't unpleasant, even though quite different. But I need insight into how the system reacts to an user who behaves in messy way - this is nothing a week or a month of use would tell. RedHat survives this for 3 years. Windows (any version) for a month and then needs reformatting. MS-DOS doesn't care at all until the drive is full or you get a virus, you just occasionally clean up autoexec.bat. AmigaOS may survive 1-2 years of making mess but is very easy to get back in shape. Fascistically administered OpenBSD survived over 5 years without any visible damage now, while one unwise but harmless-looking command on FreeBSD cluttered whole system within hours. (installing vim+ruby installed whole X with desktop managers, libraries, font server and all that junk that should never get to a text-only console system.)
So - how will Debian behave after a year of two of my abuse?
Honestly now, I'm asking for an advice.
/usr and generally little harddrive space on my RedHat 7.0 with lots and lots of "custom upgrades" from rpms of different distributions, alien'ed packages from others, .tgz sources and lots of others, that start getting in way of each other, breaking dependencies, conflicting and generally making my system a mess.
.deb yet, when I want them. Will that cause problems with apt-get, so i.e. I "manually compile" some library and then it complains I don't have it installed when I try to install a .deb which depends on it?
:)
I've been using Linux for some 5 years now, and it was mostly RedHat. Now I feel claustrophobic with my 2G
So, after I found out gcc -stable doesn't work anymore, I decided - it's time for a big upgrade. I'll buy a big harddrive, install a new distribution from scratch, migrate my files from the old drive, customize everything my way (i have a pretty strong idea how my UI should look like and I don't intend to change that. Afterstep, aterm, tcsh and Mozilla, all with very custom settings) - but...
If I change my system, I could migrate to something "more advanced" than RedHat which gets more and more windowsish? And the most "powerful", "serious" non-windows Linux distribution seems to be Debian. But will it work? What problems would I have to face?
Okay. Problems to take into consideration:
1) I like to change stuff. Edit sources, disable options that annoy me, make software less foolproof and more powerful. But I don't like the idea of editing the sources with each upgrade and manually switching upgrade of my custom-made binaries by hand. Will that be a problem?
2) There are some programs I like to have in "bleeding-edge" versions. Especially recent custom-compiled kernel and nightlies of Mozilla. Also others that don't come with
So, my question is - will my system work pretty if I move to Debian and keep doing this? Is there a reason to move, or should I just like before, install RedHat, spend two hours on uninstalling stuff I don't want, install all the extras that don't come "out of the box" and work on it for another 3 years before it becomes such a mess as my system now.
Or maybe I should try yet some else distro? (please, don't suggest Slack nor migrating from Linux to BSD, I don't feel ready for such a big step yet
I'm a Linux zealot, I love Linux and all such, but I DON'T want Linux to hurt Apple or replace it or push it away from the market or...
Doh, especially that OS X is based on BSD which is a Good Thing (as opposed to many I'm BSD-friendly) and it would be sad to see it gone...
You can seriously crash a RL airplane once, with a lot of luck twice. And with this one you can crash over and over!
Doh, you've never seen a BSOD on a telebeam? The kind that displays commercials on walls of buildings? THAT is some neat M$ commercial!