Not just Epson but all of them do this. There has been at least one class-action against Epson in the past for this. Add of the # of people that don't question when teh printer says "change me", multiply the $$$ they rake in from ink - the cost of settling a suit and it's a no-brainer to conduct business this way.
We've all met those people that nothing goes right. Then there are the people that as soon as they show up shit starts working. Back in the days of Bell Labs, Dennis Ritchie recounted how these types of people were rated as "jinxes" or "healers". During critical testing or a demonstration jinxes were told to stay away and healers were invited.
I'm astonished in this day and age censorship rears its intolerant head by mob rule no less. Let's have a good ol' book burning and start up some indoctrination camps to finish off this Orwellian plunge.
Add to the mix that they have been increasing the time to get a Green Card to take minimum 5-6 years. During this time they can hold employment over the heads of these workers effectively suppressing wage competition - they are hostage to the low wages.
Once upon a time it was large format or nothing with in the world of print. Then National Geographic shocked the pros by accepting 35mm Kodachrome slides. Gradually the standards slipped and until the interwebz pretty much killed print media since people demanded online content. Then microstock happened and companies realized that they didn't need such high quality images for ads that had the longevity of a fart in a tornado. Cheap rules. Professional photographers have been fighting this since the first digital and throwaway film cameras came into being. With Facebook et.al. brides no longer cared about wedding albums - they simply post online. Prints and albums were the mainstay of the pros and they have been bombarded with demands from brides for the photos on DVD as cheap as possible. Cameras abound and a lot of amateurs fancy themselves as photographers because they can push the shutter button and then slap it out in Lightroom with some preset edits. Quality has simply vanished in the face of camera ubiquity. I love getting an invite to a wedding - I work as an unpaid photographer and then post the watermarked photos for them to see. I get a lot of orders that way because the quality difference is obvious.
Microsoft believes in iterative refinement, They let the users bang it into shape. Pure waterfall. Apple gets it pretty much right the first time THEN refine it.
My day job is as a Delphi programmer (with some C#). My first language was C on an old Zilog Z80 Unix server back when AT&T gave the source code away. Learned Pascal on both Unix and CP/M. Later used C and C++ on many machine control projects using PC's. Discovered Delphi when it was included as an add-on for controlling ESI trimming lasers. Used it in the entire production line when we were developing a line of solid state pressure transducers. Delphi was used to characterize the sensor strain gauges by temperature cycling and the data used to trim the sensors to spec with the ESI laser all data being tracked using barcodes. I would not have attempted the job using C/C++ at that time when the Watcom and Zortech compilers reigned. I only bring up ancient history to point out that I've coded in a variety of environments and I still find Pascal in all of its variations to be a very capable tool. Not to say that it is the only tool or the best tool - it is one of many great tools in a good developers war chest.
Agreed - however I like a politicritter that has a healthy dose of nationalism. We are in fact talking survival here - flame suit is on for the inevitable "nationalism is bad" trolls.
My argument against VB - extending Edsger's original observation. "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." -- Edsger Dijkstra
I worked on an AN-FPS35 radar in the 70's. It used 430 Mhz (UHF) not microwaves. A nifty touch was it used frequency agility for anti-jamming and pulse compression to attain high Pav while maintaining high target resolution. I bet this thing could nail stealth easy.
To get around the laws they eliminated my "position" (i.e. title) thus not opening themselves to a lawsuit. They kept the two Indian programmers that I was training. In addition they also cover their asses by making you sign an agreement not to pursue legal action. You know those ridiculous job ads that want everything and the kitchen sink? They are usually designed to eliminate all applicants to justify extending the visa of a low-paid programmer. I discovered this after a "displaced" (outsourced) coworker applied for a job that fit her *perfectly*. No call. Tried 4 times and finally her headhunter asked a person at the company what was going on. They had a Pakistani programmer they paid $15,000/yr they wanted to keep. By law they have to post the job but nothing says they have to hire anyone - just make a "good faith effort". Bah! Ayn Rand was just clueless about the modern "Atlases" running industry these days.
>> What he was saying is when you fuck up an aquifer there is no way to reverse the damage... Not entirely true. Westinghouse has been involved in groundwater remediation for decades with high success rates. I was involved writing SCADA software for Westinghouse when they remediated the Florida DOT site in Gainesville, FL. FDOT had a depot there and had carelessly been allowing waste oil and fuel into the ground where there are three major aquifers converging that supplies water to a huge part of central Florida. We used 10 forced injection wells with air strippers for the hydrocarbons, plus over 100,000 cubic yards of soil was dug up, sterilized and "reconstituted". We also used over 40 remote monitoring well-stations to keep tabs on the water levels of the aquifers since forced injection was relatively new technology at that time. The contamination was all reversed within a short period of time. http://bit.ly/SjjPla
Kernighan and Plaugher wrote "Software Tools" to assert that small, capable, tightly focused programs could be hooked together to accomplish large tasks. Unix/Linux organization is a prime example of this approach.
The impetus to do more vaccine research is mostly due to limited liability for big pharma IMHO. There is no legal cash limit for drug liability but there are caps on vaccines. This from way back to promote acceptance. Wakefield was pursued to extremes because big pharma stood to lose their new cash cow.
As a photographer I say without qualification you are mistaken. I have a MacBook Pro and also use Windows. Apple has indeed lost the lead in almost every aspect of pro graphics. They have color management issues, display issues and printing issues. I wish it weren't true but for critical photography I have to use Windows these days. Glossy displays are pretty for the layman but for pro graphics they suck - big time and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the glare.
No - they hammered the true copies/clones into teh ground - like the "Orange". Franklin computers were hounded and steps were taken by Apple to ensure it was impossible to maintain compatibility.
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I never have points to mod up when I need them.
You definitely used that hammer to hit the nail square on bro.
Add performing code monkey to my list of skills...
Not just Epson but all of them do this.
There has been at least one class-action against Epson in the past for this.
Add of the # of people that don't question when teh printer says "change me", multiply the $$$ they rake in from ink - the cost of settling a suit and it's a no-brainer to conduct business this way.
We've all met those people that nothing goes right. Then there are the people that as soon as they show up shit starts working.
Back in the days of Bell Labs, Dennis Ritchie recounted how these types of people were rated as "jinxes" or "healers".
During critical testing or a demonstration jinxes were told to stay away and healers were invited.
I'm astonished in this day and age censorship rears its intolerant head by mob rule no less.
Let's have a good ol' book burning and start up some indoctrination camps to finish off this Orwellian plunge.
Hey - it worked for Hollywood.
Add to the mix that they have been increasing the time to get a Green Card to take minimum 5-6 years. During this time they can hold employment over the heads of these workers effectively suppressing wage competition - they are hostage to the low wages.
Ah shit - a misanthrope with a dictionary...
and that's fine as long as that meets her requirements. But if you need a print the quality simply isn't there.
Once upon a time it was large format or nothing with in the world of print. Then National Geographic shocked the pros by accepting 35mm Kodachrome slides. Gradually the standards slipped and until the interwebz pretty much killed print media since people demanded online content. Then microstock happened and companies realized that they didn't need such high quality images for ads that had the longevity of a fart in a tornado. Cheap rules.
Professional photographers have been fighting this since the first digital and throwaway film cameras came into being. With Facebook et.al. brides no longer cared about wedding albums - they simply post online. Prints and albums were the mainstay of the pros and they have been bombarded with demands from brides for the photos on DVD as cheap as possible. Cameras abound and a lot of amateurs fancy themselves as photographers because they can push the shutter button and then slap it out in Lightroom with some preset edits. Quality has simply vanished in the face of camera ubiquity. I love getting an invite to a wedding - I work as an unpaid photographer and then post the watermarked photos for them to see. I get a lot of orders that way because the quality difference is obvious.
Microsoft believes in iterative refinement, They let the users bang it into shape. Pure waterfall.
Apple gets it pretty much right the first time THEN refine it.
and he will officially be at odds with Florida.
My day job is as a Delphi programmer (with some C#). My first language was C on an old Zilog Z80 Unix server back when AT&T gave the source code away. Learned Pascal on both Unix and CP/M. Later used C and C++ on many machine control projects using PC's. Discovered Delphi when it was included as an add-on for controlling ESI trimming lasers. Used it in the entire production line when we were developing a line of solid state pressure transducers. Delphi was used to characterize the sensor strain gauges by temperature cycling and the data used to trim the sensors to spec with the ESI laser all data being tracked using barcodes. I would not have attempted the job using C/C++ at that time when the Watcom and Zortech compilers reigned.
I only bring up ancient history to point out that I've coded in a variety of environments and I still find Pascal in all of its variations to be a very capable tool. Not to say that it is the only tool or the best tool - it is one of many great tools in a good developers war chest.
Agreed - however I like a politicritter that has a healthy dose of nationalism.
We are in fact talking survival here - flame suit is on for the inevitable "nationalism is bad" trolls.
My argument against VB - extending Edsger's original observation.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
-- Edsger Dijkstra
lols - where's my mod points when I need 'em...
I worked on an AN-FPS35 radar in the 70's. It used 430 Mhz (UHF) not microwaves. A nifty touch was it used frequency agility for anti-jamming and pulse compression to attain high Pav while maintaining high target resolution. I bet this thing could nail stealth easy.
To get around the laws they eliminated my "position" (i.e. title) thus not opening themselves to a lawsuit. They kept the two Indian programmers that I was training. In addition they also cover their asses by making you sign an agreement not to pursue legal action.
You know those ridiculous job ads that want everything and the kitchen sink? They are usually designed to eliminate all applicants to justify extending the visa of a low-paid programmer. I discovered this after a "displaced" (outsourced) coworker applied for a job that fit her *perfectly*. No call. Tried 4 times and finally her headhunter asked a person at the company what was going on. They had a Pakistani programmer they paid $15,000/yr they wanted to keep. By law they have to post the job but nothing says they have to hire anyone - just make a "good faith effort".
Bah! Ayn Rand was just clueless about the modern "Atlases" running industry these days.
>> What he was saying is when you fuck up an aquifer there is no way to reverse the damage...
Not entirely true. Westinghouse has been involved in groundwater remediation for decades with high success rates. I was involved writing SCADA software for Westinghouse when they remediated the Florida DOT site in Gainesville, FL. FDOT had a depot there and had carelessly been allowing waste oil and fuel into the ground where there are three major aquifers converging that supplies water to a huge part of central Florida. We used 10 forced injection wells with air strippers for the hydrocarbons, plus over 100,000 cubic yards of soil was dug up, sterilized and "reconstituted". We also used over 40 remote monitoring well-stations to keep tabs on the water levels of the aquifers since forced injection was relatively new technology at that time. The contamination was all reversed within a short period of time.
http://bit.ly/SjjPla
Kernighan and Plaugher wrote "Software Tools" to assert that small, capable, tightly focused programs could be hooked together to accomplish large tasks. Unix/Linux organization is a prime example of this approach.
So - lemme get this... Mary Poppins was right? A spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down?
The impetus to do more vaccine research is mostly due to limited liability for big pharma IMHO. There is no legal cash limit for drug liability but there are caps on vaccines. This from way back to promote acceptance. Wakefield was pursued to extremes because big pharma stood to lose their new cash cow.
As a photographer I say without qualification you are mistaken. I have a MacBook Pro and also use Windows. Apple has indeed lost the lead in almost every aspect of pro graphics. They have color management issues, display issues and printing issues. I wish it weren't true but for critical photography I have to use Windows these days. Glossy displays are pretty for the layman but for pro graphics they suck - big time and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with the glare.
No - they hammered the true copies/clones into teh ground - like the "Orange". Franklin computers were hounded and steps were taken by Apple to ensure it was impossible to maintain compatibility.
Well that's one way of course - but look for a free app, Fring, that allows Skype calls.