I would love to listen to it, but the song on Youtube is so poorly mixed, I can't understand a single word being sung. It sounds like all the other sound they call music these days on the radio... how I long for a 24x7 Bruce Cockburn station:/
Eh, Cingular DOES have the least amount of dropped calls, and GPRS has nothing to do with a "hopped up" GSM network... it's quite obvious you know nothing about cell phone technology. GPRS is data connection that works thru GSM. EDGE was the upgrade for GPRS. Now they are up to HSDPA, which uses UMTS, or also known as WCDMA. GSM hands off quite well but sounds like crap because they use half-rate in most areas. However UMTS uses full-rate and sounds comparable to CDMA's codecs. CDMA is technologically superior to GSM. However, Cingular is up to UMTS, which is comparable. HSDPA has faster downstream potential than CDMA (EV/DO) and there is already an upgrade path for that (HSUPA). Many new Cingular phones use their new network (UMTS, created by Qualcomm)... GSM is still quite plentiful and has a longer range than CDMA does for cell handoffs. So it would appear that they don't care about the licensing fees since they are upgrading their network. But of course they wouldn't switch to CDMA... there are simply better phones available on GSM/UMTS and they work in virtually every country in the world. GSM is more widely accepted, and UMTS will be the same.
I tried Vista RTM on two machines...
1st machine has 76 registered crashes in support center. Most of those are Windows explorer, media center, and even a few BSODs. I had all Vista drivers installed. Interestingly enough, it actually crashed while I copied files onto another machine - NO OS should crash copying files! Also, if you cut and paste a large amount of folders, it wont delete the original folders.
2nd machine has over 700 crashes and several BSODs caused by DivX. There was no chipset driver available for Vista... but give me a break! 700 is quite extreme.
Until Vista is more stable, or until up and coming software is more stable on it, I'm avoiding Vista like the plague.
The cleaning process cannot clean just the black or color heads; it cleans both at the same time. Epson's printing system is unlike anybody else's on the market; it works quite differently in that respect.
Interestingly enough, if you think that it might not yield the full cartridge with this metering system, you would be correct. I did several tests on all their printers available in the past two years and have noticed on every single one there is usually some ink left in the cartridge when it says it is empty. It is much worse on the C80/82/84's however. Those had quite a bit of ink left, enough so that when I reset the chip, it was able to print about 200 or more pages after it claimed it was empty. The 800/825/925, however, had enough for a few pages at best due to evaporative losses. If you want to play around with yield comparisons, this device is available in a few places which you can find on goodle.
The reason your ink counter reset is because you removed the cartridge. Newer cartridges would not reset on their new line; they have a chip that meters ink usage. The reason they do this is quite simple; if you use the printer without ink it will ruin the head. Epson uses a micromechatronic head system consisting of a diamond attenuating in a pressurized chamber. If you run their ink system without ink "which acts as a cooling agent and a lubricant", you will fry the head and/or the quality will degrade considerably. The reason it refuses to print after the color is empty, even if you are just printing b&w is due to the fact it primes and cleans the heads before use, which uses both cartridges. If you do that without ink, you will hurt and/or fry the head. I've seen many of their old systems get fried because of this; fortunately their new system isn't as susceptible to this workaround of the protection system.
While yes, providing biometric verification for usage of this device might frighten and worry some, I believe it far outweights the damage done when you lose a credit card. I would imagine that your fingerprint wouldn't leave the device "I could be wrong; I have not read any white papers on this particular device". Others in the above have commented on the lack of holographic verification and printed numbers, but I believe credit card companies would liken to this quicker due to the fact it would be harder to have fraudulent activities. In the end, this would bring their fraud expenditures down I believe IMHO. On the flipside though, a significant disadvantage to this is whenever you replace physical money with computerized money, the possibility of hacking becomes a serious threat i.e. Paypal and other online payment methods. I believe it will take a while for them to ensure customers this is secure; certainly the credit card companies will not endorse a device that is not reasonably secure; it would be against their best wishes. Until those concerns are met, I don't think we'll be seeing this technology for a while.
Dell has gone a long way in the industry and has helped computing for the masses under Michael Dell's leadership. However, I'm hopefull the new CEO will increase the declining quality of Dell's products. I believe that their cost-cutting measures have really injured their corporate following; they aren't perceived as being as high of quality as they once were.
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I would love to listen to it, but the song on Youtube is so poorly mixed, I can't understand a single word being sung. It sounds like all the other sound they call music these days on the radio... how I long for a 24x7 Bruce Cockburn station :/
Eh, Cingular DOES have the least amount of dropped calls, and GPRS has nothing to do with a "hopped up" GSM network... it's quite obvious you know nothing about cell phone technology. GPRS is data connection that works thru GSM. EDGE was the upgrade for GPRS. Now they are up to HSDPA, which uses UMTS, or also known as WCDMA. GSM hands off quite well but sounds like crap because they use half-rate in most areas. However UMTS uses full-rate and sounds comparable to CDMA's codecs. CDMA is technologically superior to GSM. However, Cingular is up to UMTS, which is comparable. HSDPA has faster downstream potential than CDMA (EV/DO) and there is already an upgrade path for that (HSUPA). Many new Cingular phones use their new network (UMTS, created by Qualcomm)... GSM is still quite plentiful and has a longer range than CDMA does for cell handoffs. So it would appear that they don't care about the licensing fees since they are upgrading their network. But of course they wouldn't switch to CDMA... there are simply better phones available on GSM/UMTS and they work in virtually every country in the world. GSM is more widely accepted, and UMTS will be the same.
I tried Vista RTM on two machines... 1st machine has 76 registered crashes in support center. Most of those are Windows explorer, media center, and even a few BSODs. I had all Vista drivers installed. Interestingly enough, it actually crashed while I copied files onto another machine - NO OS should crash copying files! Also, if you cut and paste a large amount of folders, it wont delete the original folders. 2nd machine has over 700 crashes and several BSODs caused by DivX. There was no chipset driver available for Vista... but give me a break! 700 is quite extreme. Until Vista is more stable, or until up and coming software is more stable on it, I'm avoiding Vista like the plague.
The cleaning process cannot clean just the black or color heads; it cleans both at the same time. Epson's printing system is unlike anybody else's on the market; it works quite differently in that respect.
Interestingly enough, if you think that it might not yield the full cartridge with this metering system, you would be correct. I did several tests on all their printers available in the past two years and have noticed on every single one there is usually some ink left in the cartridge when it says it is empty. It is much worse on the C80/82/84's however. Those had quite a bit of ink left, enough so that when I reset the chip, it was able to print about 200 or more pages after it claimed it was empty. The 800/825/925, however, had enough for a few pages at best due to evaporative losses. If you want to play around with yield comparisons, this device is available in a few places which you can find on goodle.
The reason your ink counter reset is because you removed the cartridge. Newer cartridges would not reset on their new line; they have a chip that meters ink usage. The reason they do this is quite simple; if you use the printer without ink it will ruin the head. Epson uses a micromechatronic head system consisting of a diamond attenuating in a pressurized chamber. If you run their ink system without ink "which acts as a cooling agent and a lubricant", you will fry the head and/or the quality will degrade considerably. The reason it refuses to print after the color is empty, even if you are just printing b&w is due to the fact it primes and cleans the heads before use, which uses both cartridges. If you do that without ink, you will hurt and/or fry the head. I've seen many of their old systems get fried because of this; fortunately their new system isn't as susceptible to this workaround of the protection system.
While yes, providing biometric verification for usage of this device might frighten and worry some, I believe it far outweights the damage done when you lose a credit card. I would imagine that your fingerprint wouldn't leave the device "I could be wrong; I have not read any white papers on this particular device". Others in the above have commented on the lack of holographic verification and printed numbers, but I believe credit card companies would liken to this quicker due to the fact it would be harder to have fraudulent activities. In the end, this would bring their fraud expenditures down I believe IMHO. On the flipside though, a significant disadvantage to this is whenever you replace physical money with computerized money, the possibility of hacking becomes a serious threat i.e. Paypal and other online payment methods. I believe it will take a while for them to ensure customers this is secure; certainly the credit card companies will not endorse a device that is not reasonably secure; it would be against their best wishes. Until those concerns are met, I don't think we'll be seeing this technology for a while.
Dell has gone a long way in the industry and has helped computing for the masses under Michael Dell's leadership. However, I'm hopefull the new CEO will increase the declining quality of Dell's products. I believe that their cost-cutting measures have really injured their corporate following; they aren't perceived as being as high of quality as they once were.
Really? Well I'm one of the lawyers representing the RIAA... so ya best be watchin out!