Phaser printing (named because the ink changes phase - also known as dye sublimation printing) is good for presentation graphics with strong saturated colours. Not so good for subtle tones or documents like training manuals where you want people to write on the document. Colour lasers which rely on fuser oil have the same issue with writing over the printing as the surface of the page is slick.
Part of my current role involves doing digital printroom designs. We specify 3-4 full room air changes per hour exhausted to the outside. Oddly enough the primary concern is not the toner particulates but the fumes released from the inks in pre-printed stocks which outgoss when headed running through the digital print engine.
As an Australian who grew up in a surf resort town let me assure you that you do pay for the beach whether you use it or not.
You pay for it in taxes which in turn pay for roads and parking and evacuation zones and shark spotting planes and rescus helicopters and the surf livesavers and thier equipment. That before you factor in rangers to keep dogs off the beach, dune reclimation programes etc... to maintain the quality of the beach itself.
Or perhaps there is mooring or launch fees if you use water craft.
Even if you don't pay income tax, you pay for it in higher prices to shop keepers in the area who pay higher rates for the 'privalege' of operating so close to the beach.
Not being a minority did stop women from being treated that way for millenium...
Perhaps it is more accurate to say that fat people are th elast socialy acceptable peer group to abuse. The main reason for this is because it is perceived to be a lack of will power or moral fibre that got them that way in the first place.
Oddly enough, obesity seems to be mostly a disease of first world societies. Could it be that human evolved to live in an environment of scarcity and that in 2-3 generations we haven't yet managed to rewire ourselves to adjust to living in an environment of plenty.
The reason that the majority of people are overweight is that for normal[1] people living normal[1] lives they consume far more calories than they burn.
[1] Normal is a mathematical concept. It is a form of average. If we want to change what normal is we need significant social change regarding lifestyles to permit people to eat healither foods, have the time and motivation to exercise physically and to show more restraint in what they consume.
And it is likely it will take a major shift in work/life balance across all sectors of industry for this to happen.
This isn't saying people can't take personal responsibility for their actions, it's saying that human nature being what it is, unless it is easier to live a healthy life than it is to live an unhealthy life - people will continue to expand.
If Snape could enter Grimmauld Place, then why didn't he told the Death Eaters where it was? Voldemort should be aware that wherever the Headquarter of the Order was, Snape knew it, and with Dumbledore's death Snape would become a secret keeper.
He could only do this if he was a Secret Keeper - meerly knowing the location did not give you the ability to pass that information on. He could have easily made it clear enough of them still didn't trust him enough to make him a Secret Keeper.
Not really a mistake but... how did Griffyndorf's sword got away from the goblins?
As previously established, the Sorting Hat could summoned the sword in the right circumstances. No reason it couldn't summon it again.
How could Dumbledore best Grindenwald if the latter had the Elder Wand? also, how did he not defeat Voldemort completely with the Elder Wand when they dueled?
Wandlore in DH states that the Wand passed from wizard to wizard by force. If Harry dies of natural causes the wand will lose it's power. So everyone who has taken possesion of the wand has taken it from someone who was wielding it.
How did Dumbledore's painting know of the plan to take Harry off Private Drive, in order to counsel Snape?
Possibly the biggest potential 'hole' this could only work if it had all been planned in advance. Well in advance, prior to Dumbledore's death.
I would buy a Mac Mini today if they fixed the video - not quite enough for serious gaming, and I wouldn't be comfortable with it for HDTV decompression on the fly.
So, Apple have been trying to change the mindset regarding user changerable batteries for the iPods and iPhones - these generators would address the issue once and for all - assuming they retain rotaional HDAs for the primary storage. Solid state wouldn't provide the vibration required to charge up the generator.
Conversely, I have bought quite a few TV series on DVD where I first saw them as a download - liked them, and then bought the comercial release to support the studio and let them know I want more of that type of product. SImilarly I have bought quite a few discs and gmaes on spec that I have started watching/playing - said that sucked and what a waste of money. If I had downloaded to try those first - I really wouldn't have bought them.
Here in Austrlia where we have paid sick leave for permanent employees, but typically companies require that you present a doctor's certificate to prove you were sick. So even when you know that you only have a head cold and should be home in bed staying warm and keeping your fluids up, you have to track down and wait in the doctor's office for them to write on a bit of paper that you really are too sick to go to work and that you should be home in bed...
On the flip side, my husband was mis-diagnosed by a number of doctors for over 15 years - he had severe sleep apnea to the point where he was having fits and seizures, memory loss and paranoia. I look like I am finally getting a diagnosis after 20 years of intrusive tests for why I have near constant nausea, indigestion and vomiting.
If the doctors didn't have to sausage factory process all the people who *know* what's wrong and what they have to do, they would probably have more time to spend with people who actually need help.
I'm not saying there wouldn't be an adjustment period - but seriously - not having gadgets wouldn't "kill" me.
I grew up out bush where we would regularly lose power for hours or days at a time because the one and only line into the town would get taken out by some idiot.
I've showered by candle light. You slept when it was dark, got up when it was light. You coped.
Take a pot of hot water and a frog. Throw the frog into the pot. What do you think will happen? The obvious, of course: the frog will jump out. Who likes hanging around in a pot of hot water?
Now... take a pot of cold water, put the frog in it, and place the pot on the stove. Turn on the heat. This time something different will occur. The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled. (from "Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane" by Manfred Kets de Vries).
Kinda right. It's called dye sublimation because the dye is sublimated - what is it changes from liquid form to gaeous and is absorbed into the pourous surface of the paper. Depending on the paper inquestion it may be a gel or ceramic coating.
When the early commercial dye sub printers came out about 15 years ago they were only rated for colour accuracy for a hand ful of days, the magenta in particular would often fade quickly under UV exposure, leaving the image looking washed out.
We did a plot called "A Capadocian in a Can" where Capadocia had been defeated, his ashes split into 8 (? too long ago) parts - one part given to each of the Clans to protect. The presence of even one of these partial ashes collection was enough to cause great chaos. It was interesting to see all the maneouvering when one came into our National game.
We've had continual problems over the years with PAL ports of gamers developed in the US or Japanese market for the N64 and GC. Particularly action/adventure games with timed components in them which become impossible to complete with the game clock sped up. Even a 'perfect' path will find you not completing the stage before the deadline.
Another thing that will affect this is whether the *printer* is a page printer or a document printer.
For a single page or a long variable data job a page printer will be faster, as it releases each page from the spooler as ready and clears te cache as it goes - never filling up.
A document printer needs to spool the entire document first - which makes it much faster for repeat copies of short to medium documents as it holds the processed print file in memory.
[1] I would class a medium document as being up to 200 pages in length depending on content. But I work wth production print devices.
PDF is PostScript. Your PCL driver has to convert from PostScript (PDF) back to PCL to print. The main reason printers don't come with PS is not the memory requirement (though typically a minimum of 2Mb of printer memory is required) but due to the licensing cost to Adobe.
First and foremost, the story is the focus, not getting the biggest gun. Actually getting the biggest gun usually only serves one purpose (if your ST is halfway "realistic"): You becoming the biggest target.
I used to be a Camarilla DST and tried to ban guns in game for a period of time; the goal was to get players to play their character's abilities rather than just shoot each other.
The context of the game was set not long after the Port Arthur masacare, in 'RL' there had been a massive gun buy back - guns were genuinely rare items. While the game is a fantasy game, it was intended to be set as an overlay over the real world.
While our intentions were good - get the players to role play that they have superhuman strength (after all why would you bother with a gun - which needs ammo and might be traced, when you can simply break someones neck or whatever) but it backfired badly with players coming up with more elaborate and creative ways to prove they *must* be able to obtain a gun in game.
I have a one week old iMac at home - it found my 10+ year old Personal Laserwriter 4/600PS out of the box and works fine.
Sometimes it's the quality of the driver software - or the printing device. I have yet to find a PostScript printer that I haven't been able to print to from any Mac - with or without the OEM drivers.
So not only will we be fatter, our houses will get nice an fat too the more clutter we stuff into them./i>
This is happening already with the McMansions. The house I live in with just my husband is bigger than the house where I grew up as a child which was a household of four. And we have a fairly small 'new house' conpared with the new estates springing up around us.
What people don't seem to understand is that the bigger the houses, the more resources they consume to build and maintain over their lifespan. The larger the house the larger the physical footprint - making the density of each suburb a little bit less, roads a little bit longer to serve each community, longer power lines, sewerage systems, it's further for rail and other forms of public transport. It's further to walk anywhere - so people drive. It consumes more resources getting to and from the newer suburban enclaves.
Oddly enough I was looking at buying a new warcraft machine for myself today... I want to make sure it will perform in black temple. Too many crashes after patch this week.
can also be caused by paper dust obscuring one of the optical sensors - which will register as a jam and cause the system to stop to avoid the paper getting torn inside the printer
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Phaser printing (named because the ink changes phase - also known as dye sublimation printing) is good for presentation graphics with strong saturated colours. Not so good for subtle tones or documents like training manuals where you want people to write on the document. Colour lasers which rely on fuser oil have the same issue with writing over the printing as the surface of the page is slick.
Part of my current role involves doing digital printroom designs. We specify 3-4 full room air changes per hour exhausted to the outside. Oddly enough the primary concern is not the toner particulates but the fumes released from the inks in pre-printed stocks which outgoss when headed running through the digital print engine.
As an Australian who grew up in a surf resort town let me assure you that you do pay for the beach whether you use it or not.
You pay for it in taxes which in turn pay for roads and parking and evacuation zones and shark spotting planes and rescus helicopters and the surf livesavers and thier equipment. That before you factor in rangers to keep dogs off the beach, dune reclimation programes etc... to maintain the quality of the beach itself.
Or perhaps there is mooring or launch fees if you use water craft.
Even if you don't pay income tax, you pay for it in higher prices to shop keepers in the area who pay higher rates for the 'privalege' of operating so close to the beach.
Not being a minority did stop women from being treated that way for millenium...
Perhaps it is more accurate to say that fat people are th elast socialy acceptable peer group to abuse. The main reason for this is because it is perceived to be a lack of will power or moral fibre that got them that way in the first place.
Oddly enough, obesity seems to be mostly a disease of first world societies. Could it be that human evolved to live in an environment of scarcity and that in 2-3 generations we haven't yet managed to rewire ourselves to adjust to living in an environment of plenty.
The reason that the majority of people are overweight is that for normal[1] people living normal[1] lives they consume far more calories than they burn.
[1] Normal is a mathematical concept. It is a form of average. If we want to change what normal is we need significant social change regarding lifestyles to permit people to eat healither foods, have the time and motivation to exercise physically and to show more restraint in what they consume.
And it is likely it will take a major shift in work/life balance across all sectors of industry for this to happen.
This isn't saying people can't take personal responsibility for their actions, it's saying that human nature being what it is, unless it is easier to live a healthy life than it is to live an unhealthy life - people will continue to expand.
or the "/t has Aids" meme that was running rampart on Proudmoore 18 months ago...
If Snape could enter Grimmauld Place, then why didn't he told the Death Eaters where it was? Voldemort should be aware that wherever the Headquarter of the Order was, Snape knew it, and with Dumbledore's death Snape would become a secret keeper.
He could only do this if he was a Secret Keeper - meerly knowing the location did not give you the ability to pass that information on. He could have easily made it clear enough of them still didn't trust him enough to make him a Secret Keeper.
Not really a mistake but... how did Griffyndorf's sword got away from the goblins?
As previously established, the Sorting Hat could summoned the sword in the right circumstances. No reason it couldn't summon it again.
How could Dumbledore best Grindenwald if the latter had the Elder Wand? also, how did he not defeat Voldemort completely with the Elder Wand when they dueled?
Wandlore in DH states that the Wand passed from wizard to wizard by force. If Harry dies of natural causes the wand will lose it's power. So everyone who has taken possesion of the wand has taken it from someone who was wielding it.
How did Dumbledore's painting know of the plan to take Harry off Private Drive, in order to counsel Snape?
Possibly the biggest potential 'hole' this could only work if it had all been planned in advance. Well in advance, prior to Dumbledore's death.
I would buy a Mac Mini today if they fixed the video - not quite enough for serious gaming, and I wouldn't be comfortable with it for HDTV decompression on the fly.
So, I've been dying my hair red for nearly 20 years (after a brief 6 months as a blond) - does that mean I *want* to be in league with the Devil?
So, Apple have been trying to change the mindset regarding user changerable batteries for the iPods and iPhones - these generators would address the issue once and for all - assuming they retain rotaional HDAs for the primary storage. Solid state wouldn't provide the vibration required to charge up the generator.
I have routinely hacked my copies of Zork and other Infocom games (HHGttG etc...) over the years to keep them playable as I've migrated systems.
In my book that would mean at least *I* deem them worth playing still.
A number of those games now exist as web hosted java apps (for example http://thcnet.net/error/index.php).
Conversely, I have bought quite a few TV series on DVD where I first saw them as a download - liked them, and then bought the comercial release to support the studio and let them know I want more of that type of product. SImilarly I have bought quite a few discs and gmaes on spec that I have started watching/playing - said that sucked and what a waste of money. If I had downloaded to try those first - I really wouldn't have bought them.
Here in Austrlia where we have paid sick leave for permanent employees, but typically companies require that you present a doctor's certificate to prove you were sick. So even when you know that you only have a head cold and should be home in bed staying warm and keeping your fluids up, you have to track down and wait in the doctor's office for them to write on a bit of paper that you really are too sick to go to work and that you should be home in bed...
On the flip side, my husband was mis-diagnosed by a number of doctors for over 15 years - he had severe sleep apnea to the point where he was having fits and seizures, memory loss and paranoia. I look like I am finally getting a diagnosis after 20 years of intrusive tests for why I have near constant nausea, indigestion and vomiting.
If the doctors didn't have to sausage factory process all the people who *know* what's wrong and what they have to do, they would probably have more time to spend with people who actually need help.
I'm not saying there wouldn't be an adjustment period - but seriously - not having gadgets wouldn't "kill" me.
I grew up out bush where we would regularly lose power for hours or days at a time because the one and only line into the town would get taken out by some idiot.
I've showered by candle light. You slept when it was dark, got up when it was light. You coped.
It's a frog on a hot-plate.
Take a pot of hot water and a frog. Throw the frog into the pot. What do you think will happen? The obvious, of course: the frog will jump out. Who likes hanging around in a pot of hot water?
Now ... take a pot of cold water, put the frog in it, and place the pot on the stove. Turn on the heat. This time something different will occur. The frog, because of the incremental change in temperature, will not notice that it is slowly being boiled. (from "Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane" by Manfred Kets de Vries).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Kinda right. It's called dye sublimation because the dye is sublimated - what is it changes from liquid form to gaeous and is absorbed into the pourous surface of the paper. Depending on the paper inquestion it may be a gel or ceramic coating.
When the early commercial dye sub printers came out about 15 years ago they were only rated for colour accuracy for a hand ful of days, the magenta in particular would often fade quickly under UV exposure, leaving the image looking washed out.
We did a plot called "A Capadocian in a Can" where Capadocia had been defeated, his ashes split into 8 (? too long ago) parts - one part given to each of the Clans to protect. The presence of even one of these partial ashes collection was enough to cause great chaos. It was interesting to see all the maneouvering when one came into our National game.
We've had continual problems over the years with PAL ports of gamers developed in the US or Japanese market for the N64 and GC. Particularly action/adventure games with timed components in them which become impossible to complete with the game clock sped up. Even a 'perfect' path will find you not completing the stage before the deadline.
Another thing that will affect this is whether the *printer* is a page printer or a document printer.
For a single page or a long variable data job a page printer will be faster, as it releases each page from the spooler as ready and clears te cache as it goes - never filling up.
A document printer needs to spool the entire document first - which makes it much faster for repeat copies of short to medium documents as it holds the processed print file in memory.
[1] I would class a medium document as being up to 200 pages in length depending on content. But I work wth production print devices.
PDF is PostScript. Your PCL driver has to convert from PostScript (PDF) back to PCL to print. The main reason printers don't come with PS is not the memory requirement (though typically a minimum of 2Mb of printer memory is required) but due to the licensing cost to Adobe.
First and foremost, the story is the focus, not getting the biggest gun. Actually getting the biggest gun usually only serves one purpose (if your ST is halfway "realistic"): You becoming the biggest target.
I used to be a Camarilla DST and tried to ban guns in game for a period of time; the goal was to get players to play their character's abilities rather than just shoot each other.
The context of the game was set not long after the Port Arthur masacare, in 'RL' there had been a massive gun buy back - guns were genuinely rare items. While the game is a fantasy game, it was intended to be set as an overlay over the real world.
While our intentions were good - get the players to role play that they have superhuman strength (after all why would you bother with a gun - which needs ammo and might be traced, when you can simply break someones neck or whatever) but it backfired badly with players coming up with more elaborate and creative ways to prove they *must* be able to obtain a gun in game.
Unless I can play a Bastet - not interested. My Ceilican wants to come out and play again.
I used to play in an all Bastet chapter of the Camarilla. The players were all Regional officers or National Board members.
I have a one week old iMac at home - it found my 10+ year old Personal Laserwriter 4/600PS out of the box and works fine.
Sometimes it's the quality of the driver software - or the printing device. I have yet to find a PostScript printer that I haven't been able to print to from any Mac - with or without the OEM drivers.
So not only will we be fatter, our houses will get nice an fat too the more clutter we stuff into them./i>
This is happening already with the McMansions. The house I live in with just my husband is bigger than the house where I grew up as a child which was a household of four. And we have a fairly small 'new house' conpared with the new estates springing up around us.
What people don't seem to understand is that the bigger the houses, the more resources they consume to build and maintain over their lifespan. The larger the house the larger the physical footprint - making the density of each suburb a little bit less, roads a little bit longer to serve each community, longer power lines, sewerage systems, it's further for rail and other forms of public transport. It's further to walk anywhere - so people drive. It consumes more resources getting to and from the newer suburban enclaves.
Oddly enough I was looking at buying a new warcraft machine for myself today... I want to make sure it will perform in black temple. Too many crashes after patch this week.
can also be caused by paper dust obscuring one of the optical sensors - which will register as a jam and cause the system to stop to avoid the paper getting torn inside the printer