As this study has not been not done -- yet -- on humans
Fortunately a huge percentage of humans have already adopted this technology, so we now have results going back as far as ten years for you to work with.
Thank you.
{first pr0n surfing, now mobile phones! I am doomed!}
To confirm you're not a script, please type the word in this image: ascended
(why do I feel like more effort is spent on wrothless image word scripts than renaming 'old stories' to 'search'.)
Right, that is why technologies like AJAX have developed, now, I am a web developer, in the minefield of J2EE development, so many different approaches.
I find the POST-REDIRECT-GET, strong URL state and good behaviour to be more important than fancy fidden frame dynamic post backs or other tricks.
Scripted validation and multi part forms (see Apples developer connection to have multi teired multi part questionnaires expand in dhtml) are also useful, as is using Javascript as an enabling force for special advertising / cross site features or certain special links.
Also, tree structures, and dynamic menus are actually very useful and intuitive, and for large web apps such Javascript is important for large heavily used apps, and save lots of time for post backs - therefore despite my earlier ideals that a strong pattern of embracing the stateless nature of the web for your benefit (which is going away with more complexity like JSF), client side state and interactivity ala gmail and google maps is not going away.
I find the fact that google maps works so seamlessly across browsers to be a herculean effort, and I always dread cross scripting my own kookie creations.
To confirm you're not a script, please type the word in this image: regret
I thought you were going to give me a lift to Tinas?
Thats tomorrow, have you been taking my pain killers again?
No... erm... ok I'll see you later
*click*
Wait, we are being line-tapped
Oh my god! Execute the Omega 13 Device!
*end of world*
Really - if you want security, talk in tongues, or use a third party audio scrambler, plus encrypt the session. (then unencrypted it will just sound like noise). Plus standon one foot while you talk, and occassionally look through the venetian blinds for snipers across the rooftops.
This is a waste of time, if anything it opens up another 'false sense of security'. User A knows their bank uses picture security, which must be unbreakable.
You click an email, you go to 'Iamanasshole.com' and loe and behold, there is the high tech, unbeatable image being displayed. Did I really choose the camel-toe picture of kounikova? (who I do not think is attractive at all BTW).
You see. This is just another take of 'site passwords' Passwords websites have to use to identify themselves to you.
I am sure some brainhead has patented this. Well done. Although I freely admit I havent thought about this (in so many ways) but I have not tried to make a phish proof site.
Plus i fyou just ignore the whole image thing, then people won't realise. I say the only money that can be spent is a way of controlling certain links through user trusted mechanisms, that is, give the user the requirement of knowing where they are, because everything else can be foiled, because all you have to do is foil the user.
Of course, this means less money for 'security' start ups. Educate.
or is it just me? I know it is hard to predict the way technology is going, the only reason HTML still is around is because it works, and was widely adopted, and nothing else gives any [real] benefits (for now).
as far as I am concerned, however you split up content, style, updates, 'sitefiles' (my collective analogue for rss and related technologies) the fact is one coherent, styled document must be the end result.
Too much is being read into content management and RSS. Yes RSS is cute, I use it to have a BBC and CNN link in my firefox, and I just one click to read articles, not go to the site.
RSS and podcasting is the worst combination of not-new hype ever. Downloading a file through the web, wow new!:-)
Seriously, pod casting should be renamed downloading audio.
You know, only non-geeks have to adhere to the b/B guides, use geeks are far to lazy to hit that shift key over, and my pinky was just too lazy (if it makes you feel better, I winced when I typed it, but thought, nah, there is noone that pedantic... oh well, thsi is slashdot!)
Once Sun realizes that they're at real risk of fragmenting the community and having the entire linux/open source world switch to their own homebrewed class library if they don't do so, they might consider it.
Rubbish. 'fragmenting the community' is nothing to do with open sourcing Java. I also think that 'linux/open source' is a geekcist remark, and I won't tollerate geekism. Not everyone in these communities agrees with that, I would say most would choose the cowboy neal option in a poll and carry on writing their enterprise apps.
I think the idea behind open sourcing Java is good (be it the default JVM, the Language (?) or the platform (libraries)).
They have stated the issue is complex, and have open sourced a heap of good stuff, including their Solaris, which has had limited exposure, but what has been seen is awesome, and I am suprised many more slashdotters don't rave about Solaris 10.
IBM have also open sourced a lot of stuff, however cloudscape and their voice work is less fundemental (and both built on Java anyway).
Java is a very important platform, and branding and selling the platform to device manufacturers (I have started seeing mobile savvy teens talk about which version of Java their phones have etc).
Keeping this platform controlled and strong is important. Mono isn't to.net what open source Java would be to Java.
Gosling himself says he is on the fence about the idea, and wants to see it happen, the only thing I find peculiar is it only seems to be IBM blowing the trumpet about this.
Personally I would like to see all the internal Java dev efforts better used to further Java adoption in devices (like home media devices, see recent/. story) and allow it to be used to extend devices using simple event handlers and libraries (email me when a recording finished etc).
[On topic: High Definition 1900x1000 ish trailer is downloadable at 140mb, this is larger than my screen rez right now, just want to see how it runs ]
Although two towers didn't crash down in the UK, the Brits are still a tad more level headed and stiff upper lip, cup of tea? what?
You know. So I guess this will be annotated 'stet'. If you didn't get it, I mean, they will not change it, and not 'to show the terrorists they didn't win' but because we just don't do things like that...Don't mention the war! I mentione dit once, but I think I got away with it!
We have a whole holiday over here about the first terrorist plot, in 1605, where Mr Guy Fawkes (playing himself) not content with getting a penny every time he wheeled himself out in a wheel barrow (a tradition held strong today) decides to blow up the houses of parliment with gunpowder! (two other supporting members helped him, they are still at large, scotland yard have releases security camera pictures showing them carrying barrels)
However, scotland yard, using code breaking and wire taps, and Cantennas to sniff his WiFi access, were able to thwart the plan, and steal their iPods of them.
That is what wikipedia says, I hope someone hasn't been tampering with history!
I learned to whistle - loud - without the need to stick fingers in my mouth at a fairly young age.
When I whistle with someone at the same capacity, we can fluxuate the tones in a controlled manner, and the heterodyning sounds (imagine the sound you sometimes hear when tuning into LW radio - wooowhipduuuublebleble) are very loud, and feel like mini pick axes trying to hollow out your head.
I think it works fairly easily if two people whistle normally next to each other if they can hold a good tone.
To confirm you're not a script, please type the word in this image: planted
I didn't even have to rip some scripts from an fserve xftp warez dump XXX site in russia to get this to work, I mean, what, how !l33t is that.
Real google hacks involve running at least 1.bat file in 16 bit DOS, then renaming an exe file to COWBOY_NEAL_GOATSE_TACO_PROJECTILE_FEACES.exe and emailing it to google ad sense marketing execs.
That is real mens hacking. Or at least using google in leet language mode.
Does anyone think the use of real dictionary terms makes the whole automated human test a bit weaker?
A typical pest in those hot sunny long afternoons!
I am eagerly awaiting Beerzilla.
Seriously, this completely confuses the whole issue:
Someone: Its free folks! Folks: Free as in Free Rights or free beer? Someone: Erm, Free Beer? Folks: Is that free beer or Free Beer? Someone: erm, well...
in his search for evidence of UFO coverups and anti-gravity technology of extra-terrestrial origin
He was suprised by the ease of which he was able to penetrate the networks... However he has not yet mastered the ability to send an email to bring some of this 'proof' he so claims
Basically, enter a network, say something was on there, of course, it is denied becuase it isn't on there, but they are deny it because like, you know, bruce lee is some super-human alienhybrid crime fighter with an invisible flying machine.
If the guy had been able to email something out, instead of 'describing it' I might have given him credit for finding their open shares.
Dumbass. Did he at least leave a virus on their system that could infect potential would be high tech alien invaders?
I think starting from basics you can take this service and then attach flickr tags to the lookups for shows - or look for time based blogs...or integrate into blogs 'what I watched'...
or allow for people to rate and see related content (and trends) based on other peoples preferences.
That said, every company with a staff count of > -1 has a patent on some form of 'personalisation' based on a simple query technology.
Handheld schdulers that change channel/record using bluetooth commands to your mythTV center.
Link scheduled tv content to your searches, show on google maps where people like certain types of programs (for the express purpose of genocide? no? ok)
Phew I got throug a whole post without saying blog of podcast. Fuck.
My word in image is 'poking' wow that cannot be a coincidink? The guy who made the decision to put this on is a twat.
I am not sure if browser security handles file fields properly on html forms, I have always wondered if you could set via javascript values to point to certain known files.
Since gmail doesn't warn if the extension is.exe (and I wait 5 mins for a couple meg file to be sent, only to get a serverside reply about it being executable).
In any event, I usually rename it to a pdf file,and it doesn't know the difference.:-)
I realise I couldn't remember if I had a drive
on
The End of a Floppy Era
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· Score: 4, Interesting
And then I realised I do not have one at work (dell) or at home (home made).
If I need to read off a floppy, I do have a laptop with a usb floppy (old). But who gives me disks? if someone tries to give me a disk, I say, just email me the bloody thing, 1.4 mb uncompressed files, or zip them up (or tar them ffs).
Network/Email killed the floppy more than usb drives. I use usb increasingly for files that won't fit on CD.
I agree, although the fact that the only difference between a copyrighted work as a webpage, and a copyrighted work as a book, is intent. But if someone give you a book for free, and you have a copy, they cannot revoke that, but can they stop you distributing it? (as copies - based on assumption below)
The fact is, you always copy webpage, even when you don't cache them, it is in memory (and/or pagefile/swap).
TV is not cached in a normal set, because it is transmissio based, HTTP is just copy a file, and showing it (with other files embedded, css, jpg etc).
although people scoff at the use of virii, it is not 100% incorrect (by way of adopted usage), and the most correct - viroula (again not even a correct form, as there was no supposed plural form for the root of the word), is certainly not correct by usage, and since virus doesn't even stem from a word meaning a virus organism, then the 3rd hand definition plural form is up for grabs.
When this happens modern rules are applied to break the etymology, giving viruses, however, common usage already (in more than just hacker circles) adopted virii.
While a standard should be reached, which is viruses, the pre-existing usage of virii doesn't give it the full entitlement.
First - Firefox is stable and works a dream, I would heartily recommend it, geeks read on:
This is not a Slackware problem - a friend of mine with an identical Slack 9.1 setup has never had any problems like this with Firefox.
If you can prove that Firefox works on your other friends Slackware, then as well as saying there is nor underlying fault with slackware, it also says there is no underlying fault with Firefox (in that equation).
So the factor would seem to be your own system setup.
I had some rough times with FF (nothing scarey!), going back to latest stable cured lots of stuff. 1.0.5 should be nice, don't ever install Deer Park or another coded version release, thinking it will be fun to try things out, because it is not, for one, all plugins automagically break and spazz out.
At first I chomping at the bit to flame this article, but the first linked article to mathaba is actually an interesting retort to a toss-pot classical music exec, and puts a very good spin on things.
Are BBC funded classical dramas unfair competition to unBBC funded dramas? Are BBC cookery programs unfairly competing against non-BBC cookery programs? You see, BBC is at least, one of the most workable implementations of the licensing system.
My only irk is that they want their license, and private money, and advertising... and this will push the ethos of the company into more 'trendwhore' territory, tainted by the smell of money.
Back to the article on slashdot, one whiney faced classical music exec doesn't mean BBC is in trouble. BBC run classical music radio stations, have thousands of hours of their own recorded works. This guy is thouroughly Pwn3d.
The second bloggish link didn't show up for me, but I guessed it was an uneccessary blogvertisment (I fucking hate having to use those words) rather than a link to the BBC site which talks about the release of the music.
The world is so fucked up, that people who want to value classical works by pure monetary value (rathen thatn intrinsic value) ACTUALLY BELIEVE they are right. The value of this music is not what you pay for it, and this guy needs a he-bitch-man-slap sometime soon.
The printer market had matured, all printers were more or less equal, and only the print cartridges themselves made a difference.
I said that one company would sidestep in a risky way the lucrative catridge business, make a fixed, high quality head, and then - when the printing consumer becomes more educated, sell high quality inks.
The ink will become a competative factor someday, with metalic, gloss, matte inks, special effects etc.
Of course, with a fixed catridge head, cleaning and changing inks must be very effective.
Slashdot Mirror
As this study has not been not done -- yet -- on humans
Fortunately a huge percentage of humans have already adopted this technology, so we now have results going back as far as ten years for you to work with.
Thank you.
{first pr0n surfing, now mobile phones! I am doomed!}
To confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image: ascended
(why do I feel like more effort is spent on wrothless image word scripts than renaming 'old stories' to 'search'.)
www.useit.com
Right, that is why technologies like AJAX have developed, now, I am a web developer, in the minefield of J2EE development, so many different approaches.
I find the POST-REDIRECT-GET, strong URL state and good behaviour to be more important than fancy fidden frame dynamic post backs or other tricks.
Scripted validation and multi part forms (see Apples developer connection to have multi teired multi part questionnaires expand in dhtml) are also useful, as is using Javascript as an enabling force for special advertising / cross site features or certain special links.
Also, tree structures, and dynamic menus are actually very useful and intuitive, and for large web apps such Javascript is important for large heavily used apps, and save lots of time for post backs - therefore despite my earlier ideals that a strong pattern of embracing the stateless nature of the web for your benefit (which is going away with more complexity like JSF), client side state and interactivity ala gmail and google maps is not going away.
I find the fact that google maps works so seamlessly across browsers to be a herculean effort, and I always dread cross scripting my own kookie creations.
To confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image: regret
Hi Hun, I am gonna be a bit late tonight
I thought you were going to give me a lift to Tinas?
Thats tomorrow, have you been taking my pain killers again?
No... erm... ok I'll see you later
*click*
Wait, we are being line-tapped
Oh my god! Execute the Omega 13 Device!
*end of world*
Really - if you want security, talk in tongues, or use a third party audio scrambler, plus encrypt the session. (then unencrypted it will just sound like noise). Plus standon one foot while you talk, and occassionally look through the venetian blinds for snipers across the rooftops.
This is a waste of time, if anything it opens up another 'false sense of security'. User A knows their bank uses picture security, which must be unbreakable.
You click an email, you go to 'Iamanasshole.com' and loe and behold, there is the high tech, unbeatable image being displayed. Did I really choose the camel-toe picture of kounikova? (who I do not think is attractive at all BTW).
You see. This is just another take of 'site passwords' Passwords websites have to use to identify themselves to you.
I am sure some brainhead has patented this. Well done. Although I freely admit I havent thought about this (in so many ways) but I have not tried to make a phish proof site.
Plus i fyou just ignore the whole image thing, then people won't realise. I say the only money that can be spent is a way of controlling certain links through user trusted mechanisms, that is, give the user the requirement of knowing where they are, because everything else can be foiled, because all you have to do is foil the user.
Of course, this means less money for 'security' start ups. Educate.
or is it just me? I know it is hard to predict the way technology is going, the only reason HTML still is around is because it works, and was widely adopted, and nothing else gives any [real] benefits (for now).
:-)
as far as I am concerned, however you split up content, style, updates, 'sitefiles' (my collective analogue for rss and related technologies) the fact is one coherent, styled document must be the end result.
Too much is being read into content management and RSS. Yes RSS is cute, I use it to have a BBC and CNN link in my firefox, and I just one click to read articles, not go to the site.
RSS and podcasting is the worst combination of not-new hype ever. Downloading a file through the web, wow new!
Seriously, pod casting should be renamed downloading audio.
You know, only non-geeks have to adhere to the b/B guides, use geeks are far to lazy to hit that shift key over, and my pinky was just too lazy (if it makes you feel better, I winced when I typed it, but thought, nah, there is noone that pedantic... oh well, thsi is slashdot!)
We don't need more than 640kb of ram after all!
(firefox is currently using 130mb with a fat 620mb vm size... oops - but that is all page data and media and bad flash plugin / mem handling)
Once Sun realizes that they're at real risk of fragmenting the community and having the entire linux/open source world switch to their own homebrewed class library if they don't do so, they might consider it.
Rubbish. 'fragmenting the community' is nothing to do with open sourcing Java. I also think that 'linux/open source' is a geekcist remark, and I won't tollerate geekism. Not everyone in these communities agrees with that, I would say most would choose the cowboy neal option in a poll and carry on writing their enterprise apps.
I think the idea behind open sourcing Java is good (be it the default JVM, the Language (?) or the platform (libraries)).
.net what open source Java would be to Java.
/. story) and allow it to be used to extend devices using simple event handlers and libraries (email me when a recording finished etc).
They have stated the issue is complex, and have open sourced a heap of good stuff, including their Solaris, which has had limited exposure, but what has been seen is awesome, and I am suprised many more slashdotters don't rave about Solaris 10.
IBM have also open sourced a lot of stuff, however cloudscape and their voice work is less fundemental (and both built on Java anyway).
Java is a very important platform, and branding and selling the platform to device manufacturers (I have started seeing mobile savvy teens talk about which version of Java their phones have etc).
Keeping this platform controlled and strong is important. Mono isn't to
Gosling himself says he is on the fence about the idea, and wants to see it happen, the only thing I find peculiar is it only seems to be IBM blowing the trumpet about this.
Personally I would like to see all the internal Java dev efforts better used to further Java adoption in devices (like home media devices, see recent
[On topic: High Definition 1900x1000 ish trailer is downloadable at 140mb, this is larger than my screen rez right now, just want to see how it runs ]
Although two towers didn't crash down in the UK, the Brits are still a tad more level headed and stiff upper lip, cup of tea? what?
You know. So I guess this will be annotated 'stet'. If you didn't get it, I mean, they will not change it, and not 'to show the terrorists they didn't win' but because we just don't do things like that...Don't mention the war! I mentione dit once, but I think I got away with it!
We have a whole holiday over here about the first terrorist plot, in 1605, where Mr Guy Fawkes (playing himself) not content with getting a penny every time he wheeled himself out in a wheel barrow (a tradition held strong today) decides to blow up the houses of parliment with gunpowder! (two other supporting members helped him, they are still at large, scotland yard have releases security camera pictures showing them carrying barrels)
However, scotland yard, using code breaking and wire taps, and Cantennas to sniff his WiFi access, were able to thwart the plan, and steal their iPods of them.
That is what wikipedia says, I hope someone hasn't been tampering with history!
I learned to whistle - loud - without the need to stick fingers in my mouth at a fairly young age.
When I whistle with someone at the same capacity, we can fluxuate the tones in a controlled manner, and the heterodyning sounds (imagine the sound you sometimes hear when tuning into LW radio - wooowhipduuuublebleble) are very loud, and feel like mini pick axes trying to hollow out your head.
I think it works fairly easily if two people whistle normally next to each other if they can hold a good tone.
To confirm you're not a script,
please type the word in this image: planted
I didn't even have to rip some scripts from an fserve xftp warez dump XXX site in russia to get this to work, I mean, what, how !l33t is that.
.bat file in 16 bit DOS, then renaming an exe file to COWBOY_NEAL_GOATSE_TACO_PROJECTILE_FEACES.exe and emailing it to google ad sense marketing execs.
Real google hacks involve running at least 1
That is real mens hacking. Or at least using google in leet language mode.
Does anyone think the use of real dictionary terms makes the whole automated human test a bit weaker?
photon
Its free as in Free beer, but not as in free beer.
Shame. *hic*.
Don't forget - all drivers are incompatible with this open source release, DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE
A typical pest in those hot sunny long afternoons!
I am eagerly awaiting Beerzilla.
Seriously, this completely confuses the whole issue:
Someone: Its free folks!
Folks: Free as in Free Rights or free beer?
Someone: Erm, Free Beer?
Folks: Is that free beer or Free Beer?
Someone: erm, well...
in his search for evidence of UFO coverups and anti-gravity technology of extra-terrestrial origin
He was suprised by the ease of which he was able to penetrate the networks... However he has not yet mastered the ability to send an email to bring some of this 'proof' he so claims
Basically, enter a network, say something was on there, of course, it is denied becuase it isn't on there, but they are deny it because like, you know, bruce lee is some super-human alienhybrid crime fighter with an invisible flying machine.
If the guy had been able to email something out, instead of 'describing it' I might have given him credit for finding their open shares.
Dumbass. Did he at least leave a virus on their system that could infect potential would be high tech alien invaders?
I think starting from basics you can take this service and then attach flickr tags to the lookups for shows - or look for time based blogs ...or integrate into blogs 'what I watched'...
or allow for people to rate and see related content (and trends) based on other peoples preferences.
That said, every company with a staff count of > -1 has a patent on some form of 'personalisation' based on a simple query technology.
Handheld schdulers that change channel/record using bluetooth commands to your mythTV center.
Link scheduled tv content to your searches, show on google maps where people like certain types of programs (for the express purpose of genocide? no? ok)
Phew I got throug a whole post without saying blog of podcast. Fuck.
My word in image is 'poking' wow that cannot be a coincidink? The guy who made the decision to put this on is a twat.
I am not sure if browser security handles file fields properly on html forms, I have always wondered if you could set via javascript values to point to certain known files.
.exe (and I wait 5 mins for a couple meg file to be sent, only to get a serverside reply about it being executable).
:-)
Since gmail doesn't warn if the extension is
In any event, I usually rename it to a pdf file,and it doesn't know the difference.
And then I realised I do not have one at work (dell) or at home (home made).
If I need to read off a floppy, I do have a laptop with a usb floppy (old). But who gives me disks? if someone tries to give me a disk, I say, just email me the bloody thing, 1.4 mb uncompressed files, or zip them up (or tar them ffs).
Network/Email killed the floppy more than usb drives. I use usb increasingly for files that won't fit on CD.
I agree, although the fact that the only difference between a copyrighted work as a webpage, and a copyrighted work as a book, is intent. But if someone give you a book for free, and you have a copy, they cannot revoke that, but can they stop you distributing it? (as copies - based on assumption below)
The fact is, you always copy webpage, even when you don't cache them, it is in memory (and/or pagefile/swap).
TV is not cached in a normal set, because it is transmissio based, HTTP is just copy a file, and showing it (with other files embedded, css, jpg etc).
Yet another slashdot advertical, this time about cheap generic viagra, tsk!
although people scoff at the use of virii, it is not 100% incorrect (by way of adopted usage), and the most correct - viroula (again not even a correct form, as there was no supposed plural form for the root of the word), is certainly not correct by usage, and since virus doesn't even stem from a word meaning a virus organism, then the 3rd hand definition plural form is up for grabs.
When this happens modern rules are applied to break the etymology, giving viruses, however, common usage already (in more than just hacker circles) adopted virii.
While a standard should be reached, which is viruses, the pre-existing usage of virii doesn't give it the full entitlement.
The original word did not have a plural form.
First - Firefox is stable and works a dream, I would heartily recommend it, geeks read on:
This is not a Slackware problem - a friend of mine with an identical Slack 9.1 setup has never had any problems like this with Firefox.
If you can prove that Firefox works on your other friends Slackware, then as well as saying there is nor underlying fault with slackware, it also says there is no underlying fault with Firefox (in that equation).
So the factor would seem to be your own system setup.
I had some rough times with FF (nothing scarey!), going back to latest stable cured lots of stuff. 1.0.5 should be nice, don't ever install Deer Park or another coded version release, thinking it will be fun to try things out, because it is not, for one, all plugins automagically break and spazz out.
Firefox has a long standing memory leak flaw. Is isn't the bext pr0n browser, since you shoudl restart is periodically.
:-(
I wonder if they fixed css handling on 'save page as' (I doubt it) or if this release will break all my plugins and niceties. (they don't mention)
Firefox wins on security because of philosophy, that is, educate the user, and empower. Microsoft says use 'run executable' if they are signed.
And activeX. And the fact that IE is still closer to the OS, and thus more of a hole.
At first I chomping at the bit to flame this article, but the first linked article to mathaba is actually an interesting retort to a toss-pot classical music exec, and puts a very good spin on things.
Are BBC funded classical dramas unfair competition to unBBC funded dramas? Are BBC cookery programs unfairly competing against non-BBC cookery programs? You see, BBC is at least, one of the most workable implementations of the licensing system.
My only irk is that they want their license, and private money, and advertising... and this will push the ethos of the company into more 'trendwhore' territory, tainted by the smell of money.
Back to the article on slashdot, one whiney faced classical music exec doesn't mean BBC is in trouble. BBC run classical music radio stations, have thousands of hours of their own recorded works. This guy is thouroughly Pwn3d.
The second bloggish link didn't show up for me, but I guessed it was an uneccessary blogvertisment (I fucking hate having to use those words) rather than a link to the BBC site which talks about the release of the music.
The world is so fucked up, that people who want to value classical works by pure monetary value (rathen thatn intrinsic value) ACTUALLY BELIEVE they are right. The value of this music is not what you pay for it, and this guy needs a he-bitch-man-slap sometime soon.
RMNBKAO
The printer market had matured, all printers were more or less equal, and only the print cartridges themselves made a difference.
I said that one company would sidestep in a risky way the lucrative catridge business, make a fixed, high quality head, and then - when the printing consumer becomes more educated, sell high quality inks.
The ink will become a competative factor someday, with metalic, gloss, matte inks, special effects etc.
Of course, with a fixed catridge head, cleaning and changing inks must be very effective.
ZSOTRAK