Just to clarify. I didn't throw the other printer away, I gave it to a friend. Who still uses it now with the £6 replacements. (waste no want not). But I do see your point about how buying the same model of printer again wasn't perhaps the cleverest thing to do. Maybe if I'd had more time to do some research I'd have looked around the second time for a printer that had cheaper ink. However I needed it there and then so it was a case of needs must. And I'd cut down on the caffine if I was you it seems to be messing with your anger management therapy.;)
My Parents have an 860i that they've been using 3rd party cartridges in for ages with no disernable loss in quality or damage to the printer. Saves them loads on the cost of cartidges as well because a full 3rd party set is only £9.
I used to use refill kits for my old canon bubblejet. I then changed it for an Epson C62 because I needed a colour printer. Lo and behold they'd fitted "smart" cartridges with chips that knew when the where empty and resisted all efforts to refill them. After a quick trip to the shops to buy replacements and finding out that they were £40 for the colour one and £29 for the black one, I said "fck that" and and just went back to the shop where I bought the printer and bought another one as the printer itself (which came with a set of cartridges) was only £60. Fortunatly I've now got a friend who runs a cheap cartridge website who supplies me with a full set for £6. Probably not as good as the official ones but for a differance in price of £63, I dont give a damn.
Yeah, you can mod chip a console but its still harder to do than downloading a cracked copy of a PC game from bittorrent. The first mod chip for the Xbox was a right pain. You had to solder something like 15 wires directly to the motherboard and chips, then remove the harddrive and copy a patch to it using a PC and install new frontend interface software. Even then you were not assured of being able to play all the copied games. Admittedly the new chips are easier to install but its still by no means an easy thing to do.
Buy a console for £300 guarenteed to load every game you put into it and look exaclty like it did on the box, start playing within a few minutes and be sure that this is going to be the fact for the next 3 years. OR . Buy a PC, spend £200 on a graphics card alone. put game in wait half an hour while it installs, spend 15 minutes configuring controls. 15 minutes configuring graphics start game only to find it looks nothing like it did on the box, rip out £200 graphics card, buy £300 graphics card. Marvel as the game now looks like it does on the box until your computer crashes. Spend the next six months playing game (in between periodic crashes). buy new game after 6 months find it looks nothing like it did on the box. Rip out £300 graphics card (now worth £150) buy new £400 graphics card, Rinse and Repeat.
DVD Jukeboxes are a great idea for a shared house. I set one up when I was at Uni in 2000 sharing a house with 5 people, using a geforce 2 with tv out and an RF Mouse (the living room was in the attic and the room with the system in was directly below). This worked fantastic as I had not only the 80+ DVDs on my system but access to everyone elses DVD's over the house network. The only problem was that even with 6 PCs going at it it still took each one 30-40 minutes to rip the DVD then another 10 hours to shrink each one and you cant do much with the computer while its converting the file. With only one pc to do the converting its going to take you ages (depending on the size of your collection) to get them all done.
Seriously though. Watching porn is not a group activity and watching it in front of twenty or thirty commuters is a bit weird. Could have potential for people staying in hotels on buisness trips. It'd save that emarassing moment when your boss looks at your expenses claim and see's Teen Fckfest 5 on the hotel bill.
I had a friend who had one of those scientific calculators that did graphics and stuff. He used it in an engineering exam but before he was allowed to take it in the examiner had to inspect his calculator to see if it had any information (formula, graphs, charts and the like.) stored in its memory. When the examiner looked at his calculator and saw all the stuff he had on there he made him press the reset button to wipe its memory clean. "All well and good" thought the examiner "no info on his calculator, he wont be able to cheat."....Until my friend sat down in the exam and pressed three buttons on the calculator together...which restored the memories contents from the fail safe back up in the calculator. Suffice to say he passed.
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Just to clarify. I didn't throw the other printer away, I gave it to a friend. Who still uses it now with the £6 replacements. (waste no want not). But I do see your point about how buying the same model of printer again wasn't perhaps the cleverest thing to do. Maybe if I'd had more time to do some research I'd have looked around the second time for a printer that had cheaper ink. However I needed it there and then so it was a case of needs must. And I'd cut down on the caffine if I was you it seems to be messing with your anger management therapy. ;)
Thanks. Much appritiated.
The only reason they say this is to scare people into forking out for their horrendously overprice own brand cartridges.
My Parents have an 860i that they've been using 3rd party cartridges in for ages with no disernable loss in quality or damage to the printer. Saves them loads on the cost of cartidges as well because a full 3rd party set is only £9.
I used to use refill kits for my old canon bubblejet. I then changed it for an Epson C62 because I needed a colour printer. Lo and behold they'd fitted "smart" cartridges with chips that knew when the where empty and resisted all efforts to refill them. After a quick trip to the shops to buy replacements and finding out that they were £40 for the colour one and £29 for the black one, I said "fck that" and and just went back to the shop where I bought the printer and bought another one as the printer itself (which came with a set of cartridges) was only £60. Fortunatly I've now got a friend who runs a cheap cartridge website who supplies me with a full set for £6. Probably not as good as the official ones but for a differance in price of £63, I dont give a damn.
Yeah, you can mod chip a console but its still harder to do than downloading a cracked copy of a PC game from bittorrent. The first mod chip for the Xbox was a right pain. You had to solder something like 15 wires directly to the motherboard and chips, then remove the harddrive and copy a patch to it using a PC and install new frontend interface software. Even then you were not assured of being able to play all the copied games. Admittedly the new chips are easier to install but its still by no means an easy thing to do.
Buy a console for £300 guarenteed to load every game you put into it and look exaclty like it did on the box, start playing within a few minutes and be sure that this is going to be the fact for the next 3 years. OR . Buy a PC, spend £200 on a graphics card alone. put game in wait half an hour while it installs, spend 15 minutes configuring controls. 15 minutes configuring graphics start game only to find it looks nothing like it did on the box, rip out £200 graphics card, buy £300 graphics card. Marvel as the game now looks like it does on the box until your computer crashes. Spend the next six months playing game (in between periodic crashes). buy new game after 6 months find it looks nothing like it did on the box. Rip out £300 graphics card (now worth £150) buy new £400 graphics card, Rinse and Repeat.
DVD Jukeboxes are a great idea for a shared house. I set one up when I was at Uni in 2000 sharing a house with 5 people, using a geforce 2 with tv out and an RF Mouse (the living room was in the attic and the room with the system in was directly below). This worked fantastic as I had not only the 80+ DVDs on my system but access to everyone elses DVD's over the house network. The only problem was that even with 6 PCs going at it it still took each one 30-40 minutes to rip the DVD then another 10 hours to shrink each one and you cant do much with the computer while its converting the file. With only one pc to do the converting its going to take you ages (depending on the size of your collection) to get them all done.
Would they be complaining if it was a boob job?
Won't this lead to people going blind twice as fast from squinting at the PSP's screen?
Seriously though. Watching porn is not a group activity and watching it in front of twenty or thirty commuters is a bit weird. Could have potential for people staying in hotels on buisness trips. It'd save that emarassing moment when your boss looks at your expenses claim and see's Teen Fckfest 5 on the hotel bill.
Headphones....Definatly gonna need headphones.
I had a friend who had one of those scientific calculators that did graphics and stuff. He used it in an engineering exam but before he was allowed to take it in the examiner had to inspect his calculator to see if it had any information (formula, graphs, charts and the like.) stored in its memory. When the examiner looked at his calculator and saw all the stuff he had on there he made him press the reset button to wipe its memory clean. "All well and good" thought the examiner "no info on his calculator, he wont be able to cheat."....Until my friend sat down in the exam and pressed three buttons on the calculator together...which restored the memories contents from the fail safe back up in the calculator. Suffice to say he passed.