I know many (most?) people hate this advertising on principle, but I'm willing to go along with it if it reduces the cost to me. -- On the flipside, I wouldn't allow one into my office if it didn't come at a steep total discount over normal printing (that more than offsets the printed ads). I don't see any reason to put up with creepy targeted ads--or to do more paper- and cartridge-replacing than I already do--when I could just buy one that doesn't give me junkmail.
If they'd provide the ink/paper and reduce the pricetag on the printer, I'd probably be willing to buy one. I could put up with some creepy targeted ads if it meant the printing I actually want would be cheaper.
As far as this "printing newspapers daily" thing goes, that doesn't remotely count as a feature. Given that I'm already at my computer anyway, I may as well just go to a news website manually, and I can print from there if I want to.
It'd probably be pretty easy to circumvent the ads also. We'd have to see how it handles being turned off when not printing, or left out of paper except when I want something (though I assume it'll just queue up ads and not allow me to cancel them). At the least I can feed already-printed spam pages into its paper supply whenever I am not printing, and pocket the money/paper from the ink and paper allowance (which would be necessary to get me to buy one in the first place).
It also seems easy enough to mount the printer on its side over a recycle bin, and perhaps make a paper tray I can put over the trash can when I am printing something on purpose.
I don't know a single guy in the world that is out on the town, spies a girl across the room and goes "God, I have got to have that woman...did you see the personality on that chick!?!?"
Never stopped me.
I failed out of 2 colleges over a wow addiction and landed on my parents lousy connection which rate limits after 2-3 hours of play.
I just learned to avoid 25-player content with more than 2 bosses, and eventually figured out how to main heal dungeons and 10 man raids at 800-1200 ms.
You'd be surprised how far people will go to avoid cutting themselves off completely from the only social network in which they feel comfortable.
Anyway, I just bought a summer sublet with some irl friends and let my account expire in what is now my 4th attempt at quitting wow =//sigh
Silly goose. The whole idea of the paper copy is that they can be recounted manually in disputed elections, there's no need for barcodes. And yes voting machines can solve clarity issues -- for the touchscreen ones you literally poke the name of the candidate you want, with none of this butterfly ballot which-hole-do-I-poke-with-my-stylus? issue.
And I don't buy this paper issues argument either. The paper copy has to print out in front of you to be verifyable by the voter, so I think they'd notice ballot mangling and crazy ink issues. And I think receipt-printing technology has been pretty well perfected by walmart.
I've heard this is an excelent form of birth control.
And we all know that birth control ws brought to this earth by satan (quoth the fundies).
This is the underlying issue here. Think of the rating change as an attack on satan and a reaffirmation of wholesome American values.
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Better yet, a little speaker to tell you whenever its out of paper...
...and whenever it thinks your penis can be made bigger, stronger, faster.
I know many (most?) people hate this advertising on principle, but I'm willing to go along with it if it reduces the cost to me. -- On the flipside, I wouldn't allow one into my office if it didn't come at a steep total discount over normal printing (that more than offsets the printed ads). I don't see any reason to put up with creepy targeted ads--or to do more paper- and cartridge-replacing than I already do--when I could just buy one that doesn't give me junkmail.
If they'd provide the ink/paper and reduce the pricetag on the printer, I'd probably be willing to buy one. I could put up with some creepy targeted ads if it meant the printing I actually want would be cheaper.
As far as this "printing newspapers daily" thing goes, that doesn't remotely count as a feature. Given that I'm already at my computer anyway, I may as well just go to a news website manually, and I can print from there if I want to.
It'd probably be pretty easy to circumvent the ads also. We'd have to see how it handles being turned off when not printing, or left out of paper except when I want something (though I assume it'll just queue up ads and not allow me to cancel them). At the least I can feed already-printed spam pages into its paper supply whenever I am not printing, and pocket the money/paper from the ink and paper allowance (which would be necessary to get me to buy one in the first place).
It also seems easy enough to mount the printer on its side over a recycle bin, and perhaps make a paper tray I can put over the trash can when I am printing something on purpose.
I don't know a single guy in the world that is out on the town, spies a girl across the room and goes "God, I have got to have that woman...did you see the personality on that chick!?!?"
Is it weird that I do this constantly?
Perhaps, but no less than 30% of /. is very very atheist and most can't pass up an opportunity to argue it.
Never stopped me. I failed out of 2 colleges over a wow addiction and landed on my parents lousy connection which rate limits after 2-3 hours of play. I just learned to avoid 25-player content with more than 2 bosses, and eventually figured out how to main heal dungeons and 10 man raids at 800-1200 ms. You'd be surprised how far people will go to avoid cutting themselves off completely from the only social network in which they feel comfortable. Anyway, I just bought a summer sublet with some irl friends and let my account expire in what is now my 4th attempt at quitting wow =/ /sigh
Silly goose. The whole idea of the paper copy is that they can be recounted manually in disputed elections, there's no need for barcodes. And yes voting machines can solve clarity issues -- for the touchscreen ones you literally poke the name of the candidate you want, with none of this butterfly ballot which-hole-do-I-poke-with-my-stylus? issue. And I don't buy this paper issues argument either. The paper copy has to print out in front of you to be verifyable by the voter, so I think they'd notice ballot mangling and crazy ink issues. And I think receipt-printing technology has been pretty well perfected by walmart.
I've heard this is an excelent form of birth control. And we all know that birth control ws brought to this earth by satan (quoth the fundies). This is the underlying issue here. Think of the rating change as an attack on satan and a reaffirmation of wholesome American values.