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^ +1You say that like there's another way...
So you are one from the (old) school of blood and magick as well...-Shades (August 07, 2013, 08:52 PM)
we used to have a HP Photosmart all in one, dont remember the model been about 5 to 6 years ago. didn't get used a whole lot but we always had to replace the cartridges (genuine) when we had to use it after sitting idle for 9 to 12 months. i got tired of spending $100 some dollars everytime they wanted to use to print 3 or 4 pagesIME Brother inkjet cartridges are designed (probably intentionally) so that happens inside a month.but the excuse was we spent $400 on it. some people will never understand1
-techidave (August 07, 2013, 08:04 PM)
^ Welcome to the world of system administration!It's not just a job, it's a psychosis.
It's not just a job...it's a...well...it's...ah screw it! It's a job.-40hz (August 07, 2013, 04:05 PM)
That's right. Now that you mention it I remember getting annoyed when I was trying to compare HP printer models because there didn't end up being any real rhyme or reason to it. I had one just for my own use in IT that was something like a 1320 and it was a low level enterprise model.The number should tell you the intended market which mostly indicates the expected number of pages per use, per month, and over the printer's lifetime.-Vurbal (August 07, 2013, 09:28 AM)
That doesn't actually track with the HP's, some yes, some no, if the numbers actually do match it's an accident. I see the sales types tripping over this one a lot..-Stoic Joker
Nothing new here.
For an enlightening overview of how the same kind of Goliath vs. Goliath has played out over the last century and a half, I recommend reading The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications by Paul Starr.-xtabber (August 06, 2013, 10:37 AM)
When I read this story in he weekend on a Dutch tweakers site, the comments were juicy. The apple camp kept saying that apple needed to pay ten times more than other parties for samsung frand's. That got me thinking...Dothese other parties have frand's that Samsung uses? If so, frands can be used to say 'I don't pay for your frands, you don't pay for my frands'. If there is a difference in number of frands between parties a bonus-malus system would be reasonable. How much (relevant) frands does apple have in this case? According to the trade cmission not enough. I believe that because of this apple didn't pay anything and dod not even try to negotiate. Both sides act as little children trying toget their way. Samsung is right, but 'big brother' obully sets the market straight...I am just waiting for the bitch-slapping to be delt to each and every party in this scandal. It is seriously long overdue.-Shades (August 05, 2013, 01:35 PM)
It's basically out of your hands. You can pretty much only control the routing within your own network. Once it leaves there it gets routed where it does. You might try changing your DNS server setting to see if that helps. (It probably won't btw.)Yep. Every node in an Internet connection has to be responsible for providing the services it advertises and getting packets to the next hop. If you mess with that it breaks the Internet - or at prevents optimal performance. They've broken it in one spot already. Breaking it again somewhere else just makes it twice as broken.-40hz (August 04, 2013, 07:57 PM)
The more I think about it, the more likely it seems we'll eventually end up with something ethernet based. It more or less has all the benefits firewire did (man I miss my firewire) but it's application, platform, and media agnostic. The only thing it's missing is a better connector or maybe even a whole new media and it could hit the ground running.Windows is nasty with USB. There are bugs where speeds crawl and the only way to fix it is to sacrifice several endangered chickens while chanting black magic in ancient Egyptian as you... etc. etc.That's kinda how I feel also. That's why I never really liked USB, fromt he beginning days, for anything really serious. yeah, I love it for peripherals, thumbdrives...but for any serious work like backing up, syncing reliably, migrating drives, etc. I always try to stay away from it. When esata came out, i really wanted it to replace usb for everything, like make it extinct. I love esata. now we have thunderbolt, but nothing is really taking advantage of it. Like, i want thunderbolt enclosures, thunderbolt thumbdrives, etc. And I don't know what all the specific issues are, so that's all I can say , is what i want.
Try deleting the device in the device manager then rebooting. Idiotic? Yes. Does it work? Kind of. But you can try the chicken thing too. It probably works better.-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 07:20 AM)
so whatever. I want things like a thunderbolt external plug on a tower, where I plug in a thunderbolt hub, connect like 5 external drives to it, and move files around to each of them with >100 MB/s speeds. things like that. That would be progress that i'd consider to be very exciting.-superboyac (August 04, 2013, 04:08 PM)
But what I don't get is his cast. Everyone knows who Uwe Boll is and what kind of movies he makes. But they still sign up for it... do they need the paycheck that bad?!?Some of them baffle me. Others not so much. I think the best answer I've ever heard to a question like that was when some bobble head entertainment "reporter" asked Ice-T why he agreed to be in the brilliant satirical farce Leprechaun In The Hood. It was a farce, right?
And I'm not talking the bit people... he gets some pretty big names, and drags them along with him.-wraith808 (August 04, 2013, 02:25 PM)
You say insufficient. I say economy urinal....is answered by "No Attendant, I will be pissing in this water jug here!"-TaoPhoenix (August 02, 2013, 10:13 AM)
For those considering this option, I recommend that you practice first and that you be acutely aware of the volume of your chosen container.
While aircraft mini-wine bottles measure around 170 ml and aircraft water bottles might be as large as 330 ml, you may find that during practice a 500 ml bottle is still insufficient.-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 02:55 AM)-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 06:02 AM)
I think the important question here is do they have a drain in the floor of the aircraft?-Stoic Joker (August 04, 2013, 09:04 AM)
They could pull out the carpeting an run gutters down the aisle. Don't expect them to provide a squeegee though.-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 10:34 AM)
Like I said before - a bigger bottle and none of that's a problem!
Oh, and decent aim... doesn't help if you can't aim worth a toot.
For those with difficulty aiming, I suppose bringing a funnel could work.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 10:37 AM)
At last a singular advantage for those suffering from needle d***.-Stoic Joker (August 04, 2013, 12:23 PM)
It's not really an issue for me. Once I return to my seat it will be some other row's problem.You say insufficient. I say economy urinal....is answered by "No Attendant, I will be pissing in this water jug here!"-TaoPhoenix (August 02, 2013, 10:13 AM)
For those considering this option, I recommend that you practice first and that you be acutely aware of the volume of your chosen container.
While aircraft mini-wine bottles measure around 170 ml and aircraft water bottles might be as large as 330 ml, you may find that during practice a 500 ml bottle is still insufficient.-Renegade (August 03, 2013, 02:55 AM)-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 06:02 AM)
I think the important question here is do they have a drain in the floor of the aircraft?-Stoic Joker (August 04, 2013, 09:04 AM)
They could pull out the carpeting an run gutters down the aisle. Don't expect them to provide a squeegee though.-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 10:34 AM)
Like I said before - a bigger bottle and none of that's a problem!
Oh, and decent aim... doesn't help if you can't aim worth a toot.
For those with difficulty aiming, I suppose bringing a funnel could work.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 10:37 AM)
It helps when the local college is insanely expensive. The funny thing is Grinnell is a liberal arts school. It wasn't until quite a while later I appreciated the irony of a school where Bob Noyce got introduced to transistors not buying PCs for the students until 1999 or maybe 2000.In my day I was lucky to have access to a PDP-8 from a wide format teletype terminal when I started learning Basic. The first year comp-sci students at Iowa State were still stuck with punchcards.-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 11:42 AM)
Lucky you! I was stuck with punch cards until I finally decided to declare CS as a second major. You had to be a CS major to be given access to a terminal- or allowed to use PL/I (or Stony Brook Pascal or all those other "new" languages) in my college back then. Otherwise it was punch cards and COBOL or WATFOR/WATFIV and SPSS for "the civilians."
-40hz (August 04, 2013, 12:25 PM)
I was just lucky to have parents who saw it as a good creative outlet instead of being ignorant about it. I really had no idea how cool my Mom was.I have an original Deities & Demigods with all that in it. Though I bought it well after it came out - found it in a store one day and snatched it up real quick.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 11:24 AM)
I bought mine new from the store.
The funnier thing... I worked at that same store 8 years later... and the person I bought it from was still working there. And he wasn't the owner. Flash forward 20 or so years with me working part time there sometimes (for credit, natch)... and that guy was still working there when the store closed down.-wraith808 (August 04, 2013, 12:08 PM)
What the hell. Why not Uwe Boll. He can turn any movie into a horror story.And I'd like to see At the Mountains of Madness get made so badly that I don't think I really care who (within reason) makes it at this point.-40hz (August 04, 2013, 10:54 AM)
Michael Bay? How about Cameron? Or Ridley Scott!
Sorry for that visual-wraith808 (August 04, 2013, 12:01 PM)
[Hmm. Maybe. But glib isn't an absent element with Lovecraft. He was enamored of witty exchanges and slangy dialog in his letters. And some of his earliest works threw in a little comedy.Yeah he definitely had some humor and I wouldn't put anything past Whedon. He just tends to remind me more of 40's Cary Grant, cute rapid-fire repartee but I guess Firefly's humor had a more serious edge.
Er...I'm also from New England, and FWIW, much of the dialog with (and between) the common gentry in Lovecraft's stories could pass for glib and/or funny dialog around here. Guess it's one of those regional things though.
-40hz (August 04, 2013, 11:58 AM)
And if anyone does want some good advice on writing there's a lot of it in that book. It helped me improve my writing immensely and I don't write fiction.-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 11:17 AM)
+1. An excellent writing book. I own dozens. King's book is one of the best.-40hz (August 04, 2013, 11:47 AM)
Wait, did you just call me old? I'll have you know I didn't get Basic D&D until Christmas of 1983 which means I had to buy my original cover PHB used. That makes me a kid compared to most of the other Champions players I know. I'm certainly not old enough to remember any version of Deities and Demigods with Cthulu in it.... if something like that existed.... which I wouldn't know.....
Just get off my lawn!-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 11:08 AM)
Hahahahaa!
I have an original Deities & Demigods with all that in it. Though I bought it well after it came out - found it in a store one day and snatched it up real quick.
(I also have Chainmail in my collection.)-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 11:24 AM)
One way we could guarantee a film never gets made: Let briliant Terry Gilliam direct, the masterful Joss Whedon write the script, and for the coup de grâce cast the lovely Summer Glau in there someplace. Ever notice how any time one of those three show up the project suddenly experiences an incredible string of bad luck?-40hz (August 04, 2013, 11:23 AM)
Hard to say on the Devil's Backbone although I seem to recall it being more quiet creepy than dialog. I don't trust my memory when it comes to details like that so don't take my word for it. I would definitely recommend Pan's Labyrinth. It's not horror so much as dark and atmospheric fantasy. My wife loved it and she acts like she's allergic to subtitles.I'm wondering why people are advocating Del Toro for a Lovecraft film... I've seen some of his work, and he's good, but Lovecraft?It wouldn't make any more sense to to Hellboy like Lovecraft than to do Pan's Labyrinth like Hellboy. A lot of the design elements just made me think he was a fan. Since At The Mountains Of Madness is his dream project that seems right.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 10:23 AM)
Have you seen The Devil's Backbone? It's a ghost story, so not exactly the same, but between that, Hellboy, and Pan's Labyrinth I'm satisfied he can do it. He hasn't put them together in a single film but he hasn't done Lovecraft yet. Given how giddy he is about it and his refusal to do it unless he gets to make it right he's probably our best shot at this point. Based on what he's said, though, it's a very long shot.-Vurbal (August 04, 2013, 10:47 AM)
Ok. I'm starting to see why there now. I've not see Pan's Labyrinth or The Devil's Backbone. I'm just not into subtitles. Been there - done that - tired of 'em. It's got to be one DAMN good flick for me to bother with subtitles.-Renegade (August 04, 2013, 11:03 AM)
However, I think I'll have to disagree with King that Lovecraft didn't like people. His voluminous correspondence (approximately 100,000 letters, many of which contained several pages of very small writing) with friends, fellow authors, and fans seems to fly in the face of that. If Lovecraft were alive today he'd probably be the quintessential Facebook addict.-40hz (August 04, 2013, 10:54 AM)
