|
Good decision!
I'm suspecting that this will spell the end of the era of £50 printers and £100 cartridge refills, taking us back to saner days when we paid the bulk of the cost of a printer upfront. Presumably then, a good time to go out and buy a "cheap-as-chips" printer before the manufacturers restructure their pricing models ...
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
|
|
|
|
|
More likely is stop making the cheap printers and cartridges to force all users to buy new, higher priced printers and THEN make cheap cartridges.
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, fair point!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a slightly different prediction. It will likely stop the cheap printers and force all users to buy new, higher priced printers.
The cartridges on the other hand will likely remain expensive and the manufacturers will make threats about how using generic or refilled ones will void your warranty. Or like HP they will add some sort of verification tech to make it annoying to use anything but their "official" ones.
|
|
|
|
|
RJOberg wrote: HP they will add some sort of verification tech to make it annoying
Do I freakin' I hate that!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
|
|
|
|
|
RJOberg wrote: Or like HP they will add some sort of verification tech to make it annoying
Exactly for that reason is that brand in my black list
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
My prediction is that they'll just ramp up the level of DRM in the cartridge and carry on as before. RSA/etc signing and a mandatory internet connection to verify the cartridge is official and that its ink level hasn't gone up/the total amount printed with the cart isn't wildly beyond what is possible without a refill should largely cover things I'd think.
Enterprise customers will probably be able to get offline printers; but then they're not the target market for freeish hardware and consumable gouging today.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
|
|
|
|
|
People with desk jobs can develop debilitating hand and wrist problems that make it difficult to work, and poorly designed software could be to blame. It hurts when I do this
|
|
|
|
|
Seriously? It used to be the mouse, keyboard and chair. Now they're coming after us? Figures.
|
|
|
|
|
Totally necessary. It's not like multiple wrist exercises exist to help stretch and relieve tension on hand and wrist muscles to help prevent injury 
|
|
|
|
|
On Sunday, Robert Bigelow — real estate mogul and founder of the space habitat company Bigelow Aerospace — did an interview with 60 Minutes, in which he touted the strengths of the commercial space industry and how private companies would pave the way for people to live in space. He also said aliens have definitely visited Earth. I guess he'd know then, wouldn't he?
|
|
|
|
|
No, we haven't. 
|
|
|
|
|
Looney CEO states: I spent millions and millions and millions -- I probably spent more as an individual than anybody else in the United States has ever spent on this subject.
Geez, with that kind of logic who can argue?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
|
|
|
|
|
Cats.
They're always watching me, and when you think they're sleeping, they are actually in an out of body state communicating their observations to their home world.
Marc
Latest Article - Create a Dockerized Python Fiddle Web App
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
|
|
|
|
|
A new neural network being built by a Danish startup called UIzard Technologies IVS has created an application that can transform raw designs of graphical user interfaces into actual source code that can be used to build them. And I'm sure they're bug-free and CEO-compliant
77% accurate? Well, it's better than some of the Q&A folk
|
|
|
|
|
Kent Sharkey wrote: it's better than some most of the Q&A folk OPs
FTFY.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
|
|
|
|
|
True, I did mean the Q-ers, not the A-ers. Thanks.
TTFN - Kent
|
|
|
|
|
Americans, famously, take far less vacation time than their European counterparts: less than 17 days, on average, compared to 30 days in France, for example. But for many Americans, that’s apparently all the time they need. "Takin' care of business and workin' overtime"
|
|
|
|
|
Hmm, I loose 2 vacation days a month if I don't take them since I am at the limit I can hold. Also 1 sick day per month for the same reason.
John
|
|
|
|
|
In my former job I wasn't allowed to take more than 2 days off in a week and they couldn't be consecutive because "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone." 30 days off per year sounds amazing 
|
|
|
|
|
Jon McKee wrote: "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone."
A good compliment, but no one is irreplaceable
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
|
|
|
|
|
Sort of how I viewed it. Highly doubtful it was actually true; more of a "I don't want to do your work."
|
|
|
|
|
|
Jon McKee wrote: In my former job I wasn't allowed to take more than 2 days off in a week and they couldn't be consecutive because "the team can't handle the additional workload when you're gone..."
One of my previous bosses had an interesting approach. When he joined a group as manager, he determined who in the group was "unreplaceable" and got rid of them. Somehow he ran some of the most successful projects I've ever seen.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
|
|
|
|
|
That's an interesting approach. I guess it provokes the rest of the team to start doing their part since their crutch is now gone? 
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
