Historically, the Brits are rather famous for having their "tele" sets equipped with smart features...
My most recent fun with technology was a ‘fuser error’ message on an otherwise quite adequate budget Samsung colour laser printer. While those of us who eschew inkjets have long come to accept the “Gillette” model of the first set of high capacity toner cartridges costing more than the printer, the fuser was a big surprise.
Thankfully my Xerox 6027 is still motoring along.
Never had a paper jam in any of my home printers.
Who here fondly remembers graduating from a 9 pin dot matrix to 24 pin, then to laser?
My experiences of Scandinavians is that drink spends far less time in the glass than even in Scotland!
Think I skipped the 9 pin jobbie. After owning a B/W laser printer, I'd never own any kind of color printer.
If you ever really need to have a color printout, just go to a copy shop for that rare occasion.
I rarely use a printer anymore. The only thing that gets printed are contracts. They require a human signature.
The worst were the Epsom ink jets - that not only ran out of ink very quickly, but when they did their bot redirected you to their page to BUY CARTRIDGES, and held the computer hostage until you either clicked “Buy Now” or removed the drivers. I wasn’t about to give them my credit card number after that stunt - so Remove Printer it was. It then sat in the corner of my office, and eventually became Somebody Else’s Problem.
Unbelievable. This thread about Epsom is both funny and maddening:
https://www.techdirt.com/2003/07/08/consumer-association-says-avoid-epson-ink-cartridges/
But here is the most disturbing post in the entire thread:
Anyway, the purpose of my note here is that within a couple of hours I have received an e-mail of Epson asking me if I am using the correct, ie Epson Ink. This make me think the printer software must be informing Epson perhaps that I have just changed the cartridge and there was an error. Has anybody else noticed this?
https://www.techdirt.com/2003/07/08/consumer-association-says-avoid-epson-ink-cartridges/
But here is the most disturbing post in the entire thread:
How does Epson know I am not using their ink or cartridges
Funny thing happened to me today, I re-filled my SX445 cartridges, not Epson but ones that are sold with a resettable chip so you can fill them with your own ink as many times as you like. I had a small problem getting the printer to work saying it didn’t recognise the cartridges so reset the chips and turned power off printer etc, finally got it to work.Anyway, the purpose of my note here is that within a couple of hours I have received an e-mail of Epson asking me if I am using the correct, ie Epson Ink. This make me think the printer software must be informing Epson perhaps that I have just changed the cartridge and there was an error. Has anybody else noticed this?
I missed the dot matrix phase, moving from a Daisy Wheel printer (remember those?) to an ink jet, before ending up with a nice colour xerox laser...
I had the 9 pin dot matrix Apple Imagewriter II which could print in color using a 4 color ribbon. Not bad for the '80's.
At work we had the first Apple Laserwriter, 300 dpi, postscript, 8 ppm, with AppleTalk/LocalTalk networks. Something like $7000 USD in '85.
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HOLD MY BEER ... ooops, the jug was emptyMy experiences of Scandinavians is that drink spends far less time in the glass than even in Scotland!
Deplorable. Makes me think about why I don't have to smuggle drinks into the cinema any more.
I used to have a Deskjet500 I liked more than others. Fixed it more times than it was meant to be, I figure.
They were the next thing after golf balls, that I noticed 😉
The mechanical DAC in the IBM Selectric..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Selectric_II_typewriter.ogv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_Selectric_II_typewriter.ogv
We got a new President today, after 12 years. Stubb is 20 years younger than Niinistö, but Stubb's wife is 7 years older than Niinistö's
https://www.presidentti.fi/en/presi...h-electiones-sunt-celebrem-apicem-momentorum/
https://www.presidentti.fi/en/presi...h-electiones-sunt-celebrem-apicem-momentorum/
Tänud!
I worked for half a year in Eesti and tried to pick up some words and phrases and say 'hello', 'thanks', 'good morning' and even count to kümme. A collegue who had been working at the same plant for several years hadn't learnt a single Estonian word.
I am hinting the close relationship between Finnish and Estonian languages.
WRONG! The collegue gotten the word kilekott (bag). He had to ask for a plastic bag in the shops as they were hidden so he couldn't point at them. One word ... BAG!!!!🤔
I worked for half a year in Eesti and tried to pick up some words and phrases and say 'hello', 'thanks', 'good morning' and even count to kümme. A collegue who had been working at the same plant for several years hadn't learnt a single Estonian word.
I am hinting the close relationship between Finnish and Estonian languages.
WRONG! The collegue gotten the word kilekott (bag). He had to ask for a plastic bag in the shops as they were hidden so he couldn't point at them. One word ... BAG!!!!🤔
This kind of stuff is beyond deplorable. It's just rude.
But the New Breed seems to think that any and all invasions of privacy are OK. I made the mistake of web surfing on my cell phone, which I primarily use to stream music. Google (ugh) shared my cell phone email with hundreds of spammers, just from looking up a few things. Previous to this my cell phone was pristine; zero spam. Now I get over 100 spam emails a day. I have to spend a few minutes a day deleting the spam.
How do these eggheads justify in their shrunken heads that this is OK? And who actually look at that filthy spam and thinks "I'm going to give these pirates my money?"
But salesmen today have a similar mindset. When I get cornered by a salesman now, they won't stop yammering at me no matter how many times I say NO NO NO NO NO NO. Does this tactic actually work? Who taught these young, rude people that this is OK?
Stubb is also first president in 78 years who's native language is Swedish. Official languages of State of Finland are Finnish and Swedish (5%). Saame is also original, but not official.
Here is a good one from my neck of the woods;
So Ole and Lena are engaged to be married. As the day approaches, Ole has grown crabby and distracted. He is out milking the cow and gets a bit rough with with her. She responds by giving him a good kick, unfortunately hitting him in the groin. To his horror, he discovers he has quite a bruise and is also pretty sore.
He rushes into town to the Doctor. The doc looks him over. "Yep Ole you got quite a bruise there. Think we can fix you up in time for the wedding though." The doc gets a couple of tongue depressors out and fashions a splint. The wedding goes off nicely and the happy couple finds themselves at the motel six for their honeymoon. Lena always needing to make the first move with Ole unbuttons her blouse and says " No man has seen these before". Ole lights up like a blue led, drops his trousers and exclaims "look! Still in the crate!"
So Ole and Lena are engaged to be married. As the day approaches, Ole has grown crabby and distracted. He is out milking the cow and gets a bit rough with with her. She responds by giving him a good kick, unfortunately hitting him in the groin. To his horror, he discovers he has quite a bruise and is also pretty sore.
He rushes into town to the Doctor. The doc looks him over. "Yep Ole you got quite a bruise there. Think we can fix you up in time for the wedding though." The doc gets a couple of tongue depressors out and fashions a splint. The wedding goes off nicely and the happy couple finds themselves at the motel six for their honeymoon. Lena always needing to make the first move with Ole unbuttons her blouse and says " No man has seen these before". Ole lights up like a blue led, drops his trousers and exclaims "look! Still in the crate!"