the thermoplastic "ink" will be the most expensive substance on Earth, by weight or volume. And protected by a DRM'd cartridge system. And declare itself "empty" at about 25% remaining, in order to "protect the printer from running dry".
How is Skynet effectively different from any other contemporary corporation? Just 'cause there's no human on top that could benefit from rubbing out the others?
the thermoplastic "ink" will be the most expensive substance on Earth, by weight or volume. And protected by a DRM'd cartridge system. And declare itself "empty" at about 25% remaining, in order to "protect the printer from running dry".
You also left out that the "ink" levels will slowly decrease over time if printer is not used.
And that if you are out of one "color" you still won't be able to print anything at all - even if you don't need to use that "color"
I am not sure HP-UX and Tru64 can be freed, as they contain licensed code from AT&T Unix that still belongs to Novel (or SCO, after all those years I am not sure).
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And when you need more printing medium it's cheaper to just buy an entirely new printer rather than a new cartridge.
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And the printer will be deliberately crippled so it can't print another printer.
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Why not? The printer is a loss leader, what's making money is the ink.
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And the printer will be deliberately crippled so it can't print another printer.
Why not? The printer is a loss leader, what's making money is the ink.
Stopping the printer from printing itself is an anti-Skynet precaution.
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How is Skynet effectively different from any other contemporary corporation? Just 'cause there's no human on top that could benefit from rubbing out the others?
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You say that like it's a good thing.
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And, in case of mistake, it will only cancel your printing after it print all the undeletable queue.
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Psst... That's a Windows problem. Doesn't happen on Mac. Cancel a job, and everything stops right away.
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the thermoplastic "ink" will be the most expensive substance on Earth, by weight or volume. And protected by a DRM'd cartridge system. And declare itself "empty" at about 25% remaining, in order to "protect the printer from running dry".
You also left out that the "ink" levels will slowly decrease over time if printer is not used.
And that if you are out of one "color" you still won't be able to print anything at all - even if you don't need to use that "color"
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"LOL", you are so "funny".
Scanner Ink (Score:2)
My Epson ran out of scanner ink, couldn't scan anything until I bought more cartridges.
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Don't forget the clogging and drying up if you don't use the printer for a while, requiring buying new ink cartridges, or a whole new printer.
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or neededing color ink to print black even when it has a black cartridge.
or needed ink or needing to tape cartridges just to scan.
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at least the printer driver doesn't erase your document and corrupt your Windows install when it happens...
there's always a bright side!