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?
And when the nozzles get glogged, 25% of the cartidges' contents' will be consumes just to flush out/clear the clog, assuming that it can be cleared at all and not require a new print head.
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 know a lot of people don't like HP-UX, but I'd love to see HP finally set it free. I would be delighted if they released it as open source software, like Sun did with Solaris some time ago. HP also controlled Tru64 UNIX last I knew, too, and I would be delighted if they released it as open source software, too. Even if you aren't the kind of person who'd use them, they have immense historical significance and I think that alone is reason enough for HP to do what it can to preserve them for all time.
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).
The printer uses a proprietary multi-agent printing process that HP calls "Thermal Inkjet Arrays" that simultaneously apply multiple liquid agents to produce greater accuracy, resiliency and uniform part strength in all three axis directions.
Did you ever look at a 3D printer and say, this needs more nozzles?
Did you ever look at a 3D printer and say, if we had 4x nozzles we could print more accurately? And design some sort of interface to do so? And test it? And patent it?
Well, that doesn't sound any different than the industrial 3d printers I deal with on a daily basis. So I suppose the massive reduction in system cost will be nice.
All the different color cartridges will also get empty at same time, no matter what colors you actually use. And even if the machine is not used, the catridges get empty at least once per year.
Since this is an HP product, (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Since this is an HP product, (Score:5, Insightful)
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 when the nozzles get glogged, 25% of the cartidges' contents' will be consumes just to flush out/clear the clog, assuming that it can be cleared at all and not require a new print head.
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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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And if you don't use it at least once a week, it will clog.
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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.
What about HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX? (Score:-1)
I know a lot of people don't like HP-UX, but I'd love to see HP finally set it free. I would be delighted if they released it as open source software, like Sun did with Solaris some time ago. HP also controlled Tru64 UNIX last I knew, too, and I would be delighted if they released it as open source software, too. Even if you aren't the kind of person who'd use them, they have immense historical significance and I think that alone is reason enough for HP to do what it can to preserve them for all time.
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Way to stay on topic. I'd like to see Linux go closed source and Tesla make a boat.
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How did Sun manage to do it?
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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!
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It's insightful because retards.
Did you ever look at a 3D printer and say, this needs more nozzles?
Did you ever look at a 3D printer and say, if we had 4x nozzles we could print more accurately? And design some sort of interface to do so? And test it? And patent it?
Bu
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Well, that doesn't sound any different than the industrial 3d printers I deal with on a daily basis. So I suppose the massive reduction in system cost will be nice.
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All the different color cartridges will also get empty at same time, no matter what colors you actually use. And even if the machine is not used, the catridges get empty at least once per year.