I try not to have a throw-away mentality, but I think after running the cleaning cycle multiple times, replacing the ink cartridges, cleaning the printer head, soaking the printer head and resetting to the default settings, I should have a printer that prints yellow and magenta if it ever was going to again. Cleaning seemed to help for a while, but not this time. The printer is about 5 years old. Anyone have an HP Photosmart Plus all-in-one? It seems to be the best combination of reviews and cost that I can, theoretically, buy tomorrow.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
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Ginger - Nov 02, 2009 7:12:17 pm PST #11570 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 4:04:31 am PST #11571 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We're supposed to shut our office machines down every night to get updates, but it takes almost half an hour to boot up in the morning, so I only shut it down on weekends.
Jon B. - Nov 03, 2009 4:53:55 am PST #11572 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We're supposed to shut our office machines down every night to get updates
We're supposed to keep ours on for the same reason! How does a machine get an update if the power is off?
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 4:58:15 am PST #11573 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Our machines are dumb clients - all software updates are done centrally and then synched with our profiles when we log on.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 4:59:37 am PST #11574 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Windows installs the updates as part of the restart process.
Gudanov - Nov 03, 2009 5:00:54 am PST #11575 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I leave my work computer on all the time in case I need to remote access from home.
My home computer I try to always turn off when I won't be using it since pressing the power switch to using applications is all of 50 seconds now.
Jon B. - Nov 03, 2009 5:19:44 am PST #11576 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That makes sense, Jess. Thanks.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 6:55:01 am PST #11577 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just had someone describe google search to me as a conceptual search. I know we're not privy to search algorithms, but my impression was that it's, at core, a full text search with synonyms, and also checks for your search term in documents linking to a given document (which I've never found useful, for the record). Would any of you go so far as to describe it as conceptual? I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 6:56:48 am PST #11578 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
This is my impression, but I'm also not 100% clear on what "conceptual search" is supposed to mean.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 7:00:15 am PST #11579 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's being hand-wavey about it, so it's hard to pin him down. His point is that you can get a google result that doesn't have any of the search terms you put in. In my experience it's because a document with those terms linked to the result, or because the document had the plural or the singular or a close spelling of what you put in--the search engine isn't doing any sort of fancy interpretation of what I type in.