I suppose I'm not taking good enough care of my papers, but I seem to be reasonably regularly getting a tad of water damage--small enough that the paper would be fine if I'd used a laser printer, but it's doing chromatography with my home printer output. But, it's a low priced network attached device with a scanner included. Are there any affordable laser MFDs targeted at the home and home office?
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
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§ ita § - Jun 16, 2012 5:25:31 pm PDT #20297 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cass - Jun 16, 2012 9:00:08 pm PDT #20298 of 25501
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
The razor, razor blade thing never made sense to me until I dated a guy with a heavyish beard. My blades last forfuckingever. His did not. With the same razor. I'm not the target demo, clearly.
Printers totally can eat me alive though.
Edit: I forgot I was in Tech. So I Nattered. Fail.
Ginger - Jun 17, 2012 7:37:46 am PDT #20299 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Anyone have a theory about why Firefox has stopped showing me alt text?
le nubian - Jun 17, 2012 10:57:32 am PDT #20300 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
it has given up the ghost?
Gris - Jun 18, 2012 4:08:29 pm PDT #20301 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Nobody is talking about the Surface tablet announcement? Because it's been a while since MS impressed me so very thoroughly. Especially the Intel models - iPad style tablets that can also run legacy Windows apps! Covers that are also keyboards - mechanical or touch-sensitive, your choice! Pen input! (Jobs may have mocked the stylus, but he was wrong.)
These may be replacing our old Lenovo tablets at work in the future, if they are good.
ETA: Linky
tommyrot - Jun 18, 2012 4:29:28 pm PDT #20302 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Any idea how much one will cost?
Gris - Jun 18, 2012 4:52:58 pm PDT #20303 of 25501
Hey. New board.
Supposedly the ARM ones will be competitive with the iPad, while the Intel ones will be competitive with ultrabooks. I'm guessing 999 for the 64 GB Intel including choice of keyboard. No guesses on the ARM ones.
§ ita § - Jun 18, 2012 8:34:14 pm PDT #20304 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Where is display technology going other than Retina? I'm assuming that Apple has that locked down nice and tight, but what else can other tablet, laptop, and monitor manufacturers do as the next quantum leap? What's in the pipeline, and from who?
Failing that, is there something looming that will distract from the Retina Display? The whole bundle of the MS tablet?
Gris - Jun 19, 2012 5:28:05 am PDT #20305 of 25501
Hey. New board.
The high contrast of Super Amoled Plus is just as impressive as the high Res in my mind, though way less effectively marketed. But nothing will really beat Retina on the display front any time soon - eventually competitors should be able to use high Res displays themselves, but until then I think Apple has a clear advantage on that front
Gris - Jun 19, 2012 5:59:32 am PDT #20306 of 25501
Hey. New board.
I don't remember who ran into the problem sending Mobi files to a kindle earlier, but I just sent two mobi files (InCryptid short stories!) to my kindle e-mail address and they went to my kindle just fine. I guess they added Mobi back as a supported option, at least for e-Ink kindles!