Many BMW models have an mpg gauge in the lower half of the rev-counter, so you can actually see a needle flicking across when you rev the engine.
That's more visible than trip-computers, which most people probably have set to display range or average speed and not mpg.
Has he forgotten about SVG ? Adobe still distributes a viewer for SVG, and there's native support in Firefox.
I think they're basically saying "We don't want open standards - we want only our standard".
"Ink technology is expensive, and you pay for reliability and image quality."
I guess that explains why every time I go to use it my HP inkjet printer it has clogged up and I have to waste several pages and plenty of ink just to get it cleaned up enough to produce a decent printout. Granted, I go a couple of weeks between uses, but why can't a printer handle a duty cycle like that? By contrast my laser printer handles printing just fine whether I'm printing every day or leave it for a month, and the toner costs a tiny fraction of the per-page costs of the inkjet.
Between expense and unreliability, clearly inkjet technology isn't yet ready for real-world use. Buy a laser printer.
I completely agree. Ink-jets work best (least worst) when they're in regular (if not continual) use. But regular use means you really get stung by the price of the inks.
Many people with ink-jets use them only occasionally, at most once or twice a week. So the ink dries up, and you have to use way too much just to get the ink flowing again.
(Where are mod points when you need 'em?)
Since I'm an old guy who was using PCs in the DOS era, I'm entitled to reminisce about how things were better in the old days:
In the mid 1980's, I was using a Citizen 120D, a 9-pin dot matrix printer (standard for So/Ho use at the time, real professionals were using 24-pin printers), and that cost around £150 in the UK ($180 in the US).
With inflation, that would be around £300 ($330) today.
Similarly, I had the luxury of using a DeskJet 500 in the late '80s. That was a $500 printer, but the thing lasted for nearly ten years. It was bulletproof.
For something like $100 back then, people in the UK could by a crappy thermal printer like the Alphacom 32
And that's when printers had their own ROMs so they knew how to print stuff without relying on drivers or Windows GDI. Before the cost-cutting started.
So I conclude that as printers have got cheaper, they've actually got worse. Any printer these days costing less than about $100 will be absolute crap, and for anything good, we should get used to the idea of spending $200 upwards for something that will probably outlast our PC.
Rant over. Get off my lawn, kids.
...the consumer and desktop level printers are pretty much disposable junk with very expensive consumables.
Agreed.
The last 2 printers I bought were HP all-in-ones (printer/scanner/copier) at around £40 each. Both failed just after 12 months.
The first one (a C4180) gradually became unable to feed paper - I tried cleaning the rollers but that didn't really help; possibly some internal part had worked loose and was obstructing the paper.
The second printer (d7160 I think) suddenly became unable to recognise the presence of (genuine) printer cartridges.
So in the last 2-3 years, I've spent more on HP printers than on the ink cartridges, and after I bought replacement cartridges the printers never lasted long enough to use up all the ink.
...and the BBC isn't even allowed to show ads in the UK.
Of course they're allowed to show ads in the UK. They just don't need to, because they get revenue from the TV licence instead of from advertisers. They also get money by selling shows to other networks.
Why on earth would any broadcaster want to show ads? They only do it out of financial necessity.
Agreed. That's political relativity for you.
The BNP are fiscally left-wing, but socially they're way past conservative and well into the realms of fascism.
I doubt their supporters realise how left-wing they are, though - it's the racism that they find attractive.
So instead you prefer services tainted by the BBC's left-wing liberal bias?
If you're right-wing, then even centrists will appear to have a left-wing bias. That's why the phrase crops us so much in the Daily Mail, Express, Sun, Times, Telegraph,
To the raving nut-jobs in the UKIP, BNP and beyond, practically everyone looks left-wing and liberal.
The article (yeah, I did RTFA) points out that those games are rated for age 17+, so I don't see what the issue is.
I wouldn't want my kids playing COD-MW2 or L4D2, but to be honest, they wouldn't want to play them anyway - they'd be much happier with the latest cutesy Wii party game, or something for the DS involving ponies.
Yet again, the mainstream media make the assumption that all games are for kids and are therefore completely shocked to see that some games involve blood, gore and subversive naughtiness.
Actually, I don't think they're shocked at all. They just think that their readers will be, and that's what sells papers and generates click revenue.
Stellar rays prove fibbing never pays. Embezzlement is another matter.
