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Is Your Printer Ripping You Off? 362

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday April 21, 2007 @11:16AM from the or-only-its-maker dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Are original inkjet cartridges really worth the high cost? Do third party refill inks do as good a job? This article looks at printers from Epson, HP, Canon and Lexmark, with a combination of original inks and the top selling third-party options, using a whole host of different papers. A panel of printer users judged the output in a blind test — the printer manufacturers may not be happy with the results!"

Comment Its Software Programmer! (Score 1, Insightful) 807

by catisonh on Tuesday January 16, 2007 @08:43PM (#17639076) Attached to: The Hidden Engineering Gender Gap

I am so sick of hearing about software 'engineers'. An engineer is a graduate of an engineering school. Their degree will sound something like mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, or chemical engineer. A graduate of the computer science department is not an engineer, they are a programmer. Now we have the whole software part being completely stripped away from the faux title to simply 'engineer'. Can you possibly call anyone an engineer who has no training at all in anything close to an engine?

/Mad ChE

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